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here are 10 key moments in his career.", "The image of one man in the way of a column of tanks has become a symbol of peaceful resistance.", "Protesters are staging singalongs of a new protest song - and some say it should be the city's anthem.", "What's Donald Trump got to say about the slew of Democrats hoping to prevent his re-election?", "Nearly a third of all energy companies fitting smart meters are still installing old technology.", "Police say the victim was pronounced dead at the scene and another is in hospital after the assault.", "The Beatles' John Lennon \"found sanctuary\" in the grounds, which will also serve as a youth centre.", "Zak Eko, 22, is accused of murdering 11-month-old Zakari Bennett-Eko in Radcliffe, Bury.", "Owen Carey was celebrating his 18th birthday but had a severe reaction to buttermilk in a burger.", "The Met found \"insufficient evidence\" to continue its investigation into the pro-Brexit group.", "The government lists 69 English towns and cities that will benefit from regeneration money.", "Survey finds many common species of butterfly enjoyed a good summer this year.", "Vandals spray-painted a swastika and other graffiti at a British war cemetery near Eindhoven.", "The 12-year-old was charged in relation to an incident at a high school in Glasgow in August.", "Previous legislation was dropped when the prime minister suspended Parliament for five weeks.", "Boris Johnson denies lying over his reasons for the shutdown, after Scottish judges rule it unlawful.", "Boris Johnson says the UK will leave by the deadline, but he is \"cautiously optimistic\" of getting a deal.", "The government has published a report setting out the risks of a no-deal Brexit. How is it preparing?", "An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that could have come from a distant star.", "If used appropriately, they can be effective in reducing problem behaviour, a US study suggests.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "Opening weekend crowds will set new Women's Super League records, as World Cup stars return to league action.", "The MP, who quit Labour in February, says the Lib Dems are \"the strongest party to stop Brexit\".", "The 18,500 sq ft store opens its doors in the city where the charity had its first shop.", "Copies of the Avengers comic sold out after Rio Mayor Marcelo Crivella called for them to be seized.", "Cabinet minister Amber Rudd says no deal is \"the worst possible outcome\" of all potential Brexit options.", "The work and pensions secretary accuses Boris Johnson of an \"assault on decency and democracy\".", "Labour and other parties vow to block mid-October election, as Lords pass anti-no-deal Brexit bill.", "The six-year-old boy \"can't speak or move his body for the moment\" but was smiling and laughing.", "David Lidington says it would be unconscionable for any part of the UK to be without proper governance.", "A customer of Extra Energy was sent a huge bill nine months after the firm went into administration.", "Teenager Bianca Andreescu stuns Serena Williams in a gripping US Open final to claim a first Grand Slam title and deny the American a 24th major.", "India's Mangalyaan satellite is staggeringly cheap by Western standards - but it hopes to address some of the biggest questions on Mars, writes the BBC's Jonathan Amos.", "The legislation, named after a dog stabbed as he chased a suspect, is part of Scotland's Animal Welfare Bill.", "The new measures will include an early warning system for use during elections, the BBC says.", "Some of the world's best riders cycle on a loop through the Scottish Borders on the second stage of the race.", "Environmental activists have staged a sit-in on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival.", "The actress plays a terminally ill mother in her new film Blackbird, which had its premiere in Toronto.", "After a week of setbacks for Boris Johnson, what are the PM's remaining options for Brexit?", "There is little respite for Boris Johnson at the end of tumultuous week in British politics.", "Boris Johnson launched into a political speech while flanked by 35 West Yorkshire police officers.", "Prime Minister Modi says India is proud of a programme that came so close to putting a probe on the Moon.", "Who defied Boris Johnson by voting to stop a no-deal exit on 31 October and what will happen to them?", "Richard Selley from Perthshire, who had motor neurone disease, had campaigned for a change in the law.", "Maintenance worker Peter Hartley placed a hidden camera in the ladies' toilets at Pinewood Studios.", "Over £1bn has been spent by HS2 buying London properties, a freedom of information request reveals.", "Police did not know which of the brothers it belonged to but discovered all three were involved.", "Captain Harry Kane scored a hat-trick as England completed a routine win over Bulgaria at Wembley to continue their perfect start to Euro 2020 qualifying.", "The pop singer and actress told fans she was tired of being \"ashamed\" of her body.", "England's hopes of saving the Ashes fade with the loss of two late wickets on the fourth day of the fourth Test against Australia at Old Trafford.", "Bethany Shipsey died from a diet pill overdose. Her father confronts the man who sold her the drugs.", "Almost half of UK firms have done no risk assessment on Brexit, finds the British Chambers of Commerce.", "India will fly robots to understand what weightlessness and radiation do to the human body in space.", "Despite a pledge it would not head there, satellite images appear to show an Iranian ship off Syria.", "Boris Johnson will give a statement in Parliament later in the wake of Tuesday's ruling.", "The rapper has \"snitched\" on alleged gang members as part of a plea deal.", "Elaine Kerslake arranged a whip round for Thomas Cook staff on a flight after the firm collapsed.", "\"Specialist staff\" have been sent to HMP Long Lartin and at least one prison officer has been injured.", "In angry Commons scenes, the PM goads opposition parties to \"finally face the day of reckoning\" in an election.", "A proposed £3m youth hub in Stoke is leading to fears among young people that it could lead to more violence.", "Business leaders who met Michael Gove this week deny telling him they were ready for a no-deal Brexit.", "Power company EDF says \"challenging conditions\" mean the final bill could now be up to £22.5bn.", "Labour MPs refer to murdered MP Jo Cox as they ask the PM to refrain from using \"offensive\" language.", "The firm has also addressed privacy concerns about its smart assistant technology.", "The supermarket is moving the High Street outlets inside its stores to cut costs.", "A wing taken over by inmates who attacked HMP Long Lartin officers with pool balls is reclaimed.", "The Commons has resumed with questions to the government on the Attorney General's legal advice to the government on whether Parliament should have been suspended.", "The Fleabag and Killing Eve creator will make exclusive new programmes for Amazon Prime.", "EU leaders are onlookers as the drama following the UK Supreme Court's ruling plays out.", "Labour's leader says Boris Johnson is not fit for the office of prime minister and thinks he is above the law.", "The PM accuses opposition MPs of \"selfishness and political cowardice\" as he addresses Parliament.", "The Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, tells MPs that the current Parliament is a \"dead Parliament\" and is \"too cowardly\" to call an election.", "The Civil Aviation Authority says flights have been arranged to get Thomas Cook holidaymakers back.", "Laura Gruzdaite was accused of \"skipping work\" despite telling bosses about a baby scan.", "The Instagram ads misled customers and suggested celebrities had used the treatments, the ASA found.", "Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled.", "Nancy Pelosi shifts from resisting impeachment to advocating for it. Anthony Zurcher asks what changed.", "Uruguay leave Fiji on the brink of exiting the Rugby World Cup at the pool stage as they pull off a stunning win in Kamaishi.", "Prepare for MPs sitting on Saturday and 10 days of frantic legislating if the UK and EU can agree.", "The Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow, says MPs will begin sitting again from 11:30 BST.", "Katrice Lee disappeared from a supermarket near a British Army base in Germany 38 years ago.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson demands an apology from Boris Johnson for \"illegally shutting down our democracy\".", "A court rules Freddy McConnell, who gave birth to a child, must be named \"mother\" on a birth certificate.", "A junior minister insists Boris Johnson was not involved in £100,000 grant to cyber-security firm Hacker House.", "Several Thomas Cook holidaymakers say their hotels are not letting them leave until they pay extra money.", "He says judges were \"wrong\" to rule Parliament's suspension unlawful and accuses opposition MPs of trying to block Brexit.", "Boris Johnson's likely to end up at the despatch box on Wednesday, where he will have the court ruling brandished at him.", "Emotions run high as MPs return to work after Tuesday's Supreme Court verdict, ruling prorogation unlawful.", "Police link the weapon to dissident republicans and say it was designed to kill or injure officers.", "Katrice Lee disappeared from a supermarket near a British Army base in Germany in 1981.", "An air ambulance was sent to Tata after reports of a worker needing urgent medical attention.", "The Supreme Court has ruled the suspension of Parliament was unlawful. Meanwhile, what's happening at Labour Party Conference?", "A yellow rain warning is in place for most of England along with five flood warnings and 40 alerts.", "Relatives of those killed while watching a Batman film in 2012 write to film studio Warner Bros.", "Facebook does not want to be the \"referee\" in elections, says Sir Nick Clegg.", "Hotels are asking Thomas Cook customers for extra money to cover the rest of their holidays.", "Football fan Tashan Daniel, 20, died in a \"senseless attack\" at Hillingdon station, police say.", "Global warming is blamed as a huge section of glacier on the Italian side looks set to break away.", "Frome is the most mispronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists.", "The e-cigarette firm will pull all US advertising as chief executive Kevin Burns steps down.", "Supreme Court President Lady Hale's verdict on Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament.", "Boris Johnson has blown apart grey areas of the UK constitution, highlighting the role of the monarch.", "It is the first time the Duke and Duchess's son has been seen during their 10-day tour of Africa.", "The Breakfast host went \"beyond what guidelines allow for\" in her response to his \"go back\" tweets.", "The prime minister brings up the jailed British-Iranian national's case in a meeting with Iran's president.", "Gina Miller is the figurehead of two of the legal challenges to the Brexit process - but who is she?", "Neighbours say Elayne Stanley, 44, was killed in the attack in Widnes, Cheshire, on Tuesday.", "The BBC's Dominic Casciani picks out some of the key parts of the Supreme Court's judgement.", "A committee that scrutinises the London mayor's spending has asked the ex-mayor for further details.", "Social media footage shows scuffles between fans and police at the Portsmouth v Southampton derby.", "MPs return to the Commons on Wednesday to debate the implications of the Supreme Court ruling.", "Mark Drakeford raises concerns over the future of the United Kingdom amid Brexit.", "Andrew Fisher, Labour's head of policy, will leave his post by the end of the year.", "Jeremy Corbyn's head of policy leaves, as the Labour leader defends the party's policy on Brexit.", "Mark Drakeford says Welsh Labour will campaign to remain if another referendum is held.", "Larry Barilli, 84, has managed amateur football teams in Greenock since 1953.", "The Queer Eye star announces he's living with HIV, saying \"these are issues that need to be talked about\".", "An open-air museum near Birmingham doubles as one of the key locations for the hit BBC drama.", "Sebastian Vettel ends his 13-month win drought with a controversial victory in the Singapore Grand Prix.", "Wesley Streete is charged with the murder of Keeley Bunker, whose body was found in woodland.", "The singer also tells Desert Island Discs he is a \"hypocrite\" for flying while a climate campaigner.", "Millions are in unaffordable or unsuitable homes, research for the National Housing Federation says.", "The first minister tells the Labour conference the bonds of the four nations are being \"torn apart\".", "Labour is to announce a pledge to abolish prescription charges in England at its party conference next week.", "Day two of the party's conference will see a focus on \"rebuilding\" public services.", "Ten people, including two in their 80s and 90s, are arrested at an Extinction Rebellion protest.", "England's World Cup campaign gets off to a spluttering 35-3 victory against unfancied Tonga in Sapporo.", "Party members call for assets to be \"redistributed democratically and fairly\" through the state sector.", "Richard Leonard tells the BBC his party needs a clearer position to put to voters.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "A group who presented themselves as Afghan and Iranian nationals are now with immigration officials.", "Students starting university are told of the potentially fatal dangers of excessive drinking.", "Ruthless Ireland frank their status as the world's top-ranked side with a clinical Rugby World Cup victory against a meek Scotland in Yokohama.", "Video shows Steven Weber proposing through the window of a submerged cabin off Tanzania.", "Paul Ramos was in Borneo to film the work being done to save the orangutan population.", "The \"Bat-Signal\" has been beamed on buildings across the world to mark the anniversary.", "Swift had been due to sing at the Melbourne Cup, a move criticised by animal rights activists.", "Police arrest a third youth on suspicion of murder after a 15-year-old boy died in a Slough skate park.", "Help with dressing, washing and meals will be paid for by the state in England, costing £6bn a year.", "There would be no more school labels such as 'outstanding' or 'inadequate' under Labour's plans.", "But the foreign secretary says he will not \"take levers off the table\" for future action.", "Sunday 22 September is World Car Free Day - but in Ethiopia it happens once a month, in cities across the country.", "The arrests were in the Aberdeenshire village of Blackburn after a car is understood to have failed to stop for police.", "Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jodie Comer took home some of the night's major prizes.", "The party's deputy leader says he was \"disappointed\" at the party conference motion but calls for unity.", "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says his side do not have to compete with Manchester City's style as the two clubs battle at the top of the Premier League.", "The Labour leader is coming under pressure to signal his opposition to leaving the EU \"once and for all\".", "The government says it is investigating after claims against the PM are made by a newspaper.", "BBC's Andrew Marr is joined by leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn MP, foreign secretary Dominic Raab MP and actors Zoe Wanamaker and Zrinka Cvitesic.", "A former inmate at Bristol Prison said drugs and phones were often thrown over the jail wall.", "The former paratrooper marked 75 years since the Battle of Arnhem's Operation Market Garden.", "The party says it is reviewing its Facebook advertising after criticism of the way a BBC story was used.", "He was one of 21 MPs who lost the Tory whip after rebelling in a bid to stop a no-deal Brexit.", "The body of the former Zimbabwean leader is lying in state at the Rufaro football stadium in Harare.", "Creggan in Londonderry is seen as a dissident republican stronghold. But what do locals think?", "Jo Swinson makes her debut as leader while party members debate cancelling Brexit.", "Joe Denly narrowly misses out on a maiden century but still helps England into a match-winning position on the third day of the final Ashes Test.", "Members will debate whether to campaign to revoke Article 50 at their party conference in Bournemouth.", "Five parades were banned this weekend after sectarian disturbances over the past two weeks.", "William Blake's \"sensational radiance\" is dulled by Tate Britain's blockbuster, Will Gompertz says.", "Gareth Thomas says he wants to \"educate and break the stigma for everybody\".", "State media say drones have struck two major oil facilities, including Abqaiq.", "The former prime minister says the 2016 EU referendum turned into a \"terrible Tory psychodrama\".", "Daniel Erickson-Hull was found living as an evangelical preacher in Bulgaria by BBC Radio 4's File on 4.", "Donald Trump confirms he was killed in a counter-terror operation after his death was reported in August.", "A 66-year-old man has been arrested over the theft of the toilet, which was part of an exhibition.", "Assaults on Welsh Ambulance staff rose to 100 in April to June this year, despite tougher new laws.", "David Cameron's full statement announcing he is to step down as prime minister after the UK voted to leave the EU.", "Norwich City end Manchester City's 18-match unbeaten run in the Premier League to stun the champions in a pulsating game at Carrow Road.", "The line across the Solway Firth was opened 150 years ago but weather and economics took their toll.", "The former cricketer's ex-girlfriend criticises Theresa May's decision to honour him.", "David Cameron is stepping down after six years as Britain's prime minister and nearly 11 years as Conservative leader - here are 10 key moments in his career.", "Protesters are staging singalongs of a new protest song - and some say it should be the city's anthem.", "The Tories \"misused\" the platform when they changed the headline on a BBC News story, the company says.", "A contender to be the next House of Commons speaker wants someone in the chair who \"speaks less\".", "Protesters have threatened to fly drones near the airport but flights remain unaffected.", "Get to grips with the basics of Yemen's three-year civil war with our short explainer.", "The government lists 69 English towns and cities that will benefit from regeneration money.", "Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East specialist at Melbourne University, was detained \"months ago\".", "Vandals spray-painted a swastika and other graffiti at a British war cemetery near Eindhoven.", "Jeremy Corbyn says plans to manufacture parts for a wind farm off the Fife coast thousands of miles away are not credible.", "His promises of democracy and reconciliation dissolved into violence and economic misery.", "Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton steals the show at the Proms' Last Night, as Pride flags adorn the stage.", "\"Christina is a little miracle during such a sad time,\" her mother said.", "If used appropriately, they can be effective in reducing problem behaviour, a US study suggests.", "People in Zimbabwe queue up to pay their last respects to the country's founding father.", "The ad implied the food delivery firm could deliver anywhere in the UK at anytime.", "A French politician says migrants are wrongly being told \"the crossing will close\" after Brexit.", "The Commons votes not to back Boris Johnson's motion calling for an early general election, as MPs disrupt the prorogation ceremony.", "The teenager was fatally wounded in Edgware Road, central London, just before 14:00 BST, police say.", "The PSNI says petrol bombs have been thrown at officers during a search targeting the New IRA.", "The 55-year-old went into a free fall during a tandem dive with a professional on Sunday.", "Brazilian police accuse Najila Trindade and her former husband of perverting the course of justice.", "Find out how your MP voted as Parliament failed to call an early general election for the second time.", "Presenter says true \"climate emergency\" isn't being shown and accuses I'm A Celeb of abusing animals.", "Some period-tracking apps are sharing intimate details with Facebook, says Privacy International.", "The fashion and beauty monthly will be digital-only after 31 years as a print publication.", "A leading academic says the amount of days lost to London Underground strikes is \"particularly dire\".", "Global Commission calls for trillions of dollars to help the world adapt to climate change.", "The Labour leader wants to set up a new department to protect workers' rights if he gets into power.", "Parliament goes pro-ROGUE.", "The problem is described as a \"wasted resource\" as so many people need affordable homes.", "An officer says it is \"unacceptable\" most recruits don't smoke on arrival, but do by graduation.", "A review into cheating says the rise in smart watches means all watches should be banned from exams.", "Boris Johnson told Leo Varadkar a no-deal Brexit would be \"a failure of statecraft\".", "Theresa May's decision to knight the former cricketer is condemned by domestic abuse charities.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Around 115 retail staff are attacked every day in the UK, a study by City, University of London, says.", "In dramatic scenes in the Commons, MPs hold up signs, chant and sing songs to protest against the suspension.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Belgium inflict brutal defeat on Scotland that all but ends their hopes of reaching Euro 2020 via their qualification group.", "Earnings continue to outstrip inflation and the employment rate remains at a record high.", "Financier Victor Vescovo completes his quest to visit the deepest parts of Earth's five oceans.", "The new handsets gain \"ultrawide\" angle lenses and longer battery life, but there is no 5G phone.", "The singer's legal team claimed the holocaust-denying AI's name implied a link with the singer.", "RammyMen hopes to prevent men from taking their own lives by offering sport and social connections.", "Vincent Fuller \"set out to kill Muslims\" during a rampage which ended in a stabbing, a court hears.", "Thomas Dunn claimed he only \"assisted\" the baby, saying the child had been climbing into the machine.", "The mole had high-level Kremlin access but was pulled amid fears their cover could be blown, reports say.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "She was on trial for entering a football stadium disguised as a man - a punishable offence in Iran.", "The Foreign Office says Iran has transferred its cargo of oil to Syria, breaching EU sanctions.", "A Police Scotland tweet urged people to pack essentials such as a first aid kit, radio, torch, and food and water.", "The suspension of Parliament begins and MPs reject a second call from Boris Johnson for a snap election.", "Wales is seeing proportionally more big retailers closing shops than any other part of the UK.", "Up to 200 world leaders are expected to attend the COP26 at the Scottish Event Campus in 2020.", "Boris Johnson also rebuffs criticism of Parliament's five-week shutdown as a \"load of nonsense\".", "An experiment in shopping via app reveals consumers are not quite ready for till-free grocery buying.", "The airline says 90% of flights will operate as usual on Wednesday as it recovers from pilots' strike.", "Olly Robbins, who helped negotiate the EU withdrawal agreement, will join the bank after a sabbatical.", "The prorogation of the Commons saw unprecedented scenes with some MPs holding signs saying \"silenced\" while shouting: \"Shame on you.\"", "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson confirms acting friend is recovering from accident.", "After a bruising period for the PM, Number 10 stresses a deal is the government's aim and a lot can happen before Parliament meets again.", "He is the third of President Trump's national security advisers to leave their role.", "The ex-Alaska governor and her husband found it \"impossible to live together\", court documents show.", "England move closer to reaching Euro 2020 following an entertaining qualifying victory over Kosovo, who scored after just 34 seconds at St Mary's.", "Police blame dissident republican group the New IRA for the bomb which \"would have killed or maimed\".", "PC Gareth Phillips is on a \"long road to recovery\", the Crown Prosecution Service says.", "The BBC's Dave Lee tries out a slow-motion selfie on the iPhone 11.", "The new home secretary says she wants to \"reset the relationship\" between police and the government.", "The UK's Royal Society warns of the risk of companies accessing our thoughts and moods.", "Tom Watson's position puts him at odds with Jeremy Corbyn, who wants a general election first.", "The banks become the latest UK lenders to be hit with extra costs from a late rush of PPI claims.", "He says he will quit as Speaker and MP at the next election or on 31 October, whichever comes first.", "Scientists discover the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption by humans.", "But the star says he's still \"substantially out of pocket\" after his victory in a privacy case.", "MPs have voted on an early general election and a bill that could delay Brexit.", "A technical fault on the baggage belt has led to delays and long queues at the check-in desks.", "A plan to prorogue Parliament was signed off two weeks before it was publicly announced, a Scottish court is told.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg was accused of contemptuous behaviour for reclining across the seats in the Commons.", "The transport minister will wait for the result of another review before deciding if the project continues.", "The family of a couple killed in County Armagh call for a victims' commissioner for non-Troubles crimes.", "Find out how your MP voted as Parliament ....", "The widow of Jason Mercer, wants to ban all-lane running on the M1 and bring back hard shoulders.", "Almost 595,000 people came to the London museum to see its celebration of the French fashion house.", "Is the government heralding the end of austerity, or just an unsustainable pre-election giveaway?", "The first images show the trail of devastation brought to the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas.", "A cross-party group of MPs and peers is seeking to block moves to suspend Parliament.", "Dorian continues to pound The Bahamas as the position of the storm barely changes", "The sailors - five Indians, one Latvian and one Russian - have already left the Stena Impero.", "A woman was crossing the road with a child in a pushchair when eggs were thrown from a vehicle.", "The Duke of Sussex responds to criticism of his travel at the launch of an eco-tourism project.", "A three-year temporary Leave to Remain scheme will replace free movement, the government says.", "Jonathan Blake gives his daily roundup of the key Brexit events in British politics.", "The UK government's lawyer, David Johnston argued that proroguing parliament was a political decision for the government, rather than a legal matter for the court to decide.", "Opposition MPs refuse to support him, so Boris Johnson is unable to secure enough backing for a poll.", "A record fine of $170m was agreed after the site was accused of breaking children's privacy laws.", "Have hurricanes intensified as a result of a changing climate? Tomasz Schafernaker takes a look.", "A bear climbed through a window to take a nap in a hotel bathroom in Big Sky, Montana.", "With government spending plans due next week, Sajid Javid is still emphasising fiscal responsibility.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The MP leading an inquiry into reality TV claims \"someone in police custody would have more rights\".", "Boris Johnson pushes Labour for a national poll as MPs prepare to vote on halting no-deal Brexit.", "Footage reveals the extent of damage caused by the category five storm, the largest ever in Bahamas.", "In a viral exchange, a Mississippi wedding hall owner cited \"Christian beliefs\" for the rejection.", "After a huge day in Westminster jam-packed with Brexit news, here's what you need to know.", "The statement will set departmental budgets for one year rather than the usual three years.", "It would require the prime minister to ask for a Brexit delay - and even tells him what to write.", "Proposals to shut down the UK Parliament were made two weeks before they were publicly announced, a Scottish court has been told.", "The Home Office's official EU settlement scheme is described as being \"blighted\" by technical issues.", "Two 16-year-old boys are charged in connection with Sunday's attack on Mark Winchcombe in Neath.", "Alison Lapper hits out at \"appalling\" mental health care following her son's death.", "Boris Johnson has lost his first vote as prime minister but in the long-term will that benefit or harm him?", "A millipede-like creature from 550 million years ago is among the earliest examples of this.", "Steve Smith again has the measure of England's bowlers on his return to the Australia side on a rain-shortened first day in the fourth Ashes Test.", "The bank says it saw a surge in last-minute claims ahead of the August deadline.", "The prime minister says a bill that calls for a delay to Brexit makes it impossible to govern.", "The US, UK and France provide arms and logistical support to a Saudi-led coalition fighting there.", "Leanne Truesdale was about six years old when George Oliver assaulted her in her County Down home.", "Sarah-Jayne Roche had a cardiac arrest during surgery to mend a fracture repeatedly missed by doctors.", "Sajid Javid is a former banker and the son of a bus driver, so which way will he steer the economy?", "Phillip Lee's move to the Lib Dems leaves the PM with no working majority as he faces a showdown over no deal.", "Boris Johnson announces that he will table a motion for an early election after losing a key vote.", "Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi asks the PM when he will \"finally apologise\" for saying Muslim women looked like \"letterboxes\".", "Who defied Boris Johnson by voting to stop a no-deal exit on 31 October and what will happen to them?", "The Swiss 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer loses to Grigor Dimitrov in a late-night thriller.", "Serena Williams underlines her tag as the US Open favourite with a brutal quarter-final win over China's Wang Qiang in just 44 minutes.", "High Court rules against a Cardiff shopper who brought a judicial review against South Wales Police.", "The bill has passed its stages in the House of Commons and now heads to the House of Lords.", "Boss Niels Christiansen says the toymaker will ensure UK retailers have the stock they need for Christmas.", "The Balpa pilots' union says Ryanair has refused to come to the negotiating table.", "The UK is \"turning the page\" on austerity, Chancellor Sajid Javid told Parliament", "The chief medical executive for Michigan described youth vaping as a public health crisis.", "But the chancellor rules out a \"blank cheque\", promising to keep within existing spending rules.", "Jaden Ashman is focussing on his GCSEs despite winning second place in the Fortnite World Cup.", "\"Missed opportunities\" to diagnose sepsis led to five-year-old Ava Macfarlane's death, a jury finds.", "The singer is asking for $10m in damages from the US retailer, accusing it of trademark infringement.", "Nearly 1.3 tonnes of the drug was found concealed in towels and bathrobes at Felixstowe port.", "Phillip Lee crosses the floor to join the Lib Dems as PM Boris Johnson addresses the Commons.", "He co-wrote songs like Destiny's Child's Say My Name and Lady Gaga's Telephone.", "Despite communications outages, video of the damage in the Bahamas has started to emerge online.", "Ben Stokes says his heroic innings at Headingley will count for nothing if England do not win the Ashes back from Australia.", "An HGV carrying 32,000 litres of gin is leaking its load over the carriageway following a collision.", "Schools in England are receiving £2.6bn extra as part of a three-year plan to tackle budget shortages.", "Video shows roofs blown off and roads flooded by the slow-moving, category five storm.", "The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox says all sides of politics should avoid inflammatory words.", "Grant Shapps' Thomas Cook speech resembles predecessor's statement after Monarch Airlines' collapse.", "The corporation says its journalists should not give personal opinions on public matters.", "Nigel Benn will come out of retirement after 23 years in November, but fellow ex-world champion Richie Woodall says he fears for the 55-year-old.", "A 23-year-old man, believed to be the driver, has now been arrested, police said.", "\"Doting dad\" Justin Day died in a machine accident at Tata's Port Talbot steelworks on Wednesday.", "Boris Johnson faced MPs a day after the Supreme Court ruled his suspension of Parliament unlawful.", "Yvette Cooper's daughter Ellie says her house has been fitted with panic buttons.", "An expert says we must be careful not to destroy important habitats on open land in Scotland.", "MPs accuse Boris Johnson of using \"dangerous\" language after he said a \"surrender act\" had been passed to stop Brexit.", "A Thomas Cook boss has apologised after a video emerged of staff cheering him and other executives.", "In angry Commons scenes, the PM goads opposition parties to \"finally face the day of reckoning\" in an election.", "The UK's new polar research ship was nearly named Boaty McBoatface after an online poll.", "A proposed £3m youth hub in Stoke is leading to fears among young people that it could lead to more violence.", "Pathologist Dr Ashley Fegan-Earl told jurors the 17-year-old died from an 18cm-deep wound.", "Once a magnet for Thomas Cook tourists, one Majorcan community is now fighting for survival.", "A proposal for Bury to be readmitted to League Two next season is rejected by EFL clubs at a meeting on Thursday.", "Microplastics in drinking water do not appear to pose a health risk at current levels, research suggests.", "Labour MPs refer to murdered MP Jo Cox as they ask the PM to refrain from using \"offensive\" language.", "The firm has also addressed privacy concerns about its smart assistant technology.", "A judge says it was not \"appropriate or necessary\" to lock up the 23-year-old from Perthshire.", "The company's believers say its tech-enhanced stationary bike has matched exercise to the age of social media.", "Research shows the amount of alcohol bought by Scots falls 7.6% after new drink laws are introduced.", "Labour's leader says Boris Johnson is not fit for the office of prime minister and thinks he is above the law.", "Social-mobility campaigners say poorer families need fairer access to extra lessons from tutors.", "Men who have fertility treatment have a higher risk of prostate cancer in later life, a study suggests.", "It would require the prime minister to ask for a Brexit delay - and even tells him what to write.", "Tony Blair's ambition for half of young adults to go into higher education is reached, 20 years later.", "Erenumab is the first drug specifically designed for preventing migraines.", "MPs condemn the PM's language, but the Tory party chairman says criticisms of him are \"deeply unfair\".", "Boris Johnson's defiant Commons performance has made divisions among MPs over Brexit even more stark.", "Prepare for MPs sitting on Saturday and 10 days of frantic legislating if the UK and EU can agree.", "Prime minister says government will do \"what we can to help\" after Wrightbus enters administration.", "A think tank suggests those living in places like London could come back north to combat a population crisis.", "A court rules Freddy McConnell, who gave birth to a child, must be named \"mother\" on a birth certificate.", "Japan Airlines' new online booking feature shows where very young children will be sitting.", "He says judges were \"wrong\" to rule Parliament's suspension unlawful and accuses opposition MPs of trying to block Brexit.", "Labour MP Karl Turner confronts Johnson's adviser Dominic Cummings over death threats he's received.", "IAG says the action in a dispute over pay and conditions has cost it at least €137m.", "The intelligence chief was grilled on why concerns raised about Trump call with Ukraine were held up.", "Cocaine with a street value of more than £1m was found in Roger and Sue Clarke's suitcases.", "A lack of toilets in cells at HMP Coldingley forces inmates to use buckets, prison monitors find.", "An air ambulance was sent to Tata after reports of a worker needing urgent medical attention.", "Glasgow City Council had been exploring the idea of a moratorium following recent sectarian disorder.", "England hit their World Cup straps with a seven-try demolition of the USA to make it two bonus-point wins from two.", "MPs condemn Boris Johnson's language over Brexit and accuse him of \"inflaming divisions\".", "The Duke of Sussex, visiting Botswana, says there is \"a race against time\" to halt global warming.", "Ex-Labour MP Luciana Berger will contest Finchley and Golders Green, not her current Liverpool seat.", "The e-cigarette firm will pull all US advertising as chief executive Kevin Burns steps down.", "Prince Andrew's daughter and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi say they are \"so excited\" to be getting married.", "MP Jess Phillips said her staff were locked in her office as a man shouted abuse.", "It is the first time the Duke and Duchess's son has been seen during their 10-day tour of Africa.", "The Breakfast host went \"beyond what guidelines allow for\" in her response to his \"go back\" tweets.", "Neighbours say Elayne Stanley, 44, was killed in the attack in Widnes, Cheshire, on Tuesday.", "PC Andrew Harper died after he was dragged along a road by a vehicle in Berkshire last month.", "Last-minute negotiations were held in a bid to avert strikes at the spirits firm's Scottish sites.", "British Transport Police says the engineer's death on a travelator is being treated as unexplained.", "The death of Chuang Chuang, who was famous for efforts to stimulate his sex drive, has caused anger.", "Grade II-listed Scalesceugh Hall's owners say they owe \"an enormous debt of gratitude\" to firefighters.", "Boris Johnson says an angry exchange with the father of a sick child is \"part of my job\".", "He writes to Polish nationals to say they should apply for settled status or consider returning.", "The Supreme Court hears competing arguments about the legality of the PM's decision to suspend Parliament.", "The UK has committed to making all cars zero-emission by 2050. But what hurdles must be overcome?", "Mavis Eccleston told jurors she and her terminally ill husband Dennis, 81, agreed to take their own lives.", "The ex-PM spoke to royal officials about her \"raising an eyebrow\" at the prospect of independence.", "The government's lawyer, Sir James Eadie QC, defends its recent move to suspend Parliament at the Supreme Court.", "The BBC's Jeremy Bowen looks at the election campaign of Israel's longest-serving prime minister.", "Actor Brad Pitt questions astronaut Nick Hague about life on the International Space Station.", "Jo Swinson vows to \"take on\" Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage - and says she can be PM.", "A union calls for more action to stop phones entering jails after a prisoner posts on social media.", "The BBC enters Taliban-controlled territory in Faryab province to meet those civilians most at risk.", "One health board plans to stop paying staff for their 30-minute break each shift.", "Darren Barr was caught when a student bought a book he had stolen from her own university library.", "Former Rangers player Fernando Ricksen, who had been suffering from motor neurone disease, dies at the age of 43, the Ibrox club confirm.", "The \"clear-the-air\" talks follow a recent row over no-deal Brexit's effect on fresh food supplies.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes has the support of \"the whole sport and the country\" after criticising the Sun over a story it ran about his family, a leading cricket chief says.", "Arlene Foster has said a Brexit solution cannot affect Northern Ireland's constitutional position.", "Pilots' union Balpa calls on the airline to \"negotiate seriously\" with a view to ending the dispute.", "Research suggests Russell Group graduates are more likely to walk straight into a job.", "An ex-paratrooper faces two counts of murder and five of attempted murder on 30 January 1972.", "Jodie Chesney may not have been the intended target of a stabbing in a London park, a court hears.", "The TV series produced by the US e-commerce giant has been tipped to be the most expensive ever made.", "\"Podiumgate\" in Luxembourg was a pantomime distraction to the developments in the bigger Brexit story.", "The Own It app watches what children type and offers advice about how to stay healthy online.", "Quinn Industrial Holdings’ director Kevin Lunney was attacked near his County Fermanagh home.", "Five years on from the independence referendum, how have things changed in Scotland?", "Activist Greta Thunberg spars with US lawmaker on climate change at a Congressional hearing.", "The Saudis say the direction of the strikes showed the missiles could not have come from Yemen.", "Crossbench peer and QC Lord Pannick makes a legal case against Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament.", "The US central bank has cut interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, but is split over future moves.", "The ex-Wales captain said he would not have made his HIV public if a newspaper had not made threats.", "The father and Labour activist said the children's ward was understaffed and the NHS was being destroyed.", "A BBC News investigation finds teenagers in care being placed at risk of abuse in unregulated homes.", "How an ex-commando became the most dominant figure in the country's recent history.", "The Finnish PM says EU leaders need written proposals by the end of September.", "What happened on day two of the hearings into the PM's suspension of Parliament?", "He refuses to say which side he might back in a future referendum under a Labour government.", "Campaigners say the technology is inaccurate, intrusive and infringes on an individual's right to privacy.", "Fabio Buzzi's powerboat hit rocks as he neared the finishing line in the Venice lagoon.", "Burnley plumber gains worldwide attention for not charging an elderly customer \"under any circumstances\".", "Vanessa George, who abused children at a nursery in Plymouth, is granted parole after 10 years.", "The government insists \"constructive\" talks are ongoing after the EU's chief negotiator's remarks.", "The blaze broke out at a boarding school near the capital Monrovia, killing at least 27 people.", "The climate activist says more needs to be done ahead of a Congress hearing", "Attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities are an attack on the \"whole world\" the country says.", "Man City bounce back from their shock Premier League defeat at Norwich by launching their Champions League campaign in style with victory at Shakhtar Donetsk.", "The company will get public money to help bring up to 500 jobs to the town.", "Why is human childbirth so long and difficult? Scientists may have the answer from studying fossils.", "The PM says the EU is \"fed up\" with endless delays, as the Luxembourg PM chastises him at a press conference.", "Xavier Bettel showed his frustration on Monday. But it's unlikely other EU leaders will do the same.", "The government says vaping poses a health risk to the young, rather than an alternative to smoking.", "The historic private school is to teach A-levels over the internet for £15,000 per year.", "Nicole Jacobs expects the domestic abuse bill to be in the Queen's Speech when Parliament returns.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "Two parades were escorted through Glasgow by riot police, with 10 people charged for various offences.", "A day that felt like the series in microcosm leaves England needing another greatest day, writes Stephan Shemilt.", "The MP, who quit Labour in February, says the Lib Dems are \"the strongest party to stop Brexit\".", "The actor explains what led him to take on the role of a wholesome children's entertainer.", "Copies of the Avengers comic sold out after Rio Mayor Marcelo Crivella called for them to be seized.", "Cabinet minister Amber Rudd says no deal is \"the worst possible outcome\" of all potential Brexit options.", "New BBC Spotlight series also links Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley to Troubles bombings.", "The work and pensions secretary accuses Boris Johnson of an \"assault on decency and democracy\".", "Australia finally break England's brave resistance to retain the Ashes with a 185-run victory in the fourth Test at Old Trafford.", "MP Amber Rudd explains why she resigned from Boris Johnson’s cabinet and surrendered the Tory whip.", "The six-year-old boy \"can't speak or move his body for the moment\" but was smiling and laughing.", "Chief constable condemns those who left a mortar bomb close to the town's police station and houses.", "DNA has previously been collected from the blow of humpback whales but not from small dolphins.", "Teenager Bianca Andreescu stuns Serena Williams in a gripping US Open final to claim a first Grand Slam title and deny the American a 24th major.", "The inclusion of Polanski's film was controversial due to the director's rape conviction.", "The legislation, named after a dog stabbed as he chased a suspect, is part of Scotland's Animal Welfare Bill.", "Cambridge University is expecting its highest proportion of state school students since the 1980s.", "Sajid Javid responds to Amber Rudd's criticism that the UK isn't working enough on securing a deal.", "Many of the worshippers brave the cold and wind, spending nights outdoors ahead of his arrival.", "Amber Davies says staff at a Wetherspoons pub questioned why she was using a disabled toilet.", "Some of the world's best riders cycle on a loop through the Scottish Borders on the second stage of the race.", "Canada's Catherine McKenna says she has been the target of increasing abuse and threats.", "Andrew Griffiths resigned as a minister last year after a newspaper published the messages.", "Joichi Ito's move comes after claims that MIT tried to conceal gifts from the disgraced financier.", "Who defied Boris Johnson by voting to stop a no-deal exit on 31 October and what will happen to them?", "Sports and arts figures joined thousands of independence campaigners in the centre of Merthyr Tydfil.", "The announcement came after celebrities were paired with their professional dancers for the 2019 show.", "About 57,000 runners are involved in the annual half-marathon between Newcastle and South Shields.", "New regulations will limit the amount of time homeless people spend in unsuitable accommodation.", "France's health ministry says preventative measures helped to curb damage from the heat.", "Mo Farah wins a record sixth consecutive Great North Run, while Brigid Kosgei sets a new half marathon world record to win the women's race.", "The party plans to stand a candidate against John Bercow, accusing him of \"flagrant abuse\" of process.", "Updates as tens of thousands of people run the famous half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields.", "The diminished hurricane battered Nova Scotia with winds of 100mph, cutting power for 450,000 people.", "Captain Harry Kane scored a hat-trick as England completed a routine win over Bulgaria at Wembley to continue their perfect start to Euro 2020 qualifying.", "Bethany Shipsey died from a diet pill overdose. Her father confronts the man who sold her the drugs.", "The victim was found after officers were called to \"reports of suspicious activity\".", "A man blinded in one eye after having a corrosive liquid thrown in his face regains his sight after surgery.", "State media report five people dead, several hundred houses damaged or destroyed, and flooding.", "Despite a pledge it would not head there, satellite images appear to show an Iranian ship off Syria.", "", "But he was not able to make a \"firm conclusion\" about the death of Ayrshire teenager Amy Allan.", "MPs have voted on an early general election and a bill that could delay Brexit.", "The reptile would have been easy prey for predators, environmentalists say.", "Pilots are due to strike on Monday and Tuesday over a pay offer pilots' union Balpa says is too low.", "Users in the UK and across the world were unable to send or receive emails for seven hours.", "The family of a couple killed in County Armagh call for a victims' commissioner for non-Troubles crimes.", "Scholars discover 500 lost words and unlock language secrets in a revised dictionary of medieval Irish.", "Boris Johnson defends his Brexit policy, as brother Jo quits ministerial job citing the national interest.", "Do not put a 15 October election in your diary in anything more than pencil for now.", "Arlene Leitch says her heart palpitations were put down as anxiety until she had a cardiac arrest.", "Have hurricanes intensified as a result of a changing climate? Tomasz Schafernaker takes a look.", "A bear climbed through a window to take a nap in a hotel bathroom in Big Sky, Montana.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The MP leading an inquiry into reality TV claims \"someone in police custody would have more rights\".", "Overall crime also increased across the railway network, British Transport Police figures show.", "Boris Johnson pushes Labour for a national poll as MPs prepare to vote on halting no-deal Brexit.", "Footage reveals the extent of damage caused by the category five storm, the largest ever in Bahamas.", "It would require the prime minister to ask for a Brexit delay - and even tells him what to write.", "Boris Johnson also reiterated his desire for an election on 15 October after a series of government defeats.", "Steve Smith's relentless 211 demoralises England and puts Australia in prime position to retain the Ashes after two days of the fourth Test.", "A millipede-like creature from 550 million years ago is among the earliest examples of this.", "Steve Smith again has the measure of England's bowlers on his return to the Australia side on a rain-shortened first day in the fourth Ashes Test.", "The prime minister says a bill that calls for a delay to Brexit makes it impossible to govern.", "The \"absolutely devastated\" Made In Chelsea star hurt his foot while recording the launch show.", "Jo Johnson, younger brother of Boris Johnson, says he's \"torn between family and national interest\".", "The secondary ticketing site has improved its communication with customers, the competition watchdog said.", "Leanne Truesdale was about six years old when George Oliver assaulted her in her County Down home.", "The BBC has obtained pictures from inside the ship, which was seized by officials in Gibraltar in July.", "A woman fleeing the Bahamas hurricane says people are trying to shoot each other for supplies.", "French judges say there are not enough grounds to prosecute Air France and Airbus over the 2009 crash.", "The girl's father said the school's decision was \"a gross overreaction\".", "PC Avi Maharaj was alone at the family home when he used their TV account to buy porn.", "It is \"critical\" to see if lessons can be learnt by police, the watchdog says.", "Scotland's first minister predicts the SNP will \"beat the Tories\" in Scotland if there is an early election.", "The bill has passed its stages in the House of Commons and now heads to the House of Lords.", "How the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama suffered as the category five hurricane struck.", "Despite the \"chaos\", many papers believe Boris Johnson will emerge the ultimate victor in an election.", "The Balpa pilots' union says Ryanair has refused to come to the negotiating table.", "But the chancellor rules out a \"blank cheque\", promising to keep within existing spending rules.", "\"Missed opportunities\" to diagnose sepsis led to five-year-old Ava Macfarlane's death, a jury finds.", "A gang that lured victims from Poland to the UK is believed to have enslaved around 300 people.", "The MP compares a doctor with concerns about medical supplies to a discredited anti-MMR campaigner.", "The Liverpool MP says her new party is \"unequivocal in wanting to stop Brexit\".", "The princess is \"very excited\" about her first day, the Duke of Cambridge says as he drops her off.", "He co-wrote songs like Destiny's Child's Say My Name and Lady Gaga's Telephone.", "The new estimate for the cost of claims comes as shares in CYBG plunge as it warns of a higher bill.", "An HGV carrying 32,000 litres of gin is leaking its load over the carriageway following a collision.", "A woman who broke her leg in a half marathon suffered gross failings by clinicians, a coroner rules.", "Schools in England are receiving £2.6bn extra as part of a three-year plan to tackle budget shortages.", "Jonathan Blake gives his daily round-up of the key Brexit events in British politics.", "Over 1,000 ex-employees back legal action, arguing the airline did not follow proper redundancy procedures.", "Microplastics in drinking water do not appear to pose a health risk at current levels, research suggests.", "An inquiry is being held to look at the impact of the benefit system on young women.", "He visits the spot where his mother was photographed in 1997, which is now a \"bustling community\".", "Nigel Benn will come out of retirement after 23 years in November, but fellow ex-world champion Richie Woodall says he fears for the 55-year-old.", "The Duke of Sussex walks through a partially-cleared minefield in Angola, 22 years after his mother visited a similar site.", "A 23-year-old man, believed to be the driver, has now been arrested, police said.", "MPs condemn the PM's language, but the Tory party chairman says criticisms of him are \"deeply unfair\".", "Boris Johnson's defiant Commons performance has made divisions among MPs over Brexit even more stark.", "The seizure off the Pembrokeshire coast was one of the largest hauls of the drug in UK history.", "A Bank of England policymaker says interest rates may need to be cut even if a no-deal Brexit is avoided.", "A senior commander apologises for the soldier's \"appalling\" tweet, and says it is \"being dealt with\".", "Cleveland's force becomes the first in England to be rated inadequate in all areas of inspection.", "Prime minister says government will do \"what we can to help\" after Wrightbus enters administration.", "PC Christopher Burnham is being treated for a fractured skull, bleed on the brain and broken knee.", "At a Brexit Party rally, Nigel Farage says the Tories will lose votes if they keep Theresa May's deal.", "Japan Airlines' new online booking feature shows where very young children will be sitting.", "Minister Stephen Barclay says the \"moment of truth\" is approaching, as Brussels asks for new ideas.", "Sarah Barrass and Brandon Machin are warned they may spend the rest of their lives behind bars.", "Daniel Grogan's parents were also convicted of killing 18-year-old Jay Sewell.", "Prince Andrew's daughter and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi say they are \"so excited\" to be getting married.", "Labour MP Karl Turner confronts Johnson's adviser Dominic Cummings over death threats he's received.", "MP Jess Phillips said her staff were locked in her office as a man shouted abuse.", "The push to attract foreign visitors is part of the kingdom's efforts to cut its reliance on oil.", "Forces in England and Wales must do more to root out sexual predators, a police watchdog report says.", "The Georgian-style mansion was shipped down a river to its new home in Queensland, Maryland.", "The referral to decide if the PM should face a misconduct inquiry is \"politically motivated\", No 10 says.", "Bethany Marchant says she wants to encourage others to seek help if they're in an abusive relationship.", "But the EU is aware that the route to a new extension is neither straightforward nor guaranteed.", "Leader Jeremy Corbyn announces an overhaul to the welfare scheme as his party calls it \"inhumane\".", "Police were called to a disturbance outside MP Jess Phillips' constituency office on Thursday.", "The Civil Aviation Authority says it has now flown a total of 61,000 Thomas Cook customers back to the UK.", "Seaview Primary in Glenarm, County Antrim, has increased its pupil numbers by over 50% this year.", "One defendant claimed to be 14 years old, before police proved he was actually 26.", "Yvette Cooper's daughter Ellie says her house has been fitted with panic buttons.", "The tone of voice used by mothers to teenage children can be as important as what they say, a study suggests.", "The police watchdog has rated the organisation inadequate, but how exactly is it going so wrong?", "Green Pastures Church, which received £15m from Wrightbus, says it understands \"hurt and anger\".", "The ex-cabinet minister says Downing Street's words \"legitimise\" aggression, a claim it denies.", "Cocaine with a street value of more than £1m was found in Roger and Sue Clarke's suitcases.", "England wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor retires from international cricket because of her ongoing battle with anxiety.", "The White House says Iraqis who helped the US military and persecuted minorities will get priority.", "Kirsty Gravett's partner died suddenly when she was nine weeks pregnant with their third child.", "It would require the prime minister to ask for a Brexit delay - and even tells him what to write.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "Half of tree species found only on the European continent face extinction, including the conker tree.", "Michael Winner's former lover is jailed for her \"revenge\" robbery at his widow's Knightsbridge home.", "Lawyers for Sandra the orangutan won a landmark appeal in 2014 which deemed her a \"nonhuman person\".", "Transport routes, support for care homes and medicine stockpiles are raised as concerns in a new report.", "The wife of a retired engineer from London jailed in Iran appeals to the UK government for help.", "A new charity award aims to \"shine a light\" on MPs and peers who \"argue their case with decency\".", "Nearly 500 men and boys were tortured, sexually abused, chained up and starved, police said.", "Once a magnet for Thomas Cook tourists, one Majorcan community is now fighting for survival.", "Felicite Tomlinson took a fatal combination of drugs the night before she died, an inquest hears.", "Boris Johnson will meet European leaders this week, amid warnings of food shortages after a no-deal Brexit.", "Australia is overtaking the UK as the world's second biggest destination for international students.", "The singer is accused of holding lessons in an annexe without planning permission.", "The ad implied the food delivery firm could deliver anywhere in the UK at anytime.", "A French politician says migrants are wrongly being told \"the crossing will close\" after Brexit.", "In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and loot boxes banned for children, they say.", "The teenager was fatally wounded in Edgware Road, central London, just before 14:00 BST, police say.", "But an international report calls for more scrutiny of the quality of degree courses.", "A memorial event is being held in the city to mark the 18th anniversary of the attacks. This live stream has now ended.", "The 55-year-old went into a free fall during a tandem dive with a professional on Sunday.", "Stowmarket High School in Suffolk has told new Year 7 pupils they will have to wear trousers.", "The Yellowhammer plan warns of riots and food price rises but ministers say it is not a prediction.", "UK university leads global league table, but there are warnings of German universities catching up.", "Englishman Billy Hampton left the money to say \"up you\" to the British establishment, a friend says.", "Scotland's highest civil court is to rule on whether or not parliament's suspension is legal.", "Celsa admits failing to make a risk assessment before Peter O'Brien and Mark Sim died.", "The Brexit Party leader is calling on the Tories to make a deal to help \"secure a big Brexit majority\".", "The children's character is being replaced by male and female fire extinguisher shaped mascots.", "Several bills will fall because of prorogation, including a bill tackling domestic violence and Brexit legislation.", "An officer says it is \"unacceptable\" most recruits don't smoke on arrival, but do by graduation.", "The 77-year-old appeared in court in connection with the disappearance of Renee and Andrew MacRae.", "Closures hit record level as retailers restructure their businesses and more shopping moves online.", "Boris Johnson’s suspension of UK Parliament is unlawful, judges at Scotland’s highest civil court rule", "The women and an Australian man are understood to have been taken to a prison in Tehran.", "The latest updates after a lorry crashed and caught fire on the M6 in Staffordshire", "The Belfast Health Trust says the move comes after viewing CCTV footage from the facility.", "In dramatic scenes in the Commons, MPs hold up signs, chant and sing songs to protest against the suspension.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Shareholders register their unhappiness with the leadership of Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct.", "The French firm must pay compensation after the man had a heart attack during sex with a stranger.", "The fire season has started earlier than expected, with over 160 fires reported in the east of the country.", "Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Dorian, search operations continue to find the dead.", "RammyMen hopes to prevent men from taking their own lives by offering sport and social connections.", "Opposition parties say it should return as soon as possible so scrutiny of the government can resume.", "The highly contagious bacterium causes a range of infections, from a sore throat to scarlet fever.", "The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes is stable, or even falling, a study suggests.", "People with \"trypophobia\" are complaining about Apple's latest handsets.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering the 12-month-old who was pulled from the River Irwell.", "Football fans cannot buy a ticket for a Scottish Premiership game for less than £20, a wide-ranging BBC Scotland study of football club prices has found.", "Wales is seeing proportionally more big retailers closing shops than any other part of the UK.", "Two former Chelsea youth players have told BBC News they were regularly subjected to racist abuse as teenagers at the club.", "Kenyan police investigate amid claims that a teacher humiliated the girl for staining her uniform.", "Boris Johnson also rebuffs criticism of Parliament's five-week shutdown as a \"load of nonsense\".", "DUP leader Arlene Foster says the UK needs to move on and find a Brexit deal that works.", "The airline says 90% of flights will operate as usual on Wednesday as it recovers from pilots' strike.", "The presenter was not hurt after a \"spontaneous detour\" during filming for the BBC motoring show.", "Students \"pay through the nose\" for inadequate document checking service, says Universities UK.", "Eighteen years on, ceremonies have been held in New York and Virginia to mark 9/11.", "After a bruising period for the PM, Number 10 stresses a deal is the government's aim and a lot can happen before Parliament meets again.", "Repairs costing £16m are needed at the brand new Sick Kids in Edinburgh before it can be opened to patients.", "Craig Small, 32, died in hospital shortly after he was shot outside a shop in Wembley.", "The law would mean the likes of Uber and Lyft would have to offer holiday and sick pay.", "The president says his administration will implement strong rules to protect \"innocent children\".", "England move closer to reaching Euro 2020 following an entertaining qualifying victory over Kosovo, who scored after just 34 seconds at St Mary's.", "The BBC's Dave Lee tries out a slow-motion selfie on the iPhone 11.", "The gift will create new facilities at the clinic which is named after the author's mother.", "Gerald Matovu, 26, met victims via dating apps and used GHB to render them unconscious.", "The gable end of the house fell away, leaving rooms exposed and debris across the street.", "Tom Watson's position puts him at odds with Jeremy Corbyn, who wants a general election first.", "The government has published a report setting out the risks of a no-deal Brexit. How is it preparing?", "Two more boats are found in the English Channel after a record number of people try to cross in a day.", "Scientists discover the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption by humans.", "He was one of 21 MPs who lost the Tory whip after rebelling in a bid to stop a no-deal Brexit.", "Creggan in Londonderry is seen as a dissident republican stronghold. But what do locals think?", "The corpses were found among 119 black bags containing human remains.", "Jo Swinson makes her debut as leader while party members debate cancelling Brexit.", "The Liberal Democrats will be the \"stop Brexit\" party at the next election, their leader Jo Swinson says.", "A revised Brexit deal, acceptable to both UK and EU negotiators, remains elusive. What have been the main sticking points?", "The measures could affect the sentencing of murderers of pre-school age children in England and Wales.", "The home secretary says the \"entire machinery of government\" is focused on getting a deal with the EU.", "Joe Denly narrowly misses out on a maiden century but still helps England into a match-winning position on the third day of the final Ashes Test.", "Members will debate whether to campaign to revoke Article 50 at their party conference in Bournemouth.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The former PM claims Boris Johnson did not believe in Brexit during the 2016 referendum campaign.", "Josh Thompson took a clown to a work meeting as a \"support person\" when he was about to lose his job.", "A metal detectorist who unearthed a £2m Viking hoard is being sued over treasure found on church land.", "Gareth Thomas says he wants to \"educate and break the stigma for everybody\".", "State media say drones have struck two major oil facilities, including Abqaiq.", "The solid gold toilet - worth up to $6m - has not been found after the break-in at Blenheim Palace.", "The former prime minister says the 2016 EU referendum turned into a \"terrible Tory psychodrama\".", "Four million Venezuelans have now fled their country - but can some of them build a new life in the Caribbean?", "Several people were hurt in the 1972 blast at the university's sports hall on the Upper Malone Road.", "The 29-year-old victim was found injured in a street in north London and died shortly afterwards.", "A former health minister wants universities to be bound by law to meet students' mental health needs.", "Donald Trump confirms he was killed in a counter-terror operation after his death was reported in August.", "A 66-year-old man has been arrested over the theft of the toilet, which was part of an exhibition.", "Boris Johnson misses a press conference amid noisy protests, but says there has been \"a lot of work\".", "Former attorney general Dominic Grieve made the comments at a People's Vote rally in Belfast.", "Four small boats, including a kayak carrying two men, are stopped making their way towards the UK.", "Europe win the last three singles matches to seal a sensational 14½-13½ Solheim Cup victory over the United States at Gleneagles.", "Norwich City end Manchester City's 18-match unbeaten run in the Premier League to stun the champions in a pulsating game at Carrow Road.", "The Tories \"misused\" the platform when they changed the headline on a BBC News story, the company says.", "Protesters have threatened to fly drones near the airport but flights remain unaffected.", "The former president of the European Council says he believes Brexit has changed Europe's view of Scottish independence.", "The dog's owner was too tired to carry the animal when it refused to go on.", "Flies were spotted by inspectors at a firm that kept more waste outside than it was allowed.", "The US is sending mixed messages to Tehran, leaving it unclear who has the upper hand.", "Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East specialist at Melbourne University, was detained \"months ago\".", "\"The flood has entered my house, and it's all I can see.\"", "Tyson Fury battles to a rugged points win over Otto Wallin as he fights for over nine rounds with deep cuts to maintain his unbeaten record in a dramatic bout in Las Vegas.", "Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton steals the show at the Proms' Last Night, as Pride flags adorn the stage.", "England end their memorable summer by earning a 2-2 draw in the Ashes with a 135-run defeat of Australia in the fifth Test.", "The US president hails India's prime minister as \"exceptional\", firing up a 50,000-strong crowd.", "Dozens more were injured when the wooden structure collapsed at the start of the school day.", "Sherry Bray and Christopher Ashford illegally accessed mortuary footage of the footballer's body.", "Researchers will examine how minimum unit pricing has affected drinkers since it came into force last year.", "The travel operator, which has collapsed after 178 years, began with a train trip from Leicester.", "Jeremy Corbyn's head of policy leaves, as the Labour leader defends the party's policy on Brexit.", "Two friends have documented their journey into a forgotten underground depot used during World War Two.", "Experts believe the drug could have killed between 500 and 2,000 people before it was banned.", "A 26-year-old man was chased and attacked with knives, a metal pole and a rock in Musselburgh.", "Ayesha Tan-Jones wrote a message on their hands to protest against 'straitjacket' designs.", "Wesley Streete is charged with the murder of Keeley Bunker, whose body was found in woodland.", "The abused mother tells how she is adjusting to life after being released from prison.", "As Emily Doe, her victim impact statement went viral. Now, she's telling her story in her own words.", "Work to protect women from violence needed \"more than ever\", duchess says on African tour.", "Millions are in unaffordable or unsuitable homes, research for the National Housing Federation says.", "But there will be no change at next year's ceremony, organisers say.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Richard Leonard tells the BBC his party needs a clearer position to put to voters.", "Mr McVeigh, from Donaghmore in County Tyrone, is one of 16 murder victims known as the Disappeared.", "Party members call for assets to be \"redistributed democratically and fairly\" through the state sector.", "Customers tell of fears of being stranded abroad with unpaid hotel bills following the collapse.", "The prime minister declines to rule out military action ahead of talks with Iran at the UN.", "John McDonnell also vows to eliminate in-work poverty if Labour wins power at the next election.", "Billions will be spent on public ownership schemes to accelerate the \"green industrial revolution\".", "The drugs can attack a range of cancers, rather than those in just one part of the body.", "Students starting university are told of the potentially fatal dangers of excessive drinking.", "The travel giant failed to raise money to secure its future after three profit warnings in a year.", "Members at the party's annual conference vote against a motion which would have called for Remain backing at an election.", "The glitz, the glamour and the glitter ahead of this year's ceremony.", "Help with dressing, washing and meals will be paid for by the state in England, costing £6bn a year.", "An elderly woman suffered serious injuries when she was bitten by Deji Olatunji's German shepherd.", "All holidays and flights are cancelled after the firm collapses, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.", "The officers were carrying out a routine drugs check on the roadside when they were struck.", "But the foreign secretary says he will not \"take levers off the table\" for future action.", "Thomas Cook customers in Tunisia say a hotel is demanding extra fees before letting them leave.", "Wales produce a display of contrasting halves, but secure a bonus-point win over Georgia in their opening Pool D World Cup encounter.", "Carr subjected his victim to a three-hour ordeal, which was caught on cameras he had installed.", "Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jodie Comer took home some of the night's major prizes.", "The farm vehicle toppled over into the garden, which is lower than the road, on the A915 at Lundin links.", "The Labour leader is coming under pressure to signal his opposition to leaving the EU \"once and for all\".", "The government says it is investigating after claims against the PM are made by a newspaper.", "Reports say an associate was given public money and invited on trade trips when he was London mayor.", "A number of small boats carrying migrants towards the Kent coast were intercepted after searches.", "Riot police and pro-democracy demonstrators clash violently in the latest protests to rock the city.", "The EU's lead negotiator says the backstop is the \"maximum flexibility\" the EU can offer the UK.", "Activists close roads to the airport, disrupting the operation of the major Asian transport hub.", "Israel confirms the rocket attack and responds by hitting targets in southern Lebanon.", "The gunman is shot dead by police after opening fire on numerous motorists and passers-by.", "Defending US Open champion Naomi Osaka wins hearts all over again when she consoles teenager Coco Gauff after beating her in the third round.", "Lindsay Birbeck, 47, was found strangled in a cemetery in Lancashire last Sunday.", "The threat is a sign the government is actively considering whether to call a general election soon.", "The former chancellor responds to a report saying Conservative Brexit rebels could be sacked.", "Vasyl Lomachenko produces a battling display to beat Britain's Luke Campbell on points and add the WBC lightweight title to his WBA and WBO belts.", "Johanna Konta reaches the US Open quarter-finals for the first time by edging an unpredictable match against Karolina Pliskova.", "Houthi rebels say the strike hit a prison, Saudi Arabia said it targeted a drone and missile base.", "Arsenal recover from two goals down to deny north London rivals Tottenham a Premier League victory at Emirates Stadium.", "The reintroduction of inspections for \"outstanding\" schools follows concerns about falling standards.", "The child was flown to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool after the attack on Saturday.", "Police fired blue-dyed water and fired teargas at protesters as violence once again hit the city.", "Demonstrators gathered in UK towns and cities over Boris Johnson's plan to suspend Parliament.", "Blanca Fernandez Ochoa was last seen driving a black Mercedes in Madrid on 23 August.", "Pope Francis apologises for arriving late for his prayer, saying he was stuck in a lift in the Vatican.", "Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert has been killed in a crash at the Belgian Grand Prix, motorsport's governing body the FIA says.", "Crowds take to the streets across the UK to protest against Boris Johnson's plans to suspend Parliament.", "The 800-mile \"Great North Trail\" goes between the Peak District and the far north coast of Scotland.", "Charles Leclerc dedicates first career F1 win in Belgium to Anthoine Hubert, who died in Formula 2 race on Saturday.", "One of the protest movement's founders says she was inspired after praying on a psychedelic retreat.", "Contingency measures had to be put in place after the failure of Healthcare Environmental Services.", "Airlines warn of delays and some cancellations due to problems affecting French airspace.", "Make-up artist Emmy Burbidge travels to Papua New Guinea to discover the truth about what’s in her make-up, and find out whether there’s a sustainable way of producing the oil used.", "Boris Johnson told Leo Varadkar a no-deal Brexit would be \"a failure of statecraft\".", "The economy grew by a stronger-than-expected 0.3% in July, official figures show.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "Irish sources described a phone call between Leo Varadkar and Boris Johnson as \"warm and friendly\".", "The Transport Committee says blocking paths has a big impact, including on people with disabilities.", "The actor explains what led him to take on the role of a wholesome children's entertainer.", "The Commons votes not to back Boris Johnson's motion calling for an early general election, as MPs disrupt the prorogation ceremony.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed he will visit Dublin on Monday to meet taoiseach Leo Varadkar.", "The work and pensions secretary accuses Boris Johnson of an \"assault on decency and democracy\".", "MP Amber Rudd explains why she resigned from Boris Johnson’s cabinet and surrendered the Tory whip.", "Chief constable condemns those who left a mortar bomb close to the town's police station and houses.", "Rafael Nadal wins his 19th Grand Slam title after holding off Russian Daniil Medvedev's exhilarating fightback in one of the greatest US Open finals.", "Cambridge University is expecting its highest proportion of state school students since the 1980s.", "A coroner rules the actress, who appeared on several CBBC shows, had not intended to kill herself.", "The body says wealthier graduates are far more likely to start on higher salaries than working-class peers.", "Amber Davies says staff at a Wetherspoons pub questioned why she was using a disabled toilet.", "A Police Scotland tweet urged people to pack essentials such as a first aid kit, radio, torch, and food and water.", "Doctors treating Tafida Raqeeb in the UK say it is in her best interests to be allowed to die.", "PC Gareth Phillips is on a \"long road to recovery\", the Crown Prosecution Service says.", "Northern Ireland drop their first points in Euro 2020 qualifying as goals by Marcel Halstenberg and Serge Gnabry give Germany a 2-0 win in Belfast.", "Margaret Atwood says there were concerted efforts to obtain the manuscript before it was published.", "Edinburgh Zoo's Tian Tian was artificially inseminated in March but it has not led to a pregnancy.", "A scheme allowing sellers of the magazine to take contactless payments is rolled out across the UK.", "Belgium inflict brutal defeat on Scotland that all but ends their hopes of reaching Euro 2020 via their qualification group.", "No prime minister has ever successfully been impeached but Plaid says opposition parties could try.", "The order follows revelations some crews had stayed at one of the president's Scottish golf resorts.", "A woman is found fatally wounded and two other women suffer slash injuries.", "The 9,000 animals culled to control cattle TB suffered terribly, says a former government adviser.", "Financier Victor Vescovo completes his quest to visit the deepest parts of Earth's five oceans.", "The new home secretary says she wants to \"reset the relationship\" between police and the government.", "France's health ministry says preventative measures helped to curb damage from the heat.", "Kim Avis, from Inverness, was traced five months after going missing from a beach in California.", "They will be on trains to and from Mount Florida and on trains travelling back to Perth and Dundee.", "A woman has died after strong winds blew her into a building head-first, local media report.", "As Boris Johnson visits Dublin, there's no obvious sign of common ground over the backstop.", "Olly Robbins, who helped negotiate the EU withdrawal agreement, will join the bank after a sabbatical.", "A survey by consumer magazine Which? looks at the frustrations of travellers across the UK.", "The victim was found after officers were called to \"reports of suspicious activity\".", "A man blinded in one eye after having a corrosive liquid thrown in his face regains his sight after surgery.", "Thomas Dunn claimed he only \"assisted\" the baby, saying the child had been climbing into the machine.", "He says he will quit as Speaker and MP at the next election or on 31 October, whichever comes first.", "The banks become the latest UK lenders to be hit with extra costs from a late rush of PPI claims.", "At least 17 people were injured at a religious procession when two elephants reportedly ran amok.", "", "Michael O'Leary's contract provoked a protest vote at the Irish airline's annual meeting.", "The ex-PM spoke to royal officials about her \"raising an eyebrow\" at the prospect of independence.", "Former Newcastle United and England forward Peter Beardsley is suspended from all football-related activity for 32 weeks for making racist comments to players.", "It was the only criminal case to arise out of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.", "The chief executive says Amazon will buy thousands of electric vehicles and become carbon neutral by 2040.", "Edward Putman denies claiming the £2.5m jackpot with a faked ticket in 2009.", "A UK government statement says the written documents \"reflect the ideas the UK has put forward\".", "An ex-paratrooper faces two counts of murder and five of attempted murder on 30 January 1972.", "The ex-PM says he asked the Queen to \"raise an eyebrow\" over the Scottish independence vote in 2014.", "Children under 16 are being placed in unregulated care homes in breach of the law, leaked research reveals.", "A blast propelled a metal tank into the air during a fire at a facility in Istanbul.", "The fast food chain says it will no longer give away plastic toys with children's meals.", "Education Secretary John Swinney tells MSPs the government will scarp its named person policy and repeal the relevant legislation.", "The former prime minister says the 2016 EU referendum turned into a \"terrible Tory psychodrama\".", "Police say far-right extremism is a fast-growing problem as supporters seek to mimic jihadist attacks.", "Activist Greta Thunberg spars with US lawmaker on climate change at a Congressional hearing.", "Debit cards were most used, but falling cash use pushed notes and coins to third place, say retailers.", "Boris Johnson says an angry exchange with the father of a sick child is \"part of my job\".", "A report finds an increase in the number of sex workers since Stormont made it illegal to pay for sex.", "The figures show the \"massive inequality\" between rich and poor in Scotland, researchers say.", "Man City bounce back from their shock Premier League defeat at Norwich by launching their Champions League campaign in style with victory at Shakhtar Donetsk.", "Robbery rates in England and Wales are rising faster than in other developed countries, a study says.", "Network Rail has submitted a planning application to install a bridge walk and visitor hub on the rail bridge.", "The Saudis say the direction of the strikes showed the missiles could not have come from Yemen.", "The US central bank has cut interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, but is split over future moves.", "His debut is named album of the year, cementing a stellar year for the London-born rapper.", "Early evidence suggests alcohol related deaths in Glasgow have fallen by a fifth.", "Deejay Bullock recalls his dismay at a rejection which campaigners say was against the law.", "The broadcaster thanked the Today team and listeners in his final edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "The Belgian jet's pilot is safe and well after being rescued from the line in north-western France.", "Canada's PM says he deeply regrets wearing skin-darkening make-up at an Arabian Nights-themed gala.", "Rhys has epidermolysis bullosa, a painful, life-limiting condition that has left him unable to walk.", "The Supreme Court has heard three days of argument over whether Boris Johnson acted lawfully in suspending Parliament.", "One runaway victim was penalised for stealing jewellery to survive, the child sex abuse inquiry finds.", "The BBC spent a month in one of Afghanistan's busiest hospitals in the southern city of Kandahar.", "The case against Jed Foster, 20, is \"discounted\", a court hears.", "David Cameron will apologise to the Queen after he was overheard saying she \"purred\" on hearing the result of the Scottish independence referendum.", "A BBC News investigation finds teenagers in care being placed at risk of abuse in unregulated homes.", "The parents of children killed at Sandy Hook have put out a graphic video about mass shootings.", "Arlene Foster has said a Brexit solution cannot affect Northern Ireland's constitutional position.", "The Finnish PM says EU leaders need written proposals by the end of September.", "Boris Johnson says the public is tired of \"dither and delay\" as opposition parties vow to again block his snap election plan.", "Serena Williams beats Elina Svitolina in straight sets to reach the US Open final where she will face Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu.", "The prime minister has sent the EU a Brexit extension request - but could no deal still happen?", "Brendan, Ciara, and Róisín are among the names for storms to hit Britain and Ireland in 2019-20.", "The business blames a dramatically changed retail landscape and competition from rivals for the loss.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 30 Aug - 6 September.", "A look at the political career of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's former president.", "New BBC Spotlight series also links Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley to Troubles bombings.", "Officials in the Bahamas say the death toll will be \"staggering\" as aid efforts are stepped up.", "Labour and other parties vow to block mid-October election, as Lords pass anti-no-deal Brexit bill.", "Pilots are due to strike on Monday and Tuesday over a pay offer pilots' union Balpa says is too low.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The reptile would have been easy prey for predators, environmentalists say.", "The \"absolutely devastated\" Made In Chelsea star hurt his foot while recording the launch show.", "Edward Vines pleads not guilty to sending the Newsnight presenter a letter via her mother.", "MPs vote on Monday whether to hold a poll, but Labour's Emily Thornberry says the PM can't be trusted.", "Alcohol should be more expensive in supermarkets compared with pubs, says think tank.", "Jo Johnson, younger brother of Boris Johnson, says he's \"torn between family and national interest\".", "Users in the UK and across the world were unable to send or receive emails for seven hours.", "Boris Johnson is criticised for using West Yorkshire Police officers as a backdrop during a speech.", "The MP compares a doctor with concerns about medical supplies to a discredited anti-MMR campaigner.", "All students at the secondary school must wear trousers in a uniform shake-up.", "A mum's desperate hunt for her murdered daughter - killed by a man she met at church.", "An automated feed of African news stories.", "There is little respite for Boris Johnson at the end of tumultuous week in British politics.", "French judges say there are not enough grounds to prosecute Air France and Airbus over the 2009 crash.", "The princess is \"very excited\" about her first day, the Duke of Cambridge says as he drops her off.", "Boris Johnson defends his Brexit policy, as brother Jo quits ministerial job citing the national interest.", "Boris Johnson launched into a political speech while flanked by 35 West Yorkshire police officers.", "The strategy was clear - but the cabinet is worried that it might be wrong.", "Richard Selley from Perthshire, who had motor neurone disease, had campaigned for a change in the law.", "Maintenance worker Peter Hartley placed a hidden camera in the ladies' toilets at Pinewood Studios.", "The girl's father said the school's decision was \"a gross overreaction\".", "A London gender clinic leaks details of almost 2,000 people on its email list.", "Police did not know which of the brothers it belonged to but discovered all three were involved.", "The parades through Glasgow on Saturday come a week after a march in Govan was marred by sectarian violence.", "Most people have left Livingston's Deans South estate, but a few still live among the boarded-up buildings.", "The site has come under fire from consumer group Which? over \"hugely suspicious\" reviews.", "The pop singer and actress told fans she was tired of being \"ashamed\" of her body.", "Two people are said to be the first in the UK to successfully have the organs donated.", "PC Avi Maharaj was alone at the family home when he used their TV account to buy porn.", "His promises of democracy and reconciliation dissolved into violence and economic misery.", "Consumer campaigner Martin Lewis says the advert could influence \"young and impressionable\" students.", "England face a huge battle to save the Ashes after Australia take three late wickets on the third day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.", "Almost half of UK firms have done no risk assessment on Brexit, finds the British Chambers of Commerce.", "Ayesha Tan-Jones wrote a message on their hands to protest against 'straitjacket' designs.", "Applicants could be asked to provide their own medical certificate instead of police having to ask GPs.", "His opponents accuse President Donald Trump of improperly pressing Ukraine to investigate a political rival.", "The rapper has \"snitched\" on alleged gang members as part of a plea deal.", "Billions will be spent on public ownership schemes to accelerate the \"green industrial revolution\".", "Members at the party's annual conference vote against a motion which would have called for Remain backing at an election.", "Elaine Kerslake arranged a whip round for Thomas Cook staff on a flight after the firm collapsed.", "Russia faces a ban from all major sporting events over \"discrepancies\" in a lab database, the World Anti-Doping Agency warns.", "\"Specialist staff\" have been sent to HMP Long Lartin and at least one prison officer has been injured.", "The model will join Trisha, Barrymore and a Love Island star on the ITV show next year.", "Sherry Bray and Christopher Ashford illegally accessed mortuary footage of the footballer's body.", "The Committee on Climate Change says the extra tax would help curb the growing demand for air travel.", "Tourism officials say the collapse of Thomas Cook could cause a massive drop in tourism numbers.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The Fleabag and Killing Eve creator will make exclusive new programmes for Amazon Prime.", "Work to protect women from violence needed \"more than ever\", duchess says on African tour.", "The CAA will operate 74 flights on Tuesday to return Thomas Cook passengers to the UK.", "EU leaders are onlookers as the drama following the UK Supreme Court's ruling plays out.", "Despite the strong results, the football club says it still values its success on the field most highly.", "Researchers find music reduces agitation and stress among people with dementia in A&E wards.", "What do you want to know about polling, policies (or anything else) ahead of the 2019 UK general election?", "Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled.", "Trains and buses are delayed and a landslip blocks a road as a weather warning is in place.", "The Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow, says MPs will begin sitting again from 11:30 BST.", "The Labour leader says he will \"put the people in power\" as he announces affordable medicines plan.", "As Emily Doe, her victim impact statement went viral. Now, she's telling her story in her own words.", "The National Crime Agency looked into allegations against Leave.EU and its founder Arron Banks.", "The PM is to call for the release of the jailed British-Iranian national when he meets Iran's president.", "He says judges were \"wrong\" to rule Parliament's suspension unlawful and accuses opposition MPs of trying to block Brexit.", "Boris Johnson's likely to end up at the despatch box on Wednesday, where he will have the court ruling brandished at him.", "Mr McVeigh, from Donaghmore in County Tyrone, is one of 16 murder victims known as the Disappeared.", "Sead Kolašinac and Mesut Ozil were targeted by a gang in a north London street in July.", "Five people died when the IRA bombed a Brighton hotel, which was hosting the 1984 Tory conference.", "An elderly woman suffered serious injuries when she was bitten by Deji Olatunji's German shepherd.", "Police link the weapon to dissident republicans and say it was designed to kill or injure officers.", "Carr subjected his victim to a three-hour ordeal, which was caught on cameras he had installed.", "A report by psychologists says seeing obesity as a moral failing only makes things worse.", "Katrice Lee disappeared from a supermarket near a British Army base in Germany in 1981.", "As Emily Doe, her victim impact statement went viral. Now, she's telling her story in her own words.", "Bosses feared it would be rejected in the wake of secret filming showing staff abusing asylum seekers.", "Reports say an associate was given public money and invited on trade trips when he was London mayor.", "The Supreme Court has ruled the suspension of Parliament was unlawful. Meanwhile, what's happening at Labour Party Conference?", "A yellow rain warning is in place for most of England along with five flood warnings and 40 alerts.", "The travel operator, which has collapsed after 178 years, began with a train trip from Leicester.", "Relatives of those killed while watching a Batman film in 2012 write to film studio Warner Bros.", "Hotels are asking Thomas Cook customers for extra money to cover the rest of their holidays.", "Before everything gets swept up in a force 10 political storm, stop for a moment to think about what has just happened.", "Frome is the most mispronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists.", "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that President Trump has betrayed the US constitution.", "Supreme Court President Lady Hale's verdict on Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament.", "Boris Johnson has blown apart grey areas of the UK constitution, highlighting the role of the monarch.", "Customers tell of fears of being stranded abroad with unpaid hotel bills following the collapse.", "The number of vapers reaches 3.6 million in the UK, as the health consequences come under international scrutiny.", "Gina Miller is the figurehead of two of the legal challenges to the Brexit process - but who is she?", "The BBC's Dominic Casciani picks out some of the key parts of the Supreme Court's judgement.", "Dominic Grieve says it was \"perfectly obvious that the reason for suspending Parliament was bogus\".", "In a wide-ranging interview, Tracey Neville says she had a miscarriage hours after leading England to netball Commonwealth gold and wants to change the stigma relating to older mums.", "The couple ate traditional food and visited the 225-year-old mosque on South Africa's Heritage Day.", "A committee that scrutinises the London mayor's spending has asked the ex-mayor for further details.", "Eighteen years on, ceremonies have been held in New York and Virginia to mark 9/11.", "Boris Johnson says the £1.25bn order for five Type 31e frigates will safeguard 2,500 jobs.", "Boris Johnson will meet European leaders this week, amid warnings of food shortages after a no-deal Brexit.", "A historic global agreement aimed at halting deforestation and curbing dangerous carbon dioxide emissions has failed, according to a report.", "The supermarket is asking the public for ideas on how best to reduce its packaging.", "Ren Zhengfei offers to share its 5G know-how with a Western firm in return for a one-off fee.", "The number of people convicted for rape has fallen to its lowest level since records began a decade ago.", "The problem affects a quarter of women in the UK and many end up having surgery to treat it.", "The Duchess of Sussex launches her new clothing line in support of a charity helping women find work.", "Clinics in Idlib, the rebel-held part of Syria, are being targeted - despite it being a war crime.", "So far Boris Johnson's time in No 10 has suggested he believes he will profit from a divide.", "The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes is stable, or even falling, a study suggests.", "An underground hero, his achingly personal songs inspired everyone from Kurt Cobain to Lana Del Rey.", "A revised Brexit deal, acceptable to both UK and EU negotiators, remains elusive. What have been the main sticking points?", "The father of 11-month-old Zakari Bennett is being questioned on suspicion of his son's murder.", "In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and loot boxes banned for children, they say.", "The European Central Bank cuts a key interest rate and re-starts quantitative easing.", "The president says his administration will implement strong rules to protect \"innocent children\".", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering the 12-month-old who was pulled from the River Irwell.", "One survivor who struggled to get support says it could have prevented more \"psychological damage\".", "Nicola Sturgeon tells MSPs during FMQs she \"deeply regrets\" that Edinburgh's new children's hospital will not open for at least another year.", "William Moldt went missing in mysterious circumstances 22 years ago after a night out in Florida.", "Zak Eko, 22, is accused of murdering 11-month-old Zakari Bennett-Eko in Radcliffe, Bury.", "Boris Johnson denies lying over his reasons for the shutdown, after Scottish judges rule it unlawful.", "Jos Buttler's belligerent half-century rallies England following another familiar batting collapse on the first day of the fifth and final Ashes Test.", "A notice on the restaurant chain's menu asked customers to tell staff about allergies, an inquest hears.", "Stowmarket High School in Suffolk has told new Year 7 pupils they will have to wear trousers.", "The Yellowhammer plan warns of riots and food price rises but ministers say it is not a prediction.", "The partnership is hit by \"difficult\" trading and says a no-deal Brexit would have a \"significant\" impact", "UK university leads global league table, but there are warnings of German universities catching up.", "Five parades were banned this weekend after sectarian disturbances over the past two weeks.", "Nearly a third of all energy companies fitting smart meters are still installing old technology.", "Troubles victims' campaigner Raymond McCord was one of three people to bring legal action.", "Plans to improve city centres are \"doomed to fail\" unless people have cash to spend, researchers say.", "The gift will create new facilities at the clinic which is named after the author's mother.", "Australian Mark Firkin and British-Australian Jolie King have been detained for about 10 weeks.", "Cyclist Jason Kenny calls for residential roads to be pedestrianised so children can play outside.", "Kwasi Kwarteng tells the BBC that \"many people\" think judges are not impartial on Brexit.", "The airlines will no longer be offering certain routes at Belfast International and City airports.", "It comes after the government's Brexit assessments warn supplies could be disrupted.", "The results for 2018 lay bare the extent of the problems at the businessman's fashion empire.", "Previous legislation was dropped when the prime minister suspended Parliament for five weeks.", "The government has published a report setting out the risks of a no-deal Brexit. How is it preparing?", "An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that could have come from a distant star.", "The presenter was not hurt after a \"spontaneous detour\" during filming for the BBC motoring show.", "Labour wants MPs to return to Parliament to scrutinise the government's plans for no deal.", "Roger Hallam declared Heathrow expansion \"a crime against humanity\" as he appeared in court.", "Survivors of Dublin's Bethany care home say they have been discriminated against in a redress system.", "The SuperSisters platform, for young Muslim women, says it has retained full control over its output.", "A revised Brexit deal, acceptable to both UK and EU negotiators, remains elusive. What have been the main sticking points?", "Peter Duncan was \"in the wrong place at the wrong time\" when he was stabbed outside a branch of Greggs.", "A man aged 35 appears in court charged with the murder of 21-year-old Bethany Fields.", "The Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson would not support Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn in the event of a hung Parliament.", "Jo Swinson vows to \"take on\" Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage - and says she can be PM.", "Suppliers now have until 2024 to fit them into homes, but it may mean higher costs for the industry.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Josh Thompson took a clown to a work meeting as a \"support person\" when he was about to lose his job.", "A metal detectorist who unearthed a £2m Viking hoard is being sued over treasure found on church land.", "Doctor Who star reveals his \"lifelong battle\" with anorexia and how he considered suicide.", "Gareth Thomas says he wants to \"educate and break the stigma for everybody\".", "State media say drones have struck two major oil facilities, including Abqaiq.", "Ceara Thacker, 19, was found dead in her University of Liverpool halls of residence in May 2018.", "Four million Venezuelans have now fled their country - but can some of them build a new life in the Caribbean?", "The discount retailer is taking on its larger rivals as it continues to expand even as profits fall.", "Gang members enrol in universities and masquerade as students \"to have an alibi\".", "A former health minister wants universities to be bound by law to meet students' mental health needs.", "The US actor's daughter skewered him over the notorious voicemail where he called her a \"rude pig\".", "The service says it has been questioned over the fatal June 2017 blaze under health and safety laws.", "Boris Johnson misses a press conference amid noisy protests, but says there has been \"a lot of work\".", "Four small boats, including a kayak carrying two men, are stopped making their way towards the UK.", "A nightmare causes the California woman to gulp down the diamond ring to \"protect it from bad guys\".", "The TV presenter wants answers from Twitter about \"false\" ads that used her likeness to promote pills.", "The former Wales rugby captain takes on the gruelling challenge after revealing he is HIV positive.", "A judgement rules the men were victims of \"highly offensive\" graffiti at their Colchester barracks.", "The PM says the EU is \"fed up\" with endless delays, as the Luxembourg PM chastises him at a press conference.", "Xavier Bettel showed his frustration on Monday. But it's unlikely other EU leaders will do the same.", "Cases of 14 to 18-years-olds who have allowed their bank accounts to be used grows by 73% in two years.", "Sadam Essakhil killed when he was 15 - now he's urging children not to make the same mistake.", "BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg speaks to the PM after he meets the European Commission president.", "The Cars were one of the biggest bands of the 1980s and the front-runner of the new wave movement.", "The US is sending mixed messages to Tehran, leaving it unclear who has the upper hand.", "Many workers report not receiving paid holidays or wage slips, says the Resolution Foundation.", "The dog's owner was too tired to carry the animal when it refused to go on.", "\"The flood has entered my house, and it's all I can see.\"", "The paper claims the ex-PM has only ever felt \"privileged pain\" and reflects on the death of his son.", "Police found about £10,000 of the drugs, which had been supplied by Nathan DeAsha, at a gym.", "International Trade Secretary Liz Truss tells a court a promise to halt export licences was broken.", "England end their memorable summer by earning a 2-2 draw in the Ashes with a 135-run defeat of Australia in the fifth Test.", "Viewers will no longer be able to read headlines, football scores, weather and more on TV sets.", "Officers are concerned the three-wheeled vehicles would be at risk of tipping over.", "Tom Watson says an attempt to abolish his post is a \"sectarian attack\" on the party's \"broad church\".", "Ceara Thacker, 19, was failed by mental health services before killing herself, her parents say.", "The diplomatic dance between the EU and the UK is familiar - even retro.", "Protesters demand \"an end to the age of fossil fuels and climate justice for everyone\".", "Edward Putman denies claiming the £2.5m jackpot with a faked ticket in 2009.", "Serco NorthLink is named as the preferred bidder for the services between Orkney, Shetland and Aberdeen.", "A former health minister wants universities to be bound by law to meet students' mental health needs.", "Fire crews remain at the former coke ovens at the SSI site in South Bank in Middlesbrough.", "In the fractious climate debate, criticism of young activists has sometimes spiralled into abuse.", "Climate change is already affecting the country's sea defences, wildlife and agriculture.", "\"Vulnerable\" people are being fined over claims for free treatment at dentists and doctors, say MPs.", "Jodie Chesney's partner Eddie Coyle tells a murder trial about the moment she was fatally injured.", "The UK announces projects to power seven million homes with wind power - and no need for subsidy.", "The ex-PM spoke to royal officials about her \"raising an eyebrow\" at the prospect of independence.", "Meet Tira, a zebra that's been... spotted... in the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya. It's thought she was born with spots instead of stripes, because of a melanin disorder.", "A UK government statement says the written documents \"reflect the ideas the UK has put forward\".", "Alison Rose will replace Ross McEwan as chief executive of the state-owned lender.", "The prime minister will hold talks with Donald Trump and other world leaders in New York.", "Schoolchildren and workers down tools and walk out of lessons, demanding \"climate justice for all\".", "Ceara Thacker was not able to see a mental health adviser for two months after taking an overdose.", "His debut is named album of the year, cementing a stellar year for the London-born rapper.", "Schools minister Nick Gibb denies Dame Louise Casey's accusation of inaction over protests.", "Political parties’ Facebook ad campaigns are gearing up ahead of any election, BBC News research reveals.", "It's thought to be down to an increase in the use of cocaine and ecstasy among young people.", "One runaway victim was penalised for stealing jewellery to survive, the child sex abuse inquiry finds.", "There is still a wide gap between the UK and EU in talks about a new deal, says the Irish deputy PM.", "Labour's ex-deputy leader is urged by her local party to withdraw her bid to replace John Bercow.", "Hilary Adair, 87, was trampled on and repeatedly attacked as she tried to get up, an inquest hears.", "They all shared or supported anti-Muslim posts on Twitter and Facebook, the Conservative Party says.", "The ex-PM says he asked the Queen to \"raise an eyebrow\" over the Scottish independence vote in 2014.", "Children's commissioner says there has been a \"shameful\" rise in teenagers without qualifications.", "A second statue of Tom Gilzean will be created after his family was out-bid for the original at an auction.", "The demonstrations across Scotland are the latest in a series started by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg.", "Two men respond to protesters outside a production of the Rocky Horror 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four-year-old daughter cannot access a new cystic fibrosis drug.", "Children under 16 are being placed in unregulated care homes in breach of the law, leaked research reveals.", "Police say far-right extremism is a fast-growing problem as supporters seek to mimic jihadist attacks.", "Supporters are warned tattoos can be associated with gangsters in the World Cup host country.", "The show \"has resisted presenting the typical Bauhaus collection and focused more on its spirit and openness to ideas.\"", "The world's top rugby union nations and expectant hosts Japan are set for the start of the \"most open World Cup in a long time\".", "Tom Watson's position puts him at odds with Jeremy Corbyn, who wants a general election first.", "The Germany research ship Polarstern leaves port for its a year-long study of the polar climate.", "The family of 99-year-old Tom Gilzean had wanted the sculpture to stay on Edinburgh's Princes Street.", "Ceara Thacker, 19, was found dead in her University of Liverpool halls of residence in May 2018.", "The US comedian and actor was hurt in an accident in Los Angeles early on Sunday morning.", "Opposition MPs refuse to support him, so Boris Johnson is unable to secure enough backing for a poll.", "Jaymes Todd is sentenced to life for the rape and murder of a young woman which shocked Australia.", "Activists close roads to the airport, disrupting the operation of the major Asian transport hub.", "Israel confirms the rocket attack and responds by hitting targets in southern Lebanon.", "The gunman is shot dead by police after opening fire on numerous motorists and passers-by.", "Unions say the increase is long overdue, and necessary, to attract graduates into the profession.", "Boris Johnson insists he does not want to call an early poll but he may be forced to do so.", "The threat is a sign the government is actively considering whether to call a general election soon.", "The factory closure is called a \"devastating blow\" although Tata 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The Springboks started brightly and took the lead with a Handre Pollard penalty before the All Blacks hit back. Richie Mo'unga drew New Zealand level and two quick tries by George Bridge and Scott Barrett put them in front. Pieter-Steph du Toit's try and a Pollard drop-goal made it tense before Mo'unga and Beauden Barrett penalties.\n• None Relive the action from New Zealand v South Africa The result means New Zealand extend their winning run to 15 games in the competition, last losing to France in the 2007 quarter-finals. South Africa play Namibia next on Saturday, 28 September (10:45 BST), while the All Blacks face Canada on 2 October (11:15). Both countries are expected to make the latter stages of this tournament and they both impressed in a thoroughly entertaining Test match. For the first 20 minutes, South Africa held a slender lead as they looked to impose themselves on the All Blacks with plenty of front-foot ball. The influential scrum-half Faf de Klerk was pulling the strings as the Springboks won 20 rucks in the first 15 minutes. But when Pollard's second penalty came back off the post, momentum swung in the All Blacks' favour. The usually reliable De Klerk threw a loose pass and Mo'unga collected the ball to burst clear before being taken down by Makazole Mapimpi just short, although the South Africa winger was penalised for not releasing the All Blacks fly-half before competing for the ball on the ground. The All Blacks were awarded a penalty instead of the penalty try captain Kieran Read wanted, but the defending champions then wrestled control of the game. Sevu Reece skipped past opposite number Mapimpi moments later, in a move which ended with Beauden Barrett - who moved from full-back to first receiver on turnover ball - exploiting a gap in the Springbok defence to feed Bridge for the first try. The All Blacks had their second try three minutes later when Anton Lienert-Brown cut back against the onrushing green shirts to pop the ball to Scott Barrett, who ran under the posts. It was a five-minute blitz that took the game away from South Africa and reminded the rest of the world how clinical this All Black side are, despite losing their number one ranking coming into the tournament.\n• None Can Ireland regain form that beat All Blacks? South Africa are one of the contenders for the World Cup, and, on the evidence of their opening match, the 1995 and 2007 winners have the credentials to upset the defending champions. When Du Toit picked up from the base of a ruck to run under the posts unopposed after the interval, the resurgent Springboks had their tails up, having reduced the deficit by 10 points. Pollard's composed drop-goal brought them even closer, but despite making more metres (372) than the All Blacks (367), a higher penalty count (nine) and lack of cutting edge in attack will be a disappointment for Rassie Erasmus' side. Winger Cheslin Kolbe has the potential to light the tournament up with his blistering pace and nimble footwork, but when he was stopped inches short of the line, he threw the ball away in an attempt to keep it alive rather than hold onto it. New Zealand retrieved the loose ball and relieved pressure by running it the other way, but had the Springboks come away from that moment with a score, they would have set up a pulsating finale. South Africa and the All Blacks will still be favourites to go through from Pool B, and with the draw structured as it is, we could have a replay in the final. Man of the match - Beauden Barrett (New Zealand) New Zealand full-back Beauden Barrett made more carries (17) than any other player on the field 'It was a titanic struggle' - what they said New Zealand coach Steve Hansen: \"Today was a big game for both sides and fortunately for us we came out on top, but it was another titanic struggle between New Zealand and South Africa and hopefully people got excited by it. They're never out of it, they're always a team that comes back. The players took their opportunities and scored.\" South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus: \"They won it, I don't think we lost it. Two tries to one, they deserved to win the game. It's unbelievably well disciplined by them. That battle we lost. Discipline was our biggest downfall. I don't think we can really moan about anything, but just say well done to them.\" Former New Zealand captain Tana Umaga told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Obviously New Zealand won't be totally happy with the performance. There will be things they want to work on. There's plenty to play for in these next three games.\" Former Springbok international Bobby Skinstad told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Cheslin Kolbe made the decision to move out of sevens and play Tests. A lot of people said \"bad idea\", but he was the player of the season in France and the player of this match in green and gold.\" New Zealand extend unbeaten run in pool stages - the stats\n• None New Zealand have won 17 of their past 21 games against South Africa (D1, L3)\n• None This was the first time in their past five meetings that the score was settled by more than two points.\n• None New Zealand have won their past 15 World Cup games on the trot, the longest winning run by any side in the tournament's history.\n• None The All Blacks have never lost a pool-stage game in Rugby World Cup history, winning all 28 such fixtures, South Africa have only lost two of 22 matches in the pool stage (2003 v England, 2015 v Japan).\n• None South Africa have lost four of their past nine World Cup fixtures", "The change is part of Transport for Wales' plans to modernise travel around the nation\n\nA website for 730,000 people in Wales to renew bus passes is still out of action, 10 days after crashing because of the weight of demand.\n\nConcessionary pass holders, mainly over-60s, have until 31 December to apply online for new electronic passes.\n\nBut after the renewal scheme was launched on 11 September, the volume of applicants crashed the website.\n\nTransport for Wales (TfW) is working with Age Cymru to redesign the site and hope to make it live next week.\n\nIt wants everyone to switch to new electronic passes that can be used on buses around Wales, but urged people not to panic as the new system will not kick in until 1 January 2020.\n\nThe online renewal process has been beset by problems, with Age Cymru and the older people's commissioner also warning that many bus users do not have a computer.\n\nAs a result, at the end of last week, thousands of paper applications were sent out to councils to place in libraries, community and sport centres.\n\nPass-holders account for 47% of all bus journeys in Wales, according to recent figures\n\nOlder People's Commissioner for Wales Helena Herklots said online forms \"will cause concern for older people who do not use the internet\" and urged local authorities to help people fill out paper forms.\n\nA version of the form can also be downloaded and printed off by people wanting to help friends or relatives.\n\n\"Taking on the concerns that we've heard from older people this week, we're making sure that copies are available from local councils, such as libraries and community hubs and people can download a copy from our website,\" said TfW's chief executive James Price.\n\nAge Cymru's Victoria Lloyd said: \"At this stage we would urge older people not to panic about renewing their passes.\n\n\"The deadline is not until 31 December so there is plenty of time to make the application.\"\n\nTfW said community organisations were providing support for anyone anxious and thanked people for their patience while the website was taken down to increase capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The people behind Caruana Galizia's killing have not been identified\n\nMalta is to hold an independent public inquiry into the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.\n\nShe was killed by a bomb planted under the seat of her car in 2017.\n\nThree men are facing trial for the killing, but the people who ordered it have not been identified.\n\nCaruana Galizia investigated several high-profile figures - including Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and other Maltese officials and politicians.\n\nIn June the Council of Europe human rights watchdog said the failure to identify who was behind the culprits raised questions about the rule of law in the country.\n\nIt gave Malta until 26 September to start a public inquiry to establish if the journalist's death could have been prevented.\n\nHer family has repeatedly called for such an inquiry, saying she had suffered years of intimidation.\n\nMr Muscat has put retired Judge Michael Mallia in charge of the inquiry, a government statement said. He will be assisted by a law professor and a retired forensics expert. The inquiry will last nine months.\n\nMr Muscat has also offered a €1m ($1.1m; £880,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of those behind her killing.\n\nThree men have been under arrest since 2017 and are due to stand trial for the murder, although the police investigation into who ordered the killing and why is continuing.\n\nDuring pre-trial proceedings, brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio and their friend Vincent Muscat pleaded not guilty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Borg Cardona paid tribute to his friend following her death", "Hilary Adair was 87 when she was attacked by cows\n\nAn 87-year-old woman was knocked to the ground and killed by a herd of \"berserk\" cattle, an inquest has heard.\n\nHilary Adair was trampled on by Belted Galloway cattle and repeatedly attacked as she tried to get up at Linchmere Common in West Sussex on 7 January.\n\nShe was flown to hospital but never regained consciousness and died a week later.\n\nA conclusion of accidental death was recorded at the inquest in Crawley.\n\nThe fatal cattle assault came just a day after a couple and their dogs were chased and injured by the same animals.\n\nBut the inquest was told that those responsible for the animals were not immediately conscious of the seriousness of the attack, viewing it as an \"isolated incident\".\n\nHilary Adair was attacked by a herd of Belted Galloway cattle\n\nBryony Dillamore witnessed the attack on Mrs Adair and said the cattle became more aggressive each time she moved.\n\nMrs Adair was airlifted to St George's Hospital, London, but died from her injuries on 14 January.\n\nRachel Thompson told the inquest how she and her husband Carl were set upon by the same herd the day before Mrs Adair was attacked.\n\nMr Thompson, who was left bleeding from his injuries, said the cattle had \"gone berserk\".\n\nThe cattle were moved to another area of the common and plans were made to check on the situation the following morning.\n\nThe inquest into Mrs Adair's death took place at Crawley Coroner's Court\n\nThe next day Mrs Adair and her dog were attacked.\n\nThe Lynchmere Society and Lynchmere Community Grazing CIC, who own the land and are responsible for the cattle, said in a joint statement: \"Very serious discussion between our organisations and ongoing dialogue with the family and our membership within the community will be had going forward before any decision regarding future grazing activities on the commons are made.\"\n\nSenior coroner Penelope Schofield said: \"We will never really know what prompted either the attack on Mr and Mrs Thompson or on Mrs Adair.\n\n\"Mrs Adair was particularly vulnerable. She really didn't stand a chance against a herd of agitated cows.\"\n\nShe said she hoped Mrs Adair's death raises awareness of the dangers of cattle if they are antagonised.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Meet Tira, a zebra that's been... spotted... in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.\n\nIt's thought she was born with spots instead of stripes, because of a melanin disorder.\n\nTour guide and photographer Anthony Tira saw the foal near the Mara River, and gave her his name.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about the bid to oust him as deputy Labour leader\n\nLabour's Tom Watson has said the bid to oust him as deputy leader by abolishing his post is a \"sectarian attack\" on the party's \"broad church\".\n\nA motion had been tabled by Jon Lansman, of the Labour grassroots group Momentum, but was dropped after party leader Jeremy Corbyn intervened.\n\nA Labour source said Mr Corbyn proposed the post should be reviewed, rather than abolished.\n\nMr Watson has been at odds with Mr Corbyn over the party's Brexit stance.\n\nAn initial move to oust Mr Watson was made at a meeting of the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) on Friday but it failed to get the two-thirds majority needed.\n\nA further attempt was set to be made on Saturday at the party's conference in Brighton.\n\nHowever before that went ahead, the NEC agreed to Mr Corbyn's proposal not to put abolishing Mr Watson's post to a vote and, instead, to review the post of deputy leader and other positions in support of the leader.\n\nThe Labour Party source said: \"This will consider how democratic accountability can be strengthened to give members a greater say, expanding the number of elected positions and how diverse representation can be further improved.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by iain 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\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Watson said he found out about the move while having a meal at a Chinese restaurant in Manchester on Friday night.\n\nHe said: \"It's a straight sectarian attack on a broad church party.\n\n\"It's moving us into a different kind of institution where pluralism isn't tolerated. Where factional observance has to be adhered to completely.\n\n\"And it completely goes against the sort of traditions that the Labour Party has had for 100 years.\"\n\nHe added that he felt that Momentum's founder Mr Lansman \"and his faction\" were so angry about his position on Brexit they would \"rather abolish me than have a debate about it\".\n\nHe appealed to Momentum activists to focus on showing people they were serious about changing the political economy of Britain rather than having \"a sort of sleight-of-hand constitutional change to do a drive-by shooting of someone you disagree with\".\n\nThe Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), which represents Labour backbenchers, has written a letter to members of the National Executive Committee - including Jeremy Corbyn - saying the move is counterproductive and sends the country a message \"we are more interested in internal battles\" than constituents' lives.\n\nFormer Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair said abolishing the deputy leader post would be \"undemocratic and politically dangerous\".\n\nAsked if he thought the move had been made by Mr Corbyn himself, Mr Watson said \"I don't know\", but added his leader had the power to stop it.\n\nHe defended his role, saying he had been elected by party members and they could trigger an election themselves if they wanted to remove him rather than making a secret move at a last-minute meeting.\n\n\"These kinds of things happen in Venezuela, they shouldn't be happening in the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\nMr Watson has urged Labour to \"unequivocally back remain\" and had said he wants another public vote on the UK's membership of the EU before any general election.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn wants to hold another referendum once Labour has won power, in which voters would have the choice to remain in the EU alongside a \"credible\" Leave proposal.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has the power to stop the move, says Mr Watson\n\nA Momentum source told the BBC: \"We just can't afford to go into an election with a deputy leader set on wrecking Labour's chances.\n\n\"Labour members overwhelmingly want a deputy leadership election, but our outdated rulebook won't let it happen.\"\n\nDawn Butler, shadow women and equalities secretary, said Momentum's move had \"come out of the blue\" but she could understand the frustration with the deputy leader.\n\nAsked if Mr Watson was doing the job well, she said: \"I have my frustrations with Tom too. I haven't seen him at a shadow cabinet meeting for a while.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says Momentum's move \"was not discussed\" among its governing body - adding there was \"anger\" at Mr Lansman as this was \"not an official decision\".\n\nEx-PM Tony Blair, who led Labour from 1994 to 2007, said abolishing the deputy deader post suggested an \"extraordinary level of destructive sectarianism\".\n\nHe said the party has always contained different views and the deputy leader's position had been one way of accommodating such views.\n\n\"Getting rid of it would be a signal that such pluralism of views was coming to an end despite being cherished throughout Labour's history,\" he said.\n\nFormer party leader Ed Miliband said whoever came up with the idea had \"taken leave of their senses\".\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting called it \"outrageous\" and \"self-destructive\", while his colleague Jess Phillips said it was part of a desperate attempt to control and expel anyone in the party who has an independent thought.", "Ceara Thacker took an overdose three months before her death\n\nThe parents of a student found hanged at her university halls have claimed she was failed by mental health services.\n\nCeara Thacker, from Bradford, was found dead at her University of Liverpool accommodation in May 2018.\n\nThe 19-year-old's parents said she had fallen \"through the cracks\" between different services, who failed to communicate with each other.\n\nShe described a delay of two months between Ms Thacker referring herself to the university's mental health advisers in February, and being given an appointment in April, as \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe inquest in Liverpool also heard Ms Thacker's family had not been informed about a previous suicide attempt three months before her death.\n\nHer father Iain, 56, said: \"Sadly, when her mental health began to decline she found herself falling through the cracks, with mental health services, her GP and different departments within the university failing to communicate with each other to ensure that she was provided with the support that she desperately needed.\n\n\"One crucial source of support could have come from us, her family.\n\n\"For as long as I live I will never understand why no-one at the university picked up the phone to us in February 2018 and told us that our 19-year-old daughter was in hospital after taking an overdose.\"\n\nIain Thacker said his daughter was \"perceptive, intelligent, loyal, funny and extremely kind\"\n\nThe inquest heard Ms Thacker, who was studying philosophy, had struggled with mental health problems throughout her teenage years.\n\n\"We had cared for Ceara and helped her through her struggles with mental illness since she was 13,\" Mr Thacker said.\n\n\"We thought she was stable and managing her mental health well. Eight months after coming to the University of Liverpool she was dead.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we had known how Ceara was suffering we could have, and would have, made a difference.\"\n\nMr Thacker said it was \"essential\" universities communicated \"effectively with healthcare services and, where appropriate, with families to ensure they are kept safe\".\n\nMs Thacker's mother Lorraine Dalton-Thacker, 51, said: \"At every turn, she was failed.\n\n\"I can't imagine how frightening that must have been for her.\n\n\"She should not have had to face this and it breaks our hearts that she did.\n\n\"We don't want any other family to go through this pain.\"\n\nMs Bhardwaj said she would make a report for the prevention of future deaths to the NHS.\n\nShe will recommend the issue of parental involvement, with consent, is included in mental health assessments.\n\nThe coroner said there was no record of discussions between medical professionals and Ms Thacker about contacting her family.\n\n\"It would have been helpful to have those discussions, so if Ceara wanted additional support from her family that could have been facilitated,\" she added.\n\nHowever, it remained \"difficult and unclear\" whether Ms Thacker \"would have had a different outcome had she had additional mental health appointments, been given an urgent appointment and had family involvement\", the coroner said.\n\nThe court heard the two-month delay in getting a mental health appointment was caused by \"exceptional circumstances\" including strike action, staff sickness and training days.\n\nFor several years universities have been struggling to cope with a sharp increase in students seeking help for mental health issues.\n\nSuicide among university students is rare; it is estimated by the Office for National Statistics at 4.7 deaths per 100,000 students, but each loss is felt deeply by families and they are pressing for change.\n\nSpending on support on campus has increased. Ten universities have received national funding to try new approaches. As a result the University of Liverpool is leading a project on how to work better with the NHS.\n\nThe University of Bristol asks every student when they register to give permission for their family to be contacted. Last year 94% signed up for the mental health alerts to parents.\n\nThis is a change that Iain Thacker wants widely adopted.\n\nLiverpool has chosen a different approach; asking students if they want family informed only when they are seeking help.\n\nStudents are young adults and have a right to confidentiality and, as yet, there is no consensus across universities about how to respect that and manage risk.\n\nGavin Brown, Liverpool University's pro-vice-chancellor for education, said: \"We have conducted a thorough review of the support Ceara was offered and, as a result of this and our ongoing review of how these services work, we have instigated a number of improvements to mental health support services.\"\n\nDr Paul Redmond, Director of Student Experience added that the university had introduced a rapid access appointment system since the student's death.\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peaky Blinders may be synonymous with Birmingham, but some of its key scenes are filmed just up the road.\n\nThe Black Country Living Museum, about 12 miles away from the gang's real-life home, has been used for shoots on all five series.\n\nParts of the open-air museum are used to depict important locations in the show, including Charlie Strong's yard.\n\nCreator Steven Knight has described it as \"the heart\" of the programme.\n\nThe museum, in Dudley, boasts reconstructed shops and houses, and was also used to film the Steve Coogan comedy-drama Stan and Ollie.\n\nAs the latest series of the drama draws to a close, BBC News takes a tour of one of the main filming locations.\n\nPeaky Blinders will be shown on BBC One at 21:00 BST on Sunday 22 September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some 1,500 people, including a 97-year-old veteran, took part in the commemorative parachute jump\n\nA mass parachute drop has taken place in the Netherlands to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden in World War Two.\n\nThe Prince of Wales joined veterans at the commemorations to the allied assault in the Battle of Arnhem.\n\nVeteran Sandy Cortmann, 97, parachuted again over the Dutch city.\n\nBritish, US and Polish forces dropped behind enemy lines in 1944 but failed in their bid to secure eight bridges and open up a route into Germany.\n\nAbout 35,000 troops landed by parachute and gliders in what was then the largest airborne operation in history.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands mark the 75th anniversary\n\nVeterans also attended the commemorative service and wreath-laying at Ginkel Heath\n\nThe Prince of Wales spoke to the former soldiers\n\nVeteran Sandy Cortmann, now 97, jumped with a member of the Red Devils parachute team\n\nPrince Charles and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and veterans attended a service and wreath-laying at the former landing zone of Ginkel Heath.\n\nSoldiers from the Parachute Regiment, of which the prince is colonel-in-chief, were among the 1,500 people who took part in the commemorative parachute drop.\n\nThe prince later travelled to Driel for a service in honour of Polish forces, who had landed in the town during Operation Market Garden.\n\nMr Cortmann, from Aberdeen, made a tandem jump with a parachutist from the Army's Red Devils display team over the Ginkel Heath nature reserve as part of the commemorations.\n\nHe was just 22 when he parachuted into the same drop zone in September 1944, where he was taken prisoner by the Germans.\n\nThousands of people watching from the ground applauded as Arnhem veteran Mr Cortmann landed.\n\nMr Cortmann, 97, hugs his carer after the parachute jump\n\nPrince Charles later laid a wreath at a service for Polish airborne forces in Driel\n\nHe described the jump as \"thoroughly terrifying\", and added: \"When the door opened I thought, Christ, what a way down.\"\n\nBut he said it was \"absolutely wonderful to see the ground so far below, my God\".\n\nAsked if the jump was similar to the one 75 years ago, he said: \"I can't remember much about the jump in 1944, we were just a bunch of young lads out for a good time if you like, but it turned out rather terrifying in the end with the guns and mortars and things opened up. They were all aimed at us.\"\n\nAbout 1,500 people took part in the commemorative parachute drop - watched by hundreds of people\n\nAbout 35,000 allied troops took part in Operation Market Garden in September 1944\n\nBattle of Arnhem veterans veterans Geoff Roberts and Ray Whitwell returned for the events\n\nAnother of the soldiers returning to the former battlefields for the anniversary is 100-year-old Raymond Whitwell, from Malton, North Yorkshire.\n\nSpeaking from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's cemetery at Oosterbeek near Arnhem he recalled the moment he landed by glider in 1944.\n\n\"I said to myself on the way out, what on Earth am I doing here? But when you're there your training takes over,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitwell added: \"The Dutch people are really very, very nice, it's wonderful to be back.\"\n\nThe events at the Battle of Arnhem were portrayed in Richard Attenborough's 1977 Hollywood war epic A Bridge Too Far starring Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.\n\nThe allies seized bridges and canal crossings at Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, but were forced to retreat after German counter-attacks.\n\nMore than 1,500 allied soldiers were killed and nearly 6,500 captured. Total German casualties were put at 3,300, although some estimates have them as high as 8,000.\n\nThe allies captured three bridges in September 1944 before being forced back\n\nOn Friday, the ashes of two veterans of the Battle of Arnhem were laid to rest alongside their fallen comrades buried in Oosterbeek.\n\nRelatives of Pte Dennis Collier, 95, from Harrogate, and Pte Steve Morgan, 93, from Chipping Norton, travelled to the Netherlands to see their remains interred.\n\nTributes were paid before wreaths were laid and the last post was sounded by a lone bugler.\n\nMeanwhile, the southern Dutch town of Brunssum has bestowed honorary citizenship on 328 British soldiers buried in its war cemetery in recognition of their sacrifice to help liberate the Netherlands.\n\nThe ashes of Arnhem veteran Dennis Collier were interred at the Oosterbeek War Cemetery", "The Pride of Govan flute band parade is the largest of four events taking place in Glasgow\n\nA series of loyalist parades in Glasgow have taken place.\n\nFour marches had been given the go-ahead despite concerns over sectarian violence.\n\nPolice said there had been no counter-demonstrations and no disorder associated with the marches.\n\nCh Supt Hazel Hendren said: \"All four of today's processions passed off without incident, with no protestors identified on any of the routes or anywhere else in the city.\"\n\nThe events will happen exactly a week after a protest was held in Glasgow's George Square over the cancellation of five marches at an emergency meeting of the city's council.\n\nTrouble has marred a series of recent events in Glasgow.\n\nIn early September, officers were called to clashes between marchers and protesters in the Govan area.\n\nThe following week, a police officer was injured by a pyrotechnic as two Irish republican marches were met by loyalist counter-demonstrations.\n\nThe counter-demonstrations at both marches were quickly contained by police, who had deployed about 400 officers in riot gear and mounted police. Eleven people were charged for a variety of offences.\n\nPolice told a meeting of Glasgow City Council that cancelling the marches could lead to protest and that policing plans for either would be similar.\n\nThe council said it had been placed in an \"impossible position\".\n\nAfter the marches were approved, Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said: \"Our view is that if the processions were banned, some form of protest and disorder could still take place and the policing profile for Saturday would therefore be similar.\n\n\"If the processions go ahead it would allow us to continue to engage with known organisers to ensure balanced rights were upheld and to police the events under the conditions agreed by the council.\n\n\"I need to appeal to people who plan on taking part in processions or counter protests to do so peacefully.\"\n\nThe Pride of Govan flute band parade finished on Lorne Street\n\nHe added: \"We will have a range of policing resources, including a range of specialist assets, in attendance and will take any necessary action against anyone causing disruption.\n\n\"The decision to amend the route or the timing, or to prohibit any procession is a matter for the relevant local authority.\n\n\"Police Scotland is required to assist councils to make informed decisions by making appropriate representations on notifications which could potentially significantly risk public safety, disorder, damage to property or disruption to the life of the community.\"", "About 1,000 people were involved in marches and counter protests recently\n\nA substantial police presence is expected in Glasgow as four loyalist parades take place in the city.\n\nThe marches were given the go-ahead on Thursday despite concerns over sectarian disorder.\n\nThe events will happen exactly a week after a protest was held in Glasgow's George Square over the cancellation of five marches at an emergency meeting of the city's council.\n\nViolence has marred a series of recent events in Glasgow.\n\nIn early September, officers were called to clashes between marchers and protesters in the Govan area.\n\nThe following week, a police officer was injured by a pyrotechnic as two Irish republican marches were met by loyalist counter-demonstrations.\n\nThere were scenes of violent disorder in Govan two weeks ago\n\nThe counter-demonstrations at both marches were quickly contained by police, who had deployed about 400 officers in riot gear and mounted police. Eleven people were charged for a variety of offences.\n\nThere are four public processions due to take place on Saturday.\n\nPolice told a meeting of Glasgow City Council that cancelling the marches could lead to protest and that policing plans for either would be similar.\n\nThe council said it had been placed in an \"impossible position\".\n\nAfter the marches were approved, Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said: \"Our view is that if the processions were banned, some form of protest and disorder could still take place and the policing profile for Saturday would therefore be similar.\n\n\"If the processions go ahead it would allow us to continue to engage with known organisers to ensure balanced rights were upheld and to police the events under the conditions agreed by the council.\n\n\"I need to appeal to people who plan on taking part in processions or counter protests to do so peacefully.\"\n\nHe added: \"We will have a range of policing resources, including a range of specialist assets, in attendance and will take any necessary action against anyone causing disruption.\n\n\"The decision to amend the route or the timing, or to prohibit any procession is a matter for the relevant local authority.\n\n\"Police Scotland is required to assist councils to make informed decisions by making appropriate representations on notifications which could potentially significantly risk public safety, disorder, damage to property or disruption to the life of the community.\"", "Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has told of the \"hard time\" his family went through after the death of his ex-partner.\n\nRachel Owen died aged 48 in 2016 from cancer, and Yorke told Desert Island Discs his ambition is to \"make sure that we have come out of it alright\".\n\nThe couple were partners for 23 years and had two children, Noah and Agnes, before they split up in 2015.\n\nYorke also said he is a \"hypocrite\" for flying around the world on tour while campaigning against climate change.\n\nThe musician told the BBC Radio 4 programme: \"The thing I've always struggled somewhat with, is if I'm campaigning on climate change, I'm someone who has to fly for my work so....\n\n\"I totally agree I'm a hypocrite but... what do you want to do about it?\"\n\nHe added: \"You can do stuff but the real stuff has to happen in Parliament and the UN, and has to happen now, we're out of time.\"\n\nSpeaking about his relationship with his children, Yorke, 50, said: \"I can't hope to be their mum but we're alright.\n\n\"I'm just really proud of them both. It stuns me most days. I can't believe they're anything to do with me. They're just such great people.\"\n\nHe said: \"When the kids' mum died, it was a very difficult period and we went through a lot.\n\n\"It was very hard. She suffered a great deal and my ambition is to make sure that we have come out of it alright, and I hope that's what's happening.\"\n\nYorke says he could be difficult in Radiohead's early days\n\nYorke told the show: \"I'm lucky now because I have a new partner who has come and brought a light into all of it, which has taken a great deal of strength.\n\n\"And really if all that's OK... If I'm able to make some music that expresses all that and is still important to people, that's more than I can ask for.\"\n\nYorke also spoke of how he found it difficult to cope with Radiohead's success initially.\n\n\"I got angry,\" he said. \"I'm an extremely angry person.\n\n\"I put my hands on the steering wheel and I white-knuckled, and I didn't care who I hurt or what I said.\n\n\"Years later I sat down with the guys and apologised.\"\n\nDesert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15 BST and is also available on BBC sounds", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCoverage: Full commentary on every Wales game across BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nCaptain Alun Wyn Jones will equal Gethin Jenkins' Wales cap record when he leads out his side against Georgia in Toyota City.\n\nJones, 34, will win his 129th Wales Test cap on Monday as he starts his fourth World Cup.\n\nFlanker Aaron Wainwright and prop Wyn Jones start ahead of Ross Moriarty and Nicky Smith.\n\nJosh Navidi is named at number eight with Justin Tipuric completing the back-row.\n\nHead coach Warren Gatland has chosen his strongest side for the tournament opener.\n\nProp Jones is picked ahead of Smith at loose-head in a front-row that also includes Tomas Francis and hooker Ken Owens who makes his first World Cup start in his third tournament.\n\n\"With Georgia, we know how strong they are up front and their scrum is a weapon,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"We've got to be competent at scrum time, We've been very impressed with the way Wyn has scrummaged in training and it's one of his strengths.\n\n\"It's important for us and it's been a real focus for us, particularly this week.\"\n• None Rugby World Cup 2019: Who stands in Wales' path to the final?\n\nWith locks Cory Hill and Adam Beard missing the first game through injury, Jake Ball partners captain Jones in the second-row with Aaron Shingler covering the position among the replacements bench.\n\nDragons flanker Wainwright has been chosen at blindside with Josh Navidi preferred at number eight to Moriarty and Justin Tipuric completing the back-row.\n\nThe 24-year-old from Newport has impressed Gatland.\n\n\"Aaron Wainwright is just a player that's continued to improve,\" he said.\n\n\"He's incredibly athletic and an intelligent rugby player. He's very inexperienced still but I think there's only an upward curve for him as a player.\n\n\"I don't think people realise how quick he is and how explosive he is.\n\n\"Since his first cap 12 months ago, he's just gone from strength to strength.\n\n\"There's some real competition in the back row and that's the way we want it. We feel there's a nice balance.\"\n\nGatland revealed Moriarty's disappointment at not starting against Georgia.\n\n\"He hasn't been where he has needed to be in a couple of games and at training,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"There are a few things for him to work on. He's a fantastic ball carrier and there were some things we worked on defensively in terms of changing his tackle technique.\n\n\"He's not too happy with me with him not being in the side, but from the initial disappointment and chat we had, he's turned that around.\n\n\"I'm interested to see what his reaction will be when he comes on the field.\"\n\nScrum-half Gareth Davies partners Dan Biggar at half-back with fly-half Rhys Patchell fit to take his place on the replacements bench after suffering a head injury in the final warm-up game against Ireland.\n\nScarlets centres Jonathan Davies and Hadleigh Parkes again link up in the Welsh midfield alongside full-back Liam Williams and wings George North and Josh Adams.\n\nThis selection follows a testing week which has seen backs coach Rob Howley sent home for an alleged betting breach.\n\nIt will be a first game for new backs coach Stephen Jones who has arrived in Japan to replace Howley and will only have a couple of training sessions with the players.\n\n\"Stephen has been really good in getting up to speed,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"He's come in and sat down with the analysts, myself, Dan Biggar and Jonathan Davies.\n\n\"Yesterday we had a day off and he spent all day in the team room looking at game footage, going through training and the calls and everything.\n\n\"He took a full part in training today. Earlier in the week the players took a lot of responsibility, as you'd want them to.\n\n\"Stephen has started to have a good look at Australia. He'll have much more of an input into things and the plan that we put in place for that game.\n\n\"It's been easy because he's been in this environment as a player, he knows so many of the players as well.\n\n\"One of the things about Stephen is he's a very popular and amicable person and it's been good how he's fitted in so quickly in the first few days.\"\n\nWith an average age of 28 years 331 days Gatland's selection is the oldest Wales starting 15 at the Rugby World Cup - 80 days per man older than the team which beat Japan 72-18 at the 2007 tournament.", "Joe Fergus said he wanted to turn \"a negative into a positive\"\n\nA couple responded to a protest outside a production of The Rocky Horror Show, which celebrates LGBT culture, by posing for a kiss.\n\nThe moment between Joe Fergus, 24, from Mold in Flintshire, and Robert Brookes, 21, from Nottingham, was captured outside Chester's Storyhouse theatre.\n\nThe picture was shared on Facebook by Chester Pride, prompting an outpouring of support.\n\nMr Fergus said it was about \"turning a negative into a positive\".\n\nProtesters had gathered outside the musical on Tuesday, holding banners with messages like \"Flee from the wrath to come\" and \"Be sure your sin will find you out\".\n\n\"When we arrived there were a lot of people outside the theatre arguing a lot with the protesters,\" Mr Fergus said.\n\n\"The problem is you're never going to get anywhere arguing with them.\n\n\"I said to Rob 'wouldn't it be great if we didn't acknowledge them and had a kiss in front of them' and he said 'that's great'.\"\n\nHe said the moment they started kissing a crowd that had gathered erupted into applause.\n\n\"We were quite proud when we did it, that's why we put the photo up,\" 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 Storyhouse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the photo was shared on social media, the couple were praised, with one Facebook user posting: \"The best photo I will see in a long time\". Another said: \"Love this picture. How iconic. Well done lads.\"\n\nThe couple were also approached by newspapers.\n\nResponding to the attention the photo has prompted, Mr Fergus said: \"We can't quite believe it. We're lucky to have families who are so loving. My mum keeps saying she's my manager.\"\n\nThe musical has been going for 45 years and currently stars former Strictly Come Dancing champion Joanne Clifton as part of a nationwide tour.\n\nIt contains gay themes as well as addressing cross-dressing - with its song The Time Warp one of the best-known songs from musical theatre.\n\nThe Storyhouse theatre tweeted following the protests and said: \"Storyhouse is and always will be a safe space. We celebrate and support LGBTQ+ communities - always. Let's have a FABULOUS night & week.\"", "Labour will unveil plans to scrap Ofsted and replace it with a new school inspection system on day two of its party conference - but debate over its Brexit stance is set to continue.\n\nAs part of a focus to \"rebuild\" public services, it will also pledge to end NHS prescription charges in England.\n\nIt comes after the first day of the conference was overshadowed by a failed bid to oust deputy leader Tom Watson.\n\nHe later called for unity, saying it had been a \"bad start\".\n\nLabour was also dealt a fresh blow after one of Jeremy Corbyn's senior aides, head of policy Andrew Fisher, revealed he will quit his post by the end of the year.\n\nHe said he wanted \"to spend more time with his young family\", but the Sunday Times claims he resigned after warning that Mr Corbyn would not win the next general election.\n\nAmong those due to speak at the annual conference on Sunday are shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth and shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.\n\nMs Rayner is expected to set out plans to scrap England's education watchdog Ofsted - which Labour calls \"unfit for purpose\" - and replace it with its own inspection system.\n\nUnder the party's plan, all schools would have regular \"health checks\" run by local councils and then, if concerns are raised, more in-depth visits from full-time, trained inspectors.\n\nIt would mean the end of grades for schools such as outstanding, good or inadequate.\n\nBut opponents will say that is reducing scrutiny and abandoning safeguards over standards.\n\nFormer Ofsted chief, Sir Michael Wilshaw, described the plan as \"bonkers\".\n\nMeanwhile, a row has emerged over where Labour should stand on Brexit if it fights a general election.\n\nA draft policy plan has been put forward by leader Jeremy Corbyn suggesting that, if Labour wins power, it would remain neutral while negotiating a new Brexit deal before holding another referendum.\n\nBut some Labour MPs believe Labour should be supporting Remain.\n\nWhile in government in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Labour had repeatedly rejected calls from the National Union of Teachers (now part of a wider National Education Union) to end Ofsted inspections.\n\nThe teachers' unions had attacked Ofsted inspections as being unfair, bureaucratic and excessively stressful.\n\nBut Labour, under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, had kept the education watchdog as a key part of maintaining standards and providing information for parents.\n\nThe plans presented by Ms Rayner would see Ofsted being completely abolished.\n\nIt would mean that parents looking at schools would no longer have the descriptions of inspection ratings, which are currently outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate.\n\nLabour says that such single-word labels do not do justice to the complexities of a school's strengths and weaknesses - and instead parents will have more detailed information.\n\nThe proposal is likely to be popular among teachers, who have criticised the extra workload created by inspections and challenged the credibility of the judgements.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers thought a \"light-touch health-check approach\" of the kind proposed by Labour is \"the right way to go\".\n\nThe heads' union liked the idea of schools being \"back in the driving seat\".\n\nLabour will also announce a promise to axe prescription charges in England if the party wins power, taking it in line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where they are already free.\n\nIn England the NHS currently charges £9 per item, although 80% of prescriptions are already issued free of charge, as those on low incomes or with some long-term conditions are not required to pay.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Mr Corbyn said Labour, if in power, would try to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the UK to net-zero before 2050, which is the government's current target.\n\nMr Corbyn spoke on the opening day of a four-day festival which runs alongside the Labour conference\n\nSpeaking at The World Transformed, a politics, arts and music festival which happens alongside the party conference, Mr Corbyn said a Labour government \"will not walk hand-in-hand with Donald Trump and say 'Yes Donald, we understand the special needs of your country'.\n\n\"We'll be the ones that say: 'Paris, good, go further, go faster. Reach zero emissions before 2050.'\"\n\nEarlier, the party announced a plan to force large employers to provide flexible working hours to women experiencing symptoms related to the menopause.\n\nBut the conference's opening day was overshadowed by an attempt to get rid of Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, by abolishing his position.\n\nThe motion had been tabled by Jon Lansman, the founder of Labour grassroots group Momentum. It was later dropped, following an outcry from Labour MPs and an intervention by leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nMr Watson said he was \"disappointed\" at the attempt, but called for the party to come together, adding: \"I always forgive and forget.\"\n\nLabour's stance on the UK leaving the EU will also dominate the agenda during the conference, ahead of a vote on the party's Brexit policy scheduled for Monday evening.\n\nA draft plan is to be discussed by the National Executive Committee - the party's ruling body - which would set out a plan for Labour, if it wins power, to negotiate a new Brexit deal in three months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"We've had a bad start to our conference\"\n\nUnder the plan, the Brexit deal it reaches would then be put to the people in a referendum within six months, with the option of the deal or Remain.\n\nBut the party would not decide which option it would support until a special conference after the election, meaning Labour would fight an election without saying whether it was backing Remain or Leave.\n\nSome Labour MPs are not happy at the plan to remain neutral until then.\n\nAccording to BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley, 80 out of 90 Brexit motions which could be discussed at the conference call on Labour to back Remain.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has said Labour should be clear in its support for Remain.\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Brighton organised by the People's Vote campaign, which wants another referendum, Ms Thornberry said: \"We must make sure that there is a second referendum and Remain is on the ballot paper and Labour campaigns for Remain - and not just that, Labour should lead the campaign.\"\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told the same rally that he backed a second referendum and confirmed he would campaign for Remain.", "Labour is to announce a pledge to abolish prescription charges in England at its party conference next week.\n\nPrescriptions are already free in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England the NHS charges £9 per item, and earned just over £575m from fees in 2017/18 - which the government has said is a valuable source of income.\n\nMore than 80% of prescriptions are already issued free of charge, as those on low incomes or with some long-term conditions are not required to pay.\n\nPeople on benefits including Income Support, pregnant women, children and the over-60s are among those who do not pay.\n\nThere is also a list of \"medical exemptions\", including those who need to take insulin for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and people with an underactive thyroid.\n\nBut people with many other conditions - including overactive thyroid, asthma, chronic kidney disease and rheumatoid arthritis - are not on the list, which was drawn up in 1968.\n\nPre-payment certificates for those who do not qualify for free medication cost £104 per year.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, who will announce the policy at the Labour party conference in Brighton, said: \"We know that the cost of prescriptions puts people off taking the medicine they need.\n\n\"Not only do people suffer illnesses and the effects of illnesses more than they need to but, in the long term, it costs the NHS more money because those people who don't take their medicines present with even more serious conditions later on.\"\n\nKay Boycott, chief executive of Asthma UK, which has campaigned for people with the condition to get free prescriptions, welcomed Labour's announcement.\n\nShe said: \"This could make a huge difference to help people with asthma stay well and reduce pressure on hard-pressed NHS services.\n\n\"We are urging the leaders of the main political parties to pledge to stop unfair and outdated prescription charges for people with asthma, and shall continue to press them until this change has been implemented.\"\n\nAsthma UK and the Labour Party both highlighted the case of Holly Warboys, who died aged 19 after an asthma attack.\n\nHer mum Cathy said: \"Holly was on a low income and struggled to pay for her asthma prescription charges.\n\n\"She died suddenly from an asthma attack with just one puff left in her inhaler because she couldn't afford to buy another one.\"\n\n\"All of the political parties should pledge to scrap unfair asthma prescription costs and stand up for people like Holly.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We have always been supportive of any safe and sensible measures to reduce medication costs for patients and ensure access to necessary medication is equitable, so it's encouraging to have a renewed debate around a review of prescription charges.\n\n\"We fully appreciate the amount that prescription medications cost the NHS every year, and we would always encourage patients to buy over-the-counter or other widely available treatments where they can to help reduce this.\n\n\"But even though many of our most vulnerable patients are already exempt from standard prescription charges, the fact that fees exist in England means there is real risk that some people might not obtain and take the medication they need.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The protesters were taken away in a police van after being arrested\n\nTen people have been arrested during a climate change protest in Dover aimed at \"blockading\" the port.\n\nFour of them, including men aged in their 80s and 90s, staged a sit in at the Eastern Docks Roundabout.\n\nExtinction Rebellion campaigners are legally occupying part of the A20, off the roundabout, and near the port.\n\nThe campaign group said the \"No Food on a Dying Planet\" protest centred around the potential for food shortages as climate change develops.\n\nProtesters glued themselves to the road\n\nThose arrested, on suspicion of public order offences, remain in custody as inquiries continue.\n\nKent Police set up a designated area on the westbound A20 for activists to demonstrate, in order to \"minimise disruption\".\n\nTraffic leaving the port is being diverted via the A2, on the opposite side of the Eastern Docks Roundabout.\n\nHowever some protesters also blockaded part of the A2, by gluing themselves to the road. They were removed by police.\n\nAccording to witnesses, one protester who had glued their hands to the road was taken away in a stretcher.\n\nCh Supt Andy Pritchard, from Kent Police, said disruption was \"kept to a minimum\".\n\nThere is a large police presence on roads near the port\n\nLive music is expected later as part of the demonstration, while flags and signs adorn seafront railings, including slogans like \"Rebel for life\" and \"Climate breakdown kills\".\n\nThe protest was due to last until 15:00 BST.\n\nIt comes a day after thousands of people across the UK took part in a global \"climate strike day\".\n\nChris Atkins, from Extinction Rebellion Dover, said: \"As climate change develops, millions of ordinary Britons will face the real and growing threat of food shortages, hunger and starvation.\n\n\"This crisis may seem far away now but given the dependency of the UK on food imports we are extremely vulnerable.\"\n\nA Port of Dover spokeswoman said it was experiencing \"intermittent delays\" due to the protest, adding: \"We are working closely with Kent Police to ensure as minimal disruption as possible.\"\n\nThe protest is due to last until 15:00 BST\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A peaceful climate march in Paris has been halted after it was infiltrated by other protest groups.\n\nGroups of anarchist demonstrators joined in, breaking windows and setting fire to street barricades.\n\nFamilies abandoned the march as violent clashes prompted French police, who have previously been accused of excessive violence, to fire tear gas and make over 100 arrests.\n\nThe march was intended to be festive, family-friendly and peaceful\n\nThe climate change march and a protest against pension reform were both authorised, while other demonstrations - including one by the 'yellow vest' anti-government group - went ahead illegally.\n\nMuch of the violence and vandalism was attributed to the so-called black bloc anarchist group, who wore black scarves, sunglasses and hoods to cover their faces.\n\nThe gilets jaunes (yellow vest) movement was sparked ten months ago by a hike in fuel prices and evolved into weekly anti-government protests that continued well into the spring.\n\nMost of those protesting on Saturday did not wear the trademark fluorescent jackets, so they could avoid standing out.\n\nPolice have previously been accused of violence in their response to the yellow vest movement\n\nAs the violence worsened, police used tear gas to disperse groups of protesters.\n\nA video posted on Twitter shows climate change protesters covering their mouths as tear gas from further afield was carried to them by the wind.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aline Leclerc This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 lot of anger was targeted at President Macron from both sides of the protest\n\nGreenpeace told climate change protesters to abandon the march as conditions were not appropriate for a non-violent protest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of Saturday's protesters told French media outlet Le Monde that they continued to protest because of \"injustice\" but said they were worried about the \"bad image\" of the yellow vests.\n\n\"I am not a thug,\" the protester insisted.\n\nThe yellow vest protests, which lost momentum over the summer, were often marred by violence, some of which was blamed on the black blocs.\n\nThe protests earlier this year prompted Mr Macron to introduce reforms including tax cuts and a more decentralised government.\n\nPolice were heavily decked out in riot gear\n\nSaturday's protests interfered with France's annual Heritage Day, when well-known sites open their doors to the public.\n\nOn Friday, President Macron said it was good that that people could express themselves but asked that the protests proceeded in a \"calm\" manner.\n\nHe has not yet commented on Saturday's events.\n\nA protester suffering the after-effects of tear gas is assisted by a journalist\n\nThe climate change protest started with a very different atmosphere", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Sally Nabil reports from protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square\n\nTear gas has been fired to disperse demonstrators in Egypt, at some of the first protests since President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2014.\n\nHundreds of Egyptians filled Tahrir Square in Cairo - a key site of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution - late on Friday demanding his resignation.\n\nDemonstrations also took place elsewhere around the country.\n\nThe protests were in response to corruption allegations against President Sisi's government.\n\nAt least 74 people have been arrested, AFP news agency reports.\n\nAn Egyptian businessman and actor, Mohamed Ali, has posted a series of videos online accusing the country's leader of wasting millions on luxury residences and hotels while millions of Egyptians live in poverty. Egypt has pursued a policy of economic austerity in recent years.\n\nPresident Sisi has dismissed the allegations as \"lies and slander\".\n\n\"Sisi out\" and \"The people want to overthrow the regime\" topped Egyptian Twitter's trending list late on Friday.\n\nHundreds of anti-regime protesters gathered in and around Tahrir Square despite efforts to disperse them.\n\nDemonstrations were also reported in Egypt's second-largest city, Alexandria, as well as in Suez and the town of Mahalla el-Kubra which is north of Cairo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eduard Cousin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven a few days ago such scenes would have \"unthinkable\", BBC correspondent Sally Nabil tweeted.\n\nMr Ali, who lives in self-imposed exile in Spain, posted his first video on 2 September. In a video posted on Tuesday, he reportedly said that if President Sisi did not resign by Thursday \"the Egyptian people will come out to the squares on Friday in protest\".\n\nIn 2013, Mr Sisi led the military's overthrow of Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, following protests against his rule.\n\nSince then, he has overseen what human rights groups say is an unprecedented crackdown on dissent that has led to the detention of tens of thousands of people.\n\nEgyptians voted to approve constitutional changes in April that could extend Mr Sisi's term in office until 2030, on a turnout of 44%.\n\nHe won 97% of the vote in 2018's presidential election, when he faced no serious opposition.", "Hatchet Pond in the New Forest National Park\n\nEvery schoolchild in England should get the opportunity to \"spend a night under the stars\" in an idyllic landscape, an independent review has suggested.\n\nHelping pupils connect with nature through visits would ensure protected areas such as national parks are \"open to everyone\", the review's author said.\n\nJulian Glover was asked to review England's 70-year-old national park system and areas of outstanding natural beauty by the environment secretary.\n\nHe says they need to be \"re-ignited\".\n\nMr Glover's review says challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and a trend towards increased urban living mean fresh ideas are needed to give England's protect landscapes new purpose.\n\nAmong his recommendations are a National Landscapes Service to act as a unified body for the country's 10 national parks and 34 areas of outstanding natural beauty, and a 1,000-strong \"ranger service\" to help engage the public.\n\nMr Glover, a journalist and former government aide, suggests overnight school trips would help pupils understand more about the natural environment, and he recommends new protections and funding to help improve beautification.\n\nAnd he said a new national park should be created in the Chilterns, with a new \"national forest\" in Nottinghamshire to fight climate change.\n\nMr Glover said: \"If we take action, we can make our country healthier, happier, greener, more beautiful and part of all our lives.\n\n\"Seventy years ago this year we created our national parks for a nation that had just won the Second World War. Now it's time to reignite that mission.\"\n\nThe review was commissioned by former Environment Secretary Michael Gove in May last year.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Theresa Villiers told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Glover's recommendations would be \"carefully considered\" by the government, with new funding debated \"in the future\".\n\nShe said: \"We think it's an excellent report and we're going to be carefully considering its recommendations.\n\n\"There are a lot of great ideas which are consistent with our determination to remedy the disastrous loss of biodiversity and nature habits we've experienced in this country over recent years.\"\n\nMs Villiers said Mr Glover's idea to have school visits to protected landscapes echoes the government's aims.\n\nThe flat landscape of the Norfolk Broads\n\nCorinne Pluchino, Chief Executive of Campaign for National Parks said: \"We welcome the timely publication of this ambitious agenda for our most beautiful landscapes.\n\n\"There is an pressing need to address the urgent challenges in our National Parks. We will be reviewing the report in detail and will be working to ensure the momentum is maintained.\"\n• None England could have new national parks\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nFive goals in the first 18 minutes set Manchester City on their way as they ripped apart a woeful Watford team to cut Liverpool's lead at the top of the Premier League to two points.\n\nCity had already bounced back from last weekend's humbling by Norwich with a clinical Champions League win at Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday, but this was a timely reminder of their ruthlessness and attacking power.\n\nBernardo Silva scored a hat-trick as Pep Guardiola's side ran riot to clinch their biggest league win since he took charge in 2016. They also hit the woodwork twice and continued to chase further goals until the end, but a record victory eluded them.\n\nManchester United's 9-0 win over Ipswich in 1995 remains the biggest victory in the Premier League era but City become only the seventh team to win a top-flight game by an eight-goal margin in the modern era.\n\nCity scored the opener after 52 seconds through David Silva before Sergio Aguero added a penalty and Riyad Mahrez struck via a deflection.\n\nBernardo Silva headed the fourth and Nicolas Otamendi slid in the fifth. After the break City's intensity eased but Bernardo Silva struck twice more and Kevin de Bruyne slammed in the eighth.\n\nAfter David Silva got on the end of a brilliantly bending cross from De Bruyne to slide home from six yards, Watford almost hit back immediately. Gerard Deulofeu went round Nicolas Otamendi with an ease that will worry City boss Pep Guardiola, but saw his shot saved by an onrushing Ederson.\n\nFrom then on, the home side took complete control - aided by a defensive horror show by the Hornets that saw them suffer an even bigger nightmare than when City hit them for six in the FA Cup final last May.\n\nBen Foster gave away a needless penalty when he rushed from his line to send Mahrez tumbling, with Aguero converting from the spot, and things quickly got worse for the visitors.\n\nMahrez made it 3-0 after 12 minutes when his free-kick deflected in off Tom Cleverley, and after 15 minutes it was 4-0 when more dreadful marking allowed Bernardo Silva to stoop and head home after Otamendi flicked on a corner.\n\nOtamendi himself made it 5-0 shortly afterwards when he turned in Aguero's clever cut-back, before City gave their fans a rest from further celebrations - for a little while at least.\n\nThe onslaught continued after half-time when Bernardo Silva slotted home from a David Silva pass to make it 6-0, and he completed his first hat-trick for City when he converted another De Bruyne cross on the hour mark.\n\nDe Bruyne, one of the key orchestrators of this attacking masterclass, got his name on the scoresheet before the end too, casually smashing home City's eighth with five minutes left.\n\nCity's fans urged their team forward for more goals - and United's record - but for once on what was a painful afternoon for them, Watford's defence held out.\n\nThe only consolation for Quique Sanchez Flores, who was overseeing only his second game since being reappointed as Watford boss, is that his side do not have to play City every week.\n\nAfter the high of his side's spirited second-half comeback to draw against Arsenal last week, this was a reminder of why they are bottom of the table, and winless so far this season.\n\nTheir miserable afternoon was summed up by the sight of Dimitri Foulquier trudging off on his Premier League debut as he was substituted after only 32 minutes, with his side already five goals down.\n\nSanchez Flores has work to do to lift morale before his side play more winnable games in weeks to come.\n\nLiverpool can restore their five-point advantage at the top of the table by beating Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday but this was a statement that City are still a force to contend with in the title race.\n\nIn a week where their supposed defensive weakness has been an ongoing topic of discussion, City responded with an impressive show of attacking strength.\n\nThere will be bigger tests of their back-line, of course, and the way Otamendi went so weakly to ground when Deulofeu ran at him was not exactly a reassuring sight.\n\nBut with City in this kind of form - even with the prolific Raheem Sterling left on the bench - there will be few teams who can live with them.\n• None Manchester City's five goals after just 18 minutes was the fastest any side has gone 5-0 ahead in a Premier League match.\n• None Watford have lost their past 12 competitive games against Manchester City - their longest losing run against a single opponent.\n• None Manchester City's 8-0 victory against Watford was their biggest win in the English top flight.\n• None This was Watford's heaviest defeat in the top four tiers of English football and only the third time they've conceded eight goals in a league game (8-1 v Aberdare Athletic in January 1926 and 8-1 v Crystal Palace in September 1959).\n• None This is the first time an English top-flight side has scored 6+ goals in back-to-back meetings in all competitions with another top-flight club since Chelsea v Wigan in 2010.\n• None David Silva's opener was the fastest goal scored in the Premier League this season.\n• None Since his Man City debut in September 2015, Kevin De Bruyne has provided more Premier League assists than any other player (52).\n• None Sergio Aguero became the first player to score in seven consecutive Premier League appearances since Romelu Lukaku in December 2015.\n\nManchester City begin their defence of the Carabao Cup at Championship side Preston on Tuesday with Watford hosting another high-flying second-tier side, Swansea, on the same night (both 19:45 BST kick-offs).\n\nBoth teams are in action in the Premier League next Saturday. Watford travel to fellow strugglers Wolves (15:00 BST) while City have a trip to Goodison Park to face Everton (17:30 BST).\n• None Attempt saved. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt saved. Andre Gray (Watford) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by José Holebas.\n• None Attempt blocked. Tom Cleverley (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andre Gray.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sergio Agüero.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 8, Watford 0. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. David Silva tries a through ball, but Riyad Mahrez is caught offside.\n• None Angeliño (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Gerard Deulofeu (Watford) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Cleverley. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "It is Boris Johnson's first visit to the United Nations as prime minister\n\nClimate change, instability in the Middle East and Brexit will be on the agenda when Boris Johnson meets other world leaders in New York next week.\n\nThe prime minister will hold talks with Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel among others at the UN's annual General Assembly.\n\nHe will also meet India's Narendra Modi and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe Irish government has said \"quite a wide gap\" remains between it and the UK over a mutually acceptable Brexit deal.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, its foreign minister Simon Coveney said the \"mood music\" had improved but claims the two sides were inching towards an agreement were \"spin\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October unless the bloc agrees to further extend the process. Mr Johnson has said he will not ask for another delay.\n\nAlthough Brexit is not officially on the agenda of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, a senior government official said they were \"sure it will come up\".\n\nMr Johnson, who will arrive in New York on Sunday, will meet the German and French leaders as well as European Council president Donald Tusk.\n\nIt is thought they will discuss a series of ideas put forward by the UK on Thursday aimed at breaking the current deadlock.\n\n\"What this gives the PM an opportunity to do is to talk to them at leader level about what some of our proposals are,\" the government official added.\n\n\"At the same time we are under no illusions that there's an awful lot of work to do.\"\n\nThe US and French leaders have very different views about Brexit\n\nThe General Assembly is the largest gathering of world leaders in a single place - providing a forum to discuss issues of global concern.\n\nNuclear disarmament, sustainable development and global healthcare are among the main issues are on the agenda, while a separate climate summit will start on Monday.\n\nLast week's attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia - which Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for, but which the US blames on Iran - will also be discussed.\n\nAs well as meeting Mr Trump for the second time since he became PM in July, Mr Johnson is also due to hold one-to-one meetings with the leaders of Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine and Jordan.\n\nThe PM, who is expected to be accompanied on the trip by his partner Carrie Symonds, said he had three priorities for the upcoming meeting.\n\n\"First, how Britain can work with our European and American allies on peace and stability in the Middle East,\" he said.\n\n\"Second, how science and new technologies can help the world deal with climate change and the threats to biodiversity.\n\n\"And third, how post-Brexit Britain will be a better place to invest in and live in.\"", "An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater on holiday in Tanzania.\n\nSteven Weber and his girlfriend, Kenesha Antoine, were staying in a submerged cabin at the Manta Resort, off Pemba Island.\n\nFootage shows Mr Weber diving under water to ask Ms Antoine to marry him.\n\nIn the video, Mr Weber presses a hand-written proposal note against the cabin window as Ms Antoine films from inside.\n\nMs Antoine, confirming Mr Weber's death in a Facebook post, said he \"never emerged from those depths\".\n\nKenesha Antoine and Steven Weber were on a \"once-in-a-lifetime\" trip when the accident happened\n\nThe Manta Resort told the BBC Mr Weber \"tragically drowned while free diving alone outside the underwater room\" on Thursday afternoon.\n\n\"It is with the deepest regret that we inform that a fatal accident occurred at The Manta Resort on Thursday 19 September, 2019,\" the resort said in a statement.\n\nMatthew Saus, CEO of the resort, said \"everyone is shaken to the core\" by Mr Weber's death.\n\nZanzibar police are investigating the circumstances of Steven Weber's death\n\nMr Weber and Ms Antoine had booked four nights at the resort's underwater room, which lies approximately 250m (820ft) from the shore.\n\nCosting $1,700-a-night (£1,300), the cabin is anchored in water around 10m (32ft) deep.\n\nOn the third day of their stay, Mr Weber, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plunged into the water to make his proposal.\n\nWearing a mask and fins, he held a note against the cabin's glass window as Ms Antoine watched on from within.\n\nHis note read: \"I can't hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you. But… everything I love about you, I love more every day!\"\n\nMr Weber wrote \"I can't hold my breath long\" in his proposal note\n\nLater in the video, Mr Weber turns over the sheet of paper to reveal the proposal, before pulling an engagement ring from his shorts and swimming out of view.\n\nMr Saus told the BBC his staff responded to a \"problem in the water\", but when they arrived \"absolutely nothing could be done\".\n\nIn her Facebook post, Ms Antoine said Mr Weber \"never got to hear her answer\" to his proposal, which would have been \"a million times, yes\".\n\n\"We never got to embrace and celebrate the beginning of the rest of our lives together, as the best day of our lives turned into the worst, in the cruellest twist of fate imaginable,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I will try to take solace in the fact that we enjoyed the most amazing bucket list experiences these past few days, and that we both were so happy and absolutely giddy with excitement in our final moments together.\"\n\nThe US Department of State said it is aware of the death of a US citizen in Tanzania, in East Africa.\n\n\"We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss,\" a spokesperson said. \"We stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance.\"", "Film footage has been released showing the moment a vet tried to save the life of an orangutan that had been shot 130 times.\n\nPaul Ramos, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was in Borneo to see the work of animal charities. The injured orangutan was found clinging to a branch in a river.\n\nThe wildlife vet said he wanted to raise awareness about the plight of the great ape.\n\nSee more on Inside Out West Midlands on BBC One on Monday 23 September at 19:30 BST and on the BBC iPlayer here.", "Taylor Swift has cancelled her performance at the Melbourne Cup horse racing event in Australia.\n\nThe Cup announced Swift as its headline act earlier this month, but cancelled on Saturday, citing scheduling issues.\n\nThe singer had been criticised by animal rights groups, who accused her of \"endorsing animal abuse\".\n\nSix horses have died at the Cup since 2013, including one horse who was euthanised on the course last year after fracturing his shoulder.\n\nThe Cup's organisers have not confirmed who will replace Swift as the headline act on 5 November.\n\nOn Saturday, Mushroom Events said in a statement that \"changes to [Swift's] Asian promo schedule have made it logistically impossible for her to be here\" for the Cup.\n\nBut the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses, the group that led calls for a boycott, believes Swift cancelled as a result of their campaign.\n\nIn a petition posted last week, the group said the singer was \"either completely unaware of the cruel reality of horse racing or she has put money before compassion by agreeing to perform\" at the races.\n\n\"If she cares at all about other animals the way she appears to care about cats, she will cancel her show and use her voice to make a strong statement that animal abuse is unacceptable,\" they added.\n\nVictoria Racing Club's CEO Neil Wilson said Swift's cancellation would be \"disappointing for everyone\".\n\nBut the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses said they were \"absolutely delighted with the news\".\n\n\"The pressure on Taylor Swift to cancel her performance was significant. Her fans did not want to see her supporting animal abuse,\" campaign spokeswoman Kristin Leigh said.\n\n\"Whilst the reason being used by the racing industry is a scheduling mix up, it appears to us that she has responded to those calls.\"", "A 15-year-old boy was found dead in Salt Hill Park in Slough on Saturday\n\nA third youth has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 15-year-old boy died when he was stabbed in a skate park in Slough.\n\nThe boy was found injured in Salt Hill Park at about 18:30 BST on Saturday. He died at the scene.\n\nPost-mortem tests showed he died of \"a stab wound to the chest\", police said.\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys already being held on suspicion of murder remain in custody, while a 17-year-old boy was arrested later on Sunday.\n\nThe victim's family has been informed, although formal identification has not yet taken place.\n\nThames Valley Police said the stabbing followed an \"altercation\" involving a group of males.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Shearwood said: \"We have now made three arrests as our murder investigation progresses.\n\n\"A scene watch which has been in place at Salt Hill Park will soon be lifted and the park will be re-opened to the public as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone for their patience throughout this.\"\n\nEarlier, he said he wanted to \"further reassure people that we believe that all of those involved in this incident were known or associated with each other, and that this was not a random attack\".\n\nDet Ch Inp Shearwood said he believed a number of people were in the skate park at the time and appealed for witnesses, especially anyone with mobile phone footage, to come forward.\n\nA resident said she was extremely concerned by the stabbing.\n\nChloe, who did not give her surname, said: \"I look at it and think if that was my son how would I be feeling, so I can just imagine how his family are feeling.\"\n\nIn 2017 a man died three weeks after being stabbed in Salt Hill Park.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Caruso St John-designed art gallery situated near the city's old lace-making district is celebrating its 10th anniversary: a first decade in which it has mounted in excess of 50 exhibitions and welcomed more than two million visitors. Impressive stuff. Especially when you consider its approach to putting on shows.\n\nThis is an institution which doesn't sugar the art pill.\n\nIts exhibitions tend to be as dry as dust, stripped to their bare essentials without any of the populist added extras beloved by wealthier museums and galleries. It wears its academic heart on its hipster sleeve, trusting visitors to share in its spirit of intellectual enquiry (exhibitions are free), with the promise of delicious post-show cake in the cafe (£5.95 for a coffee with a slice of brownie).\n\nBauhausian, you might say.\n\nAt least you might if you had seen the gallery's latest show, Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus.\n\nBauhaus School in Dessau, designed by architect Walter Gropius in 1926\n\nThe exhibition marks the centenary of the now defunct German art school, which started life in 1919 in Weimar before relocating to Dessau in 1925. In the 14 years of its existence (Hitler shut it down in 1933) the now legendary institution played a central role in shaping the prevailing modernist aesthetics of the 20th Century.\n\nThe teaching staff boasted some incredible artists, including Wassily Kandinsky, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, and Paul Klee. The architect and designer Marcel Breuer studied and taught there, during which time he pioneered the use of tubular steel in furniture design, resulting in the iconic Model B3 chair now found in office lobbies the world over.\n\nWassily Chair, B3, was designed by Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus School in 1925-26, but is ubiquitous today\n\nThe range of designs, art and ideas emanating from the Bauhaus was incredible.\n\nMany were beautiful, such as Joost Schmidt's poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition, and Marianne Brandt's Coffee and Tea Set (1924).\n\nAlmost all were worthy of your time and attention. To see them laid out in an exhibition would be terrific.\n\nPoster of the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar in 1923 by Joost Schmidt\n\nBut you won't be finding any of them in the Nottingham Contemporary exhibition. It's not how they roll in this neck of the woods.\n\nInstead, the curators have served up a very different but utterly compelling show, which feels a little esoteric at first but reveals itself to be a timely and important provocation.\n\nIt focuses on the experimental nature of the Bauhaus and how new philosophies about teaching and technology developed on its campuses in the 1920s and '30s affected post-War culture in Britain.\n\nThe exhibition starts with a large hanging screen showing a film of Kurt Schwerdtfeger's 1922 Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (Reflecting Colour-Light Games): a play of sorts, with a Heath Robinson-like invention acting as the set.\n\nThe contraption was made by Schwerdtfeger when a student at the Bauhaus for its Lantern Festival. It consisted of a large handmade, cube-shaped, apparatus containing lamps, in front of which performers would move cut-out shapes to create interconnecting geometric shadows on the surface of a screen accompanied by music.\n\nThe images look a bit like a pop video for Kraftwerk directed by a Russian constructivist on acid (it was first performed at a party hosted by Kandinsky).\n\nAnd significant, as a reference point for both the development of avant-garde filmmaking and performance art.\n\nBehind it hangs another screen also presenting a film of a revered experimental work. It is called Light-Play: Black, White, Grey (1933) by the Hungarian artist and Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy.\n\nIt shows the interplay of shapes created by shining light through a rotating (kinetic) metal sculpture he called Light-Prop Lightspace Modulator.\n\nIn fact, they weren't really conceived as works of art at all.\n\nThey were artistic investigations into a central idea of the Bauhaus, which founder Walter Gropius referred to as \"an alliance of the arts\": a desire to unite art, design, technology, and life.\n\nWalter Gropius, regarded as one of the fathers of modern architecture, is standing in front of a house designed by him in 1927\n\nMoholy-Nagy believed such a synthesis was possible, enlightening even, and was searching for a way of articulating the vision. If such a concept appeared vital at the time, it seems even or pressing now.\n\nBut which art school or institution is currently investigating such bold and ambitious ideas?\n\nSeveral were for a while. In Germany and America and Britain.\n\nAfter the Bauhaus closed, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius and many other students and masters came to the UK to look for work and share their knowledge. There's a slow but captivating film by Moholy-Nagy studying the modernist architecture of Whipsnade and London zoos.\n\nAt this point in the exhibition the emphasis shifts from Bauhaus emigres to the influence they had on Britain. Mary Quant (\"the Bauhaus ideal is about making modern design accessible\"), Terence Conran, and Vidal Sassoon all feature. As does the artist Richard Hamilton who is represented by a handful of works including his excellent painting, Trainsition IIII (1954).\n\nHamilton was one of several advocates of a foundation course called Basic Design, based on the Vorkurs preliminary course at the Bauhaus, which encouraged intuition and experimentation. The results of Basic Design course are presented in the final room of the exhibition, which is dedicated to work connected to Leeds Polytechnic in the 1970s and 80s: a place the artist Patrick Heron proclaimed to be \"the most influential art school in Europe since the Bauhaus.\"\n\nFrankly, I'm not sure time has borne this out, but it still makes for a rousing finale: a black-walled, double-height gallery displaying - among many objects and films - a wonderfully eccentric Charles Atlas video called Mrs. Peanut Visits New York (1992), and an unforgettable series of photographs featuring performance artist Leigh Bowery by Robyn Beeche called 7th Alternative Miss World…(1986-7).\n\n7th Alternative Miss World contestant, 1986. Leigh Bowery and assistant the late Jill; Swimwear, by Robyn Beeche\n\nThis is to barely scratch the surface of an encyclopaedic show that has resisted presenting the typical Bauhaus collection and focused more on its spirit: its openness to ideas, its willingness to challenge convention; to seek to unite art, technology, life, and science: to re-think the purpose of education, the contents of the curriculum, and the student experience.\n\nThis was an institution that urgently wanted to make a difference; to positively impact on the lives of those on and beyond its campus.\n\nIt leaves you thinking that is what we need now: a revolutionary approach to art and education. There's no reason it shouldn't start here in the UK. After all, that's where the seeds of the original Bauhaus were sown.\n\nBut that's another story…", "Labour says it would scrap England's education watchdog Ofsted, accusing it of being \"unfit for purpose\".\n\nIt would mean the end of grades for schools such as outstanding, good or inadequate.\n\nIt will also be seen as a symbolic shift towards the position of teachers' unions who have opposed Ofsted inspections.\n\nFormer Ofsted chief, Sir Michael Wilshaw, described the plan as \"bonkers\".\n\nThe promise to abolish Ofsted, announced as Labour holds its annual conference, is a major shift in policy.\n\nLabour says it is taking action to tackle a flawed inspection system which works against schools in deprived areas.\n\n\"In too many cases, Ofsted's judgements and grades reflect the affluence of a school's intake and the social class of its pupils - not the performance of the school,\" said shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.\n\n\"School performance is far too important and complex to be boiled down to an over-simplified single grade, reducing all schools to one of four categories,\" she said.\n\nBut opponents will say that is reducing scrutiny and abandoning safeguards over standards.\n\nThere will also be claims that under leader Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's education policy is turning into something of a tribute act to the teachers' unions of a couple of decades ago.\n\nWhile in government in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Labour had repeatedly rejected calls from the National Union of Teachers (now part of a wider National Education Union) to end Ofsted inspections.\n\nThe teachers' unions had attacked Ofsted inspections as being unfair, bureaucratic and excessively stressful.\n\nBut Labour, under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, had kept the education watchdog as a key part of maintaining standards and providing information for parents.\n\nThe plans presented by Ms Rayner would see Ofsted abolished and replaced with a new inspectorate.\n\nThere would be a two-stage inspection system - with regular \"health checks\" run by local authorities and then, if there were concerns, more in-depth visits from full-time, trained inspectors - the HMIs (Her Majesty's Inspectors).\n\nIt would mean that parents looking at schools would no longer have the descriptions of inspection ratings, ranging from \"outstanding\" to \"inadequate\".\n\nLabour says that such single-word labels do not do justice to the complexities of a school's strengths and weaknesses and instead parents will have more detailed information.\n\nBut the fireworks are in the political shift.\n\nCalling for the abolition of Ofsted was once an annual ritual of left-wing delegates at teachers' conferences, under both Conservative and Labour governments.\n\nThere was no real expectation of its implementation - because neither party wanted to concede ground that would leave them open to accusations of being soft on standards.\n\nLabour also argued that without external scrutiny of standards, the schools serving the poorest were most likely to be allowed to slip behind.\n\nBut that alignment seems to have fundamentally changed.\n\nLabour has travelled a long way from the days of Mr Blair and \"education, education, education\" - moving much closer to the teachers' union view of the school system.\n\nThe former leader of the National Union of Teachers, Christine Blower, who once attacked the Labour government's education policies, has recently been nominated by Mr Corbyn to become a Labour peer.\n\nThe demise of Ofsted is likely to be popular among teachers, who have criticised the extra workload created by inspections and challenged the credibility of the judgements.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, backed the idea of reducing the pressure of the accountability system.\n\n\"It is crushing the life out of too many schools and has to change,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nBut he was not convinced by the idea of local authorities running the monitoring of schools in their area.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers thought a \"light-touch health-check approach\" of the kind proposed by Labour is \"the right way to go\".\n\nThe heads' union liked the idea of schools being \"back in the driving seat\".\n\nBut what's harder to know is how this will be received by parents.\n\nOf course, there is no such thing as a typical parent, but parents looking for schools will want straightforward information to help them make comparisons.\n\nThey will also want to know that standards are being monitored by an independent body.\n\nSir Michael Wilshaw, the former head of Ofsted, says surveys have consistently shown that parents value the opinions of inspectors and they want clear information about school performance.\n\nHe says Ofsted has helped to raise standards by identifying \"strengths and weaknesses in the English education system\".\n\n\"I'm old enough to remember how dire our schools were in the 70s and 80s when schools lacked any serious scrutiny,\" said Sir Michael.\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb said the announcement was \"another sign of the extreme left-wing ideological drift that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party has taken\".\n\n\"Now they want to stop parents having even the most basic information so that they can make informed choices about their children's schools,\" he said.", "There's not much Louis Theroux hasn't experienced of humanity. In more than 25 years of documentary making, he's moved in multiple worlds including those of neo-Nazis, Scientologists, pornography stars, those living with dementia - and Jimmy Savile.\n\nWhile his approach has altered over the years, from comic gonzo to sober inquisitor, Theroux's ability to extract uncomfortable truths without confrontation has not.\n\nYet, the one person we don't get to know is Theroux himself. The questions are simple. The expression inscrutable. Only his eyebrows sometimes go rogue. In other words, he gives his interviewee space to show who they are.\n\nEpithets from \"faux-naive\", \"impenetrable\" and \"wacky\" have been employed in an attempt to define him. Theroux says he can, up to point, understand why.\n\n\"I plead guilty to, back in the day of Weird Weekends and When Louis Met, sometimes being a 'wacky' satirist, finding fringe people in marginal, wrongheaded or poisoned lifestyles and having fun with them, making them look a bit silly,\" he says.\n\n\"Now I cover stories I'm interested in, funny or not.\n\n\"We used to say, 'Where are the laughs?' as a way of eliminating a subject. But it's not about being Jeremy Paxman or David Frost, but being engaging, exciting and interesting and being the best me I can.\"\n\nAs Theroux edges towards 50, his latest project - a memoir - could help unmask the \"real\" him.\n\nIn Gotta Get Theroux This, he turns the focus inwards, to the workings of his TV world and his complicated mind. The title's pun comes from the ironic \"cult of Louis\" that spawned a range of Theroux-themed merchandise. Theroux wanted to \"repurpose the meme, which never struck me as really that funny. Any pun on my name, I've heard a million times\".\n\nPaul Theroux became famous in the 1970s with his travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar\n\n\"But a theme of the book is getting through things, so I focused on challenges, things I found difficult: professional failures and worries, feeling I'm not up to it, I'm in over my head.\"\n\nTheroux goes into forensic detail as he takes us through his childhood, into adulthood and becoming an alumnus of Michael Moore, to the present day. As for his personal life, it's been a rollercoaster of anxiety, self-doubt and emotional detachment. (There's also been a lot of pot smoking.)\n\n\"I take my work arguably too seriously. I neglected my personal life to focus on achieving some sort of professional success. The price of my lack of emotional nous was paid by those nearest and dearest to me.\"\n\nHe's had to learn to overcome the commitment issues which contributed to his first marriage's breakdown and almost broke his second to Nancy Strang, mother to his three boys. Given the commitment he's now asking of readers, he felt it necessary to be as open as possible.\n\nMarcel Theroux is also a documentary maker and writer\n\n\"I owed them something that connects in a deeper way. I needed to be honest and to give more of myself away... feel kind of naked, in a surprising, maybe a shocking way.\"\n\nTheroux talks about being \"socially awkward\" and not feeling right in his skin. It started young: aged five or six, he was already contemplating his death.\n\nThere is still room for Theroux to make documentaries with a lighter tone such as Love Without Limits\n\nHis father is the American writer Paul Theroux. His mother was a BBC World Service producer. Though loving, their parenting was hands off, leaving Louis and older brother Marcel (also a documentary maker and writer) with au pairs. Paul was also a philanderer. The couple divorced in 1993.\n\nThe young Louis, felt \"freakish\" and had few friends. He was fascinated with the macabre and taboo, and worked and worried himself to \"emotional exhaustion\" at his private school. Academic success was a pacifier when the rest of life felt out of control. He went on to read history at Oxford.\n\nTheroux says his early resentment of his parents has mellowed but adds, \"I'm very much the person I was as a child.\"\n\n\"For me, childhood is the most difficult passage of life. You feel imprisoned, enclosed within the choices made by other people. That can feel overwhelming.\"\n\nWeird Weekends saw Theroux come up against professional wrestlers\n\nNeeding distance, Theroux went to America after graduation (he's lived there on and off for several years). There, he was hired by the influential documentary maker Michael Moore - the man who would shape his future.\n\nFronting segments on Moore's satirical TV Nation, the naïf Theroux delved into the lives of off-the-wall characters and learned the naturalistic tricks of his trade.\n\n\"I can't imagine where I would be today were it not for that fateful day when Michael hired me and later told me to get on a plane and interview apocalyptic Christians. I felt completely out of my depth. But he had faith in me at a time when I didn't have faith in myself. I'd never considered being a TV correspondent. I've made sure I thanked him.\"\n\nHis subsequent move to the BBC and Weird Weekends, again set in the US, gave Theroux more doubts.\n\n\"I had enough American in me to be concerned that we might be making one of those 'let's make fun of Americans' type programmes.\"\n\nWhen Louis Met... the Hamiltons he unwittingly experienced the full glare of being in the limelight\n\nWeird Weekends became the vehicle by which Theroux was introduced to the British public. His \"going native\" rapport-building approach told a truer story than hard-nosed interrogation and won him an army of fans. The pay-off for Theroux was escapism: \"When you're on location with people who think the heavens are going to rain down fire, the fact that you haven't renewed your car's tax disc doesn't seem so preoccupying.\"\n\nHowever fame and success have sometimes divided Theroux. Even when winning awards, he's been torn between pride and feeling unworthy.\n\nThe limelight first blindsided him in the When Louis Met celebrity interview strand. The episode with UK politician Neil Hamilton and wife Christine saw him caught in the media commotion surrounding allegations of rape made against them (later discredited).\n\n\"I got into TV almost as a way of becoming invisible, in worlds where I was immersed in something remote from my daily concerns. But then I became the subject of tabloids and news reports. It wasn't comfortable,\" says Theroux.\n\nLouis Theroux has struggled with his feelings followng the revelations about Jimmy Savile\n\nBut it's the first show he made with Jimmy Savile in 2000 that left an indelible mark. Unsurprising, given what we know now. At the time Theroux could only say he felt Savile was \"really odd, like someone with something to hide\". The two struck up a kind of friendship, so the revelations about Savile's serial sexual abuse hit hard.\n\n\"I was stressed and upset and had a level of guilt, as part of me resisted believing,\" says Theroux. \"I've come to the conclusion it was an understandable human response. The extent of his offending was so broad, it took a while to get your head around it.\"\n\nHe revisited the story in 2016, concentrating on Savile's victims. Personally, he hoped it might \"exorcise\" the ghosts still haunting him.\n\nLouis Theroux looked into the world of mothers who have their new-born babies adopted in 2018's Take My Baby\n\n\"His victims have changed the landscape in the UK and how we think about historic sexual abuse or predatory behaviour by powerful people,\" says Theroux. \"But what also came across clearly is the way some victims don't always immediately recognise it.\"\n\nThe seriousness of the programme was illustrative of the shift in tone of Theroux's documentaries over the last decade. Mental illness, adoption, and rape on campus are among the issues he's covered. The consistency lies in Theroux's human touch. The film-maker says he hopes to be remembered for \"showing human nature in an honest way that connects with people for years to come\".\n\nHis view of humanity now is \"we are who we are\".\n\n\"That can be really positive, altruistic, self-sacrificing and sometimes really bonkers\". As for his attitude towards himself, he says: \"I'm at peace with not being at peace.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jennifer Lopez closed Versace's S/S 2020 show in an updated version of the dress\n\nUS singer Jennifer Lopez has revived her iconic green Versace dress that led to the invention of Google Images.\n\nLopez, 50, first wore the gown to the Grammy Awards in February 2000.\n\nFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt later revealed there were so many searches for photos of the dress afterwards, it inspired them to create Google Images.\n\nFootage of Lopez modelling the modern version of the dress at Versace's S/S 2020 show has been viewed more than two million times on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Yashar Ali 🐘 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriday's show, at Milan Fashion Week, paid homage to both the original dress, and to Lopez.\n\nVogue reports that the final few models in the show walked the catwalk to Lopez's 2001 song Love Don't Cost a Thing, before a montage of Google Image searches for the original Grammy's dress was projected on to the walls.\n\nAs if talking to a smart speaker, a voice announced: \"OK, Google. Now show me the real dress.\"\n\nThe pop star and Hollywood actress then walked out to cheers from the crowd.\n\nGoogle was founded in 1998, but Google Images wasn't introduced to the site until July 2001.\n\n\"When Google was launched, people were amazed that they were able to find out about almost anything by typing just a few words into a computer,\" Mr Schmidt wrote in Project Syndicate in 2015.\n\n\"It was better than anything else, but not great by today's standards.\n\nThe image that started it all - Lopez at the Grammy Awards in 2000 wearing the original dress\n\n\"So our co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin - like all successful inventors - kept iterating. They started with images. After all, people wanted more than just text.\n\n\"This first became apparent after the 2000 Grammy Awards, where Jennifer Lopez wore a green dress that, well, caught the world's attention. At the time, it was the most popular search query we had ever seen.\n\n\"But we had no surefire way of getting users exactly what they wanted: JLo wearing that dress. Google Image Search was born.\"", "Dawn Butler will announce her plans at the conference later\n\nLarge employers would be forced to provide flexible hours to women experiencing the menopause under Labour plans to end stigma in the workplace.\n\nShadow equalities minister Dawn Butler announced the \"bold\" policy as the party's conference starts in Brighton.\n\nOther proposals to be discussed include expanding GP training, transport and Labour's stance on Brexit.\n\nBut the opening of the conference was overshadowed by a row over a bid to get rid of Tom Watson's deputy leader role.\n\nUnder Ms Butler's plans, companies with more than 250 employees would also be required to train managers on the effects of the menopause so they can accommodate the needs of employees.\n\nShe said: \"Together we must end the stigma and ensure that no woman is put at a disadvantage, from menstruation to menopause.\"\n\nThree in five menopausal women between the ages of 45 and 55 say it has a negative impact on them at work, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.\n\n\"Symptoms of the menopause can be aggravated by working conditions, but can be alleviated to some extent by simple but effective adjustments to the working environment or working practices,\" said Paddy Lillis, the general secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.\n\nUsdaw - whose own survey found that more than half of menopausal women did not feel able to approach their managers about their symptoms - welcomed the Labour plans.\n\n\"We very much welcome Labour's recognition that the menopause is an increasingly relevant issue for workers, as the proportion of older women in the workplace rises,\" said Mr Lillis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Menopause: what are the symptoms and why does it happen?\n\nLabour's plans would also require large employers to ensure absence procedures are flexible and treat menopause like a long-term fluctuating health condition.\n\nRecommended adjustments include adequate ventilation to help alleviate hot flushes, ensuring access to cold water and flexible working hours if sleep is disturbed.\n\nMandy Broadbent, from Bolton, Lancashire, an ambassador to the Eve Appeal charity, said employers should be doing all they could to help women at this stage in their life.\n\nThe 56-year-old added: \"It can be such a drastic change to a woman's life, no-one is prepared for it and you can end up really losing your self confidence.\n\n\"The more flexible employers can be, the more it will help women reach their potential.\"\n\nOther Labour policies on women in the workplace to be announced include forcing large companies to publish action plans to close the gender pay gap, and to tackle harassment at work through the Equality Act.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nFleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Killing Eve star Jodie Comer were among the big British winners at this year's Emmy Awards.\n\nThe ceremony, which recognises excellence in television, took place in Los Angeles on Sunday.\n\nComer won best leading drama actress for playing Villanelle in Killing Eve.\n\nFleabag star and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge took home the prize for best leading comedy actress, best comedy series and best comedy writing.\n\nOriginally made for BBC Three, it is the first British-made show to be named best comedy series. \"It's so wonderful and reassuring to know that a dirty, pervy, angry and messed-up woman can make it to the Emmys,\" Waller-Bridge laughed, referring to the show's lead character.\n\nWaller-Bridge also joked that the possibility of winning awards was the reason she wrote the series in the first place.\n\n\"I find writing really hard and really painful, but I'd like to say from the bottom of my heart that the reason that I do it is this,\" she said, holding up the Emmy statuette. \"So it's made it all really worth it guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nGame of Thrones won the night's most prestigious prize - best drama - despite the eighth and final series receiving a mixed response from fans and critics.\n\nOne of the HBO fantasy's stars, Peter Dinklage, also took home the prize for best supporting drama actor.\n\nJodie Comer paid tribute to her Killing Eve co-star Sandra Oh\n\nWaller-Bridge's win for leading comedy actress was a particular surprise, given that she was nominated against Emmy favourite Julia Louis-Dreyfus.\n\nThe US actress has previously won in this category six times for her role in Veep, and was widely expected to win again for the show's seventh and final series.\n\nComer's win for her performance as the ruthless assassin Villanelle in BBC America's Killing Eve tops off an extraordinary year for the actress, who also won a TV Bafta in May for the same role.\n\n\"I was not expecting to get up on this stage tonight,\" Comer said as she picked up her prize. \"I cannot believe I'm in a category alongside these women, one of them who is my co-star Sandra Oh.\n\n\"Safe to say Sandra that this Killing Eve journey has been an absolute whirlwind and I feel so lucky to have shared the whole experience with you.\"\n\nAs Waller-Bridge took to the stage near the end of the ceremony to accept Fleabag's fourth award of the night, for best comedy series, she commented: \"This is getting ridiculous!\n\n\"Fleabag started as a one-woman show at the Edinburgh festival in 2014, and the journey has been absolutely mental to get here.\"\n\nBen Whishaw was among the other British winners\n\nPaying tribute to Fleabag's \"hot priest\", she added: \"Season two would not have exploded in the way that it did if it wasn't for Andrew Scott, who came into our Fleabag world like a whirlwind and gave a performance of such depth and complexity it elevated the whole thing.\"\n\nThe show's director, Harry Bradbeer, won best director for a comedy series. \"For a director, something like Fleabag only comes along once in your life,\" he said.\n\n\"Thank you Phoebe for coming into my life like some kind of glorious grenade. Scientists are still trying to work out how someone so incredibly talented can be so utterly lovely.\"\n\nThe second series of Fleabag aired on the BBC earlier this year and has been released by Amazon in the US.\n\nOther British winners include Ben Whishaw, who won best supporting actor in a limited series for his role in BBC One's A Very English Scandal. He played Norman Scott, the man who accused Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe of trying to have him killed.\n\nCharlie Brooker won best television movie for Netflix's Bandersnatch, a win he said he was \"quite unprepared for\". The interactive Bandersnatch allowed viewers to choose the way the film's storyline unfolded.\n\nIn his speech, Brooker thanked his two children, joking: \"I can never limit your video game screen time again, if I do I'm a disgusting hypocrite [because] it sometimes pays off.\"\n\nBritish writer Jesse Armstrong, whose work on HBO's Succession won him best writing for a drama series, made reference to the strong UK showing at the ceremony.\n\n\"Quite a lot of British winners, maybe too many? Maybe you should have a think about those immigration restrictions,\" he joked.\n\nPeter Dinklage was the only Game of Thrones actor to win on Sunday, for playing Tyrion Lannister\n\nAnother Brit, TV host John Oliver, won outstanding variety talk series for Last Week Tonight. In total, 13 of the night's 27 awards had British involvement, including the three trophies for Chernobyl, which was a Sky/HBO co-production.\n\nThe series, which dramatised the 1986 nuclear disaster, took home the prize for best limited series, as well as best writing and directing for a limited series.\n\nElsewhere, the best drama series prize for Game of Thrones and the best supporting drama actor award for Peter Dinklage meant the fantasy epic won 12 Emmys in total, including the trophies it took home at last week's Creative Arts Emmys.\n\nThe show is already the most honoured series and most-nominated drama in Emmy awards history.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by phoenix This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBilly Porter made history as the first openly gay black man to win best leading drama actor, for his role in Pose.\n\nOther winners included Jharrel Jerome, who won best leading actor in a limited series for When They See Us - a series that told the true story of The Central Park Five, five black and Hispanic men who were jailed for sexual assault despite their innocence.\n\nJharrel Jerome was recognised for his role in When They See Us\n\nAmazon's series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel netted supporting comedy acting prizes for both Tony Shalhoub and Alex Borstein.\n\nSunday's event was only the fourth Emmy ceremony ever not to have a host.\n\nMore than 25,000 members of the Television Academy vote for the awards, which were first presented in 1949.\n\nThe name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube, nicknamed the Immy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Edinburgh rally drew a large crowd in the capital\n\nThousands of people have taken part in a march in support of the UK remaining in the European Union.\n\nThey initially gathered on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh and walked in the sunshine to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Edinburgh4Europe event concluded with a rally addressed by speakers including the SNP's Joanna Cherry QC and Labour MP Ian Murray.\n\nAlex Cole-Hamilton MSP and Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater also addressed the crowd.\n\nMs Cherry, who has helped to lead legal action against Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament, said that the prime minister had behaved like a \"dictator\".\n\nThe SNP's Joanna Cherry QC was one of the speakers at the event\n\nShe said: \"In order for us to give people a chance of another say on Brexit, we need to get Parliament up and running again.\n\n\"Of course, Boris Johnson has behaved like a dictator as the prime minister of a minority government suspending Parliament because it's basically getting in his way.\n\n\"But I'm cautiously optimistic that the United Kingdom's Supreme Court will, like Scotland's supreme court, find that the prorogation was unlawful and that Parliament will be returning to work soon.\n\n\"Then in order to get a second vote, a People's Vote, we have to work cross-party in order to get that.\"\n\nA protester cools down at the Scottish Parliament\n\nHe said: \"It's the second rally in two days in Edinburgh where thousands of people have turned up to make their voices heard.\n\n\"This is democratic change in action.\n\n\"What we're trying to say to the UK Government is that their stance on Brexit's completely wrong and that what we demand is that for these people that are marching today and for everyone across the United Kingdom, to get a final say referendum so that they can have their view on whether or not to remain in the European Union or back the prime minister's deal.\n\n\"That's why we're all here, we're all championing that and we're all fighting for it both on the streets and in Parliament.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton said that his party would revoke Article 50 in the event of winning a majority at a general election.\n\nHe said: \"I've been marching in these demos now for three years and that just shows how far this movement's come.\n\n\"We thought we'd be crashing out of the European Union in March and that didn't happen, and the extensions have come and they've gone and we're still in the European Union.\n\n\"It gives me such hope that we are on the cusp of reversing Brexit and all the calamity that it represents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"We've had a bad start to our conference\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said he was \"disappointed\" at a move to oust him, but has called for unity after a \"bad start\" to the party conference.\n\nSpeaking as he arrived in Brighton, Mr Watson said he wanted the party to come together, adding: \"I always forgive and forget.\"\n\nThe motion, which aimed to abolish the deputy leader position, was dropped.\n\nLabour MPs, opposing the motion, had warned against an \"internal civil war\".\n\nLabour's stance on Brexit, education and public services will also be on the agenda at the annual party conference, which opened on Saturday and runs until Wednesday.\n\nResponding to the motion, Mr Watson said: \"I think it's very sad. We're supposed to be here this week to fight Boris Johnson... and I think it's been undermined on day one.\"\n\nHe said he was \"particularly disappointed\" with Jon Lansman, founder of Labour grassroots group Momentum, who tabled the motion.\n\nMr Watson, who was met by cheering supporters as he arrived at Brighton Station, said Mr Lansman had undermined the party as well as leader Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum itself.\n\nMr Corbyn and Mr Watson at last year's conference.\n\nHe added that many Momentum members \"have been in touch with me to say they were not consulted\".\n\nMr Watson said: \"I want this week to be the most positive week we can have, I want us to unify, I want us to talk about what our vision for the country during and after a general election is.\"\n\nThe seeds of the current rows overshadowing the first day of Labour conference were sown here in Brighton nearly two weeks ago\n\nJeremy Corbyn thought he had sealed a deal on Brexit behind closed doors at the TUC conference with the big unions.\n\nThe party would officially stay neutral during the election.\n\nBut Tom Watson outraged many on the left less than 24 hours later when he contradicted Jeremy Corbyn and called for an unambiguous campaign to remain.\n\nMany on the left already regarded him as disloyal and for them this was the final straw.\n\nThere was mutterings of disciplining him but angry words only turned in to action last night.\n\nSome of Jeremy Corbyn's closest colleagues have told me they were angry that they hadn't been told of the plot to oust him and the Labour leader himself had to call off the coup.\n\nBut the incident exposes Labour's deep fault lines just ahead of an election - not just between left and right but within the left.\n\nTom Watson's anti-Brexit stance meant that the left-led TSSA union which has campaigned for Remain, rallied to the deputy leader and not Momentum's Jon Lansman.\n\nBut when the deputy leader's post is reviewed, these divisions are likely to reopen.\n\nIn the short term, Labour's strategy of denouncing the Lib Dems undemocratic over Brexit and the Conservative as intolerant towards dissenters has been shattered.\n\nMr Watson said he learned of the plot to oust him in a text message on Friday night, while in a Chinese restaurant in Manchester with his son.\n\nThe move sparked a backlash from Labour backbench MPs who said the party should be focusing on unity ahead of a possible general election.\n\nMr Corbyn later suggested the role should be reviewed instead, and his suggestion was backed by the ruling National Executive Committee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn fields reporters' questions as he arrives at the Labour party conference\n\nMr Watson said he was \"grateful\" for Mr Corbyn's statement, but said it was the chair of the NEC, Wendy Nichols, who stopped the motion.\n\nLen McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, said Mr Corbyn \"came in and calmed everybody down\".\n\n\"There is resentment because Tom, a deputy leader is supposed to support the leader in any organisation and there's a perception that Tom doesn't do that,\" he said. \"That builds up on occasion and manifests itself in frustration, but Jeremy Corbyn came in and calmed everybody down\".\n\nMeanwhile, a row has emerged over where Labour should stand on Brexit in a general election.\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said the executive is to discuss a draft plan which would commit a Labour government to negotiating a new Brexit deal in three months - and putting it to the people in a referendum against Remain within six months.\n\nBut, our correspondent added, the party would not decide its preference until after a general election - meaning Labour would go into a snap poll without saying whether it wanted to remain or leave.\n\nOn Saturday, Labour frontbenchers Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry appeared at a rally for the People's Vote campaign, which supports another referendum, and confirmed they would back Remain.\n\nSpeaking at the rally, Sir Keir said: \"It's got to go back so the public can decide. A basic question. Are you prepared to leave on the terms on offer? Or do you want to remain?\n\n\"When that time comes I will campaign for remain alongside millions people in this country.\"", "Video shows the moment the sky above the states of Tasmania and Victoria, Australia, was lit up by a meteor.\n\nExperts can't confirm the size of the meteor, which was seen at around 20:30 local time (10:30 GMT) on Friday.", "Emiliano Sala had been travelling from Nantes when the plane he was travelling in crashed into the sea\n\nThe sister of footballer Emiliano Sala has described two people who accessed images of his post-mortem as \"evil\".\n\nSherry Bray, 49, and her employee Christopher Ashford, 62, have admitted illegally accessing mortuary footage of the Argentine striker's body.\n\nRomina Sala said her family was left devastated after images began to leak on to Instagram days after his body was recovered from the English Channel.\n\nShe said: \"I cannot believe there are people so wicked and evil.\"\n\nHer comments were in a victim impact statement that was read to Swindon Crown Court during the sentencing hearing of Bray and Ashford.\n\nMs Sala, who lives in Argentina, said: \"I phoned Emiliano's agent and told him what was circulating on the internet. I called our brother, Dario, and he did not want to see the photos.\n\n\"I tried to keep images off social networks. My mother could not see those horrible photos.\"\n\nShe said it was \"sad\" because \"people were making jokes about it\".\n\n\"I'll never erase the images from my head. My brother and mother can never forget about this,\" she said.\n\n\"It's hard for me to live with this image.\"\n\nChristopher Ashford and Sherry Bray both admitted three counts of computer misuse\n\nSala had just signed for Cardiff City when the plane he was travelling in crashed into the English Channel, north of Guernsey, on 21 January.\n\nHis body was recovered on 6 February and a post-mortem examination took place at Bournemouth Borough Mortuary the following day.\n\nBray, of Corsham, and Ashford, of Calne, each admitted three counts of computer misuse in August.\n\nBray also admitted perverting the course of justice by instructing Ashford to \"delete your pics\", deleting the post-mortem cameras from the live feed camera facility and deleting the mortuary image of Mr Sala from her phone.\n\nThey will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nEmiliano Sala had just signed for Cardiff City at the time of the plane crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour should \"unequivocally back Remain\" in a fresh Brexit referendum and only then pursue power in a general election, its deputy has said.\n\nTom Watson said there was \"no such thing as a good Brexit deal\" and the 2016 Leave vote had been \"invalidated\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he did \"not accept or agree with\" his deputy's view.\n\n\"Our priority is to get a general election in order to give the people a chance to elect a government that cares for them,\" he said.\n\nThe Labour leader wants to hold another referendum once Labour has won power, in which voters would have the choice to remain in the EU alongside a \"credible\" Leave proposal.\n\nHowever, he has said he would only choose a side once the shape of any revised Brexit deal negotiated by a Labour government became clear.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent, Chris Mason, said Mr Watson was directly elected as deputy leader by party members, not appointed by Mr Corbyn, and so has a right to roam on policy other shadow cabinet ministers might not get away with it.\n\nIn a speech in London, Mr Watson said while an autumn general election seemed inevitable \"that does not make it desirable\".\n\n\"Elections should never be single issue campaigns,\" he argued, suggesting vital issues such as the future of the NHS, economic inequality and crime would be \"drowned out\" by the prime minister's \"do or die\" Brexit message.\n\n\"The only way to break the Brexit deadlock once and for all is a public vote in a referendum,\" he said. \"A general election might well fail to solve this Brexit chaos.\"\n\nIn the event of another general election in the coming months, Mr Watson said Labour must be \"crystal clear\" about where it stands on Brexit if it wants to get a hearing for the rest of its domestic policy agenda.\n\n\"There is no such thing as a good Brexit deal, which is why I believe we should advocate for Remain. That is what the overwhelming majority of Labour Party members, MPs and trade unions believe.\"\n\nMr Watson will said that, though \"very difficult\", he and many others \"respected the result of the 2016 referendum for a long time\".\n\nBut, he added: \"There eventually comes a point when circumstances are so changed, when so much new information has emerged that we didn't have in 2016, when so many people feel differently to how they felt then, that you have to say, no... the only proper way to proceed in such circumstances is to consult the people again.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who pushed Labour into third place in May's European elections with a strident anti-Brexit message, are pushing for Brexit to be stopped in its tracks by revoking Article 50 - the legal process for the UK's departure.\n\nWhile stopping short of calling for that himself, Mr Watson said it was not too late for Labour to \"win back\" Remain voters.\n\n\"My experience on the doorstep tells me most of those who've deserted us over our Brexit policy did so with deep regret and would greatly prefer to come back,\" he added.\n\n\"They just want us to take an unequivocal position that whatever happens we'll fight to remain, and to sound like we mean it.\"\n\nFormer Labour leadership contender Owen Smith said Mr Watson was speaking for \"the majority of Labour members and Labour voters\", and that the party \"should be clearing the Brexit issue off the table before we get to an election\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn committed to a referendum with a \"credible Leave option\" on Tuesday\n\nBut another Labour MP, Gareth Snell - one of a group of MPs in the party wanting to bring back an amended version of Theresa May's original withdrawal agreement - said the \"numbers simply don't exist\" in Parliament to approve a further referendum.\n\nHe told Today: \"The public have no appetite for a second referendum. The doors I knock every week… [voters] are not telling me they want to go back to the divisive referendum [but] they want a decision on this process to be taken as soon as possible.\"\n\nJust 24 hours after Jeremy Corbyn hammered out a deal with the Labour-supporting unions, his deputy, Tom Watson, shattered any fragile unity.\n\nMr Watson and many Labour activists want a clearer commitment to campaign on a Remain platform - especially during a snap election.\n\nSo, apart from his own scepticism towards an EU that he believes needs reform, what is the thinking behind Jeremy Corbyn's position?\n\nWell, it comes down to four things - psephology, party unity, politics and personal authority.\n\nUnite's Len McCluskey dismissed Mr Watson's intervention, accusing him of \"undermining\" the leadership and suggesting his views \"don't really matter\".\n\nThe two men, who used to be close friends, fell out spectacularly in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum during an uprising by Labour MPs against Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nThe union leader suggested Mr Watson was \"languishing on the fringes\" of the party, adding: \"It's sad. Now and again Tom pops up from where he has been hiding and comes up with something… which is normally to try and undermine his leader.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said Mr Watson had made it clear he wanted to \"cancel\" the 2016 Brexit referendum result.\n\nLabour has voted twice against Boris Johnson's plans for a poll on 15 October.\n\nThe party's leadership has insisted it is eager for an election after the risk of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October has been ruled out.", "Back in Brighton - the scene of Jeremy Corbyn's first conference as leader in 2015\n\nWith Brexit and a possible general election on the horizon, what will be making the headlines over the next five days and what are likely to be the main flashpoints?\n\nDelegates will vote on the party's Brexit policy on Monday\n\nLabour will want to talk about other things, but the reality is that Brexit is going to dominate much of the proceedings and the media coverage.\n\nIn the run-up to the conference, the leadership has tried hard to craft a position which it hopes can bind different groups together and minimise the potential for splits and divisions.\n\nIf he wins power, Jeremy Corbyn has said he will negotiate a new \"sensible\" Brexit deal and then put it to the people in another referendum - asking voters to decide between leaving on those terms and remaining in the European Union.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backed remain in 2016 despite being a life-long Eurosceptic, has so far resisted pressure to say which way he would campaign if there is another vote, insisting he would carry out the wishes of the people.\n\nOther senior figures have not been so coy, however, with Emily Thornberry, Sir Keir Starmer and Tom Watson all saying they would personally back Remain - and Mr Watson calling for the party to \"unequivocally\" come out in support of staying in the EU.\n\nThe Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish Labour parties are also all pro-Remain.\n\nWith the leadership and the unions much more cautious, this faultline in the party is likely to be on show ahead of a vote on its Brexit policy on Monday evening.\n\nThe final wording of the motion will not be clear until Sunday - when it will emerge from a convoluted process of sifting known as compositing - but the language will be crucial if Labour's different factions are to be kept on board.\n\nAn election is around the corner - so will the scarves come out again?\n\nLabour MPs voted against an early general election when Boris Johnson gave them the opportunity earlier this month.\n\nThe leadership says it wants a poll on its own terms and it will support one after the Brexit deadline has been extended and a no-deal exit on 31 October is ruled out.\n\nLabour badly wants power but, as everything with the party, it is not as simple as that - and the whole issue of election timing could rear its head in Brighton.\n\nSome MPs, most notably Tom Watson, want to prioritise stopping Brexit via another referendum. Others in Leave-supporting areas want to get out of the EU with a deal before going to the people.\n\nBut with the membership and unions strongly behind him, expect the Labour leader to portray himself as a prime minister in waiting in his closing speech in Wednesday.\n\nThis is the fifth time Mr Corbyn has addressed conference as leader and, as ever, his tone will be interesting. Will he seek to reach out to floating voters he will need to win a majority?\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson has been at odds with Jeremy Corbyn over Labour's stance on Brexit\n\nBefore the conference proper gets under way, a move to oust deputy leader Tom Watson has sparked outrage among senior Labour MPs.\n\nAn initial bid to abolish Mr Watson's role was made at the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Friday by the Corbyn-supporting group Momentum, but it failed to get the two-thirds majority needed.\n\nFormer Labour leader Ed Milliband gave his backing to Mr Watson, but a Momentum source told the BBC: \"We just can't afford to go into an election with a deputy leader set on wrecking Labour's chances.\"\n\nElsewhere, Labour has been in opposition for nearly a decade and, according to some opinion polls, is trailing behind Boris Johnson's Conservatives.\n\nSince last year's conference, nearly a dozen MPs have quit the party amid anger over its policy on Brexit, its record on tackling anti-Semitism and claims of bullying and factionalism.\n\nWith other MPs facing the threat of de-selection via trigger ballots, there is a sense of a growing disconnect between the party at Westminster and in the country at large.\n\nDisagreements about Labour's values and future direction are never far from the surface, as an ongoing row about the decision to disband the Labour Students movement has proved.\n\nWhile the prospect of an imminent election is likely to help unity, there could be dissent - as much over issues of political culture and the internal machinery of the party as policy.\n\nOne policy motion calls for private schools to be integrated into the state sector\n\nMoves to democratise the conference and give it a direct say in policymaking have been a running theme since Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015.\n\nMomentum, the campaign group born out of his leadership bid, has said delegates will seek to \"write\" the election manifesto and insert a host of \"radical\" ideas aimed at putting the \"people and the planet before privilege\".\n\nEach day will have a different theme - it's public services on Sunday, the economy on Monday and the climate emergency on Tuesday.\n\nBefore all that, on Saturday, there will be a vote on which motions should be debated, with the 20 most popular submitted by constituency Labour parties and affiliates going forward.\n\nSome of the more eye-catching proposals include:\n\nExpect a lot of brightly coloured clothing to be waved around as delegates seek to get called to speak.\n\nIf they do get lucky, they won't have long, as the majority of speeches will be limited to two minutes.\n\nAs an alternative to politicking - there will be football, running and aerobics on the agenda\n\nConferences are legendary for their long hours, free drink and late-night carousing, with exercise often the last thing on people's minds.\n\nLabour has always tried to do its bit to counter these stereotypes, hosting an annual football match between MPs and journalists.\n\nThis year ex-England footballer Paul Elliott will captain one of the sides while there will also be a women's match against a Lewes FC's veterans' eleven.\n\nAnd some of the party's leading lights will also be putting on their lycra elsewhere.\n\nHealth spokesman Jonathan Ashworth is doing a pier-to-pier run early on Tuesday while Tom Watson, who has chronicled his successful fight against diabetes, is taking part in an aerobics session on Wednesday to mark National Fitness Day.", "A no-deal Brexit would be damaging and difficult, says Simon Coveney\n\nThere is still a \"wide gap\" between the UK and EU in their talks about a new Brexit deal, the Irish deputy prime minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said \"everyone needs a dose of reality\" after reports had emerged that progress had been made.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, he said the EU was still waiting for \"serious proposals\" from the UK for an alternative to the Irish border backstop.\n\nThe backstop has been the key sticking point in the Brexit deal debate.\n\nIt is the controversial policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit, unless and until another solution is found.\n\nIt was a key part of the withdrawal agreement struck with the EU by former prime minister Theresa May and some MPs' opposition to the policy led to the deal being rejected three times by Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Coveney told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is still quite a wide gap between what the British government have been talking about in terms of the solutions they are proposing and what Ireland and the EU can support.\n\nHe said that while the \"mood music\" had improved they two sides were \"not close to that deal right now\".\n\n\"We've got to be honest... there are serious problems that arise because of the change in approach by the British prime minister,\" he added.\n\n\"Asking to remove a very significant section within the withdrawal agreement that solves many of the Irish issues without any serious proposals on how you solve those problems is not going to be the basis for an agreement.\"\n\nThe issue of the Irish border has been the key sticking point in the Brexit talks\n\nMr Coveney also said the Republic of Ireland \"is in no doubt what a a no-deal would mean for us\", adding that it would be \"damaging and difficult and poses huge questions\".\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay is to hold talks with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Friday.\n\nIt comes after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said a new Brexit deal could still be reached before the 31 October deadline.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he did not want to \"exaggerate progress\" but some was being made.\n\nHe has urged the EU to scrap the backstop and has insisted he wants to leave the EU - with or without a deal - by the end of October.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has suggested the North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) could have a role in finding a solution to the deadlock over the Irish border.\n\nIt is the main body for cross-border cooperation between the governments of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson suggested that new arrangements to deal with cross-border trade after Brexit could involve the NSMC.\n\nHis party has consistently opposed the backstop but has recently softened its language on the matter, saying it would be open to all-island arrangements on issues such as food standards.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nCommemorations have been held to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden during World War Two, near Arnhem in the Netherlands.\n\nThe 1944 operation saw around 35,000 allied soldiers land by parachute and gliders behind enemy lines - in a failed bid to secure bridges to open up a route into Germany.\n\nA mass parachute jump and wreath-laying ceremony on Saturday was attended by the Prince of Wales and veterans.\n\nVeteran Sandy Cortmann, 97, completed a tandem parachute jump as part of the service.", "Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked in a park near Romford, east London\n\nA 17-year-old girl collapsed in her boyfriend's arms after she was fatally stabbed, a court has heard.\n\nJodie Chesney was on a park bench with friends when she was knifed in the back in Harold Hill, east London.\n\nBoyfriend Eddie Coyle, 18, told the Old Bailey he was forced to catch Jodie as she fell to the ground after \"screaming\" out in shock.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, both from Romford, and two boys, aged 16 and 17, deny murder.\n\nGiving evidence from behind a screen, Mr Coyle said the group of friends had just started smoking cannabis when Jodie was attacked.\n\n\"She was in shock at first. She did not know what had happened,\" he said.\n\n\"She started screaming continuously, very loud, about two minutes straight.\"\n\nJodie Chesney (pictured with her boyfriend Eddie Coyle) died after being stabbed in the back\n\nMr Coyle added: \"After she stopped screaming she began to faint. At this time she was falling off the bench.\n\n\"The guys ran off. I did not really see - I was trying to catch Jodie at the time.\n\n\"I managed to catch her, put her on the floor.\n\n\"She was wearing a thick jacket so we did not know how bad the wound was at first, but there was a lot of blood.\"\n\nMr Coyle told the court he and Jodie had been going out for about three months\n\nDescribing Jodie as a \"great, funny, silly and sensible\" person, Mr Coyle told jurors she had been laughing \"one second\" before she was attacked.\n\nIt has been alleged that Mr Petrovic and Mr Ong-a-Kwie were in business selling drugs together, while the 16-year-old defendant acted as a \"runner\" for Mr Petrovic and the 17-year-old was helping Mr Ong-a-Kwie sell drugs that day.\n\nCross-examining, Sarah Forshaw QC, for Mr Petrovic, asked if the group were expecting another delivery of cannabis, after one of them had got some earlier. Mr Coyle said they were not.\n\nManuel Petrovic (left), Svenson Ong-a-Kwie (right) and two boys (behind) deny murder\n\nA 17-year-old girl, who cannot be identified, told jurors she had been sitting next to Jodie and heard the attackers walking across the grass.\n\n\"I looked around and saw a guy with a black puffer jacket and fur trimmed hood,\" she said.\n\n\"They opened up the gate and I heard this slashing noise.\"\n\nThe witness said she \"thought they were taking our bags\" but Jodie \"started to breathe really heavily\" and began to scream.\n\n\"She fell unconscious a few seconds later. When I heard the noise I looked around and I saw them run,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames says being deselected is the \"fortunes of war\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsnight, he said he had voted against the party just three times in 37 years, but joined 21 Tory MPs, including a number of ex-cabinet ministers and opposition parties to defeat the government.\n\nOpposition MPs and some Conservative rebels want to delay the UK's departure from the European Union, due at the end of October, if agreement isn't reached with Brussels.", "A breakdown of the baggage belt has also led to long queues at check-in desks\n\nPlanes have been forced to take off from Gatwick without passengers' bags after a technical fault.\n\nA breakdown of the baggage belt has also led to long queues at check-in desks at the airport's North Terminal.\n\nPassengers faced delays of more than five hours, while others have arrived at their destination without luggage.\n\nGatwick apologised for \"any inconvenience\" and said the fault had now been fixed, with luggage to be \"repatriated\" on Tuesday or Wednesday.\n\nYasmin Karabasic, who landed in Dubrovnik, Croatia, to learn her bags had been left behind, said: \"It's a bit of a nightmare.\n\n\"We got to Gatwick at 5am and it was chaos. The staff had no clue what was going on.\"\n\nPassengers are facing delays of more than five hours\n\nHaving run to meet the plane, the trainee lawyer said she had \"no idea\" her bags had not been loaded and was assured by the pilot all the luggage was on board.\n\n\"We landed and thought, can this day get any worse? Everyone was just happy we had got to the flight and made it,\" she added.\n\nMs Karabasic, from Portsmouth, said her family and about 30 other passengers - including a couple on honeymoon - appeared to have no luggage.\n\nEasyjet said bags would be returned to passengers \"as soon as possible\"\n\nHayley Rayner said on Twitter her holiday with her twin babies had been \"ruined\" after arriving in Spain to find their luggage - including car seats and baby milk - had been left behind.\n\nSue Tranter, who was due to fly at 08:00 BST, said she had been transferred to a 12:20 flight, which was then rescheduled to 14:15.\n\n\"It's a shambles. Easyjet do not seem to know what is going on and so far we have only had one employee apologise to us,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Federico Ruiz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEasyjet, which is one of the airlines affected, said in a statement: \"Any passengers who have missed flights because of the resulting congestion at bag drop are being offered free transfers to alternative flights.\n\n\"We are both working closely with the airport team to minimise the disruption and return luggage to our passengers as soon as possible.\"\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. Aidan O'Neill QC says the court and petitioners were being actively misled over prorogation plans\n\nBoris Johnson appears to have approved a plan to shut down the UK Parliament two weeks before publicly announcing it, a Scottish court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard that the prime minister was sent a note on 15 August asking if he wanted to prorogue parliament from mid-September.\n\nA tick and the word \"yes\" was written on the document.\n\nThe PM announced on 28 August that he wants to shut down Parliament for five weeks from next week.\n\nHe would then set out his legislative plans in a Queen's Speech on 14 October. The government insists this will give MPs sufficient time to debate Brexit before the UK's departure on 31 October.\n\nA cross-party group of parliamentarians headed by SNP MP Joanna Cherry and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson wants Scotland's highest civil court to rule that Mr Johnson has acted illegally and unconstitutionally by proroguing Parliament ahead of the UK leaving the EU.\n\nMr Johnson declined to give a sworn statement to the court setting out his reasons for shutting down parliament. The UK government argues that proroguing Parliament is a political decision and that the courts should not be involved.\n\nThe judge, Lord Doherty, heard from both sides in the case on Tuesday, and will deliver his ruling at 10:00 on Wednesday.\n\nBoris Johnson announced on 28 August that he wants to shut down parliament for five weeks\n\nThe parliamentarian's lawyer, Aidan O'Neill QC, told Lord Doherty that one of the documents produced in the case was a note sent by the government's director of legislative affairs, Nikki Da Costa, to the prime minister and his special advisor Dominic Cummings on 15 August.\n\nMr O'Neill said the note was headed \"ending the session\", and asked: \"Are you content for your PPS (principal private secretary) to approach the palace with the request for prorogation to begin with the period 9 September to Thursday 12 September and for the Queen's Speech on 14 October?\"\n\nBeside that paragraph was a handwritten tick and the word \"yes\", Mr O'Neill added.\n\nThe QC said: \"One presumes this is a document which was sent in the red box to the prime minister for him to read at his leisure in the evening of 15 August in which he says 'yes' to approaching the palace with a request for prorogation.\"\n\nHe added: \"That appears to be developing government policy as of 15 August, but this court was told nothing of that (by UK government lawyers) and was told in fact that this judicial review is academic, hypothetical and premature.\n\n\"That is not true. This court and these petitioners were being actively misled.\"\n\nHe also highlighted comments in a handwritten note, understood to be from Mr Johnson, which was dated 16 August and which described the September session of Parliament as a \"rigmarole introduced to show the public that MPs were earning their crust\" and that he did not see \"anything especially shocking about this proposition\".\n\nThe note also said: \"As Nikki notes, it is over the conference season so that the sitting days lost are actually very few.\"\n\nMr O'Neill said that the UK government had only sent him the notes at 22:55 on Monday - which he said was \"long past my bed time\" - after saying last week that they would not be be lodging any further documents.\n\nHe said the fact that the prime minister had declined to give a sworn affidavit to the court meant it \"can and should draw adverse inferences\".\n\nAnd he argued that Mr Johnson had chosen not to be accountable to either the court or to Parliament - and that the prime minister's intention is to facilitate a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr O'Neill is seeking an interim interdict - the Scottish equivalent of an injunction - on the proroguing of Parliament.\n\nCourt of Session case: How we got here\n\nThe UK government's lawyer, David Johnston, later argued that proroguing Parliament is a political decision for the government, rather than a legal matter for the court to decide.\n\nMr Johnston said: \"This is political territory and decision making which cannot be measured against legal standards, but rather only by political judgements which must permit a degree of flexibility according to circumstances.\"\n\nHe said the parliamentarians behind the case had claimed that MPs were being denied the opportunity to scrutinise the government to the extent that it wishes, and to pass legislation related to Brexit.\n\nBut he said Parliament would be able to sit \"for certain periods\" before 31 October, and the case was therefore \"academic\" because \"the constitutional fear that the petitioners raise has been addressed by Parliament itself, in deciding when it wishes to sit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Johnston QC tells the Court of Session prorogation is a political and not a legal matter\n\nHe also said the statute books did not set out mandatory periods when Parliament must sit, or for how long it must sit, adding: \"It simply doesn't provide a legal standard to measure whether a decision to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament is lawful or not.\"\n\nLord Advocate James Wolffe QC - Scotland's top law officer - has been given permission by the judge to take part in the hearing.\n\nMr Wolffe is expected to argue that the suspension of Parliament prevents scrutiny of the government's plans and represents an abuse of executive power.\n\nAs well as the Court of Session hearing, former prime minister Sir John Major and campaigner Gina Miller have joined forces to oppose the decision to suspend Parliament in the English courts.\n\nAnd in Northern Ireland, proceedings have been launched at the High Court in Belfast by prominent Troubles victims' campaigner Raymond McCord - who claims that leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement would be an \"unconstitutional attack on the people of Northern Ireland\"\n\nMr McCord is also seeking a ruling that the prime minister cannot \"bypass\" MPs by proroguing parliament. His case is due to call again on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does proroguing Parliament mean?\n\nParliament is normally suspended - or prorogued - for a short period before a new session begins. It is done by the Queen, on the advice of the prime minister.\n\nParliamentary sessions normally last a year, but the current one has been going on for more than two years - ever since the June 2017 election.\n\nWhen Parliament is prorogued, no debates and votes are held - and most laws that haven't completed their passage through Parliament die a death.\n\nThis is different to \"dissolving\" Parliament - where all MPs give up their seats to campaign in a general election.\n\nThe last two times Parliament was suspended for a Queen's Speech that was not after a general election the closures lasted for four and 13 working days respectively.\n\nIf this prorogation happens as expected, it will see Parliament closed for 23 working days.\n\nMPs have to approve recess dates, but they cannot block prorogation.", "Officials appear to have dismissed having mobile food standards checks away from the Irish border\n\nThe prime minister has suggested he is open to an all-Ireland food standards zone as part of a solution to replace the Brexit backstop.\n\nFood standards are one of the most difficult border issues.\n\nThat is due to strict EU rules that say products from a non-member state must be checked at the point of entry.\n\nIf Northern Ireland was to align with the Republic of Ireland, it would effectively continue to follow EU rules.\n\nThat would mean that some food products coming from elsewhere in the UK would be subject to new checks and controls at Northern Ireland ports.\n\nIt came as Boris Johnson faced MPs in the Commons ahead of a showdown over Brexit.\n\nIn a blow to the prime minister, Tory rebels and opposition MPs defeated the government in the first stage of their attempt to pass a law designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson has said he will visit Dublin on Monday to meet Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe prime minister said he wants to discuss the issue with the EU, and during the meeting with Mr Varadkar next week.\n\nWould an all-island food standards zone be the backstop by another name?\n\nThe backstop would involve Northern Ireland following a range of single market rules beyond food and agriculture.\n\nThere's also the question of consent by unionist parties in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe prime minister said an all-island arrangement would have to \"clearly enjoy the consent of all parties and institutions with an interest\".\n\nThat suggests unionists would have to be convinced that the governance of such an arrangement would give them a greater say than have under the current backstop.\n\nAnd remember, the backstop is only supposed to be temporary.\n\nWould this food standards zone be intended as a permanent arrangement, just like the existing all-island animal health zone?\n\nMr Johnson said he recognises that \"for reasons of geography and economics, agrifood is increasingly managed on a common basis across the island\".\n\nHe told the Commons: \"We are ready to find ways forward that recognises this reality, provided it clearly enjoys the consent of all parties and institutions with an interest.\"\n\nThat suggests any arrangement would need to have the support of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and other unionists.\n\nDUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds told BBC Newsline that the party would be \"willing to sit down and look at what Boris is looking at and what can be done\".\n\n\"We want to get a deal provided it's within the parameters of ensuring that it's not economically and constitutionally injurious to the union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nThe island of Ireland is already a single zone for animal health, which means all livestock coming into Northern Ireland from Great Britain is checked on entry.\n\nIf it was also to be a single zone for food standards, it would mean that some products coming from elsewhere in the UK would be subject to new checks and controls at Northern Ireland ports.\n\nEarlier this week, a leaked government document suggested an all-Ireland food standards zone is being considered as part of a solution to replace the Brexit backstop.\n\nThe document states that alignment of standards between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is seen as \"one of the most practical, deliverable and negotiable facilitations\".\n\nLivestock that enters Northern Ireland from Great Britain is checked on entry\n\nHowever, it cautions that such an arrangement comes with many of the same political challenges as the backstop.\n\nIn relation to the document, a government spokesperson declined to comment.\n\n\"We have been clear that we stand ready to negotiate in good faith an alternative to the backstop, with provisions to ensure that the Irish border issues are dealt with where they should always have been, in the negotiations on the future agreement between the UK and the EU,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We have likewise always said that these issues will require a package of measures addressing different customs and regulatory aspects, rather than just one single solution.\"\n\nThe backstop is a position of last resort to prevent the hardening of the Irish border in the absence of other solutions.\n\nIt would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market and the whole of the UK forming a \"temporary single customs territory\" with the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has said the backstop cannot form part of any Brexit deal.\n\nMeanwhile, DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was now an inevitability about a general election in the coming weeks after Mr Johnson's government lost its working majority.\n\nOn Tuesday night, the Commons voted 328 to 301 to take control of the agenda, meaning they can bring forward a bill seeking to delay the UK's exit date.\n\nIn response, the prime minister said he would bring forward a motion for an early general election.\n\n\"If the general election is forced because of Brexit, then inevitably Brexit is going to be front and centre in the election,\" Sir Jeffrey said.", "Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg was accused of being contemptuous for reclining across the seats in the chamber.", "Up to 380 jobs could be lost at the plant\n\nHundreds of jobs could go with the closure of a Tata steel plant in Newport.\n\nThere has been a factory at the site since 1898 but Orb Electrical Steels has not been in profit for four years.\n\nUp to 380 jobs could go although Tata hope to offer jobs elsewhere in Wales.\n\nThe factory, which makes electrical steel used in power transmission, was put up for sale in May 2018, with Tata wanting to concentrate on its core steel business.\n\nTata Steel's European operations head Henrik Adam said: \"I recognise how difficult this news will be for all those affected and we will work very hard to support them.\"\n\nUnions said Tata - which employs nearly 6,000 workers in Wales - was breaking its commitments over job guarantees.\n\nOrb Electrical Steels is part of Tata's Cogent division, part of which is being sold to the Japanese steel company JFE Shoji Trade Corporation.\n\nTata is also closing its Wolverhampton Engineering Steels service centre, with up to 26 jobs at risk.\n\nTata said it would have cost £50m to upgrade the Orb site to make it competitive\n\nThe Orb site makes electrical steel used in generators, transformers, motors and magnetic products, including for the car industry.\n\nBut the sector has been suffering from over-capacity over the last 10 years, and struggling to compete in particular with big volume producers in China.\n\n\"This business is the smallest volume electrical steel manufacturer in the world - and we've only been able to make a profit in two of the last 10 years and no profit in the last four years,\" Tor Farquhar, Tata Steel Europe's HR director, told BBC Wales.\n\nMeanwhile, converting the Orb plant would have cost Tata more than £50m.\n\nMr Adam added: \"Continuing to fund substantial losses at Orb Electrical Steels is not sustainable at a time when the European steel industry is facing considerable challenges.\"\n\nBut he said workers would be offered alternative employment at other Tata sites in Wales where possible and consultations with staff and unions would start shortly.\n\nPaul Horton, a Community union official at the plant, said there had been an agreement for no compulsory job losses until 2021\n\nOne of the plant's union officials Paul Horton, who has nearly 37 years experience, said it would mean a loss of well-paid jobs in the area, with workers earning up to £40,000, with overtime on top.\n\n\"We weren't expecting anything this severe, this quickly,\" he said. \"We understand the business has been struggling but there has been no inkling of this happening over the last few weeks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jason Sims, Matthew Grande and Paul Spencer have 55 years experience at Orb behind them\n\nJason Sims, who has worked at the plant for 13 years, said: \"It's sad news. Everyone's in a bit of shock at the moment, trying to take it in.\"\n\nHe said there was a lot of uncertainty whether there would be offers of work in Port Talbot or Llanwern.\n\nMatthew Grande said news had been leaking out since Sunday and they had to work with a \"massive cloud hanging over our heads. We're gutted and devastated to be honest with you\".\n\nHe said it was like a family firm, with everyone knowing each other and \"more or less growing up together\".\n\nPaul Spencer, with 22 years at the plant behind him, said he hoped there would be jobs at the end of it. \"There have been rumours for about 12 months on and off, but when go to the meeting this morning, it's real, your stomach sinks.\"\n\nUnite's Tata official Tony Brady said Orb's closure would be a \"body blow\" for the economy of Wales.\n\n\"Unite will be fighting for every job and holding Tata Steel's feet to the fire over assurances that workers affected by today's announcement will be redeployed.\"\n\nHe said the union would not sit back and allow \"decent well-paid jobs and irreplaceable skills to go to the wall\".\n\nRoy Rickhuss of the Community steelworkers' union called it \"shocking\" news which \"makes a mockery of the understanding we reached with Tata around the jobs guarantee\".\n\n\"There has been no consultation about this proposal either at UK or European level and company management should hang their heads in shame in the way this has come about,\" he said.\n\n\"This is of course extremely devastating news for workers at the Orb, but all Tata Steel workers should be concerned by the way Tata is breaking its commitments.\"\n\nThe Newport transporter bridge was opened in 1906 to help workers reach the plant\n\nThere has been steelmaking on the Newport site since 1898, when the old Lysaght company moved from Wolverhampton.\n\nThe famous city landmark, the transporter bridge, was built a few years later to carry workers across to the works.\n\nIt eventually became part of British Steel and then European Electrical Steels in 1991.\n\nCogent took over in 2001.\n\nThere have been concerns for the future of Tata's Cogent operation for a few months, ever since it was put up for sale.\n\nCogent had been put up for sale by Tata in May last year after the Indian owners had decided to concentrate on its core steel production business, as it planned to merge with the German company Thyssenkrupp.\n\nGiven Cogent's specialism, it was hoped that a buyer could be found, but unions said at the time they were not persuaded by the case for a sale.\n\nThey had privately been growing increasingly concerned about the future of the plant. This decision could set Tata and the unions on an even bigger collision course.\n\nAs part of the unions' agreement to support less generous pensions, they believe Tata committed to no compulsory redundancies until 2026.\n\nTata has always maintained that it committed to try to avoid compulsory redundancies.\n\nUnions could see this as breaching a commitment to its entire Welsh workforce, and industrial action could be possible, they say.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said he stressed the importance in talks with the company of avoiding compulsory redundancies.\n\n\"The Welsh Government will now do everything it can to support individuals, the community and the supply chain affected by this announcement,\" he added.\n\n\"Today's news clearly demonstrates the fragility of the global steel market and the UK government must now step up and broaden its approach to supporting the industry, including its supply chain, across the whole of the UK.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was in regular contact with the company, unions and other partners and was taking \"wide-ranging action to support the industry\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have a long and proud history of steelmaking excellence and the UK government is committed to supporting a modern and vibrant steel sector.\"\n\nNewport East MP Jessica Morden said job losses would be \"devastating news\" for workers and families.\n\n\"What is particularly tragic is that this, the only UK plant with the potential to produce electric steels for motors and with investment, vision and government backing this could be the key part of the supply chain for electric vehicles,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPlaid Cymru's economy spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth AM said the closure was \"devastating\" and he wanted the Welsh and UK governments to investigate all possible interventions.\n\n\"I've repeatedly called for a major summit on Wales' economic future,\" he said.\n\n\"This is further evidence of why it's more important than ever to have the clearest possible focus on the threats facing us, and the opportunities that need to be sought out at this time of unprecedented uncertainty.\"\n\nConservative business minister Russell George AM, called the news \"incredibly disappointing\" and \"a terrible blow to the region and its supply links\".", "Transport Minister Grant Shapps says he will keep an \"open mind\" over the future of the HS2 high-speed railway until another review into the project is complete.\n\nThe review will be chaired by Douglas Oakervee, a civil engineer and former chairman of HS2.", "MPs have voted to take control of parliamentary business, in a blow to Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe vote was won by 328 to 301. Twenty-one Conservative MPs voted for the motion, defying their own party.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe vote gives MPs the chance to introduce a law postponing the UK's departure from the European Union until 31 January, if by 19 October MPs have not approved a new deal or voted in favour of a no-deal exit.\n\nAfter the vote, Downing Street said those Tory MPs who rebelled would have the whip removed, effectively expelling them from the parliamentary party. Earlier in the day Conservative MP, Phillip Lee, joined the Liberal Democrats meaning the government lost its working majority.", "Claire Mercer said she plans to sue Highways England for corporate manslaughter over her husband's death\n\nThe widow of a man killed on a \"smart motorway\" plans to sue Highways England for corporate manslaughter.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, died on 7 June on the M1 near Sheffield, where the hard shoulder is now an active lane.\n\nHe was involved in a minor collision but when he and the other driver got out to exchange details they were hit by a lorry. Both died at the scene.\n\nHis widow, Claire Mercer, said Highways England must reconsider using hard shoulders as live lanes.\n\nThe other driver was 22-year-old Alexandru Murgeanu from Mansfield.\n\nSmart motorways are controlled by computers which constantly monitor the road and can change the speed limit on their own\n\nMs Mercer, from Rotherham, said she \"fell to the floor\" when a police officer told her her husband was dead.\n\nTwo months later she is calling on Highways England to outlaw all-lane running and bring back hard shoulders.\n\n\"Highways England failed in their duty of care to my husband and several other people and I'm encouraging others to take the same path as me,\" she said.\n\n\"I want the whole [smart motorway] system stopping with immediate effect while independent bodies analyse the facts.\"\n\nMs Mercer said the system of replacing motorway hard shoulders with live traffic lanes should stop while independent bodies \"analyse the facts\"\n\nJason Mercer and three others have died in the past year between junction 31 and 35 of the M1 where there is no hard shoulder.\n\nSixteen miles of the M1 in South Yorkshire, between Meadowhall and Woodall, have had the hard shoulder replaced every mile or so by a refuge area.\n\nHighways England said overhead gantries advise drivers to move away from a blocked lane.\n\nBut vehicles can become stranded in live running lanes if they are not near a refuge area when they have to stop.\n\nThere are two types of Smart motorway in the UK. The first is where the hard shoulder is opened to traffic when it's really busy, often cutting speed limits at the same time.\n\nThey've been around since 2006 and statistics show they ease congestion and cut accidents, because it's easier to control the traffic. Sensors in the road detect how busy the motorway is and overhead gantries with matrix signs attached declare when the hard shoulder is open.\n\n\"All-lane running\" is different. It's where the hard shoulder is open all the time, effectively converting a three lane motorway into a four lane one.\n\nFor the government it's a cheaper way of increasing road capacity without completely rebuilding a motorway, which would involve widening bridges and junctions.\n\nBut a report from the Transport Select Committee in 2016 called for a halt to \"all-lane running\" schemes, saying there are major safety concerns.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"all-lane running\" was designed to be as safe as ordinary motorways.\n\nClaire Mercer said she \"fell to the floor\" when she was told her husband Jason had died\n\nHe said the UK's motorways are among the very safest roads in the world, and the latest generation of smart motorways have reduced casualty rates by over 25%.\n\n\"We will continue to evaluate all lane running schemes and work closely with all the emergency services to ensure safety is maintained,\" Highways England said.\n\n\"Evidence shows where all-lane running has been introduced, there have been fewer collisions and congestion has reduced despite an increased number of vehicles using them.\"\n\nA 39-year-old man from Hull was arrested over the collision and has been released on bail pending further enquiries.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Designer of Dreams featured more than 200 rare haute couture garments\n\nAn exhibition dedicated to fashion house Christian Dior has broken the V&A's attendance record, attracting almost 595,000 people in seven months.\n\nA total of 594,994 visitors came to see the London exhibition, which ran from 2 February and 1 September this year.\n\nThe V&A's Alexander McQueen exhibition had held the record, having attracted more than 480,000 visitors in 2015.\n\nHowever, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty did run for two months less than Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The exhibition closed on Sunday, seven weeks later than originally scheduled\n\nThe Victoria and Albert Museum's Dior exhibition traced the history and impact of the brand from 1947 to the present day.\n\nThe exhibit was comprised of more than 500 objects that ranged from accessories and garments to Dior's personal possessions.\n\nIn his five-star review, the BBC's Will Gompertz called the \"fantastic\" show \"an unashamed celebration of Dior's joie de vivre\".\n\nV&A director Tristram Hunt said the South Kensington institution had been \"overwhelmed by the phenomenal visitor response\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A full chemical attack alert was triggered after a self-styled \"Muslim Slayer\" sent fake poison to the Queen with a letter saying: \"The Clowns R Coming 4 You\", a court has heard.\n\nDavid Parnham, 36, sent similar notes to then PM Theresa May and two bishops, the Old Bailey heard on Monday.\n\nHe also sent \"Punish a Muslim Day\" hate mail, urging people to earn points by attacking and killing Muslims.\n\nHe has admitted 15 offences, and is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.\n\nThe offences relate to hundreds of letters penned between June 2016 and June 2018.\n\nParnham, from Lincoln, has admitted soliciting to murder, making hoaxes involving noxious substances and bombs, sending letters with intent to cause distress, and encouraging offences.\n\nThe hoax letter to the Queen triggered a Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) response, the court was told.\n\nRoyal household staff who handled the mail were quarantined from others for hours while experts raced to identify the substance.\n\nParnham claimed he did not recall writing to the Queen, the court heard.\n\nThe letters to Mrs May and two bishops, as well as the Home Office, in October 2016, also contained white powder and made an apparent reference to reports of attacks by people dressed as clowns.\n\nParnham also sent letters full of white powder addressed to former prime minister David Cameron, the Tory peer Lord Ahmed of Wimbledon and a number of mosques.\n\nThe letter to Mr Cameron contained the sentence \"Allah is great\", while letters to MPs and mosques contained the wording \"Paki Filth\".\n\nThe authorities were alerted to his activities in July 2016 when seven letters were intercepted at Sheffield mail centre and found to contain harmless white powder.\n\nA further 11 letters were found to have been delivered.\n\nIn March 2018, Parnham sent more than 300 letters to mosques and public figures calling for attacks in the street as part of a \"Punish a Muslim Day\".\n\nLiberal Democrat peer Lord Hussain revealed his \"total shock\" and \"fear\" at receiving one of the letters, which had been forwarded from the House of Lords to his home address while he was unwell.\n\n\"As I read it for the first time I felt total shock at its contents as well as fear, not only for myself but for my family, my home and all other Muslims,\" he wrote in a victim impact statement read out in court.\n\n\"I have lived in this country for 47 years and have never before seen or read anything like this,\" he added.\n\nIn December 2016, Parnham wrote a fan letter to Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who shot nine black parishioners dead in Charleston, South Carolina.\n\nHe told Roof: \"I just wanted to thank you for opening my eyes. Ever since you carried out what I'd call the 'cleansing' I've felt differently about what you'd call 'racial awareness'.\"\n\nLetters were also sent to various mosques and Islamic centres in February 2017.\n\nA letter to Berkeley Street Mosque in Hull contained a drawing of a sword with a swastika on it cutting someone's head off, with the words \"You are going to be slaughtered very soon\".\n\nThe author signed off as \"Muslim Slayer\".\n\nIn March 2017, letters were sent to addresses around the University of Sheffield campus calling for the extermination of minority racial and religious groups.\n\nThey included tips on how to kill people and an offer to make a charity donation of £100 for each death.\n\nAs he appeared in court for a sentencing hearing, a psychiatrist revealed Parnham did not regret his actions and did not consider them \"particularly serious\".\n\nDr Martin Lock said: \"He told me if he went to prison it would be one to two years.\"\n\nAlthough Parnham was on the autistic spectrum, Dr Lock said he was not psychotic, and expressed concern that the defendant had attempted to \"mislead\" medical professionals.\n\nParnham, of St Andrew's Close in Lincoln, was caught through DNA, handwriting and fingerprints on the letters.\n\nHe refused to answer any questions when he was arrested in June last year.\n\nJudge Anthony Leonard QC indicated that he would complete sentencing on Tuesday.", "A judge will rule on whether Boris Johnson's plan to shut down the UK Parliament for five weeks ahead of Brexit is lawful.\n\nThe case was brought to the Court of Session in Edinburgh by a cross-party group of 75 parliamentarians, who argued the PM exceeded his powers.\n\nThe government said the issue should be a political, rather than a legal, one.\n\nLord Doherty heard submissions from both sides on Tuesday, and will deliver his ruling on Wednesday morning.", "The Bahamas suffers massive destruction as Hurricane Dorian batters the islands relentlessly. Matt Taylor has an update", "The Duke of Sussex flew commercially to the event in Amsterdam\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has defended his use of private jets, saying he occasionally needs to ensure his family is safe.\n\nSpeaking at the launch of an eco-tourism project in Amsterdam, Prince Harry added that he balances out the impact this has on the environment.\n\nThe duke and his wife Meghan have faced criticism after newspapers claimed they flew privately four times in 11 days this summer.\n\nPrince Harry said he flew to the event on Tuesday commercially.\n\nAt the launch of Travalyst, aimed at encouraging the tourism industry to become more sustainable, the duke was asked about his travel behaviour.\n\n\"I came here by commercial. I spend 99% of my life travelling the world by commercial,\" he said.\n\n\"Occasionally there needs to be an opportunity based on a unique circumstance to ensure that my family are safe - it's generally as simple as that.\"\n\nDuring his opening speech, the duke said \"no one is perfect\" in terms of his impact on the environment.\n\nQuestions have been asked about the royal couple's use of private jets and their impact following their support of environmental causes.\n\nPrince Harry has previously spoken about the importance of tackling climate change.\n\nIn September's edition of Vogue - edited by Meghan - the prince spoke about environmental issues and his love for nature, saying: \"We are the one species on this planet that seems to think that this place belongs to us, and only us.\"\n\nThe Sussexes came under fire over the summer after taking a private flight to the home of singer Sir Elton John, in Nice.\n\nSir Elton defended the royal couple, saying he provided them with his private plane to \"maintain a high level of much-needed protection\".\n\nHe also said he paid to carbon offset their trip to his French home.\n\nCarbon offsetting allows passengers to pay extra to help compensate for the carbon emissions produced from their flights.\n\nThe money is then invested in environmental projects - such as planting trees or installing solar panels - which reduce carbon dioxide in the air by the same amount.\n\nThe duke said that what is important is \"what we do to balance out\" negative effects.\n\nHe went on to say that he has always offset his carbon emissions and will continue to do so.\n\n\"In my mind it's the right thing to do and we need to make it cool,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to connect people to where that little bit of extra money is actually going.\"\n\nPrince Harry has spent three years working on the project alongside five co-founders - Booking.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, TripAdvisor and Visa.\n\nHe hopes it will improve conservation, environmental protection and help increase the economic benefits of tourism for local communities.\n\nFigures from accounts published in June show the royal household's carbon emissions due to business travel almost doubled last year.\n\nThe increase was put down to the use of chartered flights for more overseas visits, which are planned by the Foreign Office.\n\nHowever, emissions savings from greener heating and lighting meant the household's overall carbon footprint stayed around the same as the previous year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will miss a planned summit on the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest to prepare for surgery, an aide has said.\n\nThe operation will be the far-right leader's fourth after he was stabbed in the stomach during his presidential election campaign in 2018.\n\nBrazil may send a representative in his place or ask for the summit to be postponed, the spokesman said.\n\nMore than 80,000 fires have broken out in the Amazon rainforest this year.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has drawn intense domestic and international criticism for failing to protect the region, which is a vital carbon store that slows the pace of global warming.\n\nEnvironmentalists blame policies enacted by the Brazilian president for the 77% increase in fires this year compared with the same period in 2018. They say he has encouraged cattle farmers to clear vast swathes of the rainforest since his election.\n\nThe controversial leader was elected to the presidency in October 2018, a month after he was stabbed at a campaign rally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis surgery is to correct an incisional hernia and is his fourth operation since the attack.\n\nThe surgery is scheduled for Sunday, and Mr Bolsonaro must start a liquid diet on Friday - the day of the regional conference in Colombia. Doctors said he would need 10 days of rest after the treatment.\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside his official residence, the president vowed on Monday to defend his Amazon policy \"even in a wheelchair\" at a UN General Assembly meeting on 24 September.\n\n\"I will appear because I want to talk about the Amazon,\" he said.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has accused other nations of colonialism for offering $20 million to help tackle the fires.", "MPs now carry on with their usual business - in this case presenting public petitions to the House.\n\nOver in the House of Lords, peers are still voting on amendments to the business motion which aims at ensuring the no-deal bill has time to become law before the suspension of Parliament.\n\nThey are currently discussing amendment 2C but there are over 100 to get through.\n\nBBC parliamentary correspondent Mark D'arcy says: \"There is talk of them talking til they drop to get through all these amendments so they can then deal with the bill.\n\n\"It is not going very fast.\n\n\"There are attempts to get behind-the-scenes talks going but the government seems prepared to just talk it out.\n\n\"The bill may have a rather bumpy ride.\"", "The government and HS2 knew that the new high speed railway was over budget and was probably behind schedule years ago, documents seen by the BBC show.\n\nCrucially, the documents were written in 2016, before MPs had signed off the first phase of the project.\n\nIt is evidence that both the public and Parliament were not given the full picture about the true cost.\n\nThe Department for Transport said: \"Like all major, complex projects delivery plans evolve over time.\"\n\n\"We regularly keep Parliament and members of the public updated on the progress of the project,\" the DfT added.\n\nHS2 Ltd is a public company, set up to build a new high-speed line linking London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is funded by the taxpayer.\n\nThe line was due to be built in two phases, beginning with a new railway linking London and the West Midlands.\n\nThis would be followed by a second phase taking services from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds.\n\nPhase one of the development was due to open at the end of 2026, with the second phase scheduled for completion by 2032-33.\n\nIn total, the railway was supposed to cost £55.7bn.\n\nEarlier this month, the government said it planned to review the costs and benefits of the rail project, with a \"go or no-go\" decision by the end of the year.\n\nBut until recently, ministers and bosses at HS2 have insisted everything was on track.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HS2: How much work has already been done?\n\nOnly last month, the Transport Minister, Nusrat Ghani MP, who is now a government whip, told Parliament \"confidently\" that the programme would be delivered on budget and on time.\n\n\"There is only one budget for HS2 and it is £55.7bn,\" she said.\n\nBut the documents obtained by BBC News show that at least three years ago both the government and HS2 knew that wasn't the case.\n\nIn May 2016, then Chancellor George Osborne received a letter from Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary at the time, in which he admitted that the first stretch of the railway was already a billion pounds over budget.\n\nThe budget for phase one of HS2, linking London to Birmingham, is £24bn.\n\nThe £1bn overspend did not include a realistic estimate for land and property costs\n\nHowever a former HS2 director told the BBC that the £1bn overspend was considered, at the time, to be \"a very conservative estimate\".\n\n\"Internally the teams knew it was a lot higher than that,\" he added.\n\nThe £1bn overspend is worse than it first seems because it did not include a realistic estimate for how much the land and property needed to build the railway would cost.\n\nThe estimate for land and property which HS2 was using at the time for the London-Birmingham stretch was £2.8bn.\n\nThe consultancy firm PwC found that \"fundamental parts\" of that estimate had been calculated in an \"ad-hoc manner\", according to a report seen by the BBC.\n\nThe plan has attracted fierce criticism from some of those living on the intended route\n\nAnd two senior figures who worked in the Land and Property department at HS2 from August 2015 to April 2016 calculated that, in reality, the true cost was £4.8bn.\n\nThat would have added a further £2bn, taking the total overspend at the time on phase one of the project to at least £3bn.\n\nThe May 2016 letter to George Osborne also shows that a one-year delay to the opening of phase one was already being considered as it could \"bring cost savings\".\n\nCost was, in the words of the then transport secretary, \"a significant challenge\".\n\nThe letter also reveals that, at that time, HS2 failed a critical hurdle called Review Point One.\n\nAccording to a former HS2 director that \"was like saying it wasn't fit for purpose\".\n\nThe BBC has also obtained a Department for Transport briefing note labelled as \"confidential\", written in December 2016.\n\nThe document acknowledges that even with planned savings \"a significant gap to target price will remain\".\n\nAnd it says, following alterations to the scheme, phase one of HS2 would need to open a year late.\n\nThe situation has become a lot worse since the two documents were written.\n\nLast month, a leaked letter suggested that HS2 could be up to £30bn over its budget.\n\nHS2 platforms in Manchester Piccadilly would be covered by a folded roof\n\nBut in December of last year, HS2's chief executive, Mark Thurston, was still insisting everything was fine.\n\n\"We're confident we have a good estimate for the first phase,\" he told BBC Panorama.\n\n\"We are not over budget.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport memo also states that there is a relatively small chance that the stretch of the railway, linking Birmingham to Crewe, which is known as phase 2a, would be delivered on time.\n\nIt puts the probability of that happening at a mere 35%.\n\nThe Crewe to Birmingham stretch is due to run trains from December 2027.\n\nSome commuters hope that HS2 could reduce overcrowding on trains\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, HS2 Ltd said it had \"provided regular updates on the project\".\n\nIt said there had been \"extensive scrutiny\" from the National Audit Office and Parliamentary Committees.\n\nAnd it said that chief executive Mark Thurston had \"spoken publicly for some time about the cost pressures facing the project\".\n\nMr Thurston was appointed as HS2's chief executive in March 2017.\n\nHis predecessor, Simon Kirby, said during his tenure HS2 Ltd \"operated fully transparently in respect of the Department for Transport who were kept fully appraised of all relevant information on the cost and timetable of the project\".\n\nThe new Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, is due to provide Parliament with a full update on the project next week.", "That's all from Holyrood Live today, Tuesday 3 September.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to demand Holyrood be given the power to hold a second independence referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon confirmed to MSPs that she would \"seek agreement to the transfer of power that will put the referendum beyond legal challenge\".\n\nAs she unveiled her government's plans for the year, she said the parliament had a clear, democratic mandate.\n\nThe first minister's speech also detailed the 14 bills and other measures the Scottish government intends to bring forward over the next year.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Opposition to Mr Johnson has made unlikely political allies\n\nIt doesn't take long to find outrage around here - genuine or confected.\n\nThat's been the case for as long as the arguments about Brexit have been raging, longer than many of us might care to remember.\n\nBut, as one senior minister suggested tonight, for the rebels ranged against Boris Johnson next week, being angry about the time they have at hand isn't going to achieve their goals. \"The thing for them is not to be outraged, it's to change the law.\"\n\nWithin days we will know if the MPs who are implacably opposed to leaving the EU without a deal can really do that.\n\nWith lots of former ministers on the backbenches, the group which is openly fighting against the possibility of leaving the EU without a deal has a different complexion.\n\nAnd the opposition parties, including the Labour leadership, now appear fully engaged in next week's plan.\n\nThis is a big, powerful and diverse group, rather than a handful of experienced backbenchers doing their best to get huge numbers of MPs on side.\n\nThe strange political rainbow that is the loose rebel alliance now ranges from Conservatives like Philip Hammond at one end, all the way through to Jeremy Corbyn on the other - from dark blue to dark red, taking in yellow, green and all sorts of other shades in the middle.\n\nBrexit continues to do weird things to the shape of our politics.\n\nThey are united in a determination to make it impossible for the prime minister ever to take us out of the EU if he hasn't been able to agree a new deal with the EU, or get one that's approved by Parliament.\n\nIt's a broadly held fear that leaving without formal arrangements in place could cause havoc - politically, and for the economy.\n\nBut given Boris Johnson's main reason for success in the Tory leadership election was to leave the EU whatever it takes at the end of October, it is a pretty major goal for a group of backbenchers and opposition politicians.\n\nIt's not just a demand to tweak a policy here or there, but to put a block on a vital part of the new PM's plan.\n\nTo do it, they are essentially trying to pull off the same trick as before, when, breaking convention, Yvette Cooper - along with other former ministers like Nick Boles and Oliver Letwin - led an unprecedented charge.\n\nUsing emergency procedures, MPs took control of what gets voted on and discussed in the Commons, and passed - by only one vote - a measure to force Theresa May to delay Brexit, rather than leave with no deal.\n\nYou can read more about it here for a refresher.\n\nIn truth Mrs May was, by then, extremely unlikely to leave without a deal, so it was dramatic and important, but much less politically charged than what we'll see next week.\n\nBecause the prime minister this time is openly committed to taking us out, whatever happens, in two months' time.\n\nTalking to MPs involved this time, the plan is \"well evolved\", but there are still live discussions about the exact wording this time round.\n\nI'm told the length of any extension and the kind of deadline they might seek to apply are still under consideration, the dates are very fluid and very sensitive.\n\nOne of those involved, Chris Leslie, told us today the vote might just in fact be to force Mr Johnson to give Parliament a vote on authorising a no-deal departure so it was not a decision he could make on his own.\n\nHe said: \"By the time we get to Tuesday there will be, I believe, a proposal to put in protections against crashing out with no deal.\n\n\"That could mean we simply ensure that the House of Commons has to authorise whatever happens after 31 October. It may well be that there is a requirement on the prime minister to extend beyond.\"\n\nMr Leslie is confident that the group will have enough support. But others are not so sure.\n\nFormer Justice Secretary David Gauke - whose name has given the new Tory rebels the nickname of the 'Gaukeward squad' (don't blame me, it wasn't my gag to start with) - is one of those.\n\nHe told us today that \"there is no guarantee\", even though he fears next week might be the \"last chance\" if Parliament is going to assert itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClearly there are plenty of newly emboldened Conservatives, freed from the constraints of government, who are ready and willing to vote against their leader next week.\n\nBut remember, it's not just about them, but the opposition parties too.\n\nAlthough the Labour leadership seems nailed on to back the effort, they can't be sure all of their MPs will follow that line.\n\nAs ever, there are nerves among MPs about going against their constituents. There are some Labour MPs who hate the idea of leaving the EU, and no deal, but do not want to be seen to be part of stopping it happening, or creating yet another delay.\n\nWith numbers pretty tight, their decisions next week will be vital. One of the MPs who has been galvanizing the effort told me \"the most important determinant is whether Labour MPs with constituencies that voted Leave can be persuaded.\"\n\nThat MP guessed that if more than 20 Labour MPs vote against or abstain when it comes to the votes, then the attempt overall will fail.\n\nThere is also the simple question of whether there is enough time on the clock to get it done, including whizzing through the House of Lords.\n\nThe sleeping bags are on standby for the possibility of all-night sittings.\n\nSome MPs may try to insist they hold votes and debates all through the weekend to get it done.\n\nThere is a sense in some parts of government that Number 10 might actually relish this fight.\n\nIt's a chance for Mr Johnson's backers to make the already familiar case that he's on the side of people who just want what they voted for, and who don't want to be messed around any more by pesky Parliamentarians.\n\nBut ministers will fight hard to win next week for if they lose, it's a big rock in the prime minister's road to getting Brexit done. Whether Number 10 would ultimately pay any attention is a different question for another day.\n\nStand by, though, for the first huge showdown between the new prime minister and Parliament.\n\nThe Commons officially opens again for business next Tuesday at 14:30 BST. A key figure involved told me to get this going, \"I'll be there at 2.31pm\".\n\nThe strange political family fighting Mr Johnson doesn't have much time to lose, and a huge argument to try to win.", "The pound has made gains on currency markets after Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his majority in the House of Commons.\n\nTory MP Phillip Lee's defection to the Liberal Democrats lifted sterling to above $1.20 and €1.10.\n\nEarlier, the pound had touched its lowest level since October 2016 before recovering to erase the day's losses.\n\nRebel Tories and Labour MPs want to pass a bill to stop the UK leaving the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nNo 10 has threatened a snap general election on 14 October if MPs succeed in seizing control of Commons business.\n\nAddressing Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Johnson that if they managed to block a no-deal exit, it would \"destroy any chance of negotiating a new deal\".\n\nThe bill would force the prime minister to ask for Brexit to be delayed until 31 January, unless MPs had approved a new deal, or voted in favour of a no-deal exit, by 19 October.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson, the government has toughened its stance on a no-deal Brexit, which it has said is \"now a very real prospect\".\n\nExcluding the so called \"flash crash\" in October 2016, when the pound briefly fell sharply to $1.15 against the dollar before rapidly rebounding, the pound has not traded regularly below $1.20 since 1985.\n\nThe pound was trading at about $1.50 against the dollar before the EU referendum in June 2016.\n\nJane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank, told the BBC's Today programme that while anything that made a no-deal Brexit less likely would boost sterling, an election would have the opposite effect.\n\n\"Currencies, as a rule, do not like uncertainty. The idea is that there could of course be a no-deal Brexit, which investors do not like. They do not like the idea of the uncertainty or the potential chaos that that could bring,\" she said.\n\n\"If the members of Parliament do manage to block a no-deal Brexit at the end of next month, then that is likely to push sterling up,\" Ms Foley added.\n\n\"That said, political uncertainty and a general election will likely push sterling down.\n\nPolitical earthquakes inevitably cause tremors in the currency markets. After all, the value of the currency broadly reflects the faith investors have in the prospects of a country. And with the City just a mile or two from Westminster, it's physically impossible for traders to ignore the turmoil.\n\nBut do wobbles on foreign exchange markets matter to the rest of us? They do - and perhaps more than we want to know. A weaker pound, of course, makes holidaying abroad more expensive (but cheaper for overseas tourists to visit the UK).\n\nBut it also makes imports dearer, bumping up the cost of our shopping list. Take food, for instance. About half of what we eat comes from overseas. The pound has fallen over 10% against the euro and about 20% against the dollar since 2016.\n\nBig companies tend to try to insure or \"hedge\" against currency movements, but within a matter of a few months, those changes in price tend to feed through. It's enough to make everyday staples or impulse buys feel a bit more like little luxuries.", "Greek police said the collision occurred in Halkidiki, northern Greece\n\nA British man has died following a collision in Greece.\n\nGreek police said an unknown vehicle struck two pedestrians in Halkidiki, a region in the north, shortly before 20:30 local time (18:30 BST) on Sunday.\n\nA 57-year-old British man was killed and his wife, aged 58, was injured following the incident in Kallithea. The woman, from the UK, remains in hospital in Polygyros.\n\nLocal media reports say a car sped away from the scene following the crash.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign Office told BBC News it was \"supporting a British family involved in a road traffic accident in Greece\".\n\nHe added: \"We are also in contact with the tour operator and Greek authorities.\"", "The Commons was bursting at the seams on Tuesday\n\nWell, that was an extraordinary day in Westminster.\n\nWe've just about recovered enough to give you a summary of the key events.\n\nWe had to wait for the biggest moment of the day, but when it came it was certainly dramatic.\n\nTo a House of Commons bursting at the seams, tellers announced that MPs desperate to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 31 October had succeeded in wresting control of business away from the government.\n\nThat means they can introduce a bill on Wednesday that would force Boris Johnson to ask for a delay to Brexit until at least 31 January 2020 rather than take the country out with no deal.\n\nThe moment of victory was greeted with cheers, clapping and a shout of \"Not a good start, Boris!\"\n\nImmediately afterwards, Mr Johnson said he would now press ahead with efforts to call a general election in October, telling the Commons: \"The people of this country will have to choose.\"\n\nAs an aside, in the middle of all of the night's drama, an image of Jacob Rees-Mogg - Leader of the Commons and voice of the government during the debate - lying down on the front bench went viral. Expect to see it quite a lot in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was Boris Johnson's last opportunity to plead with the whole House of Commons to support his Brexit stance - but within moments of taking to the despatch box, the prime minister's thunder was well and truly stolen.\n\nOne of his MPs, ex-justice minister Phillip Lee, crossed the floor to join the Liberal Democrats.\n\nIn doing so, the government's paper-thin majority became non-existent.\n\nHis decision was greeted with cheers on the opposition benches. The MP for Bracknell, who is against a no deal, said the government was \"pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways\", putting lives and livelihoods at risk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOf course, things got even worse when 21 Tory MPs rebelled against the government - Downing Street later confirmed they would be expelled from the parliamentary party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond told Today he \"is going to defend\" the party from \"incomers\" and \"entryists\"\n\nOnce derogatorily labelled \"Spreadsheet Phil\", former Chancellor Philip Hammond has gone from loyal minister to leading rebel in barely six weeks.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, he made clear just how angry he was with his party's leadership, attacking what he called the \"rank hypocrisy\" of Downing Street when it came to Brexit loyalty.\n\nHe questioned how the Tory whips could, with a straight face, threaten no-deal opponents like him with expulsion from the party given how many current ministers had previously defied Theresa May on the same issue.\n\nMr Hammond also made clear he would not be going quietly if he was indeed expelled - indeed he said Number 10 would have \"the fight of a lifetime\" on their hands.\n\n\"This is my party. I have been a member of my party for 45 years, I am going to defend my party against incomers, entryists, who are trying to turn it from a broad church into a narrow faction,\" he 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 2 by Jessica Parker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPro-EU demonstrators gathered outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nAway from Westminster, Brexit was the subject of fairly explosive court proceedings.\n\nA cross-party group of parliamentarians wants Scotland's highest civil court to rule that Boris Johnson acted illegally and unconstitutionally by suspending Parliament.\n\nOn Tuesday, the court was told that Mr Johnson appeared to have approved the controversial plan two weeks before publicly announcing it.\n\nThis certainly raised a few eyebrows, but the government's lawyer argued that suspending - or proroguing - Parliament was a political decision for the government, rather than a legal matter for the court to decide.\n\nElsewhere in matters legal, Brexit campaigner Gina Miller received a shot in the arm for her efforts to bring a similar challenge when the High Court gave former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major permission to add his weight to it.\n\nNever mind the threat to deselect any Tory MPs who rebel, the list of those taking matters into their own hands by saying they won't stand at the next election grows longer by the day.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, Justine Greening - MP for the overwhelmingly Remain-voting London constituency of Putney - said she would bow out.\n\nShe accused Mr Johnson of offering voters a \"messy\" general election that forced them to choose \"no deal or Jeremy Corbyn\", and said she believed she could be more of a force for good outside Parliament than inside it.\n\nLater in the day, well-liked and highly-respected former minister Alistair Burt followed her lead after 18 years as an MP.\n\nHe blamed \"a fundamental, and irresolvable disagreement with our party leadership on the manner in which we leave the EU.\"\n\nConservative Keith Simpson also announced he would not stand again, but blamed age - he's 70 - not Brexit.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "People gathered for a vigil after the mass shooting on Saturday\n\nThe suspected gunman in Saturday's mass shooting in Texas had been fired that morning, and called police and the FBI before his attack, US media report.\n\nOdessa Police Chief Michael Gerke reportedly said both the shooter and his company rang 911 after he was fired but he left before police arrived.\n\nFBI agent Christopher Combs described his phone statements as \"rambling\".\n\n\"This did not happen because he was fired,\" said Mr Combs. \"He showed up to work enraged.\"\n\nSeven people were killed and at least 22 injured in the attack, which came four weeks after another gunman killed 22 people in the Texas city of El Paso.\n\nAuthorities have named the suspected attacker as 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator. Chief Gerke said he had worked at Journey Oilfield Services.\n\nThere is as yet not thought to be any link to domestic or international terrorism.\n\nPolice pulled over the gunman's vehicle shortly after 15:00 local time (20:00 GMT) between the cities of Midland and Odessa after the car did not indicate a left turn.\n\nThe shooter then fired at the officers before driving towards Odessa. He shot at random, targeting motorists and passers-by, before officers killed him outside a cinema.\n\nAt least 22 people were wounded, including 17-month-old girl Anderson Davis. A family friend told Buzzfeed News the child \"has a hole in her bottom lip, a hole in her tongue, and her top and bottom teeth were knocked out\".\n\nGreg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, tweeted that the suspect \"had previously failed a gun purchase background check\" in the state.\n\n\"We must keep guns out of criminals' hands,\" he wrote.\n\nNon-profit research group Gun Violence Archive says nearly 10,000 people have died in US shootings this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Mental illness pulls the trigger, not guns\" - Trump's five solutions to combat mass shootings.", "Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stands firm on Ireland's Brexit stance during a joint press conference with US Vice President Mike Pence\n\nThe Republic of Ireland must stand its ground on the Brexit deal amid a \"critical\" period in political history, Leo Varadkar has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed he will visit Dublin on Monday to meet the taoiseach.\n\nMr Johnson later faced a showdown in Westminster that led to no-deal opponents defeating the government.\n\nMr Varadkar made his remarks during a press conference with US Vice President Mike Pence, who is on a two-day visit.\n\nBut Mr Pence urged Ireland and the EU to \"negotiate in good faith\" with the UK.\n\nThe Irish government has repeatedly said it respects the UK's decision to leave the EU, but that it took more than two years to negotiate a withdrawal agreement and that it could not be re-opened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking at Farmleigh House, the country's official guest house, Mr Varadkar asked Mr Pence to take that message back to the US government.\n\n\"The divergence between the UK and the EU means the return of a hard border (between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland) is a very real risk,\" said the taoiseach.\n\nHe insisted the Irish government had to \"stand its ground\" on the withdrawal agreement and the backstop - despite opposition to it from the British government.\n\nThis is Mike Pence's first visit to the Republic of Ireland in his role as vice-president of the United States\n\nVice-president Pence said the US recognised the \"unique challenges\" regarding the Irish border.\n\n\"We will continue to encourage the UK and Ireland to ensure any Brexit deal respects the Good Friday Agreement,\" he added.\n\nHowever, he said that as the Brexit deadline approached, the White House would \"urge Ireland and the EU to negotiate in good faith with Prime Minister Johnson\".\n\nWestminster has rejected the withdrawal agreement three times and MPs are deadlocked over the issue mainly because of the backstop proposal in the deal.\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy aimed at maintaining a seamless Irish border unless and until another solution is found.\n\nMr Johnson wants it removed from the withdrawal deal as it is \"anti-democratic\".\n\nThe DUP is also opposed to it, arguing it would create a border down the Irish Sea and risk the integrity of the union of the UK.\n\nHowever, other Stormont parties have backed it, as well as a majority of business and agri-food groups.\n\nMr Pence added the US would play whatever \"helpful role\" it could in order to try and reach an agreement that respected the UK's sovereignty and minimised disruption to trade.\n\nMike Pence shakes hands with Irish President Michael D Higgins in the company of his wife Karen and Mr Higgins' wife Sabina\n\nEarlier, Mr Pence met Irish President Michael D Higgins in Dublin during the second day of his visit.\n\nThe vice president signed the official visitor's book, in which he paid tribute to his Irish grandfather, Richard Michael Cawley.\n\nHe was accompanied to the Irish president's official residence by his wife, Karen Pence, his mother, Nancy Pence-Fritsch, and his sister, Ann Poynter.\n\nThey were greeted at Áras an Uachtarain by Mr Higgins and his wife, Sabina.\n\nIt is Mr Pence's first visit to Ireland as vice president, but not his first visit to the country.\n\nHe has family roots in Ireland - his maternal grandfather Richard Michael Cawley emigrated from County Sligo to Chicago in the early 1920s and his grandmother Mary Maloney's family had historic links with Doonbeg.\n\nIn the Áras an Uachtarain guest book , the vice-president wrote: \"In the memory of a great Irishman, Richard Michael Cawley and on behalf of the United States of America, we are delighted to be back in Ireland.\"\n\nAt Farmleigh, the taoiseach showed Mr Pence and his family the military service record of his grandfather, who served with distinction in the Irish Defence Forces during the Irish Civil War.\n\nThe vice-president had lunch with Mr Varadkar and his partner Matthew Barrett, as well as Mr Varadkar's parents.\n\nThe vice-president and his mother were shown the service records of his grandfather\n\nDuring his visit, Mr and Mrs Pence are staying in Doonbeg, where US President Donald Trump owns a luxury golf resort.\n\nHis trip comes three months after Mr Trump visited Ireland for the first time as president.\n\nHis arrival was met with protests in Dublin and in Shannon.\n\nMr Pence is also not without controversy. He has previously come under fire by gay rights activists for his Christian evangelical beliefs which include opposition to gay marriage.\n\nThe vice-president's visit was originally due to take place on Friday, but was brought forward after it was announced that he would visit Poland over the weekend to attend World War Two commemorations in place of President Trump.\n\nMr Trump has remained in the US to monitor Hurricane Dorian.\n\nMr Pence is due to visit the UK later in the week for a series of engagements and discuss the Brexit deadlock.", "Kathryn Lewek plays Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld\n\nA German theatre critic has refused to back down after US soprano Kathryn Lewek accused some reviewers of \"fat shaming\" her.\n\nLewek said Manuel Brug's description of \"fat women in tight corsets spreading their legs\" was \"derogatory\".\n\nBut in a piece written in Die Welt on Tuesday, Brug said he \"wasn't referring to any particular character on stage\".\n\nHe then added: \"If she shows her body on stage she has to deal with being described like that.\"\n\nBrug wrote in Tuesday's article that he had described her portrayal of Eurydice in a production of Orpheus in the Underworld \"as a character in an aesthetic universe. Just not as being slim. This is my duty and task as a journalist\".\n\nThe singer was widely praised for her performance at the Salzburg Festival in Austria.\n\nBrug continued: \"I wasn't referring to any particular character on stage. But rather to the principle of the staging itself. The American singer in the role of Eurydice clearly didn't understand this, as she probably can't speak German.\n\n\"The singer in the role of Eurydice appeared mainly and ostentatiously in either a flesh-toned or a black corset. These were so tight and short that they made it deliberately and abundantly clear that this was a woman who was being shown as fat.\n\nHe added that \"it didn't and doesn't matter to me as a critic how thin or fat singers are, as long as they excel at singing their roles\".\n\nSome other reviewers had called Lewek \"fat\", \"stocky-looking\" and \"buxom\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier this week, Lewek called the comments \"antiquated\" and \"ridiculous\".\n\nShe said her role in Orpheus in the Underworld was clearly a sexualised one (\"she has sex with everyone on stage\") so she had been prepared for \"some comments\".\n\nBut the soprano, who recently gave birth, was stunned to read reviews that she said critiqued her \"postpartum mom-bod instead of reviewing the show\".\n\nShe said Brug's column in particular \"really lit my fire\" adding: \"It was such a derogatory way of describing what my character was all about.\"\n\nWithout naming Brug, she lashed out at \"body-shaming and fat-shaming\" on Twitter, writing: \"Time's up on these juvenile bullies.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by KATHRYN LEWEK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 negative comments sparked a furious backlash from other singers.\n\n\"This is absolutely disgraceful,\" wrote British tenor Anthony Gregory. \"Why is it 'interesting' that all the 'thin ladies' on stage had dresses? Was that a disappointment? So sorry you're having to put up with it Kathryn.\"\n\n\"Commenting on anything that is unrelated to the performance is irrelevant,\" added Brit Award-winner Camilla Kerslake, noting that \"male singers rarely have to put up with this\".\n\nIn response, the paper's editor, Dr Ulf Poschardt, said Brug's review had been misinterpreted.\n\n\"This report was not meant as a personal insult - and it is not written as a personal insult,\" he said.\n\nLewek played the Queen of the Night in the Met's production of The Magic Flute six weeks after giving birth\n\nBorn and raised in Connecticut, Lewek has established herself as one of her generation's strongest coloratura sopranos, performing with the The Metropolitan Opera, Opera Leipzig, English National Opera and as a soloist at the BBC Proms.\n\n\"I'm not ashamed of how I look, I've got a thick skin, and it felt like an opportunity for me to help my community - because it's unacceptable. It's not good journalism.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Atwood and Rushdie won the prize in 2000 and 1981 respectively\n\nMargaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are among the six authors shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.\n\nAtwood is in contention again with The Testaments, her eagerly awaited follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, while Sir Salman makes the cut with Quichotte.\n\nBernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, Elif Shafak and US author Lucy Ellmann are also up for the prize.\n\nBoth Atwood and Rushdie have won the coveted prize before, in 2000 and 1981 respectively.\n\nAtwood also made the shortlist with The Handmaid's Tale in 1986.\n\nThe Testaments, which is set 15 years after the end of that novel, will be officially published next week.\n\nThe winner, whittled down from 151 submissions and a longlist of 13, will be announced on 14 October.\n\nThe 2019 shortlist was announced on Tuesday at a press conference at the British Library in London.\n\n\"Like all great literature, these books teem with life, with a profound and celebratory humanity,\" said Peter Florence, chair of this year's judges.\n\nBelfast-born author Anna Burns won last year's prize with her coming-of-age story Milkman.\n\nSet 15 years after the enigmatic final scene of The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood's much-anticipated follow-up is narrated by three female characters.\n\nThe original was set in a totalitarian state called Gilead where women are subjugated and enslaved by an oppressive patriarchal society.\n\nThe Handmaid's Tale was adapted for a film starring Natasha Richardson in 1990. More recently, it formed the basis for an Emmy-winning TV series starring Elisabeth Moss.\n\nCanadian author Atwood, 79, won the 2000 Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin. She was also shortlisted for the prize in 1986, 1989, 1996 and 2003.\n\nThe Testaments will be published just after midnight on 10 September. Later that day, Atwood will talk about the book at a National Theatre event that will be shown in cinemas around the globe.\n\nFlorence, one of the few to have read the book, describes it as \"a savage and beautiful novel that speaks to us today with conviction and power\".\n\nBorn in Illinois in 1956 and now based in Edinburgh, Ellmann is the only US author on this year's shortlist.\n\nHer novel, which runs to a whopping 998 pages, is a stream-of-consciousness monologue that is largely made up of one continuous sentence.\n\nIts narrator is an Ohio housewife who reflects on her past, her family and her country while latticing cherry pies.\n\nJudge Joanna MacGregor describes the book as \"a genre-defying novel, a torrent on modern life [and] a hymn to loss and grief\".\n\nEllmann's inclusion on the shortlist comes five years on from the controversial decision to make US authors eligible.\n\nPaul Beatty become the first US recipient of the prize in 2016 with his racial satire The Sellout.\n\nIf Ducks, Newburyport also goes on to win, it will be the longest winning novel since 2013 winner The Luminaries.\n\nBookmaker Ladbrokes has made it 2/1 favourite to win this year's prize.\n\nBorn in London in 1959, Anglo-Nigerian author Evaristo has made the Booker Prize shortlist for the first time with her eighth book.\n\nDescribed as a \"fusion fiction\" novel, Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives of 12 characters, most of whom are black, British and female.\n\nJudge Xiaolu Guo called it \"an impressive, fierce novel... about modern Britain and womanhood\" that \"deserves to be read aloud\".\n\nEvaristo herself has said she aims to \"explore the hidden narratives of the African diaspora\" and \"subvert expectations and assumptions\".\n\nBorn in Nigeria in 1986 and now based in the US, Chigozie Obioma is the author of two novels that have both been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.\n\nHis debut novel The Fishermen previously made the cut in 2015. It went on to inspire a 2018 stage adaptation that transfers to London's West End this week.\n\nAn Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of a young Nigerian chicken farmer whose love for a woman drives him to become an African migrant in Europe.\n\nTold in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, it is described by judge Afua Hirsch as \"a book that wrenches the heart\".\n\nSir Salman is no stranger to the Booker Prize. He won the award in 1981 with Midnight's Children and made the shortlist again in 1983, 1988 and 1995.\n\nMidnight's Children went on to be judged the \"Booker of Bookers\" in 1993 and \"Best of the Booker\" in 2008.\n\nInspired by Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Quichotte tells of an ageing travelling salesman who drives across America to prove himself worthy of a TV star's hand.\n\nPublished last month, the novel - Rushdie's 12th - \"pushes the boundaries of fiction and satire\", according to jury chair Florence.\n\nBorn in India in 1947 and now based in New York, Rushdie is best known for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which sparked widespread protests by Muslims and a fatwa from Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.\n\nBritish-Turkish novelist Shafak was born in France in 1971 and has published 17 books, 11 of which are novels.\n\nSet in Istanbul, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is made up of the recollections of a sex worker who has been left for dead in a rubbish bin.\n\nJudge Liz Calder - a publisher and editor whose former colleagues include Sir Salman Rushdie - called the book \"a work of fearless imagination\".\n\nOrganisers have insisted the Booker Prize is free from nepotism and favouritism after concerns were raised over Calder's judging role.\n\nAfter years of mounting criticism that the Booker Prize had become too worthy and dominated by American novelists, this shortlist is a welcome riposte.\n\nFirst there are two literary heavyweights with Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie. Both enjoy critical and commercial success and have won the prize before.\n\nThere is only one American, Lucy Ellmann, who moved to England as a teenager and now lives in Scotland. Yet it is worth noting that a number of the books this year deal with the state of America.\n\nAfter four years when the shortlist featured no writers from Africa, the Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma makes the cut for the second time.\n\nElif Shafak, who was born in Turkey, is shortlisted for a novel written in what is her second language.\n\nBernardine Evaristo completes a wide-ranging and ambitious line-up with a novel told in free verse. Don't be put off - it's glorious.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tory rebels and opposition MPs have cleared the first hurdle in their attempt to pass a law designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow granted them a debate and a vote on taking control of the Commons agenda.\n\nIf successful, they would be able to bring forward a bill seeking to delay the UK's exit date beyond 31 October.\n\nNo 10 officials have warned the prime minister will push for an election if they succeed.\n\nThe government is expected to table a motion to hold one on 14 October, arguing that if no deal is taken off the table there is no point in carrying on with negotiations with the EU.\n\nThe emergency debate - granted under a Commons rule to allow urgent discussion - can last up to three hours, with the main vote expected about 22.00 BST.\n\nIf the MPs win the vote - defeating the government - they will be able to take control of business on Wednesday.\n\nThat will give them the chance to introduce a cross-party bill which would force the prime minister to ask for Brexit to be delayed until 31 January, unless MPs approve a new deal, or vote in favour of a no-deal exit, by 19 October.\n\nThe government had warned Tory MPs they would face expulsion from the party if they backed the bill, and even before the vote, BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt said the chief whip had started calling declared rebels into his office to make good on the threat.\n\nEarlier, Conservative MP Phillip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of the Commons showdown.\n\nHis defection means Boris Johnson no longer has a working majority.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, Dr Lee said Brexit divisions had \"sadly transformed this once great party into something more akin to a narrow faction in which one's Conservatism is measured by how recklessly one wants to leave the European Union\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Oliver said a no-deal would be a \"threat to our country\"\n\nMore than 10 Conservative MPs rose to their feet in support of the emergency debate application, moved by colleague Sir Oliver Letwin.\n\nMPs are asked to stand to show their support if there are audible objections in the Commons chamber.\n\nOpening the debate, Sir Oliver said this week would be the last for Parliament to block a no-deal exit, before it was due to be suspended next week.\n\nMr Johnson wants to suspend business for five weeks ahead of a Queen's Speech - setting out a new legislative programme - on 14 October.\n\nSir Oliver said the PM had \"no credible negotiating strategy\" and no deal was a \"threat\" to the UK that must be averted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow: I will facilitate the House of Commons, 'do or die'\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged MPs to support the move, also arguing it would be the \"last opportunity\" for Parliament to block a no deal.\n\n\"If we don't take action today, we may not get another chance,\" he said, adding the government had set the country on a \"destructive\" course.\n\nBut Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg criticised the Speaker's decision to allow the vote on the Commons agenda, arguing it was \"constitutionally irregular\".\n\nHe added that the decision \"risks subverting Parliament's proper role in scrutinising the executive\".\n\nHowever, he said the government would follow any legislation passed by MPs, telling them: \"This country is a country that follows the rule of law.\"\n\nMr Bercow responded to Mr Rees-Mogg's criticism by stating that his desire was \"simply to seek to facilitate the House... and I will do that to the best of my ability, to coin a phrase, 'do or die'\".\n\nLast-ditch efforts to get the Tory rebels on side have been taking place, but there are thought to be about 15 who have not been won over.\n\nThe government had hoped the threat of an election - and of deselection and expulsion from the party - would be enough to bring them into line.\n\nTo call an election under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, Mr Johnson would need support from Labour as he requires the backing of two-thirds of the UK's 650 MPs.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour wanted an election, but \"at a time of our choosing, and not on a wing and a prayer offered us by Boris Johnson.\"\n\nShe said he could not be trusted to stick to a mid-October date for an election, and might instead change the date until after the Brexit deadline.\n\nEarlier, the PM's spokesman insisted it was simply wrong to suggest that the date of polling day could or would be changed.\n\nThe government says it wants a negotiated exit from the EU, but insists the UK must leave in all circumstances by the latest deadline of 31 October.\n\nEarlier, Mr Johnson told the Commons he would travel to Dublin on Monday for discussions with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, focused on proposed alternative arrangements to the Irish border backstop - a key sticking point in the negotiations.\n\nBut he said that if MPs succeeded in their plan to block no deal, it would force him to go to Brussels to \"beg for another pointless delay\" to Brexit and he would \"never\" do that.\n\n\"It is Jeremy Corbyn's surrender bill. It means running up the white flag,\" he added.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario, the UK would immediately leave the EU with no agreement about the \"divorce\" process.\n\nOpponents believe it would harm the economy, cause severe disruption to travel and supplies of goods like food and medicine, and lead to a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nProponents insist, though, that any disruption would be short-lived and could be managed with careful preparation.\n\nIt seems right now - although there is still some arm twisting going on behind the scenes - that the government is set to lose the vote.\n\nWe are finding ourselves in the middle of a full-throttle confrontation between a Parliament that does not want to allow the country to leave the EU without a deal and a prime minister who secured his place in power promising he would always keep that as an option.\n\nBoth of them cannot be the victors here.\n\nAnd they are both determined to win.\n\nElsewhere, in Edinburgh, a judge has heard arguments over the prime minister's plan to shut down the UK Parliament.\n\nA cross-party group of parliamentarians wants a ruling at the Court of Session that Mr Johnson is acting illegally.\n\nAnd, in another legal challenge against his suspension plan, the High Court has given former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major permission to provide a written contribution to the judicial review sought by campaigner Gina Miller.\n\nBBC legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said this gives a boost to Ms Miller's case.", "Experts are warning about the risks of extreme restrictive eating after a teen developed permanent sight loss after living on a diet of chips and crisps.\n\nEye doctors in Bristol cared for the 17-year-old after his vision had deteriorated to the point of blindness.\n\nSince leaving primary school, the teen had been eating only French fries, Pringles and white bread, as well as an occasional slice of ham or a sausage.\n\nTests revealed he had severe vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition damage.\n\nThe adolescent, who cannot be named, had seen his GP at the age of 14 because he had been feeling tired and unwell. At that time he was diagnosed with vitamin B12 deficiency and put on supplements, but he did not stick with the treatment or improve his poor diet.\n\nThree years later, he was taken to the Bristol Eye Hospital because of progressive sight loss, Annals of Internal Medicine journal reports.\n\nDr Denize Atan, who treated him at the hospital, said: \"His diet was essentially a portion of chips from the local fish and chip shop every day. He also used to snack on crisps - Pringles - and sometimes slices of white bread and occasional slices of ham, and not really any fruit and vegetables.\n\n\"He explained this as an aversion to certain textures of food that he really could not tolerate, and so chips and crisps were really the only types of food that he wanted and felt that he could eat.\"\n\nDr Atan and her colleagues rechecked the young man's vitamin levels and found he was low in B12 as well as some other important vitamins and minerals - copper, selenium and vitamin D.\n\nHe was not over or underweight, but was severely malnourished from his eating disorder - avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder.\n\n\"He had lost minerals from his bone, which was really quite shocking for a boy of his age.\"\n\nHe was put on vitamin supplements and referred to a dietitian and a specialist mental health team.\n\nIn terms of his sight loss, he met the criteria for being registered blind.\n\n\"He had blind spots right in the middle of his vision,\" said Dr Atan. \"That means he can't drive and would find it really difficult to read, watch TV or discern faces.\n\n\"He can walk around on his own though because he has got peripheral vision.\"\n\nNutritional optic neuropathy - the condition the young man has - is treatable if diagnosed early. Left too long, however, the nerve fibres in the optic nerve die and the damage becomes permanent.\n\nDr Atan said cases like this are thankfully uncommon, but that parents should be aware of the potential harm that can be caused by picky eating, and seek expert help.\n\nFor those who are concerned, she advised: \"It's best not to be anxious about picky eating, and instead calmly introduce one or two new foods with every meal.\"\n\nShe said multivitamin tablets can supplement a diet, but are not a substitute for eating healthily.\n\n\"It's much better to take on vitamins through a varied and balanced diet,\" she said, adding that too much of certain vitamins, including vitamin A, can be toxic, \"so you don't want to overdo it\".\n\nDr Atan said vegans are also at increased risk of B12 deficiency-related sight problems if they do not replace what they can lack when excluding meat from their diet.\n\n\"Nutritional yeast is a way of adding B12 to your diet,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fake-meat and fries: The rise of vegan fast food\n\nRebecca McManamon, consultant dietitian and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, said restricted diets might happen for a range of reasons, including eating disorders, allergies and autism, and need specialist assessment.\n\n\"It's also worth noting that since 2016 the UK government has recommended daily Vitamin D supplementation (10 microgrammes/400 International Units) for everyone between October and March as we are not likely to get enough from fortified foods.\n\n\"Multivitamin supplementation is recommended for all children up to their fifth birthday.\"\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. Alison Lapper hit out at mental health care after the death of her son Parys\n\nArtist Alison Lapper has hit out at \"appalling\" mental health care after revealing school bullies contributed to her son's struggles before his death.\n\nParys Lapper was 19 when his body was found in a Sussex hotel last month.\n\nHis mother posed nude while pregnant with him for a piece of artwork which was mounted on the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square in 2005.\n\nMs Lapper was born with no arms and shortened legs, which she said became an issue for her son at school.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Parys's mental health problems began when he started at secondary school in Sussex and pupils would give him strange looks because of her disability.\n\nAlison Lapper co-hosted the BBC Four series No Body's Perfect\n\n\"The teenage years kicked in. He went from a small school to a massive school which I think had an impact,\" she said.\n\n\"We all know teenage years are hard; they change. I could just see my happy kid just disappearing in front of my eyes and not knowing what to do.\n\n\"I know he got into a fight and he punched someone because they said something about him or myself.\n\n\"That wasn't Parys. He didn't go around punching people but obviously that triggered something.\"\n\nThe marble sculpture of Ms Lapper by Marc Quinn stood in Trafalgar Square between 2005 and 2007\n\nParys was sectioned at 17 years of age and had treatment in Sevenoaks, Kent.\n\nMs Lapper says she tried to have him moved back closer to her home in Sussex but he was moved to an anorexia unit instead.\n\n\"What good is that to someone who doesn't have anorexia?\" she said.\n\n\"There are no provisions for young people who are suffering from mental health problems.\n\n\"The people who worked with him tried their best but the facilities out there are appalling.\"\n\nMs Lapper said she had been with her son just days before he died. His funeral was held on Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"I miss him. I'm absolutely heartbroken. I feel like he has been let down.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, these organisations offer advice and support. In addition, you can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline- 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm).\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "As many as 2,500 more organs could be made available for transplant in the UK if families spoke more openly about donating after death, says the NHS Blood and Transplant organisation.\n\nIt is hoped the more that people talk about their wishes, the easier it will be for relatives to agree to donations.\n\nLast year there was a record number of donors - 1,600 in total.\n\nBut about a third of the newly-bereaved families who were asked decided against their loved-one's organs being reused.\n\nFamilies are being urged to talk about their wishes around organ donation before a loved one dies.\n\nAround 6,000 people in the UK are waiting for a transplant, but 400 will die before an operation can go ahead.\n\nWales, England and Scotland have introduced new laws on consent for organ donation to boost donor numbers.\n\nFamilies have the final say on whether or not organ donation goes ahead, even if the patient has expressed a wish to become a donor.\n\nLast year, more than two-thirds (2,181) of the families of potential organ donors agreed to a donation.\n\nBut 835 families did not want to, mostly because they had never discussed organ donation with their loved one.\n\nThere were a further 229 families who turned down the request, saying that their relative had made his or her views clear.\n\nThe family of Bill Moore found they faced a difficult choice following his sudden death.\n\nHis daughter Angie Matthews told the BBC their decision on whether to donate his organs was complicated by not knowing exactly what Bill wanted.\n\n\"It was really difficult to make that decision at the time, we were on such a rollercoaster of emotions.\n\n\"And I think not knowing his wishes made it even harder.\n\n\"If we had known that he had said that he wanted to donate his organs, it would have made things a whole lot easier.\"\n\nIn the end Bill's family did give their consent.\n\nAngie's husband recalled a conversation he had had with Bill while playing golf a few months before, where he had said he would be happy to become an organ donor.\n\nThat reassured the family they had made the right decision.\n\nBill's donation helped at least eight people, which his daughter Angie says is a huge comfort.\n\n\"It was amazing to think that he lived on and that his gift of life meant so much to them.\n\nThe new laws around organ donation have already taken effect in Wales, and England and Scotland will follow suit next year, but Northern Ireland will not be adopting it.\n\nThe changes mean that consent to donation will be assumed, so people will have to opt out of the scheme, rather than the current system of opting in.\n\nBut families will still have a veto, even if the wishes of the patient were that they clearly wanted to become a donor.\n\nAnthony Clarkson is director of organ donation and transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, the body that oversees the service in the UK.\n\nHe said: \"Even after the law around organ donation changes in England and Scotland next year, families will still be approached before organ donation goes ahead.\n\n\"We urge everyone to register their organ donation decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register and tell your family the choice you have made.\n\n\"If the time comes, we know families find the organ donation conversation with our nurses much easier if they already know what their relative wanted.\"\n• None 'My hero gave me his liver' - BBC News", "Alfie Lamb died three days after he was crushed in the footwell of a car\n\nA man has admitted crushing a three-year-old boy to death by reversing his seat as the boy sat in a car footwell.\n\nWaterson initially denied manslaughter but changed his plea to guilty ahead of a retrial at the Old Bailey.\n\nIn May, Alfie's mother Adrian Hoare - who watched as her son was crushed - was jailed for two years and nine months for child cruelty.\n\nHoare was cleared of manslaughter while a jury failed to reach a verdict on the same charge for Waterson.\n\nThe court had heard Waterson had been annoyed at Alfie's crying on a journey back from a shopping trip and moved his seat into him as he sat in the footwell at his mother's feet.\n\nWhen Alfie continued to moan, Waterson reversed again, saying, \"I won't be told what to do by a three-year-old,\" Hoare told jurors.\n\nAlfie collapsed in the car and died in hospital three days later from irreversible brain injuries.\n\nIn their trial earlier this year Hoare, of Gravesend, Kent, told a string of lies to protect her boyfriend, claiming she had been in a taxi, while Waterson fled in the Audi.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said: \"Stephen Waterson and Adrian Hoare, even after Alfie died, were more concerned about being together.\n\n\"Stephen Waterson was concerned the real story never came out. He went on to intimidate and assault people.\"\n\nWaterson also gave officers a false name, a false statement and sold the Audi.\n\nHoare eventually broke her silence and told her half-sister Ashleigh Jeffrey what happened in a taped conversation handed to police.\n\nJurors were also told Waterson had three previous convictions for attacking an ex-girlfriend and his sister's husband.\n\nAt a trial in February, Mr Waterson told the court he only moved his seat back an inch, before moving forwards again\n\nWaterson, the adopted son of former Conservative minister Nigel Waterson, admitted manslaughter by gross negligence on what was set to be the first day of his retrial.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to be sentenced on 9 September.\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding said: \"For a three-and-a-half-year-old to be crushed by something so strong and no-one helping, it's a shocking way to die.\n\n\"Stephen Waterson has come across as a selfish, abhorrent individual\".\n\nAlfie's mother, Adrian Hoare, was cleared of manslaughter but jailed in May after being found guilty of child cruelty\n\nAngela Moriarty, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"This was a harrowing and difficult case for all those involved, but finally justice has been served for Alfie.\"\n\nSpeaking after the hearing police revealed social services had been involved in Alfie's care and that the Medway Safeguarding Children Board is conducting a serious case review.", "Motorists have been told to display a GB sticker in the Republic of Ireland\n\nUK-registered cars will need to display a GB sticker in the Republic of Ireland after Brexit, the government has said.\n\nNew government advice said the sticker must be displayed in any EU country.\n\nMotorists from the UK driving in the Republic are currently advised to display the sticker, but the rule is not widely enforced.\n\nThe advice applies to cars registered in all parts of the UK, including Northern Ireland.\n\nThe sticker, a white oval containing the letters GB, standing for Great Britain, must be displayed at the rear of the vehicle.\n\nThe sticker must be displayed on the rear of the vehicle\n\nNorthern Ireland is not a part of Great Britain - which is made up of England, Scotland and Wales - but the GB sticker is used for cars from all parts of the UK.\n\nThe rule will apply to drivers even if their number plate includes a GB logo.\n\nNot displaying a GB sticker would not invalidate your motor insurance but motorists are urged to comply with relevant requirements, the Association of British Insurers said.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said the requirement that all UK motorists driving in the Republic of Ireland should display a GB sticker stems from the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic.\n\n\"It is not an EU requirement and is not affected by Brexit,\" the department said.\n\n\"We are not aware of any occasion when this has been enforced by the Irish government.\"\n\nSinn Féin MP for West Belfast, Paul Maskey, said he would not be displaying one of the stickers on his car.\n\nMany nationalists in Northern Ireland, who identify as Irish rather than British, raised objections on social media to being required to have a GB sticker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Maskey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeamus Leheny of the Freight Transport Association criticised the advice as \"frivolous\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Seamus Leheny This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe AA said that drivers from the Republic of Ireland are currently required to display Irish identification on their vehicles when travelling to all parts of the UK, including Northern Ireland.\n\nIrish registration plates which incorporate the IRL/EU symbol are acceptable, instead of a sticker.\n\nOwners of Irish-registered vehicles will not need a motor insurance green card to drive in the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland said valid Irish insurance discs would be accepted as proof of insurance for Irish vehicles.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario though, UK drivers may still need a green card to drive in the EU, including the Republic.", "A new archive has revealed the BBC's role in secret activities during World War Two, including sending coded messages to European resistance groups.\n\nDocuments and interviews, released by BBC History, include plans to replace Big Ben's chimes with a recorded version in the event of an air attack.\n\nThis would ensure the Germans did not know their planes were over Westminster.\n\nBBC programmers would also play music to contact Polish freedom fighters.\n\nUsing the codename \"Peter Peterkin\", a government representative would provide staff with a particular piece that would be broadcast following the Polish news service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A new archive revealed the BBC's role in secret broadcasting activities during World War Two\n\nHistorian David Hendy said: \"The bulletins broadcast to Poland would be deliberately short by a minute or so and then a secret messenger from the exiled Polish government would deliver a record to be played.\n\n\"The choice of music would send the message to fighters.\"\n\nAlec Sutherland, the man who oversaw the use of music at the end of news bulletins, said it was his job to make sure producers played the right record, even if it was scratched.\n\n\"They would see one which they thought would make a better broadcast and the wrong bridge would get blown up in Poland.\"\n\nThe coded messages to the French resistance in news bulletins were less opaque and consisted of a few phrases dropped into a programme script or foreign language news bulletin.\n\nOn the night of 5 June 1944, the eve of D-Day, the phrase \"Berce mon coeur d'une langueur monotone\" or \"cradle my heart with a monotonous languor\" signalled the invasion was about to begin.\n\nBBC transmitters at Alexandra Palace in north London were also used as part of an RAF operation to distort the navigating system of Luftwaffe bombers, so that they were misled about direction and range.\n\nOther items in the archive include several contemporaneous eye witness accounts of bombing raids of Broadcasting House in 1940 and BBC newsreader John Snagge's account of the hours leading up to his first broadcast about the D-Day landings when he was kept under armed guard to stop the news leaking out.\n\nThe full oral history collection, The BBC and World War Two: 100 Voices that made the BBC, is available online at https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/ww2", "It's hard to know where to start sometimes.\n\nThe pace and gravity of events in Westminster this week is both monumental and dizzying.\n\nA prime minister has lost his wafer of a majority.\n\nMPs from across the spectrum are making their own history, by collaborating to sabotage the central part of Downing Street's strategy and change the law themselves.\n\nThe two main party leaders both believe that band of rebels will succeed and, if they do, they agree that the country should get a chance to decide who is in charge.\n\nAnd the prime minister and Tory leader is reshaping his party - the product of first a threat, then a punishment, to some of its best known names - even ejecting the grandson of Winston Churchill.\n\nThis rapid escalation is the outburst of conflict that's been brewing since Boris Johnson moved into No 10.\n\nIt was unlikely ever to be sustainable for him to govern as a prime minster intent on keeping the option of leaving the EU without a deal, in the face of a Parliament with a majority set against that.\n\nSome close to the prime minister believe that from this crisis comes an opportunity - to close the unfinished business of the referendum result in 2016, with the Tory party at last being the bearers of a crystal-clear message on Brexit.\n\nIt's a measure of how upside down the political norms are - that the prime minister losing his first vote in office is considered by some of his allies as a benefit.\n\nBut that carries tremendous risk too - decisiveness may be perceived by many voters as arrogance or aggression. The collateral damage or gains from these moves is unknown.\n\nThe only certainty, perhaps, is that nothing will stay the same.", "Did Boris Johnson just announce an election without actually announcing an election?\n\nHe's always said that he really doesn't want to go to the country again.\n\nDowning Street is still absolutely adamant that is still the case, and again with the formality of the No 10 podium, he insisted it was not what he wanted to do. But he also made plain that there were no circumstances in which he would ask Brussels to delay our departure from the EU.\n\nAnd that means only one thing. Calling an election if, in his view, he needs to. When would he need to do that? Soon.\n\nIn No 10's judgement, if MPs, including many of his former colleagues, defeat him this week and succeed in their move to make leaving the EU without a deal illegal, their best move is to call an election, and call one quickly, as soon as 14 October.\n\nThe move is to focus the minds of Tory MPs tempted to vote against the government's position.\n\nDowning Street's upping the ante still further - if they are part of efforts to outlaw no deal, then they will be part of forcing a general election, and stand by to watch Boris Johnson's backers point the finger at them.\n\nBut those rebels are confident of their numbers. And few of them so far seem likely to be moved by Downing Street's threats. No 10 knows therefore, they are likely to lose.\n\nProtest he might, but Boris Johnson is dangling the threat of this election knowing full well that it is one he is more likely than not to have to follow through. He would, of course, have to persuade Parliament to back an election, and Downing Street is ready to put a motion down to that precise effect.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn may well be suspicious of the PM's motives, but has always said that he'd back a poll.\n\nSo a leader who is yet to take his first Prime Minister's Questions at the despatch box may ask almost immediately for all of our judgements on whether he deserves to lead.\n\nBrexit is again rewiring our politics - its eventual shape unknown.", "The UN experts investigated a coalition air strike on a bus carrying children in August 2018\n\nThe UK, US, France and Iran may be complicit in possible war crimes in Yemen over their support for parties to the conflict there, UN experts say.\n\nA new report warns the countries they could be held responsible for aiding or assisting the commission of violations.\n\nThe Western powers provide weapons and logistical support to the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government, while Iran backs the Houthi rebels.\n\nThe experts say both sides continue to commit violations with impunity.\n\nTheir report documents air strikes on civilian infrastructure, indiscriminate shelling, snipers, landmines, as well as arbitrary killings and detention, torture, sexual and gender-based violence, and the impeding of access to humanitarian aid in the midst of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.\n\nThe UN says the four-year conflict has claimed the lives of at least 7,290 civilians and left 80% of the population - 24 million people - in need of humanitarian assistance or protection, including 10 million who rely on food aid to survive.\n\nThe Group of International and Regional Eminent Experts on Yemen conducted 600 interviews with victims and witnesses, and examined documentary and open-source material, for their second report for the UN Human Rights Council.\n\nIt says they found reasonable grounds to believe Yemen's government and the Saudi-led coalition, as well as the Houthis, had enjoyed a \"pervasive lack of accountability\" for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hidden victims of the Yemen war\n\nThe experts investigated a number of coalition air strikes on rebel-held areas in which civilians were killed. Such strikes raised concerns about the identification of military objectives and respect for the principles of proportionality and precautions in attack, they say. If there were breaches of the latter, which the experts consider highly likely, they would amount to serious violations of international law.\n\nThe experts also found reasonable grounds to believe that the Houthis were responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law for having launched indiscriminate attacks resulting in the death or injury of civilians and, in some cases, by directing attacks against civilians.\n\nAll parties may also have used starvation as a method of warfare.\n\nThe experts call for the immediate cessation of all acts of violence committed against civilians and urge other states to refrain from providing weapons.\n\nThe third city of Taiz has been besieged by the Houthis since 2015\n\n\"States are obliged to take all reasonable measures to ensure respect for international humanitarian law by other states. Furthermore, the Arms Trade Treaty, to which France and the United Kingdom are parties, prohibits the authorization of arms transfers with the knowledge that these would be used to commit war crimes,\" they note.\n\n\"The legality of arms transfers by France, the United Kingdom, the United States and other states remains questionable, and is the subject of various domestic court proceedings,\" they add.\n\nMelissa Parke, an Australian member of the Group of Experts, told reporters in Geneva: \"It is clear that the continued supply of weapons to parties to the conflict is perpetuating the conflict and prolonging the suffering of the Yemeni people.\"\n\nWhere possible, the experts have identified \"individuals who may be responsible for international crimes\" and submitted a confidential list of their names to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.\n\nThere was no response to the report from the coalition, the Yemeni government or the Houthis. But they have all previously denied carrying out war crimes.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"The UK has been at the forefront of international efforts to bring a diplomatic solution to the appalling conflict in Yemen. We operate one of the most robust export control regimes in the world.\"\n\nUK government ministers have said in the past they cannot determine whether any civilian deaths have been the result of British bombs or planes because the coalition does not track their use.\n\nThe US has argued against halting arms sales or assistance to the coalition, saying that continuing them is more likely to help limit civilian casualties.\n• None Yemen: Why is there a war there?", "The suicide rate was highest in men aged 45-49\n\nThe suicide rate in the UK has risen for the first time since 2013, official figures show.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data for 2018 showed 11.2 deaths from suicide per 100,000 people - up from 10.1 in 2017.\n\nChanges to the way suicides are recorded were brought in midway through last year and may account for some of the rise, the ONS says.\n\nHowever, the suicide rate is still lower than its 1980s peak.\n\nThe ONS found three-quarters of deaths from suicide registered in 2018 were of men, with 17.2 deaths from suicide per 100,000, up from 15.5 per 100,000 in 2017.\n\nThose in their late 40s remain the age group with the highest suicide rate, but young men aged 20-24 and those aged 80-84 saw significant increases.\n\nA significant rise was also seen among young girls and women aged 10 to 24.\n\nScotland had the highest suicide rate with 16.1 deaths per 100,000 people; England had the lowest, with 10.3 deaths per 100,000.\n\nDeaths from suicide are not registered until a coroner reports, which can take months or even years.\n\nNick Stripe, head of health analysis and life events at the ONS, said: \"We saw a significant increase in the rate of deaths registered as suicide last year which has changed a trend of continuous decline since 2013.\n\n\"While the exact reasons for this are unknown, the latest data shows this was largely driven by an increase among men who have continued to be most at risk of dying by suicide.\n\n\"In recent years, there have also been increases in the rate among young adults, with females under 25 reaching the highest rate on record for their age group.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Looking at the overall trend since the early 80s, we are still witnessing a gradual decline in the rate of suicide for the population as a whole.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor the recent increase, to help inform decision-makers and others that are working to protect vulnerable people at risk.\"\n\nRuth Sutherland of the Samaritans said it was \"extremely worrying\" that the suicide rate had increased.\n\n\"Every single one of these deaths is a tragedy that devastates families, friends and communities. Whilst the overall rise has only been seen this year, and we hope it is not the start of a longer-term trend, it's crucial to have a better understanding of why there has been such an increase.\n\n\"We know that suicide is not inevitable, it is preventable and encouraging steps have been made to prevent suicide, but we need to look at suicide as a serious public health issue.\n\nTom Madders, from the charity YoungMinds, said: \"It's concerning that there has been a reported rise in the number of young people dying by suicide.\n\n\"The reasons why young people feel suicidal are often complex, but we know that traumatic experiences at a young age - like bereavement, bullying or abuse - can have a huge impact on mental health. School pressure, concerns about how you look and difficult relationships with family or friends can also have a significant effect.\n\n\"We're seeing some much-needed investment in NHS mental health services - but we need much more action to ensure young people can get early help, long before they reach crisis point.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed,these organisationsoffer advice and support. In addition, you can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline- 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The attack took place in a school in Hubei province (not pictured)\n\nEight children have been killed in an attack outside a primary school in China, on the first day back at school after the summer holidays.\n\nPolice said they arrested a 40-year-old man at the scene of the attack in Hubei province in central China.\n\nOfficials did not say how the students were killed and the attacker's motive was not immediately clear.\n\nThe victims' ages were not released, but children at the school range between six and 13 years old.\n\nThere have been several high profile attacks on school children in China in recent years.\n\nIn April last year, nine students were stabbed to death as they were walking home from a secondary school in Shaanxi province in north-west China. A former pupil, 28-year-old Zhao Zewei, was executed for the crime.\n\nAnd in January, another man, Qin Pengan, was executed after seriously injuring four children with a kitchen knife in an attack at a nursery in the southern province of Guangxi.\n\nGuards with batons, shields and helmets are now a common sight at the start and end of the day at some school gates. Chinese authorities have blamed attacks on what they describe as rising social tensions in the country. ​", "Half of Chiquito restaurants are under threat following a review by their owners, the Restaurant Group.\n\nIn March, it identified 76 Frankie & Benny's restaurants in what it now considers to be unfavourable locations and it has now highlighted 42 more sites, which are mainly Chiquitos.\n\nRestaurant Group reported a loss for the first half of the year.\n\nIt was caused by it writing down the value of restaurant sites seen as being \"structurally unattractive\".\n\nThere are 79 Chiquito restaurants across Great Britain, with the highest number, 10, in the West Midlands, but it it not known which ones are under threat.\n\nA spokesman told the BBC that as each restaurant's lease came up for renewal, its future would be considered.\n\nShares in Restaurant Group fell by nearly 14% in early trading on Tuesday.\n\nThe spokesman added that those sites identified as structurally unattractive were \"mostly situated in retail sites, leisure parks and next to cinemas, and footfall is massively declining in those areas\".\n\nHe said the company - which has 650 sites in total - would be \"highly disciplined in considering whether or not leases are renewed\" as each one neared its end.\n\nRestaurants would not definitely close, but each will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.\n\nBy contrast, he said that Wagamama, which was bought by the group last year, was doing well because it reflected the increased consumer demand for convenient and healthy food.\n\nThe group's like-for-like sales were up by 4% in the first half of 2019. Total sales jumped 58.2% to £515.9m, helped by the integration of the newly-purchased Wagamama restaurants into the business.\n\nBut the exceptional charge of £115.7m meant that the group reported a pre-tax loss of £87.7m for the half year, compared with a profit of £12.2m in 2018.", "Sarah-Jayne and Steven Roche started the half marathon together\n\nA woman who broke her leg without realising while running the Cardiff Half Marathon died during surgery to repair it, an inquest has heard.\n\nSarah-Jayne Roche, 39, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, pulled out of the run in October 2018 with what was diagnosed as a hamstring injury.\n\nShe had fractured a femur but went to hospital three times before it was diagnosed.\n\nShe had a cardiac arrest 12 days after the race, during surgery, and died.\n\nMrs Roche, a learning support assistant at Treorchy Comprehensive in Rhondda, had two sons aged 12 and eight.\n\nPontypridd Coroners' Court heard she had entered the race with her husband Steven to raise money for Parkinson's disease research after her father was diagnosed with the illness.\n\nSeven miles into the run on 7 October, she felt a \"shooting pain up her leg\", and pulled out of the race.\n\nSt John Ambulance volunteers diagnosed a pulled hamstring but she went to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital because of the pain.\n\nSarah-Jayne Roche was running to raise money for Parkinson's disease research\n\nMr Roche told the inquest: \"She was in a wheelchair in very considerable pain. She was advised to rest up and take paracetamol and ibuprofen.\n\n\"She was seen by a consultant for no more than 20 minutes. There was no mention of an X-ray.\"\n\nHe took Mrs Roche back to hospital the next day when the pain became worse. Two doctors advised stronger painkillers and a hot water bottle.\n\n\"There was no discussion about an X-Ray; their conclusion was there was not much else to do. They believed it was a hamstring injury,\" Mr Roche said.\n\nThe inquest heard Mrs Roche spent the following days in bed, her leg and foot had swollen and her foot was cold to touch.\n\nMrs Roche was admitted to the same hospital by ambulance a week later in \"absolute agony\".\n\nHer husband continued: \"It frightened me. She was in so much pain they had to cut trousers off. Her leg was twice its normal size. They said they would carry out an X-ray. The doctor expressed his surprise that there hadn't been an X-ray.\"\n\nMrs Roche's mother, Patricia Newman, told the hearing she had told one of the doctors who examined her daughter that her leg was swollen, adding: \"He did not carry out a physical examination. In his opinion it didn't warrant an X-Ray.\"\n\nTwo other runners died during the 2018 Cardiff Half Marathon.\n\nThe inquest, which is expected to last two days, continues.", "Tens of thousands of religiously observant Jews will be unable to go to a polling station to vote on 14 October if a general election is called for that day, critics have warned.\n\nThe date slated for a proposed election clashes with the first day of Succot, a Jewish religious festival.\n\nObservant Jews cannot vote on this day because activities associated with work - including writing - are prohibited on major festivals.\n\nNumber 10 has not yet commented.\n\nDavid Landy, a religiously observant Jew who lives in Hendon, north-west London, will not vote in person if an election is held on that day.\n\nHe says: \"I am astounded that someone at No 10 has not got access to a Jewish calendar.\"\n\nMr Landy, a married chartered surveyor with three children, adds: \"It is more than a little inconvenient [to hold an election on 14 October].\n\n\"If I am not able to register for a postal vote in time, I would feel very disenfranchised.\"\n\nAmanda Bowman, vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the organisation had contacted the government to explain the \"concerns and difficulties\" the community would face if an election was held on 14 October.\n\nShe added the Board of Deputies would be encouraging \"everyone affected to apply for a postal vote so that their democratic rights are not affected\".\n\nPeople who will not be able to vote on the chosen day can register to vote by post or via a proxy vote.\n\nApplications to vote by post must be received by 17:00 BST on 26 September, for those not already registered to vote.\n\nProxy voting - where another registered voter votes on another's behalf - must be applied for at least six working days before election day, in England, Scotland or Wales.\n\nHowever, religious observance as a reason for a proxy vote is not covered in current published government guidance.\n\nThe same applications and deadlines for postal and proxy voting do not apply for Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I don't want an election, you don't want an election\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he did not want an election.\n\nBut No 10 officials warned the prime minister would push for an election on 14 October if the government loses a bill to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAlthough there are no exact figures, there are roughly between 50,000 and 100,000 religiously observant Jews in the UK who could be affected by the possible election decision.\n\nThere are between 260,000 and 300,000 Jews in England and Wales and Jews represent about 0.5% of the UK's population.\n\nThere are concerns that voter turnout in constituencies with high proportions of Jewish voters could be impacted by a 14 October election.\n\nLondon constituencies such as Hendon and Finchley and Golders Green have slim Conservative majorities.\n\nSuccot, also known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, commemorates the 40 years the Jews spent in the desert after the exodus from Egypt and celebrates how God protected them under difficult desert conditions.\n\nMany Jewish people celebrate the festival by building open-air huts in their gardens, where they might take some of their meals.\n\nRabbi Zvi Solomons, of the orthodox Jewish community of Berkshire (JCOB), says he intends to contact Alok Sharma, the Conservative MP for Reading West, with his concerns.\n\nRabbi Solomons says he would be \"terribly worried\" if an election were held on 14 October.\n\nHe adds: \"I am going to advise all my community to register for a postal vote.\"\n\nMs Bowman says: \"If a general election were to be held on Monday 14 October this would coincide with the festival of Succot.\n\n\"This means that, due to religious restrictions, observant Jews would not be able to vote in person or participate on the day.\n\n\"While we understand that the situation surrounding Brexit means that there is very little flexibility over dates, we have been in touch with the government to explain the concerns and difficulties that our community would face. \"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a showdown between Boris Johnson and Tory rebels over Brexit.\n\nDr Lee, the MP for Bracknell, took his seat on the opposition benches as the PM addressed the Commons.\n\nHis defection means Boris Johnson no longer has a working majority.\n\nMPs hoping to pass legislation to block no deal have cleared the first hurdle after Speaker John Bercow granted them an emergency debate.\n\nThat debate could last up to three hours, followed by a vote. If the MPs win the vote - defeating the government - they will be able to take control of Commons business on Wednesday.\n\nThat will give them the chance to introduce a cross-party bill which would force the prime minister to ask for Brexit to be delayed until 31 January, unless MPs approve a new deal, or vote in favour of a no-deal exit, by 19 October.\n\nIt seems right now - although there is still some arm twisting going on behind the scenes - that the government is set to lose the vote.\n\nWe are finding ourselves in the middle of a full-throttle confrontation between a Parliament that does not want to allow the country to leave the EU without a deal and a prime minister who secured his place in power promising he would always keep that as an option.\n\nBoth of them cannot be the victors here.\n\nAnd they are both determined to win.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons earlier, Mr Johnson told MPs he wanted a negotiated exit from the EU and insisted there was \"real momentum\" behind the talks with Brussels.\n\nHe said he would travel to Dublin on Monday for discussions with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, focused on proposed alternative arrangements to the Irish border backstop - a key sticking point in the negotiations.\n\nAsked to provide evidence of progress by several Tory MPs, he said he would not negotiate in public but reassured them he would give details of the UK's proposals well before the end of September to meet a deadline set by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nBut he said the moves by MPs, including Conservatives, to pass legislation effectively blocking a no-deal exit on 31 October would \"destroy any chance of negotiating a new deal\".\n\nIf the rebels succeeded in their aims, Mr Johnson said it would force him to go to Brussels to \"beg for another pointless delay\" to Brexit and he would \"never\" do that.\n\n\"It is Jeremy Corbyn's surrender bill. It means running up the white flag,\" he added.\n\nNo 10 has said the prime minister will push for an election on 14 October if the MPs succeed in blocking no deal.\n\nBut asked if he might simply ignore them and press ahead with a no-deal Brexit regardless, he said: \"We will of course uphold the constitution and obey the law.\"\n\nPhillip Lee (front right) has represented the Berkshire constituency of Bracknell since 2010\n\nLast-ditch efforts to get the Tory rebels on side have been taking place, but BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the first meeting on Tuesday morning between the prime minister and the group went \"less than swimmingly\" and was \"less than cordial\".\n\nFurther discussions reportedly began shortly after the PM's Commons statement.\n\nThere are thought to be about 15 confirmed rebels. The government had hoped the threat of an election - and of deselection and expulsion from the party - would be enough to bring them into line.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBefore Dr Lee's defection, Mr Johnson only had a working majority of one in the Commons.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, Dr Lee said Brexit divisions had \"sadly transformed this once great party into something more akin to a narrow faction in which one's Conservatism is measured by how recklessly one wants to leave the European Union\".\n\n\"Perhaps more disappointingly, it has become infected by the twin diseases of English nationalism and populism.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM the \"bullying\" of MPs opposed to no deal showed the \"tone and culture\" of the Conservative Party had fundamentally changed, and he knew of other like-minded colleagues who were also considering their futures.\n\nWelcoming her latest recruit, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said they would work together to prevent a \"disastrous Brexit\" which would do untold damage to the NHS and other public services.\n\nDr Lee's decision to cross the floor - following that of ex-Tory MP Sarah Wollaston last month - was greeted with cheers on the opposition benches.\n\nAmid angry exchanges during the PM's statement on last month's G7 summit, Jeremy Corbyn urged the PM to \"reflect on his choice of language\" to describe the rebels' bill.\n\nThe Labour leader said the UK was \"not at war with Europe\" and it was a no-deal exit which would see the UK \"surrender\" jobs, employment standards and social protections.\n\n\"His is a government with no mandate, no morals and, as of today, no majority,\" he added.\n\nThe SNP's leader in Parliament, Ian Blackford, said Dr Lee's defection capped what he said was the \"shortest-lived honeymoon period ever\" for a new prime minister.\n\nHe said his party was ready for a general election at any time.\n\nBut veteran Tory Ken Clarke, one of those set to rebel later, said the PM's strategy was to \"set conditions which make no deal inevitable, to make sure as much blame as possible is attached to the EU, and as quickly as he can fight a flag-waving election before the consequences of a no deal become too obvious to the public\".", "The prime minister said the result of the vote means parliament is on the brink of \"wrecking any deal\" with Brussels.\n\nThe Commons voted 328 to 301 to take control of the agenda, meaning they can bring forward a bill seeking to delay the UK's exit date beyond 31 October.", "Boris Johnson has expelled 21 MPs from the parliamentary Conservative Party after they rebelled against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThose who have had the Tory whip removed include two ex-chancellors and a number of senior figures in Theresa May's and David Cameron's governments.\n\nSome have said they will stand down at the next election - whilst others have vowed to fight attempts to stop them standing again as Conservative candidates.\n\nIt comes after the rebels teamed up with the opposition on Tuesday to back a motion paving the way for a law seeking to delay the UK's exit date.\n\nThe legislation would force the prime minister to delay Brexit until January 2020, unless MPs approve either a new deal or a no-deal exit by 19 October.\n\nSo who are the Tory MPs who rebelled against the prime minister?\n\nThe former chancellor, who has been co-ordinating the rebels' efforts, insisted the move was not simply designed to block a no-deal exit but also to give Parliament proper time to scrutinise and implement any new deal agreed.\n\nThe 63-year-old voted for Theresa May's Brexit agreement three times, but has become a bogey figure for many Tory Brexiteers. They believe he has consistently exaggerated the economic risks of Brexit and sought to frustrate planning for no deal while in charge of the Treasury.\n\nThe Runnymede and Weybridge MP has said he will vigorously contest any attempt to deselect him as a candidate in the next election, potentially through legal action.\n\nBut his constituency association, which officially re-adopted him as their candidate on Monday evening, issued a statement on Facebook stating that he would \"no longer be eligible to stand\" after losing the Tory whip.\n\n\"A new Conservative candidate will be selected by the membership in due course,\" it said.\n\nTheresa May's former justice secretary is another key figure - so much so that he and his anti-no-deal associates have been dubbed the \"Gaukeward squad\".\n\nThe 48-year old former solicitor - who was George Osborne's number two at the Treasury in pre-referendum days - has said a no-deal exit would be a \"big mistake\" for the UK and he would not be \"complicit\" in something which would see people lose their jobs.\n\nThe South West Hertfordshire MP faced calls earlier this year from some activists in his constituency to deselect him.\n\nConfronted with the same threat now from No 10, he said he was prepared to put the national interest ahead of his own future career prospects by voting against the government. He said he believed Downing Street wanted to carry out a \"purge\" of dissenting voices.\n\nUnlike Mr Hammond and Mr Gauke, Mr Grieve has been a frequent and high-profile rebel over Brexit during the past two years - opposing Theresa May's withdrawal deal three times.\n\nThe former attorney general is a strong supporter of another referendum on the UK's future in Europe, with the option to remain.\n\nThe 63-year-old says he regards a no-deal exit as \"unacceptable\" and will always vote against it - even if his career takes a hit.\n\nThe Beaconsfield MP has said he wants to fight the next election as a Conservative but being deselected is a price he is willing to pay.\n\nHis constituency chairman, Jackson Ng, said he had urged Mr Grieve to \"desist\" from rebelling but thanked him for his \"long service\".\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Grieve lost a vote of no confidence by local Conservatives following a \"robust discussion\" about Brexit.\n\nAnother former chancellor, Mr Clarke is the most strongly Europhile member of his party and has long been out of step with its views on Europe.\n\nHe opposed the 2016 Brexit referendum and was the only Tory MP to vote against triggering the Article 50 process for leaving the EU.\n\nHe has gone as far as to suggest he would vote against the government in a vote of no confidence in order to stop a no-deal exit.\n\nThe 79-year old has previously suggested he might stand down as MP for Rushcliffe at the next election.\n\nHis constituency association said it was saddened to lose him from the party and paid tribute to his \"enviable and unparalleled\" service since he was first elected in 1970.\n\nIt added that \"all future correspondence should be sent direct to his office at the House of Commons rather than to the Rushcliffe Conservative Association office\".\n\nThe ex-cabinet minister was a ringleader in attempts by MPs in April to hammer out a Brexit compromise by seizing control of the parliamentary timetable.\n\nHe also spearheaded a cross-party bill designed to compel Theresa May to seek a Brexit extension earlier this year, and was the MP who applied for an emergency debate on Tuesday, beginning the process which led Boris Johnson's defeat over the latest no-deal Brexit bill.\n\nA consummate Westminster insider, he is a leading \"soft Brexiteer\" who believes the referendum result must be honoured but the UK should maintain close economic links with Europe.\n\nThe West Dorset MP had already said he will not contest the next general election.\n\nThe former education secretary announced on Tuesday she would stand down as MP for the overwhelmingly pro-Remain constituency of Putney in south-west London whenever the next election comes.\n\nShe warned that Parliament's ability to be a force for change, particularly in terms of improving social mobility, was being compromised by \"Brexit myopia\".\n\nShe voted three times against Theresa May's Brexit agreement, saying it neither delivered on the promises made to Leave voters nor gave anything to younger Remain.\n\nWarning her party was morphing into The Brexit Party, she said she would support legislation to keep all Brexit options \"on the table\" and to ensure Parliament has a real say in the outcome.\n\nThe former international development secretary said claims a no-deal exit would be a \"clean and easy break\" from the EU were disingenuous as, in reality, it would lead to years of economic and political uncertainty.\n\nMr Stewart suggested such an outcome would be \"remembered for 40 years\", and would permanently damage the party's reputation.\n\nDespite losing the whip, he has said he is \"not giving up\" on his Cumbrian constituency and would still be representing residents of Penrith and the Border.\n\nHe says it should be up to his local association whether to let him contest the next election and \"purging\" him and other rebels as candidates was a not a Conservative response.\n\nThe former Middle East minister, a respected figure in the party, has said he has a \"fundamental and unresolvable\" disagreement with the party leadership over Brexit.\n\nHe has said he will standing down as MP for North East Bedfordshire at the next election, having served in the Commons since 1983.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he said he accepted the party rules but asked colleagues to reflect on the question \"if we are being purged now, then who is next?\".\n\nHe said the Brexit convulsions in his party \"may have curtailed my future but it will not rob me of what I believe, and I will walk out of here looking up at the sky, not down at my shoes\".\n\nWinston Churchill's grandson was among those who met the PM on Tuesday for last-ditch talks but rebelled after concluding a deal was not achievable in the available timeframe.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he joked that he had been \"inspired by the serial disloyalty\" of the prime minister and other members of the current cabinet over Brexit in the past.\n\nHe added that it was his \"most fervent hope is that this House will rediscover the spirit of compromise, humility and understanding\" required to bring Brexit to a resolution and refocus on all the other challenges facing the country.\n\nHaving had the whip removed, he has said he will not be standing at the next election - meaning his near 37 year Commons career is nearing its end.\n\nThe veteran Conservative MP for Meriden supported the government in Tuesday's vote on whether to seize control of Parliamentary business.\n\nBut she joined the ranks of the rebels when the bill paving the way for a further delay to Brexit, if no deal is achieved, was voted on for the first time.\n\nUnlike those who rebelled on Tuesday, she has not had the whip withdrawn - but she has said she will not be standing at the next election.\n\nA former Conservative party chair and environment secretary under David Cameron, her Midlands constituency is home to a number of firms supplying parts for the UK car industry.\n\nThe 61-year old has expressed concerns about the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the industry.\n\nGreg Clark: The former business secretary was one of the strongest advocates of Theresa May's Brexit deal. He has said no deal would be \"ruinous\".\n\nSam Gyimah: The former universities minister said there was \"no mandate\" for a no-deal exit which would be \"damaging and disruptive\" for his constituents.\n\nAntoinette Sandbach: The MP for Eddisbury said it was \"important to act\" to stop any chance of no deal. She said she did not \"regret putting her job on the line to save my constituents' jobs\".\n\nStephen Hammond: He has accused Tory Brexiteers of \"lecturing others\" about loyalty. He told the BBC's World at One he would \"reluctantly\" vote against the government.\n\nMargot James: The former digital minister said it had been the hardest decision she had ever made in politics. Her local Stourbridge Conservative association has begun the process of selecting a candidate for the next election, saying the choice was a \"matter for members\".\n\nRichard Harrington: The 61-year old has rebelled over Brexit before and recently announced he would stand down as MP for Watford at the next election.\n\nGuto Bebb: The Aberconwy MP, who is also quitting at the next election, says a vote against no deal is \"truer to Conservative tradition than anyone who traipses through the lobbies out of fear, opportunism or simply unthinking loyalty\".\n\nCaroline Nokes: The Romsey and Southampton North MP said her constituents would be worse off under a no-deal Brexit. She said she would be talking to her constituency association but would not rule out standing as an independent.\n\nEd Vaizey: The ex-culture minister has said a no-deal exit would hurt the digital economy although he told Buzzfeed News he had yet to decide which way to vote.\n\nSteve Brine: The former health minister said last week he was prepared to hold the PM to his claim a no-deal exit is a \"million to one chance\".\n\nAnne Milton: She has kept a low profile since quitting as a minister in July but attended a meeting with other likely rebels in Westminster earlier on Tuesday.\n\nRichard Benyon: The MP for Newbury is a former fisheries minister in the coalition government. He told the BBC that he hoped to return to the fold as a Tory MP, adding that he would \"throw himself on the mercy\" of his local association.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Jeremy Corbyn said he wants a general election, Boris Johnson said he doesn't, but will the prime minister call one?\n\nJonathan Blake gives his daily roundup of the key Brexit events in British politics.", "David Parnham claimed in court he did not recall writing to the Queen\n\nA self-styled \"Muslim Slayer\" who sent fake poison to the Queen with a letter saying \"The Clowns R Coming 4 You\" has been sentenced to 12 years and six months.\n\nDavid Parnham, 36, posted similar notes to then PM Theresa May and two bishops.\n\nHe also sent \"Punish a Muslim Day\" hate mail urging people to attack and kill Muslims, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nParnham, from Lincoln, must serve his sentence in hospital until he is well enough to be transferred to prison.\n\nHe admitted 15 offences including soliciting to murder, making hoaxes involving noxious substances and bombs, and sending letters with intent to cause distress.\n\nThe charges relate to hundreds of letters penned between June 2016 and June 2018.\n\nSentencing the IT systems analyst, Judge Anthony Leonard QC said: \"You have yet to appreciate the seriousness of what you have done and seem to want to return to the community at the earliest opportunity to live with your parents.\"\n\nParnham failed to appreciate the harm he caused to the Muslim and wider community, which meant there was a greater risk of him reoffending, the judge said.\n\nJudge Leonard said Parnham had been suffering from an autistic spectrum disorder but rejected the suggestion he was psychotic at the time of the offences.\n\nDavid Parnham sent out letters calling for attacks as part of a \"Punish a Muslim Day\"\n\nHis hoax letter to the Queen triggered a Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) response, the court heard.\n\nLetters to Mrs May and two bishops, as well as the Home Office, in October 2016, also contained white powder and made an apparent reference to reports of attacks by people dressed as clowns.\n\nLast year, Parnham sent more than 300 letters to mosques and public figures calling for attacks in the street as part of a \"Punish a Muslim Day\".\n\nIn February 2017, he sent a letter to Berkeley Street Mosque in Hull, which contained a drawing of a sword with a swastika on it cutting someone's head off with the words \"You are going to be slaughtered very soon\".\n\nThe author signed off as \"Muslim Slayer\".\n\nDavid Parnham's \"Punish a Muslim Day\" letters did not lead to widespread violence.\n\nBut TellMama, an anti-Muslim hate crime charity, said it recorded one school bullying incident it could link to Parnham's call, though not on the scale he had hoped for.\n\nSo, in extreme right-wing terrorism terms, Parnham's impact was one of spreading fear and consuming a great deal of police resources in tracking him down.\n\nHis story is not quite over though. Investigators in the UK and US believe he also sent letters to mosques in North America.\n\nThere may be many other victims of his hate mail out there who have yet to come forward.\n\nDet Ch Supt Martin Snowden, head of counter terrorism in the north east, said Parnham's \"abusive, racist and threatening language used in the letters was deeply concerning and created considerable distress which cannot be underestimated\".\n\nIman Atta, director of anti-Muslim hate crime monitoring organisation TellMama, said there were some in the Muslim communities who \"were fearful to go out\" because of Parnham's campaign.\n\nJenny Hopkins, of the Crown Prosecution Service, described him as \"a white supremacist with a particular hatred for Muslims\".\n\nThe court had heard the IT specialist sent a fan letter in December 2016 to Dylann Roof, the white supremacist gunman responsible for killing nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, thanking him \"for opening my eyes\".\n\nParnham first came to the attention of authorities in July 2016 when seven letters intercepted at Sheffield mail centre were found to contain harmless white powder.\n\nDuring the two-day sentencing, psychiatrists disagreed on whether he had been psychotic at the time he committed the offences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016\n\nThe husband of jailed British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab should \"pick a fight\" with Iran to secure her release.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe said Brexit issues could see bids for his wife's freedom left \"on the shelf\" and \"forgotten\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nMr Raab said he would \"continue to do everything we can to free Nazanin\".\n\nMr Ratcliffe, who met Mr Raab on Monday, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The situation is getting worse and the government is dealing with Brexit over here, but this is an issue that shouldn't be forgotten.\"\n\nAsked whether he was stepping up lobbying efforts, Mr Ratcliffe said: \"That's exactly what we were pitching. We were saying there is a tendency for the Foreign Office to want to de-escalate and calm things down, and I am saying, 'I want you to pick a fight'.\n\n\"An election is very close, everything is up in the air and it feels like in politics most issues are struggling to get airtime.\n\n\"She (Nazanin) is in varying levels of despair. She is looking at it and thinking, 'gosh, with all these other things going on will we be left on the shelf?'\n\n\"We've had the restriction of phone calls and visiting rights, and not being able to see Gabriella, our daughter who has just turned five, hit the hardest.\"\n\nGabriella, who has not been allowed to leave Iran following her mother's arrest, is currently living with her maternal grandparents.\n\nFollowing the meeting, Mr Raab said on Twitter: \"Valuable meeting with Richard Ratcliffe and his parents to discuss the latest developments in Nazanin's case.\n\n\"We will continue to do everything we can to free Nazanin and reunite the family #FreeNazanin\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport in April 2016 and has always said the visit was to introduce her daughter to her relatives.\n\nIn November 2017, then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson faced criticism for suggesting Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was training journalists while in Iran - remarks he later apologised for and clarified, saying he had no doubt she was on holiday there.\n\nMr Ratcliffe outside the Iranian Embassy in London\n\nEarlier this year, then Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt granted her diplomatic protection in a bid to resolve her case.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly said the responsibility for her continued detention lies with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.\n\nIn June, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe went on hunger strike for 15 days to protest her detention.\n\nMr Ratcliffe joined her protest by refusing to eat while camped on the pavement outside the Iranian Embassy in London.\n\nAmnesty International UK director Kate Allen said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who worked as a project manager for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, is a \"prisoner of conscience\" who was \"jailed after a sham trial.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)", "John Manley said his employers failed to pay him\n\nA labourer smashed up the entrance of a hotel with a digger over a Christmas pay dispute, a court heard.\n\nThe destruction happened at the Travelodge in Liverpool's Innovation Park on 21 January.\n\nJohn Manley pleaded guilty to damaging property and being reckless as to whether life was endangered. He will be sentenced on 1 November.\n\nThe 35-year-old had been dealing with \"social problems\" in the run-up to the attack, Liverpool Crown Court heard.\n\nDefending, Brendan Carville accepted that Manley, of Netherton, Merseyside, had \"intended to cause the damage\", and that he was facing an immediate prison sentence.\n\nBut he said his client's behaviour had \"notably [followed] the failure of his immediate employers [not Travelodge] to pay him over the Christmas period and asking him to work for nothing on the eve of this offence\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe digger crashed through windows and the reception desk at the hotel, causing extensive damage to the building on the day it was due to be finished.\n\nThe destruction was filmed by several witnesses on mobile phones.\n\nFootage showed the vehicle mounting the hotel steps and entering the lobby through its glass entrance.\n\nOne witness said the attack went on for \"a good 20 or 30 minutes\" and left workers \"gobsmacked\".\n\nMassive damage was caused in the attack\n\nHe denied damaging property being reckless as to whether life was endangered and also denied dangerous driving in relation to the incident.\n\nBut on the opening day of his trial he admitted he put people's lives in danger at the construction site.\n\nHis not guilty plea to dangerous driving was accepted by the prosecution.\n\nSentencing was adjourned for psychiatric reports and Manley, of St Aidan's Way, was remanded in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hart pulled out of hosting this year's Oscars\n\nComedian and actor Kevin Hart was taken to hospital with \"major back injuries\" on Sunday following a car accident in Los Angeles.\n\nAccording to the California Highway Patrol, Hart was being driven in his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda on Mulholland Highway at the time of the accident.\n\nHis wife Eniko Parrish told TMZ news reporters on Monday that the comedian was awake and \"going to be just fine\".\n\nThe accident happened just after midnight.\n\nThe driver, Jared Black, lost control of the car and it tumbled into an embankment, the report stated.\n\nBlack also sustained major back injuries. A third passenger was unhurt.\n\nBlack - the fiance of the third passenger, Rebecca Broxterman - was determined not to have been driving under the influence at the time of the crash.\n\nHart was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Centre and the driver was taken to another hospital, the patrol report said.\n\nHart is known for his stand-up comedy and comic roles in movies such as Ride Along and The Secret Life of Pets.\n\nHe pulled out of hosting this year's Oscars ceremony following a controversy over old homophobic tweets.\n\nThe 40 year old said he did not want to be a distraction and was \"sorry he had hurt people\".\n\nThe ceremony went ahead without a host.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Oscars 2019 ceremony to go without host", "Supporters staged protests as the club's league future hung in the balance\n\nA fraud investigation has been launched involving Bury Football Club, police have confirmed.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it received a report of fraud on 18 June and inquiries were ongoing but no arrests had been made.\n\nThe club were expelled from the English Football League (EFL) on 27 August after a late takeover bid from C&N Sporting Risk failed.\n\nBury were the first club to drop out of the league since Maidstone in 1992.\n\nThe Greater Manchester club were members of the EFL for 125 years.\n\nThe allegation of fraud was made to GMP exactly one month before current owner Steve Dale reached a Company Voluntary Arrangement to repay the club's creditors 25% of the £9m they owed.\n\nHowever, the arrangement was dependant on the Shakers being able to play their fixtures this season.\n\nThe club were also handed a 12-point penalty by the EFL for entering into an insolvency agreement.\n\nThe EFL was not satisfied Bury had provided sufficient evidence of their financial viability, so it postponed a string of the club's fixtures while it awaited \"the clarity required\".\n\nThe club were given a deadline to complete a sale but after the bid collapsed, they were expelled from the league.\n\nBury fans gathered at Gigg Lane when the club was expelled from the EFL last week\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singer Ariana Grande is asking for $10m (£8.3m) in damages from Forever 21, saying the retailer \"stole her name\" to promote its clothing and beauty products.\n\nShe said the firm published at least 30 \"unauthorised\" images and videos that suggested she had endorsed the brand.\n\nIt also hired a model with an \"uncanny\" resemblance to Ms Grande for some of its social media posts, she said.\n\nHer lawsuit comes after a breakdown in talks over a joint marketing campaign.\n\nMs Grande said the firm, which has stores in more than 50 countries around the world, approached her in 2018 about endorsement.\n\nHowever, she said talks broke down because \"the amounts that Forever 21 offered to pay for the right to use Ms Grande's name and likeness were insufficient for an artist of her stature.\"\n\n\"Rather than pay for that right as the law requires, defendants simply stole it,\" she said in the complaint, which was filed in federal court in California.\n\nThe \"misleading campaign\" occurred primarily in January and February of 2019, before the release of Ms Grande's album, 'Thank U, Next', according to the suit.\n\nForever 21 declined to comment on the specifics of the lawsuit.\n\n\"That said, while we dispute the allegations, we are huge supporters of Ariana Grande and have worked with her licensing company over the past two years,\" it said. \"We are hopeful that we will find a mutually agreeable resolution and can continue to work together in the future.\"\n\nMs Grande is a Grammy Award winner and best-selling singer. She also has more than 200 million followers on Instagram and Twitter.\n\nBillboard named her \"Woman of the Year\" in 2018 after she raised $29m for victims of the Manchester suicide bombing attack, the lawsuit said.\n\nMs Grande is one of a long line of celebrities to sue over trademarks.\n\nFor example, in July, Kim Kardashian-West won $2.7m in damages after accusing fashion brand Missguided USA of ripping off her outfits and using her name to sell clothes.\n\nJohn Coldham, a partner at law firm Gowling WLG, said the Ariana Grande case \"should act as a stark warning to brand owners to be very careful about using celebrity images and ensuring they are not implying an endorsement.\"", "Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nHe crossed the floor to take his seat on the opposition benches as the PM addressed the Commons.\n\nIn a statement he said the government was \"pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways\", putting lives and livelihoods at risk.", "US Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles says her \"heart aches for everyone involved\" after her brother was charged with murder.\n\nOn Twitter, she said she's \"having a hard time processing what's happened\".\n\nTevin Biles-Thomas was arrested over a shooting on New Year's Eve that left three men dead and two injured.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who serves in the US Army, is being held in prison in Georgia, where he was arrested last week.\n\nHe was charged with murder, voluntary manslaughter, felonious assault and perjury.\n\nSimone posted: \"My heart aches for everyone involved, especially for the victims and their families.\n\n\"There is nothing that I can say that will heal anyone's pain, but I do want to express my sincere condolences to everyone affected by this terrible tragedy.\n\n\"I ask everyone to please respect my family's privacy as we deal with our pain.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe shooting took place in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, according to a police statement, seen by US media.\n\nIt says a fight broke out after an \"uninvited group\" turned up at a party, leading to the deaths of 19-year-old Delvante Johnson and 21-year-old Toshaun Banks at the scene.\n\nDevaughn Gibson, who was 23, died in hospital.\n\nSimone and her sister were adopted by their grandparents, who Simone often refers to as mum and dad.\n\nIt's reported she didn't grow up with her brothers, Tevin and Ashley, who were adopted by their great aunt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Simone Biles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe talked about her upbringing when she was on Dancing with the Stars in the US.\n\n\"Growing up, my biological mom was suffering from drug and alcohol abuse and she was in and out of jail,\" she said.\n\n\"My parents saved me, they've set huge examples of how to treat other people, and they've been there to support me since day one. There's nothing I could say to them to thank them enough.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSimone won four gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She's the most decorated US gymnast and is considered to be one of the greatest gymnasts of all time.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "More schools in England are setting up food banks to help feed their pupils' families, according to the biggest school governors' organisation.\n\nThe National Governance Association's annual survey found 8% of governors were in schools which had food banks - up from 7% last year.\n\nThe highest proportion were in the North East - where 13% of governors were in schools with a food bank.\n\n\"It is a shameful situation in a country which is among the wealthiest in the world,\" said Mr Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union.\n\nThe National Governance Association (NGA) surveyed 6,000 governors about the challenges facing their schools.\n\nSchool governors, who are often volunteers such as parents or representatives of the local community, warned that funding shortages and teacher recruitment were among the biggest problems.\n\nBut the survey also showed the rising challenge of having to offer welfare services to families - such as running food banks, offering meals outside of term time and washing pupils' clothes and uniforms.\n\nFood banks, which provide emergency supplies of food, were most common in schools in the north-east of England, the West Midlands and London - and were more likely in nursery and primary schools than in secondary.\n\nAmong nursery school governors, 2% reported their schools were providing emergency loans to parents.\n\n\"There is an increasing demand on schools to take responsibility for more areas of children's lives than simply their education,\" said NGA chief executive, Emma Knights.\n\n\"School staff have an increased burden of providing welfare services because of chronic underfunding in other areas and particularly cuts to local authority services,\" she said.\n\nBut relying on schools for welfare services was \"not a satisfactory solution\".\n\nHead teachers have been warning about the growing pressure on schools to provide much more than academic support.\n\nIn a survey of more than 400 schools earlier this year, the Association of School and College Leaders found 43% of schools were offering families help with food.\n\nThese were not necessarily running regular food banks, but included schools providing food parcels on a more occasional basis.\n\nHead teachers' leader Mr Barton said schools were becoming a \"fourth emergency service providing clothing, food and pastoral support to many young people in extremely difficult circumstances\".\n\n\"These pupils would not be ready to learn without this support,\" he said.", "Footage has emerged from the Bahamas as it was battered by Hurricane Dorian, causing destruction to homes and flooding.\n\nIt's the most powerful storm to hit the country, and the second strongest Atlantic hurricane on record.\n\nThe hurricane, which is moving westwards, may also hit the US east coast, with several states declaring a state of emergency.", "A third of Britons with high blood pressure are unaware they have the condition\n\nCancer now causes more deaths among the middle-aged in higher-income countries than cardiovascular disease, a study suggests.\n\nGlobally, heart problems and stroke is the leading cause of death at this age.\n\nBut the researchers say people in rich nations are 2.5 times more likely to die of cancer than cardiovascular disease in their middle years.\n\nIn poorer nations, the reverse is true - with cardiovascular disease three times more likely to claim the lives.\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet, is drawn from a global research programme following the lives of thousands of people from across 21 countries. People from the UK are not involved.\n\nResearchers led by a team from Canada's McMaster University looked at the fate of 160,000 people enrolled in the programme, between 2005 and 2016.\n\nThese people had an average age of 50 at the start.\n\nThere were more than 11,000 deaths, with those in low-income countries nearly four times more likely to die than those in high-income countries.\n\nIn about 2,000 cases, the cause of death was unclear.\n\nOf the others, cardiovascular disease caused more than 40% in middle- and low-income countries but less than a quarter in high-income countries.\n\nThe researchers say this could be because richer countries provide more medication and treat more people in hospital.\n\nJeremy Pearson, of the British Heart Foundation, said \"huge progress\" meant many people were surviving heart attacks and strokes but growing numbers were living with \"disability and the debilitating after effects\" of cardiovascular disease.", "Alec Holowka, co-creator of the Night in the Woods video game, has died.\n\nHis sister Eilieen Mary Holowka has confirmed the news on Twitter saying he \"spent a lifetime battling mood and personality disorders\".\n\nLocal Canadian police in Winnipeg are continuing to investigate the details of what happened.\n\nIt follows recent claims that he had physically and emotionally abused a female games designer.\n\nThe co-creators of Night in the Woods, Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry, had distanced themselves from him after the abuse allegations came out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Night In The Woods\n\nThe game was released in 2017 and covers themes of mental illness, depression, and social immobility according to gaming website Polygon.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Scott Benson says they've \"received a lot of emails and messages\" which has been very \"tough\".\n\n\"Much of Night in the Woods is pulled pretty directly from our lives.\n\n\"Thousands of people have connected with Night in the Woods in a very personal way. Whatever you're feeling is valid. Your experience with art is yours. What it means to you is yours.\"\n\nIn Alec's sister's tweets about his death she also mentions how he \"was a victim of abuse\".\n\n\"I will not pretend that he was not also responsible for causing harm, but deep down he was a person who wanted only to offer people care and kindness.\n\n\"In the last few days, he was supported by many Manitoba crisis services, and I want to thank everyone there for their support.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues in this article, you can find help at BBC Advice.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "An artist's impression of how the development at Loch Lomond would look\n\nFlamingo Land has formally withdrawn its planning application to build a £30m tourist resort on Loch Lomond.\n\nThe move comes after officials for the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority recommended its board reject the bid earlier this month.\n\nMore than 55,000 objections were lodged against the Lomond Banks development between April and May.\n\nBut the team behind the project have not ruled out submitting a fresh application at a later date.\n\nScottish Green MSP Ross Greer, who led the campaign against the plans, tweeted: \"We've won this battle but it's not over.\n\n\"They will resubmit, in a transparent attempt to cancel the 57,000 objections lodged against them this time.\"\n\nFlamingo Land Ltd and Scottish Enterprise confirmed that they had informed the National Park Authority they collectively wished to withdraw the live planning application.\n\nAndy Miller, director of Lomond Banks, said: \"We've been working hard with all parties, including the National Park Authority, for more than two years to ensure all information relating to the proposed development was made readily available.\n\n\"We know the national park recognises that the majority of what we propose fits in with the LDP [local development plan].\n\n\"It is therefore surprising and disappointing that their recommendation report raises previously unidentified concerns and highlights the need for new additional information.\"\n\nA hotel, lodges and \"glamping pods\" formed part of the plan for the site at Balloch\n\nHe said the move would grant the team sufficient time to understand new concerns, provide additional information requested and consider the most appropriate course of action.\n\nMr Miller added: \"Our priority now is to fully understand concerns, gather the necessary information and dispel some of the myths that continue to circulate around our ambitions for the site.\n\n\"It is only at this point, we will consider re-submitting our plans to ensure decision makers will be able to take a fully informed decision on this important application.\"\n\nA park authority spokeswoman said that a \"significant amount of time and resource\" went into assessing the application and the report which recommended refusal.\n\nShe said: \"It is ultimately the applicants' decision not to continue with this process.\n\n\"While land within this application site has been identified as suitable for tourism development, it is crucial that any new development protects the character of the existing landscape and the natural and built environment, while making a positive contribution to area as an international tourism destination.\"\n\nThe final say on the development rested with the park authority - not West Dunbartonshire Council.\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\nScottish Enterprise director Allan McQuade said: \"Any proposed plan and investment of this scale must be considered from all angles and subsequent planning and investment decisions based on hard evidence and fact therefore it is only right that the current planning application be withdrawn to allow sufficient time for all parties to consider additional new information.\n\n\"As with previous developments at Loch Lomond, we understand people are concerned and our priority is to ensure that any development on the parcel of derelict land in Balloch is delivered in line with planning policy.\"\n\nIt was estimated the Lomond Banks development at Balloch would create 80 full-time jobs, 50 part-time jobs and 70 seasonal roles in the area.\n\nWhile the proposal was drawn up by the theme-park operator, it was not branded as Flamingo Land. The developers have previously insisted the resort would not be a theme park.\n\nCampaigners feared the project would spoil the scenery and limit access to the shoreline for locals.\n\nThe plans were drawn up Flamingo Land but the Loch Lomond development would not carry the theme park's name.\n\nA park authority report noted that the plan \"has not demonstrated that there will be no adverse impacts on the character or integrity\" of the existing asset.\n\nIt stated: \"Two key elements of the application - proposals in Drumkinnon Wood and at the Pierhead area - would result in significant unacceptable impacts on the landscape, visual amenity, and trees and woodland.\n\n\"As a result, the proposed development would adversely affect the area's built heritage and the enjoyment of the Pierhead area by both visitors and locals.\n\n\"There are no socio-economic reasons, or public benefits that would outweigh these reasons. It is also not considered that the use of planning conditions could reasonably control or mitigate these impacts.\"\n• None Why did 55,000 object to Loch Lomond plans?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I want the people to have a choice, says Jeremy Corbyn\n\nJeremy Corbyn has refused to say which side he might back in a future Brexit referendum under a Labour government.\n\nHe said he would offer voters a choice between Remain and a deal negotiated by Labour, and deliver the outcome.\n\nPushed on whether he would personally support Leave or Remain, he refused to commit, saying instead: \"As PM, my job will be to bring people together.\"\n\nHis remarks come ahead of Labour's conference where he is expected to face increasing pressure to back Remain.\n\nAccording to campaign group Another Europe is Possible, more than 80 motions have been submitted by local Labour groups for debate at conference in Brighton calling for the party to back Remain in a future public vote.\n\nMr Corbyn's apparently neutral stance has been openly challenged by First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford on Wednesday.\n\nHe said Welsh Labour \"must and will campaign to remain in the EU\".\n\nA number of shadow cabinet members, including shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, have said they would campaign for Remain.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has called for another public vote on Brexit before any general election, but Mr Corbyn has said an election should come first.\n\nA parallel is being drawn with Harold Wilson, who allowed Labour ministers to campaign for either side in the 1975 Common Market referendum while arguing for the UK to stay in\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour was the only party offering a choice and he would be asking the Labour conference to \"realise the importance of giving the people a choice\".\n\n\"I want the people to have a choice between the offer of remaining in the EU and the offer of an agreement with the EU which will give us a trade relationship, which will give us a customs union, will give us rights, consumer rights, workers rights and environmental standards.\n\n\"My job, as prime minister, will be to deliver that option that is chosen by the British people.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the Liberal Democrats agreed a new manifesto pledge that if they won a majority government in a next election, they would scrap Brexit altogether without another vote.\n\nBut their leader, Jo Swinson, said they would continue to call for another referendum alongside other opposition parties until an election was called.\n\nMr Corbyn initially outlined his position in an interview with the Guardian where he repeated Labour's four sticking points for a \"sensible\" deal with the EU - a new customs union, a close single market relationship, guarantees of workers' rights and promises on environmental protections.\n\nOnce these were secured, he said they would put that deal to a vote against Remain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry has said she would back Remain in another referendum.\n\nMr Corbyn said the pledge made Labour \"the only UK-wide party ready to put our trust in the people of Britain\".\n\nHe said Boris Johnson wanted to \"crash out\" of the EU without a deal, while the new position of the Lib Dems would be a \"parliamentary stitch-up\" and \"simply undemocratic\".\n\nBut Michael Chessum, national organiser for Another Europe is Possible, said Labour members were the party's \"secret weapon\" at a general election, and Mr Corbyn \"ignores them at its peril\".\n\n\"Support for an explicit Remain stance is evidently overwhelming,\" he said.\n\n\"Only if Labour can get clarity on this part of its policy can it fight the election on its domestic agenda.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn's political opponents - externally and internally - are already satirising him on social media. They say that he's even sitting on the fence on whether he'd remain neutral in an EU referendum called by his own government.\n\nMy understanding is he'd decide between Leave and Remain after the election, and once a leave deal had been negotiated. But in his TV interview today, he didn't quite commit to taking a position at all.\n\nIn Labour circles, they often cite Harold Wilson's position on the 1975 European Community referendum as a precedent. Wilson allowed his cabinet to campaign on either side - Corbyn would do the same.\n\nBut although taking a back seat in the campaign, Wilson did not remain neutral.\n\nHe personally backed staying in, or, if you like 'Remain'. In doing so, though, he ignored official party policy - which was to leave.\n\nNow, of course, the vast majority of party members want to stay in the EU. So come a referendum, could Jeremy Corbyn yet do a Wilson-in-reverse?\n\nIt's worth pointing out that only a year ago Labour was not formally committed to a 'public vote' with Remain definitely on the ballot paper.\n\nWhatever his own views on Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn is promising what many of his own MPs and members were previously demanding.\n\nThe Conservatives said the growing movement within Labour for the party to campaign for remain showed it wanted to \"cancel\" the 2016 referendum result.\n\n\"They had the chance to let the public decide how to resolve Brexit via a general election - but Jeremy Corbyn doesn't trust the people,\" said party chair James Cleverly.\n\nMeanwhile, the party's National Executive Committee has voted to scrap its affiliation with Labour Students - which, up until now, had been the official student wing of the party.\n\nEarlier, the chair of Labour's Momentum campaign group, Jon Lansman, put a motion to the NEC calling for it to set up a new student body.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by iain 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.", "Live coverage as the Supreme Court hears two appeals that will determine whether the prime minister acted lawfully in suspending Parliament for five weeks.\n\nEdinburgh's Court of Session said the shutdown was unlawful and London's High Court said it was not a court matter.\n\nYou can read more continuing live BBC coverage here.", "Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he did not intend to accuse a British diver of being a paedophile when he called him \"pedo guy\" on Twitter.\n\nVern Unsworth, 64 - who helped rescue 12 Thai boys from an underwater cave in 2018 - has sued Mr Musk for defamation.\n\nIn court documents, lawyers for Mr Musk argued that in South Africa, where he grew up, \"pedo\" is commonly used to refer to a \"creepy old man\".\n\nThe spat began after Mr Unsworth spoke about Mr Musk in a CNN TV interview.\n\nIn the interview, Mr Unsworth said the miniature submarine Mr Musk sent to Thailand to help with the rescue would not work and was a publicity stunt.\n\nHe added that Musk could \"stick his submarine where it hurts\".\n\nMr Musk responded on Twitter by calling him \"pedo guy\". He later deleted the tweets and apologised after huge outrage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nIn court filings on Monday, Mr Musk said: \"It is synonymous with 'creepy old man' and is used to insult a person's appearance and demeanor, not accuse a person of acts of pedophilia.\"\n\n\"I did not intend to accuse Mr Unsworth of engaging in acts of pedophilia,\" he added. \"In response to his insults in the CNN interview, I meant to insult him back by expressing my opinion that he seemed like a creepy old man.\"\n\nMr Musk also said in his court filings that his aide hired a private investigator who \"reported that Mr Unsworth associated with Europeans who engage in improper sexual conduct in Thailand\".\n\nMr Unsworth, who lives partly in Thailand with his 41-year-old partner, has denied all accusations of wrongdoing.\n\nHis lawyer Lin Wood told the AFP news agency: \"Musk's motion is as offensive to the truth and the sworn testimony developed in this case as was his initial false and heinous accusation of paedophilia.\"\n\nThe defamation trial is scheduled for 2 December.\n\nMr Musk's comments on Twitter have been controversial on other occasions.\n\nIn April he reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over his tweets, which also puts a restriction on his use of Twitter.", "James Anderson says his work has received a \"boost\" from international attention\n\nA not-for-profit plumbing company in Burnley has earned worldwide attention after it refused to charge an elderly customer for work on her boiler.\n\nA receipt for the work shows a 91-year-old woman with leukaemia would not be charged \"under any circumstances\".\n\nThe receipt was shared on social media by the woman's daughter in the past week and has since been liked hundreds of thousands of times.\n\nPlumber James Anderson says he hopes to expand his altruism across the UK.\n\nJames is originally from Liverpool, where he was a bin man before he became a plumber in 1998. He has been running Depher - Disabled & Elderly Plumbing and Heating Emergency Repair - as a not-for-profit plumbing company since March 2017.\n\n\"There are too many elderly and disabled people suffering in silence,\" he explains. \"They don't like asking for help. They don't want to be a burden.\n\n\"We take away the burden, the stigma.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, James says the company's work \"stops them getting into debt\" and helps them regain an independence they fear they may lose \"if they think they can't afford repair costs\".\n\nDespite running up debts for such a selfless ethos, James says he will keep doing it until \"the day God calls me\".\n\nHe now owes \"just under £8,000\" but the situation is \"under control,\" because of his arrangements with both his bank and his supplier.\n\nThe company also has a crowdfunding page, and performs regular plumbing jobs: \"Any money we make goes back into the Depher account\".\n\nJames says he had to lay off two workers because of a lack of funds.\n\nHe wants to expand the philanthropic work beyond Burnley, and the attention brought by the receipt could help.\n\n\"I've got other plumbers... offering help. My hope is to get Depher national, in every city and town.\"\n\n\"We need to be a human race, to look out for each other,\" says James, pictured with his daughter\n\nJames was not initially aware of his note being shared online. \"I was at my grandson's christening,\" he says. \"I got a couple of likes and cheers on Sunday,\" but since then the reaction has been \"absolutely global\".\n\nHe has been taking calls from as far away as Germany and the US, and from international broadcasters, talking about his aims to help those in need.\n\n\"It's going to give it a boost,\" he adds. But he's reluctant to take all the credit, calling his actions \"a community effort\".\n\n\"We all do what we can and we all come together as a community. We need to be a human race, to look out for each other.\"", "Katy McAllister will be sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court in October\n\nA Dundee doctor who was cleared in 2017 of killing a friend by giving her a cocktail of painkillers has admitted importing controlled drugs.\n\nKaty McAllister, 33, attempted to have diazepam, oxycodone, Temazepam, and morphine delivered to her home.\n\nMcAllister will be sentenced on 11 October at Dundee Sheriff Court.\n\nShe was found not guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh in 2017 of culpable homicide, but admitted supplying diazepam and Temazepam to two people.\n\nIn the latest case, McAllister admitted four charges at Dundee Sheriff Court of importing controlled drugs over a three-month period in 2017.\n\nProsecutor Saima Rasheed told the court: \"In respect of this matter, a narrative was prepared, but there's a dispute over the value of the drugs.\"\n\nMs Rasheed asked for the case to be continued and defence agent Gary McIlvarey asked for \"at least a week\" to allow lawyers to resolve the issue.\n\nNot guilty pleas to a further 10 drug-related charges were accepted by prosecutors.\n\nIn 2017, McAllister was acquitted of causing the death of Louise McGowan at Voodoo Tattoo in Dundee in May 2015.\n\nProsecutors alleged she had administered the drugs to Mrs McGowan but judge Graham Buchanan QC said they had failed to provide evidence of culpable homicide.\n\nShe did, however, plead guilty to supplying a fellow medic with diazepam pills, and tablets, including Temazepam, to another man.\n\nThe High Court heard that Mrs McGowan, 27, had felt \"anxious\" about getting a tattoo.\n\nShe died a day after taking the drugs, after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nDuring the High Court trial, paramedic Robbie Gray told jurors that McAllister phoned for an ambulance after Mrs McGowan's husband contacted her to say his wife was ill.\n\nThey then found Mrs McGowan was unresponsive and had no pulse.\n\nAn electrocardiogram to test Mrs McGowan's heart showed she had little activity in the organ.\n\nMcAllister and staff began to administer CPR and gave Mrs McGowan adrenaline.\n\nHowever, they could not resuscitate her.\n\nThe court heard that McAllister told doctors her friend had taken alcohol, ibuprofen and co-codamol the previous day, and may have also taken diazepam to calm her nerves.", "Facebook says it is going to make changes to prevent advertisers from altering headlines and links to other people's online stories.\n\nIt follows the removal by Facebook of a Conservative advert - after claims that it misrepresented a BBC News story.\n\nFacebook says it wants to introduce the changes by the end of this year, and is currently testing how this might work.\n\nThe Conservative party says it is reviewing how its Facebook adverts are produced.\n\nThe social media firm took down Conservative party online adverts which had added a different headline to a BBC News story about education spending.\n\nThe now removed Tory Facebook advert, which used a BBC story but with an altered headline\n\nThe headline shown in the Conservative advert on Facebook replaced the original headline on the BBC story - and contradicted the contents of the story.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact said political parties should not \"misrepresent the work of independent journalists in this way\".\n\nFacebook said these political adverts had \"misused\" the advertising platform - and they are now covered up on Facebook's advert library, with the warning they were taken down for breaking the website's rules.\n\nThe advert carried a BBC logo and headline saying \"£14 billion pound cash boost for schools\" - despite the story it linked to putting the figure at £7.1bn.\n\nHow the BBC story had been headlined\n\nA spokesman for Facebook said the changes made in the Conservative adverts \"were not how we want our tools to be used\".\n\nAdvertisers who link to another story or website are not allowed to alter how this third-party content appears in their adverts.\n\nFacebook said it wants to protect the original publishers of materials and strengthen \"enforcement\" and to \"better prevent this behaviour\" in the future.\n\nEarlier this month, the firm was part of a group of organisations, including the BBC, which committed themselves to tackling \"fake news\" and disinformation.\n\nThe advert, which started running on 2 September, followed a government announcement on new funding for schools in England.\n\nClicking on the advert took readers to a story on the BBC News website with the headline \"Multi-billion pound cash boost for schools\".\n\nAnalysis in the story challenged the claim of £14bn extra spending - setting out why £7.1bn was a more accurate figure.\n\nIn his House of Commons speech announcing plans for school budgets in the spending review, the Chancellor Sajid Javid also specified that the increase would be £7.1bn.\n\nThe Conservative advert removed by Facebook for a \"misuse\" of its advertising rules\n\nFact checkers for Full Fact had highlighted concerns about the altered headline - which had almost doubled the level of increase to £14bn, saying that it could be \"misleading, particularly for readers who don't click through to the article\".\n\nA statement from the Conservative Party said: \"It was not our intention to misrepresent by using this headline copy with the news link, where the BBC's £7bn figure is clearly displayed, but we are reviewing how our advert headlines match accompanying links.\"", "Two survivors of the Bethany Home in Dublin have called for an apology from the Irish state and Church of Ireland for their ill-treatment.\n\nJames Fenning, 78, who lives in County Antrim, and Paul Graham, 80, based in Sydney, said their lives have been blighted.\n\nThe home, which closed in the 1960s, was a place for unmarried Protestant mothers and their children.\n\nIt was run by a committee of Protestant clergy and lay people.\n\nMr Fenning and Mr Graham, who were both adopted from the home by families in Northern Ireland, met for the first time in an emotional meeting in Belfast on Saturday.\n\nThey said they each felt uplifted to have found each other to share their experiences.\n\nBoth men have a condition they attribute to severe malnourishment as infants.\n\nMr Fenning said he was neglected when \"nursed out\" to a home with 20 children in return for 15 shillings, while Mr Graham said he was emotionally damaged by several failed adoptions arranged by Bethany Home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Fenning calls for an apology over Bethany Home\n\nThey said the Irish government had \"discriminated\" against them as Protestants in failing to offer redress for those who lived at the home.\n\nThe Bethany Home was excluded from the Irish government's residential institutions redress scheme because it was deemed \"not to qualify\" since it was a home for mothers and children.\n\nMr Fenning and Mr Graham also want an apology from the Church of Ireland as they are convinced it played a key role in the home, but the Church strongly denies this.\n\nIt said it neither ran nor managed the home.\n\nThe Bethany Home Survivors Group '98 argue the church consigned women and children to the home.\n\nIn 2010, it also received a letter from Ireland's Department of Justice, which appeared to cast doubt on the Church's claim that the home was completely independent of it.\n\n\"The Church of Ireland denies all responsibility,\" said Mr Fenning, who left the home when he was about four.\n\n\"The Dublin government don't think we're fit to get redress, yet all the Catholic homes got redress, so is it discrimination against Protestants?\"\n\nAn estimated €1.5bn was paid out to historical abuse victims in the Republic as part of a financial redress scheme set up in 2009 following a government inquiry.\n\nHowever, none of that money has gone to people who say they were ill-treated at the Bethany Home.\n\nThe Bethany is included in a new inquiry - the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes - set up in 2015 following allegations about the deaths and burial of 800 babies in Tuam, County Galway.\n\nA shrine in Tuam, County Galway dedicated to babies buried on the site of a former mother-and-baby home\n\nThe commission is due to submit its final findings in February 2020.\n\nA Department of Education spokesperson said the original redress scheme had been closed to new applications since September 2011 and would not be reopened.\n\nThe spokesperson said the scheme was \"intended to deal with a very particular circumstance, namely, the abuse of children that occurred while the state was acting to a significant degree in loco parentis, where children had been removed by the state from their parents and placed out of their protection\".\n\nHe added: \"If we got a bit of honesty from the Church of Ireland, from the Dublin government, to say 'we hold our hands up, you were cruelly treated in the Bethany home', that would suffice.\"\n\nAdopted by a wealthy Belfast family in 1944, Mr Graham ran away from his home at the age of 14 to join the Royal Marines and later became an alcoholic because of childhood trauma.\n\nHe said one of his first memories is \"rows and rows of cots\" at Bethany Home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Graham calls for an apology over Bethany Home\n\nHe said he wanted the Church and the government to apologise and admit it had \"made mistakes\".\n\n\"All I want is redress, I just want to be treated the same as any other Irish citizen, I want to be treated as a human being,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed the authorities had \"washed their hands of Bethany and done little to help survivors\".\n\nBoth men are among a group of campaigners who have sought recognition for children and infants of Bethany Home since the 1990s.\n\nAs part of the campaign, a memorial was erected in a Dublin graveyard in 2014 on the previously unmarked graves of more than 200 babies and infants from the home.\n\nMany of them are understood to have died from ailments including TB and malnutrition.\n\nA Church of Ireland spokesman said Bethany Home was owned and managed by the Dublin Prison Gate Mission, which it said was an \"independent trust set up in the 19th Century to work with former prisoners\" and was not owned by the Church of Ireland.\n\n\"In terms of pastoral outreach, the Church has always sought to listen to people in difficulty, including people from various homes and institutions.\n\n\"In the case of Bethany Home, the Church wrote to the Irish state on behalf of former residents, and asked that their story would be heard as part of the wider investigations being carried out by the state.\n\n\"The Irish state responded positively to the request and the home is therefore being considered as part of the remit of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.\"\n• None Tuam babies to be exhumed from grave", "Police moved in shortly after dawn to clear the camp on Tuesday\n\nFrench police have begun an operation to evacuate a gymnasium and a tent camp near the northern port of Dunkirk amid an increase in migrants trying to cross the Channel.\n\nSome 1,000 people, many of them Iraqi Kurds, have been living on the Grande Synthe site.\n\nThe gym was made available for migrants seeking shelter by the town last year.\n\nNow a court has ordered the gym to be closed to migrants because of local complaints.\n\nThere are fears this may all prompt a further spike in crossings to England.\n\nAt the weekend 41 people were stopped in three small boats and a kayak by UK border officials, and 86 people were intercepted a week ago by the UK's Border Force. A further 29 migrants were stopped as they headed towards the Kent coast on Monday.\n\nAfter Calais, Dunkirk is one of the closest French ports to the English coast and authorities had already moved in to clear the camp in October 2018 when almost 1,800 people lived there.\n\nWhen the gym opened up to migrants in December 2018, the original aim was to close it in the spring, but by August 2019 170 people were being housed there and a further 800 were in tents nearby.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dangers faced by migrants who cross the Channel\n\nFrench authorities also cleared an area outside Calais last Friday.\n\nGendarmes and riot police moved in at 08:00 (06:00 GMT) almost a fortnight after a judge in Lille ruled that the camp was a risk to public security. The ruling cited smugglers and criminal networks operating at Grande Synthe, as well as brawls and violence.\n\nPeople were being seen being driven away in buses during the morning. Reports said the migrants had been split into families, unaccompanied minors and others. Officials said most of them would be driven to emergency shelters throughout the north-west of France.\n\nMost of the migrants at Grande-Synthe have been living in tents outside the gym\n\n\"I reckon everyone here was happy to get out of the shantytown that Grande-Synthe has become,\" said local prefect Michel Lalande. \"We're bringing an end to it this morning and that's good news for rule of law and human rights.\"\n\n\"You should know that if they ask for asylum in France, they have an 80% chance of getting it,\" Dunkirk official Éric Étienne told La Voix du Nord.\n\nPeople smugglers have infiltrated this camp and that is why the French authorities want it closed.\n\nLast night we had access inside the camp and saw smugglers walking around openly, through the makeshift shops, trying to entice people to pay money to get them on boats and lorries to come to the UK.\n\nEarly this morning, hundreds of police officers arrived here along with large empty buses.\n\nPots and pans lay deserted at the camp\n\nAll the buses have now left and there are now some tents abandoned. Cleaners have moved in, but it's a vast job at such a big camp.\n\nPeople in the camp last night seemed undeterred and some saw Britain as the Promised Land. There are migrant camps all over northern France, and charities think they will just go somewhere else. Those I spoke to, including families with small children, said they would just keep trying.\n\nAn estimated 1,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats this year and French and UK officials are concerned about the involvement of smugglers persuading people they have to leave because of the UK government's pledge to leave the European Union by 31 October.\n\n\"Every day they try to cross by boat, very little boats and it's very dangerous but the mafia always take a lot of money,\" complained charity worker Claudette Hannebicque, who believes Brexit has had an impact on numbers trying to cross the Channel.\n\n\"Sometimes the police here arrest mafia or put them in prison. But here there's a 'little mafia' - the big big boss is not here,\" she told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n• None Are migrant 'pushbacks' in the Channel legal?", "The actor plays an astronaut in his latest film, and spoke to the real-life astronaut about how he navigates life on the International Space Station.", "Sarah Thomas began her challenge early on Sunday and finished after more than 54 hours.\n\nShe is the first person to swim the English Channel four times non-stop.\n\nThe American, 37, dedicated her swim to \"all the survivors out there\" after completing treatment for breast cancer a year ago.", "Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked in a park near Romford, east London\n\nA 17-year-old girl was killed in a \"terrible and cowardly\" stabbing during a drug turf war, a court has heard.\n\nJodie Chesney was stabbed in the back while playing music and smoking cannabis with friends in a park in Harold Hill, east London, on 1 March.\n\nShe may not have been the intended target of the attack, the prosecution told the Old Bailey jury.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, Svenson Ong-a-kwie, 19, both from Romford, and two boys, aged 16 and 17, deny murder.\n\nThe jury was told two people came out of the dark in the park and the taller of them swung his right arm at Jodie's back.\n\nShe suffered a deep wound to her back and was left bleeding heavily as her attackers disappeared seconds later.\n\nJodie suffered a deep wound to her back and was bleeding heavily after the attack in a park\n\nJodie's boyfriend Eddie Coyle, 18, caught her as she fell and eased her to the ground, crying and screaming at Jodie to stay awake while holding her hand.\n\nThe first call to emergency services was made at 21:22 GMT and two police officers were on the scene within 13 minutes.\n\nThe ambulance set off for the Royal London Hospital but it was decided that doctors in a car should meet it halfway at an Esso Garage in Gants Hill.\n\nThey attempted to resuscitate Jodie on the forecourt of the petrol station, prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said.\n\n\"Despite the best efforts of all concerned, there had been no cardiac activity for some time. Jodie was pronounced dead at 22:26,\" he added.\n\nManuel Petrovic (left), Svenson Ong-a-Kwie (right) and two boys (behind) who cannot be identified due to their age\n\nMr Aylett told jurors none of Jodie's friends had any idea who was responsible for the \"terrible and cowardly\" attack.\n\nJurors were told the four defendants were involved in the supply of drugs and one or more of Jodie's friends had bought cannabis from those accused in the past.\n\n\"The drug-dealing world is one of turf wars, rivalries and pathetic claims for 'respect',\" Mr Aylett said.\n\nHe said, however, that there was \"nothing to suggest that Jodie was involved in the supply of drugs or that she might have upset anyone\".\n\n\"If the prosecution are right in saying that Jodie Chesney was an entirely blameless individual who got caught up in some quarrel between drug dealers, then her murder was the terrible but predictable consequence of an all-too casual approach to the carrying - and using - of knives.\"\n\nJodie's father described his daughter as \"a beautiful, well-liked, fun, young woman\"\n\nFollowing national publicity, police got a breakthrough when a witness reported two males getting into a stationary black Vauxhall Corsa.\n\nMr Aylett said Jodie's murder might have gone unsolved if not for the chance sighting by witness, Andrei Mihai, who reported seeing a stationary car near to the park where Jodie was stabbed and from where he heard screaming.\n\nA couple of hours after the killing, a black Corsa registered to Mr Petrovic was found abandoned about two miles away, he said.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Petrovic, of Highfield Road, Romford, east London, admitted driving to Harold Hill with a friend and two others who had gone into the park to collect money and drugs.\n\nHe denied knowing the pair were armed beforehand, the court heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Edinburgh's new children's hospital was due to open in 2017\n\nA public inquiry will be held to examine safety and wellbeing issues at the new children's hospital in Edinburgh and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nThe inquiry will determine how vital issues relating to ventilation and other key building systems occurred.\n\nIt will also look at how to avoid mistakes in future projects.\n\nEdinburgh's Royal Hospital for Children and Young People had been due to open in 2017.\n\nThe facility, which has the same building contractor as the Glasgow super-hospital, will now not be ready until next autumn at the earliest.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said: \"The safety and wellbeing of all patients and their families is my top priority and should be the primary consideration in all NHS construction projects.\n\n\"I want to make sure this is the case for all future projects, which is why, following calls from affected parents, I am announcing a public inquiry to examine the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital sites.\"\n\nThe £824m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow opened in 2015\n\nShe added: \"The recent KPMG and NSS reports into the new Edinburgh Children's Hospital will provide a significant amount of the underpinning evidence for the inquiry alongside the ongoing independent review into the delivery and maintenance of the QEUH.\n\n\"The current situation is not one anyone would choose - but it is one I am determined to resolve.\"\n\nMs Freeman will speak in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday to confirm \"a full statutory public inquiry with all the power that brings\".\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"I will make it clear in the chamber tomorrow that there will be a public inquiry and broadly what its scope is.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said the public inquiry would be looking at how the NHS designed, built and maintained its major infrastructure\n\n\"I'll come back to our Scottish Parliament with the full remit, with the name of who will lead that and with the timeline. That's normal.\"\n\nShe added: \"What the public inquiry will be looking at is how in the NHS we design, contract, build and maintain our major infrastructure.\n\n\"And how we take into that all the available evidence - in terms of infection prevention and control - and how we make sure that our buildings are compliant with national standards and guidance.\n\n\"It will also, I am sure, make recommendations to us - particularly about what more we need to do in order to insure that all of that is met to the best quality that we can.\"\n\nIn January, it was confirmed two patients had died after contracting a fungal infection caused by pigeon droppings at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nThe health secretary later ordered a review of the design of the building and said there was an \"absolute focus on patient safety\".\n\nMeanwhile, the new £150m Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh has been dogged by delays over health concerns.\n\nThe hospital was supposed to open in 2017 - but will now not be ready until next autumn at the earliest - after problems with the specification of the ventilation system.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon previously said she \"deeply regrets\" the hold-up, with opposition parties calling for \"heads to roll\".\n\nThe opening date was put back when last-minute inspections found serious problems with the ventilation system in the facility's critical care unit.\n\nA report published earlier this month said £16m of repairs were needed to fix the ventilation and other issues that had been identified, with the work expected to take at least a year.\n\nThe corridors of the new hospital in Edinburgh will remain empty for some time\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the public inquiry was \"long overdue\" and insisted it had only come about because \"the SNP hierarchy has become fed-up of negative headlines\".\n\nThe party's health spokesman Miles Briggs said: \"The ongoing problems at both hospitals are consequences of SNP negligence of the NHS which has gone on for more than a decade.\n\n\"It is now vital that the public inquiry reports as soon as possible and considers the decisions taken around these projects by all four SNP health secretaries.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Monica Lennon said the inquiry was \"the only way to get to the bottom of this outrageous series of errors\".\n\nShe added: \"Children in Scotland are being let down because the hospitals they were promised are not fit for purpose.\n\n\"We have two hospitals built by the same contractor that are mired in controversy, and all the while patients are suffering.\n\n\"The public need to know the truth of what has gone so badly wrong at these two vital hospitals.\"\n\nThe Scottish Lib Dems said public trust in the projects needed to be \"urgently restored.\"\n\nSpokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said: \"Quite simply, we cannot have young patients being treated in facilities that are not up to scratch.\n\n\"It is vital that this public inquiry now moves forward in a way that complements and does not further delay the opening of the Sick Kids hospital.\"\n\nAlison Johnstone, for the Scottish Greens, welcomed the announcement but said the health secretary must not use the inquiry as \"an excuse to avoid legitimate parliamentary scrutiny\".\n\nShe added: \"The Scottish government must ensure that the health and wellbeing of patients and staff is paramount going forward, and provide adequate support to all those who have been affected at both sites.\n\n\"There are also significant questions around the private finance schemes used to fund these projects and I hope that is an area the inquiry can examine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We must stop Brexit\", Jo Swinson says\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson has warned Boris Johnson that \"if he thinks being a woman is somehow a weakness, he's about to find out it is not\".\n\nShe said the PM's choice of insults such as \"big girl's blouse\" and \"girly swot\" were \"revealing\".\n\nIn her first conference speech as leader, she said she could not wait to \"take on\" Mr Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage in an election.\n\nAnd she vowed a Lib Dem government would stop Brexit \"on day one\".\n\nThe Lib Dems currently have 18 MPs - a figure boosted by recent defections - but it would require a seismic shift in the electoral landscape for them to win power.\n\nNevertheless, Ms Swinson received a standing ovation when she told the conference she wanted to be prime minister, adding: \"There is no limit to my ambition for our party.\"\n\nMr Johnson called Mr Corbyn \"a big girl's blouse\" during their first clash at Prime Minister's Questions earlier this month - a remark that prompted some criticism.\n\nIt also emerged he had labelled former PM David Cameron a \"girly swot\".\n\nOn Tuesday, as the Supreme Court began hearing two appeals relating to the suspension of Parliament, Lib Dem conference delegates backed an emergency motion calling for the suspension of Parliament to be reversed.\n\nEarlier at the conference they voted overwhelmingly to back her proposal for a manifesto pledge to revoke Article 50 if the party came into power with a majority government.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Swinson criticised Mr Johnson's pledge to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nShe told the conference in Bournemouth the prime minister's spending on no-deal preparations was \"sickening\".\n\n\"The truth is you can't plan for no deal. Planning for no deal is like planning to burn your house down,\" she said. \"You might have insurance, but you're still going to lose all your stuff.\"\n\nThe six new Lib Dems - acquired from Labour and the Tories - were front and centre\n\nAsk Liberal Democrat members here what they think of their leader and words like \"refreshing\", \"energetic\" and \"relatable\" trip off the tongue.\n\nSome praise Jo Swinson's ability to communicate with voters, others gush about her confidence and composure in the House of Commons.\n\nBut old hands who've seen leaders come and go sound a note of caution about fulfilling expectations.\n\nOne senior figure said she needed to \"rise to the occasion\".\n\nJo Swinson has won her party's backing for a bold shift in policy on Brexit, and talks of winning 300 seats in a general election.\n\nBut with big ambitions come big expectations and soon Jo Swinson will be judged by her party on what she can deliver not just on what she can promise.\n\nMs Swinson, who succeeded Sir Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader in July, added: \"The first task is clear. We must stop Brexit. There is no Brexit that will be good for our country.\"\n\nShe criticised Mr Johnson for withdrawing the Conservative whip from 21 Tory rebels - including one, Sam Gyimah, who later joined the Lib Dems - and for deciding to suspend Parliament.\n\nShe said he was \"silencing critics, purging opponents, ignoring the law\".\n\n\"For someone who proclaims to hate socialist dictators, he's doing a pretty good impression of one.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Swinson also turned her fire on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of holding on to Eurosceptic views.\n\n\"Even now, when faced with all the clear and obvious dangers that Brexit brings, Jeremy Corbyn still insists that if Labour win a general election, they will negotiate their own Brexit deal to take us out of the EU,\" she said.\n\n\"Nigel Farage might be Brexit by name, but it is very clear that Jeremy Corbyn is Brexit by nature.\"\n\nEarlier, shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti described the Lib Dem's promise to revoke Article 50 without a further referendum as \"illiberal and anti-democratic\".\n\nTurning to Scotland, Ms Swinson highlighted its support to remain in the EU in the 2016 referendum and urged supporters there to give \"a big vote\" to her party.\n\n\"Together we can stop Brexit,\" she said. \"We are building a movement across the United Kingdom that is on the verge of stopping it.\"\n\nIn her keynote speech, Ms Swinson also touched on policy matters away from Brexit.\n\nOn climate change, she said a Lib Dem government would create a green investment bank and set up a citizens' assembly to debate how the UK would reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045.\n\nShe said her government would tackle climate change \"because, as the placards say, there is no Planet B.\"\n\nMs Swinson also said she wanted the party to \"fundamentally rethink the purpose of our economy\", asking why a country's success was \"reduced to a GDP figure\".\n\n\"It [GDP] measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile,\" she said quoting the American politician Bobby Kennedy.\n\nShe pledged to introduce a wellbeing budget \"to spell out our priorities for public spending on the things that matter most\".\n\nThe Lib Dem leader also promised to fund youth services in order to tackle knife crime and to ringfence funding for mental health services.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA second man has been arrested as police continue to hunt for a solid gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace.\n\nThe artwork, valued at $6m (£4.8m), was stolen in a raid at the stately home in Woodstock, Oxfordshire on Saturday.\n\nPolice said the 36-year-old man, from Cheltenham, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle and had been released under investigation.\n\nA 66-year-old man was previously arrested on the same day as the theft.\n\nHe was held on suspicion of burglary and released on bail until October.\n\nThe 18-carat gold toilet, entitled America, had been part of an exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan and was available to be used by visitors to the home of the Duke of Marlborough.\n\nBlenheim's chief executive Dominic Hare said the theft had echoes of a \"heist movie\" and added it was the \"first theft of this type in living memory\" from the palace.\n\nMr Hare said the World Heritage Site had a \"a sophisticated security system\", but said staff were \"now challenged to look hard at ourselves and improve again\".\n\nBlenheim's chief executive Dominic Hare said the theft had echoes of a \"heist movie\"\n\nDet Insp Steve Jones said the force's priority was \"to locate the stolen item\" as he appealed for anyone with information to contact officers.\n\nPolice said on Monday they believed a gang of thieves using at least two vehicles were responsible for the theft.\n\nBlenheim Palace was shut on Saturday after the burglary but reopened on Sunday.\n\nMr Hare said the artwork - famously offered to US President Donald Trump in 2017 - was a \"comment on the American dream\".\n\nHe added it was \"not out of the question [the toilet] would be melted down\" by the thieves.\n\nIn an email to the New York Times, Cattelan said he wanted \"to be positive and think the robbery is a kind of Robin Hood-inspired action\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sam Walker posted a photograph of himself at HMP Peterborough\n\nMore action is needed to stop mobile phones entering jails after a prisoner was able to set up a YouTube channel from his cell, a union says.\n\nPrison Officers' Association chairman Mark Fairhurst said it was \"frustrating\" prisoners were finding \"ingenious\" ways to hide phones.\n\nDrug dealer Sam Walker was found using a smuggled phone to run a YouTube and Twitter account from Leeds jail.\n\nMr Fairhurst said body scanners and signal-blocking technology were needed.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said Walker had since been moved to HMP Peterborough, but his social media activity has apparently continued.\n\nHis Twitter account has more than 19,000 followers and carries the description \"unofficial account being run until Sam's home\".\n\nIt also links to a YouTube channel, which carries videos captured in Leeds.\n\nOne video, published on 10 August, purportedly shows Walker in a room with Charles Bronson.\n\nA caption alongside the video said: \"Big Charlie Bronson becomes camera shy while I video him. All 6ft5ins & 20 stone of him.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice later clarified the prisoner in the video was not the notorious armed robber.\n\nSam Walker's Twitter account has more than 19,000 followers\n\nMr Fairhurst said prison staff believed somebody outside the jail was posting the material on Walker's behalf.\n\nHe said prison officers had tried and failed to find a phone in Walker's cell, and he may have concealed it \"in his person\".\n\nHe said: \"What we need is for the officers to get in that cell and get [the phone] off him, but they have ingenious ways of hiding mobile phones.\n\n\"If in fact he uses the popular choice, and he secretes the mobile phone in his person, we do not have the authority to take it from him.\n\n\"We're very reliant on storming in his cell and getting it while he's using it. It is very frustrating.\"\n\nIn 2018, 36-year-old Walker also posted videos while on the run in Sierra Leone before his eventual arrest.\n\nOne of the videos showed an inmate who Walker likened to notorious armed robber Charles Bronson\n\nYet despite the move, his social media activity has continued, with the prisoner posting a photograph of himself at the jail.\n\nA spokesman for Sodexo, which runs the jail in conjunction with the MOJ, said \"immediate action\" had been taken, but declined to say what form that action took.\n\nTwitter and YouTube have been approached for a comment.\n\nMr Fairhurst said: \"Realistically, as we've been highlighting, we want the technology in our jails to prevent mobile phone signals.\n\n\"That technology is available. It can isolate specific points in a prison. Of course, it costs money. I get the impression it's all down to funding.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has pushed back the deadline for smart energy meter rollout by four years until 2024.\n\nPreviously, suppliers' deadline was the end of 2020, but energy firms had warned the technology was not ready.\n\nBut the extra time could lead to more years of frustration for customers, many of whom are fed up with the new meters they have been given.\n\nIt also means the cost of installing the new equipment is likely to rise further, to more than £13bn in total.\n\nCustomers are not obliged to have a smart meter fitted, but energy firms must have offered them to all UK households by the end of the new deadline.\n\nThe promise of smart meters was that readings would be automatic, billing would be easier, and a new world of flexible charges would be ushered in.\n\nIn practice, millions of people found they had new meters which did not work properly if they switched suppliers - and millions more have not been given the technology at all.\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, thinks extending the smart meter rollout deadline is a \"common-sense move\" that is good for customers.\n\n\"This new deadline gives suppliers time to fix ongoing technical problems and make sure customer service isn't sidelined as the rollout continues,\" she said.\n\n\"We've seen some energy companies use aggressive techniques to try to persuade people to have smart meters fitted as soon as possible to meet the existing timeline.\"\n\nThere was a pledge in the Conservative Party's 2017 election manifesto that every household and business would be offered a smart meter by the end of 2020 - and there is still that expectation.\n\nThe government is adamant that its targets are being met and that the new regime outlined on Monday does not amount to a let-off for suppliers.\n\nThe energy regulator, Ofgem, had a rule that the energy companies had to take \"reasonable steps\" to fit meters, which left them plenty of wriggle room.\n\nThe Minister for Climate Change, Lord Duncan of Springbank, said: \"We remain on track for suppliers to offer every home a smart meter by the end of next year, but to maintain momentum beyond 2020 we are proposing strict yearly installation targets for suppliers from 2021. This will deliver even greater benefits for households and reduce emissions.\"\n\nBut it is clear to gas and electricity firms that ministers have recognised reality and allowed them an extension. The new framework gives them until the end of 2024 to install smart meters in at least 85% of their customers' homes.\n\nUSwitch.com's head of regulation Richard Neudegg said that public confidence in the smart meter programme had been \"badly damaged\".\n\n\"This is now an opportunity to rebuild trust. In particular, people want proof that the solution which allows older smart meters to stay smart when a household switches supplier is finally available,\" he said.\n• None Why your smart meter may not be so smart after all", "Victims of stalking, harassment and sex crimes will be able to challenge sentences they think are too lenient, under an expansion of a government scheme in England and Wales.\n\nFourteen offences are to be added to the unduly lenient sentence scheme, which examines crown court punishments.\n\nMurder, robbery, rape and some child sex cases can currently be heard.\n\nThe offences being added include abuse by a person in a position of trust and having indecent child images.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said controlling and coercive behaviour and sexual activity with a person who has a mental disorder would also now be covered.\n\nThe unduly lenient sentence scheme began in 1989 after a series of controversial court cases caused public outcry.\n\nIt allows anyone to ask for a sentence to be reviewed by the Attorney General's Office, even if they have no connection to the case.\n\nOnly one request is needed for the government to decide whether a sentence can be looked at again, but it must be lodged within 28 days of the court hearing.\n\nLast year, 99 people saw their sentences increased after a review by the courts in England and Wales. There are similar schemes in Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nTerror offences and the most serious fraud, assault and drug cases can also be challenged under the existing scheme.\n\nThe government says it hopes the changes will come into effect in the autumn via secondary legislation, which can be brought in without Parliament having to pass a new act.\n\nAlthough reforms to the scheme were under consideration before Boris Johnson became prime minister, they tie in with his commitment to a more punitive sentencing regime.\n\nDetails of the expansion were first reported in a Sunday Telegraph story about government proposals to bring in longer sentences for violent and sexual offenders.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said it was \"absolutely right that victims have a voice in the system when punishments don't appear to fit the crime\".\n\nHe said the scheme's expansion delivers on a key commitment in the cross-government victims' strategy, published last year.\n\nBut Frances Crook from the Howard League for Penal Reform has suggested the move was as much about satisfying an apparent need for tougher punishments, as it is about public safety.\n\n\"There are questions to be asked about whether increasing the prison term of one person really has an impact on reducing harm and preventing crime more generally,\" she said.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC under Freedom of Information laws this year show requests to increase 3,499 crown court sentences were received between 2015 and 2018.\n\nOnly 643 of these ended up at the Court of Appeal, with 478 resulting in harsher punishments.\n\nAbout a third of all requests, 1,148, were dismissed outright because the crimes committed were not eligible for review.\n\nHave you been able to challenge a sentencing or are interested in doing 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:", "ExxonMobil plant manager Jacob McAlister said he hoped residents would notice a difference within a year as a result of the new investment\n\nA total of £140m is to be spent reducing flaring and improving the reliability of a Fife chemical plant.\n\nExxonMobil said it had started recruiting 850 temporary workers to carry out the work over the next 12 months.\n\nThe operator said the investment was on top of the £20m it spends annually on maintaining its Mossmorran site.\n\nResidents have complained of light pollution and noise often disrupting their sleep during flaring events.\n\nExxonMobil said the work - which includes fitting flaring tips and other technology to reduce flaring - would be completed by September 2020.\n\nCurrently, the plant has temporarily shut down while two of its three boilers have parts renewed and repaired.\n\nThe company said it expected to resume operations producing ethylene during the fourth quarter of the year - between October and December - after the shutdown which began on 12 August.\n\nExxonmobil's ethylene plant at Mossmorran is temporarily shut down\n\nThe work will involve building a flare at ground level which means they will use the elevated flare less often, reducing the visual impact of the plant. The multi-million pound ground flare will be built by 2024.\n\nIn addition, the work will lead to a reduction in the amount of vibration felt by local residents, plant bosses claim.\n\nPlant manager Jacob McAlister said: \"The reliability of the plant has not been where we want it to be and we recognise that - £140m is a major step and shows our commitment that we are addressing these issues.\n\n\"We built this [elevated flare tower] 34 years ago to keep the community safe and it is doing its job but we have more advanced technology now that we didn't have when it was built which we hope will address the issues we have been having.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're intent on making improvements, which will drastically reduce flaring and the duration of elevated flaring. I hope in one year from now a significant portion of this project will be in place and that the number of flaring events will be driven down.\n\n\"We are not spending this money to pacify the community, we are concerned about how the plant is impacting on their lives and we are announcing how we are addressing that.\"\n\nJames Glen, chairman of the Mossmorran Action Group, said residents believed there had been \"major under investment\" in the safety and maintenance of the plant.\n\nHe added: \"It would be good to know how much of the £140m planned expenditure is just to bring the plant up to a reasonable safety standard.\n\n\"We have been promised flaring tips before and these never reduced the levels of flaring and the noise impacts.\n\n\"So the communities will wait with bated breath to see if this is an improvement.\"\n\nResidents have complained of light pollution and noise during flaring\n\nEnvironmental watchdog Sepa said it had been pressing for ground flaring to be introduced at the site - but wanted it introduced sooner than 2024.\n\nSepa chief compliance officer Ian Buchanan said: \"We look forward to working with ExxonMobil on detailed proposals to both address the root causes of flaring and also on the requirement we have set around the 'shortest period possible to plan, design, build and safely integrate' new ground flare technology which will significantly reduce impacts of flaring on local communities.\"\n\nLesley Laird, MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, said the major investment justified the concerns communities had expressed for years.\n\n\"Residents were patronised for the most part, and those who dared raised concerns publicly were derided for scaremongering,\" she added.\n\n\"It is only through the concerted pressure of the Mossmorran Working Group that Sepa, HSE and the companies have finally all had to face up to the reality that communities had reached their absolute limit, and that they would have to act as the plant was clearly not fit for purpose.\n\n\"More detailed responses are now required from all of these organisations as to how, under the watchful eye of Sepa and HSE, Fife Ethylene Plant was allowed to deteriorate to this extent.\"\n\nEnergy Minister Paul Wheelhouse, said: \"Given community concerns, the Scottish government has been clear that the frequency of unplanned flaring at the site is unacceptable and that the operators must take steps to address this, so this announcement of action being taken is therefore to be welcomed.\"\n\nIan Buchanan, a chief officer at Sepa, said: \"Sepa has been clear that repeated unplanned flaring by ExxonMobil was both unacceptable and preventable and that in future flaring will be the exception rather than routine.\n\n\"Having served a series of notices and operating permit variations to drive investment, including in noise reducing flare tips by 2020, we welcome today's broad announcement from ExxonMobil.\"\n\nAlan Mitchell, chief executive of Fife Chamber of Commerce, said: \"First and foremost, this is tremendous news for the workforce at Mossmorran.\n\n\"But the benefits will be felt well beyond the plant's boundaries.\n\n\"It will create jobs in Fife and opportunities for contracts and work for local companies.\"\n\nMeanwhile, BBC Scotland has learned the plant has been issued with an improvement notice over the risk of an explosion.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said ExxonMobil had failed to take all measures necessary to reduce the risk of \"firebox explosion from furnaces\".\n\nThe firebox is an area in the plant's furnaces where fuel is burnt.\n\nInspectors said the risk came from an uncontrolled accumulation of unburnt fuel in the firebox.\n\nThe HSE notice, which affects seven furnaces at the plant, states \"the measures currently in place are not sufficient to reduce the risk to as low as reasonably practicable\".\n\nIt was issued in July and ExxonMobil has until March next year to comply with the improvement order.\n\nOn the HSE notice, Mr McAlister said: \"Our safety performance is such that in the 30-plus years we've been in operation we've never had a major safety incident.\n\n\"We've gone over 25 years without a lost time injury on the site. You don't do that if you're not managing the safety risks appropriately. We are managing the safety risks, that's our number one job to ensure that we do that right.\"\n\nIn August it emerged that Scotland's environmental regulator Sepa had received almost 1,400 complaints about the Mossmorran site, which is also shared by Shell Fife NGL.\n\nBoth companies had their permits modified and were told to install flare tips that reduce noise.\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. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nIf the prime minister's team and the government machine of a small country can't agree happily on arrangements for a press conference, then it doesn't exactly feel like anyone is in the mood to edge a little bit closer to a Brexit deal.\n\n\"Podiumgate\", as it has inevitably been labelled, immediately gave a pantomime distraction - complete with a booing crowd - to Monday's developments in the bigger Brexit story.\n\nIt's no secret that the Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel held the views that he was so happy to express.\n\nHe has gladly - and candidly - expressed on many occasions his sadness that the UK voted to leave, and his frustration with how UK governments have handled it so far.\n\nBut if what happened was an expression of the state of diplomacy between the UK and EU member states, then don't hold your breath for a breakthrough in understanding between the two sides that could lead us all to a new version of a Brexit deal.\n\nAs ever with the UK's departure from the EU, there are two dramatically different interpretations of what happened.\n\nIf you think that it's a bad idea and Boris Johnson is blundering his way to a crash-out, then the Luxembourg leader's protestation will have given yet more evidence to that cause - the suggestion that the UK has made a terrible mistake, the EU has tried its best, and yet the prime minister is insisting on carrying on and, to boot, failing to offer any real and new options that could provide a civilised exit.\n\nIf, on the other hand, you reckon that the EU's leaders have looked for every opportunity to thwart the UK's reasonable efforts to deliver the referendum result, you may well think that it was another episode in the pantomime that demonstrates the continent's unwillingness to acknowledge the UK's decision to leave.\n\nForget those two sides for a second. What do the last 24 hours tell us about the chances of a deal actually being done?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: EU have had \"bellyful\" of delays\n\nPodiumgate tells us that both sides find it hard to present a joint front, and perhaps the relations of Brexit are so fractured that political leaders are not willing to observe the normal rules of diplomatic engagement.\n\nAnd if, in the months to come, either side is looking to apportion blame, Monday's events could play equally strongly into both sides' hands.\n\nMore pertinently maybe, when we asked the prime minister how he actually intended to get a deal, he suggested that there was space to revise the arrangements around the controversial backstop but simply wouldn't elaborate on what those details might be.\n\nAnd when we asked, repeatedly, exactly how he intends to get round Parliament's decision to try to outlaw leaving without a deal he just would not say.\n\nRight now it seems the volume is rising, but the clock is still ticking down.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes says the Sun newspaper's front-page story about his family is \"utterly disgusting\" and the \"lowest form of journalism\".\n\nStokes said the newspaper article deals with \"deeply personal and traumatic events\" that affected his New Zealand-based family more than 30 years ago.\n\nStokes, 28, who starred as England won the World Cup this summer, called the article \"immoral and heartless\".\n\nThe Sun told the BBC it had received the co-operation of a family member.\n\nIt added that the events described were \"a matter of public record\" and \"the subject of extensive front-page publicity in New Zealand at the time\".\n\nStokes was born in New Zealand and moved to Cumbria with his family aged 12.\n\nIn a statement , Stokes said the story concerned \"events in the private lives of my family, going back more than 31 years\" and had \"serious inaccuracies which has compounded the damage caused\".\n\n\"The decision to publish these details has grave and lifelong consequences for my mum in particular,\" he said.\n\nThe Durham and England all-rounder added: \"To use my name as an excuse to shatter the privacy and private lives of - in particular - my parents is utterly disgusting.\n\n\"It is hard to find words that adequately describe such low and despicable behaviour, disguised as journalism.\n\n\"I cannot conceive of anything more immoral, heartless or contemptuous to the feelings and circumstances of my family.\"\n\nStokes produced the match-winning innings as England's men won their first Cricket World Cup at Lord's in July before an incredible 135 not out in the third Ashes Test against Australia at Headingley last month saw England stay in contention in a series they eventually drew 2-2.\n\nHe added: \"I am aware that my public profile brings with it consequences for me that I accept entirely.\n\n\"But I will not allow my public profile to be used as an excuse to invade the rights of my parents, my wife, my children or other family members. They are entitled to a private life of their own.\n\n\"For more than three decades, my family has worked hard to deal with the private trauma inevitably associated with these events and has taken great care to keep private what were deeply personal and traumatic events.\n\n\"On Saturday the Sun sent a 'reporter' to my parents' home in New Zealand to question them, out of the blue, on this incredibly upsetting topic. If that wasn't bad enough, the Sun think it is acceptable to sensationalise our personal tragedy for their front page.\n\n\"This is the lowest form of journalism, focused only on chasing sales with absolutely no regard for the devastation caused to lives as a consequence. It is totally out of order.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Sun said: \"The Sun has the utmost sympathy for Ben Stokes and his mother but it is only right to point out the story was told with the co-operation of a family member who supplied details, provided photographs and posed for pictures.\n\n\"The tragedy is also a matter of public record and was the subject of extensive front page publicity in New Zealand at the time.\n\n\"The Sun has huge admiration for Ben Stokes and we were delighted to celebrate his sporting heroics this summer. He was contacted prior to publication and at no stage did he or his representatives ask us not to publish the story.\"\n\nTom Harrison, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), said he was \"disgusted and appalled at the actions taken in revealing the tragic events from Ben's past\".\n\n\"We are saddened that an intrusion of this magnitude was deemed necessary in order to sell newspapers or secure clicks,\" he added.\n\n\"Ben's exploits at Lord's and Headingley cemented his place in cricket history this summer - we are sure the whole sport, and the country, stands behind him in support.\"", "BBC News has seen dozens of complaints about screen flickers affecting the Amazon Echo Spot and Amazon's response.\n\nOne owner, in Hampshire, said his device had started to flicker 16 months after he had bought it.\n\nHe was told its one-year warranty had run out and offered 15% off a new one rather than a refund or repair.\n\nUnder EU law consumers must be given a minimum two-year guarantee \"as a protection against faulty good or goods that don't look or work as advertised\".\n\nA thread on Amazon's help forum about the screen problem, which dates back several months, has had nearly 20,000 views and there are many tweets about the issue.\n\nA poster on the same topic on Reddit said it appeared to be \"a widespread problem\".\n\n\"One-year warranty, and I, like many, are right outside it,\" another, in the US, 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 Laura Whitwell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Nicholas Provenzano This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn Amazon representative told BBC News: \"We are investigating. If customers have any questions or concerns, they should contact customer service.\"\n\nThe Echo Spot retails at £119.99 on the Amazon website.\n\nOverall it has received good reviews, with the website TrustedReviews awarding it 4.5 stars.\n\nWhat Hi-Fi describes it as \"an impressive piece of kit\" and notes \"the display is sharp\".\n\nIn the UK, goods are covered by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (CRA), as well as European Union law.\n\n\"Generally we would always advise consumers who have goods which are clearly faulty to go back to the retailer in the first instance to make their claim under the statutory rights which exist under the CRA,\" Sylvia Rook, lead officer for fair trading from the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said.\n\n\"Consumers have up to six years to make a claim for faulty goods (five years in Scotland).\n\n\"That doesn't mean that goods have to last for six years but it does mean that a trader can't refuse to consider a claim just because the consumer has had an item for a period of time, if it is proved to be faulty.\"", "US actor Alec Baldwin was the latest star of a Comedy Central Roast, and it was his daughter Ireland who had some of the best jokes.\n\nTheir relationship made headlines in 2007 after a voicemail in which Baldwin called his then 11-year-old a \"rude, thoughtless little pig\" went viral.\n\nThe actor has apologised over the message.\n\nIn her surprise appearance during Sunday's show, Ms Baldwin skewered her father for his absentee parenting.\n\nMs Baldwin, a 23-year-old model, began doling out the insults by introducing herself to her 61-year-old father.\n\n\"Hi Dad, I'm Ireland,\" she said. \"It's good to be here. I almost didn't even know about it because I haven't checked my voice mails from my dad from the last 12 years or something?\"\n\n\"I actually have a lot in common with the people in this roast,\" she added. \"Because like them, I don't really know you that well either.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Comedy Central This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBaldwin left the now notorious 2007 voicemail message after Ms Baldwin missed a scheduled phone call.\n\nAt the time, he was embroiled in a custody battle with his ex-wife, Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger over Ireland. The couple split in 2000 after seven years of marriage.\n\n\"You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being,\" Mr Baldwin had told his daughter on the message, accusing her of humiliating him.\n\nThe 30 Rock actor later apologised in a public statement, saying he had been \"driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years\".\n\nMs Baldwin made much of their relationship during her appearance, garnering laughs - and some dropped jaws - from her father and the audience.\n\n\"It hasn't been easy being the daughter of an iconic movie star, but I'm not here to talk about my mother ... or her Oscar,\" she said.\n\n\"A lot of people only know my dad as an angry guy, but he's more than some lunatic that loses his temper. He also loses Emmys and Oscars and custody of his first-born child.\"\n\nMs Baldwin also quipped that while many know her father from his acting roles in 30 Rock and Mission Impossible, \"I know him as that guy from half my birthday parties\".\n\nBefore she left the stage, Ms Baldwin said she was \"thrilled\" to celebrate her \"wonderful father\".\n\n\"After all the years of giving verbal abuse, it's finally time you received some. So before I leave, I'd just like to say something you've never said to me - good night.\"\n\nBaldwin's speech to the 'roasters' included his own reference to the voicemail: \"I love all of you,\" he said. \"And if you don't believe me, check your voice mails.\"\n\nComedy Central Roast features a star and several guests tasked with mocking them. Previous 'roastees' on the long-running series include Donald Trump, Pamela Anderson and Justin Bieber.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The BBC is to switch off the news and sport text services on the TV red button early next year.\n\nThe decision spells the end of reading headlines, football scores, weather, travel news and more on TV sets, 45 years after the launch of Ceefax.\n\nRed button text launched in 1999, taking over as Ceefax was phased out.\n\nTVs will still be able to access other red button services, like picking a stage to watch at Glastonbury or a court to watch at Wimbledon.\n\n\"From early 2020, viewers will no longer be able to access text-based BBC News and BBC Sport content by pressing red,\" a BBC spokesperson said.\n\n\"It's always a difficult decision to reduce services, and we don't take decisions like this lightly, but we have taken it because we have to balance the resources needed to maintain and develop this service with the need to update our systems to give people even better internet-based services.\n\n\"Viewers can still access this information on the BBC website, BBC News and Sport mobile apps - as well as 24-hour news on the BBC News Channel.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Crossbench peer and QC Lord Pannick has told the Supreme Court that Boris Johnson suspended Parliament to avoid the risk of MPs \"frustrating or damaging\" the PM's Brexit plans.\n\nHe also said there was \"strong evidence\" that Mr Johnson saw MPs as \"an obstacle\" and wanted to \"silence\" them.\n\nThe prime minister says he wanted the five-week suspension of Parliament - or prorogation - so that a Queen's Speech could be held in October to outline his policy plans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Woman describes how \"villains\" in a dream told her to swallow her engagement ring\n\nA US woman has undergone surgery after removing and swallowing her engagement ring in her sleep.\n\nJenna Evans, 29, said she and her fiancé Bobby had been on a speeding train and she was forced to swallow the ring to protect it from \"bad guys\".\n\nShe woke at her home in California to realise the episode had been a dream, but saw her diamond ring was missing.\n\nShe said she knew exactly what had happened, woke up Bobby to explain, and the couple went to a hospital.\n\nMs Evans said she struggled to recall the situation to medics \"because I was laughing/crying so hard\".\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 Jenna 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\nAn X-ray scan identified the 2.4-carat ring in her stomach, and doctors agreed it would be unwise \"to let nature take its course\".\n\nMs Evans, a San Diego resident, later had a procedure to remove the ring but said she was asked to sign release forms in case of her death.\n\n\"Then I cried a lot because I would be so mad if I died,\" she said. \"I waited a long time for that damn engagement ring and I will marry Bobby Howell.\"\n\nThe procedure was a success, and Ms Evans said she woke up \"hysterically crying\".\n\n\"I was really happy because I don't know if I can look at it and appreciate it in the same way,\" she told ABC news channel.", "Estate agents have been urged to automatically disclose air pollution figures to home buyers.\n\nThe industry trade body said providing this information should now be standard practice.\n\n\"Air quality is now public information, and it will never not be again,\" said Mark Hayward, chief executive of NAEA Propertymark.\n\nHis comments came as a new website was launched which details air pollution by postcode.\n\nThe site, called addresspollution.org, uses data from King's College London to give the level of nitrogen dioxide.\n\nThe website has been created by the Central Office of Public Interest (COPI), a not-for-profit campaign, the Times newspaper reports.\n\nThe site is currently limited to properties in London. It shows the concentration of nitrogen dioxide in the air and compares it to the World Health Organization's annual legal limit of 40 micrograms per cubic metre. Long term exposure to high concentrations of the gas have been linked to early deaths.\n\nHumphrey Milles, its founder, said he thinks it could have an impact on where new homes are built, and that data such as this should be used to determine where schools and homes for the elderly are built.\n\n\"The data shows this is isn't just something that you are exposed to on the road, this pollution is in the air in our homes,\" he said.\n\nNitrogen dioxide is created when petrol and diesel is burnt\n\nMr Hayward conceded that the move would be extra work for agencies and would come on top of a slew of extra information sellers must provide, such as energy efficiency data.\n\n\"It may not be popular because it's an additional piece of information,\" he told the BBC, especially at a time when the number of sales have fallen, hitting agencies' revenues. But he said agents may as well start now before they are forced to by law.\n\nHe also said that, like energy efficiency information, it may be ignored by some buyers who are led more by their gut than data.\n\n\"No-one says I won't buy that house with the roses around the door because of a poor energy rating.\"\n\nBut more and more people are interested in air quality when it comes to choosing where to live, said Henry Pryor, a buying agent of 33 years.\n\nHe says he has included pollution data in his reports for clients for the last five years.\n\nPeople interested in air quality probably won't ask for discounts, but instead shun a particular area, which may depress prices, he said.\n\n\"It's not going to be a negotiating tool, it's going to be an informative tool.\"\n\nAir quality may improve as more vehicles become electric.\n\nThe number of electric car models available to consumers in Europe is expected to triple by 2021, the European Federation for Transport and Environment said in July.\n\nThis shift could help areas with high pollution, said Mr Pryor.\n\nHis clients in London often look to the city's congestion charge zone for cleaner air, he said, as well as homes near the city's parks.\n\n\"More and more people are interested in what they are breathing,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales backs coach Rob Howley has been sent home from the World Cup for an alleged breach of World Rugby's laws covering betting and anti-corruption.\n\nThe 48-year-old's departure is a huge blow just six days before Wales' opening game in Japan against Pool D opponents Georgia.\n\nA Welsh Rugby Union statement said Howley had \"returned to Wales to assist with an investigation\".\n\nThe WRU confirmed it was in relation to a potential breach of betting on rugby.\n\nWorld Rugby's regulation 6.3.1 reads: \"No connected person shall, directly or indirectly, bet and/or attempt to bet on the outcome or any aspect of any connected event and/or receive and/or attempt to receive part or all of the proceeds of any such bet and/or any other benefit in relation to a bet.\"\n\nWales have sent for Stephen Jones to fill the gap left by Howley's sudden departure and Jones is expected to arrive \"imminently\" at the squad's Kitakyushu base.\n\nFormer Wales and British and Irish Lions fly-half Jones has already been confirmed as the next Wales backs coach under Wayne Pivac, who will take the reins from Gatland after the tournament.\n\nThe WRU statement said: \"Rob Howley has returned to Wales to assist with an investigation in relation to a potential breach of World Rugby Regulation 6, specifically betting on rugby union.\n\n\"The decision was taken to act immediately in light of recent information passed to the WRU. No further details can be provided at this stage as this would prejudice the investigation.\n\n\"If required an independent panel will be appointed to hear the case. Rob has co-operated fully with our initial discussions.\n\n\"Warren Gatland has consulted with senior players and Stephen Jones will be arriving in Japan imminently to link up with the squad as attack coach.\"\n\nHowley has been an integral part of boss Warren Gatland's backroom team since the New Zealander took charge.\n\nThe ex-Wales and Lions scrum-half was already set to leave his role after the World Cup.\n\nHowley had been linked with the Italy head coach job with current incumbent Conor O'Shea expected to depart next year, but that now looks unlikely.\n\nThe former Wales scrum-half has been part of Gatland's backroom staff since being appointed in January 2008 and was one of the first backroom recruits, and also played under him at Wasps.\n\nSince he became part of the coaching set-up, Wales have won four Six Nations titles, including three Grand Slams.\n\nHowley was in charge of Wales' 2013 Six Nations success when Gatland was away on a British and Irish Lions head coach sabbatical.\n\nHe was also part of Gatland's winning Lions coaching team in Australia in 2013 and the drawn series in New Zealand four years later.\n\nIt's sad that Rob's got caught up in this, he's been a tremendous coach for Wales and this is the swansong for the Wales coaching team. It's a big blow for everyone involved, and for Rob Howley on a personal level.\n\nI think the team will be affected. They're lucky to have Stephen Jones, he's an incredibly positive person and influence. He's someone who could come in and have a positive impact on the camp straight away.", "The former Sinn Féin president has always denied being a member of the Provisional IRA\n\nA veteran republican who helped found the Provisional IRA has said Gerry Adams was a member of the organisation and described his denials as \"a lie\".\n\nDes Long has given an interview to BBC Spotlight as part of its series on the Troubles.\n\nHe claimed he attended meetings of the IRA's ruling executive with Mr Adams, who was there as \"chairman of the army council\".\n\nMr Adams has always maintained he was never in the IRA.\n\nMr Long's allegation is made in part two of Spotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History, which charts the IRA's campaign of violence through the 1970s.\n\nHe said: \"The chairman of the army council would turn up to the executive meetings. We were meeting at least every four months.\"\n\nWhen asked who the chairman was, he replied: \"Gerry Adams.\"\n\nMr Long was one of the founding members of the Provisional IRA\n\nIt was then put to Mr Long that the former Sinn Féin president has repeatedly denied ever being in the IRA.\n\nHe replied: \"I sat opposite him at meetings. This lie he comes out with, he was never in the IRA, that's a lie.\n\n\"I'll probably get shot for saying it, but I'm saying it.\"\n\nMr Long fell out with Mr Adams in 1986 as part of a wider split within republicanism.\n\nMartin McGuinness and Gerry Adams at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in 1985\n\nThe programme also uncovers secret army intelligence documents which state Mr Adams was a leading figure in the IRA.\n\nLord Ramsbotham, a former army commander in Northern Ireland, said Mr Adams was \"a strategic planner of the highest order\".\n\nMr Adams, who is a TD for Louth, last denied he was in the IRA when he gave evidence at the Ballymurphy Inquest in May.\n\nHe declined to take part in the Spotlight programme.\n\nSinn Fein's Conor Murphy dismissed the comments by Des Long, who he called a \"bitter opponent of Gerry Adams for 35 years (who) would have regarded (Adams) as a traitor\".\n\n\"The allegations have been made over the years and have been consistently denied,\" Mr Murphy told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"You have to look at the people who are making the allegations to see what their motivation is.\"\n\nEpisode Two of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History will be shown Tuesday, 17 September at 21:00 BST on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Four. Episode One can be viewed now on the BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen QC, argued on behalf of the government\n\nThe most senior judge in the UK says the case surrounding Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament raises \"a serious and difficult question of law\".\n\nLady Hale and 10 other judges must decide whether advice he gave to the Queen about prorogation was lawful.\n\nGovernment lawyer Lord Keen QC said the PM was \"entitled\" to act as he did and the issue was not one for the courts.\n\nLord Pannick QC for campaigners against the move told the Supreme Court it was done to \"silence\" MPs ahead of Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson announced at the end of August that he intended to suspend - or prorogue - Parliament for five weeks.\n\nHe maintains it was right and proper to do so in order to pave the way for a Queen's Speech on 14 October to outline the government's legislative plans for the year ahead.\n\nThe prime minister insisted the move had nothing to do with Brexit and his \"do or die\" pledge to take the UK out of the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal - but opposition MPs and campaigners dispute that and have taken the matter to court.\n\nThe Supreme Court is hearing two appeals this week relating to the decision after two lower courts ruled in contradictory ways.\n\nScotland's highest court ruled last week the five-week suspension was \"unlawful\", after a challenge by a cross-party group of politicians.\n\nEdinburgh's Court of Session said the shutdown was designed to \"stymie\" MPs in the run-up to the Brexit deadline and Mr Johnson had effectively misled the Queen in the sovereign's exercise of prerogative powers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, the High Court in England had previously ruled the opposite way, following a challenge to prorogation brought by businesswoman and campaigner Gina Miller.\n\nJudges there said the suspension was \"purely political\" and therefore \"not a matter\" for the judiciary.\n\nProtesters from both sides of the Brexit debate gathered outside the court off Parliament Square in Westminster as the three-day hearing began.\n\nLady Hale, President of the Supreme Court, said in her opening statement: \"That this is a serious and difficult question of law is amply demonstrated by the fact that three senior judges in Scotland have reached a different conclusion from three senior judges in England and Wales.\"\n\nShe said the court would endeavour to address these questions, but would not determine \"wider political questions\" relating to the Brexit process or have any impact on its timing.\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry - who was also one of the lawyers involved in the Scottish case - told the BBC she was \"cautiously optimistic\" the Supreme Court would uphold that ruling.\n\nOtherwise, she said, it would be \"accepting that it's possible... for the prime minister of a minority government to shut down Parliament if it is getting in his way\".\n\nArguing on behalf of the government on Tuesday, the Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen, told the Supreme Court that in declaring the prorogation \"null and of no effect\", the Scottish court had \"simply gone where the court could not go\".\n\nHe said if the ruling was upheld, the prime minister would take \"all necessary steps\" to comply.\n\nHowever, after being pushed by the judges, he said he would not comment on whether Mr Johnson might subsequently try to prorogue Parliament again.\n\nLord Keen said previous prorogations of Parliament - including in 1930 and 1948 - had \"clearly been employed\" when governments wanted to \"pursue a particular political objective\", adding: \"They are entitled to do so.\"\n\nHe said that if MPs did not want Parliament to be suspended they had \"adequate mechanisms\" and opportunities to stop it in its tracks by passing new laws - pointing to the fact a bill to block a no-deal Brexit was passed in just two days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Clive Coleman takes a look inside the UK's Supreme Court\n\nArguing on behalf of Ms Miller - and against the English court ruling - crossbench peer Lord Pannick said Mr Johnson suspended Parliament to avoid the risk of MPs \"frustrating or damaging\" his Brexit plans.\n\nThere was, Lord Pannick added, \"strong evidence\" the PM saw MPs \"as an obstacle\" and wanted to \"silence\" them.\n\nHe said he had \"no quarrel\" with a prime minister's right to prorogue Parliament in order to present a Queen's Speech.\n\nHowever, he said the \"exceptional length\" of this suspension was \"strong evidence the prime minister's motive was to silence Parliament because he sees Parliament as an obstacle\".\n\nGina Miller is appealing against an earlier ruling which found in favour of the government\n\nLord Pannick said the facts showed the PM had advised the Queen to suspend Parliament for five weeks \"because he wishes to avoid what he saw as the risk that Parliament, during that period, would take action to frustrate or damage the policies of his government\".\n\nHe said the effect of the suspension was to take Parliament \"out of the game\" at a pivotal moment in the UK's history and he disagreed with the High Court's judgement that the issue was outside the scope of the courts.\n\n\"The answer is either yes, or it is no, but it is an issue of law, and the rule of law demands the court answers it and not say 'it is not for us and it is for the discretion of the prime minister'.\"\n\nAmid the protests outside the Supreme Court, and the calm but focused legal debate inside, the first day of this potentially monumental constitutional battle came down to two questions.\n\nDo judges have the power to stop a prime minister proroguing Parliament? And, if so, did Boris Johnson act illegally and mislead the Queen?\n\nLord Pannick QC, for Gina Miller, hammered out attack after attack.\n\nWhere was the prime minister's witness statement showing he had an honest reason for closing Parliament? How could a prime minister who is accountable to Parliament prevent it from holding his feet to the fire?\n\nLord Keen QC, the government's top lawyer in Scotland, argued judges couldn't even consider these questions.\n\nThere was a key moment of political intrigue when the justices wondered what Mr Johnson would do if he were to lose.\n\nBut his lawyer could not say whether he might simply ask the Queen to re-open Parliament - and then shut it down again.\n\nMs Miller is seeking a mandatory order which would effectively force the government to recall Parliament, BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said.\n\nOpposition parties have called for Parliament to be recalled but at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Mr Johnson told ministers he was \"confident\" of the government's arguments.\n\nHe told the BBC on Monday he had the \"greatest respect for the judiciary\", and its independence was \"one of the glories of the UK\".\n\nDowning Street has refused to speculate on how the government might respond should they lose this court case.\n\nPressed this morning, the Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland, declined to say whether Parliament would be recalled, or indeed whether the prime minister might seek to suspend Parliament for a second time.\n\nMr Buckland said any decision would hinge on the precise wording of the court judgement.\n\nNevertheless, defeat would be a significant blow.\n\nIt would be the first time in modern history that a prime minister had been judged to have misled Parliament.\n\nAnd if MPs were recalled, Mr Johnson would almost certainly face contempt of Parliament proceedings, accusations that he'd lied to the Queen, and pressure to reveal more details about his negotiating strategy and his planning for no deal.\n\nDefeat in the Supreme Court would also make it much harder for the prime minister to defy MPs for a second time as he has threatened to do over their bill to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nElsewhere on Tuesday, the prime minister has discussed Brexit in a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nNo 10 said afterwards: \"The prime minister reiterated that the UK and the EU have agreed to accelerate efforts to reach a deal without the backstop which the UK Parliament could support, and that we would work with energy and determination to achieve this ahead of Brexit on 31 October.\"", "Hani Gue (L) and Nkululeko Zulu claimed they were subjected to racial harassment\n\nTwo former British army soldiers have won a racial discrimination claim against the Ministry of Defence (MoD).\n\nNkululeko Zulu and Hani Gue alleged they faced years of harassment and took their case to an employment tribunal.\n\nA judgement ruled they had been the victims of racist graffiti written on a photo of them in their barracks at Colchester in January 2018.\n\nThe tribunal ruled their other claims inadmissible, including the barracks having being decorated with Nazi flags.\n\nThe men, who served with 3rd Battalion (3 Para) based at Merville Barracks in Colchester, intend to seek compensation.\n\nThe tribunal heard that someone had drawn a swastika, a Hitler moustache and a racist remark on photographs of the men attached to Mr Gue's door.\n\nA written judgement said: \"The conduct was unquestionably unwanted; the graffiti in question was of the most unpleasant nature, set out on Mr Gue's personal photographs and was racially highly offensive.\"\n\nIt added that the even though the perpetrator was unknown and therefore the motivation had not been explained, \"the carrying out of this act was so unpleasant that it can only have been done with the purpose of violating the claimants' dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and offensive environment for them\".\n\nThe men served with 3rd Battalion (3 Para) based at Merville Barracks in Colchester\n\nMr Zulu had told the tribunal that when he joined the Army he held it in high regard but now considered it to be a racist institution.\n\nThe men's solicitor Amy Harvey, of Banks Kelly Solicitors, said: \"The claimants have succeeded in establishing their claim against the MoD that they suffered racial harassment during their time in the Army and that the MoD did not take all reasonable steps to prevent such harassment.\"\n\nAn MoD spokesperson said: \"We note the decision of the tribunal today.\n\n\"As a modern and inclusive employer, the Armed Forces do not tolerate unacceptable behaviour in any form.\n\n\"Any allegations of inappropriate behaviour are taken extremely seriously and investigated thoroughly, as evidenced by our taking up of recommendations in the Wigston review into inappropriate behaviours published earlier this year.\"\n\nThe Army says it's been working hard to stamp out racism. It wants to attract more BAME recruits. This judgement will serve as a reminder that there's still a problem.\n\nThough most of the allegations made by the two former soldiers were dismissed by the tribunal, it concluded that Mr Gue and Mr Zulu had been the target of racist graffiti at their Colchester barracks. It contributed to Mr Zulu's decision to leave.\n\nIt might be seen as an isolated incident but a recent internal review carried out by a senior officer for the MoD called for a change in culture in the armed forces to deal with \"unacceptable\" levels of racism sexism and bullying.\n\nIt noted there'd been a \"disproportionate\" number of complaints from women and ethnic minorities in the armed forces. The MoD says it's now introducing the recommendations from the report to improve the climate and the complaints process.\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. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nLuxembourg's PM has attacked Boris Johnson's approach to Brexit, calling the situation a \"nightmare\".\n\nXavier Bettel said the British government had failed to put forward any serious proposals for a new deal.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who pulled out of a joint press conference with Mr Bettel because of noisy protesters, said there was still a good chance of a deal.\n\nA government source said the gap the UK and Brussels needed to bridge to achieve a deal \"remains quite large\".\n\nMr Johnson was visiting Luxembourg to hold talks with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, as well as Mr Bettel.\n\nAfter the working lunch with Mr Juncker and Mr Barnier, Mr Johnson said he had been encouraged by the EU's willingness to engage with the UK in their shared desire to avoid a no-deal exit - but there had not been a \"total breakthrough\".\n\nHowever, the European Commission said the PM had yet to present concrete proposals for it to consider and insisted any new plans had to be \"compatible\" with the existing withdrawal agreement, which has been rejected three times by MPs.\n\nThere was then confusion after Mr Bettel held a press conference without Mr Johnson amid noisy protests by anti-Brexit protesters.\n\nMr Bettel, who addressed the media on his own after the UK PM pulled out, said his counterpart \"holds the future of all UK citizens in his hands\" and suggested it was his responsibility to break the deadlock in the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: EU have had 'bellyful' of delays\n\nStanding next to an empty lectern, Mr Bettel warned Mr Johnson \"you can't hold the future hostage for party political gain\".\n\nHe said there were \"no concrete proposals at the moment on the table\" on a new Brexit deal from the UK and said the EU \"needs more than just words\".\n\n\"We need written proposals and the time is ticking, so stop speaking and act,\" he said.\n\nThe existing withdrawal agreement was the \"only solution\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson said his joint press conference was cancelled over fears the two leaders would have been \"drowned out\" by pro-EU protesters.\n\nIt is understood that his request for it to be held inside was turned down.\n\nWhat exactly should we make of the oh so public venting on Monday by the prime minister of Luxembourg following his meeting with Boris Johnson?\n\nDoes this mean the EU has lost patience and will no longer engage in negotiations with the Johnson government? Can we expect an Angela Merkel rant or a Mark Rutte rave next?\n\n\"As long as there is a chance of a deal, it's in our own interest to engage. However frustrating negotiations are,\" a high-level EU contact told me.\n\nThe EU's Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, tweeted a photograph of the empty podium where Mr Johnson had been due to speak alongside Mr Bettel with the caption: \"From Incredible Hulk to incredible sulk\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guy Verhofstadt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOver the weekend Mr Johnson told a newspaper that the UK would break out of its \"manacles\" like cartoon character The Incredible Hulk - with or without a deal.\n\nAfter the working lunch with Mr Juncker, Mr Johnson told the BBC's political editor he was \"cautiously optimistic\" about the state of negotiations and suggested the EU wanted to bring the two and half years of arguments about the terms of the UK's exit to an end.\n\n\"I see no point whatever in staying on in the EU beyond October 31st and we're going to come out. And actually that is what our friends and partners in the EU would like too.\n\n\"And I think that they've had a bellyful of all this stuff. You know they want to develop a new relationship with the UK. They're fed up with these endless negotiations, endless delays.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile he was working \"very hard\" to get a deal, Mr Johnson said there would be no agreement unless the EU shifted its position on the backstop, the insurance policy to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland unless and until another solution is found.\n\n\"If we can't get movement from them on that crucial issue... we won't be able to get it through the House of Commons, no way.\"\n\nHe said there were a number of ideas under discussion which would allow the whole of the UK to leave the EU while protecting the integrity of the bloc's single market, upholding the Good Friday Agreement and supporting the Irish economy.\n\nThese, he said, included the use of technology to minimise border checks as well as the so-called Stormont lock, a mechanism to give Northern Irish politicians a say on the rules that apply to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is all doable with energy and goodwill,\" he insisted.\n\nA UK government source later said: \"It's clear Brussels is not yet ready to find the compromises required for a deal, so no-deal remains a real possibility - as the gap we need to bridge remains quite large.\"\n\nAs soon as we arrived at the office of the prime minister of Luxembourg it became obvious a planned outdoor news conference could not go ahead.\n\nThe anti-Brexit protesters in the square numbered less than 100 but their music and megaphones made it sound like a lot more and they occasionally used language you wouldn't want to hear on the news.\n\nBehind the scenes the British and Luxembourgish delegations grappled with a diplomatic dilemma: Move the event inside but exclude the majority of the journalists? Gamble that the demonstrators could pipe down for a bit? Silence the host to save the guest's blushes?\n\nThe end result saw Mr Johnson do a short interview at the ambassador's residence to be shared with everyone while Mr Bettel took to the stage next to an empty podium.\n\nHe used the moment in the spotlight to deliver an impassioned speech, made all the more dramatic by the fact he's famed as one of the EU's most smiley, mild-mannered leaders.\n\nMr Johnson said he would meet the Halloween Brexit deadline come what may, insisting that the UK would be \"in very good shape\" whether there was a deal or not.\n\nBut pushed on how he would get around the law requiring him to ask for an extension if there is no deal by 19 October, the PM did not explain how it would be possible.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's Supreme Court hearing into whether the prorogation of Parliament was lawful, Mr Johnson defended the decision to suspend Parliament.\n\nParliament was prorogued last week, ahead of a Queen's Speech on 14 October. Legal challenges to the decision have been lodged in the courts by opposition MPs and campaigners.\n\nMr Johnson described claims that Parliament was \"being deprived of the opportunity to scrutinise Brexit\" as \"all this mumbo jumbo\" and a \"load of claptrap\".\n\n\"I think people think that we've somehow stopped Parliament from scrutinising Brexit.\n\n\"What absolute nonsense. Parliament will be able to scrutinise the deal that I hope we will be able to do both before and after the European Council on October 17.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nWhat exactly should we make of the oh so public venting on Monday by the prime minister of Luxembourg following his meeting with Boris Johnson?\n\nDoes this mean the EU has lost patience and will no longer engage in negotiations with the Johnson government? Can we expect an Angela Merkel rant or a Mark Rutte rave next?\n\n\"As long as there is a chance of a deal, it's in our own interest to engage. However frustrating negotiations are,\" a high-level EU contact told me.\n\n\"It's no secret the EU prefers an orderly Brexit. And if talks breaks down and end in no deal, we (the EU) won't be the ones to have closed the door in the UK's face. It's important that European voters know that.\"\n\nThat said, Prime Minister Bettel's effervescent irritation with the Brexit process is shared by most EU leaders behind closed doors. Frustration seems to seeps out of every pore sometimes in off-the-record conversations with EU diplomats and politicians.\n\nBut most EU figures (bar a couple of well-known exceptions) think it politically prudent to hide any teeth-clenching and nostril-flaring in public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: EU have had 'bellyful' of delays\n\nBoris Johnson said on Monday he wanted to step up EU-UK Brexit contacts to daily meetings. Fine, responded the EU. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker repeated his assertion, previously made to Theresa May, that the EU was open for talk 24/7.\n\nBut it's important to remember that Mr Juncker and European Commission negotiators don't have the legal power to change the Brexit deal, even if they wanted to. That power lies with the EU national leaders.\n\nAnd they are locked in a tussle of words and \"alternative facts\" with the UK prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson insists EU leaders must compromise if they really want a deal. They reply that Mr Johnson has yet to come up with any realistic proposals.\n\nSuggesting, as the UK prime minister has, that Northern Ireland follow EU rules on animal, plant and food safety doesn't fly with the EU as an alternative to the backstop.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU wants to know what goods are entering its single market after Brexit. So what about customs?\n\nThe perceived patchy approach of the Johnson government - \"Oh that'll work itself out. There's technology and trusted trader schemes\" - is not acceptable to the EU.\n\n\"As long as UK proposals remain flabby and aspirational,\" one key EU diplomat put it to me, \"Brussels is unlikely to budge.\"\n\nThe devil as always is in the detail. If the UK had specific, targeted requests for compromise on the backstop, the other EU leaders would look to Ireland and if Dublin gave the nod, the EU as a whole would most likely follow suit.\n\nEqually, if Boris Johnson made a realistic request (from Brussels' point of view) on the backstop and Ireland were reluctant, then Dublin could well come under \"gentle pressure\" from other EU leaders to compromise.\n\nBut with no concrete, legally operable proposals from the UK at this stage, the pressure felt on Ireland the EU as a whole to \"compromise\" is \"basically zero,\" my contacts tell me.", "Shane Gillis performs at the Clusterfest comedy festival in San Francisco\n\nUS comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live has dropped a new cast member after videos surfaced online of him making slurs about Chinese people.\n\nShane Gillis, 31, came under fire soon after his casting was announced when footage resurfaced from a podcast featuring the comic.\n\n\"After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL,\" said an SNL spokesman.\n\nGillis wrote on Twitter that he respected the show's decision.\n\n\"Of course I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction,\" he said, just a week after it was announced he would join the NBC show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shane Gillis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 SNL spokesman said in Monday's statement that the decision to fire Gillis followed a discussion with the comic. \"We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as comedian and his impressive audition for SNL,\" he said.\n\n\"We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days. The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable.\n\n\"We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard.\"\n\nGillis' casting came under scrutiny just hours after SNL announced he would be one of three new hires for the show's 45th season.\n\nA podcast from September 2018 was circulated in which Mr Gillis mocked Chinese people and described his remarks as \"nice racism\".\n\nIn another episode from the same month, Mr Gillis was heard using homophobic slurs to describe Hollywood producer Judd Apatow and comedian Chris Gethard.\n\nGillis defended the comments on Twitter saying he is a comedian \"who pushes boundaries\". He continued: \"My intention is never to hurt anyone but I am trying to be the best comedian I can be and sometimes that requires risks.\"\n\nShortly after the recordings circulated, Good Good Comedy Theatre in Philadelphia, Gillis' hometown, said on Twitter the club had \"deliberately chosen not to work\" with him because of his \"overt racism, sexism, homophobia - expressed both on and off stage\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Good Good Comedy Theatre This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian Rob Schneider, a regular on SNL in the 1990s, tweeted his support for Gillis, saying he had fallen foul of \"culture unforgiveness\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rob Schneider This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFellow comics Bill Burr and Jim Jeffries also criticised SNL's decision while appearing on the US series Lights Out with David Spade.\n\nJeffries said the move was just a symptom of \"cancel culture\". He said: \"The guy shouldn't have been fired. It's just a couple of things back in his history - are we going to to go through everyone's history? Or are we going to get rid of every sketch that SNL has done that involves race?\"\n\nBurr added: \"Did they go back and also try and look back at good things the person might have done, or are they just looking for the bad stuff?\n\n\"You could do that to anybody. I don't get it. Millennials - you're a bunch of rats. None of them care; all they want to do is get people in trouble.\"\n\nTaiwanese-American presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who Gillis referred to using a slur in a podcast, has said the comedian \"deserved another chance to keep his job\" but society has become \"unduly punitive and vindictive\".\n\n\"I thought that if I could set an example that we can forgive people, particularly in an instance where, in my mind, it was in a comedic context or a gray area, that I thought it would be positive,\" he told CNN on Monday.\n\nYang said Gillis has reached out to him and the two will be having a discussion soon.\n\nIn addition to Gillis, SNL had announced the hiring of two other new cast members: Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang.\n\nYang will be the show's first full-time Chinese-American cast member.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg sat down for an interview with Prime Minister Boris Johnson after his meeting with the European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.\n\nHere is the full transcript of what they said.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg: You've just been with [European Commission president] Jean-Claude Juncker.\n\nDo you feel you've made any progress since seeing him. I mean he could be the deal maker?\n\nBoris Johnson: Yes. I mean obviously I've talked to him several times since becoming prime minister, but he's... I've known Jean-Claude for many, many years and he is a very, highly, highly intelligent guy and I think that he would like to get a deal if we possibly can, but clearly it's going to take some work.\n\nWe think that there are, we can satisfy the European Commission and our friends on the key points. Can we protect the single market the integrity the single market? Can we ensure there's no checks at the border in Northern Ireland? Can we protect all the achievements of the Good Friday Agreement and peace in Northern Ireland? Yes I think we can, while simultaneously allowing the whole of the UK to withdraw.\n\nIt will now take an accelerated timetable of work to, to get that done. And it maybe - you know - just have to say that it may be that we have to come out without an agreement if necessary on 31 October.\n\nLK: And we will come to that in a second.\n\nBut just in the last few minutes, the [European] Commission has put a statement out, saying after your lunch that they still are yet to see proposals that they think are viable and workable.\n\nSo it doesn't feel like this is going anywhere at the moment?\n\nBJ: Well, it's certainly the case that the Commission is still officially sticking on their position that the backstop has got to be there.\n\nBut clearly if they think that we can come up with alternatives, then I think they're on the mark.\n\nI think the big picture is that the Commission would like to do a deal.\n\nLK: I mean the Commission has immediately after your lunch put out a statement saying they still haven't seen viable workable proposals.\n\nDo you feel they're listening or is this that they're saying something else behind closed doors to what they say publicly?\n\nBJ: No, I think the Commission, I think Jean-Claude himself certainly would like to do a deal and would like the UK to, and would like to settle this if he possibly can.\n\nThey have their own constraints. They've got the European Parliament they've got to deal with. I think there's a deal there to be done and of the kind that I've described.\n\nBut clearly if we can't get movement from them on that crucial issue of whether the EU can continue to control the UK and our trade policy and our regulation - which is how it would work under the current Withdrawal Agreement - we won't be able to get that through the House of Commons, no way.\n\nAnd we'll have an exit with no-deal on 31 October. That's not what I want. It's not what they want. And we're going to work very hard to avoid it. But, but that's the reality.\n\nLK: But what is the broad shape of a deal that you think is there? I mean we've heard many times from you and ministers that there is a landing zone.\n\nAs simply as you can, what is the nature of the deal you think you can get?\n\nBJ: I mean, I think that the important thing here is not to be... I mean, there is a negotiation going on, has been for a long time now about how to do this.\n\nSo there's a limit to how much the details benefit from publicity before we've actually done the deal. But the shape of it is, the shape it is...\n\nLK: Slice and dice the backstop as it exists?\n\nBJ: The shape of it is all about who decides.\n\nFundamentally, the problem with the backstop, as you remember, is that it's a device by which the EU can continue after we've left to control our trade laws, control our tariffs, control huge chunks of our regulation, and we have to keep accepting laws from Brussels long after we've left with no say on those laws.\n\nNow that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for the whole of the UK and it doesn't work for Northern Ireland. So we have to find a way to avoid that situation.\n\nLK: But what is that way? Because what you're saying there is just articulating the problem that's been articulated forever, about the backstop and people's concern that Northern Ireland would still have to and the rest of the UK would have to go along with EU rules.\n\nBut can you foresee a solution, for example, when in some areas, Northern Ireland would follow EU rules and the rest of the UK would not?\n\nBJ: What we want to see is a solution where the decision is taken by the UK and clearly that's the problem with the, with the backstop. It basically leaves the decision making up to Brussels and that's no good.\n\nLK: What's the actual solution that you're proposing? Is it giving more power to Stormont, for example, that's being talked about a lot, that the Northern Irish assembly might be given a lock on opting out or opting in on EU regulation?\n\nBJ: These are certainly some of the ideas that are being talked about and as are the ideas that you're familiar with to do with maximum facilitations, to do with checks away from the border, all sorts of ways in which you can avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis is all doable. It's all doable with energy and goodwill.\n\nBut I mentioned the other day when I was in in Dublin, you know the famous dictum attributed I think probably incorrectly to Ian Paisley the elder, [in] Northern Ireland the people are British, but the cattle are Irish, you know there's a there's a germ of an idea there.\n\nLK: But it's just the germ of an idea...\n\nBJ: There's a lot of thinking going on about how to get an agreement that gets the UK out whole and entire, but also protects that Northern Irish border, protects that peace process and protects all the gains that Ireland has got from its membership of the EU single market.\n\nSo, I'm, you know, I mean, more or less where I was the other day. I'm cautiously optimistic, cautious.\n\nBut it is vital that we're ready to come out on 31 October.\n\nAnd of course what the... parliamentarians threatening to extend and all that kind of thing. They hear that they listened to that over here, but I didn't think it substantially changes their calculations.\n\nLK: MPs though haven't just threatened to extend, MPs have changed the law to try to stop you taking the UK out without a deal at the end of October.\n\nHow do you propose to get round that? Because you keep saying you've got no intention of delay...\n\nBJ: I won't. Here's, here's what I want. I will uphold the constitution, I will obey the law, but we will come out on 31 October.\n\nLK: But how if MPs have changed the law to stop you doing that?\n\nBJ: We're going to come out on 31 October and it's vital that people understand that the UK will not extend.\n\nWe won't go on remaining in the EU beyond October. What on earth is the point? Do you know how much it costs?\n\nLK: But how will you do that if MPs have changed the law to stop you?\n\nAre you looking for a way round the law? Because that's what it sounds like...\n\nBJ: We will obey the law but we will come out - and - we will come out I should say on 31 October.\n\nLK: But that means you are looking for a way round the law.\n\nI mean, to be really clear about this, Parliament has changed the law to make it almost impossible to take us out of the EU without a deal at the end of October. But you say that you will not do it.\n\nThat means that you must be looking for a way around the law?\n\nBJ: Well, you know those are your words. What we're going to do is come out on 31 October deal or no-deal. And staying in beyond 31 October completely... crackers.\n\nYou're spending £1bn a month for the privilege remaining in the... what is the point?\n\nThe people of this country want us to get on and leave the EU and deliver on the mandate of the people.\n\nAnd staying in costs £250m a week, which is which is roughly the same as what it would cost to build a new hospital every week.\n\nThat's what Jeremy Corbyn and the opposition parties seem to think is a good idea. I don't think it's a good idea.\n\nLK: You used to say it cost £350m a week, now you're saying £250m a week?\n\nBJ: I think the priorities of the British people are to come out and that's what we're going to do.\n\nLK: But do you really think that you want to be the kind of prime minister that is looking of ways of sneaking around the law to keep to your political promise?\n\nI mean, everybody knows how strongly you feel...\n\nBJ: These are all your words.\n\nLK: But how will you do it then?\n\nWill you challenge it in court? Will you take Parliament to court?\n\nBJ: Our first priority, if I may say so, just to try and look on the bright side for a second or two, is to come out with a deal and that's what we're working to achieve. And I think we have every prospect of doing that.\n\nLK: But if you don't, I mean you are looking, you know the law has been changed to try to make this impossible.\n\nIf you want to look for a way round it, many people believe that means you must be preparing somehow to ignore the law or to challenge that because it's a new area of law.\n\nWould you seek to challenge the law in court? Will the government take Parliament to court?\n\nBJ: What we're going to do is work very hard to get a deal that will allow us to come out.\n\nI see no point whatever in staying on in the EU beyond 31 October and we're going to come out. And actually that is what our friends and partners in the EU would like too. And I think that they've had a bellyful of all this stuff.\n\nYou know they want to develop a new relationship with the UK. They're fed up with these endless negotiations, endless delays. They've now delayed twice before to achieve what is completely unclear to me.\n\nLK: And you're completely clear that politically the promise you gave to your party was to leave on 31 October. And that was clear as crystal.\n\nBut since you've been in office you've suspended Parliament. You say you might find a way around the way that Parliament might change the law...\n\nBJ: Well, that's what you've just said.\n\nLK: Well, you haven't denied it prime minister. I mean it does seem since you've been in office that, some of the things that you have done, you seem to believe the conventions and rules somehow don't apply to you really?\n\nBJ: Obviously I humbly, respectfully, disagree. If you're talking about having a Queen's Speech, I think that was the right thing to do. This Parliament has gone on for longer than any time since the Civil War.\n\nIt's right to have a Queen's Speech, it's right to set out our ambitious agenda for the country. There's all sorts of things we want to do. Whether it's investing in health care and putting police on the streets.\n\nWe've got a fantastic agenda for investing in science. A huge, huge agenda for this country. On the environment, on housing we have big, big projects.\n\nWe need a Queen's Speech. And by the way, all this mumbo jumbo about how Parliament is being deprived of the opportunity to scrutinise Brexit. What a load of claptrap.\n\nActually, Parliament I think has lost about four or five days. I don't think Parliament has sat during the period from late September beginning of October for about 120 years.\n\nWith great respect, I don't think people are aware of that fact. I think people think that we've somehow stopped Parliament from scrutinising Brexit. What absolute nonsense.\n\nParliament will be able to scrutinise the deal that I hope we will be able to do both before and after the European Council on 17 October.\n\nLK: But when it comes to sticking to the promise you made to leave on 31 October...\n\nBJ: We're going to do that.\n\nLK: Is there a line that you would not cross?\n\nBJ: Well yes, obviously I didn't want to go beyond 31 October. I think that would be a mistake.\n\nLK: In order to stick to that goal, is there anything that you would not do?\n\nWould you rule out suspending parliament again?\n\nBJ: As I say, we're going to uphold the constitution and we're going to obey the law. And it's very important to realise that actually, I think our friends and partners in the EU are keen to work with us to get a deal.\n\nThat's what I've been doing here with Jean-Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier. We've been working very hard. We've had a good productive exchange.\n\nHas there been a total breakthrough? I wouldn't say so. But I would say that a huge amount of work is now going to be done to sort it out.\n\nAm I more optimistic than I was when I, when we took office? This morning? I would say a little bit, but not much, just a little bit.\n\nBecause I think that there's a, perhaps an even greater willingness on the part of the Commission to engage than I had, than I had thought.\n\nSo, so yes. I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'm not counting my chickens. And it is absolutely vital, it's absolutely vital for people to understand that the UK is ready to come out with no-deal if we have to.\n\nLK: Do you feel that the UK is stable right now? I mean, it looks like chaos, doesn't it?\n\nBJ: No, I think it's extremely stable. We've got unemployment at record lows. We have record levels of investment from overseas - one point £3tn pounds. There's no other country in Europe that gets these levels of investment.\n\nIf people genuinely thought, if people genuinely thought that there was some political risk in the UK, would they be investing in this in this country in the way that they are?\n\nLK: Does it look politically stable?\n\nBJ: This is an immensely, but it is an immensely stable country. We are going through what is, after all, a quite difficult exercise in democracy.\n\nWhich is, what happened is that the people of this country decided after 45 years of EU membership that that highly intricate relationship was one that they no longer wished to pursue. And that has had a great deal of consequence.\n\nThe disentangling of that relationship is obviously complex, but it can be done and it is being done. And we will get on with it successfully.\n\nAnd I think people should be very optimistic about the future of this country, because it's a fantastic country. It is the leader and the cutting edge of most of the 21st century technology in Europe. And a place that attracts, not just huge quantities of inward investment, but the best and brightest from around the world.\n\nAnd what we will, what we will ensure as we become, as we take advantage of Brexit, is that we remain not just open to our friends in the rest of the EU, but we reach out now to the rest of the world and take advantage of the opportunities the Brexit offers.\n\nAnd I think actually what the people of our country want is a little less of this sort of gloom and kind of, you know, I think most people think that, honestly it's just nonsensical to think that democracy in the UK is any way endangered or the UK economy is in any way endangered.\n\nWe're going through a period of constitutional adjustment caused by the decision of the people to leave the EU. That was always going to be logistically and practically difficult to accomplish.\n\nBut we're going to do it and we're going it by 31 October, and we will be in very good shape whether we get a deal or not.\n\nAnd if we don't get a deal, I'm still, as I say, cautiously optimistic that we will. If we don't get a deal, we will come out nonetheless\n\nLK: One of the people who is extremely gloomy about what's happened is your old friend and rival and colleague David Cameron.\n\nNow he says that the Leave campaign that you led lied.\n\nHe said that you behaved appallingly and he's a prime minister, a Tory prime minister, who left behind a total mess over Europe.\n\nAre you worried you might face the same fate?\n\nBJ: I have nothing but admiration. Look I don't want to say anything further about David Cameron and his memoirs than what I said the other day, which is I have the highest respect and affection, regard for him.\n\nHe and I worked together for many years and I think he has a legacy, in terms of turning around the economic chaos that Labour left, helping to introduce a jobs miracle in this country, turning the economy around, I think he can be very very proud of.\n\nSo that's my view on Dave and what he's got to say.\n\nLK: He's been pretty brutal about you...\n\nBJ: Well. Really? I mean you know. I think that he has a lot to be proud of and there you go.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Campaigner Gina Miller reacts to the judgement outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday\n\nGina Miller is the businesswoman and campaigner who has twice led legal challenges against the government and won.\n\nHer first victory came in September 2017, when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of giving MPs a say over triggering Article 50 - the legal mechanism taking the UK out of the EU.\n\nHer second came on Tuesday, when the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nHer success in the courts has come at a price - she has become a hate figure for many Brexit supporters and has had to employ round-the-clock security after threats to her life.\n\nShe says she does not want to block Brexit, but is standing up for Parliamentary democracy.\n\nSpeaking outside the Supreme Court after the ruling on Tuesday, she said: \"Today is not a win for any individual or cause, it's a win for Parliamentary sovereignty, the separation of powers and the independence of our British courts.\n\n\"Crucially, this ruling confirms that we are a nation governed by the rule of law.\"\n\nMrs Miller is not officially aligned to any political party, having spurned the advances of the Liberal Democrats, who rapturously received a speech she gave at their 2018 party conference.\n\nA 54-year-old investment manager and philanthropist, Mrs Miller was born in Guyana and educated in Britain.\n\nShe went first to an exclusive all-girls private boarding school, Roedean, on the outskirts of Brighton, at the age of 10, then to Moira House Girls' School, in Eastbourne, East Sussex.\n\nAfterwards, she studied law at the University of East London, but left before completing her degree.\n\nMrs Miller went on to start a successful marketing consultancy business with clients including private medical specialists in Harley Street in London.\n\nIn 2009, she used the money she had made in marketing to co-found an investment firm supporting smaller charities.\n\n\"I realised then it was my money, I could do what I wanted with it and so I used that money to get involved in social justice,\" Mrs Miller told Unfiltered with James O'Brien last year.\n\nAnd in 2012, the businesswoman began the True and Fair Campaign, which campaigned for greater transparency in the City of London's fund management industry.\n\nAccording to an interview with the Financial Times in 2016, this led some in the industry to label her the \"black widow spider\".\n\nSpeaking about a time she asked three men at an industry party why they were staring at her, she told the paper: \"One of them replied that I was a disgrace and that my lobbying efforts would bring down the entire City.\"\n\nMrs Miller launched her first Brexit legal case with London-based Spanish hairdresser Deir Tozetti Dos Santos and the People's Challenge group, set up by Grahame Pigney - a UK citizen who lives in France.\n\nBacked by a crowd-funding campaign, they argued the government could not invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - starting the formal process of the UK leaving the EU - without seeking approval from Parliament.\n\nMrs Miller argued only Parliament could make a decision leading to the loss of her \"rights\" under EU law.\n\nBut she stressed the challenge was not an attempt to overturn the referendum decision, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are all leavers now.\"\n\nIn November 2016, three High Court judges ruled Parliament had to vote on when the process could begin.\n\nSpeaking after her victory, Mrs Miller told the BBC the case was about scrutinising the details of Brexit, such as \"how we leave, how they're going to negotiate, the directions of travel the government will take\".\n\nAnd she said the legal challenge was about more than Brexit, arguing that it was \"verging on dictatorship\" for a prime minister to be able to take away people's rights without Parliament's consent.\n\nThe government appealed, and the case went to the Supreme Court the following December, but the 11 judges rejected it by a majority of eight to three.\n\nMrs Miller after winning her High Court legal challenge in November 2016\n\nFollowing the successful legal challenge, Mrs Miller suffered online abuse, including rape and death threats against her and her family.\n\nShe told James O'Brien: \"It has changed the way we live our lives, and the conversations we have with the children\".\n\n\"We use humour a lot because that's the only way to get through it\", she told him.\n\nIn July 2017, an aristocrat who wrote a Facebook post offering £5,000 to anyone who ran over Mrs Miller was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.\n\nDescribing the businesswoman as a \"boat jumper\", Rhodri Colwyn Philipps - the 4th Viscount St Davids - wrote: \"If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.\"\n\nThe peer claimed the comments were \"satire\" and a \"joke\".\n\nBut the judge, who said the post effectively put a \"bounty\" on Mrs Miller's head, found him guilty of two charges of making menacing communications.\n\nLater that year, Mrs Miller was named as Britain's most influential black person.\n\n\"It's amazing to get an accolade when what I've done has solicited a huge amount of abuse,\" she said on receiving her title.\n\n\"To have somebody acknowledge me is extraordinarily kind and counters a lot of what I still get on a daily basis.\"\n\nMrs Miller arrived at the Supreme Court in 2017 flanked by security guards, having received death threats\n\nDespite the backlash, Mrs Miller went on to launch a second challenge against the government to \"defend Parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\nAfter Mr Johnson announced in August that he would suspend Parliament for five weeks, Mrs Miller challenged the legality of the decision at the High Court.\n\nShe argued that Parliament would be \"silenced\" for an \"exceptional\" length of time in the critical period before the 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nShe initially lost her case, but in Scotland, a separate legal challenge succeeded, with judges taking the view that the suspension was unlawful.\n\nThe UK government appealed to the Supreme Court against the Scottish judgement, and the two cases were then heard together.\n\nThe court unanimously ruled in favour of Mrs Miller's appeal and against the government's.\n\nGina Miller spoke to the media outside the Supreme Court after her victory\n\nJudges said it was wrong to stop MPs carrying out duties in the run-up to the Brexit deadline on 31 October.\n\nAfter the ruling Mrs Miller told reporters the ruling showed the government \"will push the law, they will push the constitution and they will even bend it to get their own way\".", "England cricketer Ben Stokes has the support of \"the whole sport and the country\" after criticising the Sun over a story it ran about his family, a leading cricket chief says.\n\nTom Harrison, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), added he was \"disgusted and appalled\" by the newspaper's actions.\n\nBut the Sun has defended its journalism.\n\nIt pointed out it had received the co-operation of a family member and said the events described were \"a matter of public record\" and \"the subject of extensive front-page publicity in New Zealand at the time\".\n\nThe story prompted a statement from Stokes, the England and Durham all-rounder. The 28-year-old said it was the \"lowest form of journalism\" which dealt with \"deeply personal and traumatic events\" that affected his New Zealand-based family more than 30 years ago.\n\nStokes was born in New Zealand and moved to Cumbria with his family aged 12.\n\nHe won the Cricket World Cup with England this summer, then made an unlikely 135 not out in the third Ashes Test against Australia at Headingley last month to keep England in contention in the series.\n\nHis comments on the story drew support from various figures in the sport and public life, and team-mates including England captain Joe Root.\n\n\"We, like the wider sporting world, are disgusted and appalled at the actions taken in revealing the tragic events from Ben's past,\" Harrison said in the ECB's statement.\n\n\"We are saddened that an intrusion of this magnitude was deemed necessary in order to sell newspapers or secure clicks. Ben's exploits at Lord's and Headingley cemented his place in cricket history this summer - we are sure the whole sport, and the country, stands behind him in support.''\n\nToday the Sun has seen fit to publish extremely painful, sensitive and personal details concerning events in the private lives of my family, going back more than 31 years.\n\nIt is hard to find words that adequately describe such low and despicable behaviour, disguised as journalism. I cannot conceive of anything more immoral, heartless or contemptuous to the feelings and circumstances of my family.\n\nFor more than three decades, my family has worked hard to deal with the private trauma inevitably associated with these events and has taken great care to keep private what were deeply personal and traumatic events.\n\nOn Saturday the Sun sent a 'reporter' to my parents' home in New Zealand to question them, out of the blue, on this incredibly upsetting topic. If that wasn't bad enough, the Sun think it is acceptable to sensationalise our personal tragedy for their front page.\n\nTo use my name as an excuse to shatter the privacy and private lives of - in particular - my parents, is utterly disgusting. I am am aware that my public profile brings with it consequences for me that I accept entirely.\n\nBut I will not allow my public profile to be used as an excuse to invade the rights of my parents, my wife, my children or other family members. They are entitled to a private life of their own.\n\nThe decision to publish these details has grave and lifelong consequences for my mum in particular.\n\nThis is the lowest form of journalism, focussed only on chasing sales with absolutely no regard for the devastation caused to lives as a consequence. It is totally out of order.\n\nThe article also contains serious inaccuracies which has compounded the damage caused. we need to take a serious look at how we allow our press to behave.\n\nWhat does the Sun say?\n\nA spokesperson for the Sun said: \"The Sun has the utmost sympathy for Ben Stokes and his mother but it is only right to point out the story was told with the co-operation of a family member who supplied details, provided photographs and posed for pictures.\n\n\"The tragedy is also a matter of public record and was the subject of extensive front page publicity in New Zealand at the time.\n\n\"The Sun has huge admiration for Ben Stokes and we were delighted to celebrate his sporting heroics this summer. He was contacted prior to publication and at no stage did he or his representatives ask us not to publish the story.\"\n\nThere was no justification for the Sun story beyond selling papers, according to press regulation campaign group Hacked Off.\n\nBoard member Steve Barnett - who is a lecturer in communications - told BBC Radio 5 Live that the story was \"graphic evidence\" of a newspaper \"driving a coach and horses through their own code of conduct\".\n\n\"He's done absolutely nothing wrong and his own family history is dragged through the mud. I can't see any justification for this other than the fact it will sell papers. It was a brutally commercial decision which took no account of their own code of conduct, which says everyone deserves respect for their private and family life. \"\n\nHe also questioned the newspaper's defence that the information had come from a family member, saying giving \"carte blanche for any family member to come forward and say 'I've got some dirt or story or can give you some inside track on some tragedy'\" was \"not a good way to run a journalistic operation\".\n\n\"Ben Stokes himself said if it was about him he could stand up and take it. He's man enough to say I'm in the public life and will take whatever's coming - but to do that to your family, to people who have never done anything apart from be related to you, is unforgivable,\" he added.\n\nIan Murray, the executive director of the Society of Editors, told the station: \"I know there will be a lot of people who agree with Ben Stokes in what he said and will side with him. There will be a lot of journalists who will find this actually distasteful.\n\n\"It's not for the Society to say whether it is distasteful or not but what we will do is defend a free press in this country.\n\n\"Was it editorially justifiable? Evidently the paper thought that it was.\n\n\"I'm not defending the Sun - what I am defending is the principle and saying let's be very careful about what we do. We have freedom of expression in this country to a large extent - there are lots of regulations there, there are lots of laws. We have a free press. It's such a jewel in the crown of any free society. And there are always the sharks circling, the politicians, the rich, the powerful who would like to see that free press closed down.\"\n\nNew press regulation was introduced after the Leveson Inquiry into press standards in 2011 and 2012. It saw a small number of publications joining Impress, a self-regulatory body set up to be \"Leveson-compliant\".\n\nHowever most newspapers signed up to Ipso, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, and abide by their own Editors' Code of Practice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I've been told I sound Welsh - I don't know if it's true!\"\n\nWhen Tea Racic arrived in Wales three years ago to study she had no idea what to expect.\n\nNow the Croatian has fallen in love with the country she calls her \"second home\".\n\nShe said: \"I think I am kind of Welsh ... I've sort of adopted the accent.\"\n\nHaving graduated from University of South Wales with a BSc in psychology she is now working as an intern there, helping new students from overseas adapt to life in Wales.\n\nMs Racic said the international welcome programme was \"important\" in helping students \"settle in\" and \"learn about different cultures\".\n\nIn the academic year beginning September 2017 a total of 21,350 students from outside the UK enrolled with Welsh universities - nearly one in five of their students.\n\nAt the University of South Wales, nearly 3,000 international students enrolled.\n\nDr Lisa Davies says some students are leaving their home countries for the first time\n\nThe university's international and partnership development head, Dr Lisa Davies, said students needed a \"soft landing\" on arriving here.\n\n\"For many of our students it's the first time they've been on a plane, left their family, travelled to the other side of the world, so it's really important that we provide this period of time,\" she said.\n\n\"Wales has so much to offer international students.\n\n\"It very quickly becomes a home away from home to them.\"\n\nMs Racic says she was \"a bit nervous\" when she got here, but things worked out well.\n\n\"I had a really good experience arriving here in Wales and I attended the international welcome programme,\" she said.\n\n\"I attended all the events and I met really good friends - friends from all around the world and it made me feel really welcome\".\n\nRosemary Osei Dufie from Ghana has already visited Cardiff and Caerphilly castles\n\nRosemary Osei Dufie, from Ghana, came to Wales to do a clinical psychology masters course.\n\n\"Everybody is so warm and welcoming, I'm enjoying it,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been to Cardiff Castle, I've used a train… I've seen Cardiff Bay, it's beautiful.\"\n\nGetting to know the culture and \"really friendly people\" in Wales has been a highlight for Jasmine Dhaliwal.\n\nShe came to USW from Vancouver, Canada.\n\n\"Getting to come over to Wales has been the most beautiful thing, because I've never been here before,\" she said.\n\n\"Getting to see all this landscape and all this greenery has been really nice.\"\n\nSteiniar Stensø Skjørholm claims Welsh mountains are more like hills compared to those in Norway\n\nNorway's Steiniar Stensø Skjørholm knew about Wales but his knowledge was \"quite limited.\"\n\n\"It's a beautiful country, it's so much greener than home but there aren't the mountains like we have!\" he said.\n\n\"They're more like slopes and hills… and the people here are very nice.\"\n\nTea Racic will continue working with international students through the academic year. She misses Croatia and her allegiances are split between there and Wales.\n\n\"They sometimes ask me if I'm from Wales, but I say 'no, I'm originally from Croatia' but I've just adopted that really good accent,\" she said.\n\n\"Welsh people are very nice and friendly.\n\n\"I actually call this is my second home now. So I'm home here and I'm home when I go to Croatia to see my family.\n\n\"It's really great - this place has this welcoming feeling and I really like that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nathan DeAsha competes in bodybuilding as \"The Prophecy\"\n\nAn international bodybuilder has been called a \"disgrace to the sport\" by a judge after he used his fame to sell steroids to gym users.\n\nNathan DeAsha, from Liverpool, admitted supplying £10,000-worth of the drugs to the Pain and Gain gym in Barnstaple, Devon, over three months in 2017.\n\nHe was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence at Exeter Crown Court.\n\nEarlier this month, gym owner Richard Green was jailed for four and a half years for drug dealing.\n\nDeAsha, 33, was forced to pull out of the Mr Olympia event in Las Vegas so he could attend court.\n\nPolice found boxes of steroids worth about £10,000 in a locked boiler room at the Pain and Gain gym\n\nThe court heard he gave a training seminar to 250 customers at the gym in May 2017, during which he discussed his use of steroids, which he then supplied to gym users.\n\nPolice later found drugs in a locked boiler room with DeAsha's fingerprint on, and his gym in Liverpool as the return address.\n\nDeAsha is one of Britain's top bodybuilders and the current British Grand Prix champion.\n\nJudge David Evans told him: \"As a regular competitor on the national and international stage, who has done well in bodybuilding, you are a disgrace to the sport and it is doubly sad, given how well you have done to overcome past behaviour and adversity.\n\n\"What makes your behaviour more disappointing is that you project yourself as an ambassador for the sport to children.\n\n\"I hope you can make good the damage which you have done to your own reputation and to the sport.\"\n\nJulian Nutter, defending, said DeAsha had been jailed when he was younger but had used his bodybuilding skills to turn his life around.\n\nHe said DeAsha would suffer serious punishment because his conviction would prevent him travelling to the United States to compete in the future.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international trade secretary has written to the Commons committee on armed exports controls\n\nThe UK's international trade secretary has apologised to a court for two breaches of a pledge not to licence exports to Saudi Arabia that could be used in the Yemen conflict.\n\nMinisters promised to stop approving shipments in June after a challenge by campaigners at the Court of Appeal.\n\nLiz Truss said the granting of licences for £435,000 of radio spares and a £200 air cooler for the Royal Saudi Land Forces had been \"inadvertent\".\n\nIn a letter to the Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls, Ms Truss said routine analysis of statistics found a licence for the air cooler for a Renault Sherpa Light Scout vehicle had been issued just days after the ruling.\n\nAnd a licence for the export of 260 items of radio spares had been issued in July. To date, the letter said, 180 items from that order - with a value of £261,450 - had been shipped.\n\nMs Truss said: \"I have apologised to the court unreservedly for the error in granting these two licences.\"\n\nGovernment lawyers had informed the court of the \"breaches of the undertaking given\", she added.\n\nShe said the internal investigation had been launched to establish whether other licences had been issued against the assurances to the court or Parliament, and to ensure there could be no further breaches.\n\nYemen has been locked in civil war since 2015\n\nThe court case saw the Campaign Against Arms Trade argue that the UK decision to continue to license military equipment for export to the Gulf state was unlawful.\n\nUnder UK export policy, military equipment licences should not be granted if there is a \"clear risk\" that weapons might be used in a \"serious violation of international humanitarian law\".\n\nJudges hearing the court case decided existing licences should be reviewed but they would not be immediately suspended.\n\nBut Ms Truss's predecessor Liam Fox had given an assurance that the government would not grant further export licences while it considered the ruling.\n\nResponding to the government's apology, the campaign's Andrew Smith said: \"We are always being told how rigorous and robust UK arms export controls supposedly are, but this shows that nothing could be further from the truth.\"", "PC Harper got married to his long-term partner Lissie just four weeks before his death\n\nFour people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a police officer who was killed while investigating a burglary.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, died after he was dragged along a road by a vehicle in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on 15 August.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys, all from the Reading area, were re-arrested in an operation involving more than 100 officers.\n\nA 21-year-old man from Basingstoke has been arrested for the first time.\n\nJed Foster, 20, who is charged with killing the PC, has previously appeared in court.\n\nThames Valley Police said the new arrests followed \"new evidence coming to light\".\n\nPC Harper married his long-term partner Lissie just four weeks before his death.\n\nMrs Harper had previously paid tribute to the \"kindest, loveliest, most selfless person you will ever meet\".\n\n\"My darling boy I do not know how I will be able to survive without you,\" she said.\n\n\"My heart is broken without you my sweetheart but my god I feel so lucky that it was me you chose to share your amazing life with.\"\n\nPC Harper was killed on the A4 Bath Road\n\nThe three re-arrested males were originally arrested on 16 August before being released on bail until 12 September. They were then re-bailed until 16 November.\n\nThe four suspects are all currently in custody, police said. They were also arrested on suspicion of theft.\n\nDet Supt Ailsa Kent, of the Thames Valley Police Major Crime Unit, said: \"This is an ongoing, complex investigation, and we remain committed to achieving justice for PC Harper, his family, friends and colleagues.\n\n\"I would also like to reiterate our appeal for anyone who knows anything about this incident to come forward and talk to police, if you have not already done so.\"\n\nMr Foster, of Pingewood, Burghfield, was remanded in custody when he appeared via video link at Reading Crown Court last month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The future of a huge potash mine in North Yorkshire has been thrown into doubt after the company behind the project cancelled plans to raise $500m (£403m) through a bond sale.\n\nSirius Minerals blamed \"market conditions\", including Brexit and lack of government support for the decision.\n\nIt will now undergo a six-month review of four different options for a new financing plan to resume the project.\n\nThe company's share price halved in reaction to the news.\n\nSirius had already paused the bond issue last month, blaming \"market conditions\".\n\nThe project is set to be the world's largest mine for polyhalite, a naturally occurring fertiliser which is used in agriculture. The mine is due to open in 2021 and create more than 1,000 jobs.\n\nThe plans include a 23-mile (37km) tunnel to transport minerals to a processing plant near the former Redcar steelworks.\n\nDifferent parts of the work will be slowed up to maintain cash flow while the strategic review takes place.\n\nMinerals would be transported underground to a processing plant on Teesside\n\nAnnouncing the changes, Sirius managing director Chris Fraser said: \"This is the most prudent decision to give the company the time necessary to restructure its plans to move the project forward.\n\n\"The process will incorporate feedback from prospective credit providers around the risks associated with construction and will include seeking a major strategic partner for the project.\"\n\nThe company said it had asked the government for support but its request had been turned down.\n\nSirius added that it believed that \"this commitment would have enabled the company's financing to be delivered as planned\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"When examining any request for financing, we have to assess the potential of a project against the need to protect taxpayers' money.\"\n\nHe added: \"We have made and continue to make very significant investment in the Northern Powerhouse project.\"\n\nThe MP for Redcar, Labour's Anna Turley, said it was \"devastating news\".\n\nShe added on Twitter: \"That the government are refusing to step in and secure this enormous project is an absolute disgrace.\n\n\"This government owes everyone involved an apology. It's not too late to change their minds and step in to save this huge project and the jobs and livelihoods that rely on it.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough's MP, Labour's Andy McDonald, tweeted: \"Sirius is critical to Teesside's future and if government stands aside as they did with the Redcar Blast Furnace they will never be forgiven.\"\n\nRobert Goodwill, the Conservative MP for Scarborough and Whitby, said it would be \"unprecedented\" for the government to step in.\n\n\"I hope they will be successful in finding a partner, I think that is the best way forward,\" he said. \"The government looked at it and said it wasn't the sort of thing it could do, it is a commercial project and if it is a viable project then other companies will back it.\"\n\nTees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, said there was still hope the problems could be overcome.\n\n\"I'm in daily contact with Chris Fraser and remain confident that the truly transformational benefits this project can deliver for our region can and will be delivered,\" he said.\n\nRuss Mould, from investment platform AJ Bell, said: \"This is terrible news for a very large number of retail investors who had put their faith in the company.\n\n\"Many of these shareholders live close to the mine and invested as a show of support in a project that had the potential to greatly improve the local economy.\"\n\nHe added: \"Although the share price has taken a beating on today's news, it isn't game over for Sirius and its shareholders. The miner has a few options to try and salvage the project.\"", "A drug used to treat enlarged prostates may be a powerful medicine against Parkinson's disease, according to an international team of scientists.\n\nTerazosin helps ease benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) by relaxing the muscles of the bladder and prostate.\n\nBut researchers believe it has another beneficial action, on brain cells damaged by Parkinson's.\n\nThey say the drug might slow Parkinson's progression - something that is not possible currently.\n\nThey studied thousands of patients with both BPH and Parkinson's.\n\nTheir findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggest the alpha-blocker drug protects brain cells from destruction.\n\nParkinson's is a progressive condition affecting the brain, for which there is currently no cure.\n\nExisting Parkinson's treatments can help with some of the symptoms but can't slow or reverse the loss of neurons that occurs with the disease.\n\nTerazosin may help by activating an enzyme called PGK1 to prevent this brain cell death, the researchers, from the University of Iowa, in the US and the Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, China, say.\n\nWhen they tested the drug in rodents it appeared to slow or stop the loss of nerve cells.\n\nTo begin assessing if the drug might have the same effect in people, they searched the medical records of millions of US patients to identify men with BPH and Parkinson's.\n\nThey studied 2,880 Parkinson's patients taking terazosin or similar drugs that target PGK1 and a comparison group of 15,409 Parkinson's patients taking a different treatment for BPH that had no action on PGK1.\n\nPatients on the drugs targeting PGK1 appeared to fare better in terms of Parkinson's disease symptoms and progression, which the researchers say warrants more study in clinical trials, which they plan to begin this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Michael Welsh says while it is premature to talk about a cure, the findings have the potential to change the lives of people with Parkinson's.\n\n\"Today, we have zero treatments that change the progressive course of this neurodegenerative disease,\" she says.\n\n\"That's a terrible state, because as our population ages Parkinson's disease is going to become increasingly common.\n\n\"So, this is really an exciting area of research.\"\n\nGiven that terazosin has a proven track record for treating BPH, he says, getting it approved and \"repurposed\" as a Parkinson's drug should be achievable if the clinical trials go well.\n\nThe trials, which will take a few years, will compare the drug with a placebo to make sure it is safe and effective in Parkinson's.\n\nCo-researcher Dr Nandakumar Narayanan, who treats patients with Parkinson's disease said: \"We need these randomised controlled trials to prove that these drugs really are disease modifying.\n\n\"If they are, that would be a great thing.\"\n\nProf David Dexter from Parkinson's UK said: \"These exciting results show that terazosin may have hidden potential for slowing the progression of Parkinson's, something that is desperately needed to help people live well for longer.\n\n\"While it is early days, both animal models and studies looking at people who already take the drug show promising signs that need to be investigated further.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thanks for following our live coverage of today's proceedings in the UK Supreme Court.\n\nWe'll be back again for more tomorrow.\n\nThe hearing resumes at 10:30 BST when we'll be hearing from the lawyer for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sir James Eadie.\n\nThen in the afternoon it's Aidan O'Neill, the lawyer for the group led by the SNP's Joanna Cherry.\n\nIn the meantime, our news story on the case will continue to be updated with the latest reaction.", "Laptops at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise site in Erskine wait to get refurbished\n\nOne of the world's biggest names in computing has committed to maintaining a key base in Scotland, regardless of how the UK leaves the European Union.\n\nUS-based Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides business IT gear to customers.\n\nHPE said its Renfrewshire site, which refurbishes used technology like laptops, printers and servers, was one of the best in the world.\n\nThe UK government has outlined several “reasonable worst-case” planning scenarios in relation to Brexit.\n\nThe Yellowhammer document has raised the possibility of lorries not being able to cross easily from the UK in to France.\n\nSpeaking at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise facility in Erskine, the company's Ray McGann said: \"The level of expertise and technical capability we have here is extremely important to us and our customers.\n\n\"That expertise is the cornerstone of our business and it's very important to us to maintain that.\"\n\nMr McGann, who looks after the lifecycle of HPE's assets, said the business had customers right across Europe - but added that it had been drawing on its experience dealing with non-EU countries such as Norway.\n\n\"The lack of clarity maybe over the last three years has meant that nobody was taking any particular outcome for granted, therefore the planning would have taken the worst case,\" he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme.\n\nHe said the company had been working with its carriers, adding: \"We have over the years been very focused on ensuring best use of logistics from Europe (such as) making consolidated shipments.\n\n\"Our good practices have been maintained through all of the years. They will stand to us, hard Brexit or otherwise.\n\n\"We're confident we have the expertise, the knowledge to support the eventual outcome.\"\n\nThe Hewlett Packard Enterprise plant in Renfrewshire takes up 150,000 sq ft of space\n\nA wide array of used IT equipment, including computer monitors, are refurbished and sent back out to customers\n\nMeanwhile, Hewlett Packard Enterprise says it is seeing a big change in how its IT customers operate, amid the drive to cut carbon.\n\nIts 150,000 sq ft facility in Erskine plays a big role in handling the four million items of technology the company processed in 2018.\n\nThis is also where 89% of used IT equipment taken in from clients is refurbished and sent out again to customers - part of the business model known as the circular economy.\n\nThe equipment is also wiped clean of all data before re-use and staff working at the site need a high level of security clearance.\n\n\"Nearly 90% of what you see brought in the door is broken down and reconfigured for the next customer,\" said Hewlett Packard Enterprise chief sustainability officer Christopher Wellise.\n\n\"Just over 10% is recycled in a responsible way and waste is limited to about 0.33% of all the material that's brought in here.\"\n\nHewlett Packard Enterprise chief sustainability officer Christopher Wellise said more of the company's customers were having to prove their carbon-cutting policies\n\nMr Wellise added that only 1% of the environmental impact of its equipment was disposing of it - producing and using IT equipment makes up a much larger slice of the carbon footprint.\n\nHe said: \"One of the things that you really want to focus on is creating the most energy-efficient products on the planet, and then extending the life of those products - keeping them out of landfill and keeping them in use for longer.\n\n\"Our large cloud provider customers - many of them have carbon neutral requirements. One of the things we can do by refurbishing their assets is offset some of the carbon associated with the production of new equipment.\n\n\"It's not technically a carbon offset that you would actually pay for, but it's a credit on their carbon footprint.\"\n\nHPE has now decided to offer all the products it normally sells under its circular economy programme, by 2023.\n\n\"One of the ways you can really close that loop is giving access rather than ownership,\" Mr Wellise said.\n\n\"HPE retains custody of that equipment, therefore that 89% applies to a much broader base, and we're looking to push that 89% as close to 100% as possible - we're always improving processes.\"\n\nFor the latest business news as it happens, follow BBC presenter Andrew Black's updates each weekday morning on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme between 0600 and 0900.", "The Conservative Party has said it is reviewing its Facebook advertising after it was accused of misrepresenting a BBC News story.\n\nAn advert featured the BBC logo with a headline saying \"£14 billion pound cash boost for schools\".\n\nBut a BBC story linked in the advert said the figure was £7.1bn.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact said political parties should not \"misrepresent the work of independent journalists in this way\".\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said: \"It was not our intention to misrepresent by using this headline copy with the news link, where the BBC's £7bn figure is clearly displayed, but we are reviewing how our advert headlines match accompanying links.\"\n\nClicking on the advert took readers to the original story on the BBC News website by Sean Coughlan, where it had the headline \"Multi-billion pound cash boost for schools\".\n\nBBC analysis in the story from 30 August queried the government's claims about its additional funding for schools.\n\nThe corporation's head of statistics, Robert Cuffe, explained here that the government was not calculating the spending increase in the usual way.\n\n\"Describing this as a £14bn increase would make the government seem more generous than it is in fact being,\" he wrote.\n\nThe spending announcement provided an extra £2.6bn next year, £4.8bn the year after that and £7.1bn in 2022-23.\n\nAdded together that makes £14bn, but it is not how spending increases are normally worked out, Mr Cuffe said.\n\nBecause budgets are normally discussed for individual years, he said the usual practice is to measure the spending increase for one year - usually the last where the increase is the largest.\n\nMr Cuffe told the BBC: \"Independent experts look at the effect of spending increases on a department's annual budget.\n\n\"Adding up those increases over many years exaggerates the government's generosity. It is an old trick of political accountancy that many governments have used.\"\n\nIn his spending review announcement in Parliament on 4 September, Chancellor Sajid Javid used the smaller figure.\n\nHe said: \"Today we are delivering on our pledge to increase school spending by £7.1 billion by 2022-23, compared with this year.\"\n\nThe BBC posted the story on Facebook with its own headline\n\nFull Fact said that various versions of the advert with the altered headline had received between 222,000 and 510,000 impressions - although these can include multiple viewings by the same person.\n\nThe Facebook adverts - which started running on 2 September - have since been deactivated.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"We are looking into this matter.\"", "Ovo is set to become the UK's second largest energy supplier after it agreed to buy SSE's retail business for £500m.\n\nOvo - which was created 10 years ago - is already the UK's largest independent energy supplier, with 1.5 million customers and about 2,000 employees.\n\nBut it will now take on SSE's 3.5 million customers and 8,000 staff, making it second only to British Gas.\n\nSSE said it would \"do all it can to ensure a smooth transition for customers and employees\".\n\nThe deal is expected to be completed in late 2019 or early 2020.\n\nSSE - one of the Big Six energy suppliers - said there would be no immediate impact on customers after completion.\n\nIt added that the SSE brand would be operated by Ovo under licence for a period, \"allowing time for a phased and carefully managed migration and continued high standards of customer service\".\n\nStephen Murray, energy expert at MoneySuperMarket, said Ovo's deal to buy SSE's business \"will enhance the ever-growing competition for customers\".\n\n\"The likes of Ovo, Shell, Bulb and Octopus mean there's a base of emerging suppliers who are continuing to challenge the Big Six in the domestic energy market.\"\n\nOvo chief Stephen Fitzpatrick said the two business were a \"great fit\"\n\nSSE had announced in May that it planned to offload its energy services division after more than 500,000 households switched to a new supplier in the year to April. The company said it would sell or float its energy services arm by the second half of 2020.\n\nIn November last year, a proposed merger of SSE's household supply arm with rival Npower was called off, with SSE blaming \"very challenging market conditions\".\n\nThe introduction of the energy price cap by the government had led SSE and Npower to renegotiate their planned tie-up, but they failed to agree a deal.\n\nAnnouncing the sale of the business to Ovo, SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies said: \"We have long believed that a dedicated, focused and independent retailer will ultimately best serve customers, employees and other stakeholders - and this is an excellent opportunity to make that happen.\n\n\"I'm confident that this is the best outcome for the SSE Energy Services business.\"\n\nThe founder and chief executive of Ovo, Stephen Fitzpatrick, described the deal as a \"significant moment for the energy industry\".\n\n\"SSE and Ovo are a great fit. They share our values on sustainability and serving customers. They've built an excellent team that I'm really looking forward to working with.\"", "Kyle Davies was also convicted of possession of indecent images\n\nA teenager who was found guilty of planning a mass shooting has been jailed for 16 years.\n\nKyle Davies, 19, from Gloucester, tried to buy a handgun and ammunition for £1,000 from a dealer on the dark web.\n\nHe was found guilty of attempting to possess a Glock 17 pistol and ammunition with intent to endanger life, following a trial in July.\n\nAt Taunton Crown Court, Judge Paul Cook said Davies \"had the intention to endanger life in a shooting event\".\n\nDuring the trial at Gloucester Crown Court, the jury heard the Columbine School massacre gunmen and Norwegian extremist killer Anders Breivik were \"poster boys\" for Davies.\n\nA package containing the weapon and ammunition Davies had ordered was intercepted in the USA and officers in the UK were tipped off.\n\nA Glock pistol and ammunition were ordered online by Davies\n\nThe parcel was substituted for a dummy one that was delivered by an undercover officer to his home, where he was arrested.\n\nA search of Davies's home revealed computer files and notes about mass killers.\n\nHe had denied the charges, saying he had bought the weapon to kill himself, yet the court heard he had written out a list of other items he wanted to buy including petrol, a gas mask and body armour.\n\nDavies, who was aged 18 at the time of the offences, had also drawn 77 stickmen to represent the victims of the 2011 explosion and shootings in Norway.\n\nHe was also convicted of attempting to evade the prohibition on importing a prohibited weapon, and possession of indecent images.\n\nDavies was sentenced to a concurrent prison term of six months after being convicted of two charges of making indecent images of children, relating to 250 images and two videos found on his devices.\n\nThe defendant was also handed an eight-year term, to run concurrently with his 16-year sentence, for evading the prohibition on firearms and ammunition imports.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo (L) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met on Friday\n\nThe US and Brazil have agreed to promote private-sector development in the Amazon, during a meeting in Washington on Friday.\n\nThey also pledged a $100m (£80m) biodiversity conservation fund for the Amazon led by the private sector.\n\nBrazil's foreign minister said opening the rainforest to economic development was the only way to protect it.\n\nErnesto Araujo also hit back at criticism of Brazil's handling of the forest fires.\n\nHe told reporters in Washington that claims the country is \"not able to cope with the challenges\" were false.\n\nOn Friday, Finland urged EU countries to consider stopping importing beef and soybeans from Brazil in order to put pressure on Brazil to tackle the fires.\n\nBrazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has faced criticism for failing to protect the region.\n\nMore than 80,000 fires have broken out in the Amazon rainforest so far this year.\n\nExperts believe the majority of the fires across Brazil this year are caused by human activity such as farmers and loggers clearing land for crops or grazing.\n\nEnvironmentalists will say this scheme is a ruse to open up the Amazon for mining, logging and farming.\n\nWhen roads are driven into the forest it attracts more settlers, who clear land and hunt wildlife.\n\nThe land clearance - even on a quite small basis - leads to changed weather patterns, which harm the forest.\n\nEnvironmentalists will argue the best way of saving the rainforest is to leave it in the hands of indigenous people.\n\nEnvironmentalists say Mr Bolsonaro's policies have led to an increase in fires this year and that he has encouraged cattle farmers to clear large areas of the rainforest since his election last October.\n\nMr Araujo said: \"We want to be together in the endeavour to create development for the Amazon region which we are convinced is the only way to protect the forest.\n\n\"So we need new initiatives, new productive initiatives, that create jobs, that create revenue for people in the Amazon and that's where our partnership with the United States will be very important for us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's extremely upsetting... to see this kind of devastation\" - the BBC's Will Grant flew over northern Rondonia state\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the biodiversity investment fund would support businesses in hard to reach areas of the Amazon.\n\nHe added: \"The Brazilians and the American teams will follow through on our commitment that our presidents made in March. We're getting off the ground a 100 million dollar, 11-year Impact Investment Fund for Amazon biodiversity conservation and that project will be led by the private sector.\"\n\nLast week seven South American countries agreed on measures to protect the Amazon river basin.\n\nBolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname signed a pact, setting up a disaster response network and satellite monitoring.\n\nAt a summit in Colombia, they also agreed to work on reforestation.", "Sainsbury's has become the latest supermarket to target packaging waste, pledging to halve the amount of plastic used in its stores by 2025.\n\nIts customers will have to change their behaviour to achieve the \"bold ambition\" it said, for example by buying milk in plastic pouches.\n\nIt is also inviting the public and business partners to submit new ideas.\n\n\"Reducing plastic and packaging is not easy,\" said Mike Coupe, Sainsbury's chief executive.\n\n\"We can't do this on our own and we will be asking our suppliers and our customers to work with us.\"\n\nMPs said this week reducing packaging should be the priority for retailers, rather than replacing plastic with compostable or recyclable alternatives.\n\nThe infrastructure is not in place in the UK to dispose of compostable or biodegradable materials effectively, parliament's committee for environment, food and rural affairs found. The committee said wider environmental considerations also needed to be taken into account when replacing plastic packaging, including its carbon footprint.\n\nOn Friday, Sainsbury's is meeting with food manufacturers, packaging suppliers, material scientists and the waste and recycling industry to kick-start the process of identifying new solutions.\n\nHowever the supermarket said it was already rolling out some measures, including removing all plastic bags from its fruit and veg sections by the end of this month.\n\nInstead customers will be invited to bring their own bags, buy reusable bags made from recycled plastic bottles, or put a price sticker onto loose items.\n\nThe supermarket considered introducing paper bags, but spokeswoman, Rebecca Reilly said the net impact would have been worse for the environment.\n\n\"There's the deforestation link, and they are heavier and bulkier [than plastic]. They take up space in transport, so there are knock-on carbon emissions,\" she said.\n\nSainsbury's will encourage customers to bring their own containers for products from shampoo to raw meat and fish, and will sell more products loose by weight, something Waitrose began trialling earlier this year.\n\nIn many areas it was a question of reducing plastic rather than eliminating it, suggested Ms Reilly. For example milk might be sold in pouches, using less plastic than the current bottles.\n\nBut Helen Bird from packaging campaign group, Wrap, said plastic milk bottles were one of the items being widely recycled in the UK.\n\nPlastic pouches aren't currently recyclable, she said, although they would probably produce lower carbon emissions.\n\nBut she praised the scale of Sainsbury's ambition and said accepting that it did not yet have all the answers was a sensible approach to the challenge ahead.\n\n\"We need to not take decisions like this lightly,\" she said. \"To achieve this they'll need significant levels of innovation.\n\n\"They'll also require suppliers to come to them with fresh business models for how they can deliver products to customers in a way that will not have a significant effect on prices as well as carbon and food waste implications.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jesy Nelson: 'I felt like the whole world hated me'\n\nJesy Nelson has been praised for her \"inspiring\" documentary addressing the impact of online bullying.\n\nOdd One Out, made by BBC Three, aired on Thursday on BBC One and revealed how comments from trolls had led the Little Mix star to attempt suicide.\n\nThe 28-year-old, who rose to fame on The X Factor in 2011, spoke of how she became almost \"obsessed\" with reading negative comments about herself.\n\nActress Emily Atack tweeted that the film should be shown in schools.\n\n\"Show it in schools, tell your mates, watch it,\" she tweeted. The Only Way Is Essex star Georgia Kousoulou agreed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Georgia Kousoulou This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStacey Dooley described Nelson as a \"total star\", while EastEnders actress Tilly Keeper praised the singer's bravery, saying her story was \"necessary in today's technological and social media crazed climate\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stacey Dooley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\nNelson's Little Mix bandmates told the programme about the toll internet bullies took on the singer. \"The three of us didn't know what to do,\" said Jade Thirlwall. \"We just had to watch this amazing, funny girl become a bit like a broken doll. It was horrible.\"\n\nShe added: \"I remember feeling really angry. I wanted to just find every single person that had ever said anything horrible to her, look them in the eye and say, 'Look what you've done to this girl.'\"\n\nIn its review, The Guardian gave the show four stars, calling it \"a modern fairytale in reverse\".\n\nCritic Rebecca Nicholson wrote: \"This raw, candid documentary explores the fallout Nelson faced after winning The X Factor with Little Mix: a relentless barrage of abuse from cyberbullies.\"\n\nThe Times' Joe Clay said it showed Nelson \"putting on a brave face against social-media trolls\", while Alice Vincent in The Telegraph suggested \"it's not just Jesy Nelson\" who has suffered such treatment.\n\nLittle Mix rose to fame in 2011 after winning the X Factor\n\nWhile Nelson's mental health has gradually improved since she deleted Twitter, Leigh-Anne Pinnock from the band said there had been a lasting impact.\n\n\"She is a little bit of a nightmare when it comes to video shoots and photo shoots,\" she said. \"It has been a bit hard within the group. People don't realise what bullying and trolling can do to someone. The trolls took away her love for it and her passion. But how does she get that back?\"\n\nNelson announced earlier this year that she was making a documentary exploring body image and mental health because she wanted to \"make a change and a difference to other people's lives\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None 'I felt like the whole world hated me' Video, 00:02:08'I felt like the whole world hated me'", "Adele and Simon Konecki married in secret in 2016\n\nSinger Adele has filed for divorce from her husband Simon Konecki, according to legal documents filed in the US.\n\nA representative said the pair were \"committed to raising their son together lovingly\".\n\nAdele gave birth to her son, Angelo, in 2012. She married Konecki - an investment banker turned charity boss - in 2016 after five years of dating.\n\nThe best-selling north London-born artist is known for her chart-topping albums 19, 21 and 25.\n\nThe statement added that the couple, who announced their separation in April, were asking for privacy and there would be no further comment.\n\nThe divorce papers were lodged at a court in Los Angeles.\n\nThey married in a secret ceremony in 2016, with Adele publicly addressing the wedding for the first time during an acceptance speech at the 2017 Grammys, where she thanked her husband.\n\nThe singer's debut album, which was released in 2008 and featured hits including Chasing Pavements and Hometown Glory, reached number one in the UK.\n\nShe went on to win a string of awards and her follow-up, 21, topped the charts in 30 countries including the US and the UK.\n\nHer third album, 25, sold a record-breaking 800,000 copies in its first week and became the best-selling album of 2015.\n\nRecent reports suggest Adele is recording new music, and the 31-year-old was pictured entering a recording studio in New York City in March.\n\nKonecki, 45, left his job at Lehman Brothers in 2005, and founded the ethical water company Life Water. The firm and its charity partner Drop 4 Drop \"fund clear water projects across the globe\".\n\n\"I was originally an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and I was doing well and earning a lot of money, but I got sick of that greedy and corrupted world,\" he told Management Today in 2012.", "A keyhole-surgery technique for treating heavy menstrual bleeding is more effective and just as safe as a non-invasive alternative, a study of more than 600 UK women suggests.\n\nThose who had a laparoscopic supra-cervical hysterectomy, removing part of the uterus, were more satisfied than a group that had endometrial ablation.\n\nAnd they were less likely to have pelvic pain and pain during sex.\n\nHeavy bleeding affects a quarter of women in the UK.\n\nProf Kevin Cooper, consultant gynaecologist and study author from the University of Aberdeen, writing in the Lancet, said the study showed laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy offered \"a more effective option than endometrial ablation, without any increased risks\".\n\nFifteen months after surgery, there was a similar level of complications in both groups.\n\nThe women who had the modified hysterectomy technique did tend to have longer hospital stays and a slower return to work.\n\nBut, Prof Cooper said: \"Most women having this procedure get home within 24 hours and there are no restrictive rules for recovery, unlike traditional hysterectomy.\"\n\nHe said the procedure offered women \"another effective surgical choice for this common medical condition\".\n\nThere are many ways of carrying out a hysterectomy but the conventional one removes the womb and cervix.\n\nLaparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy is a less invasive and less complex alternative to this, where the cervix is left intact.\n\nIn endometrial ablation, the lining of the uterus (endometrium), which is responsible for heavy periods, is destroyed, and the uterus is kept.\n\nNo incisions are needed for this procedure and recovery tends to be quick - but one in five of the patients goes on to have a hysterectomy, the study suggests.\n\nDr Caroline Overton, consultant gynaecologist and spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said more research was needed to work out what happened in the longer term.\n\n\"It is important to note that both supracervical hysterectomy and endometrial ablation are generally safe procedures, but women should always consider non-surgical treatment options first.\"\n\nFor most women with heavy periods, the first recommended treatment is a medication called tranexamic acid, taken by mouth on the heavy days of the period.\n\nTaking the hormone contraceptive pill or using an intrauterine device (IUD) can also be highly effective, Dr Overton said.\n\nShe said it was important for women and clinicians to consider the main symptoms being experienced when exploring surgical options.\n\nCommenting on the research, Sukhbir Singh and Olga Bougie, from the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Ottawa, said there were still questions left to answer about the safety of preserving the cervix.\n\n\"In particular, cervical conservation raises issues of specimen removal, need for cervical screening, and the potential for new or ongoing symptoms secondary to the retained cervical stump,\" they said.\n\nThey also noted the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology states total hysterectomy is preferred over laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy.\n\nAnd as a result, numbers of laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomies have gone down.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Sussex has launched her clothing line for women's charity Smart Works in London.\n\nSmart Works, which the duchess is patron of, provides high-quality clothes and one-to-one interview preparation to long-term unemployed women.\n\nShe decided to intervene when she noticed a lack in variety of sizes and styles being donated. Speaking at the launch, she joked that during one visit there were \"40-50 lilac blazers\" hanging on the rails.\n\nIt was the duchess' first official public engagement since the birth of her son, Archie.", "One hundred people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year.\n\nThe first death was 33-year-old mother Charlotte Huggins, who died in London just a few hours after celebrating the start of the new year.\n\nThe 100th death was John Lewis, 32, who died in Middlesbrough on the evening of 14 May.\n\nThose killed in 2019 range in age from 14-year-old Jaden Moodie, who was stabbed in Leyton, east London in January - to 80-year-old Barbara Heywood, who was attacked at her home in Bolton in March.\n\nAlmost half of the victims were under 30 and were overwhelmingly male.\n\nThere has been one fatal stabbing every 1.45 days so far this year in England and Wales. If killings continued at that rate for the rest of the year, the total would be slightly lower than the 285 stabbing deaths recorded in 2017-18.\n\nThirty of the fatal stabbings were in London, 10 in Greater Manchester and eight in the West Midlands.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe police have made arrests in nearly all of the cases and have charged suspects in 86.\n\nBelow are the details and, where available, photos of those who have lost their lives so far this year.\n\nYou can filter the list using the categories below\n• Thirty-three-year-old mother Charlotte Huggins died just a few hours after celebrating the start of the new year. She was stabbed at a residential address in south London and died at the scene. In a message posted on Facebook shortly before being attacked, Ms Huggins had wished her friends and family a \"healthy, happy 2019\". Her boyfriend Michael Rolle is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 1 July after pleading not guilty to Ms Huggins’ murder.\n• Tudor Simionov, 33, had recently moved from Romania to east London with his girlfriend. On New Year’s Eve, he was working as a doorman at a private party in Mayfair. Mr Simionov was stabbed to death in the early hours of 1 January when a group of men tried to gatecrash the party. A woman and two of his male colleagues were also found with stab injuries. Haroon Akram, Adham Khalil, Adham Elshalakany, and Nor Aden Hamada will appear at the Old Bailey on 1 July to face charges of Mr Simionov’s murder, as well as two counts of attempted murder and two counts of GBH.\n• Computer programmer Lee Pomeroy, 51, died after being attacked on a South Western Railway train bound for London Waterloo. Described as a “devoted family man”, Mr Pomeroy had been heading to London from Guildford for a day out with his 14-year-old son when he was stabbed nine times on the train. Darren Pencille is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 24 June to face charges of murder.\n• Jaden Moodie became the first teenager to be stabbed to death in the UK in 2019 when he was knocked off a moped and attacked in Leyton, east London. The 14-year-old boy had moved to London from Nottingham with his mother for a \"new start\" six months before he died. His sister, Leah Moodie, said: \"No one should have to go through the traumatic experience my family are going through.\" Ayoub Majdouline, 18, and Yousuf Dubbad, 21, have been charged with Jaden’s murder.\n• Gavin Moon, 31, died from a stab wound he suffered at his flat in Washington, Tyne and Wear. His family paid tribute to the 31-year-old father, describing Mr Moon as \"a devoted dad to his children and a loving son\". Brian Goldsmith, 47, from Sunderland and Luc Barker, 28, from Washington, have been charged with Mr Moon’s murder and will face trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 18 June.\n• Przemyslaw Cierniak was found with stab wounds shortly after midday on 10 January in a street in the centre of Boston, Lincolnshire. The 41-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Lincolnshire Police say the victim and two suspects were known to each other. Mariusz Skiba, 32, and Dariusz Kaczkowski, 33, have both been charged with murder and will face the charges at Lincoln Crown Court on 10 June.\n• Thirty-two-year-old Bashir Abdullah was found dead inside a block of flats in Bristol. A post-mortem revealed Mr Abdullah died after being stabbed. Avon and Somerset Police said the stabbing was being treated as an isolated incident. On 15 January, Jamal Sheik-Mohammed, 51, was charged with Mr Abdullah’s murder. He will stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on 8 July.\n• Asma Begum, 31, was found with a neck injury at an address in Tower Hamlets. Police were called to the address in Poplar, but Ms Begum was pronounced dead at the scene. Jalal Uddin, 46, has been charged with her murder.\n• Paul Dickson was stabbed at a house in Bolton, Lancashire, on 30 December. The 49-year-old died nearly two weeks later in hospital and a murder investigation was launched by Greater Manchester Police. No one has been charged with Mr Dickson’s murder, but a 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault at the time of the stabbing. She has been bailed pending further police enquiries.\n• Alison Hunt’s body was found at a property in Swinton, Greater Manchester, on 16 January. The 42-year-old had been stabbed to death, police confirmed. Described as a “wonderful mum”, Ms Hunt’s family and friends paid tribute to her in a statement, saying: “The light in our lives has been forever extinguished. The way she brightened up every day with her laughter and sense of humour will always be with us.\" Vernon Holmes, 48, from Irlam, was charged with Ms Hunt’s murder and will stand trial at Manchester Crown Court on 1 July.\n• Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Annie Sowerby, known as Annie, was a \"devoted wife\" who \"filled her life with joy and happiness\", her family said. Ms Sowerby, who was married with two children, was found stabbed at a property in Dearham. She was treated by paramedics but died of her injuries. Her son Lee Sowerby, 45, has been charged with her murder and will stand trial at Carlisle Crown Court on 24 June.\n• The 33-year-old was taken to Warrington General Hospital where he later died. Adrisse Gray, 23, admitted to Mr O’Donnell’s murder and will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on 20 May. Gray is the first person to be convicted of a 2019 fatal stabbing.\n• Community worker Ian Ogle, 45, died after being stabbed 11 times and beaten in the street near his home in East Belfast on 27 January. The father-of-two had acted as a spokesman for the loyalist community in East Belfast. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said a gang of at least five men were involved in the attack. Jonathan Brown, 33, and Glenn Rainey, 32, have been charged with murder.\n• Kamil Malysz was found dead in a shared residential building in Acton on 27 January. The 34-year-old was a Polish national who had been living in west London. A post-mortem examination found he died as a result of haemorrhaging because of a stab injury. A 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, but later released with no further action being taken. The Metropolitan Police are yet to charge anyone in connection with Mr Malysz’s death.\n• Teenager Nedim Bilgin died after being attacked on Caledonian Road in Islington on 29 January. Speaking at the scene after the stabbing, Islington Councillor Paul Convery said the area had been blighted by tensions between gang rivalries for years. An investigation was launched by police, but nobody has been charged with the 17-year-old’s murder.\n• Michael Liddell, 35, was found by paramedics suffering from a stab wound at a home in Longlevens, Gloucester, on 31 January. Mr Liddell died a short time later and his 65-year-old mother, Joy, was charged with his murder. Joy Liddell had been due to stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on 29 July, however, Avon and Somerset Police said she died in April. An inquest date for both deaths is yet to be set.\n• Reece Ottaway, 23, was found dead at a social housing complex in Northampton on 1 February, following a \"disturbance\". A post-mortem examination confirmed that Mr Ottaway, from Daventry, had died as a result of a stab wound. His family said his death \"will haunt us for the rest of our lives\". Five men have been charged with his murder and will face trial in September.\n• Kevin Byrne's body was discovered at an address in Alison Street, Kirkcaldy, on 5 February. The 45-year-old, who had had his left leg amputated and used crutches, was also known locally as Kevin Forrester. Leslie Fraser appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court charged with assault and murder.\n• Jurijs Paramonovs was stabbed inside his home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 3 February. The 46-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene and a murder investigation was launched by Cambridgeshire police. Olegs Titovs, 49, pleaded not guilty at Cambridge Crown Court to murdering Mr Paramonovs and was told a trial would start on 8 July.\n• Lejean Richards became the third teenager to be stabbed to death in London in 2019 when he was attacked near his home in Battersea. In a tribute, Mr Richards' mother said her 19-year-old son was “turning his life around”. Roy Reyes-Nieves and Roger Reyes-Nieves have both been charged with Mr Richards' murder and will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 12 August.\n• Mum-of-four Aliny Mendes had been picking up her children from school when she was attacked and stabbed in a street in Ewell, Surrey, on 8 February. A JustGiving page raised more than £58,000 for her family and to repatriate the 39-year-old’s body back to her native Brazil. Her estranged husband, Ricardo Godinho, 41, has admitted manslaughter but denied murdering Ms Mendes. He will stand trial at Guildford Crown Court on 17 June.\n• Dennis Anderson was attacked in a street in Dulwich, south London, reportedly after a row about cigarettes in an off-licence. The 39-year-old, who was a painter and decorator, was stabbed in the neck outside the Food and Wine shop on Lordship Lane. Jahmal Michael Riley was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon. The 24-year-old will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 5 August.\n• Wesley Adyinka died after being stabbed in the heart near his home in Maidstone on 10 February. The 37-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. His partner Amanda Francis was also injured but survived the attack. Four people have been charged with murder and causing grievous bodily harm.\n• Carl Hopkins, 49, was stabbed in his lung near Colchester’s Castle Park on 11 February. A friend described in a newspaper interview how he and Mr Hopkins were both sleeping rough in Colchester at the time. Andrew Whitten reportedly said Mr Hopkins “was a loveable pain in the neck and we argued like cat and dog. But we were close and we had each other’s back. He was always there for me and I love him to bits”.\n• Paramedics were called to a shared property in Coventry and found 22-year-old Patrick Hill suffering from a stab wound. He was taken to hospital but died from his injuries three days later. Levi Whitmore-Wills, 18, was initially charged with wounding, but was later charged with murder after Mr Hill died. Mr Whitmore-Wills has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial at Warwick Crown Court on 24 June.\n• Dorothy Bowyer, 77, was found dead at a house in the Derbyshire village of Buxworth on Valentine’s Day. She had been stabbed in the chest. A dog was also found dead at the property. The mother-of-three had worked at a sweets factory and was “loved by the community”, according to friends and neighbours. William Blunsdon, 25, of Buxworth, who was arrested shortly afterwards, has been charged with her murder and criminal damage.\n• Sixteen-year-old Sidali Mohamed was attacked outside Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College in Highgate, Birmingham, on 13 February. He died two days later. The teenager had fled war-torn Somalia with his family when he was a toddler. Family members said Sidali had \"many ambitions and goals\" and wanted to be an accountant. His college principal described him as \"a wonderful young man\". A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder.\n• Abdul Deghayes was found stabbed in a car in Brighton after a crash on 16 February. He died from his injuries the following day. He was the brother of two British teenagers killed while fighting for Islamist militants in Syria. Another brother, Amer, is believed to be still alive in Syria. His uncle, Omar Deghayes, was detained at Guantanamo Bay for almost six years. Daniel MacLeod, 36, will stand trial at Hove Crown Court on 24 June to face a charge of murdering Abdul Deghayes.\n• Bright Akinleye was stabbed in the leg during a row at a party near Euston railway station on 18 February. The 22-year-old staggered into a nearby luxury hotel and collapsed. He later died at the scene. Seven men and seven women were arrested on suspicion of murder. Only one person - Tashan Brewster - has been charged with Mr Akinleye’s murder. The 30-year-old is set to appear at the Old Bailey on 12 August for trial.\n• Sixteen-year-old Abdullah Muhammad was stabbed in the back and chest in a Birmingham park on 20 February. He was the second teenager to be stabbed to death in the city in a week. Abdullah had been studying to memorise the Koran at the Green Lane Mosque. His teachers said he was “a young man with ambition and potential\". Three people - Demille Innis, Amari Robinson, also known as Amari Tullock, and a 17-year-old boy - have all been charged with murder and will appear at Birmingham Crown Court for a trial on 27 August.\n• Alasdair Forsyth was discovered with serious injuries at an address in Clearburn Road, Prestonfield, Edinburgh, on 21 February. The 67-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service. Three males - aged 15, 16 and 19 - have been charged in connection with the death and were remanded in custody following a court appearance in February.\n• Glendon Spence, 23, died after being attacked at the Marcus Lipton Youth Centre in Brixton on 21 February. The Metropolitan Police said a fight had started outside the youth centre and Mr Spence had run inside, where he was stabbed. A football training session for children was taking place in the centre at the time. Two 17-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have been charged with Mr Spence’s murder and will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 12 August.\n• Courtney Valentine-Brown died after being stabbed in the leg in Southend just before midnight on 21 February. The 36-year-old was taken to hospital, but later died from his injuries. His family said he was \"ambitious, cheeky and extremely creative with his whole future ahead of him\". Three men and a woman have been charged with Mr Valentine-Brown's murder.\n• Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck died after he was stabbed by a gang riding bikes in Wood Green, north London. The 19-year-old was chased into a hair salon and attacked by men armed with a firearm, knives and a samurai sword. A second man was shot but survived. Detectives said the attack would have been witnessed by several people, including children. Tyrell Graham, 18, and Sheareem Cookhorn, 20, have been charged with murder, attempted murder and robbery.\n• Philip McMillan, 26, died in Wishaw General Hospital, in North Lanarkshire, after being stabbed during a fight in a street in Holytown on 22 February. Mr McMillan, who was a Rangers fan, had a son. Three men, in their 20s, have been charged in connection with the incident.\n• Father-of-two, Phillip Rooney, 32, was found dead at a house in Leigh, Greater Manchester, after being stabbed in the stomach. His family said he was \"witty, caring and had a heart of gold\". Stephen Brocklehurst, 48, will stand trial at Manchester Crown Court after being charged with Mr Rooney’s murder.\n• Gary Cunningham became the third person in ten days to die from a stabbing in Birmingham. The 29-year-old was attacked at a flat in Harborne on 23 February and died at the scene. Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow was arrested and charged with Mr Cunningham’s murder. The 26-year-old will appear at Birmingham Crown Court on 22 July for trial.\n• Teenager Connor Brown died in hospital after being attacked behind The Borough pub in Sunderland city centre in the early hours of 24 February. The 18-year-old was a student at the local Farringdon Community Sports College. England footballer and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, who went to the same school as Mr Brown, was among those who expressed their sympathy to his family. Ally Gordon, 19, and Leighton Barrass, 20, were charged with Mr Brown’s murder and remanded in custody to appear at Newcastle Crown Court for a trial on 1 July.\n• Spanish national David Lopez-Fernandez was found stabbed at an address in Stepney, east London. Police and paramedics treated the 38-year-old at the scene, however, he later died from his injuries. Jairo Sepulveda-Garcia, 36, was charged with Mr Lopez-Fernandez’s murder and will stand trial at Southwark Crown Court on 19 August.\n• Hazrat Umar became the third teenager within 12 days to be stabbed to death in Birmingham. The 18-year-old, who was a student at the South and City College in Birmingham, suffered fatal stab injuries in Bordesley Green. Mr Umar was studying electrical engineering. His family and friends said they could not understand why he was targeted. A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is due to stand trial at Birmingham Crown Court on 10 June.\n• Jodi Miller was found suffering from serious injuries inside a home in Harehills, Leeds, on 25 February. The 21-year-old was taken to hospital but died a short time later. It is believed she had been stabbed. Karar Ali Karar, 29, has been charged with Ms Miller’s murder and is set to appear at Leeds Crown Court for a trial on 12 August.\n• Che Morrison was stabbed to death outside Ilford railway station in east London on 26 February. His family described the 20-year-old as \"very ambitious\" and said he \"had many aspirations for his future\". Mr Morrison had studied at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. Florent Okende, 20, is due to stand trial over Mr Morrison’s murder, at the Old Bailey on 15 July.\n• St John Lewis died after being attacked in Broadlea Terrace in Bramley, Leeds, on 26 February. Mr Lewis worked as a chef at a pizza restaurant in the city. His father, Alfie Lewis said he was a “gentleman who was very keen to help people. He wouldn’t hurt a fly\". Dean Dagless, 48, of Broadlea Terrace, is due to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 8 July to face charges of murder and possession of an offensive weapon.\n• Emergency services were called to an address in Paignton, Devon, on 27 February where 74-year-old Peter Flux was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem revealed that Mr Flux - who was an artist - died from a stab wound to the neck. Faye Burford, 40, was charged with Mr Flux’s murder and remanded in custody to appear at Exeter Crown Court on 12 August for a trial.\n• Lance Martin, 24, was found with life-threatening injuries in Normanton on 28 February, and died in hospital. A friend paid tribute to him, saying he was a \"gentle giant at heart\" who \"loved his little boy\". Mr Martin's death had shaken everyone he knew, she added. Three people have been charged with murder and one with manslaughter. All four have pleaded not guilty.\n• Jodie Chesney was attacked while playing music in a park with friends in Harold Hill, Havering, on 1 March. The 17-year-old died after being stabbed in the back. Former classmates described her as a \"bundle of joy and such a good person\" and said she was \"so beautiful - inside and out\". Jodie, who was a girl scout – was said to be a “wonderful student “ by the Principal at Havering College. Manuel Petrovic, 20, Svenson Ong-a-kwie, 18, and a 16-year-old boy have all been charged with Jodie’s murder and are set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 2 September.\n• Yousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Gorse Bank Road, near Altrincham on 2 March. The Manchester Grammar School student had been stabbed in the street. Yousef's parents described him as a \"loving and caring son and brother\", and said he had phoned hours before his death to say he would be home for tea. Two 17-year-old boys - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were charged in connection with Yousef’s death. The pair are set to stand trial at Manchester Crown Court on 18 June.\n• Mother-of-three Elize Stevens was stabbed to death at a house in Hendon, north-west London on 2 March. The 50-year-old worked as a welfare officer for the S&P Sephardi Community. A spokesman said she had impressed everyone with her \"friendly nature, warmth and dedication to the job\". Ian Levy, 54, was charged with Ms Stevens’ murder and is set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 5 August.\n• Spanish national David Martinez-Valencia,26, was stabbed in the chest, legs and back inside a flat in Leyton, east London, on 6 March. The police said his death \"is not believed to be gang-related\". Carlos Rueda Velez, 18, has been charged with Mr Martinez’s murder and is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 19 August.\n• Luciano Dos Santos was struck by a vehicle in Oxford and stabbed several times. The 22-year-old victim was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, where he later died on 6 March. His mother, Carla Dos Santos, said he was \"a sweet, loving and strong-willed young man\". Four men have been charged in connection with Mr Dos Santos’ death and are set to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 2 September for trial.\n• Mohamed Elmi was one of two men stabbed in linked attacks in central London on Sunday 3 March. The 37-year-old was found with stab wounds early in the morning in Soho. Hours later, police were called to another incident in Camden, in which a 16-year-old boy had been stabbed. The teenager survived the attack but Mr Elmi died three days later. Joe Gynane, 32, will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 1 July to face charges of murder, attempted murder, possession of a bladed article and two counts of assaulting emergency service workers.\n• Ayub Hassan, 17, was stabbed three times in the chest in Lanfrey Place, West Kensington, on 7 March. The teenager, who was a student at Hammersmith College, had dreamed of becoming a barrister, a relative said. A 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder and will appear for a trial at the Old Bailey on 19 August.\n• Mother-of-five Rachel Evans, 46, was stabbed multiple times at a house in Hignett Avenue, St Helens, on 11 March. Carl Harrison, 46, has pleaded guilty to murder. He is due to be sentenced on 14 June.\n• Reece Leeman was stabbed following an argument at a house in Sydenham, East Belfast. The 21-year-old staggered into the street where he was found collapsed. He later died in hospital. A 28-year-old man has been charged with Mr Leeman’s murder.\n• Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning on 16 March in Fulham, west London. Mr Armstrong's cousin Alex Beresford, Good Morning Britain's weatherman, said the victim was a \"bright young man\". Lovel Bailey, 29, was arrested at Gatwick Airport on 2 April and charged with Mr Armstrong’s murder. He is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 18 November.\n• Kumarathas Rajasingam, 57, was stabbed to death at his home in Wymondham, Norfolk. His wife, Jeyamalar Kumarathas, 54, has been charged with his murder and is set to stand trial at Norwich Crown Court on 19 August. Norfolk Police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder.\n• Mother-of-three Debbie Twist was stabbed to death at her home in Leigh, Manchester, on 17 March. Greater Manchester Police said the stabbing of the 47-year-old was being treated as an “isolated” incident. A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed.\n• The body of Alison McKenzie, 55, was found inside a flat in the Berwick Hills area of Middlesbrough on 20 March. Her son, Ian McKenzie, 34, was charged with murder and has been remanded to appear at Teesside Crown Court.\n• On the evening of 22 March, teenager Abdirashid Mohamoud had been in Syon Park, Isleworth, when he was chased to a block of flats by a group of men. The 17-year-old from Brentford was stabbed several times and died at the scene. A relative said Abdirashid had dreamed of becoming an engineer. A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed. A 23-year-old was also arrested and released under investigation.\n• Jonathan Roper, from Glastonbury, was stabbed on the afternoon of 23 March. The 34-year-old died at the scene in Wells, Somerset. He was described as a \"devoted family man\", who would be much missed. Seven men and three women were arrested in connection with Mr Roper’s death.\n• Ravi Katharkamar, 54, was stabbed in the chest as he went to open his newsagents in Pinner, north-west London, on a Sunday morning. Alex Gunn, 31, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder, robbery, possession of a bladed article, and theft of a motor vehicle. Mr Gunn is due to appear at the Old Bailey on a date to be set.\n• Richard Astin, 42, died from his injuries after being stabbed on a road outside the nearby Highgate pub in Oakes, Huddersfield. Shaun Waterhouse, 39, has been charged with Mr Astin’s murder and is due to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court on 23 July.\n• The 80-year-old great-grandmother was fatally stabbed at her home in Bolton on 27 March. A family statement described Mrs Heywood as a “generous, kind-hearted lady who loved life\". An 88-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and later detained under the Mental Health Act.\n• Zahir Visiter, a Chechen refugee, was stabbed in St John’s Wood, London, on the evening of 28 March. The 25-year-old was taken to hospital, where he died a short time later. It is thought that those involved fled in the direction of the London Central Mosque, near Regent’s Park, which was put in lockdown while it was searched by armed police. Three people were arrested by police at an address in Whitechapel, east London. Subsequently, Kamal Hussain, 21, and Yosif Ahmed, 18, were both charged with murder.\n• Hassan Ahmed Mohamoud, from Toxteth, Liverpool, was stabbed in the neck in broad daylight on 28 March. The 29-year-old was taken to hospital where he later died from his injuries. A 28-year-old man, also from Toxteth, was arrested and has been detained under the Mental Health Act, Merseyside Police have said.\n• Father-of-three Gavin Garraway was attacked in his car while he was driving near Clapham Common tube station. The 40-year-old was stabbed and pronounced dead at the scene outside The Belle Vue pub. Zion Chiata,18, has been charged with Mr Garraway’s murder and is set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 14 October.\n• Father-of-one Leneto Kellengbeck was stabbed near his home in Solihull, on 29 March. The 24-year-old’s mother Jasmine described her son as \"kind and thoughtful\". Mr Kellengbeck was a keen boxer. Demus Marcus, 24, was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon on 19 April.\n• Damian Banks was found unconscious and with stab wounds to his chest at a property in Durham on 30 March. The 34-year-old was taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary but died. His brother Vincent Bell, 35, was arrested and charged with Mr Banks’ murder and is due to appear at Teesside Crown Court.\n• Paul Taylor, 45, from Hebburn, South Tyneside, was pronounced dead by emergency services after he was found at a house in Jarrow. Nicola Lee, 44, was charged with his murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• Calvin Bungisa was chased and repeatedly stabbed in Gospel Oak, Camden, in what was described by the Met as a “brutal and merciless attack”. The 22-year-old former Haverstock School pupil was pronounced dead at the scene, despite the efforts of paramedics. No one has been charged or arrested in connection with Mr Bungisa’s death.\n• Jordan O'Brien, 25, died in hospital after suffering serious injuries at a house in Gainsborough on 27 March. Doctors tried to save the father-of-two by amputating a leg but he later died of his injuries on 2 April. Kieron Walker, 22, was charged with Mr O’Brien’s murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• John Carroll, 52, died on 2 April after being stabbed at a house in Selly Oak, Birmingham. His 53-year-old wife, Deborah Carroll, was arrested and subsequently charged with Mr Carroll’s murder. She has been remanded to appear at Birmingham Crown Court.\n• Tyrelle Burke died in hospital after being stabbed in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, on 5 April. In a statement paying tribute to the 20-year-old, his family said he was a “funny, caring son, who always had time for his family”. A 17-year-old boy was charged with Mr Burke’s murder and possession of an offensive weapon. He has been remanded to appear at Manchester Crown Court.\n• Alexandru Constantinescu died at a caravan park in Dunkirk near Canterbury after being stabbed in the heart. His family, who live in Romania, described him as a music lover and a “beautiful son\". Dumitru Palazu, 48, has been charged with the 30-year-old's murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• Odessa Carey was found injured inside her home in Ashington, on 8 April. The 73-year-old's daughter, also called Odessa Carey, was arrested after being found a few miles away in the village of Guide Post. Ms Carey, 35, was charged with her mother’s murder and is due to stand trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 2 October.\n• Noore Bashir Salad was shot and stabbed in Newham, east London, on 8 April. Police believe the 22-year-old was attacked by three men. The post-mortem examination gave his cause of death as a stab wound to the leg.\n• Yet to be named Police Scotland launched a murder investigation on 13 April after a 25-year-old man was found dead in Dalry, Ayrshire. A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder.\n• Steven Brown, 47, was stabbed in the heart outside a builder’s merchants in north London. The father-of-five had recently been reunited with relatives from the United States, his family said. Eleven people have been arrested by the police but there have been no charges yet.\n• Anthony Ferns was stabbed in the neck in his car in Glasgow. Police believe he had been approached by a man who spoke to him through the driver’s window before the attack. The 33-year-old tiler managed to drive to his home where he collapsed and died in front of his mother and friends. His was the second killing in the city in the space of 24 hours.\n• Simon Jones died in hospital after being stabbed near Chaddesden Park, Derby, on the evening of 20 April. The 57-year-old, who lived in Belper, was described as a “true gentleman” by his family. A number of people have been arrested and charged in connection with Mr Jones’ death.\n• Barrister’s clerk Joe O’Brien, 24, was stabbed during a brawl outside a pub in Failsworth, Greater Manchester, at about 3am on Easter Sunday. “His friends, his family and Manchester United were his life,” said his mother Roz McDonald. She said her son loved his job at Deans Court Chambers in Manchester. A 21-year-old man was treated at hospital for stab wounds but has recovered. Momodou Jallow, 21, has been charged with murder.\n• Saima Riaz, who was a nurse, was found stabbed to death at her home in Rochdale. Her family said she was “an amazing mother to three wonderful children” and was “dedicated to helping others\". Mohammed Abid Choudhry, 36, has been charged with murder.\n• Twenty-five-year-old Katheeskaran Thavarasa – better known as Karan – was found seriously injured in a flat in Hitchin on 23 April. He was pronounced dead at the scene having “suffered knife wounds”, according to Hertfordshire Police. Eswaran Sinnathurai, 24, has been charged with Mr Thavarasa’s murder.\n• Sammy-Lee Lodwig was killed at a house in Swansea on 23 April. Following her death, the 22-year-old's sister Miakala paid tribute to her, saying she would \"always remain in my heart\". Jason Farrell, of Swansea, has been remanded in custody after being charged with Ms Lodwig’s murder. The 49-year-old will appear at Swansea Crown Court on 14 October for a trial.\n• Meshach Williams was fatally stabbed on High Street, Harlesden by a gang who used two cars to block traffic on 24 April. The 21-year-old was attacked and fled into a betting shop to seek help, but later died in hospital. Dominic Calder, 19, has been charged with murder, possession of an offensive weapon and possession of cannabis.\n• Teenager Jordan Moazami was stabbed to death in a street in Harborne, Birmingham, on 24 April. The 18-year-old, from Quinton, was described as \"an excellent young man\" and role model by his former youth football club. Moshood Giwa, 19, has been charged with Mr Moazami’s murder as well as a public order offence in connection with the teenager’s death. Hamed Hussein, 18, of no fixed address, is also charged with Mr Moazami’s murder.\n• A murder inquiry was launched by Bedfordshire Police after grandfather Meuric Roberts was found dead inside his flat on 24 April. His family said Mr Roberts, 51, will be \"missed every day\". Simon Lewis, 39, of Chapel Street, Luton, has been charged with Mr Roberts’ murder and remanded in custody.\n• Joshua White died from injuries after being stabbed in Homerton, Hackney, on 26 April. A 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man have been charged with Mr White's murder.\n• Niall Magee was stabbed at a house in the Cairn Walk area of Crumlin, County Antrim. The following day the 21-year-old died from his injuries in hospital and a murder investigation was launched by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Michael McManus, of Cairn Walk, Crumlin, was charged with Mr Magee’s murder – a charge which he denied at Limavady Magistrates' Court on 1 May.\n• Teenager Tashaun Aird died in Hackney after being stabbed in the street on 1 May. The 15-year-old's death came on the day the Met Police announced a drop in homicides in the latest financial year compared to figures from 2017-18. Commissioner Cressida Dick said the teenager’s death was “truly, truly terrible”. Romaine Williams-Reid, 18, has been charged with murder. A 16-year-old boy has also been arrested.\n• Alex Davies, 18, was reported missing from his home in Skelmersdale on April 30. His body was found in woodland the next day in Parbold, Lancashire. He had been stabbed and suffocated. Mr Davies worked in a shop. His boss said he was “an energetic, kind and helpful lad, who loved working with customers\". A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and will stand trial in October.\n• Michael Dale died from a stab wound to the chest. The 46-year-old was found inside a property on Charles Lane, Haslingden, on 2 May and died in the early hours of the morning. Mr Dale ran a tattoo shop in the town and was said by a niece to have prided himself on being “a punk for life”. Shahid Hussain, 37, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder.\n• Year 12 pupil Ellie Gould died after being stabbed at a house in Calne, Wiltshire, on 3 May. Hardenhuish School head teacher, Lisa Percy, paid tribute to the 17-year-old, saying “the students, staff and parents have found comfort in being together and paying their respects\". A 17-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with her murder and is due to stand trial in October.\n• Hamze Ibrahim Ismail, 21, died in hospital after being stabbed in the street. His father said the \"mindless act of violence\" had \"broken\" his family. Mohamed Khashkhush, 24, has been charged with murder.\n• McCaulay Junior Urugbezi-Edwards, 18, was stabbed to death after being chased down a street in south-east London. Paramedics treated him at the scene but he died just over an hour later in a south London hospital. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder. A 33-year-old woman was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n• Daniel Pitham, 33, was found dead by police officers after they forced their way into a house in Bedworth. His family paid tribute to him saying: \"Danny was a very out outgoing young man who loved to party with his friends, travel, and keep fit\". Scott Warner, 35, and John Allison, 33, have been charged with his murder.\n• Murdoch Brown, 31, was stabbed to death at an address in Colchester. In a statement his family said he was a \"much-loved partner, son, brother and uncle\" and a \"devoted father to his children\". A second man was hurt but not seriously injured.\n• Nadeem Uddin Hameed Mohammed, 24, was stabbed in the chest in a Tesco car park in Slough. A 21-year-old witness said he was in the car park when he \"heard shouting\" and saw \"lots of blood on the floor\". Mr Mohammed was rushed to hospital but later pronounced dead. Aqib Pervaiz, 26, has been charged with murder.\n• Thomas Abraham, 48, was found with stab wounds at an address in Gloucester, by police and paramedics who had been called to a disturbance. Despite strenuous efforts to save him, he died at the scene. Tobias Hayley, 51, has been charged with murder.\n• John Lewis, 32, was found stabbed at an address in Middlesbrough. He died later in hospital. A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe number of people being taken to court for possessing a weapon has been rising.\n\nThere's a bit of a time lag when it comes to getting figures from the criminal justice system, so the latest ones we have, published on Thursday, only take us up to the end of last year.\n\nIn 2018, the Ministry of Justice recorded 21,587 cases of people in England Wales being prosecuted for possessing a weapon, of which 13,350 cases led to a conviction - compared with 17,669 cases in 2013 - with 10,026 leading to a conviction.\n\nThis was mostly driven by a rise in the offence of \"having possession of a bladed article in a public place\".\n\nFor adults, the maximum sentence for possessing a knife is four years.\n\nKnife possession is now making up a bigger share of all weapons offences - two-thirds compared with half 10 years ago.\n\nAnd a bigger proportion of knife and weapons possession offences now result in jail time - 36% compared with 20% in 2008.\n\nThese figures cover both adults and children aged 10-17. For adults only, 42% of weapons offences resulted in an immediate custodial sentence last year.\n\nWhile knife possession offences have been rising since 2013, they are still lower than a decade ago.\n\nInformation supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nFigures are correct at time of publication but may change as investigations progress and charges are brought or dropped.", "Twenty-two people were killed in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nThe Manchester Arena attack coroner has ruled that evidence from MI5 and the police should be kept secret on national security grounds.\n\nSir John Saunders said making it public would \"assist terrorists in carrying out the sort of atrocities committed in Manchester\".\n\nThe ruling makes a public inquiry more likely as it would allow evidence to be heard in closed sessions.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the bombing.\n\nSalman Abedi, 22, detonated a device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nIf the coroner converts the inquest into a public inquiry it would mean bereaved families and the media would not be present during the closed sessions.\n\nSuch a move, which also has the support of the home secretary, would allow the evidence to be taken into account when the inquiry's findings were produced.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the coroner said fears of humiliating police and security services would not influence any decision to keep evidence secret.\n\nBut lawyers for their families said those seeking to restrict material were also \"in the firing line\" for criticism.\n\nIn his latest ruling, Sir John said he was going to uphold claims made by the secretary of state and counter-terrorism police.\n\n\"I have done that because I am satisfied, having heard the justifications for them, that to make public those matters would assist terrorists in carrying out the sort of atrocities committed in Manchester and would make it less likely that the Security Service and the [counter-terrorism] police would be able to prevent them\" the coroner said.\n\n\"The balancing exercise strongly favours the material in question not being disclosed,\" he added.\n\nHe went on to conclude that, taking this ruling into consideration, an \"adequate investigation...could not be conducted within the framework of the inquests\".\n\nJohn Cooper QC, who represents the families, told a previous hearing he had been made aware of \"embarrassing\" evidence which highlighted the \"shortcomings\" of the security services.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said any decision to claim public interest immunity is only taken when there is a risk of undermining national security.\n\n\"If the coroner decides that an inquest cannot satisfactorily investigate the deaths, the Home Secretary will carefully consider any recommendations they make,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe inquests are scheduled to begin on 2 April.", "Julian Assange was due to have been released on 22 September from Belmarsh Prison\n\nWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is to remain in prison when his jail term ends because of his \"history of absconding\", a judge has ruled.\n\nHe was due to be released on 22 September after serving his sentence for breaching bail conditions.\n\nBut Westminster Magistrates' Court heard there were \"substantial grounds\" for believing he would abscond again.\n\nThe Australian, 48, is fighting extradition to the US over allegations of leaking government secrets.\n\nHe will face a full extradition hearing next year, starting on 25 February, after an extradition request was signed by the then home secretary Sajid Javid in June.\n\nAssange received a 50-week sentence in Belmarsh Prison, south-east London, after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act in April.\n\nHe was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he took refuge in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations - which he has denied.\n\nDistrict judge Vanessa Baraitser on Friday told Assange, who appeared by video-link: \"You have been produced today because your sentence of imprisonment is about to come to an end.\n\n\"When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition.\"\n\nShe said that his lawyer had declined to make an application for bail on his behalf, adding \"perhaps not surprisingly in light of your history of absconding in these proceedings\".\n\n\"In my view I have substantial ground for believing if I release you, you will abscond again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe faces 18 charges in the US, including computer misuse and the unauthorised disclosure of national defence information.\n\nHe is accused of working with former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in \"unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified documents related to the national defence\", according to the US Justice Department.\n\nHe spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London before being handed over to British authorities by Ecuador in April.\n\nIn May, Swedish prosecutors reopened their investigation into an allegation of rape against Assange.", "The world’s biggest jade mines are found in the restive Kachin state in Myanmar.\n\nBBC Burmese gained rare access to area where mountains have been turned into moonscapes.\n\nThe industry has been estimated to be valued at a staggering $31bn (£25bn) annually.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people have flocked to the area to scavenge among the rubble left over from the mine – hoping to get find fragments of the stone.\n\nIt’s a dangerous job and heroin addiction among the miners and scavengers is endemic.", "The strangest thing happened to me at Tate Britain's William Blake exhibition; something I'd not encountered before, nor even considered possible.\n\nNothing dramatic, like falling into a trippy hallucinogenic state brought on by seeing Blake's fearful painting The Ghost of a Flea (1819), a gothic, slithery depiction of a vile character who appeared before the artist as a vision.\n\nMy experience was much more prosaic. Most un-Blakeian, in fact. I entered the exhibition as a lifelong fan, a fully signed-up Blake-head, but left some time later faintly irritated by the fellow. That's not his fault, nor mine, I think. It is down to the way his work has been displayed.\n\nThere are some artists who can withstand the mega-blockbuster expo show with its department store aesthetics of huge interconnecting rooms for folks to wander through and browse. A David Hockney or a Bridget Riley can survive the TK Maxx treatment - their paintings are big and bold and colourful and can be enjoyed when seen from a distance.\n\nIt is the largest exhibition of Blake's work for almost 20 years\n\nBut there are other artists, and William Blake (1757-1827) is certainly one, whose detailed, intense images and poetry are not suited to being shown in warehouse-sized spaces. His work is all about atmosphere and otherness, delivered with a psychologically-charged flourish. There's an intimacy to Blake that is compromised when shown on the massive scale of the Tate show. It kills the mood.\n\nTo the curators' credit they have attempted to create a Georgian aura in the vast modern rooms by dimming the lights and painting the walls in rich, dark colours. But covering the entrance foyer leading to the exhibition in a hideous bright red was a mistake: a block of vulgar, shouty colour setting completely the wrong tone for this most sensitive and ethereal of artists.\n\nThe great beauty of Blake's paintings, prints, and coloured engravings are their exquisite intricacies and tonal subtlety. That is immediately obvious when you see the first image in the show, Albion Rose (1793). A naked young man stands atop a mottled rock, his arms outstretched in front of a glorious spectrum of colours heralding a new dawn. It is an optimistic, joyful picture: a jolly \"welcome to the show!\".\n\nThereafter, the exhibition is laid out broadly chronologically, with abundant biographical detail. His family ran a hosiery shop and haberdashery in Soho selling \"all kinds of baizes, Flannels, etc etc\". They indulged young William's interest in art. He was apprenticed to an engraver before enrolling as a student at the Royal Academy of Arts.\n\nThere's a lovely, delicate drawing of his wife, Catherine, who is given a Best Supporting Spouse role by the curators. She shared his artistic burden by colouring some of his work, helping with the printing and finishing off some drawings. Somebody had to. As she once said of her husband: \"I have very little of Mr Blake's company; he is always in Paradise.\"\n\nThe Ghost of a Flea c 1819, graphite on paper\n\nAnd that's where we want him. Away with the fairies, free to see his visions; letting his extraordinary mind and spirit roam at will. That is the essence of Blake, it's what makes reading his poetry alongside his fabulous illustrations so exciting.\n\nThe good news is you'll see plenty of his illuminated books in this show, including his famous Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794). They are all terrific.\n\nBut the curators' desire to contextualise every last part of Blake's output by introducing his patrons, his business practices, the work of his contemporaries - because there's plenty of space in those big rooms to fill - means the mystical, magical nature of the work is usurped.\n\nA visitor to Tate Britain in front of a William Blake projection\n\nBlake is all about the possibilities of the human imagination. He offers us an escape from the dull realities of everyday life. He challenges us to think beyond the rational and the assumed with fantastical creations such as The First Book of Urizen (1794). We don't need to know what his bank account looked like at the time, or where he happened to be living. The work can speak for itself without a nagging commentary dragging into the mundane.\n\nThere are moments when Blake is allowed to breathe. Most notably in the room in which 12 large colour prints hang, which the artist described as \"frescos\". They include some of his finest images, including the mesmerising God Judging Adam (1795), and grotesquely brilliant Nebuchadnezzar (1795).\n\nAfter that, things take a turn for the worse, with an unconvincing mock-up of his disastrous 1809 exhibition, to which almost nobody came, and those who did largely kept their hands firmly in their pockets. This is followed by a dreadful room in which massive digital images of Blake's paintings are projected onto the walls because, we are told, that is what he always wanted. Not like that, he didn't. He'd be appalled.\n\nJerusalem, plate 28, proof impression, 1820, relief etching with pen and black ink and watercolour\n\nThere is something of a recovery after the curatorial theatrics, with an excellent display of his illustrated book Jerusalem (1820). Nearby are his late watercolour illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy (1824-27), which is a marriage made in heaven, not hell.\n\nBy this time, you have seen and read so much Blake, and seen and read so much about Blake, that your head is spinning. It's too much, really. He is a very fine artist, like a very fine wine; not one to overdo. There's a danger of the palette becoming dulled, any sensational radiance diminished.\n\nNevertheless, and notwithstanding my gripes, I would still urge you to go to this imperfect show. To have so much of William Blake's psychedelic imaginary world laid out before you is a once-in-a-generation occasion and not to be missed.", "The mother of a baby boy who died after being found in a river has paid tribute to \"a cheeky little chappie with a smile that melted hearts\".\n\nZakari Bennett-Eko died after he was pulled from the River Irwell in Bury, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday.\n\nHis mother Emma Blood said the 11-month-old was \"a happy and content baby with a gorgeous little smile and a head full of curls\".\n\nZakari's father Zak Eko, 22, has appeared in court charged with murder.\n\nEmergency crews staff pulled Zakari from the water on Wednesday, but he later died in hospital.\n\nMs Blood said: \"On Wednesday afternoon my life changed forever.\n\n\"I woke up that morning being a mummy to the most wonderful cute little boy and by the afternoon Zakari was taken from me in the most tragic of circumstances.\n\n\"Zakari was my life for 11 months and will be the heart of our family for many years to come.\"\n\nShe said her son was the \"youngest of five generations of our family and was loved beyond belief\".\n\nZakari William Bennett-Eko died after being pulled out of the River Irwell in Radcliffe\n\nMs Blood added: \"Zakari wrapped everyone around his little finger...Everyone that met him fell in love with him instantly.\n\n\"It's hard to comprehend what has happened and that I will not get to see my baby grow up to be the handsome decent man I knew he would become.\"\n\nFlowers have been left on a bridge across the river in Radcliffe, while Zakari's relatives have paid tribute to him.\n\nThe boy's grandfather left a card that read: \"To my beautiful grandson. We love you so much RIP.\"\n\nMr Eko, of no fixed address, appeared at Manchester Magistrates' Court earlier and was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nMourners have lined a bridge over the river with flowers\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Customers of a High Street pawnbroker are being left in the dark after branches were closed and calls unanswered.\n\nA&B Pawnbrokers (Albemarle & Bond) and Herbert Brown stores have closed their doors, while its website says \"this store\" has ceased trading.\n\nOwner Speedloan Finance told the BBC all its 116 stores had been closed because of \"significant losses\".\n\nThe firm said it was \"exploring options available to it\".\n\nThese included finding a buyer for some or all of the stores, it said.\n\n\"Speedloan is due to enter into a period of consultation with employees concerning its proposal and has in the meantime offered its employees voluntary redundancy,\" it added.\n\nThe pawnbrokers' trade body hit out at the firm's unanswered helpline.\n\n\"Their decision to downscale UK operations is a strategic matter for the company but [we have] expressed concern that the communication of their actions to their customers falls below the standards expected of its members,\" the National Pawnbrokers Association (NPA) said.\n\n\"In particular, we are most unhappy with the fact that customers cannot get through to the helpline. We have demanded that the management of the company resolve this as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nIndustry insiders are shocked at the way Albemarle & Bond has handled its abrupt closure.\n\nMany say that moving the pledges (the goods secured against the loan) to a central location is unfair, as most of their customers like to deal with things in their local branch.\n\nOne said that many of these clients don't have easy access to standard forms of credit, explaining that one option offered by A&B, to pay their loan online using a debit card, was often not appropriate, although they can also use cash in a NatWest branch.\n\nThe main concern now is what happens to those customers.\n\nThe BBC understands from a source close to one of the UK's biggest pawnbroker chains, Harvey & Thompson, that they are talking to A&B about the situation and are making every effort to offer their support and help for customers and staff. However, what that support looks like is yet unclear.\n\nIt's a sentiment echoed by the National Pawnbrokers Association.\n\nAlbemarle & Bond has a chequered history. Business boomed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, but it fell victim to a plunging gold price.\n\nIn 2013, it announced it was melting down gold in order to pay its debts. A few months later, it fell into administration.\n\nIt changed hands twice, to be bought in 2015 by the Japanese pawnbroking company Daikokuya Holdings. In 2016, it was given a £10m cash injection from the investment firm Gordon Brothers.\n\nFour years on and it is once again on the market. Its latest set of accounts show that it lost £3.3m last year - as against £1.6m the year before.\n\nPawnbrokers allow customers to offer something valuable as security for a loan, or buy items such as jewellery and antiques. They lend money quickly, but usually at a worse rate than banks.\n\nStores also often offer other financial services such as currency exchange and buying gold.\n\nThe company said that any items pawned in A&B stores will be transferred to a central store, and can be redeemed or sold through this operation.\n\n\"If your items are expired or due to expire, please note we will not take any action with your items until we speak to you,\" the website said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we were unable to contact all customers prior to the closure date. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.\"\n\nLetters have been sent by Albemarle & Bond, which was established in 1840, to customers as stores closed.\n\nThe regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said it was aware that companies operated by Speedloan had closed stores.\n\n\"We are engaging with the firm and asking them to ensure this process is carried out in an orderly manner and to minimise disruption to Speedloan's customers,\" the FCA said.\n\nSpeedloan said it was keeping the FCA informed.\n\nThe Financial Ombudsman Service said it had received calls from frustrated customers unable to get through to the company and were worried about their items.\n\nCustomers can contact the company on 01865 798114, which is a dedicated hotline, or by email at info@albemarlebond.com.\n\nIf customers are not happy with the response from the company, they can contact the Financial Ombudsman Service to complain on 0800 023 4567, or the FCA customer helpline on 0800 111 6768.\n\nMore information is available from the National Pawnbrokers Association. Consumer advice on pawnbroking is available from Citizens Advice and the Money and Pensions Service\n• None How much will you give me for my false teeth?", "A paedophile nursery worker who sexually abused children in her care will be banned from her home county when she is released from prison.\n\nVanessa George, 49, was jailed for a minimum of seven years in 2009 for abusing children at a Plymouth nursery.\n\nIn July, the Parole Board said she had been judged eligible for parole under strict conditions.\n\nThe Probation Service said she would not be allowed to return to Devon and Cornwall when she is released.\n\nGeorge took photographs on her phone of her abusing children in her care at Little Ted's nursery and swapped indecent images over the internet.\n\nWhen she is released from prison, she will be subjected to \"strict licence conditions\" and an \"unusually large exclusion zone\", including not being allowed to return to the West Country.\n\nLittle Ted's nursery was closed following the discovery of abuse of young children\n\nChief probation officer Sonia Crozier said she understood why the prospect of George's release was \"so worrying to so many people, particularly in Plymouth where memories of her abuse are still vivid and frightening\".\n\nIn an open letter to the people of Plymouth, she said George would \"also never be allowed to work with children again and will be on the sex offenders register for the rest of her life.\"\n\n\"If she breaches any of these conditions, or if her probation officer thinks there is an increasing chance she might reoffend, she can be immediately recalled to prison,\" she said.\n\nA former nursery parent, who did not want to be identified, described the ruling as a \"joke\" to the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nHe said the Parole Board was not aware of where all the victims and their families live.\n\n\"People could still bump into her. It should be a much larger zone,\" he added.\n\nPlymouth Labour MP Luke Pollard, who campaigned to prevent George's release, said it had been known for some time the parole conditions would be \"tough but rightly so\".\n\n\"I think she should remain behind bars,\" he said.\n\n\"If she has to be released then the families of her victims must have certainty that she won't be able to contact the children she abused.\"\n\nGeorge has named some of her victims but has been accused of deliberately hiding information that would properly pinpoint those in the pictures she took.\n\nMr Pollard said George had shown \"little remorse\" and a system that released someone like her early was \"not working properly\".\n\nHe added: \"She still refuses to name which children she abused, so she may be banned from Devon and Cornwall and she might not be able to use internet-enabled devices but that won't help the parents who still don't know if their child is one of the children she abused, photographed and sent images of to a network of paedophiles.\"\n\nLabour Plymouth City Councillor John Taylor said he welcomed the strict conditions that have been imposed on George but \"bottom line is she shouldn't be being released\".\n\n\"Monsters like her need to be kept off the streets for longer.\"\n\nChild protection officers have visited 180 children thought to have had contact with George, who admitted taking up to eight pictures a day while on duty.\n\nIn her letter, Ms Crozier said 21 families had taken up an offer of support in the wake of George's crimes.\n\n\"Any parent who wants to receive this service will have a dedicated victim liaison officer who will keep them updated about any new developments in George's case,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The singer says she told Warner Music UK an industry figure had sexually assaulted her\n\nLily Allen says her record label has not taken any action after she told them she was sexually assaulted by an industry figure.\n\nAllen told The Next Episode podcast she spoke to a Warner Music boss last year about the alleged attack in 2016.\n\nA label spokesman said: \"We take accusations of sexual misconduct extremely seriously and investigate claims that are raised with us.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the alleged attacker continues to work with Warner.\n\nWhile the singer says she never reported the alleged attacker to the police, she believes \"most of the music industry knows who it is\".\n\nAllen says the sexual assault took place on a work trip to the Caribbean in 2016.\n\nShe told The Next Episode she had been at a party with a record industry executive before heading back to their hotel.\n\n\"We got to my hotel. I couldn't find my room keys. So he was like, 'Well, why don't you sleep in my bed while I go and get the keys or whatever.' So I passed out in his bed.\n\n\"I woke up and he was in my bed naked slapping my bum.\"\n\nShe said she could feel him trying to have sex with her.\n\n\"I made a decision, I didn't want to go to the police. I didn't want to make a fuss and I wanted to keep it quiet.\n\n\"I remember thinking about his mum and how she would deal with the news that her son was a sexual predator and I was prioritising everybody else in this situation except for myself.\"\n\nAllen then said it was not until women started coming forward with allegations of sexual abuse within the film industry, that she decided to share her experience. She first wrote about it in her book My Thoughts Exactly, which was published in September 2018.\n\nIt was later that year that she says she met Max Lousada, a chief executive at her record label, to discuss the alleged assault.\n\nShe says Mr Lousada told her that he had not known anything about the incident until he read the book.\n\nAsked if Mr Lousada told her he would do anything about the allegation after talking to Allen, she replied: \"No.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lily Allen spoke to The Next Episode's Miquita Oliver\n\nAllen has been signed to Warner since 2013, although she's currently working on her last album for the label.\n\nShe said she wanted to speak out about her alleged attack in order to protect other artists in the industry.\n\n\"I would feel awful if I found out that somebody much younger and more vulnerable had had a similar experience that could have been prevented,\" she said.\n\nShe believes her alleged abuser may be around other young female artists and said: \"It's my responsibility just to let some people know that this incident happened.\"\n\nWarner Music said it found Allen's allegations from 2016 \"appalling\" and said: \"We're very focused on enforcing our Code of Conduct and providing a safe and professional environment at all times.\"\n\nYou can hear the full interview on the BBC Sounds podcast The Next Episode.", "The three teenagers stabbed to death in 12 days: (l-r) Hazrat Umar, 18, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed, both 16\n\nOne hundred people have been stabbed to death across the UK since the beginning of 2019. Three of those were teenagers in the West Midlands, all killed within the space of 12 days. People are now asking whether austerity is to blame.\n\nOn the afternoon of Wednesday, 13 February, just outside the gates of a sixth form college in east Birmingham, an A-Level student is stabbed in the chest.\n\nParamedics and police rushed to the aid of Sidali Mohamed, an aspiring accountant who fled war-torn Somalia with his family as a toddler.\n\nTwo days later, surrounded by his family in hospital, the 16-year-old Joseph Chamberlain College student's life support machine was switched off and he died from his injuries.\n\nA week after Sidali was stabbed, West Midlands Police launched another murder investigation as a second teenager was knifed to death.\n\nYards away from a nearby primary school, in Small Heath, south-east Birmingham, Abdullah Muhammad was stabbed in the back and chest.\n\nAbdullah, also aged 16, died at the scene - a park close to where he lived.\n\nThe majority of those stabbed to death in the West Midlands in 2019 have been teenagers\n\nBy the end of the week detectives had begun a third murder investigation, the time into the death of an 18-year-old boy.\n\nElectrical engineering student Hazrat Umar was found injured on a road in Bordesley Green on 25 February.\n\nA relative of Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor, Mr Umar became another victim to Birmingham's knife crime.\n\nEight of the 100 victims to have been stabbed to death in 2019 have been killed in the West Midlands - but Mr Afzal fears the knife crime problem is far bigger.\n\n\"The statistics show murders, but do not show the attempted murders and GBHs,\" Mr Afzal says.\n\n\"Hundreds of people have survived violence because of the skilled work of paramedics and medical staff. It masks a bigger problem.\"\n\nOne hundred people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year. The motives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nLast month, Jack Harley, a 14-year-old boy with learning difficulties from Halesowen, almost became another statistic.\n\nThe teenager was attacked with a knife and robbed while sitting on a bench in a park in Dudley.\n\nReceiving a deep gash to his right arm, Jack needed 14 staples and underwent a series of operations.\n\n\"He was very close to the artery being cut,\" says his mother, Diane. \"We've got to stop it.\"\n\nJack Harley was stabbed as he was robbed in Birmingham\n\nThe spate of killings has led the chief constable of West Midlands Police to describe knife crime as \"an emergency\" as pressure mounted for solutions to be found fast.\n\nBut for former police officer Kirk Dawes, the solution is obvious: he partly attributes the rise in knife crime locally to the axing of a mediation service he had run, which settled disputes between gangs.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\n\"Every time I hear a murder where some kind of conflict resolution service could have been utilised, it hurts in here,\" he says, pointing to his heart.\n\n\"Something that was working so well was literally thrown away.\"\n\nIn 2004, Mr Dawes - then a police detective - was tasked with setting up a unit that would mediate conflicts and stop them from becoming deadly.\n\nMr Dawes helped pioneer a new approach to combating serious violence in the wake of the killing of teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare, who were gunned down in a drive-by shooting as they left a party in Birmingham in the early hours of 2 January 2003.\n\nCharlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, were shot with a sub-machine gun in Aston, Birmingham, in 2003\n\nThey were the innocent victims of a dispute between two notorious gangs in the city.\n\nDrawing on conflict resolution tactics used to defuse disputes in Northern Ireland and among gangs in the US, Mr Dawes worked with trained mediators as part of a body called Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence (BRGV).\n\nThey shuttled between feuding groups, finding ways to settle conflict without violence.\n\nKirk Dawes ran The Centre for Conflict Transformation (TCFCT) between 2004 and 2012\n\nIt seemed to work: Mr Dawes says there were 27 gang-related murders in 2004. By 2010 there were three.\n\nThen the scheme was scrapped.\n\nBy the end, he says, the 35 trained mediators, who specialised in sitting face-to-face with possible killers, were being asked to work on a zero-hours contract.\n\n\"The catalyst for that was austerity,\" Mr Dawes says now. \"The draconian way in which money was taken away from community organisations has led to where we are now.\"\n\nSince the BRGV was axed, knife crime has steadily risen in the West Midlands, with the number of people being stabbed to death spiking in the last two years.\n\nThere is no agreement on what is driving the recent increase.\n\nSenior police officers blame drug dealing, robberies and young people feeling like they have to defend themselves. Elsewhere, social media is in the frame.\n\nThe current chief constable of West Midlands Police, Dave Thompson, was not in charge when the decision was made to axe Mr Dawes' mediation unit.\n\nDave Thompson has been the chief constable of West Midlands Police since January 2016\n\nHe says the force has faced \"some very tough choices\".\n\n\"You can't make the level of reductions by keeping everything the same,\" he says.\n\nHowever, he concedes that \"with hindsight\" it would have been better to retain the unit.\n\nLater this year a new mediation service will be introduced at a cost of £100,000 a year - seven years after BGRV was scrapped.\n\nResearch published last week found that councils with large cuts to youth services were more likely to have seen an increase in knife crime.\n\nThe all-party parliamentary group on knife crime said that the average council cuts to youth services was 40%, but for some services in the West Midlands it was closer to 90%.\n\nAusterity makes itself felt in another way too, according to Mr Thompson, serving to slow down some of the more detailed investigations which are often launched following a homicide.\n\n\"In some cases of violence, the investigation won't move at the same pace as it would have in the past.\n\n\"The leg work of detective work in some of these cases, the examination of phones, the digital media that takes time, effort of skilled resources.\"\n\nBirmingham is a young city. Almost half of its one million population is under 25, so the policing priority is to reduce street violence among that group.\n\n\"It has got the appearance that those people who are inclined to violence are actually becoming more violent,\" says West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson.\n\n\"If you'd asked me the question about the common themes in the violence four or five years ago a lot of it was around gangs.\n\n\"That is still true today. Some of it is around gangs but it's across all people now. We're seeing what used to be a small act of violence - perhaps a slap or a punch - turn into something far more serious.\"\n\nNationally, a lot of hope has been pinned on the so-called \"public health approach\" to tackling violence.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nAt Coundon Primary School, in Coventry, a class of lively Year 6 pupils learn about being \"mentors in violence prevention\", as part of a new scheme in the region.\n\nUsing scenarios they teach each other the resilience needed to stand up to the challenges they will face in life.\n\nThey learn about bullying, grooming and dealing with the pressures not to \"snitch\".\n\nIt is another demand heaped onto busy teachers.\n\nHead teacher Jayne Ellis says there was a stabbing just around the corner from the school the night before she spoke to the BBC.\n\n\"Some of these children we've had since they were three,\" she says.\n\n\"If we can give them those messages at least we've given them the skills to deal with whatever predicament they find themselves in.\n\n\"They trust us implicitly. They trust each other. We are like a family.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Indonesia and Malaysia have issued severe smog alerts as fires rage in large sections of their rainforests.\n\nBoth countries have closed schools and issued face masks.\n\nSatellite images show almost 1,000 fires are burning in the Indonesian provinces of Kalimantan and Sumatra, while 10 are burning in Malaysia.\n\nMany of the fires are started by illegal land clearing to make way for palm oil plantations or for subsistence farming.", "Daniel Erickson-Hull was found living as a self-styled evangelical preacher in the town of Sliven\n\nA British convicted paedophile who fled the UK has reportedly been charged with sexually abusing children in Bulgaria, following a BBC investigation.\n\nDaniel Erickson-Hull was found living as a self-styled evangelical preacher in a poor Roma community in the town of Sliven, by BBC Radio 4's File on 4.\n\nHe was charged on Friday with abusing four boys under the age of 16, regional prosecutors told AFP.\n\nHe was jailed for 15 months in 2017 on child pornography offences.\n\nErickson-Hull, 44, from Plaistow, in east London, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for having hundreds of indecent images of children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC tracked down Daniel Hull, who breached strict court orders by fleeing to Bulgaria\n\nErickson-Hull has breached strict court orders which banned him from leaving the UK without informing the authorities or being alone with children.\n\nHe was already the subject of a European Arrest Warrant (EAW), according to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nIn the early hours of Thursday, he was arrested by Bulgarian police at his home in Sliven, where he was found in the presence of six boys, Bulgaria's Ministry of Interior said in a press statement.\n\nHe was initially detained for 24 hours, but that was extended to 72 hours following a prosecutor's order, according to the statement.\n\n\"It has been documented that the detainee repeatedly abused sexually minor victims from the town,\" the statement added.\n\nIt continued: \"He has legitimised his stay and contacts with minors from the neighbourhood, in which he lived in Sliven, pretending to be a pastor preaching a Christian denomination.\"\n\n\"The charges... are for sexual abuse between January and September 2019,\" Vanya Beleva, a spokeswoman for the Bulgarian regional prosecutors' office told AFP.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Thursday's arrest did not relate to the offence linked to the current EAW.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said it was aware of Erickson-Hull's arrest \"as a result of an ongoing Bulgarian investigation\".\n\nA spokesperson for the NCA said it had \"provided and will continue to provide liaison support to the Bulgarian authorities and to the Metropolitan Police Service\".\n\nAn investigation by the BBC's File on 4 has discovered that 581 convicted sex offenders are missing or have failed to report to UK police forces.\n\nWhen confronted by journalist Paul Kenyon, Erickson-Hull denied being a \"paedophile on the run\" and disputed that he was spending time with unaccompanied children.\n\nPC Steve Fitzpatrick of the Metropolitan Police, who appeared on the programme, said he was 'horrified' at seeing Erickson-Hull living freely in Bulgaria.", "David Cameron has accused the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, and Michael Gove of behaving \"appallingly\" during the EU referendum campaign.\n\nSpeaking to the Times ahead of the launch of his memoir, the former Tory PM attacked some colleagues who backed Leave for \"trashing the government\".\n\nMr Cameron said the result in 2016 had left him \"hugely depressed\" and he knew \"some people will never forgive me\".\n\nHe also said another referendum cannot be ruled out \"because we're stuck\".\n\nMr Cameron criticised Mr Johnson's strategy for dealing with Brexit, including his decision to suspend Parliament ahead of the 31 October deadline and removing the whip from 21 Tory MPs who voted to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has said the suspension - or prorogation - is a normal action of a new government to let it lay out its new policies in a Queen's Speech, and blocking no-deal would \"scupper\" his negotiations with the EU.\n\nMr Cameron called the referendum in 2016 after promising it in the Conservative Party's election manifesto the year before.\n\nHe campaigned for Remain, but lost the vote by 52% to 48%, and announced within hours he would be stepping down as PM.\n\nThe former Tory leader said the Leave side had a \"very powerful emotional argument\", while Remain had the \"very strong technical and economic arguments\", and the former - plus the issue of immigration - was a \"winning combination\" for his rivals.\n\n\"It turned into this terrible Tory psychodrama and I couldn't seem to get through,\" he said.\n\nBut leading Brexiteer and former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Lilley said the 17.4 million people who voted to leave the EU \"didn't care a fig about Tory psychodramas or anything else\", accusing Mr Cameron of using \"an extraordinary Westminster bubble phrase\".\n\n\"Most [Leave voters] put aside party loyalties and voted on the issue,\" he told BBC Two's Newsnight programme.\n\n\"When the British people speak, their voice will be respected, not ignored.\"\n\nLord Lilley said Mr Cameron had vowed before the 2016 referendum the public would decide whether the UK left the EU, but \"now he's saying different things\".\n\nThe former PM famously wrote his memoirs in a shed - which allegedly cost £25,000\n\nIn his interview with the Times, Mr Cameron - who was prime minister between 2010 and 2016 - said his Conservative colleagues Mr Johnson, Mr Gove, Penny Mordaunt and Priti Patel had \"left the truth at home\" on the referendum campaign trail, especially when it came to immigration.\n\nHe said: \"Boris had never argued for leaving the EU, right?\n\n\"Michael was a very strong Eurosceptic, but someone whom I'd known as this liberal, compassionate, rational Conservative ended up making arguments about Turkey [joining the EU] and [the UK] being swamped and what have you.\"\n\nMr Cameron called it \"ridiculous\" and \"just not true\" when Ms Mordaunt made a similar argument about Turkey, followed by claims by the now-Home Secretary Ms Patel that \"wealthy people didn't understand the problems of immigration\".\n\nHe added: \"I suppose some people would say all is fair in love and war and political campaigns. I thought there were places Conservatives wouldn't go against each other. And they did.\"\n\nDespite his criticism of his former colleagues' conduct during the referendum campaign, Mr Cameron defended his decision to call the vote, saying the issue of the EU \"needed to be addressed\".\n\n\"Every single day I think about it, the referendum and the fact that we lost and the consequences and the things that could have been done differently, and I worry desperately about what is going to happen next,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we can get to a situation where we leave but we are friends, neighbours and partners. We can get there, but I would love to fast-forward to that moment because it's painful for the country and it's painful to watch.\"\n\nDavid Cameron and his wife Samantha after he became PM in 2010\n\nSpeaking about the current prime minister's strategy, Mr Cameron said he \"wants him to succeed\", but his plan has \"morphed into something quite different\".\n\nHe said: \"Taking the whip from hard-working Conservative MPs and sharp practices using prorogation of Parliament have rebounded.\n\n\"I didn't support either of those things. Neither do I think a no-deal Brexit is a good idea.\"\n\nDavid Cameron has been very quiet since he walked out of Downing Street for the last time in 2016.\n\nSo his decision to use this interview to come out fighting for why he called the referendum is significant.\n\nDespite admitting that he worries about the consequences and accepting he may be blamed for them by some, he doesn't believe he was wrong to call it.\n\nInstead, he maintains that holding the vote was \"inevitable\".\n\nAfter years of silence, the timing of Mr Cameron's return to the front pages may play badly for Boris Johnson.\n\nHe's highly critical of Mr Johnson's role in the Leave campaign, writing in his book that he and his fellow Leave campaigner Michael Gove behaved \"appallingly\".\n\nAnd although he seemed to be giving Mr Johnson breathing space as the new prime minister, the decision to suspend Parliament and expel 21 Conservative rebels seems to have hardened his tone.\n\nMr Cameron also spoke of the damage to his friendships - including the one between him and Mr Gove, who had been close friends since university.\n\n\"We've spoken,\" he said. \"Not a huge amount. I've sort of had a conversation with him.\n\n\"I've spoken to the prime minister a little bit, mainly through texts, but Michael was a very good friend. So that has been more difficult.\"\n\nBut he did praise his immediate successor, Theresa May, who had been his home secretary throughout his time at No 10, for her \"phenomenal\" work rate and her \"ethos of public service\", even if he was not unquestioning of her strategy.\n\nDavid Cameron with Theresa May, when she was his home secretary\n\n\"I remember frequently texting [Mrs May] about the frustration of getting a Brexit deal and then seeing Brexiteers vote it down, possibly at the risk of the whole project they had devoted themselves to,\" said Mr Cameron. \"Maddening and infuriating.\"\n\nHe continued: \"There's an argument that Brexit is just impossible to deliver and no one could have done, and there's an argument that, well, wrong choices were made. This is somewhere in between.\"\n\nAsked what happens next, Mr Cameron said he did not think a no-deal Brexit \"should be pursued\".\n\nHe also did not reject a further referendum.\n\n\"I don't think you can rule it out because we're stuck,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not saying one will happen or should happen. I'm just saying that you can't rule things out right now because you've got to find some way of unblocking the blockage.\"\n\nMr Cameron became the Conservative Party leader in 2005. Five years later he was voted into Downing Street as the UK's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years - aged 43.\n\nHis six-year tenure - firstly in coalition with the Liberal Democrats and latterly with a majority government - was dominated by his desire to reduce the deficit, and the introduction of austerity measures with his Chancellor George Osborne.\n\nBut when he pledged in his party's 2015 manifesto to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, the focus shifted.\n\nMr Cameron backed Remain during the 2016 campaign and, on the morning of the result after discovering he had lost, he announced he would be stepping down, saying: \"I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.\"\n\nThe former PM has remained silent until now about both of his successors at the helm of the Tory Party - Theresa May and Boris Johnson.\n\nBut his allegedly fractious relationship with Mr Johnson has been well documented since their days together at Oxford University - most notably as members of the infamous Bullingdon Club.", "William Moldt went missing in Florida at the age of 40 in 1997\n\nThe remains of a man who went missing two decades ago in Florida have been found in a submerged car visible on Google Maps.\n\nWilliam Moldt, was reported missing from Lantana, Florida, on 7 November 1997.\n\nHe failed to return home from a night out at a club when he was 40 years old.\n\nA missing person investigation was launched by police but the case went cold.\n\nOn 28 August this year - 22 years on - police were called to reports of a car found in a pond in Moon Bay Circle, Wellington.\n\nWhen the vehicle was pulled from the water, skeletal remains were found inside. One week later the remains were positively identified as belonging to Mr Moldt.\n\nMr Moldt's sunken car was spotted by a previous resident of the area after \"doing a Google search\", police said.\n\nThe man then contacted a current resident of Moon Bay Circle to tell them what he had seen. Using his personal drone, the current resident confirmed there was a car in the pond and contacted police.\n\nA report by the Charley Project, an online database of cold cases in the US, said the \"vehicle had plainly [been] visible on a Google Earth satellite photo of the area since 2007, but apparently no-one had noticed it until 2019\".\n\nPalm Beach County Sheriff's Office told the BBC that Mr Moldt is presumed to have lost control of his vehicle and driven into the pond.\n\nThe force said that, during the initial investigation into his disappearance, there was \"no evidence of that occurring\" until recently, when a shift in the water made the car visible.\n\n\"You can't determine what happened that many years ago, what transpired,\" police spokeswoman Therese Barbera said.\n\n\"All we know is that he went missing off the face of the Earth, and now he's been discovered.\"\n\nMs Barbera said it was a neighbour who reported the sunken car and was not aware of reports that Google Maps had been used.\n\nOn the night of his disappearance, Mr Moldt left the club at about 23:00 local time (03:00 GMT), a report by the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System said.\n\nMr Moldt, a quiet man who did not socialise much, did not appear intoxicated and left alone in his vehicle, it added.\n\n\"He also was not a frequent drinker but did have several drinks at the bar,\" the report said.\n\nMr Moldt called his girlfriend at about 21:30, telling her he would be home soon, but was never seen or heard from again.\n\nMr Moldt's family has been informed about the discovery of his remains.", "Criminologist Prof Sandra Walklate believes these women are all 'invisible victims of knife crime'\n\nThe number of people killed as a result of domestic violence in the UK is at its highest level in five years.\n\nLast year, 173 people were killed in domestic violence-related homicides, according to data obtained by the BBC from 43 police forces across the UK - an increase of 32 deaths on 2017.\n\nOne criminologist described them as \"invisible victims of knife crime\".\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government was \"fully committed\" to tackling domestic abuse.\n\nWhilst both men and women are killed by domestic violence, the vast majority of victims are women.\n\nIn England and Wales, between April 2014 and March 2017, around three-quarters of victims of domestic killings by a partner, ex-partner or family member were women, while suspects are predominantly male.\n\nStabbed by her ex-boyfriend on New Year's Day, Charlotte Huggins began 2019 like many across the UK, drinking in a pub and celebrating with friends.\n\nHours later, her ex-boyfriend Michael Rolle barged into her south London home while her daughter and aunt slept upstairs.\n\nRolle had spotted Ms Huggins with another man and in a \"jealous rage\" stabbed her in the back with a large kitchen knife.\n\nHe fled the scene and later argued Ms Huggins had fallen on the knife. In July, an Old Bailey jury convicted him of murder.\n\nCharlotte Huggins was one of the first people to be stabbed to death in London in 2019\n\nDespite a public debate about rising levels of knife crime, Ms Huggins's murder attracted little attention when it came to trial.\n\nLiverpool University criminologist Professor Sandra Walklate is keen to point out the weapon used commonly in street murders is equally prevalent in the home.\n\n\"That's part of the issue about violence against women, it mostly remains invisible.\"\n\nThe BBC has been following the first 100 killings of 2019. The vast majority of cases have now had charges and many have come to trial over the summer.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nAbout a fifth were committed by a partner, an ex-partner or a family member.\n\nOne of the most shocking killings occurred in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.\n\nJulian Giraldo woke up on 13 January with a premonition something bad was going to happen. He tried for hours without success to call his parents on the phone.\n\nHe was aware of problems in their 17-year marriage but had no idea what was happening as he struggled to get through.\n\nHis father Rodrigo Giraldo, a former Colombian police officer murdered his wife, Margory Villegas, in the presence of their newly fostered baby. The 55-year-old then drove to a local beauty spot where he set her body alight, placed the remains into a suitcase, and then buried it in a shallow grave.\n\nDespite his denials, the evidence against him was overwhelming, leading to his conviction and subsequent life prison sentence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Giraldo read out a victim impact statement after his father was convicted of murdering his mother\n\nAs with many other such cases, the killer had a history of domestic abuse.\n\nJulian, who appeared as a witness at the trial, told St Albans Crown Court his mum was someone who \"gave her entire life for her family.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in a local park he said: \"My dad needs to take ownership for his what he's done.\n\n\"He's always been a victim of his own realities. Right now he's living his choices.\"\n\nMr Giraldo believes the murder was the culmination \"of lots of little tiny things that over time create the situation.\"\n\n\"I am on a quest for personal development for myself, for my family, for my community,\" he says. \"I want to prevent this moment from occurring to other people.\"\n\nHe said: \"We want the government to fix all our problems. But I think realistically, what we actually need to do is work collectively as a community to create better things.\"\n\nGary Cunningham was stabbed to death by his girlfriend Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow in Birmingham in February 2019\n\nLast year, there were 173 domestic killings, making it the highest figure since 2014, according to data supplied to the BBC by 43 police forces in the UK. There were 165 in 2014, 160 in 2015, 139 in 2016 and 141 in 2017.\n\nThe increase comes despite a major government effort to tackle domestic violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chiyvonne Shennan said her sister Cherylee had been unaware of her boyfriend's violent history\n\nTheresa May made it a high priority when she was home secretary and the ex-prime minister hopes the newly approved domestic abuse laws will provide something of a legacy.\n\nBoris Johnson confirmed the government will introduce a new bill aimed at tackling the \"horrific crime\" of domestic abuse when Parliament returns.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGovernment minister Victoria Atkins also pointed to the introduction of the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme - known as Clare's Law - which lets people find out from police if their partner has a history of domestic violence.\n\n\"These tragic cases are a stark reminder of the devastating impact of domestic abuse and we are determined to do more to protect victims and bring more perpetrators to justice,\" she added.\n\nHowever, Prof Walklate argues successive governments have placed too much emphasis on reforming the criminal justice system.\n\n\"What might change behaviour is to ensure that police forces, health services, education, social services all speak from the same hymn sheet in relation to violence against women,\" she says.\n\n\"It is at that point at which you start to send out general messages that this is not tolerable.\"\n\nIn April 2018, the Home Office published its long-awaited strategy to tackle serious violence in England and Wales.\n\nThe policy paper acknowledged that a \"significant proportion\" of violent crime was linked to domestic abuse or alcohol but said neither was \"driving\" the increase. \"That is why they are not the focus of this document,\" it added.\n\nInstead, most of the effort from government, police and other agencies has gone into combating street-based violence, gang crime and county lines drug dealing.\n\nNo-one would argue they should not be priorities, as the recent wave of fatal stabbings of teenagers in London demonstrates.\n\nBut while the authorities concentrated precious resources on one type of violent crime, did that deflect them from bearing down on another?\n\nThere's no firm evidence to prove it, but these latest figures will act as a reminder of the importance of being alert to the pernicious, and often hidden, crime of domestic abuse.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips, who campaigns on the issue of domestic abuse, agreed the government had focused too much on the criminal justice system, while police resources had been cut and there were fewer refuge beds available.\n\n\"If women trying to escape can't get into refuges, it doesn't matter how cracking the laws are we've made in Westminster,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"They do not help people on the ground.\"\n\nIn March, the Centre For Women's Justice (CWJ) lodged a \"super-complaint\" accusing police of failing to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence.\n\nCWJ's Nogah Ofer explained police already have powers, such as non-molestation orders, that are not being used enough and could halt the rise in domestic violence-related murders.\n\n\"Women have to go off and get orders in the civil courts,\" Ms Ofer says. \"Then those orders are breached and the police don't do anything to arrest the suspects.\"\n\n\"We hear this all the time. There's this constant sense of frustration they're not being taken seriously.\"\n\nThe role of domestic abuse commissioner has been created to spearhead the campaign against the problem.\n\nA job advert for the position was put out in December - but as yet, no-one has been appointed to the position.\n\nHowever, it will already be too late for the family of Charlotte Huggins and dozens of other families affected by domestic violence.\n\nFor information and support related to domestic abuse, visit the BBC Action Line.\n\nCorrection 26th September 2019: An earlier version of this article stated that domestic abuse costs the country £66bn a year. However as this figure comes with a number of caveats we have decided to remove it.", "Owen Carey was celebrating his 18th birthday when he died\n\nA teenager had a fatal reaction after unwittingly eating buttermilk at burger chain Byron, an inquest has heard.\n\nOwen Carey, who had a dairy allergy, was celebrating his 18th birthday in London when he collapsed in April 2017.\n\nEarlier, he had ordered skinny grilled chicken at the O2 Arena branch, but the menu contained \"no mention\" of a marinade, the inquest heard.\n\nTechnical manager Aimee Leitner-Hopps said a notice on the menu asked customers to advise staff of allergies.\n\nShe also told Southwark Coroner's Court all waiting staff underwent allergy training.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Carey started to experience symptoms after leaving the restaurant in Greenwich, before he collapsed outside the London Eye.\n\nHe died later at St Thomas's Hospital in central London.\n\nClodagh Bradley QC, representing the Carey family, of Crowborough, Sussex, said regulations required allergy information in a restaurant to be clearly visible.\n\nInformation on the Byron menu was \"at the very bottom, in a really very small font, in black print, on a royal blue background\" making it difficult to read, she added.\n\nMs Leitner-Hopps said: \"It's perfectly legible in my opinion.\"\n\nShe also said it complied with legal obligations.\n\nA representative of the chain, which has branches around the UK, said all table staff underwent allergy training\n\nWhen asked by assistant coroner Briony Ballard why it could not be more prominent, she replied: \"The expectation is that a customer with an allergy should inform us.\"\n\nMs Leitner-Hopps said there had been numerous local authority visits over the years to the restaurant but they had \"never been told\" the wording was not clear enough or was too small.\n\nMs Bradley QC also said: \"The menu makes no mention at all of marinade. It would be very easy for a reader of the menu to think this was a plain grilled chicken breast.\"\n\nMs Leitner-Hopps said: \"If you have an allergy you should be asking for information and the team would have provided it.\"\n\nSince Mr Carey's death, she said, and subsequent research showing one in 10 people aged 16 to 24 hide their allergies, staff now ask customers directly if they have any allergies or dietary requirements.\n\nDr Robert Boyle, consultant paediatric allergist at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, told the inquest there had been about 150 deaths like Mr Carey's in the UK in the past 25 years.\n\nDr Robert Boyle called for a national register to aid understanding of food allergies\n\nHe said: \"Fatal food anaphylaxis is uncommon and it is very fast. Typically people die 30 to 40 minutes after they have eaten the food.\"\n\nHe said the subject was poorly understood and called for a national register to gather information on it.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Carey was not carrying his Epipen at the time, but Dr Boyle said it was \"unlikely\" that an Epipen would have made a difference.\n\nPathologist Andreas Marnerides gave the medical cause of death as asthma exacerbation caused by food-induced allergic reaction, or anaphylaxis.\n\nHe said he would \"not disagree\" to putting food-induced allergic reaction as the primary cause.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Carey ate half of his chicken before he felt his lips tingling and experienced stomach problems.\n\nMembers of the public, including an RAF doctor, tried to revive him but when paramedics arrived he was \"silent, not breathing and pulseless\", the hearing was told.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Men's Ashes: England v Australia, fifth Specsavers Test (day two of five)\n\nJofra Archer took 6-62 to give England the upper hand in the fifth Ashes Test, despite yet more runs from Australia's Steve Smith on day two at The Oval.\n\nPace bowler Archer was supported by three wickets from left-armer Sam Curran - including two in two balls - as the tourists were bowled out for 225.\n\nThrough it all, Smith stood firm, and it was his wicket - lbw to Chris Woakes for 80 - that England and their supporters celebrated the most.\n\nIt says much about Smith's stellar summer that this was his lowest score of the series and the inability to reach a century felt like a relative failure.\n\nEngland batted twice in the day. In the morning they went from 271-8 to 294 all out, a total that looked short of par on a flat pitch.\n• None Agnew column: 'I can't wait to see Archer in Australia'\n\nHowever, that was to discount the incisiveness of Archer and Curran, and the brittleness - bar Smith - of the Australian batting. England were in again 20 minutes before the close.\n\nThey were taken to 9-0 - 78 ahead - by Rory Burns and Joe Denly. In a dramatic final over of the day from Josh Hazelwood, Denly was dropped by Marcus Harris at gully and Burns overturned being given lbw off the very last ball.\n\nAt 2-1 down, England's chances of regaining the Ashes have gone, but they are well placed to avoid their first home series defeat since 2014 and first by Australia in 18 years.\n\nThey have the opportunity to force Australia out of the game, especially with the surface likely to be deteriorating by the time the tourists come to bat again.\n• None Relive every wicket on day two of an enthralling Test\n• None Village side recalls when 'homesick' Smith left club after just five days\n\nBefore this Test, England captain Joe Root said that his team must use this match as the beginning of their building towards the next Ashes in Australia in 2021-22.\n\nIt may be that the pace of Archer and the skiddy swing of Curran are the pillars of England's attack in the future, especially when James Anderson and Stuart Broad retire.\n\nThey were the standout performers on a sun-kissed day at The Oval, when a collectively strong England performance was only mildly marred by three missed catches.\n\nFriday began with the news that Denly's wife had given birth overnight and progressed with steady excitement from a crowd that exploded with noise when Smith was sent on his way.\n\nAnd, if the likes of Archer and Curran really are England's future, then so too is the problem of how to dismiss Smith, who gave another reminder that he will remain the biggest obstacle to them regaining the Ashes in two and a half years.\n\nThat, though, is for another day. For now, England must pounce on the chance to end this storied summer with a series-levelling victory.\n\nIf Curran was England's find of 2018, when he was man of the series against India, then Archer has been the most important addition of 2019, not only starring in the World Cup win, but becoming the first England bowler to take 20 wickets in his debut series since Dominic Cork in 1995.\n\nWith pace up around 90mph, Archer constantly asked questions of the batsmen, who were challenged with the accuracy of his full deliveries and hostility of the short ones.\n\nDavid Warner was given caught behind on review, opening partner Harris edged to second slip and Marnus Labuschagne played across a straight one to be lbw. Just as England were going flat after tea, Archer had Mitchell Marsh pull to Jack Leach at fine leg.\n\nBy that time, Curran - playing in his first Test of the series - had already pinned Matthew Wade lbw, but it was the right-handers that he really troubled either by swinging the ball in or angling it across.\n\nThat was typified by the dual strike. First Tim Paine edged behind, then Pat Cummins was trapped leg-before by a hooping in-ducker.\n\nSmith was the last of four wickets for 37 runs, after which England were held up by Nathan Lyon and Peter Siddle.\n\nIn the space of eight deliveries, Archer had Lyon put down by a diving Leach, bowled the same man with a dipping knuckleball, saw Root fail to move when Hazlewood edged his first ball and had Siddle push to gully, where Burns took a sensational one-handed grab.\n\nWith the pitch flat and the sun shining, nothing seemed more certain than Smith torturing England's bowlers again. Despite some early problems against Curran and the resumption of his compelling series-long battle with Archer, he did just that.\n\nSmith arrived at 14-2 - Warner's five was his eighth single-figure score of the series - and received support from Labuschagne but not much else.\n\nHe batted as he does; never still and with comical flamboyance. He nurdled off the pads, hit the same part of the cover boundary with drives off front and back foot, and hit spinner Leach for six over mid-wicket.\n\nSlowly, though, Archer and Curran restricted his scoring. He was dropped on 66 by a leaping Root at first slip off the bowling of Curran.\n\nWhen Curran was replaced, Woakes got one to keep a touch low and a deceived Smith was plumb in front. Such was his disappointment, he could barely drag himself from the crease.\n\nThat signalled the start of a swiping stand of 37 between Siddle and Lyon, before Archer had the final word.\n\n'England should win the game from here' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"Apart from Smith and Labuschagne that was a disgraceful batting performance by Australia.\n\n\"I wouldn't be surprised if we get more drama tomorrow. But from this position, England should get enough runs to win the game.\"\n\nEx-England captain and Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart: \"The spell from Curran and Jofra Archer was exceptional.\n\n\"That was the best Curran has bowled for England. He wants to take a wicket every ball and we keep telling him you can't do that, you have to set the batsman up.\n\n\"He stuck to his lengths and lines very well today, the best he's done for some time.\"\n\nAustralia batsman Marnus Labuschagne, speaking to TMS: \"We came here today looking for a really solid batting performance and obviously we didn't do that but we're still in the contest.\n\n\"The intensity definitely has not dropped. It's hard to say that when our play on the field maybe reflects that. But we came to win the Ashes and we really want to do that.\n\n\"We don't want to just retain the Ashes. We have to come out tomorrow 100% on it and ready to take any chance.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister David Cameron says he will stand down\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron has said he is to step down from his post after the UK voted to leave the EU. Here is the statement he made outside Downing Street.\n\nGood morning everyone, the country has just taken part in a giant democratic exercise, perhaps the biggest in our history.\n\nOver 33 million people from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar have all had their say.\n\nWe should be proud of the fact that in these islands we trust the people for these big decisions.\n\nWe not only have a parliamentary democracy, but on questions about the arrangements for how we're governed there are times when it is right to ask the people themselves and that is what we have done.\n\nThe British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected.\n\nI want to thank everyone who took part in the campaign on my side of the argument, including all those who put aside party differences to speak in what they believe was the national interest and let me congratulate all those who took part in the Leave campaign for the spirited and passionate case that they made.\n\nThe will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered.\n\nIt was not a decision that was taken lightly, not least because so many things were said by so many different organisations about the significance of this decision.\n\nSo there can be no doubt about the result.\n\nAcross the world people have been watching the choice that Britain has made.\n\nI would reassure those markets and investors that Britain's economy is fundamentally strong and I would also reassure Britons living in European countries and European citizens living here there will be no immediate changes in your circumstances.\n\nThere will be no initial change in the way our people can travel, in the way our goods can move or the way our services can be sold.\n\nWe must now prepare for a negotiation with the European Union.\n\nThis will need to involve the full engagement of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland governments to ensure that the interests of all parts of our United Kingdom are protected and advanced.\n\nBut above all this will require strong, determined and committed leadership.\n\nI'm very proud and very honoured to have been prime minister of this country for six years.\n\nI believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.\n\nAnd I'm grateful to everyone who's helped to make that happen.\n\nI have also always believed that we have to confront big decisions, not duck them. That is why we delivered the first coalition government in 70 years, to bring our economy back from the brink.\n\nIt's why we delivered a fair, legal and decisive referendum in Scotland.\n\nAnd it's why I made the pledge to renegotiate Britain's position in the European Union and to hold the referendum on our membership and have carried those things out.\n\nI fought this campaign in the only way I know how, which is to say directly and passionately what I think and feel - head, heart and soul.\n\nI held nothing back, I was absolutely clear about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off inside the European Union and I made clear the referendum was about this and this alone - not the future of any single politician including myself.\n\nBut the British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction.\n\nI will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.\n\nThis is not a decision I've taken lightly but I do believe it's in the national interest to have a period of stability and then the new leadership required.\n\nThere is no need for a precise timetable today but in my view we should aim to have a new prime minister in place by the start of the Conservative Party conference in October.\n\nDelivering stability will be important and I will continue in post as prime minister with my cabinet for the next three months.\n\nThe cabinet will meet on Monday, the governor of the Bank of England is making a statement about the steps that the Bank and the Treasury are taking to reassure financial markets.\n\nWe will also continue taking forward the important legislation that we set before Parliament in the Queen's Speech.\n\nAnd I have spoken to Her Majesty the Queen this morning to advise her of the steps that I am taking.\n\nA negotiation with the European Union will need to begin under a new prime minister and I think it's right that this new prime minister takes the decision about when to trigger Article 50 and start the formal and legal process of leaving the EU.\n\nI will attend the European Council next week to explain the decision the British people have taken and my own decision.\n\nThe British people have made a choice, that not only needs to be respected but those on the losing side of the argument - myself included - should help to make it work.\n\nBritain is a special country - we have so many great advantages - a parliamentary democracy where we resolve great issues about our future through peaceful debate, a great trading nation with our science and arts, our engineering and our creativity, respected the world over.\n\nAnd while we are not perfect I do believe we can be a model for the multi-racial, multi-faith democracy, that people can come and make a contribution and rise to the very highest that their talent allows.\n\nAlthough leaving Europe was not the path I recommended, I am the first to praise our incredible strengths.\n\nI said before that Britain can survive outside the European Union and indeed that we could find a way.\n\nNow the decision has been made to leave, we need to find the best way and I will do everything I can to help.\n\nI love this country and I feel honoured to have served it and I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.\n• None Cameron to quit as UK votes to leave EU", "David Cameron is stepping down after six years as Britain's prime minister and nearly 11 years as Conservative leader - here are 10 key moments\n\nWithin weeks of beating better-known rival David Davis to the Conservative leadership in a December 2005 vote of party members, David Cameron was boarding a plane to the Arctic Circle for a fact-finding mission on global warming. It was a dramatic way of announcing himself as a new kind of Conservative - one who cared about the environment and didn't mind enduring freezing temperatures without a hat to prove it (predecessor William Hague had never recovered from being pictured with a baseball cap in the early days of his leadership so headgear was banned on Mr Cameron's Arctic trip).\n\nHe never promised us a rose garden. But that's what we got when David Cameron stunned Westminster by making a \"big, open and comprehensive\" offer to the Liberal Democrats on the morning after a May 2010 general election that nobody won. The bloom-filled Downing Street garden was the venue for the first press conference with Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg after four days of frantic deal-making and intrigue. The body language, as Mr Cameron joshed with Mr Clegg over the insults they had hurled at each other in the past, was good. Britain didn't do coalitions - it had never been tried since World War Two - but this looked like it might just work. Despite the doubters it did last all the way to the 2015 election.\n\nDavid Cameron's ability to look and sound prime ministerial when the occasion demanded it was one of his biggest strengths. It was never more evident than during his Commons statement on the Bloody Sunday inquiry in June 2010, which drew praise from across the political spectrum. He described the findings of the Saville Report into the shooting dead of 13 marchers on 30 January 1972 in Londonderry as \"shocking\" - an action that was \"unjustified\" and \"unjustifiable\", and for which he was \"deeply sorry\". His statement in 2012 on Hillsborough and his reaction after the April 2016 inquest verdicts earned similar plaudits.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameron and Sarkozy were greeted as heroes as they visited a hospital in Libya\n\nLibya was David Cameron's first, and in terms of its long-lasting impact arguably most disastrous, foreign policy intervention. He had pushed a reluctant US President Barack Obama to come to the aid of rebel fighters attempting to topple Colonel Gaddafi and help impose a no-fly zone over Libya. Mr Cameron was greeted as a hero when he visited Libya with then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in September 2011, after Gaddafi had been ousted. He pledged not to allow Libya to turn into another Iraq, but critics say that is exactly what happened, as it it rapidly descended into violence.\n\nIt was one of David Cameron's proudest achievements as prime minister. On 21 May, 2013, MPs voted to allow same-sex couples in England and Wales, who could already hold civil ceremonies, to marry. For Mr Cameron it sent a powerful signal of the kind of tolerant, inclusive country he said he wanted Britain to be - but it cost him dear in terms of lost support from grassroots Conservatives, many of whom could not accept it.\n\nAfter years of rejecting calls from his own MPs for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, Mr Cameron dramatically announced, in a speech at financial wire service Bloomberg in January 2013, that he would hold one if he won the next election, after first renegotiating the UK's membership of the 28-nation bloc. It was the biggest gamble of his political career, made against the backdrop of Eurosceptic rebels in the Tory party demanding a vote and evidence that traditional Conservative voters were heading to the UK Independence Party. As they say in politics, it kicked the can down the road and arguably helped him win the 2015 election. But it was also the vote that ended his career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron: \"It is clear to me that the British parliament...does not want to see British military action\"\n\nIn August 2013, David Cameron became the first prime minister in more than 100 years to lose a Commons vote on military action. It seemed to be a devastating blow to his authority. He had failed to persuade enough MPs, including many on his own side, that Britain should take part in air strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. \"I strongly believe in the need for a tough response to the use of chemical weapons, but I also believe in respecting the will of this House of Commons,\" he said minutes after the result was announced.\n\nMr Cameron held more referendums than any British prime minister. He easily won the first one in 2011, opposing his deputy PM's bid to change Britain's voting system, but the September 2014 Scottish independence referendum provoked the biggest panic of his first term in office. As polling day approached, he was forced to cancel Prime Minister's Questions and rush north of the border in an effort to save the Union, with an impassioned speech at the HQ of Scottish Widows in Edinburgh, when a poll suggested the Yes campaign would win. He was later forced to issue an apology to the Queen, after he was overheard telling New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Her Majesty had \"purred down the line\" when he informed her that Scotland had rejected independence.\n\nIn the space of two minutes everything changed. The BBC exit poll predicting the Conservatives would be close to gaining a majority of seats stunned everybody, including, we must assume, David Cameron, who the polls had been suggesting could lose to Labour or have to form another coalition with the Lib Dems. Mr Cameron had been criticised for running a negative, fear-based campaign, but it had succeeded. The pledge to hold an EU referendum if elected also helped gain votes. He formed the first majority Conservative government since 1992 - a personal triumph that would prove to be remarkably short-lived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EU vote: David Cameron says the UK \"needs fresh leadership\"\n\nMr Cameron had staked everything on his ability to persuade the country to vote to remain in the EU, before realising at a late stage in the campaign that it might not be enough. His tone grew more desperate as he contemplated going down in history as the PM who took Britain out of the EU. Despite insisting he would stay on as PM whatever the result, he announced his departure in an emotional statement in Downing Street within hours of the result becoming clear, with wife Samantha at his side.", "The photographs of the Tiananmen Tank Man became some of the world's most famous\n\nCharlie Cole, one of the photographers who captured the famous Tank Man on film during the Tiananmen Square protests, has died.\n\nThe image of one man standing in the way of a column of tanks, a day after hundreds possibly thousands of people died, has become a defining image of the 1989 pro-democracy protests.\n\nCole won the 1990 World Press Photo award for his picture.\n\nHe had been living in Bali, Indonesia, where he died last week, aged 64.\n\nCole was one of four photographers that captured the scene on 5 June 1989.\n\nHe took his picture for Newsweek with a telephoto lens from the balcony of a hotel, framing it so the man was only just in the bottom left corner.\n\nCharlie Cole (right) pictured in South Korea in 1987\n\nCole later described how he had expected the man would be killed, and felt it was his responsibility to record what was happening.\n\nBut the unidentified protester was eventually pulled away from the scene by two men. What happened to him remains unknown.\n\nCole knew he would be searched later by Chinese security so hid the undeveloped film roll in the bathroom.\n\nShortly after he took it, officials broke through the door and searched the hotel room, but they did not discover the film.\n\nCole, middle, during protests in South Korea in 1987\n\nThe scene as shot by him and the other three photographers went on to become an iconic symbol of peaceful resistance across the world.\n\nThirty years ago, Beijing's Tiananmen Square became the focus for large-scale protests, calling for reform and democracy.\n\nDemonstrators had been camped for weeks in the square, but late on 3 June, the military moved in and troops opened fire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina has only ever said that 200 civilians and security personnel died, but there has been no publicly released record of deaths. Witnesses and foreign journalists have said the figure could be up to 3,000.\n\nTiananmen is still a heavily censored topic in modern China, and the Tank Man pictures are banned.", "After months of peaceful marches and clashes, Hong Kong protesters have begun staging a different type of demonstration - mass singalongs of a new song called Glory to Hong Kong.\n\nSome even think it should be replace the Chinese national anthem.\n\nInterviews and footage by BBC Chinese. Produced by Tessa Wong.", "Climate change, student loans and healthcare are some of the key issues\n\nThere are currently 11 Democrats hoping to win their party's nomination and take on President Donald Trump as he seeks re-election in 2020.\n\nThe BBC's Anthony Zurcher looks at strengths and weaknesses of all the candidates.\n\nWho? Former vice-president and veteran senator\n\nOne policy: Similar to the Green New Deal, Biden's Clean Energy Revolution would make the US economy 100% clean energy based with net-zero emissions by 2050, as well as target polluters with fees and quotas\n\nAnthony's take: Joe Biden entered the Democratic presidential contest as a front-runner, if not the front-runner. He has near universal name recognition, high approval ratings within the party and among political independents, a close connection to the halcyon days (at least, for Democrats) of the Obama presidency, and the potential to raise vast amounts of campaign money through traditional Democratic donor networks.\n\nOf course, so did Hillary Clinton in 2015 - and we all know how that turned out.\n\nLike the former secretary of state, Mr Biden in his launch video seems to be defining himself as much by who he isn't - Donald Trump - as what he wants to do. It was an oft-criticised strategy for Mrs Clinton in 2016, but with two years of the Trump presidency in the books, Mr Biden seems to be betting that a majority of Americans who have now seen Trumpism in practice have had enough.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nMr Biden shares some of the political weaknesses demonstrated in Mrs Clinton's presidential race as well. Her lengthy time in the public eye left a long record for her opponents to pick apart, and bound her to a status quo establishment many Americans had come to distrust.\n\nExpect the former vice-president's position against school bussing to end segregation in the 1970s, his chairmanship of the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991, and his support for the 2003 Iraq War and stringent anti-crime and bankruptcy bills to be spotlighted by the diverse and talented primary field opposing him.\n\nThen there's his advanced age, propensity for verbal stumbles, allegations of inappropriate physical contact and status as a two-time loser in past White House bids.\n\nThe former vice-president has a lot going for him. He also has a lot going against him. The durability of his campaign is one of the big questions hovering over the early days of the 2020 Democratic race. Those questions will soon be answered.\n\nWhat Trump has said: \"Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe. I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign.\"\n\nWho? The 2016 runner-up needs no introduction\n\nKey issues: Medicare-for-All universal healthcare coverage; raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans; upping the minimum wage\n\nOne policy: Completely eliminating $1.6tn in existing student debt - regardless of income, unlike his rival Elizabeth Warren - and making public colleges, universities and trade schools tuition-free by taxing Wall Street\n\nAnthony's take: After building a grassroots political movement that roiled the Democratic Party in 2016, Bernie Sanders is making another run at the prize.\n\nThis time, he won't be the rumpled underdog. He'll start the race near the front of the pack - with advantages in small-donor fundraising, name recognition and a 50-state organisation of loyalists.\n\nHis front-runner status will come with a price, however. Unlike 2016, when Hillary Clinton largely avoided confronting the Vermont senator for fear of alienating his supporters, his opponents will have no such reluctance this time.\n\nIn 2016, the self-proclaimed \"Democratic socialist\" staked out a progressive agenda in contrast with Ms Clinton's pragmatic centrism. Now, in part because of Mr Sanders' efforts, the party has moved left on issues like healthcare, education and income inequality. His message is no longer unique.\n\nThe 77-year-old senator will keep his devoted base, but will some former supporters opt for a fresh face? That could lead to conflict with those who believe a Bernie \"revolution\" is the only way forward, inflaming Democratic wounds not fully healed from the last campaign.\n\nIn a crowded field, Mr Sanders has a realistic shot - but it could be a bumpy ride.\n\nWhat has Trump said? \"Bernie is crazy, but Bernie has got a lot more energy than Biden, so you never know.\"\n\nWho? Another senator, this time from Massachusetts, a thorn in the side of big banks\n\nOne policy: Erasing college debt based on income level - households earning under $250,000 annually would receive varying levels of debt relief while those earning more would not - and making public college tuition-free, paid for by taxes on wealth\n\nAnthony's take: Elizabeth Warren has been a favourite of the progressive left since she emerged on the political scene to push for tougher regulation of the financial sector after the 2008 economic crash. During her time in the US Senate she became known for her hard-nosed interrogations of Wall Street executives and as an outspoken critic of income inequality.\n\nThat loyal base may be enough to rise to the top of a fractured Democratic presidential field.\n\nThe challenge for Warren will be expanding her appeal beyond the already converted. She's an academic by training, having spent much of her adult career as a professor. Her campaign, however, is already emphasising her working-class upbringing over her educational pedigree, as a means of connecting her personal story to the activist government policies she supports.\n\nWarren will face the challenge of having to define her candidacy while taking fire from Donald Trump, who has repeatedly disparaged her past claims of native American heritage. Although she hardly mentions the president in speeches these days, she'll have to convince Democrats she won't be only the latest politician the president has belittled - and then defeated.\n\nWhat has Trump said? \"I think Pocahontas, she's finished. She's out. She's gone. When it was found that I had more Indian blood in me than she did, and then it was determined I had none, but I still had more, that was the end of her 32-year scam.\"\n\nWho? Became a city mayor when still in his 20s and served in the Navy, first openly gay candidate\n\nOne policy: Buttigieg has proposed reshaping the Supreme Court to have five Democratic appointees, five Republican, and five selected by an agreement of the 10 appointed justices\n\nAnthony's take: Most stories published about Pete Buttigieg prominently mention that he is a Millennial - a member of the generation born between 1981 and 1996. That isn't by accident.\n\nThe South Bend, Indiana, mayor isn't the only Millennial in the 2020 race - Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is also 37 - but Mr Buttigieg is positioning himself as a voice for the young. As he notes, his generation came of age in the aftermath of 9/11, were the ones who fought in subsequent US wars and struggled to establish a financial foothold amidst the wreckage of the 2008 economic collapse.\n\nWhere their aging parents, the postwar Baby Boomers, may not be as concerned about long-term impact of US policies, Mr Buttigieg says Millennials will have to deal with the fallout from today's crises for decades.\n\nMr Buttigieg enters the race with a unique resume. He's an openly gay veteran of the Afghanistan War and a Rhode Scholar. As mid-western mayor, he's shown he has voter appeal in a region that helped deliver the presidency to Donald Trump.\n\nThe march of time ensures Millennials will run things someday. A Buttigieg presidency is a long shot for 2020, but his candidacy is a sign of things to come.\n\nWhat has Trump said? \"Alfred E Neuman [Mad magazine cartoon] cannot become president of the United States.\"\n\nWho? An entrepreneur, 44, born in New York to Taiwanese parents\n\nOne policy: Yang has proposed creating a new federal agency to oversee social media and tackle what he described as \"a huge surge in depression, anxiety and emotional issues\"\n\nAnthony's take: A technology entrepreneur who is proposing the US government pay a $1,000-a-month \"freedom dividend\" to all Americans between the ages of 18 and 64 as a form of universal basic income to cushion against fewer jobs due to increased automation.\n\nOne policy: A $100bn plan to tackle substance abuse and mental health - paid for in part by opioid manufacturers - by expanding state and local funding for mental health programmes\n\nAnthony's take: Amy Klobuchar may not be a household name, but the senator cruised to 2018 re-election in Midwestern-ish Minnesota. Another former prosecutor, she came off as coolly competent in the heated Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.\n\nWhat has Trump said? \"Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!\"\n\nWho? Born in American Samoa, aged 37, represents Hawaiian district in Congress\n\nOne policy: Gabbard's OFF Fuels for a Better Future Act would end subsidies and tax cuts for fossil fuels, ban fracking, require electric companies to use 80% renewable resources by 2027, as well as order zero car emissions by 2050\n\nAnthony's take: Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu member of the US Congress, is a difficult candidate to characterise.\n\nMost of the Hawaii congresswoman's views fit firmly in the Democratic Party's progressive camp. She was an early and outspoken supporter of Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign and has been an advocate of universal government-provided healthcare, raising the minimum wage and an anti-interventionist foreign policy.\n\nThe Iraq War veteran has drawn criticism, however, for meeting with Bashar al-Assad in January 2017 - after the Syrian president had been accused of repeatedly using poison gas on civilian populations. The daughter of a socially conservative politician and activist, Ms Gabbard may also draw the ire of Democratic voters for her past criticism of \"homosexual extremists\" and opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage.\n\nShe's also opposed the Iran nuclear deal and condemned \"Islamic extremism\" in language more reminiscent of a Republican candidate.\n\nIf Democrats are looking for a young, charismatic iconoclast - even if it means supporting someone whose views don't always match their own - then Ms Gabbard might have a shot. As Republicans will attest, stranger things have happened.\n\nWho? Colorado senator, the former head of Denver's public school system\n\nOne policy: Bennet is a co-sponsor of the American Family Act of 2019, which seeks to expand the child tax credit based on income level and pay it monthly rather than through tax refunds\n\nAnthony's take: Bennet styles himself as a moderate who has shown he can win elections in a battleground state - a pragmatist who can advance progressive priorities like healthcare, education and equitable economic growth through bipartisan consensus.\n\nAs the surge in support for South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has shown, it's not impossible for a little-known politician to break out onto the 2020 national stage. That may give Bennet some hope. He had his own viral moment when he sharply disparaged perennial Democratic villain Ted Cruz from the Senate floor earlier this year. Bennet will have his work cut out for him, however, just to stand out in a rapidly settling field and be one of the 20 Democrats who make the first Democratic primary debate stage in late June.\n\nWho? Billionaire former New York mayor\n\nAnthony's take: Mr Bloomberg is a very data-driven businessman. But it doesn't take an advanced degree in quantitative analysis to realise that the Democratic field, even at this (relatively) late date is still in flux.\n\nThere are four candidates at or near the top of early state and national primary polls - all with their strengths, of course, but also obvious weaknesses. His strategy appears to be to let the other candidates fight it out in the early voting states, then take on a diminished field later in the process, where his near unlimited resources will allow him to compete in the dozens of states that vote in March.\n\nIt's a risky play that only someone of Mr Bloomberg's vast wealth can afford to make.\n\nEven so, it takes quite a leap of faith to imagine that Democrats these days are ready to jump over to a New York City plutocrat ex-Republican with a smorgasbord of a record that's business friendly, fiscally conservative and includes opposition to government-run health insurance and legalised marijuana, and past support for aggressive policing measures.\n\nAt the very least, however, his entry will provide him a means to push a party that he sees drifting dangerous leftward back to the pro-business centre.\n\nWhat Trump has said? He taunted Mr Bloomberg just before he announced his presidential bid, saying there was \"nobody I'd rather run against than little Michael\".\n\nOne policy: Steyer's campaign launch video focused on \"pushing power down to the people\" and blaming corporations for most of the nation's \"intractable\" problems\n\nAnthony's take: Tom Steyer appeared to close the door on a presidential bid back in January, instead pledging to do whatever it takes to remove Donald Trump from office via the constitutionally outlined impeachment process.\n\nHe has changed his mind, which is the kind of luxury afforded a billionaire.\n\nIt's not exactly apparent what path someone like Mr Steyer, a hedge-fund tycoon who has a history of advocating for liberal causes, has to the Democratic nomination. With campaign budget limited only by his imagination, if there is even the smallest path he has the resources to bulldoze it clear.\n\nAt the very least, he could be a disrupter in the electoral process, free to challenge his opponents to take a more aggressive stand on impeaching the president and push them on environmental issues.\n\nHis largess has made political allies across the US, and his grass-roots impeachment organising efforts helped build a million-strong contact list of like-minded voters.\n\nWhat has Trump said? A few months before Steyer's announcement that he would run, Trump described him \"weirdo\".\n\nAnthony's take: Just when it appeared the Democratic presidential field was shrinking in earnest, it starts expanding again.\n\nFirst, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg began motioning toward a campaign. Now Deval Patrick has jumped in with both feet.\n\nThe former Massachusetts governor has a tall task ahead of him if he wants to seriously compete for his party's nomination. Unlike Mr Bloomberg, he does not have a seemingly bottomless personal fortune to draw on for campaign expenses. Fundraising is one of the most important components of a successful presidential bid, and Mr Patrick will start at zero with only a few months until the primaries begin.\n\nIt appears Mr Patrick will count on his personal charisma and a focus on early voting New Hampshire, which borders his home state, to jump-start his campaign. He is pitching himself as an optimistic mainstream Democrat who can unite the country after the divisive Trump presidency. And he's a charismatic African-American candidate who counts the Obamas as close friends.", "First-generation or second-generation technology? It may depend on where you live\n\nNearly a third of all energy companies fitting smart meters are still installing old technology.\n\nGovernment guidance says that since the middle of March 2019 customers should only have been given second generation smart meters.\n\nHowever, eight companies still installing first generation smart meters say the network is not reliable enough to switch customers on to.\n\nThey say this is particularly a problem in northern England and Scotland.\n\nThe auto-switching service Look After My Bills has discovered that Bristol Energy, British Gas, Ecotricity, EON and Octopus are still installing some first generation meters in the North, and Nabuh Energy, Simplicity and Utilita are only installing the first generation after encountering difficulties with the new system.\n\nThe second generation of meters is supposed to be able to connect remotely to a national network, which should make switching supplier possible, for the first time for many customers.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, the companies emphasised that the issues were industry-wide problems.\n\n\"We are not ignoring government guidance,\" said a spokesperson for Ecotricity. \"In fact it's clear that in documented instances where a SMETS2 meter cannot be used, or in areas where connection is not possible, we are encouraged to use SMETS1, or non-smart meters.\"\n\nTwo different contracts were given out by the government to install those networks. The Southern Communications Network is being run on pre-existing mobile technology, while the Northern Communications Network is being run via specialist radio signal.\n\nA number of the companies claim that problems with the signal in that Northern Communications Network mean that they cannot reliably connect customers to it. Therefore customers living in the South of England and Wales are much more likely to receive a second generation meter, than those living in the North of England and Scotland.\n\nOctopus energy said the priority was to ensure customers' needs were met.\n\n\"Where a second generation meter can be reliably installed and commissioned, we'll do that,\" the firm said. \"Otherwise we'll offer customers the choice between first generation or waiting until second generation is available.\"\n\nSome firms also highlighted problems with the connection in high-rise flats and for those on pre-payment meters.\n\nThe company responsible for the operation of the data networks across the UK, Smart DCC, said thousands of second generation meters were being installed in the North every day.\n\n\"DCC is supporting the energy industry as it rolls out second-generation smart meters across the country,\" it said. \"There are now more than two million operating on our smart, secure network,\" Smart DCC said.\n\nUtilita supplies energy almost exclusively to pre-payment customers. The firm said it is waiting for the result of a judicial review into government policy, as it says companies should not be compelled to install the new meters.\n\nUtilita believes the new system has significant connectivity problems and \"provides a vastly inferior service for pay-as-you-go customers, many of whom are vulnerable\".\n\nBristol Energy said any installations of SMETS1 meters since March have been because customers are on pre-payment meters.\n\n\"As part of our social purpose, we have a fair proportion of customers who are in this payment category,\" it said.\n\nBritish Gas agrees, adding there \"have been some industry-wide delays with the infrastructure for SMETS2 pre-payment meters which means we're not yet installing SMETS2 to all of these customers.\"\n\nSimplicity energy said it is waiting for the first generation meters to have an upgrade, rather than install the newer version, which it believes will happen shortly. The firm said: \"Our strategy is to complete our roll-out programme and run down our stocks of SMETS1 meters to avoid them becoming landfill.\"\n\nAny first-generation meters installed after 15 March 2019 do not count towards the companies' smart meter roll-out obligations, and the regulator, Ofgem, could take enforcement action against any company not meeting those obligations.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said \"the network for the North is fully operational, with thousands of second generation meters being installed every day.\n\n\"Smart meters provide a much better service for customers over traditional meters. This is particularly the case for pre-payment customers by cutting costs,\" it added.", "Police said no arrests have been made at this stage.\n\nA man has been killed in a double stabbing in north London that has left another man in hospital.\n\nThe attack took place in Camden High Street at about 23:15 BST on Thursday.\n\nA man, whose age has not been released, was found with a stab wound and given first aid but was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe Met Police said a second man, in his mid-20s, was also found suffering from a stab wound and was taken to hospital. No arrests have been made.\n\nCrime scenes were in place and the High Street closed to traffic\n\nAn eyewitness said the fatally injured victim was attacked by a gang before his killer ran off to the Tube station.\n\nHis family have not yet been informed of his death and the second man is said to be in a stable condition, a Met spokesman said, as he issued an appeal for witnesses.\n\nThe scene has been cordoned off and the High Street has been closed to traffic.\n\nA section 60 order, giving police additional stop and search powers, has been authorised for the London Borough of Camden until 14:30 on Friday.\n\nChief Supt Raj Kohli, from Camden Police, said: \"We are taking action across the borough to keep everyone safe.\"\n\nHe added: \"I understand that a number of people believed to be known to the victim were present after the attack.\n\n\"I would urge them to come forward and speak to investigators as soon as possible with what they know and saw.\"\n\nThe latest killing comes after a 24-year-old man was shot dead in nearby Kentish Town on Sunday night.\n\nLess than a mile away on the same day, a 22-year-old woman died after being stabbed in unconnected incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 60,000 music fans visit the Strawberry Field gates every year\n\nThe children's home that inspired The Beatles' famous song Strawberry Fields Forever is to open its gates as a tourist attraction and youth centre.\n\nMusic icon John Lennon \"found sanctuary\" in the gardens of the Strawberry Field home in Woolton, Liverpool as a young boy.\n\nThe grounds became a landmark for Beatles' fans after it was immortalised by the band in 1967.\n\nThe Salvation Army site will open on Saturday.\n\nJohn Lennon's sister Julia Baird said Strawberry Field was her brother's \"special place\"\n\nEvery year an estimated 60,000 tourists visit the outside of the Beaconsfield Road site, which was run by the charity from 1936 until 2005. It has been closed since then.\n\nLennon's sister Julia Baird, 72, said as a child the musician would clamber over the wall to get to \"his special place\".\n\n\"As children we all have somewhere that's a bit ours, a bit special,\" she said.\n\nThere will be an onsite exhibition of The Beatles' artefacts, including John Lennon's handwritten lyrics\n\nStrawberry Fields Forever was released as a double A-side single with Penny Lane in 1967\n\nSpeaking about the project, Ms Baird said: \"I think he would have loved it, because he himself was not mainstream and was very aware of it.\"\n\nThe centre will host an exhibition on Lennon's early life and will provide training for young people with learning disabilities.\n\nAnthony Cotterill, from the Salvation Army, said: \"John Lennon found sanctuary here as a child and that's exactly what we want to offer by opening the Strawberry Field gates for good.\"\n\nJohn Lennon's sister said the musician \"would have loved\" the young people's training facility", "Zakari William Bennett-Eko died after being pulled out of the River Irwell in Radcliffe\n\nA father has been charged with the murder of his 11-month-old son, who died after being pulled out of a river in Greater Manchester.\n\nZakari William Bennett-Eko died in hospital after rescuers were called to the River Irwell in Radcliffe, Bury, on Wednesday.\n\nZak Eko, 22, has been charged with murder and remanded in custody, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nHe will appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nPolice believe a \"significant number of witnesses\" were in the area around Blackburn Street at about 16:25 BST.\n\nThe force urged them to come forward, particularly if they had photos or videos.\n\nMourners have lined a bridge over the river with flowers\n\nTributes have been left on a bridge across the river, while Zakari's \"devastated\" relatives have paid tribute to him.\n\nIn an emotional Facebook post, his mother described her son as her \"whole world and so much more\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family of a teenager who died of a severe food allergy are calling for better food labelling in restaurants.\n\nOwen Carey, from Crowborough, was celebrating his 18th birthday at a branch of Byron Burgers in London, when he had a reaction to buttermilk.\n\nFollowing an inquest into his death, his family are calling for Owen's Law to be introduced.", "Liz Bilney (left) had been referred to the police by the Electoral Commission\n\nCampaign group Leave.EU will face no further criminal investigation over its spending during the Brexit referendum.\n\nIt was referred to the Metropolitan Police after being fined £70,000 by the Electoral Commission in May last year for election law breaches.\n\nBut the Met said there was \"insufficient evidence\" to justify any further criminal investigation.\n\nLeave.EU founder Arron Banks called for an inquiry to be launched into the commission's actions.\n\nHe said it had \"serious questions to answer about political bias and whether it is fit for purpose as a regulator\".\n\nMr Banks added that the probe had taken a \"huge personal toll\" on Leave.EU chief executive Liz Bilney and her family, and accused \"anti-Brexit\" MPs of \"harassment and lies\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency's investigation into the organisation is still ongoing, with a spokesman saying they will report its outcome \"at the earliest opportunity, once all matters have been thoroughly investigated\".\n\nScotland Yard said that - even though there had been \"technical breaches\" of electoral law by Leave.EU - it had taken the decision to drop its investigation after consulting the Crown Prosecution Service in early August.\n\nCommander Alex Murray said: \"Following detailed enquiries it became apparent that the nature of potential breaches of the regulations, the criminal standard of proof required in court and the actions taken by Leave.EU to adhere to the regulations, mean that it is now appropriate to take no further action.\"\n\nIn a May 2018 report, the Electoral Commission said Leave.EU had exceeded the spending limit for \"non-party registered campaigners\" by at least 10% by failing to include at least £77,380 in its spending return.\n\nIt also referred Ms Bilney to the police following its investigation.\n\nAn Electoral Commission spokesperson said: \"We believed there were reasonable grounds to suspect that Ms Bilney had committed the offence of knowingly or recklessly making a false declaration about the Leave.EU spending return.\n\n\"This warranted thorough investigation and we therefore notified the police.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"As the Metropolitan Police note, this does not alter the findings of the commission's investigation from May last year, which found Ms Bilney to have committed four offences, including of submitting an inaccurate spending return and of exceeding the spending limit.\n\n\"Leave.EU appealed these findings, but the commission's position was upheld in court.\"\n• None Met police still looking at Leave campaigns", "Coventry will get £2m to restore buildings that survived World War Two\n\nHistoric English shopping centres will benefit from a £95m regeneration fund, the government has said.\n\nIn all, 69 towns and cities will receive money, with projects aimed at turning disused buildings into shops, houses and community centres.\n\nThe largest share of money, £21.1m, will go to the Midlands, with £2m going to restore buildings in Coventry that survived World War Two bombing.\n\nThe government said the move would \"breathe new life\" into High Streets.\n\nThe government's Future High Street Fund is providing £52m of the money, while £40m will come from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). A further £3m is being provided by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.\n\nTowns and cities had to bid for the £95m funding, which was first announced in May.\n\nThe announcement comes after figures showed that about 16 shops a day closed in the first half of the year as retailers restructure their businesses and more shopping moves online.\n\nLisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at PwC which was behind the research, said retailers had to invest more in making stores \"relevant to today's consumers\", but added that \"new and different types of operators\" needed encouragement to fill vacant space.\n\nThe government said the money would \"support wider regeneration\" in the 69 successful areas by attracting future commercial investment.\n\n\"Our nation's heritage is one of our great calling cards to the world, attracting millions of visitors to beautiful historic buildings that sit at the heart of our communities,\" said Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan.\n\n\"It is right that we ensure these buildings are preserved for future generations but it is important that we make them work for the modern world.\"\n\nOther major projects include a £2m drive to restore historic shop-fronts in London's Tottenham area, which suffered extensive damage in the 2011 riots.\n\nBy region, the funding breaks down as follows:\n\nYou can read a full list of the towns and cities that will benefit here.\n\n\"Increasing competition from online outlets is putting High Streets across the country under growing pressure,\" said the DCMS.\n\n\"As part of the government's drive to help High Streets adapt to changing consumer habits, the £95m funding will provide a welcome boost.\"\n\nResponding to the move, shadow culture secretary Tom Watson said High Streets had been \"decimated\" by \"a decade of Tory austerity\".\n\nHe added: \"This funding pales in comparison to the £1bn Cultural Capital fund that Labour is committed to, which will boost investment in culture, arts and heritage right across the country, not just a few lucky areas.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Painted lady butterflies have been seen across the country\n\nA once-in-a-decade mass emergence of painted lady butterflies saw nearly half a million recorded across the UK.\n\nResults from the Big Butterfly Count, which took place over three weeks this summer, showed 30 times more painted ladies arrived in the UK than in 2018.\n\nThe last big influx of migratory butterfly took place in 2009, when 11 million painted ladies were seen.\n\nThe count also found other common species had a good summer, helped by fine weather.\n\nPeacock butterflies were among those species to see a sharp rise in numbers\n\nPeacock butterflies had their best summer since 2014, with a 235% increase in numbers sighted compared with last year, while the marbled white saw a 264% increase.\n\nRed admirals were up 138%, gatekeepers up 95%, and there was a 64% rise in sightings of the six-spot burnet moth, one of two day-flying moths counted in the survey.\n\nAnd the struggling small tortoiseshell had its best result since 2014, with around 70,000 spotted during this summer's count.\n\nDr Zoe Randle, a surveys officer at Butterfly Conservation, said the high numbers were significant because butterflies are \"vital food\" for other wildlife, including birds, hedgehogs and dragonflies.\n\nShe added that the \"clouds of painted ladies\" that were seen this summer - 500,000 in just three weeks - were \"fantastic news\".\n\nThe painted lady was the most spotted butterfly across the UK\n\nExperts are still worried about the butterfly and have suggested climate change could be having an impact on its fortunes.\n\nButterfly Conservation's Richard Fox said: \"Last year the small tortoiseshell experienced its worst summer in the history of the Big Butterfly Count, so to see its numbers jump up by 167% this year is a big relief.\"\n\nHe added that the results showed the species performed far better in Scotland and Northern Ireland than in England and Wales.\n\nThe marbled white saw a 264% surge this summer\n\n\"We're still trying to establish what is behind the long-term decline of the small tortoiseshell and, while it is good news that the butterfly fared better this summer, the poor results in southern England in particular suggest that climate change may be having more of an impact on this species than we have previously realised.\"\n\nMr Fox added: \"The painted lady obviously stole the show this summer, taking the top spot in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but 2019 has also been the most successful Big Butterfly Count in its 10-year history, with more people taking part and more counts being submitted than ever before.\"", "A big swastika was daubed inside a chapel at the cemetery\n\nVandals have spray-painted graffiti including a big swastika at a British and Commonwealth World War Two cemetery in the Netherlands.\n\nRandom letters were daubed on many headstones at the Mierlo cemetery, near Eindhoven in the southern Netherlands.\n\nThe Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) said it was \"appalled\", just days after previous damage to the site.\n\nLater this month Prince Charles will attend a Dutch commemoration of the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.\n\nIt will be part of the 75th anniversary of the Allies' liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.\n\nThe Mierlo cemetery is the final resting place of 664 British and Commonwealth soldiers and one Dutch soldier.\n\nThe graffiti included \"MH17 lie\" - a provocative reference to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, which killed 298 people, of whom 193 were Dutch.\n\nInternational investigators concluded that the jet was hit by a Russian-made Buk missile, fired from an area held by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nCondemning the vandals, the CWGC said \"it is distressing to see the damage on the headstones themselves, behind every one of those war graves is a human story of someone who gave their life while in service\".\n\nA regional Dutch news service, Omroep Brabant, gave voice to local Dutch shock and outrage at the vandalism.\n\nOne of its reporters said \"it's not just a bit of daubing here, no, they've daubed everywhere\".\n\n\"There's a letter daubed on nearly every headstone. Unbelievable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Allies' massive parachute drop at Arnhem in 1944\n\nA woman was shocked and tearful, saying her parents had been helping to look after the Mierlo cemetery for years.\n\n\"My heart is crying. Here are 17- and 18-year-old boys buried, who liberated us.\"\n\nDutch police have tweeted an appeal to the public for any information that could lead to the perpetrators.", "A 12-year-old boy has been charged over an alleged sexual assault at a high school in Glasgow.\n\nBBC Scotland understands the complainer is a teacher at the school and the boy was reported to police on 29 August.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"A report has been sent to the Children's Reporter.\"\n\nA spokesman for Glasgow City Council added: \"As this is a police investigation it would be inappropriate to comment further.\"", "Boris Johnson has confirmed the government will introduce a new bill aimed tackling the \"horrific crime\" of domestic abuse when Parliament returns.\n\nPrevious legislation, forcing councils to provide shelter for victims, was dropped after the prime minister suspended proceedings at Westminster.\n\nSeveral charities wrote to him, asking for a \"clear\" pledge to reintroduce it in the Queen's Speech on 14 October.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"fully committed\" to such a move.\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 Domestic Abuse Bill, introduced with cross-party support by Theresa May's government in July, would place a legal duty on councils to offer secure homes for those fleeing violence, and their children.\n\nApplying to England and Wales, it proposed the first government definition of domestic abuse, including financial abuse and controlling and manipulative non-physical behaviour.\n\nThe government confirmed in July that it would also be extended to Northern Ireland, which has been without a devolved administration since January 2017.\n\nWhen the bill was introduced in July, then Victims Minister Victoria Atkins said it addressed \"an injustice that has long needed to be tackled\".\n\nIt is estimated that almost two million adults in England and Wales are victims of domestic abuse every year.\n\nLocal authority spending on refuges for victims fell from £31m in 2010 to £23m in 2017.\n\nCharities say there is a severe lack of services in many areas, and victims are being turned away when they seek help because refuges with diminished budgets cannot cope with demand.\n\nWomen's Aid said victims' services were operating \"on a shoestring\".\n\nThe suspension - prorogation - of Parliament means all bills currently passing through the Commons and Lords are lost, unless the government decides to carry them over to the next session. The Domestic Abuse Bill was one of those lost when Parliament closed in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nLost bills can be reintroduced in the Queen's Speech, setting out the government's agenda, but all progress made so far in Parliament is undone.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he did not lie to the Queen\n\nBoris Johnson has denied lying to the Queen over the advice he gave her over the five-week suspension of Parliament.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking after Scotland's highest civil court ruled on Wednesday the shutdown was unlawful.\n\nAsked whether he had lied to the monarch about his reasons for the suspension, he replied: \"Absolutely not.\"\n\nHe added: \"The High Court in England plainly agrees with us, but the Supreme Court will have to decide.\"\n\nThe power to suspend - or prorogue - Parliament lies with the Queen, who conventionally acts on the advice of the prime minister.\n\nThe current five-week suspension began in the early hours of Tuesday, and MPs are not scheduled to return until 14 October.\n\nLabour has said it is \"more important than ever\" that Parliament is recalled after the government published the Yellowhammer document, an assessment of a reasonable worst-case scenario in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMeanwhile, the EU has said it is willing to revisit the proposal of a Northern Ireland-only backstop to break the Brexit deadlock, despite Mr Johnson ruling this out.\n\nThe President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, said there would be no agreement without a backstop - which aims to avoid a hard Irish border after Brexit - in some form.\n\nBut the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier told MEPs that the \"situation in the UK remains serious and uncertain\", saying: \"We do not have reasons to be optimistic\".\n\nHe also warned the UK could still leave without a deal, despite Parliament introducing a law to avoid the scenario.\n\nThe Yellowhammer document - published on Wednesday after MPs forced its release - warned of food and fuel shortages in a no-deal scenario.\n\nBut Mr Johnson insisted the UK \"will be ready\" to leave the EU by the current 31 October deadline without an agreement \"if we have to\".\n\n\"What you're looking at here is just the sensible preparations - the worst-case scenario - that you'd expect any government to do,\" he said.\n\n\"In reality we will certainly be ready for a no-deal Brexit if we have to do it and I stress again that's not where we intend to end up.\"\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was \"angry\" that MPs would not be able to debate the planning document during the suspension.\n\nIf you had a usual prime minister who'd been accused overnight of misleading MPs, of breaking the law, having been forced to publish a government report warning of riots and food shortages and telling porkies to the Queen; you would imagine they would emerge a broken, humbled, crushed individual.\n\nNot so Boris Johnson. He emerged characteristically brimming with optimism and confidence.\n\nNo deal? He insisted he had got in place the necessary preparations to avoid the sort of dire scenarios forecast.\n\nAn agreement with the EU? Yes he was hopeful of getting an agreement.\n\nAnd telling lies to the Queen? Absolutely not.\n\nBut the difficulty is optimism and confidence only get you so far. MPs want details. They want details about what he's actually doing to avoid the grim no-deal forecast and what he's doing to get an arrangement with the EU\n\nAnd they want details - or the truth - about why he chose to prorogue Parliament.\n\nWhich means if the judges decide on Tuesday that Parliament should be recalled then I suspect Boris Johnson's going to need an awful lot more than bullish bravado.\n\nIn a unanimous ruling on Wednesday, the Court of Session in Edinburgh said Mr Johnson's decision to order the suspension was motivated by the \"improper purpose of stymieing Parliament\".\n\nIt came after a legal challenge launched by more than 70 largely pro-Remain MPs and peers, headed by SNP MP Joanna Cherry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The court ruled the prorogation was unlawful due to the PM's advice\n\nBut a ruling last week from the High Court in London had dismissed a similar challenge brought by businesswoman and campaigner Gina Miller.\n\nIn their rejection of her claim, the judges argued the suspension of Parliament was a \"purely political\" move and was therefore \"not a matter for the courts\".\n\nMr Johnson has suggested it was \"nonsense\" to suggest the move was an attempt to undermine democracy, insisting it is normal practice for a new PM.\n\nProrogation normally takes place every year, but the length and timing of the current suspension - in the run-up to Brexit - has attracted controversy.\n\nOpposition parties have accused the prime minister of ordering it to prevent criticism of its Brexit strategy and contingency plans for a no-deal exit.\n\nThey backed a move to order the release of communications between No 10 aides about the decision to order the suspension.\n\nBut the government has blocked their release, saying the request to see e-mails, texts and WhatsApp messages from Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's chief aide, and eight other advisers in Downing Street was \"unreasonable and disproportionate\".\n\nQueues at ports are among the no-deal consequences explored by the government\n\nThe Yellowhammer file, which is redacted in parts and almost identical to a version leaked to the Sunday Times last month, says in a reasonable worst-case scenario a no-deal Brexit could lead to:\n\nThe document also says some businesses could cease trading, and the black market could grow in response to disruption along the UK's border with Ireland.\n\n\"This will be particularly severe in border communities, where both criminal and dissident groups already operate with greater threat and impunity,\" it added.\n\nIt also raised the prospect of \"protests and direct action\" in Northern Ireland as a result of disruption to key sectors.\n\nMichael Gove, the cabinet minister with responsibility for no-deal planning, told the BBC the government had taken \"considerable steps\" to ensure the safest possible departure after a no-deal Brexit in the six weeks since 2 August, the date which appears on the document.\n\nOn Wednesday, he said \"revised assumptions\" will be published \"in due course alongside a document outlining the mitigations the government has put in place and intends to put in place\".", "Boris Johnson has said he \"won't be deterred by anybody\" from leaving the EU on 31 October.\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"cautiously optimistic\" of getting a Brexit deal, but the UK would leave by the deadline \"whatever happens\".\n\nEU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said he did not have \"reasons to be optimistic\" over getting a deal.\n\nMr Johnson will meet him and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday for talks.\n\nDuring the PM's speech, at the Convention of the North in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, he was heckled by an audience member who told him to \"get back to Parliament\" and \"sort out the mess that you have created\".\n\nEarlier this week Parliament passed a law forcing Mr Johnson to ask for an extension to Brexit.\n\nHe will have to write to the EU on 19 October to ask for an extra three months, unless he returns with a deal - then approved by MPs - or gets the Commons to back a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut despite the new law, Mr Johnson said he would rather be \"dead in a ditch\" than ask for an extension.\n\nThe Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow, vowed to act with \"creativity\" if Mr Johnson ignored the law, saying it would be a \"terrible example to set to the rest of society\".\n\nMPs managed to pass the law before Parliament was suspended - or prorogued - in the early hours of Tuesday morning until 14 October.\n\nMr Johnson said the government had made the move so it could hold a Queen's Speech and put forward its new domestic policy agenda.\n\nBut opposition MPs claim it was to stop scrutiny in Parliament of his Brexit plans.\n\nEarlier this week, a Scottish court ruled the prorogation was unlawful as it was motivated by an \"improper purpose of stymieing Parliament\".\n\nThe government is appealing against the decision and a ruling will be made by the Supreme Court in London on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnswering questions after his speech, Mr Johnson said: \"We are working incredibly hard to get a deal. There is the rough shape of the deal to be done.\n\n\"I have been to talk to various other EU leaders, particularly in Germany, in France and in Ireland, where we made a good deal of progress.\n\n\"I'm seeing [Mr Juncker and Mr Barnier] on Monday and we will talk about the ideas that we've been working on and we will see where we get.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.\"\n\nMPs are still demanding Parliament be recalled to scrutinise a number of Brexit-related issues, including the release of so-called \"Yellowhammer\" papers - a government assessment of a reasonable worst-case scenario in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said that \"whatever the shenanigans that may be going on at Westminster\", the government would \"get on with delivering our agenda and preparing to take this country out of the EU on 31 October\".\n\nHe added that there would still be \"ample time\" for MPs to scrutinise any deal reached with the EU, adding that he \"very much hoped\" to agree one at the EU summit on 17 and 18 October.\n\nThe Times newspaper reported that a Brexit deal could be on the horizon as the Northern Irish Democratic Unionists (DUP) - the party which has a confidence and supply deal with the Conservatives - had reportedly agreed to \"shift its red lines\" over the backstop.\n\nThe backstop is the policy in the existing withdrawal agreement - negotiated between former Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU - aimed at preventing a hard border returning to the island of Ireland, but it has proved controversial with a number of pro-Brexit MPs.\n\nHowever, the reports were rejected by the DUP's leader Arlene Foster, who tweeted: \"Anonymous sources lead to nonsense stories.\"\n\nA UK spokesman in Brussels revealed the negotiating team had \"presented some ideas\" on an all-island Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary solution - essentially keeping Northern Ireland aligned with EU regulations on animal and food health.\n\nBut the DUP has said it would not support any arrangement that could see Northern Ireland treated differently than the rest of the UK after Brexit.", "The government has released an assessment of the possible effects of a no-deal Brexit on the UK, after MPs demanded that it be made public.\n\nThe document, marked as \"Official Sensitive\" and dated 2 August 2019, outlines a series of \"reasonable worst-case planning assumptions\".\n\nIt was drawn up as part of \"Operation Yellowhammer\" - the name for the government's contingency plan to prepare for leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal.\n\nThe government says it is spending an extra £2.1bn on no-deal planning and is updating these planning assumptions.\n\nSo, what does the document say and what is being done - as far as we know - to prepare for no-deal?\n\nTo ensure more lorries are ready for customs, the government announced last month that 88,000 companies would be automatically enrolled in a new customs system.\n\nThe Port of Dover in Kent handles approximately 10,500 lorries a day. To prevent nearby roads from clogging up, the government has a traffic management plan codenamed Operation Brock.\n\nIf the plan is activated, up to 2,000 lorries will be held in a queue leading to the port. Other traffic will be kept flowing around the queued-up lorries, in what is known as a contraflow system.\n\nA fallback option would be to divert lorries to the disused Manston airfield, near Ramsgate - and use it to hold up to 6,000 lorries on the runway at any one time.\n\nIf further capacity was still required, a \"last resort\" would be to turn the 10-mile M26 motorway into a temporary lorry park.\n\nBut there is a still a lot of confusion, according to Rona Hunnisett, from the Freight Transport Association.\n\n\"The report shows there's still significant detail to be clarified if Britain is to keep trading efficiently,\" she says. \"Businesses can only prepare for, and implement, new processes once, and still need confirmation of what they are to adopt in the way of new practices.\"\n\nThe government has said that it will continue to recognise EU standards for food being imported into the UK, to minimise disruption.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said retailers are doing all they can to prepare for no-deal, but will not be able to prevent all negative effects. It stresses that many fresh fruits and vegetables will be out of season in the UK and that there will be a shortage of warehouse space ahead of Christmas.\n\n\"No deal Brexit would be extremely disruptive to the supply chains that we operate, particularly the fresh food supply chains,\" Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's told BBC News.\n\n\"There will inevitably be disruption simply because we've never done this before,\" he added, although he also said that previous delays to the Brexit date mean \"there's probably more understanding of what could go wrong and therefore more contingency planning\".\n\nAnother factor is what tariffs (the taxes on imports) will be charged on food coming into the UK.\n\nThe government published a \"tariff schedule\" in March, which removed most tariffs on imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThat means some food from outside the EU that currently attract a tariff could be cheaper, but some goods from the EU that are currently imported with 0% tariffs, like beef and dairy, will now carry tariffs, and so could become more expensive.\n\nAt the end of June, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) started putting out contracts for freight, warehouse space and fridges. These will be used to stockpile medicines and fly in those which cannot be stored, like radioisotopes for cancer treatment.\n\nOf the £2.1bn pledged for no-deal preparations, £434m has been set aside for this.\n\nThat includes a £25m contract for planes to bring in emergency medical supplies within 24 hours.\n\nAhead of the UK's original departure date of 29 March - then extended to 12 April - the DHSC said thousands of medicines had been analysed to work out what might be affected by supply disruption from the EU.\n\nSuppliers stockpiled an additional six weeks' worth of these drugs over and above the usual \"buffer\" stock.\n\nThis exercise is being repeated to ensure the department is \"as prepared for leaving the EU without a deal in October as it was on 29 March and 12 April\".\n\nSpecific ferry routes were made available for suppliers to book onto 11 weeks before the no-deal deadline in March.\n\nSix weeks before the 31 October deadline, the government had only just opened the bidding process to freight firms competing to transport medicines. So the pharmaceutical industry doesn't currently know which ports and ferry routes will be made available.\n\nSteve Bates, an industry official working with government on no-deal planning, said the time frame to make sure everything was in place for the October deadline was \"significantly compressed\".\n\nHe said the difference for drug suppliers between three months and potentially three weeks to put plans into action was \"material\".\n\nOn social care, the government website advises providers to draw up contingency plans and support EU staff who may be working for them.\n\nPlans are in place to ensure there are enough essential medicines like insulin\n\nIn the event of no-deal, the UK has said it will not impose tariffs on electricity and gas coming into the country.\n\nHowever, if the value of the pound falls in response to a no-deal Brexit, it will become more expensive to import energy from abroad.\n\nThe government intends to remain part of the single energy market, in order for the UK's energy laws to continue to work after Brexit and that supplies are not disrupted.\n\nWater is unlikely to be affected, although there is still a low risk in the event of a chemical supply problem. The Yellowhammer report says water companies are well-prepared and have significant stockpiles of critical chemicals.\n\nThe UK government has said it is committed not to have any physical infrastructure at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn 13 March it published its contingency plan to avoid a hard border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It said it would not bring in new checks or controls, or require customs declarations for any goods moving from Ireland to Northern Ireland, in the event of no-deal.\n\nBut this will only be a temporary measure while negotiations take place to find longer-term solutions.\n\nTo protect people's health, some plant and animal products that come into Northern Ireland from outside the EU, via Ireland, will still need to be checked. The UK government has said these checks will not happen at the border itself, but it has not specified exactly where they will take place.\n\nIt remains unclear what will happen to goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Ireland. Under EU rules, checks would normally be required at the point certain goods enter the EU single market.\n\nThe Irish government says it is securing additional space, and has recruited more customs and agriculture staff to allow for a \"significant increase in checks and procedures\".\n\nThe National Police Coordination Centre will plan the allocation of officers across the country although it has said there has been no intelligence to suggest that any protests will not be peaceful.\n\nThe government has also established the International Crime and Coordination Centre, which is supposed to help the police cope with the change to the UK's relationship with law enforcement agencies in the EU.", "An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that could come from outside our Solar System.\n\nIf so, it would be the second interstellar object after the elongated body known as 'Oumuamua was identified in 2017.\n\nThe Minor Planet Center (MPC) at Harvard University has issued a formal announcement of the discovery.\n\nThe body appears to have a \"hyperbolic\" orbit, which would appear to indicate its origin in another planetary system.\n\nA hyperbolic orbit is an eccentric one, where the shape deviates substantially from that of a perfect circle.\n\nA perfect circle has an eccentricity of 0. The elliptical orbits of many planets, asteroids and comets have eccentricities between 0 and 1.\n\nThe newly discovered object - initially given the designation gb00234, but now known as Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) - has an eccentricity of 3.2, based on current observations.\n\nIt was noticed by the amateur stargazer Gennady Borisov on 30 August at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Bakhchysarai. At the time, it was about three astronomical units (about 450 million km) from the Sun.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Dunn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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'Oumuamua, discovered on 19 October 2017, was initially classified as a comet, based on its hyperbolic trajectory. But further observations detected no sign of a coma - the fuzzy envelope around the nucleus of a comet. C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), on the other hand, is clearly an active comet, with a visible coma and tail.\n\nUnlike the small, faint 'Oumuamua, the new object seems to be very large - around 20km wide - and bright.\n\nIn addition, 'Oumuamua was also spotted after its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion), so it wasn't visible long enough for astronomers to answer the many questions they had. C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), meanwhile, is still approaching our Solar System and shouldn't reach perihelion until 10 December.\n\nThe Minor Planet Center announcement called on astronomers to make follow-up observations. According to the MPC, \"absent an unexpected fading or disintegration, [C/2019 Q4] should be observable for at least a year\".\n\nThis would give observers an exciting opportunity to characterise the properties of an object that could have originated around a distant star.\n\nAstrophysicist Karl Battams, from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, tweeted: \"Unlike 'Oumuamua, whose asteroid-or-comet nature still gets debated, this one is definitely a comet.\n\n\"If it is unequivocally interstellar, it'll be fascinating to see how its composition (spectral properties) compares to the variety we see in comets from our own Solar System.\"\n\nAstrophysicist Simon Porter, from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, who has been tracking the object, added on Twitter: \"With such a bright coma, we should be able to get beautiful spectra of Q4 and hopefully measure isotopic ratios.\"\n\nIsotopes are different forms of the same chemical element. He added that these ratios could be different from those of \"domestic\" comets.", "Using those steps at home to good effect\n\nUsing \"time outs\" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests.\n\nDespite criticism of the \"naughty step\" strategy, children's anxiety did not increase and neither did their aggressive behaviour, the eight-year study of families found.\n\nBut a UK psychologist said the key was how the technique was used.\n\nAnd not all children responded to authoritarian forms of discipline.\n\nThe study, by the University of Michigan, tracked almost 1,400 families and their parenting strategies at three, five and 10 years old.\n\nThe researchers measured children's positivity and negativity to parents, and their mental health and social skills - using games, observations and video-taped interactions.\n\nAt three years old, a third of the parents gave the child \"time out\" or told them to sit quietly in the corner.\n\nAssuming parents continued to use this strategy, the research found no differences in the children's levels of anxiety and depression, self-control or rule-breaking, compared with the group of parents who did not use the \"time out\" technique.\n\nIn contrast, when parents said they had used physical punishment, the children became more aggressive.\n\nAnd, among parents who said they had been depressed, the children were more likely to have symptoms of anxiety and depression, as well as more aggressive behaviour.\n\nBut because the study is observational, it cannot prove that \"time out on the naughty step\" was directly responsible for the children's subsequent behaviour over time.\n\nDr Rachel Knight, study author and paediatric psychologist at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, said parents often questioned whether they were doing the right thing for their children.\n\n\"Unfortunately the first place many parents go for advice is the internet, social media or friends - not a medical provider.\n\n\"There is a lot of conflicting information on the web that isn't vetted or accurate.\"\n\nShe added: \"There's a wealth of research on how effective 'time outs' can be in reducing problematic behaviour, when they are used appropriately.\n\n\"It's a parenting strategy that's often misunderstood and misused.\"\n\nDr Knight said the key to using \"time outs\" were:\n\nDr Helen Barrett, a retired developmental psychologist, said a consistent message was important when disciplining children.\n\n\"Although there are parents who do use the 'naughty step', we have moved away from the idea that kids need to be punished.\n\n\"It always depends on the children - some find it humiliating.\n\n\"And it depends who you're doing it in front of. That can be more devastating,\" she said.\n\nDr Barrett said there were alternatives, for example children being sent to their rooms or asked to sit still.\n\nShe said the most effective parenting was being \"warm and authoritative, not authoritarian.\"\n\nThe NHS offers some tips and advice on dealing with behaviour problems in children.", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nAttendance records for the Women's Super League are set to be smashed as England's top clubs return to league action for the first time since the World Cup.\n\nMatches at Etihad Stadium, Stamford Bridge and Ashton Gate will headline the opening weekend, as the women's game bids to build momentum after the interest in this summer's tournament in France.\n\nMore than 20,000 tickets have been sold for Manchester City and newly promoted Manchester United's first WSL meeting, played at City men's home on Saturday [15:00 BST].\n\nThe existing record crowd for a WSL fixture is the 5,265 that saw Arsenal clinch last season's title at Brighton's Amex Stadium in April.\n\nHowever, on Sunday, a near-capacity crowd is anticipated at Premier League side Chelsea's 41,000-seater Stamford Bridge stadium, where the Blues host WSL newcomers Tottenham at 12:30, in a game live on BBC television.\n\nBristol City are also playing at their male affiliates' usual home ground on Saturday, when they face former England boss Hope Powell's Brighton side.\n• None Who will win the Women's Super League?\n\nClubs 'must not miss crucial window to push on'\n\nIn July, an audience of 11.7 million watched England's World Cup semi-final loss to the United States, while a record-breaking 28.1 million people watched BBC coverage of the tournament on television and online.\n\nFollowing that interest, the Football Association - which runs the WSL - has targeted September's men's international break in a bid to maximise interest in Saturday and Sunday's opening games of the top-flight season in England.\n\n\"It's a crucial time. If we step back now and don't push on, we'll lose that window to really push forward in the women's game and get the attraction,\" said Chelsea and England defender Millie Bright.\n\n\"Off the back of the World Cup, now is the time to keep people invested in the game - not just at national level, but at club level - and keep people coming and watching.\n\n\"It's about getting people to come to the games, actually experience it, see how good the football is and see that it is a different game to the men's.\n\n\"You could end up falling in love with the women's game.\"\n\nArsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea finished were the top three in last season's table. In an 11-team division, overall league attendances averaged less than 1,000.\n• None Try our WSL quiz: Guess the player\n• None WSL referees will be analysed for the first time\n• None England and Arsenal star Nobbs says injury heartache now in the past\n\nMan Utd and Spurs arrive at the top table\n\nThis season there are 12 teams in the top flight. Manchester United and Tottenham were promoted from the Championship, while Yeovil Town were relegated to the second tier.\n\nThat makes the division the largest it has been so far in the era of the WSL, which began in 2011 after a breakaway from the previous structure.\n\nUnited, managed by Casey Stoney, are competing in only their second season since reforming their senior women's side in 2018, after a 13-year absence.\n\nThe two promoted clubs' arrivals takes the number of WSL clubs affiliated to a men's Premier League side to nine, with three - Birmingham City, Bristol City and Reading - linked to Championship teams.\n\nThe 2019-20 season is also the first with the WSL sponsored by Barclays, after its investment in excess of £10m was agreed in March.\n\nWho are the biggest new signings?\n\nSome star names have left British shores this summer, with England winger Nikita Parris and left-back Alex Greenwood both signing for French giants Lyon from Manchester City and United respectively.\n\nNevertheless, WSL clubs have attracted several international stars to the league during the transfer window, which closed on Thursday.\n\nThe Netherlands' Jackie Groenen is among the Red Devils' new players, as well as Scotland striker Jane Ross and Lionesses goalkeeper Mary Earps.\n\nDefending champions Arsenal have added further international experience with Germany defender Leonie Maier, as well as signing Manchester City's Scotland centre-back Jen Beattie.\n\nEverton also had a busy window, bringing in France's Maeva Clemaron as well as Lucy Graham, Bristol City's top scorer last season.\n\nEllen White, England's star striker at the World Cup, moved from Birmingham City to Manchester City, but a knee injury means she will miss the start of the new campaign.\n• None A full list of this summer's WSL ins and outs can be found in our club-by-club guide\n• None How to follow the WSL across BBC Sport\n\nThis season, BBC Sport will continue to show one live game from every round of WSL matches, starting with Chelsea and Tottenham's meeting at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.\n\nThat match will be live on the BBC iPlayer, the Red Button and online, and then highlights of each round will follow with the Women's Football Show on Sunday nights.\n\nHighlights from every WSL match will then also be available on the BBC Sport website and app, plus the BBC will deliver selected live radio and text commentaries throughout the season.\n\nSunday's Women's Football Show will be available to watch at the earlier time of 19:00 on BBC Four and the BBC iPlayer initially, followed by a second broadcast live on BBC One, usually immediately after Match of the Day 2.\n\nThe BBC's TV coverage of the Lionesses also continues, with the home friendlies against Brazil on Saturday, 5 October and Germany on Saturday, 9 November both live on BBC One.\n• None Click here for a full list of September's WSL fixtures\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Former Labour MP Angela Smith has joined the Liberal Democrats, calling them \"the strongest party to stop Brexit\".\n\nShe said: \"We are facing a national crisis and people deserve better than the choice of the old two parties.\"\n\nMs Smith is the third MP to join the Lib Dems in a week, after Luciana Berger and Philip Lee defected.\n\nShe quit Labour in February to form the Change UK party with six other MPs.\n\nThe decision by Ms Smith, who is MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, brings the total number of Lib Dem MPs to 17, with Mr Lee dramatically crossing the floor from the Conservatives on 3 September.\n\nMs Smith's former Labour and Change UK colleague Ms Berger joined the Lib Dems days later.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said Ms Smith made a \"brave decision\" to leave Labour earlier this year over \"the mishandling of anti-Semitism claims and Jeremy Corbyn's stance on Brexit\".\n\nShe said: \"We welcome Angela's commitment to stopping Brexit, and to building a fairer, more liberal society.\"\n\nMs Smith said she intended to fight against Brexit and campaign for \"the constitutional reform needed to mend our broken politics\".\n\nShe said: \"We need a more inclusive, tolerant politics for our country that values diversity.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats are the strongest party to stop Brexit and build a society that gives opportunities to everyone, tackle the climate crisis and invest in our public services.\"\n\nMeanwhile Labour MP John Mann has used his exit from the Commons to criticise Jeremy Corbyn's record as leader, and blame him for the party's current anti-Semitism crisis.\n\nMr Mann - who is standing down as the Labour MP for Bassetlaw - is set to take up a full-time post as the Government's \"anti-Semitism tsar\".\n\nHe said he could not campaign for Mr Corbyn knowing he could become prime minister, and told The Sunday Times he would \"never forgive\" him for allowing the party to be \"hijacked\" by anti-Semites.\n\nHe told the paper: \"Corbyn has given the green light to the anti-Semites and, having done so, has sat there and done nothing to turn that round.\"", "The superstore is 12 times the size of an average Oxfam shop\n\nAn Oxfam \"superstore\" has opened it doors in Oxford - the city where the charity opened its first shop.\n\nOxfam said it worked with a Swedish charity ahead of the launch of store, which is based on an \"out-of-town format\".\n\nThe 18,500 sq ft (1,718 sq m) store has a drive-through option for people to drop off donations.\n\nThe charity said it was the biggest of its shops worldwide, and that 150 volunteers would run it.\n\nIt is the charity's first superstore\n\nJulie Neeve, project manager for the store, said: \"It was just an idea that we wanted to look at - an out-of-town format - and we spent some time with a Swedish charity looking at a similar model, understanding what they do.\n\n\"Then we found this amazing site across the road from our headquarters in Oxford.\"\n\nVolunteer Rosemary Shurgold said: \"I love it. I think it is inspirational and well-stocked.\n\n\"It's the future and I really hope it's going to be a great success.\n\n\"There is always something happening and this organisation does not stand still.\"\n\nOxfam opened its first shop in Oxford in 1948 and now has more than 600 stores across the UK.\n\nThis month, it is encouraging people to stop buying new clothes and instead buy used gear as part of its Second Hand September campaign.\n\nOxfam's first store, which opened in 1948\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcelo Crivella, a former bishop, has previously decried homosexuality as \"evil behaviour\"\n\nBrazil's Supreme Court has ruled that a Marvel comic showing two men kissing can be sold despite attempts to ban it by the mayor of Rio de Janeiro.\n\nMayor Marcelo Crivella, a former bishop, had demanded the comic be withdrawn from a book fair, saying it included content unsuitable for minors.\n\nThe Supreme Court overturned a decision by a lower court that permitted a ban.\n\nCopies of the comic book, Avengers: The Children's Crusade, quickly sold out after the mayor's intervention.\n\nThe Supreme Court made it illegal to ban any LGBT publication. It ruled that Mr Crivella's actions were illegal as they only targeted LGBT content.\n\nThe illustration that upset that mayor was also printed on the front page of Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Folha de S.Paulo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 picture depicts two male characters, Wiccan and Hulkling, kissing while fully clothed. In the storyline, they are portrayed as being in a committed relationship.\n\nThe Children's Crusade series has been available in Brazil since 2012. The luxury hardcover volume available at the book fair was released three years ago, according to the O Globo newspaper.\n\nFelipe Neto, a popular Youtube star in Brazil bought 14,000 books that had LGBT themes and handed them out for free at the fair.\n\nMarvel's first portrayal of a gay kiss was published in 1991 in its X-Force series, and a year later Northstar became the publisher's first openly gay superhero.\n\nGay relationships were also included years earlier in a 1985 issue of Captain America.\n\nIn a Twitter video on Friday, Mr Crivella called for issues of the comic book to be seized.\n\n\"Books like this need to be wrapped in black sealed plastic with a content warning displayed on the outside,\" he said in another message.\n\nMayor Crivella has in the past decried homosexuality as \"evil behaviour,\" despite same-sex marriage being legal in the country since 2013.\n\nBrazil's largest literary event \"gives voice to all audiences, without distinction, as it should be in a democracy\", the book fair's organisers told AFP news agency.", "Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd says no deal is \"the worst possible outcome\" of all potential Brexit options.\n\nAsked if she would resign over the issue, she said there were \"lots of moving parts\" in Westminster at the moment.\n\nThis interview was originally published in January 2019.", "Amber Rudd has resigned from her cabinet post in Boris Johnson's government. Here is the full text of her letter to the prime minister.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I am resigning as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Minister for Women and Equalities.\n\nIt has been an honour to serve in a department that supports millions of people and can be such a force for good. I would like to pay tribute to the thousands of people who work for the DWP across the country. They are committed public servants and I am proud of the work that we have done together over the last 10 months to create a more compassionate welfare system.\n\nI would also like to thank you and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for your support in the recent Spending Review. I am so pleased that you committed to spend millions more supporting the most vulnerable in society, and I hope that the Government will stay committed to going further at the next fiscal event, building on the work the department has done.\n\nThis has been a difficult decision. I joined your Cabinet in good faith; accepting that 'no deal' had to be on the table, because it was the means by which we would have the best chance of achieving a new deal to leave on October 31.\n\nHowever, I no longer believe leaving with a deal is the Government's main objective.\n\nThe Government is expending a lot of energy to prepare for 'no deal' but I have not seen the same level of intensity go into our talks with the European Union, who have asked us to present alternative arrangements to the Irish backstop.\n\nThe updates I have been grateful to receive from your office have not, regretfully, provided me with the reassurances I sought.\n\nI must also address the assault on decency and democracy that took place last week when you sacked 21 talented, loyal One Nation Conservatives.\n\nThis short-sighted culling of my colleagues has stripped the party of broad-minded and dedicated Conservative MPs I cannot support this act of political vandalism.\n\nTherefore, it is with regret that I am also surrendering the Conservative whip.\n\nBritain's body politic is under attack from both sides of the ideological debate. I will now play whatever role I can to help return it to a better place.\n\nI have been lucky to have had extraordinary support from my Conservative Association since I was adopted as their candidate in 2006. Three times they helped elect me as their MP, keeping Labour at bay through nail-biting campaigns.\n\nI remain a proud conservative and will continue to champion the values of fairness and compassion, and to support my constituents of Hastings and Rye.", "Opposition parties say they will not back the prime minister's call for an election - left to right: Jo Swinson, Jeremy Corbyn, Liz Saville Roberts and Ian Blackford\n\nUK opposition parties have agreed not to back Boris Johnson's demand for a general election before the EU summit in mid-October.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems, the SNP and Plaid Cymru say they will vote against the government or abstain in Monday's vote on whether to hold a snap poll.\n\nBut the PM said the parties were making an \"extraordinary political mistake\".\n\nMeanwhile, a bill designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit has been approved by the House of Lords and will pass into law.\n\nIt will force the prime minister to ask the EU for the Brexit deadline to be extended beyond 31 October if no deal is agreed by the UK and Brussels by 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson wants an election to take place on 15 October, ahead of that date and the EU summit on 17 and 18 October.\n\nHe argues that a snap poll will allow the government to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit by the end of October.\n\nBut opposition MPs - who, along with Conservative rebels, have already defeated one attempt by the government to bring in an early election - say Mr Johnson is trying to push through a no-deal exit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring the past week the prime minister has suffered several defeats over Brexit in Parliament, expelled 21 of his own MPs for rebelling and seen his younger brother, Jo Johnson, resign from government.\n\nFollowing the meeting of opposition parties on Friday, a Labour Party spokesman said: \"Jeremy Corbyn hosted a positive conference call with other opposition party leaders this morning.\n\n\"They discussed advancing efforts to prevent a damaging no-deal Brexit and hold a general election once that is secured.\"\n\nAs good weeks go, for Boris Johnson this wasn't one.\n\nDefeated and defeated again in the Commons, choosing to sack more than 20 of his most respected though rebellious colleagues - provoking uproar from Tories who say that was brutally heavy-handed, and now trying to sound conciliatory.\n\nThe list of Tory MPs standing down at the next election has continued to grow, and they look like reinforcing Mr Johnson's critics.\n\nAnd the House of Lords sent legislation to ban no-deal, and maybe force the PM to seek a Brexit extension, to become law.\n\nHe won't break his word. Civil servants are clear he can't break the law. Mr Johnson needs a way to force an election, or salvage his plan to deliver Brexit - maybe without getting an EU deal first. In Downing Street there's no sign they've found one.\n\nThe options on No 10's table - after another expected defeat on election timing next week - range from quitting office in hope of getting back in, to counting on the EU to deny the UK the Brexit extension the PM doesn't want.\n\nIf there's a cunning plan - and many people, in and out of government, don't believe there is - it seems to need more work. And soon.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he was \"desperate for an election\", but it could not happen until an extension to Article 50 - the process by which the UK is leaving the EU - had been secured.\n\n\"It's not just about our own party interests; it's about our collective national interests,\" he said. \"So we are prepared to work with others to make sure we get the timing right.\"\n\nHe said they wanted to make sure the UK did not \"crash out\" in a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry told Today that FTPA election legislation can't be amended\n\nLiz Saville Roberts, Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader, said there was an \"opportunity to bring down Boris\" and \"we should take that\".\n\nAnd a Lib Dem spokeswoman said the group was clear that \"we are not going to let Boris Johnson cut and run\".\n\n\"The Liberal Democrat position for a while now is that we won't vote for a general election until we have an extension agreed with the EU. I think the others are coming round to that,\" she said.\n\n\"As a group we will all vote against or abstain on Monday.\"\n\nBut Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said the public were \"sick of watching politicians bicker\" about Brexit and it was time for an election.\n\nHe said opposition parties should \"stop being cowardly, put the matter to the public, and get resolution at last, so the country can move forward with confidence and optimism for the future\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. So who actually wants an election?\n\nMr Johnson has promised the UK will leave the EU \"do or die\" on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nBut he said on Friday that he would go to Brussels on 17 October and reach a deal.\n\nHe added that resigning as prime minister if he did not get one by then was \"not a hypothesis\" he would be willing to contemplate.\n\nHe also said he was \"perplexed\" by the decision of opposition parties to \"run away\" from an election.\n\n\"All I see is Corbyn and the SNP clubbing together to try and lock us into the EU when it's time to get this thing done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the most sensational paradox - never in history has the opposition party been given the chance for election and has turned it down.\"", "Emergency services were called to the Tate Modern on 4 August\n\nA six-year-old boy who was allegedly thrown off a balcony at the Tate Modern is making \"amazing progress\", his family have said.\n\nThe boy, who was visiting London with his family, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain in the fall on 4 August.\n\nHe \"can't speak or move his body for the moment\" but was responding to his family by smiling and laughing.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder. A trial will start on 3 February at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe six-year-old boy, who is a French national, fell five floors from a 10th floor viewing platform.\n\nA court previously heard he sustained a fractured spine, along with leg and arm fractures.\n\nThe boy was taken to hospital after he was found on a fifth floor roof\n\nIn their statement, his family thanked people for their support and said he remained in hospital.\n\nThey said: \"Even if he can't speak or move his body for the moment, we now know for sure that he understands us.\n\n\"He smiles and we saw him laughing several times since a couple of days when we were telling him some funny things or when we were reading to him some stories.\n\n\"It gives us lots of strength and hope, as much as the strength you, all of you, give us since the beginning with your kind messages.\"\n\nA GoFundMe page has already raised nearly €60,000 (£54,000) for the boy and his family to help with \"medical funds\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Lidington made his remarks to the BBC's Today programme\n\nFormer cabinet minister David Lidington has said there will have to be \"some kind of direct rule\" for Northern Ireland ahead of Brexit.\n\nStormont has been without an executive for more than two years and Parliament has had to pass some key legislation for Northern Ireland in the interim.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at the end of October.\n\nMr Lidington said if there was no deal, it would be unconscionable to leave part of the UK without real governance.\n\nThe Conservative MP, who was in charge of overseeing Brexit preparations for devolved nations in Theresa's May's government, made the comments on the BBC's Today programme on Saturday.\n\n\"There will have to be some kind of direct rule and, I think, it's important that the government gets that sorted and in place, before the end of October, that deadline,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment, the Northern Ireland civil service has no power to do things like give emergency support to farmers or food producers whose supply chains into the Irish Republic could be completely killed by a no-deal exit.\n\nThe UK's planned departure date from the European Union is coming swiftly down the tracks\n\n\"All of a sudden their customers south of the border would say: 'Sorry you haven't got the certification. It's no longer an EU product, I can't legally buy this from you anymore'.\n\n\"The civil service of Northern Ireland does not have any power to help in those circumstances or to take other emergency measures that would be needed in the event of no deal.\n\n\"I think it would be unconscionable to leave any part of the United Kingdom without proper governance in the circumstances of that kind of crisis and for Northern Ireland, in particular, where the politics is fragile, the case is stronger than anywhere else to get this sorted in advance.\"\n\nDUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the DUP is \"ready to go into government tomorrow\"\n\nSpeaking on the same radio programme, DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party was \"ready to go into government tomorrow, we have no preconditions\".\n\n\"We are ready to serve the people of Northern Ireland in a government,\" he added.\n\nBut, he added: \"If Sinn Féin continue to refuse to do that, then someone is going to have to start taking decisions. We cannot allow the people of Northern Ireland to continue to be disadvantaged because of Sinn Féin's refusal to share power.\"\n\nHowever, Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard said that the idea of direct rule \"underscores once again that the dysfunctional Tory government is in complete hock in this grubby little deal with the DUP\".\n\nMr Hazzard told the same programme: \"People again on this side of the Irish sea in Ireland are completely bemused at the chaos, the dysfunction and reminded again that their interests will never be served at Westminster.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood told BBC News NI it was up to the DUP and Sinn Féin to get back into government.\n\nMr Eastwood accused the two parties of handing \"power away from local politicians\".\n\n\"Now they can protest about that. If they want to do something about it, they should get into government - that's how we solve this issue.\n\n\"That's how we send a very clear message to London that we are not having a crash-out Brexit.\"\n\nParliament is due to be suspended next week, returning a fortnight before the Brexit deadline, which some MPs say will cause problems for Northern Ireland.\n\nThere are questions about what might happen if the government needs to pass any urgent legislation to mitigate a no-deal Brexit in Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier this week, Conservative MP Simon Hoare was backed by Mr Lidington in warning that if Stormont was not restored by 31 October, NI civil servants would not be able to take \"any initiative\" to off-set issues raised by a no-deal Brexit.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith has said that if talks to restore power-sharing did not succeed before Brexit, direct powers would need to be implemented \"at pace\".\n\nIn July, Mr Lidington, who was then the de-facto deputy prime minister, warned that a no-deal Brexit could lead to the break up of the union.", "Diane Frost says she struggled to get a response when she complained about the bill\n\nDiane Frost was surprised when an energy bill arrived on her doormat for two very good reasons.\n\nFirstly it was from her former energy provider, Extra Energy, that had collapsed nine months earlier, and secondly it was for a whopping £4,431.\n\n\"I was totally shocked. I wasn't expecting it so long after the company went bust,\" she says.\n\nIt's not clear why she was charged such a huge amount, but the worry is she may not be alone in being wrongly billed.\n\nExtra Energy is just one of ten smaller energy providers that collapsed within the space of a year, thanks in part to higher wholesale prices, new regulations, and the consequent pinch on their finances.\n\nThat has left 850,000 customers, who have been switched to new providers but could find themselves, like Diane, receiving follow-up bills, sometimes long after they've ceased to be customers, as their old providers are wound up by administrators.\n\nThe energy industry regulator, Ofgem, has already said in the case of Extra Energy it is aware of \"high levels of complaints\".\n\nOfgem says it is \"extremely disappointed\" that customers were having to wait for so long for their final bills and that it was aware that some customers were querying the amounts being charged.\n\nDiane lived in a two bedroom terraced house in Leicester with her 23-year-old son and they were used to paying £35 a month for her energy. She was only with Extra Energy for two-and-a-half years and can't see how she could possibly owe anything near £4,000.\n\n\"I couldn't get any answers out of [the company],\" she says. \"I think it's been dealt with terribly.\"\n\nExtra Energy went into administration in November 2018. At the time it said the introduction of a price cap by the government had \"made the energy market unviable\".\n\nAdministrators PwC took over responsibility for finalising the bills, which it says it has now completed for a \"significant majority\" of customers. But that still leaves thousands of former Extra Energy customers waiting for their final bill, ten months after the firm's collapse.\n\nPwC said it would \"continue to work with customers... to resolve any issues as quickly and efficiently as possible.\"\n\nExtra Energy's inadequate customer data systems are largely to blame for the delay, according to Ellen Fraser, energy analyst at Baringa. She describes them as \"horrendous\" and says PwC has had to go through the records customer by customer including meter readings.\n\n\"Ofgem need to be mindful that when organisations fail their data is typically in poor shape and administrators are likely to use that poor data to chase debt,\" she says.\n\nDiane's £4,430 bill was for energy use at her two-bed terraced house in Leicester\n\nOfgem says as from next month it will begin a new round of consultation that will include looking at tests for suppliers already operating in the energy market and what happens when they go bust.\n\nFor its part PwC has said it is looking into Diane's case as a matter of urgency, but that came only after five weeks and being contacted by the BBC's personal finance programme Money Box.\n\nDiane is still angry, and is determined to fight for the matter to be cleared up.\n\n\"They're not going to get the money off me, no way,\" she says and she suggests any other former Extra Energy customers who think they've been wrongly charged should do the same.\n\n\"Don't give in to them whatever you do. Don't give in,\" she says.\n\nThe bill Diane received was so large it was obvious to her that it was a mistake, but she fears other people might accept a smaller charge without questioning it.\n\n\"Some people out there are really vulnerable and would have paid this without even looking into it,\" she says. \"It's not fair and it should be dealt with properly.\"\n\nCustomers who are concerned over legacy bills they receive from administrators for their former providers will also find their options for recourse are more limited than if they were complaining about their current energy supplier.\n\nAdministrators like PwC are not bound by Ofgem's rules and regulations, because they aren't an energy company, nor can consumers turn to the energy Ombudsman for the same reason.\n\nSimon Baker, a commercial law specialist at Baker Skelly law firm, says there is a legal option they can pursue however, since general consumer law applies to companies like PwC.\n\n\"It may be hard for consumers to verify a bill from so long ago, but it may be worth challenging it if the sum claimed seems questionable,\" he says.\n\nIt's likely the courts would want to see some kind of evidence over how the bill was calculated by the firm issuing it, he adds.\n\nIn a statement PwC told Money Box: \"We continue to progress final billing of Extra Energy customers and are pleased that this exercise has been finalised for a significant majority of customers.\"\n\nThe firm also said it would encourage any customer who has any concerns around their energy bill to raise them with the Extra Energy team on 0800 953 4774/0800 368 5452.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme on Saturday at 12pm or listen again here.\n• None Energy Ombudsman- Here to help with gas & electricity complaints - Ombudsman Services The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app. Click\n\nTeenager Bianca Andreescu stunned Serena Williams in a gripping US Open final to claim a first Grand Slam title and deny the American a 24th major.\n\nWilliams, 37, did not cope with the 19-year-old's quality in a 6-3 7-5 loss.\n\nCanadian 15th seed Andreescu, in the main draw here for the first time, blew a double break in the second set before taking her third match point and falling to the ground in disbelief.\n\n\"This year has been a dream come true,\" Andreescu told the crowd.\n\n\"I am beyond grateful and truly blessed. I've worked really hard for this moment. To play on this stage against Serena - a true legend of the sport - is amazing.\"\n• None From a fake cheque to cashing £3.1m - Andreescu on 'crazy' reality of winning US Open\n• None 'I could have been more Serena' - Williams criticises 'inexcusable' performance\n\nTo the disappointment of a stunned home crowd on a passionate Arthur Ashe Stadium, Williams has now lost four successive major finals.\n\n\"Bianca played an unbelievable match,\" Williams said. \"I'm so proud and happy for you, it was incredible tennis out there.\"\n\nWilliams, seeded eighth, looked edgy throughout as she aimed to match Australian Margaret Court's tally of all-time major wins, handing over the first three of Andreescu's five breaks of serve with double faults.\n\nBy contrast, Andreescu played with the confidence which has marked her out as a star in a stunning breakthrough year.\n\nShe is the first Canadian to win a tennis major and the first teenager to win a Grand Slam since Maria Sharapova claimed the 2006 title at Flushing Meadows.\n\nShe is the first teenager to win their maiden Slam since Russian Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004.\n\nAndreescu kept her nerve to take a third match point with a forehand down the line, dropping her racquet to the ground and then, after a warm hug with Williams, lying on the court with her arms spread out as she contemplated her achievement.\n\nAfter returning to her feet, she used a hastily-arranged step ladder to climb into her player's box and embrace her nearest and dearest, including parents Nicu and Maria.\n\nBefore the match, Andreescu said if someone told her 12 months ago she would be facing Williams in the US Open final she would have thought they were \"crazy\".\n\nTellingly, in a sign of her unwavering confidence, she said she would not have felt the same if they told her the same thing a fortnight ago.\n\nTwelve months ago she lost in the first round of qualifying at Flushing Meadows and was ranked outside the top 200 in the world.\n\nBut she has become the most talked-about young player on the planet following a remarkable rise this year.\n\nAndreescu, whose Romanian parents Nicu and Maria emigrated to Canada in the 1990s, had only played six tour-level matches at the turn of the year.\n\nSince then she has won prestigious WTA Premier titles at Indian Wells and Toronto, rising to 15th in the world as a result and raking in £1.79m of her £1.97m career prize money.\n\nNow she will climb to fifth in the world and take home another $3.85m (£3.13m) after this success.\n\nAndreescu was fearless throughout her maiden Grand Slam final and unfazed by the occasion of playing an American icon on the biggest tennis court in the world.\n\nAlthough the crowd was unsurprisingly backing Williams throughout inside an incredible noisy Ashe, the manner in which Andreescu coped and reset after seeing her double break in the second set disappear was remarkable.\n\nAt one point, Andreescu even put her fingers in her ears as the volume became particularly loud as Williams fought back from 5-1 down.\n\nAfter her first Championship point went begging in the seventh game, another disappeared when Williams hit an ace for 30-40 in what proved to be the final game before Andreescu sealed victory at the third attempt with a forehand winner.\n\n\"I definitely had to overcome the crowd. I knew you guys wanted Serena to win,\" a smiling Andreescu said in her on-court victory speech.\n\n\"Obviously it was expected for Serena to fight back, but I tried my best to block everything out. I'm glad how I managed to do that.\"\n\nWilliams fails to get over the line again\n\nWilliams said after July's defeat in the Wimbledon final against Simona Halep that the weight of history was not a burden as she aimed to clinch that record-equalling 24th Grand Slam.\n\nYet, after also losing last year's Wimbledon final and a controversial US Open final against Naomi Osaka 12 months ago, this latest defeat inevitably leads to more questions about why she cannot get over the line.\n\nWith time seemingly running out for the six-time US Open champion, who turns 38 this month, it makes you wonder how many more chances she will have to earn her place as the greatest ever, at least in numerical terms.\n\nHowever, BBC Radio 5 Live analyst Jeff Tarango is in no doubt she will reach more Grand Slam finals.\n\n\"I think Serena will pull it together. I don't have any doubt. She's going to be back, she's not going to give up,\" the American said.\n\nIf Williams was looking for a comfortable start following her three previous final defeats, that did not materialise.\n\nNerves again seemed to take hold as she produced two double faults to gift the opening game to Andreescu, leaving her chasing a deficit which she could not recover.\n\nIt was the first break point she had faced - and lost - since the first set of her fourth-round win over Croat Petra Martic.\n\nThe confidence she showed in the routine wins over China's 18th seed Wang Qiang and Ukrainian fifth seed Elina Svitolina were not apparent as Andreescu's depth and variety, plus her ability to absorb Williams' power, unsettled the American.\n\nWilliams, who had close friend Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, sitting with her family, could not play with the control she showed against Wang and Svitolina, producing 14 unforced errors in a loose opening set.\n\nAll of her nine previous defeats in Grand Slam finals came after losing the opening sets and this miserable record did not look like changing when Andreescu started racing away with the second set.\n\nWilliams looked dejected as she continued to struggle to land a first serve, regularly looking at her racquet and shaking her hand as though she had no answers.\n\nSuddenly she started to provide them in a spirited fightback, only for two more unforced errors to creep in to stall her momentum as Andreescu broke for a sixth time.\n\n\"I was just fighting at that point [at 5-1 down in the second set], trying to stay out there a little bit longer. The fans started cheering so hard and it made me feel better and fight a bit more,\" Williams said.\n\n\"Bianca played an unbelievable match. If anyone could win this, outside of [sister] Venus, I'm happy it's Bianca.\"\n\nTennis great Billie Jean King: \"Congratulations to Bianca Andreescu on winning her first major title at the #USOpen. She is Canada's first Grand Slam singles champion! The Future is now. A phenomenal effort by Serena Williams until the very end.\n\n2019 Cincinnati Masters champion Madison Keys: \"Congrats Bianca Andreescu on your first Grand Slam. So happy for you! Always a fighter, always inspiring - win or lose Serena Williams. Such a great match to watch.\"\n\nWimbledon champion Simona Halep: \"Congratulations Bianca Andreescu on an amazing performance and your first Grand Slam! Romania is very proud of you.\"\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: \"Congratulations Bianca Andreescu! You've made history and made a whole country very proud.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live tennis commentator David Law: \"Andreescu was just magnificent for the first set and a half. We ran out of superlatives to describe the way she was playing. She has presence and buckets and buckets of ability. It's remarkable to see it in a 19-year-old. She is totally unfazed by her surroundings, it would appear. That is four Grand Slam finals in a row that's Williams has not been able to win, but I don't know how much more she could have done today. Andreescu is the real deal.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is one of the cheapest interplanetary missions ever undertaken\n\nIndia's space programme has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed - by sending an operational mission to Mars.\n\nThe Mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be in orbit shortly after 0800, Indian time. It is, without doubt, a considerable achievement.\n\nThis is a mission that has been budgeted at 4.5bn rupees ($74m), which, by Western standards, is staggeringly cheap.\n\nThe American Maven orbiter that arrived at the Red Planet on Monday is costing almost 10 times as much.\n\nBack in June, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi even quipped that India's real-life Martian adventure was costing less than the make-believe Hollywood film Gravity.\n\nEven Bollywood sci-fi movies like Ra.One cost a good chunk of what it has taken to get Mangalyaan to Mars.\n\nSo how has India done it? For sure, people costs are less in this populous nation, and the scientists and engineers working on any space mission are always the largest part of the ticket price.\n\nHome-grown components and technologies have also been prioritised over expensive foreign imports.\n\nBut, in addition, India has been careful to do things simply.\n\nNarendra Modi said the country had achieved the \"near impossible\"\n\n\"They've kept it small. The payload weighs only about 15kg. Compare that with the complexity in the payload in Maven and that will explain a lot about the cost,\" says Britain's Prof Andrew Coates, who will be a principal investigator on Europe's Mars rover in 2018.\n\n\"Of course, that reduced complexity suggests it won't be as scientifically capable, but India has been smart in targeting some really important areas that will complement what others are doing.\"\n\nMangalyaan has gone equipped with an instrument that will try to measure methane in the atmosphere.\n\nThis is one of the hottest topics in Mars research right now, following previous, tantalising observations of the gas.\n\nEarth's atmosphere contains billions of tonnes of methane, the vast majority of it coming from microbes, such as the organisms found in the digestive tracts of animals.\n\nThe speculation has been that some methane-producing bugs, or methanogens, could perhaps exist on Mars if they lived underground, away from the planet's harsh surface conditions.\n\nMangalyaan will measure methane in the Martian atmosphere - a crucial question\n\nSo, even though Mangalyaan has a small payload, it will actually address some of the biggest questions at the Red Planet.\n\nWestern scientists are excited also to have the Indian probe on station.\n\nIts measurements of other atmospheric components will dovetail very nicely with Maven and the observations being made by Europe's Mars Express. \"It means we'll be getting three-point measurements, which is tremendous,\" says Prof Coates.\n\nThis will enable researchers to better understand how the planet lost the bulk of its atmosphere billions of years ago, and determine what sort of climate it could once have had, and whether or not it was conducive to life.\n\nI have read a lot about the criticism of Mangalyaan and India's space programme.\n\nThere's an assumption among many, I guess, that space activity is somehow a plaything best left to wealthy industrial countries; that it can have no value to developing nations.\n\nThe money would be better spent on healthcare and improved sanitation, so the argument goes.\n\nBut what this position often overlooks is that investment in science and technology builds capability and capacity, and develops the sort of people who benefit the economy and society more widely.\n\nSpace activity is also a wealth generator. Some of the stuff we do up there pays for stuff down here.\n\nThe industrialised nations know it; that's one of the reasons they invest so heavily in space activity.\n\nConsider just the UK. It has dramatically increased its spending on space in recent years.\n\nThe government has even identified satellites as being one of the \"eight great technologies\" that can help rebalance the UK economy and drive it forward.\n\nIndia wants a part of this action, too, and in Mangalyaan and its other satellite and rocket programmes, the nation is putting itself into a strong position in international markets for space products and services.\n\nScience and technology build capability and capacity, and inspires the next generation\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police dog Finn was stabbed as he protected his handler from an attacker in 2016\n\nA law named after a police dog who was stabbed while trying to protect his handler from an attacker is to be implemented in Scotland.\n\nFinn's Law came into force in England earlier this year and makes it harder for those who harm service animals to claim they were acting in self-defence.\n\nIt came after a campaign by PC Dave Wardell whose German shepherd was injured as he chased a suspect in 2016.\n\nThe pair appeared on TV show Britain's Got Talent.\n\nA new Animal Welfare Bill was part of the programme for government announced by Nicola Sturgeon at Holyrood on Tuesday.\n\nAs well as incorporating Finn's Law, it will also increase the maximum jail time for extreme animal cruelty from 12 month to 5 years.\n\nPC Dave Wardell and Finn met Scotland's minister for rural affairs, Mairi Gougeon, at Holyrood\n\nFinn saved PC Wardell's life when a knife-wielding robbery suspect attacked them in Stevenage in 2016.\n\nFinn was stabbed in the chest and head and was not expected to survive. PC Wardell was stabbed in the hand.\n\nThe suspect who attacked Finn, inflicting near fatal injuries, could only be charged with criminal damage and punished with a small fine.\n\nScotland's minister for rural affairs, Mairi Gougeon, met Finn and his owner PC Wardell.\n\n\"Like so many of our service animals, Finn selflessly put himself in the way of danger in order to protect us and was very nearly killed in the process,\" she said.\n\n\"Thankfully he survived and, after some equally tenacious campaigning from Dave, they were able to have the law changed in England to provide service animals with the protection they deserve.\n\n\"This week's programme for government announced that the Scottish government is set to create new legislation to further protect animals and wildlife, which will include an increase in the maximum available penalties for the worst offences, and includes implementing Finn's Law.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is so-called \"fake news\" and how do you spot it? (From 2018)\n\nPlans to help tackle so-called \"fake news\" have been announced by the BBC and some of the biggest names in journalism and technology.\n\nThe new measures include an early warning system for use during elections or when lives may be at risk, extra online education and improved access to impartial resources for voters.\n\nMajor publishers, Google, Twitter and Facebook have helped devise the scheme.\n\nThe BBC said the moves were \"crucial steps\" in fighting disinformation.\n\nIt follows criticism of big technology firms for failing to do enough to prevent the spread of \"false news\" - from scares about vaccines to stories manufactured to influence elections.\n\nOther recent events such as this year's Indian elections have also highlighted the dangers of disinformation and the risk it poses to democracy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Damian Collins, the committee's chairman, says \"sophisticated\" fake news is causing a \"crisis for democracy\"\n\nEarlier this summer, the BBC convened a Trusted News Summit, bringing together senior figures from major global technology firms and publishing to help tackle the problem.\n\nBBC Director General Tony Hall said: \"Disinformation and so-called fake news is a threat to us all. At its worst, it can present a serious threat to democracy and even to people's lives.\n\n\"This summit has shown a determination to take collective action to fight this problem and we have agreed some crucial steps towards this.\"\n\nFurther details will be released at a later date.", "Some of the world's best cyclists have been in action in the Scottish Borders in the second stage of the Tour of Britain.\n\nThe riders raced in a giant loop from Kelso, through Coldstream, Duns and Melrose, before heading back to Kelso.\n\nIt was won by Italian cyclist Matteo Trentin.\n\nThe second stage of the tour was won by Italian cyclist Matteo Trentin\n\nThe second stage of the tour set off from Kelso on a loop\n\nThe first stage was held from Glasgow to Kirkcudbright on Saturday morning and was won by Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen.\n\nOther big names taking part were British sprinter Mark Cavendish and rising star Mathieu van der Poel.\n\nThey were among the field leaving Glasgow - the third Scottish start for the race in the last four years.\n\nThe first stage was won by Dylan Groenewegen\n\nDylan Groenewegen winning the first stage at the Kirkcudbright finish\n\nThe first stage of the race went through the countryside, down through Ayrshire into Dumfries and Galloway for a finish in Kirkcudbright.\n\nScotland was omitted from the race last year but has returned in style with two stages of the event which finishes in Manchester next weekend.\n\nThe cyclists set off from Glasgow on Saturday morning\n\nThe first stage is from Glasgow to Kirkudbright\n\nMark Cavendish is one of the big names taking part\n\nRiders headed out into the countryside and down through Ayrshire into Dumfries and Galloway\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of activists have staged a sit-in on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival in protest at the huge cruise ships they say are damaging the environment.\n\nThe protest came hours ahead of Saturday's closing ceremony, with guests due to include the Rolling Stones star Mick Jagger.\n\nThe Italian government recently announced that large cruise ships would be banned from the city's historic centre.", "Sarandon's film Blackbird premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday\n\nSusan Sarandon has voiced her support for assisted dying after taking on the role of a terminally ill woman.\n\nThe actress's new movie Blackbird sees her play a mother named Lily who gathers her family to tell them of her wish to die.\n\n\"It's an individual choice,\" the actress told reporters at the Toronto Film Festival.\n\n\"Everybody has the right to make a decision without your family members being charged with homicide.\n\n\"You should be able to be surrounded by those people.\"\n\nEight states have legalised medically assisted suicide in the US, with Maine likely to follow suit when a new law comes into effect later this year.\n\nThe issue is controversial but is now being more openly debated in light of the country's changing demographics.\n\n\"There's so many baby boomers now, this is something that's being discussed more in the United States,\" Sarandon said.\n\nThe term \"baby boomers\" refers to the generation born between the end of World War Two and the mid 1960s. They currently represent nearly 20% of the US population.\n\nThe sudden spike in births across those two decades was down to a combination of factors - such as adults starting the families they had been putting off during the war, as well as the prosperous economy.\n\nThat generation is now reaching retirement age and therefore many are experiencing the health problems that often come with being older.\n\n\"I think taking on this process of letting go of your body is something that takes a lot of thought,\" Sarandon said. \"It's not just ending your life but being able to end your life with dignity and without pain. And I think anybody that has had a family member who has really suffered is very interested in and pro having that choice.\"\n\nShe added: \"The fact of the matter is, if you're wealthy, you'll always have access to things that are controversial, just like abortion. If you're wealthy, your doctor will make sure, whether it's upping your morphine or whatever, that you're not suffering. It's not something that's new.\"\n\nBlackbird is a remake of the Danish film Silent Heart, which was released in 2014, and also stars Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska as Lily's children.\n\nIn the film, Lily suffers from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), which is a progressive degeneration of the nerve cells that control muscle movements. Around 80% of those diagnosed with it die within two to five years.\n\nBut despite her sympathy for those who choose to end their lives in such a position, Sarandon said it's not a choice she would make if she was terminally ill herself.\n\nRainn Wilson (left) and Sam Neill co-star in Blackbird with Sarandon\n\n\"I couldn't have done it, personally, not in a million years,\" she said. \"Even knowing what's in store later for [my character], it would have been difficult to leave my children behind, at that point. I would definitely have put it off because it was still so tumultuous.\"\n\nThe movie was shot in the UK, which Sarandon grew attached to by the end of filming. \"We were in the most extraordinary place in England, I'd never worked in the [English] countryside before, and that was wonderful,\" she said.\n\n\"It was gorgeous, my dog was so sad to leave... we got to know the English countryside, the pub life, the cathedral life.\"\n\nSarandon has been nominated for best actress at the Oscars five times - winning once in 1996 for Dead Man Walking.\n\nBut she isn't necessarily convinced she could win again with her latest film, given the changes in the film industry since then.\n\n\"Of course, I would love it,\" she said. \"But you have to have so much behind you, so much money. You have to start six months of a campaign to get a nomination. Things have really changed.\n\n\"There are so many people that deserve to be recognised that aren't... so many performances in little films but they don't have the means to give all the screenings, to give all the brunches, You have to work your ass off now to be able to get a film to compete with the films the Harvey Weinsteins of the world are pushing.\"", "After suffering a string of parliamentary defeats over Brexit this week, Boris Johnson's strategy for leaving the EU on 31 October looks to be in trouble.\n\nA bill designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit, which would require Mr Johnson to ask for an extension to the UK's departure date, is expected to pass into law on Monday.\n\nHere is a round up of what the commentators say about the prime minister's position and his possible next moves.\n\nKaty Balls, deputy political editor of the Spectator, tweeted that Dominic Cummings, the senior adviser to the prime minister, told a meeting of government aides that they needed to be \"cool like Fonzies\" as No 10 plots its next move.\n\nThe directive is part of a strategy to \"wait for others to melt\" while the government increases the pressure.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katy Balls This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Rachel Sylvester, a political columnist for The Times, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that cabinet ministers \"certainly aren't cool like Fonzies\".\n\n\"I spoke to one last night who said they've completely miscalculated on Labour's attitude to a election and there's a real fear that there is no plan B.\n\n\"It is very hard to see how Boris Johnson gets out of this mess, he seems to have checkmated himself... and it's very difficult to see where he goes without humiliating himself or losing power.\"\n\nSebastian Payne, Whitehall correspondent for the Financial Times, questioned whether No 10 had a hidden trick up its sleeve.\n\nHe told Today: \"They could for example, bring a no confidence motion in Mr Johnson himself.\n\n\"It would look weird for the Tories to say they have no confidence in their own government, but all it would need would be a straight majority, and if they win that, then we could start the train towards an election.\"\n\nHe added that No 10 had made a \"strategic miscalculation\" in assuming Labour would \"cave in\" to Tory calls for an election - and that it was Corbyn's party who were acting \"cool like Fonzies\".\n\n\"Dominic Cummings has decided that the Tories have to become the real Brexit party... In those northern and midlands constituencies that voted Leave, there is a lot of pathological hatred towards the Tories in those seats.\n\n\"The question is, does the sheer force of Brexit and Mr Johnson break those bonds? Theresa May tried this in 2017... they thought they were going to win [in those constituencies] and they stayed in their old voting tribes, it's a big risk.\n\n\"If it pays off, Mr Johnson could get a nice healthy majority, but the Tories will essentially become the Brexit Party.\"\n\nMatthew d'Ancona, editor of the slow-news outlet Tortoise, told Newsnight Mr Johnson had had a \"disastrous week in political showbusiness\".\n\n\"One minute you're Stormzy and the next minute you wake up and you're Michael Barrymore.\n\n\"That's what's happened. He was sold to us as this guy who is a winner, he could do all the things that Theresa May hadn't been able to do, and he could unite the party and the country by the sheer bringing of confidence and charisma.\n\nCould Mr Johnson still be a winner like Stormzy?\n\n\"He's like a person pressing the button on the app on his phone in fury, saying why is it not happening the way that he wants it to.\n\n\"The reason is that Brexit is fabulously difficult to achieve. We are untangling 40 years of legal, constitutional and commercial arrangements.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said that resigning as prime minister if he did not get a deal with the EU by 17 October was \"not a hypothesis\" he would be willing to contemplate.\n\nBut Mr Johnson could tactically resign as prime minister in the hope of getting back in.\n\nShe added: \"The whole point about Boris Johnson, the reason he was elected Tory leader, is that he is supposed to be a winner - and already he's lost four out of four parliamentary votes, and he's looking bizarre even on the election campaign trail, which he has already started out on.\"\n\nTom Holland, the author of Dominion, a new book about the history of Christianity, compared the prime minister's tumultuous week to the \"classical history that Boris Johnson's entire education has been marinated [in]\".\n\nHe told Newsnight Mr Johnson might be drawing on such lessons for his Brexit plans, adding \"that there is a kind of heroism in dying on your sword\".\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\nBoris Johnson's decision to deselect 21 rebel Tory MPs, is a \"brutal strategy\", Mr Holland said, adding: \"In terms of his reputation and status, he is laying quite a lot on the line.\"\n\nCould the prime minister repackage Theresa May's withdrawal agreement and persuade MPs to vote for it a fourth time round, so he doesn't have to request an extension?\n\nJohn Rentoul, the chief political commentator of The Independent, wrote on Saturday: \"Is there a change that could be made to the withdrawal agreement that would persuade 30 more MPs than voted for it last time to do so at the last moment?\n\n\"It doesn't seem likely. Johnson cut the ground from under his own feet on Wednesday, when he said that, if the anti-no-deal bill became law, it 'effectively ends the negotiations' with the EU.\"\n\nBut if EU leaders regard another extension as only \"postponing the problem\", they may prefer to help achieve \"an orderly Brexit, with a deal\".", "It's been a tumultuous week for Boris Johnson and there was little respite on Friday, with further Brexit headaches for the prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson has been on an away day to a farm in Aberdeenshire but, back in London, the House of Lords and the opposition continue to do their upmost to thwart his strategy.\n\nElsewhere, among the day's other headlines, there was a silver lining for the PM at the High Court but eyebrows were raised over his choice of language to describe his predecessor.\n\nParliament has spent the week attempting to pass a bill preventing a no-deal Brexit on 31 October - and today they succeeded.\n\nThe law requires the prime minister to extend the exit deadline to the end of January unless Parliament has agreed a deal with the EU by 19 October.\n\nOn Tuesday, the bill, known as the Benn bill after Labour MP Hilary Benn, passed through the Commons.\n\nIt then went to the Lords, where it passed on Friday after Brexit-supporting peers dropped their opposition to it.\n\nThere had been suggestions that the government would stop the bill being signed into law by the Queen, but it is set to receive what is known as Royal Assent in the coming days.\n\nThe PM has repeatedly said he will not agree to a Brexit extension, suggesting he would rather \"die in a ditch\". It remains to be seen how this particular circle will be squared.\n\nFaced with the prospect of having to ask for more time from Brussels, Mr Johnson desperately wants to call an early general election to strengthen his hand.\n\nBut under the terms of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, this requires two-thirds of MPs to vote for it, and the prime minister needs the support of some opposition MPs.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems and the SNP withheld their support when it was put to the vote on Wednesday and have now agreed to do the same when the PM tries again on Monday.\n\nThey say that any election before the 31 October deadline could give a newly-re-elected Mr Johnson the ability to pursue a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThey say a Brexit extension must be officially secured at the 17 October summit before an early election can take place, to avoid Mr Johnson ignoring the bill's provisions.\n\nThere was some better news for the prime minister - who spent most of the day campaigning in Scotland.\n\nThe High Court ruled that his decision to suspend, or prorogue, Parliament was lawful.\n\nOpponents of the move, including former prime minister John Major and anti-Brexit businesswoman Gina Miller, had argued that the reasons for prorogation given to the Queen by the PM were untrue and the prorogation would break the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.\n\nThe court dismissed the case but did give the claimants the right to seek a judicial review.\n\nToday's ruling means prorogation is likely to go ahead next week, with Parliament closed until the Queen's Speech on 14 October.\n\nA speech given by the prime minister on Thursday in front of a crowd of police recruits has continued to create waves.\n\nChief Constable John Robins of West Yorkshire Police said he had understood the speech would be solely about police officer recruitment and he was \"disappointed\" his officers were used as a backdrop as Mr Johnson spoke about Brexit.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, sought to up the ante by writing to the cabinet secretary about the issue.\n\nThe PM, she said, had \"serious questions\" to answer about how he had given an essentially political speech at a police event, given the police are supposed to be impartial.\n\nBoris Johnson and David Cameron have a lot in common, the same school, the same university, the same job and, these days, the same European headaches.\n\nThe two men have long been considered rivals but, the joshing and ribbing aside, we rarely get a glimpse of what they actually think of each other.\n\nHopefully we'll learn a bit more when the former prime minister publishes his long-awaited memoirs next month.\n\nBut, as for Mr Johnson, we've now learnt that he described Mr Cameron as a \"girly swot\" for agreeing when he was PM to allow the Commons to sit for longer hours in September.\n\nWe've got Sky's deputy political editor Samuel Coates to thank for this choice nugget - drawn from cabinet papers disclosed to the High Court as part of a judicial review of the PM's decision to suspend, or prorogue, Parliament for five weeks.\n\nMr Johnson, who earlier this week called Jeremy Corbyn a \"big girl's blouse\" for blocking an election, has come under fire for his choice of language - with one commentator saying the UK was \"being governed by a nine-year old\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I'd rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask for Brexit delay\n\nA chief constable was \"disappointed\" his officers were used as a backdrop to a speech by Boris Johnson about Brexit.\n\nThirty-five officers stood behind the prime minister during the speech which was scheduled to mark a recruitment campaign for an extra 20,000 officers.\n\nMr Johnson was accused of politicising the police by having them present during Thursday's speech in Wakefield.\n\nChief Constable John Robins said he understood the speech would be solely about police officer recruitment.\n\n\"We had no prior knowledge that the speech would be broadened to other issues until it was delivered,\" the West Yorkshire Police chief said on Friday.\n\n\"I was therefore disappointed to see my police officers as a backdrop to the part of the speech that was not related to recruitment.\"\n\nAlthough the speech in Wakefield focused on police funding, it also referenced a possible general election with Mr Johnson stating he would \"rather be dead in a ditch\" than delay Brexit.\n\nMark Burns-Williamson, West Yorkshire's Labour police and crime commissioner, said the visit which should have been about plans for police recruitment was \"hijacked\" by Mr Johnson.\n\nHe added: \"The news of the recruitment drive and the acknowledgment of how officers and staff have suffered with austerity was completely lost because he was only interested in getting his own agenda across.\n\n\"There is no way police officers and staff, who clearly thought it would be all about police recruitment announcements, should have formed a backdrop to a speech of that nature.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation for England and Wales, said: \"I am surprised that police officers were used as a backdrop for a political speech in this way.\n\n\"I am sure that on reflection all concerned will agree that this was the wrong decision and it is disappointing that the focus has been taken away from the recruitment of 20,000 officers.\"\n\nPaula Sherriff, MP for Dewsbury and Tracy Brabin, MP for Batley and Spen, have written to the chief constable about Mr Johnson's visit.\n\n\"We've asked him a number of questions including about whether the officers had the option about whether to be there during that visit, which was clearly hijacked, and also what was the cost of that visit to the public purse,\" Ms Sheriff said.\n\nShortly before Mr Robins' statement was released, Downing Street defended Thursday's visit to the force's operations and training complex.\n\nA Number 10 spokeswoman said: \"The PM's long-planned visit was highlighting a national recruitment campaign for 20,000 new officers which has been welcomed across the police service.\"\n\n\"It gave the PM an opportunity to see first-hand the outstanding training which new recruits receive and to meet those who have committed their lives to keeping us safe.\"\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Johnson took part in walkabouts in Leeds and Wakefield where he was approached by a member of the public who shook his hand before politely asking him to leave his town.\n\nThe encounter led to the hashtag PleaseLeaveMyTown trending on Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told his country's space scientists he was proud of a programme that had come so near to putting a probe on the Moon.\n\nContact with Chandrayaan-2 was lost moments before its Vikram module was due to touch down at the lunar south pole.", "Boris Johnson has expelled 21 MPs from the parliamentary Conservative Party after they rebelled against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThose who have had the Tory whip removed include two ex-chancellors and a number of senior figures in Theresa May's and David Cameron's governments.\n\nSome have said they will stand down at the next election - whilst others have vowed to fight attempts to stop them standing again as Conservative candidates.\n\nIt comes after the rebels teamed up with the opposition on Tuesday to back a motion paving the way for a law seeking to delay the UK's exit date.\n\nThe legislation would force the prime minister to delay Brexit until January 2020, unless MPs approve either a new deal or a no-deal exit by 19 October.\n\nSo who are the Tory MPs who rebelled against the prime minister?\n\nThe former chancellor, who has been co-ordinating the rebels' efforts, insisted the move was not simply designed to block a no-deal exit but also to give Parliament proper time to scrutinise and implement any new deal agreed.\n\nThe 63-year-old voted for Theresa May's Brexit agreement three times, but has become a bogey figure for many Tory Brexiteers. They believe he has consistently exaggerated the economic risks of Brexit and sought to frustrate planning for no deal while in charge of the Treasury.\n\nThe Runnymede and Weybridge MP has said he will vigorously contest any attempt to deselect him as a candidate in the next election, potentially through legal action.\n\nBut his constituency association, which officially re-adopted him as their candidate on Monday evening, issued a statement on Facebook stating that he would \"no longer be eligible to stand\" after losing the Tory whip.\n\n\"A new Conservative candidate will be selected by the membership in due course,\" it said.\n\nTheresa May's former justice secretary is another key figure - so much so that he and his anti-no-deal associates have been dubbed the \"Gaukeward squad\".\n\nThe 48-year old former solicitor - who was George Osborne's number two at the Treasury in pre-referendum days - has said a no-deal exit would be a \"big mistake\" for the UK and he would not be \"complicit\" in something which would see people lose their jobs.\n\nThe South West Hertfordshire MP faced calls earlier this year from some activists in his constituency to deselect him.\n\nConfronted with the same threat now from No 10, he said he was prepared to put the national interest ahead of his own future career prospects by voting against the government. He said he believed Downing Street wanted to carry out a \"purge\" of dissenting voices.\n\nUnlike Mr Hammond and Mr Gauke, Mr Grieve has been a frequent and high-profile rebel over Brexit during the past two years - opposing Theresa May's withdrawal deal three times.\n\nThe former attorney general is a strong supporter of another referendum on the UK's future in Europe, with the option to remain.\n\nThe 63-year-old says he regards a no-deal exit as \"unacceptable\" and will always vote against it - even if his career takes a hit.\n\nThe Beaconsfield MP has said he wants to fight the next election as a Conservative but being deselected is a price he is willing to pay.\n\nHis constituency chairman, Jackson Ng, said he had urged Mr Grieve to \"desist\" from rebelling but thanked him for his \"long service\".\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Grieve lost a vote of no confidence by local Conservatives following a \"robust discussion\" about Brexit.\n\nAnother former chancellor, Mr Clarke is the most strongly Europhile member of his party and has long been out of step with its views on Europe.\n\nHe opposed the 2016 Brexit referendum and was the only Tory MP to vote against triggering the Article 50 process for leaving the EU.\n\nHe has gone as far as to suggest he would vote against the government in a vote of no confidence in order to stop a no-deal exit.\n\nThe 79-year old has previously suggested he might stand down as MP for Rushcliffe at the next election.\n\nHis constituency association said it was saddened to lose him from the party and paid tribute to his \"enviable and unparalleled\" service since he was first elected in 1970.\n\nIt added that \"all future correspondence should be sent direct to his office at the House of Commons rather than to the Rushcliffe Conservative Association office\".\n\nThe ex-cabinet minister was a ringleader in attempts by MPs in April to hammer out a Brexit compromise by seizing control of the parliamentary timetable.\n\nHe also spearheaded a cross-party bill designed to compel Theresa May to seek a Brexit extension earlier this year, and was the MP who applied for an emergency debate on Tuesday, beginning the process which led Boris Johnson's defeat over the latest no-deal Brexit bill.\n\nA consummate Westminster insider, he is a leading \"soft Brexiteer\" who believes the referendum result must be honoured but the UK should maintain close economic links with Europe.\n\nThe West Dorset MP had already said he will not contest the next general election.\n\nThe former education secretary announced on Tuesday she would stand down as MP for the overwhelmingly pro-Remain constituency of Putney in south-west London whenever the next election comes.\n\nShe warned that Parliament's ability to be a force for change, particularly in terms of improving social mobility, was being compromised by \"Brexit myopia\".\n\nShe voted three times against Theresa May's Brexit agreement, saying it neither delivered on the promises made to Leave voters nor gave anything to younger Remain.\n\nWarning her party was morphing into The Brexit Party, she said she would support legislation to keep all Brexit options \"on the table\" and to ensure Parliament has a real say in the outcome.\n\nThe former international development secretary said claims a no-deal exit would be a \"clean and easy break\" from the EU were disingenuous as, in reality, it would lead to years of economic and political uncertainty.\n\nMr Stewart suggested such an outcome would be \"remembered for 40 years\", and would permanently damage the party's reputation.\n\nDespite losing the whip, he has said he is \"not giving up\" on his Cumbrian constituency and would still be representing residents of Penrith and the Border.\n\nHe says it should be up to his local association whether to let him contest the next election and \"purging\" him and other rebels as candidates was a not a Conservative response.\n\nThe former Middle East minister, a respected figure in the party, has said he has a \"fundamental and unresolvable\" disagreement with the party leadership over Brexit.\n\nHe has said he will standing down as MP for North East Bedfordshire at the next election, having served in the Commons since 1983.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he said he accepted the party rules but asked colleagues to reflect on the question \"if we are being purged now, then who is next?\".\n\nHe said the Brexit convulsions in his party \"may have curtailed my future but it will not rob me of what I believe, and I will walk out of here looking up at the sky, not down at my shoes\".\n\nWinston Churchill's grandson was among those who met the PM on Tuesday for last-ditch talks but rebelled after concluding a deal was not achievable in the available timeframe.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he joked that he had been \"inspired by the serial disloyalty\" of the prime minister and other members of the current cabinet over Brexit in the past.\n\nHe added that it was his \"most fervent hope is that this House will rediscover the spirit of compromise, humility and understanding\" required to bring Brexit to a resolution and refocus on all the other challenges facing the country.\n\nHaving had the whip removed, he has said he will not be standing at the next election - meaning his near 37 year Commons career is nearing its end.\n\nThe veteran Conservative MP for Meriden supported the government in Tuesday's vote on whether to seize control of Parliamentary business.\n\nBut she joined the ranks of the rebels when the bill paving the way for a further delay to Brexit, if no deal is achieved, was voted on for the first time.\n\nUnlike those who rebelled on Tuesday, she has not had the whip withdrawn - but she has said she will not be standing at the next election.\n\nA former Conservative party chair and environment secretary under David Cameron, her Midlands constituency is home to a number of firms supplying parts for the UK car industry.\n\nThe 61-year old has expressed concerns about the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the industry.\n\nGreg Clark: The former business secretary was one of the strongest advocates of Theresa May's Brexit deal. He has said no deal would be \"ruinous\".\n\nSam Gyimah: The former universities minister said there was \"no mandate\" for a no-deal exit which would be \"damaging and disruptive\" for his constituents.\n\nAntoinette Sandbach: The MP for Eddisbury said it was \"important to act\" to stop any chance of no deal. She said she did not \"regret putting her job on the line to save my constituents' jobs\".\n\nStephen Hammond: He has accused Tory Brexiteers of \"lecturing others\" about loyalty. He told the BBC's World at One he would \"reluctantly\" vote against the government.\n\nMargot James: The former digital minister said it had been the hardest decision she had ever made in politics. Her local Stourbridge Conservative association has begun the process of selecting a candidate for the next election, saying the choice was a \"matter for members\".\n\nRichard Harrington: The 61-year old has rebelled over Brexit before and recently announced he would stand down as MP for Watford at the next election.\n\nGuto Bebb: The Aberconwy MP, who is also quitting at the next election, says a vote against no deal is \"truer to Conservative tradition than anyone who traipses through the lobbies out of fear, opportunism or simply unthinking loyalty\".\n\nCaroline Nokes: The Romsey and Southampton North MP said her constituents would be worse off under a no-deal Brexit. She said she would be talking to her constituency association but would not rule out standing as an independent.\n\nEd Vaizey: The ex-culture minister has said a no-deal exit would hurt the digital economy although he told Buzzfeed News he had yet to decide which way to vote.\n\nSteve Brine: The former health minister said last week he was prepared to hold the PM to his claim a no-deal exit is a \"million to one chance\".\n\nAnne Milton: She has kept a low profile since quitting as a minister in July but attended a meeting with other likely rebels in Westminster earlier on Tuesday.\n\nRichard Benyon: The MP for Newbury is a former fisheries minister in the coalition government. He told the BBC that he hoped to return to the fold as a Tory MP, adding that he would \"throw himself on the mercy\" of his local association.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Richard Selley and his wife Elaine travelled to Switzerland earlier this week\n\nA former teacher from Scotland who campaigned for the legalisation of euthanasia has died at a Swiss clinic.\n\nRichard Selley, 65, was suffering from motor neurone disease (MND). He had campaigned for a change in the law in a blog and a book on the issue.\n\nHe had travelled from his home at Glenalmond near Perth to the clinic in Zurich earlier this week.\n\n\"Knowing that I will die very soon is a surreal experience, but it is my choice,\" he said.\n\nMr Selley's wife Elaine wrote online: \"I am writing this post from my hotel room in Zurich. Richard died very peacefully at lunchtime today. His brother Peter and I were at his side.\n\n\"At Dignitas, in a clinically clean room, well appointed but devoid of any personal touches, we could feel all the love that has been shared with us over the years.\n\n\"The end was dignified and calm, exactly as Richard wanted. He had taken control of his own destiny.\"\n\nMr Selley, who had to talk-type to communicate, had spoken about being a \"prisoner\" in his own body and he has been campaigning for a change in the law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Selley spoke to the BBC about his decision to end his life\n\nIn July he wrote an open letter to MSPs calling for reform.\n\nHe said in a video recorded before his journey to Switzerland: \"Having to be able to fly means that I am choosing to die earlier than I would prefer.\n\n\"If an assisted death was possible in Scotland, I would be able to die at a time of my choosing, at home.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hope that members of the Scottish parliament support an assisted dying bill in the future.\n\n\"I think the momentum for a change in the law is growing.\"\n\nThe campaign group Dignity in Dying published a report this week recommending that assisted dying is legalised in Scotland \"to give terminally ill, mentally competent adults a further option of escaping or avoiding a period of unbearable suffering at the end of lives\".\n\nIt claimed that, even with high levels of palliative care, hundreds of patients still had no relief from pain at the end of life.\n\nThe campaign's director Ally Thomson said: \"Our thoughts are with Elaine and her family. Richard and Elaine showed immense bravery and dignity in sharing their story and speaking out about the injustice they both suffered under Scotland's outdated, broken law in their final weeks together.\"\n\nShe added: \"As Richard pointed out in his final message, he received outstanding palliative care. But it was simply not enough to guarantee him the swift, peaceful and dignified death he wanted.\n\n\"Richard is not alone - this week we published research which finds that even with universal access to the best hospice care, 11 Scots a week would still die with absolutely no relief of their pain.\n\n\"Surely those people whose suffering is beyond the reach of palliative care deserve another option?\"\n\nPrevious attempts to introduce new legislation have failed to get through the Scottish Parliament.\n\nOpponents of euthanasia argue that changing the law risks exposing people to abuse, coercion and exploitation.\n\nDr Stuart Weir, national director at Christian charity CARE for Scotland, said the Dignity in Dying report failed to address those risks.\n\nHe said: \"We believe this report muddies the waters by suggesting palliative care and assisted suicide are two sides of the same coin.\n\n\"The truth is that legalising assisted suicide goes right against the ethos of palliative care and in fact would undermine it.\"\n\nHe said there was a debate to be had about the provision of palliative care across Scotland, but that was \"a separate conversation to whether we should legalise something as dangerous as assisted suicide, with all the consequences of doing so\".", "A sex offender who concealed a spy camera in the ladies' toilets at Pinewood Studios has been jailed.\n\nMaintenance worker Peter Hartley, 50, planted a tiny motion-triggered camera behind a grille in the toilets at the studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe camera was spotted in June by a woman working at Pinewood, where the new James Bond film is being shot, Aylesbury Crown Court heard.\n\nHartley, of Uxbridge, west London, was jailed for 16 months.\n\nThe latest Bond film is being filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire\n\nHe will be on the sex offenders register for 10 years.\n\nHartley, who was working as a maintenance man, was caught after the worker noticed light reflecting from the lens similar \"to light reflecting off the face of a watch\" and used a screwdriver to take off the grille.\n\nProsecutor Daniel Wright told the court the device was marketed as a \"spy camera\" and Hartley had used a piece of tape to cover its LED light to try to stop it being detected.\n\nHartley, who has a history of similar offences dating back to 2008, contacted his public protection officer at the Met Police later that morning to tell him he had reoffended.\n\nHe has previous convictions for placing cameras in a council building in Coventry in 2009 and for placing one in the changing rooms of a leisure centre in 2016.\n\nHartley has a total of three convictions for eight offences.\n\nHe later pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the young woman who found the camera said she had needed mental health treatment and had suffered from acute anxiety.\n\nJailing Hartley, Judge Francis Sheridan said the victim's life \"has been devastated by a dirty-minded individual who preys on women\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The line is expected to open between 2028 and 2031\n\nMore than £1.25bn has been spent buying London properties to make way for High Speed Rail 2 (HS2), a freedom of information request has revealed.\n\nHS2 is negotiating to buy more buildings, despite a government review due in October into whether the project should continue.\n\nCosts have risen from £62bn to between £81bn and £88bn. The line is expected to open between 2028 and 2031.\n\nHS2 said it \"seeks a fair deal for both claimants and the taxpayer\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"Every home, business and piece of land is unique and we appreciate that there may often be different opinions between owners, their professional advisers and HS2 about the value of a property.\n\n\"We work with the people affected to reach agreement, recognising the differences in opinion can take time to resolve.\"\n\nBuilding work has begun at the HS2 Old Oak Common site\n\nThe high-speed rail line is designed to boost the UK's economy by cutting journey times between London and the Midlands and the north of England.\n\nThe freedom of information request from the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed the total spend on buying property in London to be at least £1,256,089,849 as of 30 June.\n\nMany of the properties purchased to make way for the railway are in west London, including in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.\n\nHS2 refused to release addresses, stating that this would risk exposing the empty properties to the risk of squatters.\n\nAmanda Souter believes the project should be cancelled as \"it's costing too much\"\n\nAdditional money has been spent acquiring 54 residential properties under private agreement and discretionary schemes, including commercial or industrial buildings in Uxbridge, Northolt, Camden and Westminster.\n\nAmanda Souter lives beside Old Oak Common in East Acton, where construction has begun ahead of a planned HS2 station.\n\nShe said: \"It should be cancelled, because there is no business case, it's costing too much, and it's out of control.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport has been approached for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reiss, Ralston and Ricky (l-r) Gabriel were jailed after DNA linked to them was found on a pistol intended for a violent criminal\n\nIdentical triplets have been jailed after DNA linked them to a plot to supply an \"extremely dangerous criminal\" with an Uzi sub-machine gun.\n\nDNA found on a handgun linked it to either Reiss, Ralston or Ricky Gabriel but it was impossible for police to prove which brother it belonged to.\n\nHowever, an investigation revealed all three were involved.\n\nThe 28-year-olds, from Edmonton in north London, were sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court.\n\nRicky and Ralston Gabriel, who are both semi-professional footballers, were found guilty of conspiracy to possess firearms and ammunition with intent to endanger life in July and each jailed for 14 years.\n\nReiss Gabriel was found guilty of the same charge and also admitted possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life after being caught with a handgun in July last year, and two counts of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.\n\nHe was jailed for 18 years.\n\nArmed police found an Uzi sub-machine gun with a silencer and ammunition and a loaded pistol on courier Hamza Ahmed\n\nArmed police found an Uzi sub-machine gun with a silencer and ammunition and a loaded pistol on courier Hamza Ahmed, 21, after stopping a taxi in Tottenham, north London, on 10 April 2017.\n\nThe DNA recovered from the pistol was not attributable to just one of the triplets, as they shared almost identical DNA.\n\nDetectives carried out an extensive investigation to find out which of the brothers was involved in handling the firearms - but mobile phone and surveillance evidence revealed it was all three, the court heard.\n\nAron Thomas was given a life sentence for two counts of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nThe brothers were the final three of eight individuals charged over a plot to supply weapons.\n\nProsecutor Kerry Broome said: \"An Uzi sub-machine gun is clearly an extraordinarily serious firearm. It is not capable of any lawful use. It has the capability to cause maximum indiscriminate harm.\n\n\"The pistol was loaded. They were both ready for immediate use.\"\n\nThe firearms were meant for Aron Thomas, 32, who was caught with another loaded revolver and ammunition when he was held on 26 April 2017.\n\nAt the time, he was on licence, having been released from an 11-year prison sentence for opening fire at random towards a crowded street near Wood Green Tube station in 2010.\n\nThomas, from Holloway, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years last year after he was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nHamza Ahmed, Elyace Hamchaoui and Joshua Miller were also jailed over the plot\n\nAhmed, from Archway, north London, was jailed for 16 years for one count of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life in relation to the first incident.\n\nMiddleman Elyace Hamchaoui, 23, from Arnos Grove, north London, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the same charge.\n\nJoshua Miller, 27, of no fixed address, was jailed for 17 years for conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life in relation to the second incident.\n• None Why criminal twins may no longer be safe\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane scored a hat-trick as they cruised to victory against Bulgaria at Wembley to maintain their 100% record in Euro 2020 qualifying.\n\nGareth Southgate's side made it three wins from three with 14 goals scored, barely needing to break sweat as they comfortably cleared another obstacle in their path to next summer's showpiece.\n\nKane and Raheem Sterling were deadly once more as England built momentum from a low-key first 45 minutes to brush Bulgaria aside.\n\nThe pair combined to give England a 24th-minute lead when Sterling pounced on an error by Bulgaria goalkeeper Plamen Iliev at a goal-kick to set up Kane for a smart finish on the turn.\n\nKane scored England's second from the spot four minutes after the break, the penalty awarded for Nikolay Bodurov's foul on Marcus Rashford, then he crossed for Sterling to bundle home the third in the 55th minute.\n\nTottenham's Kane completed his treble with another spot-kick after he was hauled down by Kristian Dimitrov to take his outstanding international record to 25 goals from 40 appearances, with this his second hat-trick after achieving the same feat against Panama in the 2018 World Cup.\n\nSouthgate, with victory assured, was able to give a senior debut to Chelsea's Mason Mount as England had the perfect preparation for the next qualifier against Kosovo in Southampton on Tuesday.\n• None Southgate says England must up training intensity\n\nKane and Sterling will claim the headlines for England once more and rightly so - they are a deadly pair of attackers operating at the top of their game.\n\nKane's hat-trick takes him past England's 1966 World Cup final hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst, who scored 24 goals in 49 appearances for the Three Lions.\n\nSterling set him up for his first and Kane repaid the compliment for England's third, their partnership growing in stature and providing Southgate with an attacking weapon that will cause problems for most defences.\n\nSterling's pace was a constant threat to an admittedly very poor Bulgaria side but, in tandem with Kane, he was able to lift England from a poor first-half display on to a level that eventually made it simply a matter of how many they would score.\n\nEngland have been presented with what, on the surface, looks like a very comfortable passage to Euro 2020 from Group A - but the manner in which they have swept aside the Czech Republic, Montenegro and now Bulgaria has been quietly impressive.\n• None See how the players rated\n• None England youngsters should get get chance\n\nEngland may have come up short at the 2018 World Cup in Russia and this summer's Uefa Nations League Finals, but it seems a formality that they will get another crack at ending the years of hurt at Euro 2020.\n\nIn reality, England and manager Gareth Southgate could barely have asked for a kinder draw than the one they have been given and it is hard to see any of the teams in their group seriously troubling them.\n\nThe only problem England may face is that, once again, the first serious test of their credentials, ambitions and progress may yet come in the Euros next summer.\n\nSouthgate must make sure England are ready and match sharp for that, both with performances and by building a squad that will hit the ground running once the serious action starts at Euro 2020.\n\nEngland may not have too many serious tests before then so Southgate will need to use time and games wisely to assemble a squad that is finally in shape to get over the line when it matters.\n\n'We enjoy playing together' - what they said\n\nEngland striker Harry Kane speaking to ITV: \"First half we got caught on the counter a couple of times, we said at half-time we needed to try and come out and get an early goal and that's what we did. It's a good result we hope to take into Tuesday.\n\n\"It's great for [Raheem Sterling] that he's taken his club form into international form, he's an amazing player. We enjoy playing together, we all do.\"\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate speaking to ITV: \"I think it improved as the game went on. We didn't need to over-complicate things. We looked dangerous, at times we took a few too many touches. Their formation caused us problems out of possession as well.\n\n\"In a game like this you have got to make sure the concentration is right. I always felt we had enough firepower to win the game. I'm not sure it's complacency - every team will have some moments, you just have to make sure you see the runs - but I'm generally pleased. Some of our attacking play was really exciting.\"\n\nNo qualifying defeat in almost 10 years - the stats\n• None England are unbeaten in their 11 matches against Bulgaria (W7 D4 L0) - they've faced no nation more times without losing (11 - level with Finland and Turkey).\n• None England are unbeaten in their last 42 Euro/World Cup qualifying matches (W33 D9 L0), since losing 0-1 to Ukraine in October 2009.\n• None Bulgaria haven't won an away match in qualifying for the World Cup or the European Championship since June 2015 against Malta, drawing two and losing eight since then.\n• None Harry Kane became the first player to score 25+ goals in his first 40 appearances for the England men's team since Gary Lineker (27 goals). It was his 13th hat-trick for club and country (11 for Spurs, two for England).\n• None Kane has scored eight penalties for England (excluding shoot-outs) - only Frank Lampard (nine) has netted more for the Three Lions.\n• None Raheem Sterling has been directly involved in nine goals in his last seven appearances for England (seven goals and two assists); as many goal involvements as he registered in his previous 33.\n• None Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid) became the first player representing a Spanish club to play for the England men's team since David Beckham (Real Madrid) in June 2007.\n• None Danny Rose (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Rose.\n• None Attempt blocked. Danny Rose (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt saved. Ivelin Popov (Bulgaria) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Demi Lovato told her followers in the Instagram post that she is proud of her body\n\nPop singer Demi Lovato has posted an unedited image of herself showing off her cellulite, telling her millions of followers it was her \"biggest fear\".\n\nThe 27-year-old said the image was \"cellulit\" adding she was tired of \"being ashamed\" of her body and admitting that previous pictures had been edited.\n\n\"I want this new chapter in my life to be about being authentic to who I am rather than trying to meet someone else's standards.\n\n\"So here's me, unashamed, unafraid and proud to own a body that has fought through so much and will continue to amaze me when I hopefully give birth one day.\"\n\nThe unedited image appears to have been taken at the same time as similar ones Lovato posted in May this year while on holiday in Bora Bora, French Polynesia.\n\nThe popularity of the new picture has already far surpassed the 4.1 million likes the image of her in the same location wearing the same bikini garnered, with more than 7.1 million fans so far showing their support.\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 ddlovato 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\nHer photo prompted her fans to share their images of cellulite with her too - which she also included in her Instagram story.\n\nMari, 20, who posts as @lovatolight, was one of those who responded.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"When I saw she posted my picture and said she was proud of me, all I did was cry. She is such a strong person and that meant a lot. I had that picture but I had never posted it before because I was really insecure about my body. When Demi posted hers I felt really inspired by her courage and decided to post mine too.\"\n\nCellulite is a condition where the skin has a dimpled and lumpy appearance. It affects 90% of all women at some point in their lives yet is often airbrushed from pictures or not shown at all.\n\nDemi Lovato updated her Instagram story with a response to the reaction her initial picture had\n\nFellow celebrities have expressed support for Lovato's post too.\n\nComedian Amy Schumer added Demi's photo to her own Instagram story stating \"@ddlovato is the truth\" while model Ashley Graham wrote: \"I love Demi\".\n\nThe singer took a short break from the platform in July this year after facing abuse.\n\nAs well as working on new tracks in the studio and appearing as a recurring character in the television show Will and Grace, the star is also working on a film for Netflix called Eurovision.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: England v Australia, fourth Specsavers Test (day four of five) England need further 365 to win\n\nEngland's hopes of saving the Ashes faded with the loss of two late wickets on the fourth day of the fourth Test against Australia at Old Trafford.\n\nFaced with the prospect of having to bat for 30 minutes on Saturday evening and another 98 overs on Sunday, the home side saw Rory Burns and Joe Root depart to successive Pat Cummins deliveries.\n\nFrom the third ball of the innings, Burns got a leading edge to mid-off, while Root was bowled by a wonderful delivery that trimmed the off bail.\n\nSomehow, Joe Denly and Jason Roy got through the next six overs as England closed on 18-2.\n\nEngland earlier had a revival thwarted by yet more runs from Steve Smith.\n\nWhen the tourists were reduced to 44-4, with Stuart Broad and Jofra Archer tearing in, their lead was 240, only for Smith to add 82 to his first-innings 211.\n\nIt allowed Australia to declare on 186-6 and set England 383 to win or, more realistically, bat out the remainder of the match.\n\nIf they fail, holders Australia will be 2-1 up with only one Test remaining and assured of taking the urn back down under for the first time since 2001.\n\nEngland have not batted through the final day of a Test to earn a draw for more than six years, but the pitch remains placid, even if there has been the occasional sign of low bounce.\n\nSomehow, Saturday at Old Trafford crammed in the majority of the themes from this Ashes series: batting slumps, wonderful new-ball bowling, Stuart Broad dismissing David Warner, the home crowd taunting the Australians and, obviously, Smith scoring runs.\n\nThe life seemed to have been sucked from the contest when England were bowled out for 301, giving up a first-innings deficit of 196.\n\nBut it was ignited by the burst from Broad and Archer which had England believing, Australia rocking and the party stand - with its Teletubbies, umpires and Chelsea pensioners - whipped into a fervour.\n\nEven the indomitable Smith seemed rattled. If England could remove him, the door really would have been open, yet he played himself in against the change bowling then moved Australia out of sight.\n\nHowever, nothing could top the drama of Cummins' magnificent first over, one that stunned England and left them clinging grimly to their hopes of regaining the Ashes.\n\nHope remains. If England can somehow repel the relentless Australia attack and produce a heroic rearguard on the final day, it would write another chapter in this fascinating series and set up a grandstand finale at The Oval.\n\nBroad has been magnificent throughout the series and has turned Warner into a walking wicket. Here, it took six balls for Broad to pin the left-hander lbw for his third successive duck, the sixth time he has dismissed him in eight innings.\n\nEngland were bowling a fuller length than in the first innings. Broad trapped Marcus Harris leg before and the improved Archer, his pace above 90mph, made Marnus Labuschagne the third lbw of the innings before uprooting Travis Head's middle stump.\n\nIt was electrifying bowling, matched by the atmosphere, with Smith also troubled by Broad in particular.\n\nBut Craig Overton and Jack Leach could not continue the pressure and Smith took back control in a fourth-wicket stand of 105 with Matthew Wade.\n\nAs Smith passed 50, there were times when he seemed to be poking fun at England, playing incredible strokes to hit the ball wherever he pleased.\n\nOnly in the push for the declaration did he loft Leach to long-off and Australia called time 37 runs later.\n\nEngland's two innings in an day\n\nFrom 200-5 overnight, England's mission was to bat as long and get as close to Australia's first-innings 497-8 as possible.\n\nThe plan was derailed when Mitchell Starc took the second new ball. An inswinger and a firm-handed push at the ball resulted in the familiar sight of Jonny Bairstow being bowled, while Ben Stokes poked one to second slip.\n\nJos Buttler briefly entertained for his 41 and, with the help of Leach, dragged England past a follow-on that Australia probably would not have enforced before he was bowled taking a swipe at Cummins.\n\nIt was not known at the time, but that would turn out to be the first of three wickets in the space of five Cummins deliveries, stretched over two England innings.\n\nIn the fading light, Burns somehow got a ball from his leg stump to mid-off fielder Head, then Root's defensive stroke was beaten for his third duck and second first-baller of the series.\n\nRoy pushed back the hat-trick ball and, like Denly, admirably came through some tough moments to reach the close.\n\nBoth men could perhaps be playing for their Test futures on Sunday. More importantly, they will bat for the Ashes.\n\nEngland need a 'miracle' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"Smith proved today he can play any innings. He can up his tempo. He is a wizard.\n\n\"It was a miracle at Headingley and it will take a miracle (for England) to survive the draw here. To face that attack on this pitch now for 98 overs it will take an incredible innings - a Michael Atherton-style innings from all of those years ago back in Johannesburg.\"\n\nEngland coach Trevor Bayliss on TMS: \"Anything is possible. We saw that in the last Test match.\n\n\"We spoke about last week about who will put their hand up and be remembered. We are pretty upbeat about what we might be able to do tomorrow. Hopefully we bat well, save the game and enjoy a beer after.\n\n\"We already had a chat. Everyone is psyched to go out tomorrow and be the one or two guys who go out and score a hundred.\"\n\nAustralia bowler Pat Cummins on Sky Sports: \"None of us expected the innings Smithy went out with - he was incredible. We'd have been happy to get though the night but Smithy was unbelievable.\n\n\"I'm feeling OK. One big final push tomorrow then a few days rest before The Oval.\"\n\nFormer Australia bowler Glenn McGrath on TMS: \"Australia may have been a little shaky at 44-4 but Steve Smith comes out and rights the ship a little bit.\n\n\"The two early wickets make a huge difference. England have to show some fight if they are not going to lose this game.\"\n• None Steve Smith has scored 671 runs in five innings. It is the fifth time an Australian has made 600 runs in England after Donald Bradman (twice), Mark Taylor and Arthur Morris.\n• None This is the third time Smith has passed 600 runs in a series. Only Bradman, with six, managed it more often.\n• None Smith has made nine consecutive Test fifties against England, equalling Inzamam-ul-Haq's record against one team (also against England).\n• None David Warner is the first Australia opener to make a pair since Mark Taylor against Pakistan at Karachi in 1994, and the first in an Ashes Test since Ross Edwards at Headingley in 1972.\n• None Warner is the only the third Australia opener to make three successive ducks in Ashes Tests, after Victor Trumper and Graeme Wood.\n• None Stuart Broad has bowled 93 balls at Warner in the series, dismissing him six times and conceding only 32 runs.\n• None Jonny Bairstow has been bowled 15 times in his past 37 innings.\n• None Joe Root is the first England captain to be dismissed for a duck three times in a Test series.", "Doug Shipsey's 21-year-old daughter Bethany died after taking an overdose of diet pills containing dinitrophenol (DNP) in 2017.\n\nThe BBC's Adina Campbell accompanied him to Ukraine, where it's not illegal to produce or sell DNP. He wanted to confront the man who he believed sold her the drugs online.\n\nDNP is a highly toxic fat-burning substance widely available online, but in the UK it's illegal to sell for human consumption.", "Many small firms can identify with Nimisha Raja's view of Brexit: \"We have absolutely no idea what's going on.\"\n\nMs Raja, founder and boss of Nim's Fruit Crisps, stockpiled supplies last year in the run-up to the original Brexit date in March.\n\nBut she told the BBC she had no plans to do the same ahead of 31 October.\n\nMs Raja is not alone. New research by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) shows 41% of UK firms have done no risk assessment on the impact of Brexit.\n\nThe BCC survey canvassed the views of more than 1,500 business leaders.\n\n\"Last time we stockpiled, it came to absolutely nothing. We were lucky enough to get a deal with the NHS and we were able to use the products that we had stockpiled,\" said Ms Raja, whose factory is based in Kent.\n\n\"But this time around, it just feels like we want to do what [people at] Westminster seem to be doing, which is just folding their arms and waiting for the deadline.\"\n\nThe BCC said: \"Business has consistently called on government to avoid a messy and disorderly exit.\n\n\"But in light of the political turmoil and relentless uncertainty, clearer and more consistent information is needed to help them prepare.\n\n\"With just weeks until a potential no-deal exit, there is still a large proportion of firms that aren't in a position to prepare for the impact.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said supporting businesses to \"get ready for Brexit on 31 October, and take advantage of the opportunities of leaving the EU\" was the department's top priority.\n\nThe BEIS had announced £108m in funding support, he added.\n\nCurrently efforts are continuing in Parliament to rule out a no-deal Brexit on 31 October. A bill designed to secure a three-month extension to the process could receive royal assent next week.\n\nAll VAT-registered firms in the UK need an Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number to continue to trade with customers and suppliers in the EU once the UK has left the EU.\n\nFirms without an EORI number will not be allowed to trade with EU member states after Brexit.\n\nEarlier this month, the government said it would start automatically enrolling UK firms in a customs system as it speeds up its preparations for a no-deal Brexit, a move the BCC campaigned for.\n\nHow will Nim's Fruit Crisps cope with the Brexit crunch?\n\nBut BCC director-general Dr Adam Marshall said businesses needed more information.\n\n\"There are many areas where there simply isn't enough clear and actionable information for businesses to mitigate some of the impacts of an unwanted no-deal exit.\"\n\nMs Raja said she was not at all clear about what preparations were needed to export her firm's products after the Brexit deadline.\n\nShe said: \"We are dealing with fresh produce, just-in-time products, and the worrying thing is that if suddenly on 31 October there are border controls, produce that we have coming in will be held up, which will mean production in our factories will stall.\"\n\nMs Raja said that despite everything, she was hopeful about future prospects.\n\nShe added: \"I'm still optimistic about Made In Britain carrying as much weight as it always has done.\n\n\"Whether we're able to continue to export the way we have been doing and import the way we have been doing, I don't know.\"", "The GSLV Mark III rocket is going to be used for the flight\n\nBefore humans headed up there, animals were the first living creatures that were sent into space. But India will now become the first nation to fly a spacecraft with only humanoid robots. Science writer Pallava Bagla reports.\n\nThe Indian government has sanctioned $1.4bn (£1.1bn) to the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for its first manned space flight by 2022.\n\nThey hope to use the country's heaviest rocket - the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III or GSLV Mk-III - for the space flight.\n\nWorking in tandem with the Indian Air Force, the space agency will train a crew of 10 astronauts and eventually select three of them for the flight.\n\nTo date - using indigenously made rockets - Russia, the US and China have sent astronauts into space. If India can achieve this, it will become the fourth country to launch humans into space from its own soil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Atlas, a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics, is now able to perform backflips\n\nBut, unlike other nations that have carried out human space flights, India will not fly animals into space. Instead, it will fly humanoid robots for a better understanding of what weightlessness and radiation do to the human body during long durations in space.\n\n\"It is a highly ambitious and challenging national programme. But before Indians are flown into space, two flights with humanoids will test the limits of the crew module,\" Isro chairman and well-known rocket scientist, K Sivan said.\n\nIn the early years of space flight, there were concerns whether humans would survive in weightless conditions or if the radiation would prove to be hazardous. Many experiments were conducted to establish whether flying life into space was safe.\n\nSo fruit flies, mice, monkeys, dogs, cats, chimpanzees, tortoise and spiders were launched into space before the first human, Yuri Gagarin, was orbited around the Earth in 1961.\n\nThe USSR sent a dog, Laika, into space\n\nNo human spaceflight has launched from America since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, and Nasa has relied on Russian Soyuz modules to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS in the intervening years.\n\nIn 2014, Nasa awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX and Boeing a combined $6.8bn to build competing spacecraft to carry astronauts into orbit from the United States.\n\nCurrently, the Americans are developing two new crew modules - one by Elon Musk's SpaceX called Dragon and another by Boeing called Starliner - which are scheduled for the first human space flight trials.\n\nIn March, SpaceX used its Falcon-9 rocket to launch the Crew Dragon into space. It carries on board a highly instrumented mannequin named Ripley - a dummy astronaut of sorts to check the spacecraft's performance. But there are no humans on this experimental mission.\n\n\"Neither SpaceX or Boeing will fly animals in advance of people,\" says Dr Michael R Barratt, a specialist in aerospace medicine and a Nasa astronaut.", "The Adrian Darya-1, formerly the Grace 1, was released after Iran said it would not head to Syria\n\nThe Iranian oil tanker at the centre of an international incident has been sailing just off the Syrian coast, satellite images appear to show.\n\nThe Adrian Darya-1 was seized by Gibraltar in July with the aid of British forces over fears it was bound for Syria, violating EU sanctions.\n\nIt was eventually released after assurances were given that it would not head for the war-ravaged country.\n\nBut images released on Saturday seemed to show it two nautical miles offshore.\n\nThe images, from US company Maxar Technologies, appeared to place the tanker very close to the Syrian port of Tartus on 6 September.\n\nUS National Security Advisor John Bolton tweeted that anyone who believed the ship was no longer headed for Syria was \"in denial\".\n\n\"Tehran thinks it's more important to fund the murderous Assad regime than provide for its own people,\" he said, alongside another satellite picture. \"We can talk, but #Iran's not getting any sanctions relief until it stops lying and spreading terror!\"\n\nThere is however no confirmation that the ship is unloading its cargo of 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil.\n\nNeither Iran nor Syria have commented.\n\nIn a statement, the UK's Foreign Office called the reports \"deeply troubling\".\n\nA spokesperson said that if Iran had broken its assurances, it would be \"a violation of international norms and a morally bankrupt course of action\".\n\nThe ship, originally known as Grace 1 when it was detained off the British territory in July, has caused a major diplomatic spat between Washington and Tehran.\n\nBritish marines had helped Gibraltar authorities detain the vessel, partly drawing the UK into the row.\n\nThe United States made an official request to seize the ship in August, but the courts in Gibraltar denied it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US last year withdrew from the international 2015 deal to limit Iran's nuclear programme, and reinstated sanctions. In response, Iran stopped abiding by some commitments in the deal.\n\nThe EU has sought to salvage the accord but the Iranian tanker was seized because it was suspected of heading to Syria, which would breach EU sanctions on that country.\n\nThe Gibraltar authorities freed the vessel on 15 August after receiving assurances from Iran that it would not discharge its cargo in Syria.\n\nThe US has been seeking to seize the tanker since it was released by Gibraltar. It issued a warrant and blacklisted the vessel, threatening sanctions on any country which offered it aid. The ship has since been sailing east across the Mediterranean.\n\nEarlier this week it was revealed that a US official had even offered the captain of the ship millions of dollars to change course and sail the tanker to somewhere the US might be able to seize it.\n\nA British-flagged tanker was seized by Iran in July, in what was widely seen as retaliation for Britain's role in helping to seize the Iranian vessel - a link Tehran denies.\n\nThe Stena Impero was passing through the Strait of Hormuz when it was seized. It remains in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs and peers will return to Parliament shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that its suspension was unlawful.\n\nBoris Johnson, who flew back from a UN summit this morning, will address the Commons amid calls for him to resign.\n\nThe PM has said he \"profoundly disagreed\" with Tuesday's landmark ruling but he would respect it.\n\nChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove said he would not criticise the court, but he \"disagreed with their position\".\n\nFive government statements have been confirmed - including from the prime minister and Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nThere will also be two urgent questions from MPs - one asking for a statement from the Attorney General on the legal advice he gave ahead of suspending Parliament, and another on possible conflicts of interest for the prime minister over payments to a US businesswoman.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leader's 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\nOpening proceedings, Mr Bercow welcomed back MPs to \"our place of work\", and announced the record had been changed to show there had not been a \"prorogation\", but an \"adjournment\" in lieu of the court judgement.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's unanimous ruling, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn brought forward his party conference speech so he could return to Westminster on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Radio 4 Today programme, he reiterated his call for Mr Johnson to resign, and said the court's decision had left the PM \"badly wanting\".\n\nBut he said he would not be proposing a motion of no confidence, which could trigger a general election, until it was \"very clear\" the prime minister would seek an extension to Brexit to prevent a no-deal and the EU had agreed to it.\n\n\"He should apologise both to [the Queen], but more importantly apologise to the British people for trying to shut down our democracy in a crucial time when people are very worried about what will happen on 31 October,\" Mr Corbyn added.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled it was impossible to conclude there had been any reason - \"let alone a good reason\" - to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson, who was attending the UN General Assembly in New York, spoke to the Queen after the ruling, a senior government official said, although no details of the conversation have been revealed.\n\nThe prime minister also chaired a 30-minute phone call with his cabinet.\n\nA source told the BBC Mr Rees-Mogg told cabinet ministers on the call that the action by the court had amounted to a \"constitutional coup\".\n\nMr Rees-Mogg was among the government ministers who went to Balmoral in August to ask the Queen to approve the suspension of Parliament.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland warned others not to attack the judiciary, saying it \"always acts free from political motivation or influence\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Robert Buckland QC MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe one thing we can be sure of is the government is going to face a barrage of criticism from all sides of the House of Commons later.\n\nAs a member of the cabinet said to me, Parliament and the opposition will now be able to keep the government as political hostages and almost play with them in their agony.\n\nBut it is quite something to hear a senior member of government, run by the Conservative and Unionist Party - whose principals have always been about trying to preserve the status quo and respecting the country's institutions - still saying they don't believe they did anything wrong.\n\nYou can see how No 10 are trying to play all of these things. We have seen it time and again that the response of this government is to double down when things go wrong.\n\nBut increasingly there is unease among ministers in government about this approach and there is unease in the Tory party.\n\nIt may well, in time, play to their Brexit-backing bases, but, my goodness, this is risky.\n\nSome people believe that strategy is not just speeding them towards being able to keep their promise over Brexit - it may also speed them towards crashing into a brick wall.\n\nBut we will only know in time, when the public give their verdict, if that is a strategy that will crash and burn or whether it is something they can use to their advantage.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Mr Johnson insisted the suspension of Parliament had been necessary in order for him to bring forward a Queen's Speech on 14 October outlining his government's policies.\n\nBut the court found that the effect of such a move stopped MPs from scrutinising the government.\n\nThe prime minister said he \"refused to be deterred\" from getting on with \"an exciting and dynamic domestic agenda\" and to do that he would need a Queen's Speech.\n\nThe court ruling does not prevent him from proroguing again in order to hold one, as long as it does not stop Parliament carrying out its duties \"without reasonable justification\".\n\nA No 10 source said the Supreme Court had \"made a serious mistake in extending its reach to these political matters\" and had \"made it clear that its reasons [were] connected to the Parliamentary disputes over, and timetable for\" Brexit.\n\nBut Supreme Court president Lady Hale emphasised in the ruling that the case was \"not about when and on what terms\" the UK left the EU - it was about the decision to suspend Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"This is a verdict that we will respect\"\n\nSpeaking to Today, Mr Gove said he \"appreciated the gravity\" of the decision by the Supreme Court, but he disagreed with their position.\n\nPushed on whether the government would apologise, Mr Gove said they should not say sorry for \"having a strong domestic agenda\" and seeking a Queen's Speech.\n\nInstead, he reiterated calls for Parliament to agree to hold a general election and \"let the people decide\".\n\nMPs passed a law before Parliament was suspended to force the PM to ask for an extension from the EU if a deal - or approval for no deal - was backed by the Commons by 19 October.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has said under no circumstances would he request an extension, so opposition MPs fear no deal could still happen.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson agreed that getting the extension was \"the best way forward\" before an election.\n\n\"Our country is in a moment of great peril and it is hugely important we don't risk crashing out of EU - that is the risk of an early vote of no confidence [in Boris Johnson],\" she said.\n\nMs Swinson said opposition parties should \"explore all options for taking no deal off the table\", adding: \"Then we can get rid of the prime minister who is unfit for office.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says he won't support a general election until a no-deal is ruled out\n\nScotland's First Minister, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, Wales' First Minister, Labour's Mark Drakeford, and Sinn Fein's vice-president, Michelle O'Neill have all called for Mr Johnson to resign.\n\nDowning Street has insisted there is no question of him standing aside.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson was backed by US President Donald Trump at a joint press conference at the UN summit.\n\n\"I'll tell you, I know him well, he's not going anywhere,\" said Mr Trump, after a US reporter quizzed the prime minister on whether he was going to resign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: Boris Johnson \"is not going anywhere\"", "US reporter Lisa Evers has been in court for the trial of Daniel Hernandez, better known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, in New York City.\n\nThe rapper has turned on other alleged gang members as part of a plea deal with the US government which he hopes will reduce his prison time.\n\nHe was facing a minimum of 47 years and a maximum of life imprisonment, now there is the possibility he could be released by 2020. He has finished testifying but the trial is expected to run until October.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A woman travelling on a Thomas Cook flight organised an impromptu whip-round for staff after the firm collapsed on Monday.\n\nCabin crew on the flight from Dalaman in Turkey were \"heartbroken\" after losing their jobs, Elaine Kerslake said.\n\nOver the plane's tannoy system, she told her fellow passengers more than £650 had been raised for the staff.\n\nOne of the stewards tearfully thanked the passengers, who applauded the effort.", "HMP Long Lartin holds some of the country's most \"dangerous\" offenders\n\nSpecialist prison officers have been deployed to a high security jail after officers retreated from a wing when they came under attack.\n\nAbout 10 prisoners are currently involved in the disturbance at HMP Long Lartin, in Worcestershire.\n\nA prison officer was hurt as inmates caused damage to a building and attacked staff with pool balls.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said \"specialist staff\" had been deployed \"to manage an ongoing incident\".\n\nThe trained unit, known as a Tornado team, is brought in to manage riots.\n\n\"We are absolutely clear that prisoners who behave in this way will be punished and face extra time behind bars,\" an MoJ spokeswoman said.\n\nThe injured officer has gone to hospital after indirectly sustaining a minor injury.\n\nEarlier reports said 70 prisoners were involved in the disorder.\n\nPrison Officers' Association general secretary Steve Gillan tweeted: \"At moment we do not know all the facts but we fully support all our members at Long Lartin who are clearly facing a difficult evening with a disturbance.\"\n\nThe prison holds more than 500 of the country's most \"dangerous and serious\" male offenders, according to a 2018 report from HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.\n\nAt the time of the inspection around a quarter of inmates were Category A, the highest security classification, and more than 75% were serving life sentences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has told MPs the Supreme Court was \"wrong to pronounce on a political question at a time of great national controversy\".\n\nAnd he urged smaller parties to table a vote of no confidence in his government to trigger a general election.\n\nIn extraordinary scenes, Tory MPs applauded as he goaded Jeremy Corbyn over his refusal to back an election.\n\nMr Corbyn told the PM he was \"not fit for office\" and should have resigned after the Supreme Court's verdict.\n\nOther MPs also rounded on Mr Johnson for his lack of contrition following the unanimous defeat for the government in the court.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said Wednesday's events in Parliament had been \"an horrendous spectacle\". Her colleague, Jess Phillips, said the PM's response to the court judgement looked \"horrendous\" to the public and he should apologise.\n\nThe SNP's Joanna Cherry - who was one of the lawyers who led the court challenge against the suspension or \"prorogation\" - said the House had been \"treated to the sort of populist rant one expects to hear from a tin-pot dictatorship\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor said the Commons was \"an absolute bear pit\", with \"so much vitriol on all sides\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour and the SNP have refused to vote for a general election until a no-deal Brexit has been taken off the table.\n\nThe PM was forced to cut short his visit to the UN in New York to return to the Commons after the UK's highest court ruled his decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nHe said he \"respected\" the court's verdict, but did not think it should have ruled on a \"political question\".\n\nAnd he dared opposition parties to \"finally face the day of reckoning with the voters\" in an election.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I think the people outside this House understand what is happening.\n\n\"Out of sheer selfishness and political cowardice they are unwilling to move aside and let the people have a say. The Leader of the Opposition and his party don't trust the people.\n\n\"All that matters to them is an obsessive desire to overturn the referendum result.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says Boris Johnson is not fit for office and thinks he is above the law\n\nHe said Labour had \"until the House rises today to table a motion of no confidence in the government, and we can have that vote tomorrow (Thursday)\".\n\n\"Or if any of the other smaller parties fancy a go, table the motion, we'll give you time for that vote.\"\n\nTory MPs broke into sustained applause - something rarely seen in the Commons - after Mr Johnson's attack on the opposition leader, sparking anger on the Labour benches.\n\nLabour has said it does not trust Mr Johnson to obey Parliament's instructions to request a delay to Brexit, which the PM has insisted will happen on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Even my five-year-old knows that if you do something wrong you have to say sorry\"\n\nMr Corbyn told the PM he should have \"done the honourable thing and resigned\" after the Supreme Court verdict.\n\n\"Quite simply, for the good of this country, he (Mr Johnson) should go,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"He says he wants a general election. I want a general election. It's very simple - if you want an election, get an extension and let's have an election.\"\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford said: \"We cannot trust this prime minister, his time must be up. His days of lying, of cheating and of undermining the rule of law...\"\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow asked Mr Blackford to withdraw the \"lying\" comment as it broke Commons rules.\n\nMr Blackford added: \"Do the right thing and do it now, prime minister. End this dictatorship, will you now resign?\"\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson called on Mr Johnson to apologise to the Commons following the court judgement.\n\nShe later tweeted that the prime minister was an \"utter disgrace\" for responding to Labour MP Paula Sheriff's plea for him to stop using \"inflammatory\" words such as \"surrender\".\n\nMr Johnson replied to Ms Sheriff - who referred to the murder of MP Jo Cox during her intervention - by saying: \"I've never heard such humbug in all my life.\"\n\nTracy Brabin, who was elected as MP for Batley and Spen after Mrs Cox was murdered, also urged the prime minister to moderate his language \"so that we will all feel secure when we're going about our jobs\".\n\nMr Johnson replied that \"the best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox and indeed the best way to bring this country together would be, I think, to get Brexit done\".\n\nUnder the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, the prime minister cannot call an election unless two-thirds of MPs back it, meaning the main opposition party has to back it.\n\nBut a motion of no confidence in the government only needs a majority of one - and could lead to a general election being held.\n\nThe government is under no obligation to give time to any call for a motion of confidence from anyone other than the leader of the opposition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The prime minister fought the law but the law won,\" Ian Blackford told the House of Commons\n\nIt is unprecedented for the government to voluntarily offer time to the opposition and smaller parties to debate such a motion.\n\nDowning Street said it would assume MPs had confidence in the government and its Brexit strategy if opposition parties did not table a confidence vote later on Wednesday.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minster said: \"It's put up or shut up time.\"\n\nBut the spokesman would not say whether the PM would resign immediately if he lost a confidence vote - or whether a general election would take place if the government was brought down.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox earlier faced questions about the advice he gave the PM indicating the five-week suspension would be within the law.\n\nMr Cox said he respected the Supreme Court's decision, but launched a blistering attack on MPs for being \"too cowardly\" to hold an election, adding: \"This Parliament is dead.\"\n\nMs Cherry said Mr Cox was being \"offered up as a fall guy for the government's plans\" and urged him to publish the advice he gave.", "Stoke City Council is considering plans for a £3.3m youth hub to be built in the town of Hanley.\n\nStoke-on-Trent is made up of six towns, and some young people in the city feel it will alienate those who don't live in Hanley.\n\nThey also believe it could lead to more violence by bringing postcode rivalries together in one place.\n\nDominic, a student and Labour activist, has set up a petition against the centre, believing it will be more of a \"violence hub than a youth hub\".\n\nBut Jordan, who works at the YMCA in Hanley, thinks the new youth hub might help bring the different towns of Stoke together.\n\nGemma runs a youth club in the suburb of Meir and feels the money would be better spent on youth clubs in the six towns of Stoke, rather than in the centre.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Stoke-on-Trent, a BBC project with people of the city to tell the stories that matter to them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"The automotive sector said they were ready\"\n\nUK firms present at a meeting with no-deal Brexit minister Michael Gove this week have denied his claim that industry told him it is \"ready\" for no-deal Brexit.\n\nIn the resumed Commons session, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said: \"The automotive sector, who I met this week, confirmed that they were ready, the retail sector said they were ready.\"\n\nThree attendees at the relevant meeting in Coventry this week told the BBC this was not an accurate reflection of Monday's meeting with manufacturers.\n\n\"I was at the meeting. There's no way that is the message he could have gone away with,\" said one business leader.\n\nAnother present, when asked if Mr Gove had been told by the car industry that it was ready, replied: \"No! We said we are planning as best we can, but cannot prepare for all eventualities and tariffs alone undermine our viability. We want a deal. No deal is not an option. Catastrophic.\"\n\nA written briefing for the EU exit preparedness manufacturing round table has been obtained by BBC News.\n\nIt was held at the National Automotive Innovation Centre on Monday afternoon and attended by Aston Martin, the British Ceramic Confederation, Ford, Make UK, Toyota and the SMMT.\n\nThe briefing says the key message was \"leaving without a deal is the worst possible outcome\", that \"short-term disruption is likely to be severe after 31 October\", and that businesses were \"preparing the best they can, but it is creating huge costs, particularly for SMEs\".\n\nAnother organisation present told the BBC that the Commons' claims did not \"bear reality\", that bigger car companies said they had prepared as far as they can, but there was \"no preparing\" for developments such as tariffs.\n\nIt said smaller companies had said that further down the supply chain, it was impossible to prepare, because they didn't have the resources or the expertise to prepare and they didn't know what they were preparing for.\n\nOther major carmakers have told the government in writing that \"they have done what they can\" but \"you cannot really be ready for a no-deal outcome\".\n\nSeparately, retailers also again disputed Mr Gove's claims about readiness in food supply. The British Retail Consortium said in a statement that it had been \"crystal clear\" that \"it is impossible to completely mitigate the significant disruption which would be caused by no-deal\" and \"would likely see reduced availability and higher prices\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The final cost could be up to £22.5bn, EDF director Paul Spence says\n\nFrench power company EDF said the new nuclear plant it is building at Hinkley Point C will cost up to £2.9bn more than thought.\n\nIt raised its estimate for the project, in Somerset, to between £21.5bn and £22.5bn, blaming \"challenging ground conditions\".\n\nIt also said the risk of the project being 15 months late had risen.\n\nThe firms constructing the new plant, not taxpayers and customers, pay the bill for the increase in costs.\n\n\"This is clearly bad news for nuclear new build prospects in the UK, particularly in light of recent record low offshore wind prices,\" said Investec analyst Martin Young.\n\nBecause of the way that the project is being funded, taxpayers and customers will not foot the bill for the increase in costs - EDF and its partner on the project China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGN) will pay.\n\nHowever, the companies should be cushioned by a comparatively high fixed price for electricity for customers, which was agreed in order to make costs predictable for consumers and to provide leeway for the builders.\n\nLast week, prices for new wind power delivered by 2025 were set at prices as low as £40 per megawatt hour. By comparison, power from Hinkley Point C is expected to cost £92.50 per megawatt hour.\n\nWhile EDF and CGN, which is partnering the French firm on the work, are still aiming to finish in 2025, the chance of that being 2026 has risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Simon Jack: \"This is a construction project of really epic proportions\"\n\n\"We've given the best view we can, given what we know,\" Paul Spence, EDF's director of corporate and regulatory affairs, told the Today programme. \"I can't say today what will happen over the course of the construction.\"\n\nEDF last raised its estimate for the project in 2017, by £1.5bn.\n\nIn common with other major UK building projects, such as Crossrail and HS2, the power plant is over budget.\n\nThe first phase of the HS2 high-speed railway between London and Birmingham will be delayed by up to five years, Transport Minister Grant Shapps said earlier this month.\n\nIts cost has also risen from £62bn to between £81bn and £88bn.\n\nCrossrail, the new railway line bisecting London from Reading to Shenfield, was due to be operating by December. The project was allocated £14.8bn in 2010, but this has since swollen to £17.6bn, and is likely to rise further, according to a report by MPs.\n\n\"Cost increases reflect challenging ground conditions which made earthworks more expensive than anticipated, revised action plan targets and extra costs needed to implement the completed functional design, which has been adapted for a first-of-a-kind application in the UK context,\" EDF said in a statement.\n\nThese cost overruns will not hit UK consumers. However, a new way of paying for further nuclear stations, such as Sizewell, is being considered.\n\nUnder this new model, consumers would see costs of construction added to their bills as the project went along. It means that customers could be exposed to cost overruns.\n\nThat is why today's announcement is important and why EDF will find it harder to make the argument for building Sizewell.\n\nThat argument is already getting tougher as the price of zero carbon offshore wind continues to plummet.\n\nMaking a forty-year bet on another nuclear station with a funding model that exposes consumers to those overruns, is a big call for any government to make.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has refused to moderate his language during a heated debate in the Commons, despite a barrage of criticism from opposition benches.\n\nLabour's Paula Sherriff referred to Jo Cox, the MP murdered in 2016, as she pleaded with him to refrain from using \"dangerous\" words like \"surrender\".\n\nHe described her intervention as \"humbug\" and repeated the word again.\n\nThe SNP's Nicola Sturgeon said there was \"a gaping moral vacuum where the office of prime minister used to be\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described scenes in Parliament as an \"absolute bear pit\".\n\nMr Johnson was repeatedly challenged over his use of the word \"surrender\" to describe legislation passed earlier this month which aims to block a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nMs Sherriff, the Labour MP for Dewsbury, told the Commons the prime minister had \"continually used pejorative language to describe an Act of Parliament passed by this House\".\n\nPointing to a plaque in the chamber, commemorating Mrs Cox, who was murdered by a right-wing extremist, she said: \"We should not resort to using offensive, dangerous or inflammatory language for legislation that we do not like, and we stand here under the shield of our departed friend with many of us in this place subject to death threats and abuse every single day.\"\n\n\"They often quote his words 'Surrender Act', 'betrayal', 'traitor' and I for one am sick of it.\n\n\"We must moderate our language, and it has to come from the prime minister first.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said: \"I have to say, Mr Speaker, I've never heard such humbug in all my life.\"\n\nTracy Brabin, who was elected as MP for Batley and Spen after Ms Cox was murdered, also urged the prime minister to moderate his language \"so that we will all feel secure when we're going about our jobs\".\n\nMr Johnson replied that \"the best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox and indeed the best way to bring this country together would be, I think, to get Brexit done\".\n\nMrs Cox's husband, Brendan, later tweeted he felt \"sick at Jo's name being used in this way\".\n\nThe best way to honour her is to \"stand up for what we believe in, passionately and with determination\", he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brendan Cox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said the prime minister was an \"utter disgrace\" for his response to the questions on his language.\n\nShe told MPs: \"I today have reported to the police a threat against my child. That has been dismissed as 'humbug'.\n\n\"This is a disgraceful state of affairs and we must be able to find a way to conduct ourselves better.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson told MPs a threat had been made against her child\n\nLeader of the Independent Group for Change, Anna Soubry, said it \"takes a lot to reduce this honourable member to tears\" but she said she is \"not alone tonight\".\n\n\"There are others I believe who have left the estate, such has been the distress,\" she told MPs.\n\n\"In this, the most peculiar and extraordinary of political times, the language that is used is incredibly important.\n\n\"We have evidence, whatever side of the debate you are on, when you use word like 'surrender', 'capitulation', and others use the word 'traitor' and 'treason', there is a direct consequence.\n\n\"It means my mother receives a threat to her safety. It means my partner receives a death threat.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged the Speaker to unite the party leaders \"to issue a joint declaration opposing any form of abusive language or threats and to put this message out to our entire community that we have to treat each other with respect\".\n\nSpeaker John Bercow said he was \"very open to convening a meeting of senior colleagues for the purpose of a House-wide public statement\".\n\nConservative MP Stephen Crabb told BBC Newsnight that he was \"shocked by the way [the PM] responded to the remarks about Jo Cox\".\n\nHe said Mr Johnson had \"strong support among Conservative MPs... but he also has a duty as prime minister to try to bring unity to our country and reduce the level of poison in our politics\".\n\nCulture Secretary Nicky Morgan said the prime minister was \"aware and sympathetic\" to the threats MPs have received.\n\n\"But at a time of strong feelings we all need to remind ourselves of the effect of everything we say on those watching us,\" she tweeted.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmazon has announced that its virtual assistant Alexa will soon be able to mimic the voice of the actor Samuel L Jackson among other celebrities.\n\nThe firm intends to charge a fee for the feature, with each voice costing $0.99 (80p).\n\nThe company has also refreshed its range of Echo speakers, adding a larger high-end version with Dolby Atmos for \"3D sound\".\n\nHowever, that position is being challenged by Chinese companies including Baidu, while Google is also expected to unveil new gear of its own next month.\n\nThe company has also extended its Echo range into a selection of wearable tech for both humans and pets for the first time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A first look at Amazon's Alexa-powered Frame glasses and Loop ring\n\nIn addition, the firm said its smart assistant would be built into General Motors' vehicles from next year, and that some existing models could be upgraded to include the feature.\n\n\"This avalanche of new products underlines Amazon's desire to extend Alexa's reach to every part of people's lives - be that in the home, or on the move via new Echo Buds or in the car through the deal with General Motors,\" commented Geoff Blaber, an analyst at CCS Insight.\n\n\"Not only will it will strengthen Amazon's reach with existing customers that use Alexa-powered products, it will also provide the opportunity to woo more consumers to embrace its increasingly ubiquitous voice assistant.\"\n\nAmazon's pet tracker will use a new wireless data-transfer technology to let owners monitor their dog from up to 500m away\n\nAmazon said it would use a \"neural text-to-speech\" engine to mimic celebrities' voices on Alexa-powered devices. It will use recordings the stars provide as the basis for other computer-generated utterances.\n\nSamuel L Jackson's voice will be offered in both a \"clean\" and an \"explicit\" mode for Alexa\n\nIn the case of Avengers actor Samuel L Jackson, consumers will be given the choice of whether they want a version that swears or not.\n\nThe firm said other famous stars - who will be paid for their services - will follow.\n\nAmazon recently announced it was upgrading its music streaming service to a \"high definition\" format to help its fortunes.\n\nIts new Studio speaker should provide users with a means to appreciate the extra detail it offers. Like Sonos' kit, it fine tunes its sound to suit the acoustics of the room it is placed in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd two of the $200 (£190 in the UK) speakers can be paired and connected to a Fire TV stick or television to create a home theatre experience.\n\n\"Amazon has never really had a smart speaker which was marketed specifically for its audio quality, in the manner of an Apple HomePod or a Google Home Max,\" commented Ben Stanton from the tech consultancy Canalys.\n\n\"Typically, third-parties like Harman and Sonos would be the ones to differentiate in this space on Amazon's behalf.\n\n\"If it [lives up to its promise], it will cannibalise these third-party products, and leave little room left for third-party smart speaker vendors to innovate.\"\n\nAmazon's stock closed the day 1.5% higher, while shares in Sonos sank 5% lower.\n\nAmazon's devices chief Dave Limp addressed users' privacy concerns early on during the launch event at the firm's Seattle headquarters, even showing a tweet it had received complaining about one of its speakers activating without the trigger word \"Alexa\" being uttered.\n\n\"We care about this,\" he said.\n\n\"Privacy is absolutely foundational to everything we do in and around Alexa.\"\n\nMr Limp showed a tweet in which a British father-of-three had expressed concerns about Alexa\n\nHe highlighted the fact that users can now command a device to delete everything they have said that day. In addition, the firm recently added an option to its Alexa app to let users opt out of having their voices transcribed by humans to improve the service's accuracy.\n\nHowever, some of its rivals - including Apple and Google - have gone further by requiring their users to opt in to similar programmes.\n\n\"Privacy is a huge issue for all technology manufacturers and recent revelations show that Amazon is vulnerable,\" commented Adam Simon from the market intelligence firm Context.\n\n\"All our research shows that it is a major concern to consumers.\n\n\"Yet, ironically, it is not the most important barrier preventing people buying smart home products. Privacy is far outweighed by lack of understanding, lack of perception of value, and lack of good use cases.\"\n\nHe added that later this year, users will be able to ask Alexa \"why did you do that?\", to question it about unexpected behaviour.\n\nFurthermore, a new setting will allow them to set recordings to be auto-deleted after a set period of time ranging from three to 18 months.\n\nAmazon said it decided to launch a smart oven after its previous Alexa-enabled microwave became a bestseller\n\nOther announcements included a new 8in (20.3cm) Echo Show smart display, which can now show group video calls with several people on-screen at once.\n\nIt features the same \"high definition\" screen resolution as the 10in model, but only a one megapixel camera versus the 5MP sensor in the larger device.\n\nThat means it will likely never add the kind of auto-framing feature that Facebook's Portal and Google Nest Hub Max video chat devices offer, which is achieved by cropping into the image.\n\nThe Echo Show 8 has similar quality speakers but a lower resolution camera than the older Echo Show (2nd Gen)\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Patrick Moorhead This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Limp also announced changes to its Ring-branded smart doorbells.\n\nThese will now gain use of Alexa, including a service that will allow visitors to record a message if the owner is out and unable to answer remotely via the device's app.\n\nHe also unveiled new Ring hardware including a security camera for inside the home - which will compete against Google's Nest Cam as well as similar products from Hive and Canary - and a \"retrofit\" kit that adds smart features to existing alarm systems.", "Sainsbury's is shutting another 60 to 70 Argos shops and moving them inside its supermarkets as part of a reorganisation.\n\nIt will also close up to 15 supermarkets and 40 convenience stores.\n\nThe closures are part of a plan to reduce costs by £500m over five years, it said.\n\nHowever Sainsbury's also plans to open around 120 new grocery outlets, mostly convenience stores.\n\nThe supermarket did not say where the closures would be, but said all Argos staff would be relocated.\n\nThe plans were announced as Sainsbury's warned investors profits had dipped over the last six months.\n\nIt blamed bad weather and higher marketing costs for the forecast £50m drop on the period last year.\n\nSainsbury's has been under pressure to show that its business is on track after the collapse of its plan to merge with Asda.\n\nOverhauling its large store estate is part of the new plan.\n\nIt was clear when Sainsbury's bought Argos in 2016 that hundreds of Argos stores would be closed and relocated into Sainsbury's stores.\n\nThis integration is now well underway. There are now some 290 Argos stores inside a Sainsbury's shop - half of these are relocations.\n\nSainsbury's is keen to point out that ultimately, it'll end up with as many as 100 more shops overall, including a net loss of around five supermarkets.\n\nThere's no detail today on where the openings and closures could be, nor how many roles will be affected, only that it hoped to boost operating profits by £20m a year through the changes.\n\nSainsbury's is now on a mission to cut costs, some £500m, over the next five years. It's got a tricky balancing act ahead as it tries to cut prices to fend off the discounters and improve its profitability.\n\nThe supermarket will also cease new mortgage sales as part of a plan to make its financial services division more profitable.\n\nEarlier this month, larger rival Tesco sold its entire mortgage portfolio to Halifax, exiting a very competitive market. Low interest rates have made mortgages less profitable for lenders.\n\nThese moves add weight to the view that offering banking services is becoming a lower priority for the supermarkets, the BBC's personal finance reporter, Kevin Peachey said.\n\n\"The big grocery stores were often talked of being the main challengers to the established High Street banks, given customers' brand loyalty and an existing \"branch\" network,\" he said.\n\nSainsbury's reported sales for the three months to 21 September for stores open at least a year and excluding fuel dropped 0.2%. Clothing and food sales rose, while household goods sales dropped 2%.\n\nA fall in its pension deficit means it can reduce its contributions by £50m a year.\n\n\"We have focused on reducing prices on every day food and grocery products and expanding our range of value brands, which have been very popular with customers,\" said Chief Executive Mike Coupe. \"At the same time, we are investing significantly in our supermarkets.\"\n\nFewer items on promotion and fewer new video game and toy releases hurt sales at Argos, he said, while Sainsbury's Tu brand of clothing performed well.\n\nSainsbury's has been under pressure to come up with a \"plan B\" after its failed attempt to buy Asda earlier this year. It had argued the tie-up was necessary to cut costs and improve its buying power so it could reduce prices to counter the rise of the discounters.\n\nMr Coupe told investors that Sainsbury's could thrive on its own and the reorganisation represented a continuation of his existing strategy with a \"few tweaks\" along the way.\n\n\"We're more competitive than we've ever been,\" Mr Coupe said.\n\n\"We are confident in our ability to sustainably fund investment in the customer offer.\"\n\nSainsbury's is hoping to generate an extra £20m a year in operating profit with the overhaul of its store estate.\n\nNew convenience stores will be more targeted to what shoppers want, it said. For instance, in London and other city centre locations, outlets will have more \"food-to-go\".\n\nIt also wants to open around ten larger convenience stores, containing Argos services, in more suburban locations.\n\nSainsbury's has been cutting prices on some daily essentials as well as launching new budget brands , like J James meat, fish and poultry, as they try to match the success of Asda and Tesco's new own-brand ranges.", "The high-security prison has the capacity for 622 inmates\n\nA disturbance involving inmates at a high-security jail has been brought under control after riot-trained officers were sent in.\n\nStaff at HMP Long Lartin were forced to retreat from a wing when they were attacked with pool balls.\n\nAbout 20 inmates were involved in Tuesday evening's disturbance, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said.\n\nOne officer required hospital treatment after being indirectly injured, and part of the building was damaged.\n\nA specialist unit of prison officers, known as a Tornado Team, were sent to the Category A prison in an attempt to restore order.\n\nThe jail in Worcestershire holds some of the most dangerous offenders in the country.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said: \"Our brave and highly-skilled officers deserve huge credit for bringing the situation at Long Lartin to a safe and swift conclusion.\n\n\"This Government has doubled the maximum sentence for assaults on officers and we intend to push for the strongest possible punishment for those responsible for the disorder at Long Lartin.\"\n\nPrison workers' union the POA said the disturbance had \"once again raised significant concerns about safety, order and control in our prisons\".\n\n\"This is the latest of a number of incidents which show that the prison service is in crisis,\" it said.\n\n\"On a daily basis prison officers must deal with concerted acts of indiscipline, violence, hostage taking, self-harm and deaths in custody.\"\n\nThe prison workers' union said the disturbance raised concerns about \"safety, order and control in our prisons\".\n\nThe high-security jail has the capacity for 622 inmates and is believed to currently hold about 500.\n\nAccording to a 2018 report into the prison following a serious disturbance involving 81 prisoners, around 75% of the inmates were serving life sentences.\n\nA quarter of all inmates were classed as Category A or high-security offenders.\n\nIn October 2018 disorder at the prison left six officers injured.\n\nProf David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, and a former prison governor, said Long Lartin had \"always been a tricky prison to manage\".\n\n\"Long Lartin isn't a new generation design of prison, such as Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire or Woodhill in Milton Keynes,\" he said\n\n\"Those prisons tend to have inmates housed in smaller units, where it is easier to control them should there be problems within the running of the jail.\n\n\"With the older design of prisons, problems can spread much more quickly.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Speaker, John Bercow, welcomed MPs back, and told the Commons that the official record - that Parliament had been prorogued - would be corrected in official parliamentary records.\n\nThe Commons resumed business with an urgent question to the government on the Attorney General's legal advice to the government on whether Parliament should have been suspended.", "Writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge has signed a major contract to make TV shows for Amazon.\n\nThe Fleabag and Killing Eve creator, who won three Emmy Awards on Sunday, said she was \"insanely delighted\" with the exclusive deal.\n\nIt will see the 34-year-old create and produce new programmes for streaming service Amazon Prime.\n\nAccording to Variety, it's believed to be worth $20m (£16m) a year. Amazon co-produced Fleabag with the BBC.\n\nWaller-Bridge said: \"I'm insanely excited to be continuing my relationship with Amazon. Working with the team on Fleabag was the creative partnership dreams are made of.\n\n\"It really feels like home. I can't wait to get going!\"\n\nThe Londoner is in high demand, having been drafted on to the James Bond writing team in an attempt to make the Bond girls feel \"real\".\n\nOn Sunday, she won the Emmys for best lead actress in a comedy series and best writing for a comedy series, both for Fleabag, which was also named best comedy series.\n\nKilling Eve was also triumphant, with actress Jodie Comer winning best lead actress in a drama series. Waller-Bridge was an executive producer on that show's second season.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Supreme Court ruling that the prime minister's suspension of Parliament was void and his advice to the Queen unlawful, raises all sorts of questions for the EU - will their Brexit negotiating partner Boris Johnson stay in his job? When might the UK hold a general election?\n\nPrivately the court ruling has been described to me by EU sources as \"an embarrassment\" and \"a humiliation\" for Boris Johnson but this isn't the first time the EU has found itself faced with similar questions about possibly imminent elections and Mr Johnson's longevity as prime minister.\n\nYet then, as now, the EU has taken the decision to put its metaphorical hands over its metaphorical ears in an attempt to block out the noise.\n\nWhy? Because EU leaders view the Supreme Court ruling and what follows next in the UK as an unpredictable domestic political affair. They regard themselves as onlookers to that drama - which is why German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have stayed silent, and why the European Commission refused to comment on the ruling on Tuesday, however hard UK journalists pushed.\n\nBrussels prefers to focus on where it can play a part - negotiations. And there, in the short term at least, Tuesday's ruling changes little. EU leaders still want a Brexit deal and, under EU law, their negotiating partner is Her Majesty's government, still headed by Boris Johnson.\n\nEU-UK technical talks are pressing ahead on Wednesday in Brussels, regardless of what might be going on in a parallel universe in London, when MPs are reunited with the prime minister in Parliament.\n\nBut is the Supreme Court ruling a demotivating factor for the EU in engaging with the Johnson government?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"This is a verdict that we will respect\"\n\nIn fact, EU politicians say the most demotivating factor for them is the lack of a guarantee that the majority of MPs would definitely approve a new Brexit deal, even if they made big compromises.\n\nBut, although EU leaders says they are \"open\" to another Brexit extension, such is the impatience with the more than three-year-long Brexit debate, they would love to agree a new deal with Boris Johnson by mid-October as he hopes to do.\n\nAnd yet, scepticism is rife in Brussels.\n\nOne diplomat from a country traditionally very close to the UK told me: \"The prospects of an October deal already weren't good. They're now complicated further by UK domestic issues. Time, as we always say, is running out.\"\n\nEU diplomats argue that the current UK ideas on how to replace the Irish backstop in a new Brexit deal may be a start. But as the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said on Tuesday in Berlin, in EU eyes the UK proposals fall far short of the \"technically detailed, legally operable, concrete solutions\" they are calling for.\n\nPushback from journalists and/or the UK government that the EU needs to compromise, too, is rejected at this stage in Brussels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe stock reply is that before anyone in the EU thinks of compromise, they need realistic UK proposals to negotiate over.\n\nAs for assertions by UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and others that the EU always blinks at five minutes to midnight, EU contacts say this shows a misunderstanding of how the EU works.\n\nOne EU diplomat from a small member state commented to me: \"We only compromise when that compromise doesn't cause us great harm.\"\n\nBrussels believes it couldn't protect the single market, the Northern Ireland peace process or EU member state Ireland if it agreed to current UK proposals on how to replace the backstop.\n\nAnd EU sources claim the two sides are still too far apart for it to make sense to \"go into a tunnel\" of intense negotiations with a media blackout at this stage.\n\nEU governments admit that a new Brexit extension would be likely to take the pressure off both sides to make the compromises necessary to agree a new deal.\n\nHowever, the bottom line is that Europe's leaders are unsure whether Boris Johnson would be willing to make Brexit compromises anyway, if he knows that he's heading into a general election.", "The leader of the Labour Party says Boris Johnson is not fit for the office of prime minister and thinks he is above the law.\n\nJeremy Corbyn accused Mr Johnson's government of holding \"sham Brexit negotiations\" and having \"chaotic and inadequate\" preparations for no-deal.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Parliament the Supreme Court was \"wrong\" to rule that the decision to prorogue Parliament was unlawful.\n\nIn his first statement to the House of Commons since the ruling, he said Parliament was \"gridlocked and paralysed\", and accused opposition MPs of \"selfishness and political cowardice\" in not being willing to \"move aside and give the people a say\".", "The Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, has told MPs that the current Parliament is a \"dead Parliament\" and is \"too cowardly\" to call an election.\n\nHe told members of the Commons that the Parliament was \"a disgrace\".", "Sue Petrow was due to fly home on Wednesday\n\nThomas Cook holidaymakers and crew are free to leave Cuba, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nRepatriation flights have been arranged with the aid of the British Ambassador to Cuba, it said.\n\nTourists had said they were prevented from leaving their hotels until they paid extra for their stay.\n\nOne holidaymaker, Sue Petrow, who was due to leave, said her hotel had told her she could be held at the airport unless she paid her bill.\n\nCabin crew from Thomas Cook had also said they were effectively being \"held hostage\" by security guards at a hotel.\n\nBut Dame Deirdre Hutton, the chair of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), told the BBC's Today programme: \"That has been sorted out by the ambassador overnight, and the Cuban flight is in the air on its way back, which is very good news.\"\n\n\"It's also an example of how we're working very closely with the Foreign Office, which is great.\"\n\n\"It's very distressing for people who are finding difficulties with their accommodation, but what we've done is issue guarantees to the... hotels with Atol-protected British tourists,\" she added.\n\nThe British Ambassador to Cuba said hotels had been instructed to allow customers to depart without paying additional charges.\n\nAntony Stokes said on Twitter: \"Very grateful for patience of all affected in distressing circumstances.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSue Petrow said she and other guests had refused to pay extra charges demanded by the hotel.\n\nHolidaymakers like Sue may have paid for their rooms and meals months in advance, but hotels would normally only receive the money from Thomas Cook several weeks after their stay.\n\nReports suggested there was widespread concern in Cuba over whether the industry insurance fund Atol, which covers payments in the event of a firm failing, would foot the costs.\n\nThe fund covers bills that have been run up since Thomas Cook's collapse on Monday morning.\n\nHowever, bills run up at hotels before Thomas Cook's collapse will not be covered. Affected hoteliers will have to apply to the liquidators for their money.\n\nDame Deirdre said the CAA had issued guarantees for payment to 3,000 hotels around the world, and had already started making the first payments. The CAA had 200 staff working with Thomas Cook employees, she added.\n\n\"Given how much those hotels are owed by Thomas Cook, it's hardly surprising that they are suspicious and angry,\" she said.\n\nThomas Cook owes hotels £338m, with one hotel in Mexico owed £2.5m, she added.\n\nThe Insolvency Service has written to local tourist boards to make sure hotels are working with the CAA on payments, Dame Hutton said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A passenger raises funds for Thomas Cook staff on a flight from Turkey\n\nOn Monday, the CAA launched the UK's largest peacetime repatriation operation to bring more than 150,000 people back to the UK after the collapse of the holiday firm.\n\nSo far, more than 95% of people have been brought back on their original day of departure, the CAA said.\n\nOn Tuesday, 70 flights brought back more than 14,000 passengers, it said. There are 70 flights scheduled on Wednesday, bringing back a further 16,500 people.\n\nThe flying programme will continue until 6 October with more than 1,000 flights planned.\n\nRichard Moriarty, chief executive of the CAA, said: \"I would like those remaining on holiday to enjoy the rest of their stay because we aim to also fly you home on the day when you were originally booked to fly with Thomas Cook, or very shortly thereafter.\n\n\"This remains a highly complex operation and I would like to thank holidaymakers for their patience as some inconvenience and disruption is likely.\"\n\nIf you are on a package holiday, you are covered by the Atol scheme.\n\nWhat are your rights? Read more here.\n\nThe CAA has set up a dedicated website to keep Thomas Cook customers updated with the latest advice and news.\n\nIt is running a call centre and Twitter feed with open direct messages to respond to holidaymakers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n\nThe call centre can be reached on 0300-303-2800 inside the UK and +44 1753-330330 from abroad.\n\nAre you a Thomas Cook customer or staff member affected by the company's collapse? 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:", "Laura Gruzdaite said her dismissal had caused a lot of stress\n\nA woman sacked when she was 20-weeks pregnant has won her unfair dismissal case and been awarded almost £28,000.\n\nLaura Gruzdaite, 26, lost her job at McGrane Nurseries, in Tandragee, two days after an antenatal appointment.\n\nDespite telling managers about the scan, they accused her of \"skipping work\" and said she would be needing \"more days off\".\n\nThe County Armagh firm apologised to Mrs Gruzdaite and said the \"situation should never have occurred\".\n\nAn industrial tribunal, which heard the case in July, unanimously found Mrs Gruzdaite was discriminated against and dismissed for a reason connected to her pregnancy.\n\nIt found she had been \"treated negatively\" following her pregnancy announcement and \"unreasonably questioned\" about her absences when attending antenatal appointments.\n\nMrs Gruzdaite worried her stress about the dismissal \"could cause complications or even a miscarriage\"\n\nWhen Mrs Gruzdaite and her husband started work at McGrane Nurseries, a flower and plant wholesaler in County Armagh, in January 2018, the Lithuanian national was given a blank contract to sign, with no start or end dates.\n\nShe thought she was coming to Northern Ireland for a permanent job and at no point was she told it was a seasonal job.\n\nWhile she and her husband were at their 20-week scan on 10 October, the couple's employers held a meeting during which a number of seasonal workers were given one week's notice.\n\nThe couple were informed they were part of this group on 12 October.\n\nMrs Gruzdaite said she was very upset by the decision and worried the stress about the dismissal \"could cause complications or even a miscarriage\".\n\n\"We were waiting for our child to come into this world but both of us were unemployed and had no additional income,\" she said.\n\nMrs Gruzdaite said no woman should \"lose her job because she is pregnant\"\n\nMrs Gruzdaite's case was supported by the Equality Commission. Her husband has since found other work and she is caring for their baby.\n\n\"No woman should lose her job because she is pregnant and it is important that women challenge such treatment,\" she added.\n\nDr Michael Wardlow, chief commissioner of the Equality Commission, said pregnancy discrimination was \"still all too common\".\n\n\"In spite of the legislation being in place for more than 40 years, some employers still seem to be unaware of the law and the consequences of breaching it,\" he added.\n\nMcGrane Nurseries said it had engaged a human resources firm and was working with the Equality Commission to implement a \"series of policies and practices to ensure we meet the highest standards in relation to the issues highlighted in the judgement of this case\".", "Kris Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are among their family members to have gained global attention.\n\nThree Instagram adverts for cosmetic fillers have been banned for suggesting that treatments could make them look like Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said the ads, which used pictures of the celebrities, had misled consumers.\n\nIt said consumers may have thought the packages would give customers lips, cheeks and a jawline that closely resembled those of the celebrities.\n\nInstagram said the firm did not allow ads promoting Botox.\n\n\"In addition to our ads policies we recently introduced a new policy that restricts organic posts promoting the use of cosmetic procedures to over 18s,\" the firm said.\n\nThe Instagram post for Beauty Boutique Aesthetics, pushed out in December, included a photo of US media personality Kim Kardashian with the text: \"Many beauty technicians may be more than qualified, but always ask yourself, can they administer emergency drugs if the client has an adverse effect? The answer is no.\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the salon had not provided evidence that staff could deal with an adverse reaction, and the post was therefore misleading.\n\nThe salon also breached rules by advertising Botox, a prescription-only medicine.\n\nTwo other Instagram posts, one by beauty salon Queen of Aesthetics advertising the \"Kylie Jenner Package\" consisting of lip, cheek and jawline fillers, and another for Faces by AKJ Aesthetics, also for fillers and including an image of Jenner, were banned.\n\nThe ASA challenged whether the ads misleadingly suggested the package would give customers lips, cheeks and a jawline that closely resembled those of US media personality Ms Jenner and advertised a prescription-only medicine.\n\nQueen of Aesthetics said it had not posted any ad that told their customers they could make them resemble Kylie Jenner, adding that it would be \"almost impossible\" for a customer to look like anyone other than themselves after a non-surgical cosmetic procedure.\n\nFaces by AKJ Aesthetics said it used Ms Jenner's picture because she was recognisable to their target audience and showed the areas that could be treated, rather than to imply that their treatment could make consumers look like her.\n\nBanning both ads, the ASA told Queen of Aesthetics not to suggest celebrities had used their products if they had not, and warned Faces by AKJ Aesthetics not to trivialise non-cosmetic procedures, not to advertise Botox again and not to suggest celebrities had used their products if this was not true.\n\nCosmetic filler procedures can cost several hundred pounds, and should not be rushed into, according to the NHS.\n\n\"Some people look at a cosmetic procedure to solve life problems, or during difficult times in their lives,\" the NHS advises on its website.\n\n\"Do not assume that a cosmetic procedure will make everything better.\"\n\nKylie Jenner became a billionaire at 21 with her beauty business after gaining global recognition in her family's reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.", "Mr Johnson suspended - or prorogued - Parliament for five weeks earlier this month, saying it was to allow a Queen's Speech to outline his new policies.\n\nBut the UK's highest court said it was wrong to stop Parliament carrying out its duties.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pelosi: \"The president must be held accountable; no one is above the law.\"\n\nNancy Pelosi has opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump - why now, and what could happen next?\n\nFor months, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have been playing a semantics game. They wanted those who supported and those who opposed a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump to both think they were getting what they wanted.\n\nThis strategy suggested a fear by Speaker Pelosi and others that heading down the path to impeachment would put moderate Democrats facing tough 2020 re-election fights at risk and jeopardise the party's House majority.\n\nThat calculus appears to have changed, after the rapid drumbeat of new revelations about Mr Trump's contacts with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Now even middle-of-the road politicians are coming out in favour of an impeachment proceeding.\n\nCongressman Max Rose of Trump-friendly Staten Island, New York, had been a prominent holdout - but even he has softened his stance.\n\n\"This is a serious crisis, all options must be on the table, and it's time Republicans are as interested in the truth as the American people,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThe dam has broken. The genie is out of the bottle. Pick your metaphor. The simple fact is that Ms Pelosi - a keen judge of the political mood within her caucus - has made the decision to shift from resisting impeachment to advocating for it.\n\nSo what changed? The prospect of impeachment has been knocked around since the early days of the Trump presidency. Over the course of the Robert Mueller inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, each new revelation and indictment were met with calls for Congress to act.\n\nAllegations about presidential obstruction of justice and Trump campaign collusion with Russia, as well as a grab bag of others - from unconstitutional profiteering from government largess to campaign finance violations - all prompted various level of howling for the president's removal.\n\nIt took the Ukraine story, however - the possibility that Mr Trump used presidential powers to pressure a foreign government to dig up (or manufacture) damaging information on a political rival - to forge the will among Democrats to contemplate a clear and unambiguous move toward impeachment.\n\nThere are a number of possible reasons why.\n\nIt could be that the latest controversy has hit like a clap of thunder over the course of just one week, rather than the drips and drabs from the Mueller investigation. The prospect of a quid-pro-quo involving the powers of the presidency and a political rival is also an easier story to explain than Emoluments Clause violations or byzantine campaign finance infractions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden - Trump must stop stonewalling over whistleblower or face impeachment\n\nThen there's the fact the Mueller inquiry was backward-looking - dealing with alleged misdeeds from the 2016 election. Many of the Democrats currently mulling impeachment weren't in Congress back then and campaigned on other issues in the 2018 mid-term elections.\n\nThe Ukraine story, on the other hand, is about allegations of an ongoing attempt to use the presidential powers for personal political benefit - events that have occurred on their watch, as it were. It's about requesting a foreign government to give information that could help the president win a future election - not about what a foreign government had done to influence a past one.\n\nAccusations of sour grapes, or of relitigating past campaigns, don't apply here.\n\nThis controversy also once again highlights the blurred lines between the personal and the official that has frequently typified the Trump White House.\n\nRudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's personal lawyer, was the president's point person in pressuring Ukraine to launch an investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Although the former New York City mayor said he was in contact with the State Department prior to his August trip to Spain to meet with a Ukrainian official for this purpose, it wouldn't be surprising if the Ukrainians were confused about whether this was a formal request from the US government or a more unofficial effort.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it take to impeach a president?\n\nThe path forward is uncertain. The president has already announced that he will release the transcript of his 25 July phone conversation with Zelensky. While that won't be enough for Democrats, perhaps the White House will do more to accede to Congress's requests, thereby dousing the hottest of the impeachment fires.\n\nOpinion surveys could show the latest drama is taking a toll on one party or the other, causing political will to crumble. A YouGov poll said 55% of Americans would support impeachment if it was confirmed that President Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine in order to push the country's officials to investigate Mr Biden.\n\nOr both sides could dig in for a long, gruelling battle that could drag into the darkest days of winter, as an embattled president gears up for a re-election fight that could be conducted in the shadow of a constitutional crisis.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nUruguay left Fiji on the brink of exiting the Rugby World Cup at the pool stage as they pulled off a memorable win in Kamaishi.\n\nIn a frantic first half, Fiji were left stunned as Uruguay came from behind to lead through tries from Santiago Arata, Manuel Diana and Juan Manuel Cat.\n\nApi Ratuniyarawa reduced the deficit for Fiji while Nikola Matawalu touched down to give them a losing bonus point.\n\nFiji remain fourth in Pool D but languish behind Wales and Australia.\n• None Relive Uruguay's famous win against Fiji as it happened\n\nFiji came into the game off the back of a defeat by Australia in their first match of the tournament, but they started comfortably in Kamaishi as Mesulame Dolokoto crossed at the corner early on.\n\nA win would have got their tournament back on track and they led again through Eroni Mawi after Arata quickly responded for Uruguay, but the Fijians were stunned by a resilient Los Teros side.\n\nUruguay, who were playing their first match of this year's tournament, seemed unfazed by Fiji and kept them frustrated as they comfortably led most of the match.\n\nFelipe Berchesi's penalty just before the break put Uruguay 12 points ahead and left Fiji with a mountain to climb to avoid a second successive defeat.\n\nFiji could have clawed down the gap had Josh Matavesi's kicking been on target, however the Newcastle Falcons fly-half missed two conversions and a second-half penalty before Ben Volavola missed the extras from Matawalu's score.\n\nA crucial tie against Georgia on Thursday, 3 October (06:15 BST) now awaits Fiji, whereas Uruguay face Australia in Oita on Saturday, 5 October (06:15 BST).\n\n\"I'm really proud of my country. We're not the biggest, we're not the tallest, but we came here to win.\n\n\"We've been preparing for this for four years so I'm really proud.\n\n\"We've been working since we qualified on this and we never take anything for granted and you saw the passion. It's inside all of us and we had to go there and fetch it today and bring it through.\"\n\n\"You have to pay tribute to Uruguay for the way they played with the attitude and approach to the game.\n\n\"They got a great result. For us, we were off the pace and critical errors gifted them tries and we didn't have the mental toughness to get back into the game.\n\n\"They scored three tries off our errors and we were focusing too much on keeping the ball and not turning it over.\n\n\"We have to recoup now as we've got Georgia in eight days time and it's a massive game for us.\"", "Could MPs be hastily assembled on a Saturday?\n\nGet out your diary! If you are as much of a nerd as me.\n\nWatching the two sides in Parliament tear each other to shreds this afternoon, it seems impossible to imagine them ever, ever, agreeing anything again.\n\nThe noisiest voices on both sides seem, at the moment, more interested in using every twist and turn to confirm their own views than hunting for a basis for resolving things together.\n\nBut let's for a second, contemplate that they can.\n\nAnd imagine that Boris Johnson is willing to compromise, and manage to persuade his counterparts in the EU to budge enough too to allow him to strike an exit deal.\n\nRemember Boris Johnson's main priority is to stick to his Halloween deadline for Brexit.\n\nBut Parliament has changed the law to force him to ask for a delay if a deal hasn't been done and dusted by the end of the 19 October.\n\nThere is plenty of conventional wisdom around that says that's just not possible, given the EU summit where the deal may or may not be done is only on the 17th and 18th of next month.\n\nWhile the mood music around the negotiations is better than a few weeks ago, the two sides are, in the words of one minister, \"a million miles away\".\n\nBut privately, sources sketch out this possible timetable. Ten days of intense negotiations ramping up as soon as the Conservative conference finishes next week (at the moment, it is expected to go ahead, even if Parliament continues to sit).\n\nIt might be wishful thinking, but if a deal is then done at the summit, the government would try to ram through Meaningful Vote Four, (remember that old phrase?) in a special Saturday sitting of the Commons on the 19th itself.\n\nIf the government were successful, then the process to request a delay might never be triggered, saving the prime minister the humiliation of having to ask for the delay he has claimed that he won't seek time and again.\n\nThen the following 10 days would be spent in frantic efforts to get the legislation through before 31 October.\n\nInsiders point out that even if the government misses the 19 October deadline, and has to write a letter to the EU to seek an extension - despite No 10 sabre rattling that they will find ways to avoid doing so - there is nothing that stops negotiations with Brussels continuing.\n\nAnd there is nothing that stops the government trying to get a deal through the Commons after that point.\n\nThere are, though, lots of 'ifs' before we get to that place.", "The Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow, has told reporters Parliament will resume on Wednesday at 11:30 BST.\n\nHe said that \"due to notification requirements\", Prime Minister's Questions would not go ahead - but there would be time for urgent questions and ministerial statements.", "Katrice Lee went missing on her second birthday while out shopping with her mother\n\nA former serviceman, arrested in connection with a toddler who went missing in Germany 38 years ago has been released without charge.\n\nKatrice Lee, from Hartlepool, disappeared from a supermarket near a British army base in Paderborn in 1981.\n\nRoyal Military Police said an arrest was made in the Swindon area on Monday and a property was being searched.\n\nThe youngster's father, Richard Lee, said the man's release \"did not mean the investigation is over\".\n\nKatrice was with her mother at a Naafi supermarket when she vanished.\n\nIn 2012, Royal Military Police chiefs admitted mistakes were made during the initial investigation into her disappearance, and in 2017 the government agreed to review the case.\n\nA year later, the Royal Military Police undertook a forensic search on the bank of the River Alme, near where she went missing.\n\nThe river site was identified after the release of an age-progressed photo-fit of a man seen at the supermarket holding a child similar to Katrice.\n\nAn Army spokesperson said: \"The Royal Military Police are keeping the Lee family informed of developments\".\n\nMr Lee, who described the latest events as a \"bombshell\", added: \"This will not end until the Royal Military Police call me and tell me the investigation is closed.\n\n\"What I have got to do now is wait and see how this particular investigation is going to go. That's all I can do.\n\n\"When I look back at 1981 I never gave up then, and I haven't given up now.\"\n\nRoyal Military Police said this man was seen putting a child in a green saloon car near where Katrice Lee disappeared\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said the prime minister needs to understand that \"actions have consequences\".\n\nReferring to Boris Johnson's unlawful decision to suspend Parliament, she said: \"Even my five-year-old knows that if you do something wrong you have to say sorry.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one man gave birth to his own baby\n\nA transgender man, who has given birth to a child and does not want to be described as \"mother\" on a birth certificate, has lost a legal battle.\n\nFreddy McConnell wanted to be registered as \"father\" or \"parent\".\n\nBut a High Court judge ruled the status of \"mother\" was afforded to a person who carries and gives birth to a baby.\n\nHe said while Mr McConnell's gender was recognised by law as male, his parental status of \"mother\" derives from the biological role of giving birth.\n\nMr McConnell, a journalist at the Guardian, has told the BBC he plans to appeal against the ruling.\n\nDuring the trial in London, the High Court heard how Mr McConnell was a single parent, who was born a woman but now lived as a man following surgery.\n\nHe was biologically able to get pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy last year, but had legally become a man by the time of the birth.\n\nMr McConnell's journey to parenthood was documented in a film called Seahorse and included his thoughts and footage of him going through fertility treatment, conception and the birth of his baby boy.\n\nWhen he registered the birth of the child, he was told by a registrar that the law required people who give birth to be registered as mothers, the court heard.\n\nMr McConnell took legal action against the General Register Office, which is responsible for the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales, accusing it of discrimination.\n\nHe said it breached his human right to respect for private and family life.\n\nInitial reaction to the judgement has been varied - as well as transphobic comments being shared online, some people in support of the transgender community have also said they think that today's ruling was correct.\n\nSome transgender individuals I have spoken to say they are \"deeply disappointed\" by this ruling, but they are not surprised by it.\n\nAside from legality, some see this decision as a \"missed opportunity to send a much-needed positive message about transgender identity\".\n\nLegal representatives have told me that they are hopeful that if Freddy does not appeal, other transgender parents will continue with their fight for equality.\n\nThe ruling means that transgender people will not be recognised as their trans identities in all areas of their lives; in some circumstances, like this, they will now be forced to \"out\" their birth gender.\n\nA transgender man, whose child calls them \"Dad\", will be listed on the child's birth certificate as their mother.\n\nOne transgender individual told me that this will cause further anxiety around trans parenting.\n\nHad he been successful, Mr McConnell's son would have become the first person born in England and Wales not to legally have a mother.\n\nIn his ruling, Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division of the High Court, said: \"There is a material difference between a person's gender and their status as a parent.\n\n\"Being a 'mother', whilst hitherto always associated with being female, is the status afforded to a person who undergoes the physical and biological process of carrying a pregnancy and giving birth.\n\n\"It is now medically and legally possible for an individual, whose gender is recognised in law as male, to become pregnant and give birth to their child.\n\n\"Whilst that person's gender is 'male', their parental status, which derives from their biological role in giving birth, is that of 'mother.'\"\n\nSir Andrew added: \"There would seem to be a pressing need for Government and Parliament to address square-on the question of the status of a trans-male who has become pregnant and given birth to a child.\"\n\nKaren Holden, founder of A City Law Firm, who is representing Mr McConnell, said: \"Equality shouldn't have to come at a price, but this case has taken three years, hours of work and manpower, public attention and yet the courts still failed to help this family set out its actual family structure correctly in terms of its legal status.\n\n\"A birth certificate will stay with a child for life and it will be factually and legally inaccurate under current rules.\"", "Boris Johnson had \"no role whatsoever\" in awarding a grant to a firm owned by US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri, a junior minister has told MPs.\n\nMatt Warman said the government has launched a \"review\" of the £100,000 award made in February this year to Ms Arcuri's training company Hacker House.\n\nBut he insisted it had been an \"open, transparent and competitive process\".\n\nIt follows newspaper revelations about the prime minster's friendship with Ms Arcuri, when the PM was London mayor.\n\nLib Dem MP Layla Moran, asking an urgent question in the Commons, said she cared \"very little about the personal life of the prime minister\".\n\nBut she said she did \"care a lot about how this government manages conflicts of interest and how it spends taxpayers' money\".\n\n\"The fact that we are back in the Commons today is because the prime minister has been shown to have ridden roughshod over the laws of the land.\n\n\"It would be disappointing if we were to find that the prime minister has form in bending the rules for personal or political gain.\"\n\nSo far, £47,000, out of the £100,000, has been paid to Hacker House under the government's Cyber Security Immediate Impact Fund, with the remainder put on hold until the review has been completed.\n\nMs Moran said the government fund was meant to be for UK-based initiatives only.\n\n\"Yet we now know that Hacker House is not based in the UK,\" she told MPs.\n\n\"The Sunday Times reports that its owner, Jennifer Arcuri, moved back to the USA in June 2018. These grants weren't open for application until November.\n\n\"The registered address of the company is, in fact, a house in Cheshire and the current occupant, apparently, sends any post addressed to Miss Arcuri back to sender.\"\n\nThe Lib Dem MP accused government officials of failing to carry out due diligence and asked why they had waived the rule that any grant made under the fund should not exceed 50% of the company's revenue.\n\nJunior culture minister Matt Warman, who was making his debut at the despatch box, said officials had been so impressed with other aspects of Hacker House's application it \"more than outweighed\" the need for the company to meet the 50% of revenue criteria.\n\nHe told MPs the government's review of the Hacker House decision would \"leave no stone unturned\" and its findings would be released next month.\n\nBut he repeatedly stressed that \"the prime minister and his staff have had absolutely no role in the award of this grant\" and that Mr Johnson, who was foreign secretary when the grant was awarded, had not lobbied officials on behalf of Ms Arcuri.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, who is also the party's culture spokesman, said: \"As I understand it, Hacker House is a company headquartered in California. The principal owners of the company live in the United States.\n\n\"The company claims to have employees in London but refuses to reveal who they are or where they are. It is very difficult to see how the company fulfilled the criteria for these grants.\"\n\nMr Watson said the allegations showed Mr Johnson was \"a man whose character renders him unsuitable and unfit for the office he holds\".\n\nLib Dem MP Jamie Stone said: \"The impression of money being doshed out to mates is corrosive to public confidence in the grant system and that, in turn, is damaging to the reputation of any government.\"\n\nMr Warman replied: \"That impression is, in part, why we are having that review.\"\n\nBut, he added, there was no evidence the PM had done anything improper.\n\nConservative MP Damian Collins confirmed that Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan is due to give evidence on Hacker House to his DCMS select committee on 16 October.\n\nMr Johnson is, separately, being investigated by the London Assembly's oversight committee over alleged conflicts of interest when he was London mayor, between 2008 and 2016.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Ms Arcuri joined trade missions Mr Johnson had led and received thousands in sponsorship grants.\n\nMr Johnson has said everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".", "Sue Petrow was due to fly home on Wednesday\n\nSeveral Thomas Cook holidaymakers and crew in Cuba have said they are being prevented from leaving their hotels until they pay extra for their stay.\n\nOne holidaymaker, Sue Petrow, said she was due to fly home on Wednesday, but her hotel told her she may be held at the airport unless she pays her bill.\n\nCabin crew from Thomas Cook said they were effectively being \"held hostage\".\n\nThe British Ambassador to Cuba said hotels had now been instructed to allow customers to depart without paying.\n\nDr Antony Stokes said on Twitter: \"Very grateful for patience of all affected in distressing circumstances.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHolidaymakers like Sue may have paid for their rooms and meals months in advance, but hotels would normally only receive the money from Thomas Cook several weeks after their stay.\n\nReports suggested there was a widespread problem in Cuba over whether the industry insurance fund Atol, which covers payments in the event of a firm failing, was recognised in the country.\n\nThe fund covers bills for rooms and food that have been run up since Thomas Cook's collapse on Monday morning.\n\nHowever, bills run up at hotels before Thomas Cook's collapse will not be covered. Affected hoteliers will have to apply to the liquidators for their money.\n\nSue Petrow said her hotel had said Atol was not recognised in Cuba, but she and other holidaymakers had refused to pay.\n\n\"I'd already had to pay a large medical bill while here for my husband. My husband is diabetic. He has had three heart attacks. He only has medication until Saturday. We will carry him on to a plane if we have to.\"\n\nIf you are on a package holiday, you are covered by the Atol scheme.\n\nWhat are your rights? Read more here.\n\nMeanwhile, in another Cuban hotel, Thomas Cook cabin crew said they were effectively being \"held hostage\" by their hotel.\n\n\"There are security guards at the hotel the crew are at to prevent them from leaving. They haven't even been guaranteed rooms for tonight, so it could be a case of sleeping on the reception floor,\" a colleague of the staff affected told the BBC.\n\nShe urged action to get the staff home, saying \"they've already been through more than enough\".\n\nAnother holidaymaker, Shaun Woods, said his flight was due to depart on Wednesday, but the hotel said it would not let them get on the bus to the airport until they paid.\n\n\"They say they have wages to pay and we have been using their rooms and eating their food. It's getting very worrying now.\"\n\nMr Woods said around 30 Thomas Cook customers at his hotel had been affected.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said it and the Civil Aviation Authority \"were working around the clock to support all those affected\".\n\n\"The government have deployed teams on the ground to support those affected, and are in contact with local authorities and hotels,\" they added.\n\nOn Monday, the CAA started repatriating British holidaymakers who were abroad at the time that Thomas Cook collapsed.\n\nDame Deirdre Hutton, CAA chairwoman, described Monday as \"a pretty good day for a first day\".\n\nShe told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money: \"We ran 64 flights, we brought back just under 15,000 people. That was over 90% of those we intended to bring back.\"\n\nThere will be more than 1,000 flights between now and Sunday 6 October to repatriate the remaining 135,300 holidaymakers, with 74 of those, returning around 17,000 people, scheduled for Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 UK Civil Aviation Authority This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 CAA has set up a dedicated website to keep Thomas Cook customers updated with the latest advice and news.\n\nIt is running a call centre and Twitter feed with open direct messages to respond to holidaymakers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n\nThe call centre can be reached on 0300-303-2800 inside the UK and +44 1753-330330 from abroad.", "Labour MP calls for review of 'limits of language' in Parliament\n\nLabour MP Seema Malhotra asks the Speaker whether there is any capacity for a \"formal review about the limits of language\" that can be used about MPs in the chamber. \"Experience has shown that raising it again and again in the chamber is not enough,\" she says. \"And yet if we can have other rules about how we conduct ourselves, could you advise the House as to whether there is any capacity to review the language used so that we can create other ways in which calling a colleague a traitor could be ruled out of order?\" Mr Bercow replies that he was not aware of the word \"traitor\" being used in the chamber, and that he would already regard that as \"unparliamentary\" language.", "\"He has completely lost control of the process.\"\n\nThat's how one of the prime minister's cabinet colleagues summed up Boris Johnson's position as he flies back to face Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson's likely to end up at the despatch box on Wednesday, where he will have the rulings of the Supreme Court brandished at him.\n\nThe opposition parties calling on him to quit. A flurry of urgent demands for the government to answer questions about its plans for Brexit. And all that, before the profound embarrassment of having been found to have broken the law.\n\nDowning Street at this stage seems to have no intention of doing anything other than toughing this out.\n\nAnd Number 10 may choose to promote the plot of a prime minister, battling against the mighty establishment to keep his Brexit promise believing that will appeal to many leave voters, and can tune in to the frustration many members of the public feel at political failure.\n\nThe leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg's team are not denying what sources told me on Tuesday night, that he described the move to colleagues as a \"constitutional coup\".\n\nAnother cabinet minister told the BBC: \"It's interesting for justices to be giving political direction\".\n\nIndeed, it is blatant - another senior Conservative told me after the judgement: \"This is now literally the people versus the establishment.\"\n\nBut not even every Conservative feels easy with that stance, let alone the opposition, or every one around the country.\n\nAnd MPs are determined to tie Number 10 in knots, to hold up Mr Johnson's hope of relentlessly pushing forward.\n\nChutzpah can make the difference in politics.\n\nBut the court's verdict matters. Bravado isn't governing. Embracing controversy won't find a Brexit deal, or a straightforward way out of the mess.\n\nAnd with the opposition parties still refusing Mr Johnson his election, he has to wait before his high wire act is put to the ultimate test - the judgement of every voter at the ballot box.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have engaged in angry exchanges over the government's unlawful decision to suspend Parliament.\n\nThey returned to work after the Supreme Court's historic ruling.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox said he respected the decision, but launched a blistering attack on MPs for being \"too cowardly\" to hold an election, adding: \"This Parliament is dead.\"\n\nMr Cox was branded a \"disgrace\" by one MP, while another said he was \"horrified\" at his language.\n\nThe SNP's Joanna Cherry urged Mr Cox to publish the legal advice he gave the government ahead of the suspension.\n\nMs Cherry - who was one of the lawyers who led the court challenge against the suspension or \"prorogation\" - said Mr Cox was being \"offered up as a fall guy for the government's plans\".\n\nThe attorney general said the government believed its approach had been \"both lawful and constitutional\" and they had acted in \"good faith\" when suspending Parliament.\n\nBut Mr Cox said he would \"consider over the coming days whether the public interest may require a greater disclosure\" of his advice.\n\nBoris Johnson, who has flown back from a UN summit in New York to address MPs, has said he \"profoundly disagrees\" with the decision of the Supreme Court, but he would respect it.\n\nHe is due to give a statement to the Commons about 18:30 BST, along with one from the Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the PM would no doubt face a torrent of vitriol from MPs over the prorogation, but was likely to come out fighting, just like his attorney general.\n\nOpposition parties, meanwhile, are demanding that the prime minister resign.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the court's decision had left Mr Johnson \"badly wanting\", while the SNP said the country now had \"a zombie prime minister and a zombie government\" and both must be removed \"in a timely manner\".\n\nThe prime minister could be ousted via a vote of no confidence - potentially triggering a general election - but Mr Corbyn said he would not seek one until it was \"very clear\" Mr Johnson would seek an extension to Brexit to prevent no deal and the EU had agreed to it.\n\nMr Johnson has said Brexit will happen with or without a deal on 31 October.\n\nBut MPs passed a law - the so-called Benn bill - to force him to ask for an extension from the EU if a deal - or approval for no deal - was not voted for by the Commons by 19 October.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled it was impossible to conclude there had been any reason - \"let alone a good reason\" - to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nSupreme Court president Lady Hale emphasised, though, that the case was \"not about when and on what terms\" the UK left the EU.\n\nThe PM insisted the suspension of Parliament had been necessary in order for him to bring forward a Queen's Speech on 14 October outlining his government's policies.\n\nBut the court found that the effect of such a move was to stop MPs scrutinising the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"No shame\" over Supreme Court ruling, says Labour MP Barry Sheerman\n\nBack in the Commons on Wednesday after the ruling, MPs called for Mr Cox to distance himself from criticism of the judges.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn asked whether he agreed with reported comments by Mr Rees-Mogg, who is said to have referred to the court's actions as a \"constitutional coup\".\n\nThe attorney general said things were sometimes said \"in the heat of the rhetorical and poetic licence\", but added: \"We are proud we have a country capable of giving independent judgements of this kind.\n\n\"With the judgements we can be robustly critical, with the motives we cannot.\"\n\nBut exchanges in the Commons became more heated when Mr Cox hit out at MPs on the opposition benches for criticising the government, but not being willing to hold an election.\n\n\"This Parliament is a dead Parliament,\" he said. \"It should no longer sit. It has no moral right to sit on these green benches.\n\n\"This is a disgrace. They could vote no confidence [in the government] at any time but they are too cowardly.\"\n\nHe also said an election motion would be \"coming before the House shortly\" - although offered no further detail.\n\nWhen Boris Johnson addresses MPs this afternoon it's going to be some moment. He's not going to go in chastened, contrite - we'll see him defiant and determined to press on with his 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nIndeed, this morning's combative performance from Geoffrey Cox was a hint of what's to come - attacking the opposition for being \"too cowardly\" to back an election.\n\nAnd it's true they do want to wait - they believe Mr Johnson is on the ropes, but don't want to deliver the killer punch just yet.\n\nThe real problem for the PM is this. For all the headlines he may get, all the personal satisfaction he may derive, from presenting this as the people vs the elite - an out-of-touch Parliament and judiciary - nothing changes the hard truth.\n\nMr Johnson is a prime minister deadlocked in Westminster and deadlocked in Brussels.\n\nFormer Tory leadership contender Rory Stewart - who had the party whip removed after backing plans to prevent a no-deal Brexit - expressed shock at the remarks.\n\nHe tweeted: \"I am horrified that when I asked the attorney general to confirm the principle of the sovereignty of Parliament that he appears to have replied - over the shouts of the House - that 'this Parliament is a disgrace.'\n\n\"Our democracy can only be and must remain founded in Parliament.\"\n\nA furious Barry Sheerman also said the attorney general had \"no shame\".\n\nThe Labour MP added: \"To come here with his barrister's bluster to obfuscate the truth? For a man like him, a party like this and a leader like this... to talk about morals and morality is a disgrace.\"\n\nAnd former Tory minister Amber Rudd - who resigned over the government's handling of Brexit - urged Mr Cox to \"cease this language of pitting Parliament against the people\".\n\n\"This Parliament was elected in 2017,\" she said. \"It reflects the divisions in our country, the divisions in our community and the divisions in our families. The failure is we have not yet reached a compromise.\"\n\nMr Cox replied: \"If I had not been driven to this language, I would never have used it.\"\n\nMPs twice refused to back the prime minister's call for an election earlier this month - he needs the support of two-thirds of the House to hold one under the Fixed Terms Parliament Act.\n\nOpposition parties say they want to wait until after the PM has asked for a Brexit extension as required by the Benn bill.\n\nHe has repeatedly insisted he will not do that.\n\nMr Cox said there was \"no question of this government not obeying the law\" within the Benn bill, although \"there is a question as to precisely what obligations the law might require of the government\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn improvised weapon has been discovered in the playground of a primary school in north Belfast, the police have said.\n\nIt was discovered at Holy Cross Boys' Primary School and was \"most likely\" left by dissident republicans to attack police, a senior officer said.\n\nCh Supt Jonathan Roberts said the weapon had the \"potential to fire a high-calibre round\".\n\n\"What they have done is endangered the lives of children,\" he said.\n\n\"The device was left in the immediate area where the youngest children who attend school would be playing during the course of the school day.\"\n\nHe said it was an \"act of utmost recklessness\".\n\nThe weapon was found by the principal and caretaker under a sewage man-hole cover, in a plastic package in a garden area of the school.\n\nThe school was evacuated on Monday and was closed again on Tuesday but the security operation has now ended.\n\nCh Supt Jonathan Roberts added: \"Our working theory at this time is that this weapon was most likely to have been left there by dissident republican terrorists.\n\n\"It was probably destined to be used in an attempt to kill or seriously injure police officers who are serving and protecting the community of north Belfast.\"\n\nCh Supt Jonathan Roberts said the weapon had the \"potential to fire a high-calibre round\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster earlier, the school's principal, Kevin McArevey, spoke of his shock.\n\n\"I was helping the caretaker with some sewage problems out the back of the school, in the nature garden and we had to lift a manhole cover to get the rods down and to my surprise, there was a plastic package just sitting in the sewers.\n\n\"I lifted it out and... when I opened it up, there were wires at the top of this and tubing in it.\n\n\"It was a scary moment for both of us.\"\n\nHe added: \"We had cleared out the sewers three years previous, it was put in there within the last three years.\n\n\"Whoever left this device should consider their reckless disregard for the health and wellbeing of the children who would regularly use the nature garden.\"\n\nIn a tweet, North Belfast MLA Nichola Mallon said the incident was a \"disgrace\".\n• None Why is dissident republican activity on the rise?", "Katrice Lee went missing on her second birthday while out shopping with her mother\n\nAn arrest has been made over the 38-year-old mystery of a toddler who went missing in Germany.\n\nKatrice Lee, from Hartlepool, disappeared from a supermarket near a British Army base in Paderborn on her second birthday in 1981.\n\nShe was with her mother at a Naafi supermarket when she vanished.\n\nRoyal Military Police said an arrest was made in the Swindon area but would not comment any further. A garden has also been searched.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We can confirm that an arrest was made on 23 September by the Royal Military Police in connection with the disappearance of Katrice Lee in 1981.\"\n\nRoyal Military Police said this man was seen putting a child in a green saloon car near where Katrice Lee disappeared\n\nIn 2012, Royal Military Police chiefs admitted mistakes were made during the initial investigation into Katrice's disappearance, and in 2017 the government agreed to review the case.\n\nA year later, the Royal Military Police undertook a forensic search on the bank of the River Alme, near to where she went missing.\n\nThe river site was identified after the release of an age-progressed photo-fit of a man seen at the Naafi holding a child similar to Katrice.\n\nHe was seen in a parked green car on a bridge over the river the day after she went missing.\n\nAt the time, Katrice's father Richard Lee, a former sergeant major, said the news confirmed his long-held belief the toddler had been abducted.\n\nAn army search of the riverbank area involved more than 100 soldiers\n\nMore than 100 soldiers took part in the five-week search which unearthed bone fragments, but tests confirmed they were non-human.\n\nFollowing the search Mr Lee said: \"I believe what we should now be looking at a public inquiry into the treatment of the family through all of this and the way in which the case has been handled.\n\n\"If things had been done properly in 1981 we wouldn't still be going through this now.\"\n\nKatrice's father Richard Lee has always maintained she was abducted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emergency services were sent to Tata\n\nA worker has died in a machine accident at Tata's Port Talbot steelworks.\n\nTata Steel Europe said the company's thoughts were with the contractor's family and a full investigation had been launched.\n\nAn air ambulance was sent to the scene following the accident at about 14:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA South Wales Police spokesman described it as \"an isolated incident\" and said there was no threat to the wider public.\n\nHe added that the man's next of kin had been informed and the force was now liaising with the health and safety executive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Tata Steel in Europe\n\nA hazardous area response team was also sent to the scene along with an emergency ambulance.\n\nThe steelworkers' union Community called it \"absolutely tragic news\" and said its thoughts were with the family of the worker who died.\n\nIts general secretary Roy Rickhuss added: \"We will be pressing Tata Steel to carry out a full investigation and ensuring that all lessons are learnt and procedures and processes are reviewed and necessary changes are implemented to ensure all workers at the Port Talbot plant are safe at work.\"\n\nNeath Port Talbot council leader Rob Jones said: \"Port Talbot has strong links with Tata Steel and the workers at the plant, and I know that our local communities will be feeling a mixture of shock and sadness at this time.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Aberavon AM David Rees said: \"My thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues at this sad time. We must now await police & HSE investigation on this incident.\"\n\nIn April, two workers were injured at the plant following an incident after several fires broke out when molten metal came into contact with cold water on a railway track.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Supreme Court has ruled the suspension of Parliament was unlawful. Meanwhile, what's happening at Labour Party Conference?\n\nListen to the more episodes of Brexitcast here.", "Some commuters in Birmingham were undeterred by the flooding\n\nHeavy rain is causing flash flooding and travel problems on roads across England.\n\nFive flood warnings and 40 flood alerts remain in place across much of the country by the Environment Agency.\n\nThe Met Office has a yellow rain warning covering most of the country in force until 23:00 BST.\n\nFloods have been reported on roads in Southampton, Birmingham, Liverpool and London, where a deluge was reported at the Houses of Parliament.\n\nFlooding has also hit roads in Southampton\n\nSome areas saw more than 50mm of rain in less than 12 hours as wind, rain and thunder battered parts of the country.\n\nBoscombe Down in Wiltshire had the biggest downpour, with 51.2mm falling at the military base near Amesbury in the 12 hours to 13:00 BST.\n\nAbout 49.6mm (2in) of rain fell there in the six hours before 09:00, according to the Met Office.\n\nSpokesman Grahame Madge said it was a \"significant\" amount of rain.\n\nHe said the band of rain was \"transient\" having started in the South West, before moving to the Midlands and hitting the North later in the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCurrently, flood warnings, where flooding is expected, are still in place for:\n\nFlood alerts, which indicate flooding is possible, are in place across the country, including for parts of Greater London, Derbyshire, Sheffield, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire.\n\nThe Environment Agency said a further 14 flood warnings are no longer in place.\n\nThe torrential downpours saturated pedestrians in Birmingham city centre on Tuesday morning\n\nWales has also been affected by the heavy rainfall, with the Met Office issuing warnings across south and north eastern areas of the country.\n\nThe weather has affected public transport, with National Rail warning of major disruption between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stourbridge earlier due to a tree blocking the line.\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\nOn the roads, delays were caused by several cars breaking down in water on Milbrook Road West in Southampton city centre, with motorists also advised to avoid Waterhouse Lane and Paynes Road.\n\nMersey Fire and Rescue Service reported vehicles trapped in floodwater in the Queens Drive and West Derby areas of Liverpool.\n\nA service spokesman urged drivers to \"please take extra care\", adding: \"Slow down, increase your distances, switch your lights on and please don't drive into floodwater.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRoads have been flooded in the Longbridge area of Birmingham, with West Midlands Fire Service reporting being called to two motorists on the roof of a vehicle in a ford in Hawkesley Mill Lane, Northfield.\n\nWest Midlands crews also rescued two pensioners who had become stuck in their vehicle in flood water in Alum Rock, Birmingham.\n\nThey also had to pump water out of one of their own fire stations; in Ward End, Birmingham.\n\nFlooding has also been reported in the Houses of Commons, with Twitter users sharing footage of a patch of water being barricaded off.\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\nIn sport, the rainfall has affected the cricket County Championship, while the fan zone for the UCI Road World Championships in Harrogate has been closed due to the rain.\n\nThe cycling action can still be seen on West Park and Parliament Street, organisers said, but the wet weather did lead to two crashes involving riders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He takes an early bath!' Wet Yorkshire weather causes two HUGE crashes\n\nThe downpours are being brought by low pressure travelling across the UK, along with warm and humid air linked to the remnants of Hurricane Humberto which hit Bermuda coastline last week.\n\nThe heavy rain is expected to clear by Wednesday, but a low-pressure front is expected to remain for the rest of the week.\n\nA road has been partially flooded at Colnbrook in Berkshire\n\nA road was flooded in the Longbridge area of Birmingham\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joaquin Phoenix (centre) was at the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival\n\nFamilies of those killed while watching a Batman film in 2012 have written to Warner Bros with concerns about the new Joker film and urging the studio to join action against gun violence.\n\nTwelve people died in a cinema showing The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado.\n\nThey included Jessica Ghawi, 24, whose mother Sandy Phillips told BBC News she was \"horrified\" by the Joker trailers.\n\nWarner Bros said the film - which stars Joaquin Phoenix - was not an endorsement of real-world violence.\n\nPhoenix walked out of a recent interview when asked about the issue.\n\nSandy Phillips and her husband, Lonnie, who run Survivors Empowered, an anti-gun violence group, wrote to Warner Bros along with three others whose relatives were killed, injured or caught up in the 2012 shooting.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Mrs Phillips said: \"When I first saw the trailers of the movie, I was absolutely horrified.\n\n\"And then when I dug a little deeper and found out that it had such unnecessary violence in the movie, it just chilled me to my bones.\n\n\"It just makes me angry that a major motion picture company isn't taking responsibility and doesn't have the concern of the public at all.\"\n\nThe families' letter said: \"When we learned that Warner Bros was releasing a movie called Joker that presents the character as a protagonist with a sympathetic origin story, it gave us pause.\n\n\"We support your right to free speech and free expression. But as anyone who has ever seen a comic book movie can tell you: with great power comes great responsibility. That's why we're calling on you to use your massive platform and influence to join us in our fight to build safer communities with fewer guns.\"\n\nThe letter asked the studio to lobby for gun reform, help fund survivor funds and gun violence intervention schemes, and end political contributions to candidates who take money from the National Rifle Association.\n\nThe film depicts the disturbing transformation of clown and comedian Arthur Fleck\n\nIn its response, the studio said it has \"a long history of donating to victims of violence\", including the 2012 cinema shooting in Aurora, Colorado.\n\nIt added: \"Make no mistake: neither the fictional character Joker, nor the film, is an endorsement of real-world violence of any kind. It is not the intention of the film, the filmmakers or the studio to hold this character up as a hero.\"\n\nJoker, which is released in the US on 4 October, has received rave reviews and has been tipped for Oscar nominations, but is also stirring controversy for its portrayals of mental illness and violence. It shows the origin story of Batman's nemesis.\n\nTime magazine's Stephanie Zacharek said it was guilty of \"aggressive and possibly irresponsible idiocy\", while Variety's reviewer Owen Gleiberman said the film \"does something that flirts with danger - it gives evil a clown-mask makeover, turning it into the sickest possible form of cool\".\n\nIndieWire's critic David Ehrlich wrote that there were \"moments of shocking violence\", and that the \"story can't help but feel aspirational\".\n\nPhoenix, who plays the title role, left an interview with the Telegraph when he was asked if he was worried that the film might end up inspiring the kind of people it's about, with potentially tragic results. He later returned, explaining that he was thrown because the question hadn't crossed his mind.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Evan Dozier, who was in the cinema, says people thought the attack was part of the film\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Facebook says it will treat all posts by politicians as \"newsworthy content\" that should \"be seen and heard\".\n\nThe company said politicians would be exempt from its fact-checking scheme which is designed to reduce the spread of fake news and misinformation.\n\nIt said it did not want to be the \"referee\" in political debates or prevent politicians' posts from reaching their intended audience.\n\nHowever, it did not define who it counted as a politician.\n\nOn Tuesday, Facebook's vice president of communications - the former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Nick Clegg - gave a speech in Washington DC.\n\nHe said the company had \"made mistakes in 2016\" and said Russia had tried to use Facebook to interfere with the US presidential election.\n\nHe insisted the company had taken steps to prevent it happening again.\n\nFacebook uses independent third-party fact-checking organisations to help identity fake news, misleading claims and misinformation.\n\nHowever, it said posts made by politicians would not be fact-checked.\n\nSir Nick also said Facebook would let politicians post content that breaks its rules on topics such as hate speech, as long as they did not pose a significant \"risk of harm\".\n\nBut advertisements on Facebook must still abide by the rules.\n\nSir Nick said Facebook's role was to \"make sure there is a level playing field, not to be a political participant ourselves\".\n\nThe BBC asked Facebook company who it would consider to be a \"politician\".\n\nThe social network said it did not put \"strict parameters\" on its definition of a politician because of global differences.\n\nHowever, it told the BBC that the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson would remain banned, even though he stood as a candidate in the European elections in May.\n\nIt said he had been banned under the site's \"dangerous organisations and individuals\" policy, and that the ban would remain in place.\n\nIn the same speech given by Sir Nick on Tuesday, he urged politicians not to break up Facebook into smaller companies.\n• None Facebook 'rocked to its very foundations'", "Jess Beeton and Richard Berrington are on holiday on the Costa Almeria, Spain\n\nHolidaymakers who were abroad when Thomas Cook folded have been telling the BBC that their hotels have been demanding extra money from them.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says people should not make extra payments.\n\nBut Jess Beeton, on holiday with her partner Richard Berrington, said \"everyone who booked through Thomas Cook has been locked out of the rooms\".\n\nShe added: \"The only option we were given was to pay what Thomas Cook hasn't, or get our stuff and leave.\"\n\nJess said that after the hotel locked them out, she managed to gain access to their room by saying she had medication there that she needed to take.\n\nOnce inside, she and Richard locked themselves in, but they have since paid £520 on a credit card so they can stay at the hotel until their due departure date from Spain on Sunday.\n\nShe added: \"Most of the people in this hotel are elderly and about five couples of pensioners are having to sleep on sofas in reception with none of their belongings or access to food. They haven't even been provided with a blanket or pillow.\"\n\nHayley Hook and her family are on holiday in Greece.\n\nShe says they have been forced to give their credit card details to hotel staff and that at one point, security guards were brought in - although they have since left.\n\nShe posted on Facebook that the hotel was demanding €50 (£44) per person, per room per night and it said if they did not pay, it would stop supplying them with food and drink.\n\nSecurity guards were brought into Hayley Hook's hotel in Greece\n\nHolidaymakers like Hayley may have paid for their rooms months earlier, but hotels would normally only receive the money from Thomas Cook several weeks after their stay.\n\nBut the industry insurance fund Atol, which covers payments in the event of a firm failing, will only cover bills for rooms and food that have been run up since Thomas Cook's collapse on Monday.\n\nThat means any arrears built up at hotels beforehand will not be covered. Affected hoteliers will have to apply to the liquidators for their money instead - but there is no guarantee they will be successful.\n\nHotels may be worried that they are not going to be paid money they are owed for previous Thomas Cook guests, and therefore attempting to recoup costs by charging current guests.\n\nOr they may simply not feel confident the money will come through from Atol.\n\nGraeme Renwick said that in his hotel in Mallorca on Monday night, \"there was chaos at reception with staff shouting at guests when there were no Thomas Cook staff present and the hotel saying 'you're going to have to pay us'\".\n\nHe added: \"We're Atol-protected, and the hotel are, but I don't think they trust that Atol is going to pay them.\"\n\nClare McSweeney and Graeme Renwick are taking their last holiday before getting married next year\n\nHis fiancée Clare McSweeney said: \"Things have become very fraught in the hotel. Another guest, a 77-year-old lady, first time travelling alone, is distraught, with her son back in the UK trying to assist.\n\n\"Guests are too afraid to leave the hotel or stray too far in case anything happens.\"\n\nIf you are on a package holiday, you are covered by the Atol scheme.\n\nWhat are your rights? Read more here.\n\nOther hotels have taken the opposite approach. Maeve Pendlebury said the hotel where she and her partner are staying in Rhodes \"could not have been kinder or more hospitable\".\n\nManagers of the Atrium Prestige wrote to guests to reassure them that \"in spite of this unprecedented outcome that results in large debts\" for the company, they should continue to enjoy their holidays as planned.\n\nThomas Cook reps around the world have also received praise from holidaymakers.\n\nDan Birch is in Lanzarote with his partner and daughter and told the BBC: \"The reps are there, still working and speaking to people, which is amazing. They are really trying to help people.\"\n\nDan Birch, who is in Lanzarote with his family, says there is anger towards the hotel\n\nHe said some guests had moved to a cheaper hotel after they were told they had to pay for their accommodation.\n\nBut he said: \"They know it is not the reps' fault and the anger here is directed to the hotel.\"\n\nMichael Sheppard and family were due to return home from Corfu on Monday morning and as they had only booked a flight home through Thomas Cook, knew they had no Atol protection.\n\nHe said: \"When we got to Corfu airport we were amazed to see four smiling Thomas Cook staff working hard to help people.\n\n\"When I spoke to them they did not think they were going to be paid but they had come to help anyway - how professional, dedicated and caring - I was incredibly moved.\"\n\nMichael's plane took off six hours after its scheduled departure time.\n\n\"The crew were Thomas Cook staff, who had been offered two weeks' work by the lease company to do the rescue flights,\" he said.\n\n\"They got a huge round of applause both at the beginning and at the end of the flight.\"\n\nOn Monday, the CAA started repatriating British holidaymakers who were abroad at the time that Thomas Cook collapsed.\n\nDame Deirdre Hutton, CAA chairwoman, described Monday as \"a pretty good day for a first day\".\n\nShe told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money: \"We ran 64 flights, we brought back just under 15,000 people. That was over 90% of those we intended to bring back.\"\n\nThere will be more than 1,000 flights between now and Sunday 6 October to repatriate the remaining 135,300 holidaymakers, with 74 of those, returning around 17,000 people, scheduled for Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UK Civil Aviation Authority This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 CAA has set up a dedicated website to keep Thomas Cook customers updated with the latest advice and news.\n\nIt is running a call centre and Twitter feed with open direct messages to respond to holidaymakers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n\nThe call centre can be reached on 0300-303-2800 inside the UK and +44 1753-330330 from abroad.", "Arsenal Football Club paid tribute to Tashan Daniel who was on his way to The Emirates when he was stabbed\n\nA man stabbed to death at a London Underground station was an Arsenal fan on his way to a match.\n\nTashan Daniel, 20, was fatally wounded in an \"unprovoked attack\" on the platform at Hillingdon station on Tuesday shortly before 16:00 BST.\n\nHe had been heading to the Emirates Stadium to see the Gunners face Nottingham Forest in the third round of the Carabao Cup.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the Prime Minister offered his \"heartfelt condolences to the friends and family of Tashan\".\n\nHe also confirmed he had been in touch with British Transport Police (BTP) following the incident.\n\nEmergency services were called to Hillingdon Underground station at 15:57 BST\n\nIt is the third murder investigation on the Tube network this year.\n\nA spokesman for the Arsenal said: \"Everyone at Arsenal Football Club is shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the tragic passing of Arsenal fan Tashan Daniel.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Tashan's family and friends at this sad time.\"\n\nMr Daniel, who had recently celebrated his birthday, was on the platform waiting for a Piccadilly Line train into central London when he was attacked by two men, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nAttempts were made to save Mr Daniel who was pronounced dead inside a Tube carriage.\n\nTashan Daniel's killing is the third murder investigation on the Tube network this year\n\nDet Ch Insp Sam Blackburn said no arrests had been made, but both suspects left the station in the direction of Auriol Drive and a knife was recovered nearby.\n\n\"Tashan did not deserve to lose his life during this senseless attack,\" he said.\n\n\"His family are completely broken by this news and we are doing everything we can to offer them support.\"\n\nExtra officers are going to be carrying out patrols in the Hillingdon area, Det Ch Insp Blackburn added.\n\nCourtney Clarke said he \"hasn't stopped crying\" all day over the news of Mr Daniel's death\n\nMr Daniel was \"the perfect kid\" according to his running coach Courtney Clarke.\n\nMr Clarke told the BBC he \"hasn't stopped crying\" all day over the news of Mr Daniel's death.\n\n\"This shouldn't be happening,\" Mr Clarke said.\n\nJames Manley, Mr Daniel's team manager at Hillingdon Athletic Club, said: \"We are all devastated by Tashan's death.\n\n\"He always went the extra mile for his team and community.\n\n\"He was ceaselessly kind and generous with his happiness. In return he was loved by all of us.\"\n\nTashan Daniel was stabbed on a platform at Hillingdon station and died inside a Tube carriage, BTP has said.\n\nDanielle Foster, who was driving past Hillingdon station at the time of the stabbing, said upon \"hearing so many sirens, I knew something terrible had happened\".\n\n\"Lots of people were being turned away from the station as it had been closed,\" she said, adding: \"Then the police helicopter began circling the scene.\"\n\nThe station was closed by Transport for London (TfL) while police searched the area.\n\nIt remained closed for the rest of Tuesday evening and reopened at 05:45 on Wednesday.\n\nSo far in 2019 more than 100 murder investigations have been launched across London by the Metropolitan Police and BTP.\n\nThe other two murder investigations carried out by BTP happened after killings at Queensbury Tube station in March and Elephant and Castle Tube station at the start of this month.\n• None A week in the life of a London trauma surgeon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officials in Courmayeur highlighted in yellow the area of the glacier at risk of collapse\n\nItalian authorities have closed roads and evacuated mountain huts after experts warned that part of a glacier on Mont Blanc could collapse.\n\nAbout 250,000 cubic metres of ice are in danger of breaking away from the Planpincieux glacier on the Grandes Jorasses peak, officials said.\n\nThe mayor of the nearby town of Courmayeur said global warming was changing the mountain.\n\nIt has 11 peaks above 4,000m in France and Italy and attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.\n\nOn Tuesday, Courmayeur Mayor Stefano Miserocchi signed an order closing roads in the Val Ferret on the Italian side of Mont Blanc, after experts warned that a section of the glacier was sliding at speeds of 50-60cm (16-23in) per day.\n\nHe said there was no threat to residential areas or tourist facilities but mountain huts in the Rochefort area were being evacuated as a precaution.\n\n\"These phenomena once again show how the mountain is going through a period of major change due to climate factors and, therefore, it is particularly vulnerable,\" Mr Miserocchi told Italian media.\n\nExperts from the Valle d'Aosta regional government and the Fondazione Montagna Sicura (Safe Mountain Foundation) say it is impossible to predict exactly when the mass of ice might collapse.\n\nThe Planpincieux glacier has been closely monitored since 2013 in an attempt to establish the frequency with which ice is melting. But authorities warn that there is no \"alert system\" in place.\n\nIn one weather-related incident in August 2018, an elderly couple were killed near Planpincieux in Courmayeur when their car was swept from a road and into a valley during a landslide. Hundreds of people were evacuated, some of them by helicopter.\n\nRising global temperatures are causing the melting of mountain glaciers and the retreat of polar ice sheets.\n\nEarlier this month, dozens of people took part in a \"funeral march\" to mark the disappearance of the Pizol glacier in north-east Switzerland.\n\nThe glacier, in the Glarus Alps, has shrunk to a tiny fraction of its original size.\n\nScientists say it has lost at least 80% of its volume just since 2006, a trend accelerated by rising global temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tourists fled a huge wave created as a section broke off a glacier in Iceland\n\nLast month, a ceremony took place in Iceland to commemorate a glacier that was officially declared dead five years ago.\n\nEarlier this year tourists on the island captured a section of another glacier, Breiðamerkurjökull, breaking away, which prompted a large wave.", "Frome is the most mispronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists\n\nA market town in Somerset has topped a list of the 10 most difficult-to-pronounce place names in the UK.\n\nFrome is the most mispronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists behind a language learning app.\n\nBallachulish in Scotland, Beaulieu in Hampshire and Woolfardisworthy in Devon also made the top 10.\n\nThe list's makers said British English was \"famous for some of the most confusing pronunciations on earth\".\n\n'How do you say?': The Top 10 'most difficult' place names\n\nHow would you pronounce these place names? See below to find out if you are correct.\n\nThe name Frome is thought to come from the ancient Brythonic word \"ffraw\".\n\nIt means fair, fine or brisk, and describes the flow of the river that runs through the town, which dates to the 7th Century.\n\nPaul Wynne, of Frome Town Council, said the name was most commonly mispronounced as rhyming with \"home\".\n\nHe said: \"We're not a town that toes the line. Now it seems that even the way we pronounce Frome is different too. Ours is the right way, obviously. We always know who is new to the town by the way they pronounce Frome.\n\n\"But this is a good thing, as it's easy for us identify and welcome newcomers, who are then immediately part of the community.\"\n\nKent Barker, owner of Eight Stony Street wine bar and restaurant in the town, said: \"It doesn't surprise me at all. We have a lot of tourists who visit in the summer, and certainly the majority struggle with the name.\n\n\"Probably more the Mediterranean visitors and all the Americans get it wrong.\n\n\"But I love them being here and don't mind what they call it as long as they come and visit Frome.\"\n\nThere are two places in Devon called Woolfardisworthy - both equally difficult to pronounce\n\nWoolfardisworthy in Devon also featured on the list, but which one? There are two places in Devon called Woolfardisworthy.\n\nWoolfardisworthy West - the bigger of the two Woolfardisworthys near Bideford - has adopted the easier to say version of its name Woolsery.\n\nHowever post office manager Andy Fryatt said people sometimes still struggled to pronounce the shortened version.\n\n\"When you know it and you use it every day, then obviously you wonder why people can't (say it), especially with the shortened version,\" he said.\n\n\"Maybe it is just something that gets lost in translation over the telephone, or people just don't hear properly, or they think it is something that is spelt wrong and they are pronouncing it correctly.\"\n\nThe smaller Woolfardisworthy east near Crediton has kept the longer version of its name.\n\nThe two villages are just over an hour apart, and Alison Evans, who runs two holiday rentals in the village, said people used to get the two places confused.\n\n\"Thank God for postcodes,\" she said, adding that sat navs now meant people usually navigated to the correct Woolfardisworthy.\n\nMs Evans said she had been living there for 25 years, which was not that long in local terms.\n\n\"When we first arrived people would look at you blankly if you said Woolfarisworthy (phonetically),\" she said.\n\nBabergh District Council takes its name from the Anglo Saxon name Barberga\n\nAnother place on the list, Babergh in Suffolk, is apparently so hard to pronounce that the district town council is planning to rename it at a cost of £10,000.\n\nCouncil leader John Ward said: \"Babergh has a proud history but we know that people from further afield are often unaware of exactly where Babergh is and even struggle over its pronunciation.\"\n\nThe top 10 has been compiled by the creators of language app Babbel.\n\nOne of its editors, Ted Mentele, said: \"British English is famous for some of the most confusing pronunciations on earth.\n\n\"The main reason that these are difficult to pronounce is that they're not spelled phonetically - there are a lot of silent letters and letters that are pronounced differently depending on where they are in the word.\n\n\"Many people in the UK, particularly locals to these areas, have grown up hearing these names and naturally don't find them so hard to get their tongues around.\n\n\"Others attempt to pronounce them as they're spelled, and without knowing the origins of the word, can get it far from correct.\"\n\nHow to pronounce the place names in the top 10\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\nKevin Burns, chief executive of vaping firm Juul, has stepped down, amid growing concerns around vaping health risks and criticism of its marketing.\n\nThe firm has also announced it will withdraw all US advertising.\n\nMr Burns will be replaced immediately by KC Crosthwaite, former chief growth officer at tobacco giant Altria, Juul said.\n\nJuul is 35%-owned by Altria, and in the past has been accused of targeting vaping devices at children.\n\nMr Burns said: \"Since joining Juul Labs, I have worked non-stop, helping turn a small firm into a worldwide business, so a few weeks ago I decided that now was the right time for me to step down.\"\n\nAt the same time, Altria said its merger talks with fellow cigarette-maker Phillip Morris would not move forward.\n\nThe changes come as Juul faces serious threats to its once explosive growth.\n\nThe Trump administration this month said it was preparing a nationwide ban on flavoured e-cigarettes. Juul is also facing multiple investigations, including into its marketing practices.\n\nJuul has for years promoted its e-cigarettes, which contain addictive nicotine, as a safer alternative to traditional tobacco products.\n\nHowever, the Food and Drug Administration recently warned Juul against making health claims without presenting scientific evidence to authorities for approval.\n\nJuul said it would not lobby against the proposed ban on flavoured e-cigarettes.\n\nHowever, Mr Crosthwaite said he remains committed to making Juul's products available to adult smokers.\n\n\"Unfortunately, today that future is at risk due to unacceptable levels of youth usage and eroding public confidence in our industry,\" he said.\n\nThe crackdown on Juul, which dominates the US e-cigarette market, follows a spate of serious lung injuries in the US linked to vaping.\n\nHealth authorities have not blamed the outbreak, in which nine people have died and more than 530 people been taken ill, on any one product.\n\nMost of the patients had a history of using vaping products that contain THC, the chemical in marijuana, they said.\n\nHowever, the injuries have raised alarm, especially in conjunction with surging rates of teen vaping.\n\nTwo US states, New York and Michigan, have already imposed bans on flavoured e-cigarettes, while Massachusetts has announced a four-month ban on all vaping products.\n\nWalmart last week announced it would stop e-cigarette sales, citing the regulatory uncertainty.", "The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully when he advised the Queen to suspend Parliament. Here is the full text of the statement Lady Hale, the president of the court, gave.\n\nWe have before us two appeals, one from the High Court of England and Wales and one from the Inner House of the Court of Session in Scotland. It is important, once again, to emphasise that these cases are not about when and on what terms the United Kingdom is to leave the European Union. They are only about whether the advice given by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty the Queen on 27th or 28th August, that Parliament should be prorogued from a date between 9th and 12th September until 14th October, was lawful and the legal consequences if it was not. The question arises in circumstances which have never arisen before and are unlikely to arise again. It is a \"one-off\".\n\nBriefly, the Scottish case was brought by a cross party group of 75 members of Parliament and a QC on 30th July because of their concern that Parliament might be prorogued to avoid further debate in the lead up to exit day on 31st October. On 15th August, Nikki da Costa, Director of Legislative Affairs at No 10, sent a memorandum to the Prime Minister, copied to seven people, civil servants and special advisers, recommending that his Parliamentary Private Secretary approach the Palace with a request for prorogation to begin within 9th to 12th September and for a Queen's Speech on 14th October. The Prime Minister ticked 'yes' to that recommendation.\n\nOn 27th or 28th August, in a telephone call, he formally advised Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament between those dates. On 28th August, Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Privy Council, Mr Mark Harper, chief whip, and Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, Leader of the House of Lords, attended a meeting of the Privy Council held by the Queen at Balmoral Castle. An Order in Council was made that Parliament be prorogued between those dates and that the Lord Chancellor prepare and issue a commission for proroguing Parliament accordingly. A Cabinet meeting was held by conference call shortly after that in order to bring the rest of the Cabinet \"up to speed\" on the decisions which had been taken. That same day, the decision was made public and the Prime Minister sent a letter to all Members of Parliament explaining it. As soon as the decision was announced, Mrs Miller began the English proceedings challenging its lawfulness.\n\nParliament returned from the summer recess on 3rd September. The House of Commons voted to decide for themselves what business they would transact. The next day what became the European Union (Withdrawal) (No 2) Act passed all its stages in the Commons. It passed all its stages in the House of Lords on 6th September and received royal assent on 9th September. The object of that Act is to prevent the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement on 31st October.\n\nOn 11th September, the High Court of England and Wales delivered judgment dismissing Mrs Miller's claim on the ground that the issue was not justiciable in a court of law. That same day, the Inner House of the Court of Session in Scotland announced its decision that the issue was justiciable, that it was motivated by the improper purpose of stymying Parliamentary scrutiny of the Government, and that it, and any prorogation which followed it, were unlawful and thus void and of no effect.\n\nMrs Miller's appeal against the English decision and the Advocate General's appeal against the Scottish decision were heard by this court from 17th to 19th September. Because of the importance of the case, we convened a panel of 11 Justices, the maximum number of serving Justices who are permitted to sit. This judgment is the unanimous judgment of all 11 Justices.\n\nThe first question is whether the lawfulness of the Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty is justiciable. This Court holds that it is. The courts have exercised a supervisory jurisdiction over the lawfulness of acts of the Government for centuries. As long ago as 1611, the court held that \"the King [who was then the government] hath no prerogative but that which the law of the land allows him\". However, in considering prerogative powers, it is necessary to distinguish between two different questions. The first is whether a prerogative power exists and if so its extent. The second is whether the exercise of that power, within its limits, is open to legal challenge. This second question may depend upon what the power is all about: some powers are not amenable to judicial review while others are. However, there is no doubt that the courts have jurisdiction to decide upon the existence and limits of a prerogative power. All the parties to this case accept that. This Court has concluded that this case is about the limits of the power to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament.\n\nThe second question, therefore, is what are the limits to that power? Two fundamental principles of our Constitution are relevant to deciding that question. The first is Parliamentary sovereignty - that Parliament can make laws which everyone must obey: this would be undermined if the executive could, through the use of the prerogative, prevent Parliament from exercising its power to make laws for as long as it pleased. The second fundamental principle is Parliamentary accountability: in the words of Lord Bingham, senior Law Lord, \"the conduct of government by a Prime Minister and Cabinet collectively responsible and accountable to Parliament lies at the heart of Westminster democracy\". The power to prorogue is limited by the constitutional principles with which it would otherwise conflict.\n\nFor present purposes, the relevant limit on the power to prorogue is this: that a decision to prorogue (or advise the monarch to prorogue) will be unlawful if the prorogation has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature and as the body responsible for the supervision of the executive. In judging any justification which might be put forward, the court must of course be sensitive to the responsibilities and experience of the Prime Minister and proceed with appropriate caution.\n\nIf the prorogation does have that effect, without reasonable justification, there is no need for the court to consider whether the Prime Minister's motive or purpose was unlawful.\n\nThe third question, therefore, is whether this prorogation did have the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification. This was not a normal prorogation in the run-up to a Queen's Speech. It prevented Parliament from carrying out its constitutional role for five out of the possible eight weeks between the end of the summer recess and exit day on 31st October. Proroguing Parliament is quite different from Parliament going into recess. While Parliament is prorogued, neither House can meet, debate or pass legislation. Neither House can debate Government policy. Nor may members ask written or oral questions of Ministers or meet and take evidence in committees. In general, Bills which have not yet completed all their stages are lost and will have to start again from scratch after the Queen's Speech. During a recess, on the other hand, the House does not sit but Parliamentary business can otherwise continue as usual. This prolonged suspension of Parliamentary democracy took place in quite exceptional circumstances: the fundamental change which was due to take place in the Constitution of the United Kingdom on 31st October. Parliament, and in particular the House of Commons as the elected representatives of the people, has a right to a voice in how that change comes about. The effect upon the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme.\n\nNo justification for taking action with such an extreme effect has been put before the court. The only evidence of why it was taken is the memorandum from Nikki da Costa of 15th August. This explains why holding the Queen's Speech to open a new session of Parliament on 14th October would be desirable. It does not explain why it was necessary to bring Parliamentary business to a halt for five weeks before that, when the normal period necessary to prepare for the Queen's Speech is four to six days. It does not discuss the difference between prorogation and recess. It does not discuss the impact of prorogation on the special procedures for scrutinising the delegated legislation necessary to achieve an orderly withdrawal from the European Union, with or without a withdrawal agreement, on 31st October. It does not discuss what Parliamentary time would be needed to secure Parliamentary approval for any new withdrawal agreement, as required by section 13 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.\n\nThe Court is bound to conclude, therefore, that the decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification.\n\nThe next and final question, therefore, is what the legal effect of that finding is and therefore what remedies the Court should grant. The Court can certainly declare that the advice was unlawful. The Inner House went further and declared that any prorogation resulting from it was null and of no effect. The Government argues that the Inner House could not do that because the prorogation was a \"proceeding in Parliament\" which, under the Bill of Rights of 1688 cannot be impugned or questioned in any court. But it is quite clear that the prorogation is not a proceeding in Parliament. It takes place in the House of Lords chamber in the presence of members of both Houses, but it is not their decision. It is something which has been imposed upon them from outside. It is not something on which members can speak or vote. It is not the core or essential business of Parliament which the Bill of Rights protects. Quite the reverse: it brings that core or essential business to an end.\n\nThis Court has already concluded that the Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty was unlawful, void and of no effect. This means that the Order in Council to which it led was also unlawful, void and of no effect and should be quashed. This means that when the Royal Commissioners walked into the House of Lords it was as if they walked in with a blank sheet of paper. The prorogation was also void and of no effect. Parliament has not been prorogued. This is the unanimous judgment of all 11 Justices.\n\nIt is for Parliament, and in particular the Speaker and the Lord Speaker to decide what to do next. Unless there is some Parliamentary rule of which we are unaware, they can take immediate steps to enable each House to meet as soon as possible. It is not clear to us that any step is needed from the Prime Minister, but if it is, the court is pleased that his counsel have told the court that he will take all necessary steps to comply with the terms of any declaration made by this court.\n\nIt follows that the Advocate General's appeal in the case of Cherry is dismissed and Mrs Miller's appeal is allowed. The same declarations and orders should be made in each case.", "As the Supreme Court ruling hacked a new path through Britain's system of government, brushing ancient royal powers to one side, from Buckingham Palace came - nothing.\n\nThis is precisely where the Queen does not want to be - right in the middle of a political and constitutional hurricane, with the Supreme Court redefining the relationship between judiciary, legislature, government and monarch.\n\nWhen the Scottish Court of Session ruled that the prorogation was illegal - one of the cases that went to the Supreme Court last week - a Palace source said simply: \"The Queen acts and acted on the advice of her ministers\".\n\nAnd that line held right up until today. The Queen has very little, if any, discretion over the prorogation of Parliament.\n\nThere's an argument that says the Queen might have turned down Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request, given that his legitimacy is arguably thinner than previous prime ministers.\n\nThat would have been running zig-zag through a constitutional minefield.\n\nBut what happened today was painful for the Palace.\n\nIt wasn't just Mr Johnson's request for a prorogation that was found by the Supreme Court to be unlawful, void and of no effect.\n\nIt was also the Order in Council, the legal mechanism that the Queen personally approves, that was found to be unlawful, void and of no effect. And, said the Supreme Court, it should be quashed.\n\nMore importantly, the Queen has been dragged by the PM's unlawful prorogation into the place where for decades politicians have agreed she should never be - right into a domestic political argument.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Supreme Court declared \"Parliament has not been prorogued\"\n\nFormer Conservative prime minister Sir John Major commented after the judgement that \"no prime minister must ever treat the monarch or Parliament in this way again\".\n\nHe chose his words - and the order of his words - carefully, and conservatively. First monarch, then Parliament. He understands the damage this has done to the position of the Queen.\n\nThe man who pretty much defined the modern role of the Queen, the Victorian Walter Bagehot, wrote of the monarchy: \"Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.\"\n\nThe role has always worked in the shadows, the grey areas of the constitution, with an agreement going back decades amongst politicians that unwritten rules and conventions would be respected, and that nothing would be done to put the Queen into an embarrassing position, a position where she could be accused of having a political role.\n\nBoris Johnson has blown that apart.\n\nWith the Supreme Court judgement a bright and critical light now illuminates the monarchy.\n\nAnd the cry has gone up - even from the present system's doughtiest defenders - for a written constitution, one where the powers of the different parts of the state and the different nations of the kingdom, are clearly explained and defined.\n\nAt which point, of course, some will ask - just what is the role in government, in the 21st Century, of a hereditary monarch?\n\nElizabeth came to the throne as the age of deference slipped away.\n\nShe has been a conservative monarch, content to play little more than a symbolic and ceremonial role. She understands that her position is dependent on her staying deep in the shadows of government.\n\nBut now daylight has flooded in. No wonder the Palace has decided to stay silent.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have introduced their baby son Archie to renowned anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nIt is the first time the four-month-old has been seen in public on the couple's 10-day tour of Africa.\n\nArchie was seen smiling in his mother's arms and was held up on her lap.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan joked about their son's time in front of the cameras as they greeted the archbishop and his daughter Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe.\n\n\"He's an old soul,\" said Meghan, while Harry remarked: \"I think he is used to it already.\"\n\nThe duke, duchess and Archie met Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Thandeka\n\nA Nobel Peace Prize winner for his opposition to apartheid, the archbishop said he was \"thrilled\" by the \"rare privilege and honour\" of meeting the royals.\n\nHe spent half an hour with the couple and Archie at his Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, based in a centuries-old building which was constructed by enslaved people.\n\nThe archbishop told the couple: \"It's very heart-warming, let me tell you, very heart-warming to realise that you really, genuinely are caring people.\"\n\nThe couple also posted a video to their official SussexRoyal Instagram account of their arrival at the meeting with the archbishop in Cape Town, with the caption: \"Arch meets Archie!\"\n\nBiscuits decorated with \"Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor\" were offered by the archbishop\n\nJuggling royal duties with a four-month-old baby is \"a lot\", the duchess told female entrepreneurs in Cape Town\n\nLater, the Duchess of Sussex spoke about the excitement and pressures of being a working mother as she met female entrepreneurs in Cape Town.\n\nSpeaking to them at an event called Ladies Who Launch, she said looking after Archie as well as carrying out royal duties was \"a lot\" but added: \"It's all so exciting.\"\n\nShe described one non-profit group, which employs disadvantaged women to make bracelets for good causes, as \"fascinating\".\n\n\"By empowering these women from those backgrounds they are changing the focus of their communities and empowering the next generation,\" she said.\n\nMeghan also met mothers and young children at mothers2mothers, a non-profit organisation which provides support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV.\n\nShe played with toddlers on the floor and invited other mothers to join her.\n\nThe duchess met health workers and families at mothers2mothers, which works with women living with HIV\n\nThere was a warm welcome for the duchess outside the non-profit organisation\n\nSome of the children could end up wearing royal hand-me-downs after the duchess handed over two bags of \"loved but outgrown\" clothes as she left.\n\nShe told the women: \"It's so important we're able to share what's worked for our family and know that you're all in this together with each other. So we wanted to share something from our home to yours.\"\n\nOn their tour so far, the duke and duchess have also visited South Africa's oldest mosque and visited a charity which provides mental health support for young people.\n\nMeghan told teenage girls in a deprived part of South Africa she was visiting the country not only as a member of the Royal Family, but also \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".", "Munchetty has been a presenter on BBC Breakfast for the last 10 years\n\nNaga Munchetty breached BBC guidelines by criticising President Donald Trump for perceived racism, the corporation's complaints unit has ruled.\n\nIn July the BBC presenter took issue with comments made by the US President after he told opponents to \"go back\" to the \"places from which they came\".\n\nThe BBC said the Breakfast host was entitled to her own views but had gone \"beyond what the guidelines allow for\".\n\nIt said any action taken as a result of the finding would be published later.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said the corporation's Executive Complaints Unit [ECU] had ruled that \"while Ms Munchetty was entitled to give a personal response to the phrase 'go back to your own country' as it was rooted in her own experience, overall her comments went beyond what the guidelines allow for\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on 17 July after Mr Trump's online remarks, Munchetty said: \"Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism.\n\n\"Now I'm not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean.\"\n\nThe US president's comments prompted a wave of criticism\n\nMunchetty said she felt \"absolutely furious\" and suggested many people in the UK might feel the same way.\n\n\"I can imagine lots of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious that a man in that position feels it's okay to skirt the lines with using language like that,\" she told co-presenter Dan Walker.\n\nHer comments followed Mr Trump posting several messages that made references to the Democrat politicians Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.\n\n\"Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,\" he wrote on Twitter on 14 July.\n\nSome BBC journalists tweeted their disapproval at the ECU's ruling.\n\nPresenter Carrie Gracie, who resigned her post as China Editor in a dispute over equal pay, said it had caused \"unease\" among BBC journalists \"for whom 'go back' = racist\" and called on the ECU to explain its decision.\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\nBBC correspondent Sangita Myska tweeted: \"Right now, there is a lot of bewilderment among BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] staff\", adding \"there is unique self-censoring that BAMEs do across all industries & workplaces\".\n\nReplying to Ms Myska, presenter Matthew Price tweeted his \"solidarity\", saying: \"There's a lot of bewilderment (and some anger) among non-BAME staff too... and I agree there's general concern about voicing it openly.\"\n\nWhen Munchetty made the comment in July, she received praise online for her \"off-script\" moment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Marina Hyde This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ECU found Munchetty's assertion that Mr Trump's comments were \"embedded in racism\" went beyond what the BBC allows and upheld a complaint made about the presenter's comments.\n\nChannel 4 news anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy tweeted he found the decision to partially uphold the complaint \"perplexing\".\n\n\"When you think about what those (mostly) older white men have got away with saying on the BBC and Twitter day after day this is a quite perplexing finding.\"\n\nThe BBC's spokeswoman said a summary of the complaint and the ECU's decision would be published on the BBC's online complaints pages and that it would \"include a note of any action taken as a result of the finding\".\n\nLabour MP David Lammy called the ECU's decision \"appalling\", while journalist Kevin Maguire said it was a \"bad, bad day\".\n\nA representative for BBC Breakfast said Munchetty was not available for comment.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The two leaders met at a UN summit in New York\n\nBoris Johnson has called for the release of detained British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during a meeting with Iran's president.\n\nThe prime minister invited his counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, to London \"where we can discuss things more\".\n\nThe pair spoke at a UN summit in New York on Tuesday amid heightened tensions between the UK and Iran.\n\nNo 10 said Mr Johnson also raised \"deep concern about Iran's destabilising activity in the region\".\n\nTheir meeting came after Mr Johnson blamed Iran for attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.\n\nIn the lead up to the summit, Mr Johnson faced pressure to take a tougher line over the detention of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual nationals held in Tehran.\n\nMrs Zahgari-Ratcliffe is half way through a five-year jail term after she was convicted of spying in 2016 - which she denies.\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, urged Mr Johnson to tell his Iranian counterpart \"enough is enough\" and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said he should call out Iran for its \"diplomatic hostage taking\".\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister called for the \"immediate release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual nationals illegally imprisoned in Iran\" during his meeting with Mr Rouhani.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nA number of people with dual Iranian and foreign nationality have been held in Iran in recent years and two British-Australian women and an Australian man were detained in September.\n\nSpeaking to the Iranian president, Mr Johnson said the UK had \"serious concerns about the detention of dual nationals in Tehran and we are looking forward to make progress on that\".\n\nHe added that his visit to Tehran in 2017 while he was foreign secretary was \"very productive but so far inconclusive\".\n\n\"I think we still have a lot of progress to make,\" he added.\n\nIn a departure from previous UK policy, Mr Johnson also criticised the Iran nuclear deal - under which Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.\n\nHe said the deal - known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - had \"many defects\".\n\nBut he reaffirmed the UK's commitment to the deal in a joint statement with France and Germany.\n\nDowning Street later said the prime minister had confirmed the UK's \"continuing support\" for the JCPOA \"and stressed the need for dialogue, including on a comprehensive successor deal\".\n\nThe future of the nuclear deal has been uncertain since the US abandoned the agreement in 2018.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron also held talks with Mr Rouhani during the summit\n\nIn July, Iran said it would be breaching the deal by breaking a limit set on uranium enrichment - but the UK, France and Germany reiterated their support for the deal.\n\nTensions between the UK and Iran have worsened in recent months following a row over the seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf.\n\nRelations strained further on Monday after the UK, France and Germany agreed that Iran was responsible for the attack on Saudi oil facilities on 14 September.\n\nIran denied responsibility, accusing the three countries of \"parroting absurd US claims\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Campaigner Gina Miller reacts to the judgement outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday\n\nGina Miller is the businesswoman and campaigner who has twice led legal challenges against the government and won.\n\nHer first victory came in September 2017, when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of giving MPs a say over triggering Article 50 - the legal mechanism taking the UK out of the EU.\n\nHer second came on Tuesday, when the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nHer success in the courts has come at a price - she has become a hate figure for many Brexit supporters and has had to employ round-the-clock security after threats to her life.\n\nShe says she does not want to block Brexit, but is standing up for Parliamentary democracy.\n\nSpeaking outside the Supreme Court after the ruling on Tuesday, she said: \"Today is not a win for any individual or cause, it's a win for Parliamentary sovereignty, the separation of powers and the independence of our British courts.\n\n\"Crucially, this ruling confirms that we are a nation governed by the rule of law.\"\n\nMrs Miller is not officially aligned to any political party, having spurned the advances of the Liberal Democrats, who rapturously received a speech she gave at their 2018 party conference.\n\nA 54-year-old investment manager and philanthropist, Mrs Miller was born in Guyana and educated in Britain.\n\nShe went first to an exclusive all-girls private boarding school, Roedean, on the outskirts of Brighton, at the age of 10, then to Moira House Girls' School, in Eastbourne, East Sussex.\n\nAfterwards, she studied law at the University of East London, but left before completing her degree.\n\nMrs Miller went on to start a successful marketing consultancy business with clients including private medical specialists in Harley Street in London.\n\nIn 2009, she used the money she had made in marketing to co-found an investment firm supporting smaller charities.\n\n\"I realised then it was my money, I could do what I wanted with it and so I used that money to get involved in social justice,\" Mrs Miller told Unfiltered with James O'Brien last year.\n\nAnd in 2012, the businesswoman began the True and Fair Campaign, which campaigned for greater transparency in the City of London's fund management industry.\n\nAccording to an interview with the Financial Times in 2016, this led some in the industry to label her the \"black widow spider\".\n\nSpeaking about a time she asked three men at an industry party why they were staring at her, she told the paper: \"One of them replied that I was a disgrace and that my lobbying efforts would bring down the entire City.\"\n\nMrs Miller launched her first Brexit legal case with London-based Spanish hairdresser Deir Tozetti Dos Santos and the People's Challenge group, set up by Grahame Pigney - a UK citizen who lives in France.\n\nBacked by a crowd-funding campaign, they argued the government could not invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - starting the formal process of the UK leaving the EU - without seeking approval from Parliament.\n\nMrs Miller argued only Parliament could make a decision leading to the loss of her \"rights\" under EU law.\n\nBut she stressed the challenge was not an attempt to overturn the referendum decision, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are all leavers now.\"\n\nIn November 2016, three High Court judges ruled Parliament had to vote on when the process could begin.\n\nSpeaking after her victory, Mrs Miller told the BBC the case was about scrutinising the details of Brexit, such as \"how we leave, how they're going to negotiate, the directions of travel the government will take\".\n\nAnd she said the legal challenge was about more than Brexit, arguing that it was \"verging on dictatorship\" for a prime minister to be able to take away people's rights without Parliament's consent.\n\nThe government appealed, and the case went to the Supreme Court the following December, but the 11 judges rejected it by a majority of eight to three.\n\nMrs Miller after winning her High Court legal challenge in November 2016\n\nFollowing the successful legal challenge, Mrs Miller suffered online abuse, including rape and death threats against her and her family.\n\nShe told James O'Brien: \"It has changed the way we live our lives, and the conversations we have with the children\".\n\n\"We use humour a lot because that's the only way to get through it\", she told him.\n\nIn July 2017, an aristocrat who wrote a Facebook post offering £5,000 to anyone who ran over Mrs Miller was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.\n\nDescribing the businesswoman as a \"boat jumper\", Rhodri Colwyn Philipps - the 4th Viscount St Davids - wrote: \"If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.\"\n\nThe peer claimed the comments were \"satire\" and a \"joke\".\n\nBut the judge, who said the post effectively put a \"bounty\" on Mrs Miller's head, found him guilty of two charges of making menacing communications.\n\nLater that year, Mrs Miller was named as Britain's most influential black person.\n\n\"It's amazing to get an accolade when what I've done has solicited a huge amount of abuse,\" she said on receiving her title.\n\n\"To have somebody acknowledge me is extraordinarily kind and counters a lot of what I still get on a daily basis.\"\n\nMrs Miller arrived at the Supreme Court in 2017 flanked by security guards, having received death threats\n\nDespite the backlash, Mrs Miller went on to launch a second challenge against the government to \"defend Parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\nAfter Mr Johnson announced in August that he would suspend Parliament for five weeks, Mrs Miller challenged the legality of the decision at the High Court.\n\nShe argued that Parliament would be \"silenced\" for an \"exceptional\" length of time in the critical period before the 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nShe initially lost her case, but in Scotland, a separate legal challenge succeeded, with judges taking the view that the suspension was unlawful.\n\nThe UK government appealed to the Supreme Court against the Scottish judgement, and the two cases were then heard together.\n\nThe court unanimously ruled in favour of Mrs Miller's appeal and against the government's.\n\nGina Miller spoke to the media outside the Supreme Court after her victory\n\nJudges said it was wrong to stop MPs carrying out duties in the run-up to the Brexit deadline on 31 October.\n\nAfter the ruling Mrs Miller told reporters the ruling showed the government \"will push the law, they will push the constitution and they will even bend it to get their own way\".", "The woman has been named locally as Elayne Stanley\n\nA woman has died after she was attacked by two dogs, police have said.\n\nNeighbours said mum-of-three Elayne Stanley, 44, was mauled at the house in Graham Road, Widnes, on Tuesday evening.\n\nThey reported hearing screams from the terrace house before police arrived to find Ms Stanley seriously injured.\n\nCheshire Police said one of the dogs had to be destroyed while the other had been captured and taken to a secure kennel. No arrests have been made.\n\nOfficers made repeated attempts to capture both animals, the force said.\n\nNeighbour Marie Airey said she \"heard screaming\" at the time of the attack.\n\nShe heard panicked shouting, she said, and the sound of someone kicking a door.\n\n\"Then they put the dogs out the back and... all hell broke loose,\" she said.\n\nOthers told the BBC that one neighbour had attempted, unsuccessfully, to stop the attack by throwing bricks at the dogs.\n\nPictures posted online show two dogs believed to be those involved in the attack\n\nMs Airey said another resident had attempted to resuscitate Ms Stanley, said to be a mother to three girls, including twins.\n\nDorothy Woodward, who also lives on the road, described Ms Stanley as \"a good woman... a lovely lady\".\n\nShe said she \"had a little cry\" when it became apparent paramedics would be unable to save her.\n\nCheshire Police has not confirmed the breed of either dog, but said it believed both lived at the address.\n\nThe woman was attacked at a house in Graham Road, Widnes\n\nDet Insp Ian Whiley said: \"We understand people in the community will be concerned... but I would like to reassure residents that we are doing all that we can to establish the full circumstances of the incident.\"\n\nThe victim's next of kin have been informed, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The President of The Supreme Court, Justice Lady Hale, has read out the court's judgement that the decision to prorogue - or suspend - Parliament was unlawful.\n\nHere are some of the key sections of the ruling:\n\nThe Supreme Court has drawn a clear line in the sand that a prime minister's executive powers in this most important area of how and when Parliament opens and closes are now curtailed - for ever.\n\nThe Supreme Court has underlined that the government and prime minister are the \"junior\" partners in the British constitution - that Parliament is the \"senior\" partner - and the junior cannot tell the senior, which acts for the people, what to do.\n\nThe Supreme Court is underlining that if there is an exceptional use of executive powers by the prime minister that infringes on parliamentary democracy, judges have the power to intervene.\n\nThis is the most important paragraph.\n\nDuring the case, the prime minister failed to provide any evidence to the court about his intentions - there was no witness statement.\n\nThis contributed to the Scottish Court of Session's inference that he had an improper purpose - and the Supreme Court's scathing conclusion that the highest court in the UK has seen no evidence to explain what he was doing.\n\nIn its last submissions last week, government lawyers argued that the prime minister retained the power to decide how and when to recall Parliament - and even to \"re-prorogue\" it.\n\nThe 11 justices have unanimously rejected that plea.\n\nThe Supreme Court was set up to resolve the most complicated legal and constitutional questions of the day - and in this judgement it has shown it is not afraid to tread into matters that judges in previous eras would have feared to have been too political.\n\nAnd this is why this judgement is so important for the future of the British constitution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Everything done in the proper way\"\n\nBoris Johnson has been given 14 days to give details of his relationship with a US businesswoman, following claims he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest when he was London mayor.\n\nA committee that scrutinises the mayor's spending has asked for details \"of all contact\" with Jennifer Arcuri.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Ms Arcuri joined trade missions he led and received thousands in sponsorship grants.\n\nMr Johnson has said everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".\n\nMs Arcuri told the paper any grants she received and any trade missions she joined were \"were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman\".\n\nIn a letter addressed to Mr Johnson and dated 23 September, Len Duvall, chairman of the London Assembly GLA (Greater London Assembly) Oversight Committee, said he wanted the \"details and a timeline of all contact\" with Ms Arcuri \"including social, personal and professional during his period of office as Mayor of London\".\n\nHe also asked for \"an explanation of how that alleged personal relationship was disclosed and taken into account in any and all dealings with the GLA\".\n\nThe committee has the legal power to summon Mr Johnson to appear before it for questioning and has done once before - when it quizzed him over the failed Garden Bridge project in 2018.\n\nBoris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nOn Monday evening, when asked about the allegations, Mr Johnson told the BBC's John Pienaar: \"All I can say is I am very proud of what we did as Mayor of London... particularly banging the drum for our city and country around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can tell you that absolutely everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nTechnology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri is believed to have moved to London seven years ago, when Mr Johnson was mayor.\n\nShe joined a number of trade missions led by him while in office, and it is understood she attended events on two of these trips - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that one of her businesses received £10,000 and £1,500 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when Mr Johnson was mayor, as well as a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs to build businesses in Britain.\n\nThe newspaper also said Ms Arcuri received a £100,000 grant from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport earlier this year.\n\nThe grant was intended for \"English-based\" businesses - although she had moved back to the US in June 2018.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it had found the registered address on the grant application form was a rented house in the UK and no longer connected to her.\n\nThe government has confirmed to the BBC it is investigating, but said the funds were awarded to a UK-registered company.\n\nThe woman at the centre of this story is Jennifer Arcuri, who describes herself on Twitter as an entrepreneur, cyber security expert and producer.\n\nShe began her career as a DJ on Radio Disney, before moving into film - where she wrote, produced and directed a short film that went on to be sold at Cannes Film Festival.\n\nMs Arcuri then brought in her tech skills to create a streaming platform for independent film makers.\n\nBut it was her founding of The Innotech Network in London that saw her path cross with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe network hosts events to discuss tech policy, and Mr Johnson was the keynote speaker at the first of those in 2012.\n\nSince then, Ms Arcuri has also founded another company called Hacker House, which uses ethical hackers to find tech solutions for businesses.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man was filmed punching the police horse before being detained by officers\n\nA police horse was punched by a football fan amid clashes between rival supporters at the Portsmouth v Southampton derby.\n\nPolice said five men were arrested, with one, aged 52, being held in police custody on suspicion of animal cruelty.\n\nSocial media footage appears to show a series of scuffles between fans and police before and after the match.\n\nOne video shows a man striking the horse before being chased down the street by its mounted officer.\n\nOther officers, who were then alerted, grabbed the suspect as he tried to escape, striking him with their batons before detaining him.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the horse, named Luna, was uninjured and remained on duty.\n\nThe man arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty - which police said was related to a horse - was also arrested for attempted criminal damage.\n\nThe other four arrested included a 40-year-old man who was held on suspicion of possession of a pyrotechnic.\n\nTwo men aged 18 and 19 were given conditional cautions for a public order offence.\n\nA 20-year-old arrested on suspicion of a public order offence was later released with no further action to be taken.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Videos on social media showed officers escorting Saints fans on their way to Fratton Park\n\nHampshire Constabulary said policing the game at Fratton Park on Tuesday, which Southampton won 4-0, was the county's largest football policing operation.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Scott Chilton said: \"Sadly we had to prepare for the potential that a minority would try and ruin it for everyone else and this required us, in conjunction with both clubs and our partners, to put plans in place to ensure we were ready to stop that.\n\n\"The fact that we have had no reports of anyone being injured and only a few people arrested is testament to the hard work that everyone has put into this operation.\n\nPolice presence outside the ground ahead of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday\n\n\"Today everyone is talking about what happened on the pitch, not off it, which is exactly what we wanted.\"\n\nIt was the first south coast derby in seven years and Saints' first win on Pompey's home turf since 1984.\n\nHundreds of officers were drafted in to head off any trouble during the derby clash.\n\nPolice were also given powers to stop and search fans or ask them to leave three areas - Southampton, Portsmouth and part of Fareham - until the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nTensions ran high among fans at the first south coast derby since 2012\n\nMultiple police riot vans, mounted officers, helicopters and dog units were used as measures at the game.\n\nTactics for the match also included police escorting those arriving by coach and train to and from the stadium to try to prevent rival fans meeting.\n\nSouthampton fans were held back at the stadium for 30 minutes after the final whistle.\n\nThe Premier League side eased to victory against their League One rivals to reach the last 16.\n\nA police cordon was put in place next to the away entrance\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs returned to the Commons on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nSupreme Court president Lady Hale said on Tuesday that it was unlawful because \"it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification.\"\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox told the Commons that he was \"disappointed\" at the landmark ruling but respected the judgement.\n\nHere are pictures of some of the key political events this week.\n\nBoris Johnson arrived back at Downing Street on Wednesday after flying overnight from a UN summit in New York.\n\nFormer prime minister Theresa May arrived at Parliament to join her fellow MPs.\n\nDominic Cummings, special political adviser to the PM, also headed to the Commons.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson (centre) spoke with her parliamentary colleagues at a press conference in London, saying: \"We have always argued - and we continue to argue - that we should have that extension of Article 50 so that the Brexit deal can go back to the public.\"\n\nExchanges in Parliament quickly became heated after business resumed.\n\nSpeaker of the House John Bercow greeted MPs, saying: \"Welcome back to our place of work.\"\n\nThe Commons resumed business with an urgent question to the government on whether Parliament should have been suspended on the legal advice from Geoffrey Cox (above). Mr Cox said: \"This Parliament is a dead Parliament... This Parliament is a disgrace\".\n\nLabour MP Barry Sheerman was furious with Mr Cox, saying: \"To come here with his barrister's bluster, to obfuscate the truth, and for a man like him, for a party like this and for a leader like this to talk about morals and morality, is a disgrace\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Lady Hale said the unanimous decision of the 11 justices meant Parliament had effectively not been prorogued - the decision was null and of no effect.\n\nPlaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts (left), SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas (right) celebrated outside court.\n\nGina Miller, who led campaigners against the suspension of Parliament, said: \"This prime minister must open the doors of Parliament tomorrow. MPs must get back and be brave and bold in holding this unscrupulous government to account.\"\n\nProtesters showed their delight at the ruling.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Chuka Umunna was seen leaving the Millbank broadcast studios near the Houses of Parliament, giving a thumbs up after the ruling.\n\nStanley Johnson, father of Boris Johnson, was also seen leaving the Millbank broadcast studios\n\nJeremy Corbyn brought forward his speech to the Labour Party conference after hearing the news from court. He led calls for Boris Johnson to resign, saying he should \"consider his position\".\n\nSpeaker of the House of Commons John Bercow confirmed that Parliament will resume on Wednesday at 11:30 BST.\n\nFollowing the ruling, Barry Sheerman MP (left) and Caroline Lucas MP (right) tweeted photos showing themselves sitting in the Commons.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson was interviewed in New York, telling reporters \"As the law stands we leave on October 31 and I'm very hopeful that we will get a deal.\"", "Thousands marched for independence in Caernarfon last Saturday\n\nThe debate around Welsh independence has risen up the political agenda, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said \"just singing 'Rule Britannia' and waving the Union Jack\" would not be enough to preserve the United Kingdom.\n\nHe met new prime minister Boris Johnson in the assembly on Tuesday at the end of the PM's first visit to Wales.\n\nMr Drakeford said he raised concerns about the future of the UK at the meeting.\n\nThousands of people marched through Caernarfon last Saturday for a rally backing Welsh independence.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme, Mr Drakeford said: \"I think independence has risen up the public agenda and people are thinking about independence. I told him that.\n\n\"And, of course, he came down from Scotland where independence is at the top of the agenda and I told him there is more interest, there is more discussion about independence.\n\n\"Of course, people who support independence in Wales, it's up to them to explain to people how that is going to work and to answer many serious questions.\n\n\"And for people like me who want to see a strong devolved Wales but also a future for Wales in a successful UK, that's the case we'll have to explain to people.\"\n\nBoris Johnson visited a chicken farm in St Brides Wentlooge, near Newport, on Tuesday\n\nOn Tuesday Mr Johnson said it is \"up to the EU, this is their call\" if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nIn a news conference following the meeting, Mr Drakeford said there was a \"deeply concerning lack of detail\" about the Brexit process from the new prime minister.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme on Wednesday morning, the first minister said he also raised concerns about the future of the UK in the meeting.\n\n\"I had to raise the topic because of the situation in Scotland, the situation in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland,\" the first minister said.\n\n\"Things in the UK have changed and Brexit has created more debate about the future of the UK.\"", "Andrew Fisher (second from right) will leave his role as Labour's head of policy by the end of 2019\n\nOne of Jeremy Corbyn's senior aides, who wrote Labour's last manifesto, has announced his intention to resign.\n\nAndrew Fisher, head of policy, will leave his job by the end of the year \"to spend more time with his young family\".\n\nThe Sunday Times claims Mr Fisher warned that Mr Corbyn would not win the next general election.\n\nMr Corbyn confirmed that Mr Fisher was leaving, saying it was a \"very stressful and full-on job.\"\n\nMr Fisher is said to have revealed his intention to quit last week, according to a memo seen by the Sunday Times.\n\nThe newspaper reports that he criticised Mr Corbyn's team for their \"blizzard of lies\".\n\nMr Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, \"I think he said that because he was extremely distressed at that point about whatever was going on in discussions within the office at that moment.\"\n\nMr Fisher was photographed with Jeremy Corbyn at Labour's party conference in Brighton\n\nThe Labour leader described Mr Fisher as a \"great friend\" and someone who he had worked with for 15 years - including Mr Corbyn's time as a backbench MP.\n\n\"He is a great writer, he's a great thinker and he's done a huge amount of work in the party.\n\n\"We get along absolutely very well and he has promised that whatever happens in the future he will be working with me on policy issues.\"\n\nIn a statement seen by the BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson, Mr Fisher said he is \"choosing to prioritise\" his wife and young son.\n\nHe plans to leave by the end of the year but says he will stay on should there be an autumn general election.\n\nMr Fisher said he feels \"immensely proud about what we have collectively achieved\".\n\nBut he added: \"The long hours, stresses and strains that inevitably come from working in this high pressure environment mean I haven't managed to balance my commitments to my wife and young son.\n\n\"So after four years, I'm now choosing to prioritise them. I will stay on for any autumn general election, but will be leaving by the end of the year.\"\n\nIt comes after Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson called for unity on Saturday following a move to oust him at the start of the party's annual conference.\n\nAn initial attempt had been made at the Labour National Executive Committee (NEC) on Friday.\n\nMr Corbyn later suggested the role should be reviewed instead, and his suggestion was backed by the ruling NEC.\n\nHe has since told the Sunday Mirror he would like to see the party have two deputy leaders \"which reflects diversity within our society\".\n\nMr Corbyn told the newspaper one deputy leader would be a woman.\n\nHe added: \"Tom is the elected deputy leader of the party and so has an important role to play.\n\n\"I work with him and he's done very well on media reform, online gambling and exposing the way sugar has a deleterious affect on our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is asked if he will serve five years if elected PM\n\nJeremy Corbyn has sought to play down divisions within his top team after one of his closest aides said he would quit and criticised the party's leadership.\n\nAndrew Fisher's exit comes after a failed bid to oust deputy leader Tom Watson, as Labour conference begins.\n\nMr Corbyn said he got on well with both men and Mr Fisher was \"extremely distressed\" when he wrote a memo saying the leader's office was \"incompetent\".\n\nHe said he would serve five years if elected PM, adding: \"Why wouldn't I?\"\n\nOn the second day of its conference, Labour is unveiling plans to scrap Ofsted and replace it with a new school inspection system.\n\nMr Corbyn said the regulator was too \"assertive\" and its system of oversight needed to be more \"supportive\" of schools and pupils.\n\nLabour is also promising to axe prescription charges in England if the party wins power, taking it in line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where they are already free.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, its leader dismissed talk he could stand down as Labour leader in the next year or so as \"wishful thinking\".\n\nHe also defended the party's Brexit policy - to be debated later - amid calls for him to come out unambiguously to remain in the EU rather than sit on the fence.\n\nWhile most Labour supporters wanted to remain in the EU, he said the party must respect the result of the Brexit referendum and do more to understand why people voted to leave.\n\nIf it wins power, Labour would negotiate a new Brexit deal in three months, which would then be put to the people in a referendum within six months, with the option to leave or remain.\n\nMr Corbyn would not be drawn on which side he would back, saying \"let's see\" what kind of new deal he was able to negotiate with the EU.\n\nHowever, he suggested he would ultimately go along with whatever party members decided at a special conference which could be held to settle the issue.\n\nAt a fringe event at the party's conference, deputy leader Tom Watson said Labour was a \"remain party\" and should lead the campaign to remain in the EU in a second referendum.\n\n\"By backing a people's vote, by backing remain, I am sure we can deliver the Labour government the people of this country so badly need,\" he said.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson says the NEC, Labour's governing body, agreed Brexit proposals on Sunday.\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\nLabour conference will be voting on that motion and a Brexit motion on an issue put forward by members on Monday.\n\nFormer Labour, now Independent MP, Ian Austin launched a campaign attacking Jeremy Corbyn's leadership\n\nAhead of next week's Supreme Court's ruling on whether the suspension of Parliament is lawful or not, Mr Corbyn said if the judges found against Boris Johnson, MPs must be recalled.\n\nIf that happened, he said he would \"take immediate action\" in Parliament along with other opposition parties to put pressure on the prime minister.\n\nBut Conservative chairman James Cleverly said Mr Corbyn could not say whether he would back Brexit even if the party negotiated its own deal.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn can't even make up his mind on the most important issue facing the country. He would delay Brexit until at least 2020 and even longer if the EU demand it.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was dealt a blow on Saturday when it emerged one of his aides, head of policy Andrew Fisher, revealed he will quit his post by the end of the year.\n\nHe said he wanted \"to spend more time with his young family\", but the Sunday Times claims he warned Mr Corbyn would not win the next general election and criticised the leader's office \"lack of professionalism, competence and human decency\".\n\nMr Corbyn acknowledged Mr Fisher, who helped write the 2017 manifesto, had expressed concerns about the party's direction and he had spoken to him \"at length\" about it.\n\nHe said Mr Fisher was \"extremely distressed\" when he made the comments, suggesting it was the sort of disagreement which happened in many workplaces.\n\n\"He is a great colleague, he is a great friend. We get along absolutely very well. He has promised whatever happens in the future, we will work together on policy issues.\"\n\nAmid continuing fallout from the bid to oust Mr Watson, Mr Corbyn also said he was not told beforehand of Friday's move by left-wingers on Labour's ruling body to abolish the role.\n\nThe party will now consult on replacing the single role with two deputies - one of whom will be a woman.\n\nMr Corbyn, who has been at odds with his deputy over Brexit, said he got on \"absolutely fine\" with him and suggested his intervention had \"put the issue to bed\".", "Mark Drakeford has taken a different view on Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn\n\nThe leader of Welsh Labour, Mark Drakeford, has written to party members confirming that Welsh Labour will campaign to remain if there is another referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe first minister's comments came after UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would seek a \"sensible\" Brexit deal if elected, before calling a vote.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said \"any type of Brexit... will cause potentially irreparable damage\".\n\nThe email came after Mr Drakeford was undermined at a key Labour body, where a request for control to be devolved over how MPs are reselected was rejected.\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Corbyn refused to say which side he might back in a referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader confirmed his party would go into the next election promising to negotiate a new Brexit deal and then to put that to the electorate in a referendum - along with an option to remain.\n\nMr Corbyn appeared to have left open the option that he might not back either side in that referendum. He said he believed the people should have the final decision.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would seek a \"sensible\" Brexit deal\n\nMr Drakeford had come under intense pressure within Welsh Labour to back remain, whatever the circumstances, after the party's historically poor performance in the European Parliament election in May.\n\nIn his letter to members he says: \"We campaigned for a remain vote in the 2016 referendum and nothing we have seen or learned in the three years' since has changed our minds.\n\n\"Any type of Brexit - even the softest possible - will cause potentially irreparable damage to Wales and its economy. This is because Wales is heavily dependent on manufacturing and agri-food and 60% of our exports go straight to the EU.\"\n\n\"Labour has made an unequivocal commitment to put the Brexit decision back to the people.\n\n\"In that referendum, we, as Welsh Labour, must and will campaign to remain in the EU.\"\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales that it was \"not intended\" to be a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn ahead of this weekend's party conference.\n\nHe said: \"We are in government and we have a right to let people know what damage Brexit will do.\"\n\nMeanwhile Mr Drakeford has failed to persuade UK Labour's ruling body, the National Executive Committee, to devolve control of the reselection of Welsh Labour MPs to the Welsh party's governing body.\n\nMr Drakeford told MPs he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the outcome of Tuesday's meeting and that he will discuss \"what action we can take to secure this devolution of powers... in the future.\"\n\nCurrently the rules are inconsistent across the assembly and Westminster. To replace an MP a third of his or her relevant local branches need to ask for a reselection in a trigger ballot. For AMs it is tougher to do so, with a majority needed.\n\nMr Drakeford's was substantially defeated at the committee, according to one source. Mick Antoniw, the NEC representative for Welsh Labour, said there were five votes in favour.\n\n\"I think there's a lack of understanding of the fact that Labour's in government of only one part of the UK and that's in Wales and they should pay more attention to that,\" he said.\n\n\"But there were distractions,\" he said. \"Conference is looming, there are 30 motions to consider and there's Brexit.\"\n\nExplaining why the rules should change, he said: \"The question is should Wales be able to set its own trigger ballot threshold or should it be the same across the board?\n\n\"Devolution means that there will be differences between Wales, Scotland and England and these matters in relation to Welsh MPs should be in the control of the Welsh Executive Committee.\"\n\nA source close to the decision claimed it was not a case of a left-right split, but said disagreement was more about the principle of having different rules for Welsh MPs.\n\n\"Why treat a parliamentary candidate in Newport different from Bristol,\" the source asked.\n\nMr Drakeford denied he lacked influence and said he will look again at the issue.\n\nOne Labour AM says the attempt to gain control of the reselection of MPs was a sign of Mr Drakeford's commitment to the democratisation of Welsh Labour: \"There is a need for clear red water regarding Brexit and the federalisation of the party.\"\n\nAlun Davies, Labour AM for Blaenau Gwent and a former NEC member, claimed there \"had been a series of calculated decisions taken in the knowledge of the impact it will have on the Welsh party.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier this year, BBC Scotland News made a film about Larry and his love of football.\n\nOne of the longest-serving managers in British football history has said he is \"chuffed\" after being awarded by the Scottish Football Association.\n\nLarry Barilli, 84, has been in charge of amateur teams in Greenock for 66 years.\n\nHe was named this year's Best Volunteer in Adult Football in the SFA's Grassroots Awards at a ceremony in Hampden Park.\n\nIn his career, he has managed seven teams in the Greenock area since 1953.\n\nLarry Barilli, pictured with his award along with former Scotland Women’s international Suzanne Winters and Scotland manager Steve Clarke.\n\nThe great-grandfather told the BBC: \"I was quite chuffed to be recognised. I got a right good cheer.\n\n\"I spoke about the old Bill Shankly saying - 'football is not a matter of life and death, it is much more important than that'.\n\n\"When I was 38 years old, my late wife said to me 'Larry, you will need to choose between me and football. I said 'that's a pity, because I liked you'.\"\n\nLarry estimates to have only missed seven games through illness over the years. He started as a player-manager when he 18 after setting up a team and naming it after the street he grew up in.\n\nIt is thought Forfar club secretary and manager James Black is the only man to have managed in Scotland for a longer time, and Larry will match his record this season when he leads his team Chaplins in the Greenock and District Welfare League.\n\nEveryone who attended the awards ceremony watched a BBC film about Larry that was broadcast earlier this year.\n\nAfter some mild abuse of the referee and colourful language that one may expect at a Sunday league game, Larry celebrated after his team Chaplins defeated Belleaire 8-2 in a league match.\n\nLarry is believed to have managed about 2,000 games, and the Scottish Amateur Football Association is not aware of a football manager in Scotland who is older than him.\n\nAs well as managing the side, Larry is Chaplins' kit man and works as a taxi driver two days a week.\n\nLarry Barilli was highlighted as \"a shining example\" of the impact volunteers have on Scottish football.\n\nLarry Barilli started managing football teams in the year Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest.\n\nFor the past few years, some of his senior players at Chaplins have taken training while he concentrates on leading the team on match days.\n\nAfter many of his players left this summer, Larry is looking forward to managing a new-look Chaplins side when they kick off their season next week.\n\nAndy Gilchrist, West Regional Manager at the SFA, said: \"Larry is a shining example of the impact that volunteers have on the grassroots game in Scotland. His dedication to the game is unrivalled and his enthusiasm has clearly not waned over the years, which is remarkable to see.\n\n\"For Larry to have been volunteering in grassroots football for more than 60 years is a truly remarkable achievement. It is quite humbling to hear how he has benefitted the lives of others and it is no surprise that he received several nominations for this award.\"\n\nWilliam Collins, the Chairman of the Greenock and District Welfare League, added: \"Larry is a great example of someone who loves football at any level. He shares his enthusiasm with the local players and encourages them to play for as long as they can due to his love for the game.\n\n\"He is still pretty sharp on a Sunday. I'm sure his players will testify to that.\"", "The 32-year-old opens up about his condition for the first time in his new book, Over The Top, in the hope it'll break the stigma surrounding HIV.\n\nThe hair stylist who shot to fame on the Netflix makeover show told the New York Times: \"I've had nightmares every night for the past three months because I'm scared to be this vulnerable with people.\"\n\nHe says he's been preparing himself mentally for much of the summer for the release of the memoir in which he also talks about being an addict and a survivor of sexual abuse.\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 jvn 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\nBut he says they're issues that have to be heard.\n\n\"It's hard for me to be as open as I want to be when there are certain things I haven't shared publicly,\" he says.\n\n\"These are issues that need to be talked about.\"\n\nAnd, he's been flooded with messages of support from fans and friends.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by davidfurnish 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\nIn the book, he talks about how he discovered his status.\n\nAged 25, he fainted while he was working as a hairdresser, so he visited non-profit organisation Planned Parenthood the next day and tested positive.\n\n\"That day was just as devastating as you would think it would be,\" he writes.\n\nBut he says he is healthy and now describes himself as an out-and-proud \"member of the beautiful HIV positive community.\"\n\nThe Fab Five - Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Karamo Brown\n\nWhen Queer Eye was re-booted in 2018 with the Fab Five - as Jonathan and his four friends are known - he says he didn't know whether to come out with his status or not.\n\n\"It was really difficult because I was like, 'do I want to talk about my status?\"\n\n\"And then I was like, 'the Trump administration has done everything they can do to have the stigmatisation of the LGBT community thrive around me.'\"\n\nThe revelation comes less than a week after former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas announced via Twitter that he is HIV positive.\n\nGareth Thomas after finishing Ironman Wales on 15 September 2019 in Tenby\n\nThe 45-year-old former Welsh international rugby captain said keeping a secret had been the hardest part of the diagnosis - he too has received praise from all over the world for coming out to break down barriers surrounding the condition.\n\nJonathan Van Ness also acknowledges that the stigma around HIV is still hard to overcome.\n\n\"These are all difficult subjects to talk about on a makeover show about hair and makeup,\" he explains.\n\n\"That doesn't mean Queer Eye is less valid, but I want people to realise you're never too broken to be fixed.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Peaky Blinders may be synonymous with Birmingham, but some of its key scenes are filmed just up the road.\n\nThe Black Country Living Museum, about 12 miles away from the gang's real-life home, has been used for shoots on all five series.\n\nParts of the open-air museum are used to depict important locations in the show, including Charlie Strong's yard.\n\nCreator Steven Knight has described it as \"the heart\" of the programme.\n\nThe museum, in Dudley, boasts reconstructed shops and houses, and was also used to film the Steve Coogan comedy-drama Stan and Ollie.\n\nAs the latest series of the drama draws to a close, BBC News takes a tour of one of the main filming locations.\n\nPeaky Blinders will be shown on BBC One at 21:00 BST on Sunday 22 September.", "Sebastian Vettel ended his 13-month win drought with a controversial victory in the Singapore Grand Prix.\n\nThe German benefited from unusual Ferrari strategy to leapfrog team-mate Charles Leclerc into the lead.\n\nLeclerc told the team over the radio that it was \"unfair\" and it will do little to reduce tension within the team.\n\nBut it was a much-needed victory for the four-time world champion who has had a difficult, error-strewn season and faced questions about his status and future.\n• None How close is Vettel to joining F1's hall of shame?\n\nThe German has continued a run of one major driving error every three races since June last year, and seen Leclerc, already a two-time winner in his first season at Ferrari, emerge as a serious threat to his position as number one in the team.\n\nBut Leclerc was very unhappy and made his feelings clear.\n\nFerrari's strategy, however, did secure them their first one-two since the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix and Vettel's first win since the Belgian Grand Prix at the end of August 2018.\n\nAnd it pushed Lewis Hamilton, who started second in the Mercedes, down to fourth, behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen.\n\nHow did Vettel get ahead?\n\nVettel started third and his victory depended on a decision by Ferrari to stop him early, made to ensure he did not pit and come out behind Nico Hulkenberg's Renault, which had stopped for fresh tyres after a first-lap incident and was charging through the field.\n\nIt arose because the leaders were managing their pace to ensure they could make their one pit stop at the optimum time.\n\nSeeing the risk from Hulkenberg to Vettel, the team pitted him on lap 19 and he rejoined in front of the Renault.\n\nFerrari pitted Leclerc, who had led the race from the start from pole position, next time around but Vettel's pace advantage on his first lap out of the pits on fresh tyres ensured he was ahead of Leclerc when the 21-year-old emerged from the pits.\n\n\"What the hell?\" Leclerc said over the radio, almost certainly wondering why he was not pitted first.\n\nHis engineer told him: \"It was the best we could do.\"\n\nLeclerc said: \"I just wanted to let you know my feelings. To be completely honest, I don't understand the undercut at all. But we discuss it later.\"\n\nThe double early stop for the Ferraris meant both drivers had to work their way past slower cars that had not yet made a pit stop, and Vettel did this to better effect than Leclerc, building a six-second lead by the time they were running one-two on lap 33, just after half distance.\n\nThe risk for Ferrari now was the threat from Hamilton, who had delayed his pit stop by six laps in an attempt to benefit from fresher tyres at the end of the race.\n\nBut three safety-car periods for a series of incidents between back markers gave Ferrari the slow laps they needed to be sure their tyres would make it.\n\nAt the final one, Leclerc asked for \"everything\" from the car to attack Vettel, but he was told he needed to manage the engine and bring the car home - code for him to hold position behind his team-mate.\n\nHamilton was running a close second behind Leclerc in the early laps, as the leaders lapped 13 seconds off their qualifying times to ensure their tyres went as long as necessary.\n\nBut he was undone by Ferrari's strategy gamble.\n\nWhen Vettel pitted, Hamilton said to his team they should try to \"undercut\" Leclerc in the same fashion but that opportunity was removed when Leclerc stopped on the very next lap.\n\nThat gave Mercedes no option but to run Hamilton long and attempt to attack on fresh tyres later in the race.\n\nBut the strategy also dropped him behind Verstappen's Red Bull, and his tyre advantage - only a handful of laps - was not enough to enable him to try to pass cars on a track where a car is said to need a 2.4-second pace advantage to overtake.\n\nHamilton even needed help from team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who pitted earlier and was told to back off to slow Red Bull's Alexander Albon, whom Hamilton would otherwise have come out behind.\n\nBut his championship lead over Bottas, who finished behind him in fifth, was extended to 65 points, and it remains only a matter of time before he wins a sixth world title.\n\nBehind Bottas, Albon drove a strong race in the Red Bull, albeit his real pace was not that clear because of the tyre-management aspect of the race.\n\nAnd Lando Norris drove well to take seventh and best of the rest for McLaren, ahead of Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly, Hulkenberg and the Alfa Romeo of Antonio Giovinazzi at the end of a race that was soporific at the front but contained some harum-scarum racing in the midfield from time to time.\n\nThe incidents that brought out the safety car were a crash between Haas' Romain Grosjean and Williams' George Russell on the exit of Turn Eight on lap 35; a retirement that stranded Sergio Perez's Racing Point on track on lap 39; and a collision between Daniil Kvyat's Toro Rosso and Kimi Raikkonen's Alfa Romeo when the Russian dived for a pass at Turn One on lap 50.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nRussia in a week's time. Three wins in a row; can Ferrari make it four? Mercedes will be determined to bounce back after the self-confessed errors of Singapore.\n\nWhat they said\n\nVettel: \"First of all, big congratulations to the team - the start of the season has been difficult for us then we started to come alive and I'm really proud of everyone's work back home. I really want to thank the fans over the last couple of weeks. We haven't been the best and it's happy to get so many letters and nice messages, and it gives me lots of strength and belief and I put it all into the car today.\"\n\nLeclerc: \"Obviously it is always difficult to lose a win like that but at the end it's a one-two for the team so I'm happy for that, our first of the season. I'm disappointed for me but I will come back stronger. It looks a lot more positive than expected, they've [the mechanics] done an amazing job.\"\n\nVerstappen: \"The whole race went well. At the beginning it was really slow and everyone was close together then I started to struggle with the tyres and we boxed and it was a good call. We undercut Lewis and from there it was about managing the tyres.\"", "Keeley Bunker, of Tamworth, was reported missing earlier in the evening of 19 September\n\nA 19-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found in Staffordshire woodland.\n\nPolice say a body found near the Roman Way area of Tamworth on Thursday night is that of 20-year-old Keeley Bunker, although formal identification has yet to take place.\n\nWesley Streete, of Tamworth, will appear before North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Monday.\n\nMs Bunker's family are being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\nOn Saturday, police investigating the cause of Ms Bunker's death described it as \"unexplained.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination was due to be carried out over the weekend.\n\nMs Bunker, of Tamworth, was reported missing earlier in the evening of 19 September.\n\nStaffordshire Police said any information or footage that could help them with the case can be uploaded to their website, anonymously if required.\n\nFloral tributes have been left near to where the body was found.\n\nFloral tributes have been left near to where Ms Bunker's body was found\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has told of the \"hard time\" his family went through after the death of his ex-partner.\n\nRachel Owen died aged 48 in 2016 from cancer, and Yorke told Desert Island Discs his ambition is to \"make sure that we have come out of it alright\".\n\nThe couple were partners for 23 years and had two children, Noah and Agnes, before they split up in 2015.\n\nYorke also said he is a \"hypocrite\" for flying around the world on tour while campaigning against climate change.\n\nThe musician told the BBC Radio 4 programme: \"The thing I've always struggled somewhat with, is if I'm campaigning on climate change, I'm someone who has to fly for my work so....\n\n\"I totally agree I'm a hypocrite but... what do you want to do about it?\"\n\nHe added: \"You can do stuff but the real stuff has to happen in Parliament and the UN, and has to happen now, we're out of time.\"\n\nSpeaking about his relationship with his children, Yorke, 50, said: \"I can't hope to be their mum but we're alright.\n\n\"I'm just really proud of them both. It stuns me most days. I can't believe they're anything to do with me. They're just such great people.\"\n\nHe said: \"When the kids' mum died, it was a very difficult period and we went through a lot.\n\n\"It was very hard. She suffered a great deal and my ambition is to make sure that we have come out of it alright, and I hope that's what's happening.\"\n\nYorke says he could be difficult in Radiohead's early days\n\nYorke told the show: \"I'm lucky now because I have a new partner who has come and brought a light into all of it, which has taken a great deal of strength.\n\n\"And really if all that's OK... If I'm able to make some music that expresses all that and is still important to people, that's more than I can ask for.\"\n\nYorke also spoke of how he found it difficult to cope with Radiohead's success initially.\n\n\"I got angry,\" he said. \"I'm an extremely angry person.\n\n\"I put my hands on the steering wheel and I white-knuckled, and I didn't care who I hurt or what I said.\n\n\"Years later I sat down with the guys and apologised.\"\n\nDesert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15 BST and is also available on BBC sounds", "An estimated 8.4 million people in England are living in an unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable home, according to the National Housing Federation.\n\nThe federation said analysis suggests the housing crisis was impacting all ages across every part of the country.\n\nIt includes people facing issues such as overcrowded housing or being unable to afford their rent or mortgage.\n\nThe government said housing was \"a priority\" and it had delivered 430,000 affordable homes since 2010.\n\nThe research, carried out by Heriot-Watt University on behalf of the federation, used data from the annual Understanding Society survey of 40,000 people by the University of Essex.\n\nThe figures were scaled up to reflect England's total population of nearly 56 million.\n\nSome people may have more than one of these housing problems, the federation said.\n\nPeople were considered to be living in overcrowded homes if a child had to share their bedroom with two or more children, sleep in the same room as their parents, or share with a teenager who was not the same sex as them.\n\nHomes where an adult had to share their bedroom with someone other than a partner were also considered overcrowded.\n\nAfter her relationship with her husband broke down, Anna spent five months trying to find somewhere to live with her four-year-old daughter in south-east London.\n\nAlthough she was working full-time in social care, she was shocked at how difficult it was to find someone who would rent to a single parent.\n\nEven when Anna found somewhere she felt she could afford, landlords would not consider her because her income was less than three-and-a-half times the monthly rent, while others refused to let to someone with a child.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible,\" the 36-year-old told the BBC.\n\n\"I remember seeing one house for £1,400 a month which was literally a corridor in a basement - it was so mouldy and humid.\n\n\"But they still said I didn't earn enough to be able to afford it.\"\n\n\"It made me feel really powerless and frustrated,\" she added.\n\nAnna said she was \"losing all hope\" when a friend offered to rent a house to her below market rate.\n\n\"I don't know what I would have done if a friend hadn't been able to help me out when I needed it,\" she said, adding that she still doesn't feel completely secure.\n\n\"I just have no idea what I'll do if my friend needs to rent her house out at full price in the future.\"\n\nThe report also estimated that around 3.6 million people could only afford to live decently if they were in social housing - almost double the number on the government's official social housing waiting list.\n\nSocial housing rents are on average 50% cheaper than from private landlords, contracts are more secure and many properties are designed specifically for older people with mobility issues, the federation said.\n\nIt said the country needed 340,000 new homes every year, including 145,000 social homes, to meet the housing demand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is social housing and why do we have it?\n\nKate Henderson, Chief Executive at the National Housing Federation, called for \"a return to proper funding for social housing\".\n\n\"From Cornwall to Cumbria, millions of people are being pushed into debt and poverty because rent is too expensive, children can't study because they have no space in their overcrowded homes, and many older or disabled people are struggling to move around their own home because it's unsuitable,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said in 2018 the government built more homes than in all but one of the last 31 years.\n\nIt has also cracked down on rogue landlords, banned unfair letting fees and capped deposits - saving renters at least £240m a year, he added.", "Mark Drakeford has been Welsh first minister since the end of last year\n\nThe UK must be reformed to survive, the Welsh first minister has told the Labour party conference.\n\nMark Drakeford described how the bonds keeping the four nations together were \"being torn apart by Brexit\" and \"couldn't-care-less Tory governments\".\n\nIn Brighton, he also repeated a commitment to campaign to remain in the EU in an election or fresh referendum.\n\nMr Drakeford previously said Welsh independence was \"rising up the political agenda\".\n\n\"Our task under a new UK Labour government must be to build a new United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\n\"One that genuinely works for its four constituent parts.\"\n\nIt is the first UK Labour conference since Mr Drakeford took over as Welsh Labour leader and first minister from Carwyn Jones last December.\n\nIn his speech on Sunday, he set out a plan to reform the union, saying it \"can only be Labour that articulates a different vision for those repelled by the poisonous politics of division and despair\".\n\nMr Drakeford's views are different to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's on the Brexit process\n\nMr Drakeford added that through reforming the UK and remaining as part of the EU, the Labour party could offer an alternative to \"narrow nationalism and worn-out imperialism\".\n\nHis stance on campaigning to remain in the EU has put him at odds with the UK Labour stance on Brexit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said if the party wins power it will offer a referendum choice between Remain and a \"credible\" Brexit option.\n\nEarlier, Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement he hoped the conference would focus on wider issues on Sunday rather than internal politics, following a move to oust deputy leader Tom Watson.\n\n\"There is to be a review of the deputy leader's position. I think that's right and proper,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"You wouldn't in Wales have a position as they have at UK level where two men hold both the leadership and deputy leadership so we've reviewed it already in Wales - time to review it at a UK level.\"\n\nMr Drakeford also wants the Welsh party to be in charge of reselecting Welsh MPs\n\nWhen Mark Drakeford told the conference hall that Welsh Labour would campaign \"unapologetically\" for remain in another referendum he got the biggest cheer of his speech.\n\nIt highlights the big division facing Labour over Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit position - he's promising a referendum but he is refusing to say he'll support remain despite coming under intense pressure from many party members.\n\nAs for the relationship between the Welsh party and the UK leadership - Mr Drakeford says he is not intending to put pressure on Mr Corbyn, but he insists that all Welsh Labour candidates will go into any general election on a remain platform.\n\nHow that works in the context of the wider UK party is a bit confusing, given that it is Mr Corbyn who is in charge of Labour MPs once they are elected.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford is not backing down on his Brexit position and neither is he retreating on another important issue.\n\nHe wants Welsh Labour to be in charge of the reselection process for Welsh MPs.\n\nThis may seem like a geeky, internal party matter (and I confess, it is!) but it is also about a struggle for control and a genuine disagreement between the Welsh and UK leaderships.\n\nAnd Mr Drakeford says he will not give up, despite having been knocked back once already.\n\nDon't get me wrong, they haven't fallen out. Mr Corbyn told me they get on \"just fine\", but \"clear red water\" is flowing once again.", "Labour is to announce a pledge to abolish prescription charges in England at its party conference next week.\n\nPrescriptions are already free in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England the NHS charges £9 per item, and earned just over £575m from fees in 2017/18 - which the government has said is a valuable source of income.\n\nMore than 80% of prescriptions are already issued free of charge, as those on low incomes or with some long-term conditions are not required to pay.\n\nPeople on benefits including Income Support, pregnant women, children and the over-60s are among those who do not pay.\n\nThere is also a list of \"medical exemptions\", including those who need to take insulin for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and people with an underactive thyroid.\n\nBut people with many other conditions - including overactive thyroid, asthma, chronic kidney disease and rheumatoid arthritis - are not on the list, which was drawn up in 1968.\n\nPre-payment certificates for those who do not qualify for free medication cost £104 per year.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, who will announce the policy at the Labour party conference in Brighton, said: \"We know that the cost of prescriptions puts people off taking the medicine they need.\n\n\"Not only do people suffer illnesses and the effects of illnesses more than they need to but, in the long term, it costs the NHS more money because those people who don't take their medicines present with even more serious conditions later on.\"\n\nKay Boycott, chief executive of Asthma UK, which has campaigned for people with the condition to get free prescriptions, welcomed Labour's announcement.\n\nShe said: \"This could make a huge difference to help people with asthma stay well and reduce pressure on hard-pressed NHS services.\n\n\"We are urging the leaders of the main political parties to pledge to stop unfair and outdated prescription charges for people with asthma, and shall continue to press them until this change has been implemented.\"\n\nAsthma UK and the Labour Party both highlighted the case of Holly Warboys, who died aged 19 after an asthma attack.\n\nHer mum Cathy said: \"Holly was on a low income and struggled to pay for her asthma prescription charges.\n\n\"She died suddenly from an asthma attack with just one puff left in her inhaler because she couldn't afford to buy another one.\"\n\n\"All of the political parties should pledge to scrap unfair asthma prescription costs and stand up for people like Holly.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We have always been supportive of any safe and sensible measures to reduce medication costs for patients and ensure access to necessary medication is equitable, so it's encouraging to have a renewed debate around a review of prescription charges.\n\n\"We fully appreciate the amount that prescription medications cost the NHS every year, and we would always encourage patients to buy over-the-counter or other widely available treatments where they can to help reduce this.\n\n\"But even though many of our most vulnerable patients are already exempt from standard prescription charges, the fact that fees exist in England means there is real risk that some people might not obtain and take the medication they need.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour will unveil plans to scrap Ofsted and replace it with a new school inspection system on day two of its party conference - but debate over its Brexit stance is set to continue.\n\nAs part of a focus to \"rebuild\" public services, it will also pledge to end NHS prescription charges in England.\n\nIt comes after the first day of the conference was overshadowed by a failed bid to oust deputy leader Tom Watson.\n\nHe later called for unity, saying it had been a \"bad start\".\n\nLabour was also dealt a fresh blow after one of Jeremy Corbyn's senior aides, head of policy Andrew Fisher, revealed he will quit his post by the end of the year.\n\nHe said he wanted \"to spend more time with his young family\", but the Sunday Times claims he resigned after warning that Mr Corbyn would not win the next general election.\n\nAmong those due to speak at the annual conference on Sunday are shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth and shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.\n\nMs Rayner is expected to set out plans to scrap England's education watchdog Ofsted - which Labour calls \"unfit for purpose\" - and replace it with its own inspection system.\n\nUnder the party's plan, all schools would have regular \"health checks\" run by local councils and then, if concerns are raised, more in-depth visits from full-time, trained inspectors.\n\nIt would mean the end of grades for schools such as outstanding, good or inadequate.\n\nBut opponents will say that is reducing scrutiny and abandoning safeguards over standards.\n\nFormer Ofsted chief, Sir Michael Wilshaw, described the plan as \"bonkers\".\n\nMeanwhile, a row has emerged over where Labour should stand on Brexit if it fights a general election.\n\nA draft policy plan has been put forward by leader Jeremy Corbyn suggesting that, if Labour wins power, it would remain neutral while negotiating a new Brexit deal before holding another referendum.\n\nBut some Labour MPs believe Labour should be supporting Remain.\n\nWhile in government in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Labour had repeatedly rejected calls from the National Union of Teachers (now part of a wider National Education Union) to end Ofsted inspections.\n\nThe teachers' unions had attacked Ofsted inspections as being unfair, bureaucratic and excessively stressful.\n\nBut Labour, under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, had kept the education watchdog as a key part of maintaining standards and providing information for parents.\n\nThe plans presented by Ms Rayner would see Ofsted being completely abolished.\n\nIt would mean that parents looking at schools would no longer have the descriptions of inspection ratings, which are currently outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate.\n\nLabour says that such single-word labels do not do justice to the complexities of a school's strengths and weaknesses - and instead parents will have more detailed information.\n\nThe proposal is likely to be popular among teachers, who have criticised the extra workload created by inspections and challenged the credibility of the judgements.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers thought a \"light-touch health-check approach\" of the kind proposed by Labour is \"the right way to go\".\n\nThe heads' union liked the idea of schools being \"back in the driving seat\".\n\nLabour will also announce a promise to axe prescription charges in England if the party wins power, taking it in line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where they are already free.\n\nIn England the NHS currently charges £9 per item, although 80% of prescriptions are already issued free of charge, as those on low incomes or with some long-term conditions are not required to pay.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Mr Corbyn said Labour, if in power, would try to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the UK to net-zero before 2050, which is the government's current target.\n\nMr Corbyn spoke on the opening day of a four-day festival which runs alongside the Labour conference\n\nSpeaking at The World Transformed, a politics, arts and music festival which happens alongside the party conference, Mr Corbyn said a Labour government \"will not walk hand-in-hand with Donald Trump and say 'Yes Donald, we understand the special needs of your country'.\n\n\"We'll be the ones that say: 'Paris, good, go further, go faster. Reach zero emissions before 2050.'\"\n\nEarlier, the party announced a plan to force large employers to provide flexible working hours to women experiencing symptoms related to the menopause.\n\nBut the conference's opening day was overshadowed by an attempt to get rid of Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, by abolishing his position.\n\nThe motion had been tabled by Jon Lansman, the founder of Labour grassroots group Momentum. It was later dropped, following an outcry from Labour MPs and an intervention by leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nMr Watson said he was \"disappointed\" at the attempt, but called for the party to come together, adding: \"I always forgive and forget.\"\n\nLabour's stance on the UK leaving the EU will also dominate the agenda during the conference, ahead of a vote on the party's Brexit policy scheduled for Monday evening.\n\nA draft plan is to be discussed by the National Executive Committee - the party's ruling body - which would set out a plan for Labour, if it wins power, to negotiate a new Brexit deal in three months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"We've had a bad start to our conference\"\n\nUnder the plan, the Brexit deal it reaches would then be put to the people in a referendum within six months, with the option of the deal or Remain.\n\nBut the party would not decide which option it would support until a special conference after the election, meaning Labour would fight an election without saying whether it was backing Remain or Leave.\n\nSome Labour MPs are not happy at the plan to remain neutral until then.\n\nAccording to BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley, 80 out of 90 Brexit motions which could be discussed at the conference call on Labour to back Remain.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has said Labour should be clear in its support for Remain.\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Brighton organised by the People's Vote campaign, which wants another referendum, Ms Thornberry said: \"We must make sure that there is a second referendum and Remain is on the ballot paper and Labour campaigns for Remain - and not just that, Labour should lead the campaign.\"\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told the same rally that he backed a second referendum and confirmed he would campaign for Remain.", "The protesters were taken away in a police van after being arrested\n\nTen people have been arrested during a climate change protest in Dover aimed at \"blockading\" the port.\n\nFour of them, including men aged in their 80s and 90s, staged a sit in at the Eastern Docks Roundabout.\n\nExtinction Rebellion campaigners are legally occupying part of the A20, off the roundabout, and near the port.\n\nThe campaign group said the \"No Food on a Dying Planet\" protest centred around the potential for food shortages as climate change develops.\n\nProtesters glued themselves to the road\n\nThose arrested, on suspicion of public order offences, remain in custody as inquiries continue.\n\nKent Police set up a designated area on the westbound A20 for activists to demonstrate, in order to \"minimise disruption\".\n\nTraffic leaving the port is being diverted via the A2, on the opposite side of the Eastern Docks Roundabout.\n\nHowever some protesters also blockaded part of the A2, by gluing themselves to the road. They were removed by police.\n\nAccording to witnesses, one protester who had glued their hands to the road was taken away in a stretcher.\n\nCh Supt Andy Pritchard, from Kent Police, said disruption was \"kept to a minimum\".\n\nThere is a large police presence on roads near the port\n\nLive music is expected later as part of the demonstration, while flags and signs adorn seafront railings, including slogans like \"Rebel for life\" and \"Climate breakdown kills\".\n\nThe protest was due to last until 15:00 BST.\n\nIt comes a day after thousands of people across the UK took part in a global \"climate strike day\".\n\nChris Atkins, from Extinction Rebellion Dover, said: \"As climate change develops, millions of ordinary Britons will face the real and growing threat of food shortages, hunger and starvation.\n\n\"This crisis may seem far away now but given the dependency of the UK on food imports we are extremely vulnerable.\"\n\nA Port of Dover spokeswoman said it was experiencing \"intermittent delays\" due to the protest, adding: \"We are working closely with Kent Police to ensure as minimal disruption as possible.\"\n\nThe protest is due to last until 15:00 BST\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nManu Tuilagi scored England's first try of their 2019 World Cup campaign England's World Cup campaign got off to a spluttering but winning start as they fought their way past unfancied Tonga. Two first-half tries from the buccaneering Manu Tuilagi and a second-half rumble from Jamie George off a driving maul opened a gap, Owen Farrell landing three penalties and two conversions. Replacement hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie grabbed the bonus-point fourth try late on but the expected avalanche of points never materialised. Tonga had shipped 14 tries to New Zealand earlier this month and had won only one of their last seven coming into this tournament. But they kept England frustrated for long periods, and despite a solid defensive display coach Eddie Jones will want much more from his side as they look to win the Webb-Ellis trophy for only the second time in their history.\n• None England win but now they must step it up Tuilagi shows his worth as Tonga bring the power In the early exchanges Tonga had more than matched England, the men in white shipping five penalties in the first 24 minutes and Sonatane Takulua landing one from 30 metres to level up Farrell's early effort. Jones' fury was visible in the stands but it was Tuilagi who stampeded to the rescue with a brace of tries that illustrated why he is so critical to England's World Cup hopes. He fought and twisted through three tackles to wrestle the ball over the line for his first and then took an inside pass from Jonny May after Elliot Daly had put the winger away down the left to run away for the second. Farrell landed another penalty after a series of drives from close in almost led to a third try, but England had paid a price for their 18-3 half-time lead. Ben Youngs and Anthony Watson were both crunched in huge challenges but it was Zane Kapeli's hit on Billy Vunipola that topped them all, England's number eight knocked backwards by the open-side's tackle.\n• None Inside story of England's last four World Cups Anthony Watson was on the receiving end of one of many thumping tackles Although Farrell stretched that lead with his third successful penalty the precision was still not there, England's handling errors mounting despite conditions under the roof being almost perfect. Jones threw Ellis Genge on for Joe Marler and then Henry Slade at full-back with Daly taking May's place on the left wing. With George Kruis, Lewis Ludlam and Willi Heinz also coming on England went back to basics, setting up a driving maul from 15 metres out that ended with George touching down. Still the fluidity did not come, the vast open spaces under the curving roof sucking in the noise from the large English support and the game becoming increasingly disjointed. Slade, in his first competitive outing since the Premiership final after an injury to his left knee, limped away from another big tackle, a concern for Jones after the role the Exeter centre played during the Six Nations. When Farrell switched to 10 with Jonathan Joseph at outside centre another promising move ended with a knock-on from Maro Itoje, one of 14 handing errors in the 80 minutes. But Joseph then made a lovely outside break to ghost into space, drawing the last man before slipping Cowan-Dickie in on his right. With the USA in Kobe on Thursday England's next game they have time to hit their straps before the tougher challenges of Argentina and France. And Jones will demand more after an opening weekend when the All Blacks and Ireland both produced far more impressive performances. Absent four years ago through ill-discipline and injury as England went out at the group stage, the revitalised centre made 93 metres with ball in hand and beat six defenders, a constant threat to the Tongan defence. Analysis - 'England won't be happy with that' England World Cup winner Matt Dawson on Radio 5 Live: \"England won't be happy with that. Ten penalties I made it, numerous handling errors. That's unacceptable for the standards that Owen Farrell and Eddie Jones have set. They're the sorts of things that you can fix and work on but I'm hoping they don't flog them to death. \"One thing that did stand out that was that England looked a little bit leggy. We didn't see much of Billy Vunipola or Maro Itoje or Kyle Sinckler crashing forward. There wasn't much fizz.\"\n• None England have opened their past seven Rugby World Cup campaigns with a win; the last time they lost their opening game of the tournament was a 1991 defeat by New Zealand at Twickenham.\n• None England have won all three meetings with Tonga at World Cups, and with a combined score of 172-33.", "Angela Rayner said Labour would take action in its first budget\n\nLabour party members have voted to commit the party to integrate private schools into the state sector.\n\nThe motion calls for funds and properties held by private schools to be \"redistributed democratically and fairly\" to other schools.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said it would help build \"a more cohesive and equal society\".\n\nBut Boris Johnson called it a \"pointless attack\" on education, based on a \"long-buried socialist ideology\".\n\nThe vote by members signals a desire for the policy to be included in the next Labour Party general election manifesto.\n\nSpeaking at the party's conference in Brighton, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said \"tax loopholes\" that benefit private schools would be scrapped by a Labour government in its first Budget.\n\nThat includes the withdrawal of charitable status, other public subsidies and tax privileges.\n\nShe said the money saved would \"improve the lives of all children\".\n\nUniversities would also have to admit the same proportion of private school students as in the wider population.\n\nMs Rayner said she would task the Social Mobility Commission - which the party would rename the Social Justice Commission - with \"integrating private schools\".\n\nMr McDonnell said every part of the policy would be carried out on a \"consultation basis\", and that he could not see the use of \"draconian measures\" to enforce it.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It will enable us to not only provide every child with the best opportunities in life, but also to build a more cohesive and equal society in which we live together much more productively.\"\n\nIndependent schools said the idea they were elitist was a myth\n\nProposing the motion at the party's conference, Ryan Quick said the education system must offer fair opportunities for all and not reward a privileged few based on their parents' wealth.\n\nThe \"old boys' network\" originating in private schools was holding the country back, he argued, and the media was failing to challenge the \"false consensus\" on the issue.\n\nHe called for the \"wonderful resources\" that private schools had at their disposal - including historic endowments originally intended to help the poor - to be made available to all.\n\nEx-teacher John Wiseman, a member of the Unite union, said the number of privately educated MPs in the cabinet showed the extent of the problem facing the country.\n\n\"How can it be right in 21st Century Britain to still have a feudal education system where a privileged few receive tax-subsidised education on the back of ordinary working people?\n\n\"But rather than abolish these aberrations, this government continues to push further privatisation through the academy and free schools network.\"\n\nCalling for an end to private schools and all their privileges might get a big cheer at the Labour conference.\n\nBut the others who might be cheering even more loudly are those in the legal profession.\n\nBecause threatening independent schools with the \"redistribution\" of their assets will mean complex legal battles about ownership and rights.\n\nThe Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, representing a group of independent schools, has already promised that Labour's plans would be \"tested in the courts for years to come\".\n\nPrivate schools and their charitable trusts would challenge why they were being singled out for such confiscations.\n\nWhy not other forms of non-state education - whether it's nurseries, private tutors, professional training, universities or driving schools for that matter?\n\nApart from property rights, there would be questions about human rights.\n\nHow can you stop a parent choosing to pay someone to teach their child?\n\nImposing a 7% cap on private school pupil entry to universities would put a serious squeeze on the appeal of independent schools.\n\nBut it would also mean taking a crowbar to the principle of university autonomy.\n\nSo perhaps the least dramatic part of the plan - cutting charitable status and tax benefits - would be the most likely to go ahead.\n\nThere are other practical considerations. How would the state sector absorb another almost 600,000 pupils?\n\nIt would be like adding the school population of Wales - with estimates of an extra £3.5bn per year on state school budgets.\n\nBut the fact that this motion has gone ahead shows the underlying disquiet about the lack of social mobility and widening inequalities.\n\nAnd private schools have become the symbolic battleground.\n\nThe Independent Schools Council said parents would be \"rightly worried\" at what Labour was proposing, saying it \"put politics before the interests of children\" and was potentially a breach of the European Convention of Human Rights.\n\n\"The move is an attack on the rights and freedoms of parents to make choices over the education of their children,\" said its chief executive Julie Robinson.\n\n\"This decision is an ideological distraction from dealing with the real problems in education.\n\n\"We all want to see more funding for state schools and greater support for underperforming pupils, which is precisely why we encourage all schools to work together in the interests of every child.\"\n\nThe Independent Schools Association said some private schools undoubtedly needed to do more to justify their charitable status.\n\nBut it said absorbing private schools into the state sector would push up class sizes and potentially leave a \"devastating\" hole in special needs provision currently not paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"If integration occurred, teachers in the private sector wouldn't choose to transfer into the state sector, even when pay and pensions are higher in state schools, as if often the case,\" said its chief executive Neil Roskilly.\n\n\"There's already a major teacher shortage that can't be addressed.\"\n\nOn the second day of its conference, Labour also unveiled a plan to scrap Ofsted and replace it with a new school inspection system.", "Richard Leonard was speaking to the Sunday Politics Scotland programme\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has said his party should have a clear policy to remain in the EU.\n\nSpeaking on the Sunday Politics Scotland programme, he said \"clarity\" was need before Labour put its case to voters.\n\nThe Scottish government has, meanwhile, asked for further funding to cope with a possible no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe UK government said money would be available where Scotland faces disproportionate costs.\n\nIn his television interview, Mr Leonard called for Labour to say its preference was to remain in the European Union.\n\n\"We recognise there are parts of the UK - and the overall result was to leave,\" he said.\n\n\"But I do think that we need clarity in our position.\n\n\"So you would expect me to be arguing, as I am, that means we need to be clearer in our position going into any public vote.\"\n\nMr Leonard added: \"The Scottish Labour party took a decision frankly in the wake of the European party election results that we needed to be much clearer, that we needed much greater clarity about the position that we were taking.\n\n\"For that reason the Scottish executive of the Labour party backed my proposal that we call for an affirmative vote that any deal should go back to the public; secondly, that on that vote there should be a remain option; and thirdly, that we would campaign unambiguously for remain.\"\n\nHis comments came as the Scottish government said more money would be needed if the UK crashed out of the EU without a deal.\n\nIt has requested £52m from a contingency fund to prepare for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMoney from the EU Exit Operational Contingency Fund has been made available ahead of Britain's departure from the European Union on 31 October.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay reiterated the Scottish government's opposition to any form of Brexit.\n\nHe also asked that additional costs associated with it are met including those beyond the end of next month.\n\nMr Mackay said: \"The UK government now seems to be actively pursuing a 'no-deal' outcome which is utterly unacceptable and must be avoided at all costs.\n\n\"We have requested £52m from the UK government's fund to help us prepare for a 'no-deal' outcome.\n\n\"This is the minimum requirement for operational activity but the real costs of a 'no-deal' Brexit will massively outweigh these and further funding will be required.\"\n\nHe also said leaving the EU was not Scotland's choice and called for any related costs to be covered by the UK government.\n\nMr Mackay added: \"The Scottish government should not have to cut spending on public services to fund Brexit preparations.\n\n\"As a responsible government, we are already taking steps to protect jobs and our economy from a 'no-deal' Brexit and we will set out those plans to parliament shortly but we are facing additional and disproportionate costs to mitigate the impact of such an outcome.\n\n\"We will continue make the case for staying in the EU and will stand firm against efforts to take us out against our will.\"\n\nThe request includes funding to support the effect of no-deal on rural communities, increased demand on Marine Scotland and Police Scotland activities, additional communication to EU citizens in the country, and poverty mitigation measures.\n\nA Scottish Conservatives spokesman said: \"In 2016, the UK electorate voted to leave the EU.\n\n\"Only the Scottish Conservatives have worked to prevent no-deal by supporting a deal.\n\n\"The SNP were given £92m for our councils to prepare for Brexit.\n\n\"Yet there is no evidence Scottish local authorities have received anything at all.\"\n\nIt comes after Scotland's chief economist on Friday predicted a potential £2bn loss of investment because of Brexit.\n\nForecasts up to April 2020 in the Scottish government's quarterly State of the Economy Report show £500m of investment could be wiped out if uncertainty continues with the figure rising by the end of the year.\n\nA spokeswoman for the UK government said: \"We have allocated the Scottish government nearly £140m in funding for EU exit preparation.\n\n\"We will consider the Scottish government's further bid under the £1bn Operational Contingency Fund in the usual way.\"", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "The migrants made the crossing during good weather on Saturday\n\nEight migrants have been intercepted by the Border Force in the Channel.\n\nThe Home Office confirmed they were picked up at 12:00 BST on Saturday from a small boat travelling in the St Margaret's Bay area off Dover.\n\nThe group, who presented themselves as Afghan and Iranian nationals, were medically assessed and are being interviewed by immigration officials.\n\nAt least 1,518 people, including more than 100 children, have now crossed the Channel since 3 November 2018.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Crossing the Channel in a small boat is a huge risk.\n\n\"The criminal gangs who perpetuate this are ruthless and do not care about loss of life.\n\n\"We are working closely at all levels with the French authorities to tackle this dangerous and illegal activity.\n\n\"In addition, Border Force cutters are patrolling the Channel and we have deployed equipment to detect migrant activity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the new term begins, students are being told to recognise the seriousness of the risks of drinking\n\nStudents starting university are being warned about the dangers of initiation events which involve drinking excessive amounts of alcohol.\n\nThe Universities UK project wants students to learn from the death of a Newcastle University student in 2016.\n\nEd Farmer died after consuming a large amount of alcohol at an initiation event for first-year students.\n\nHis father Jeremy Farmer said he wanted to \"reduce the risks of something similar happening again\".\n\nMr Farmer said his son had died \"needlessly\", making the loss \"all the more devastating\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of young people will be starting at university for the first time this term.\n\nThe project wants to raise awareness about the danger of taking part in events for new students, which involve too much drinking or other risky behaviour.\n\nEd Farmer, a student at Newcastle University, died in 2016 after excessive consumption of alcohol\n\nAs well as warning about excessive amounts of alcohol, students are being told about other danger signs - such as events which involve bullying, coercion, manipulation or \"sexual behaviour\".\n\nThe Universities UK project is in collaboration with Newcastle University, in response to Ed Farmer's death.\n\nAt the inquest into the student's death, the coroner warned that young people could be \"unaware of the risks of consuming large quantities of alcohol over a short period of time\".\n\nThe coroner called for first-year students to be told about the dangers of excessive alcohol and given \"guidance on caring for those who are drunk\".\n\nA letter from Ed Farmer's parents, published as part of the campaign, said they wanted other young people to understand the seriousness of the risks.\n\nThey said that \"possibly just one student might be luckier on a night out than Ed\" if they knew about the \"dangers of drinking large volumes of spirits in short periods of time\", and if they knew when someone was \"no longer just drunk but in a life-limiting state\".\n\nChris Day, vice chancellor of Newcastle University, said: \"We all wish we could rewind three years and change what happened that night.\n\n\"But we can't go back, and so instead we are looking forward and doing everything we can to minimise the chances of anything like this happening again.\"\n\nProf Day says there needs to be a \"long-term culture change\" towards alcohol, bullying and harassment.\n\nUniversities UK says it is difficult to know how many initiation events take place, rather than more general gatherings for freshers, because some initiation events are likely to be against university rules and so might be \"covert\".\n\nThis can include \"team bonding\" events for sports clubs, with excessive drinking often a key feature.\n\nGuidance for universities is calling for more clarity for students about what should be prevented or prohibited at such events.\n\nBut it says it would be \"unhelpful\" to try a complete ban or \"zero-tolerance approach\" as they are still likely to take place.\n\nThere are also calls for places which serve alcohol, on or off campus, to promote \"responsible behaviours towards drinking\".", "Ruthless Ireland franked their status as the world's top-ranked side with a clinical Rugby World Cup victory against a meek Scotland in Yokohama.\n\nThe Irish went over in their first two incursions into the Scottish 22, James Ryan and Rory Best ploughing over to put them 12-0 ahead after 15 minutes.\n\nGreig Laidlaw got the Scots on the board, but a wretched bounce led to Tadhg Furlong adding a third try before the half was out. Andrew Conway then crossed after the break to secure Ireland's bonus point.\n\nIreland play hosts Japan on Saturday next, with Scotland facing Samoa two days later.\n\nHosts Japan won the first match in Pool A on Friday, defeating Russia 30-10, with the Samoans yet to play.\n\n'Ireland too physical, too canny, too good'\n\nIreland have won many games against Scotland - five out of six in the Joe Schmidt era - but none bigger than this and not many as thoroughly emphatic either. Schmidt's team turned up in a major way, driving into the guts of their opponents pretty much from the get-go.\n\nIt would be an exaggeration to say the Irish are a contender at the World Cup on the back of this, but they've certainly accelerated away from the dog days of the Six Nations and the pitiful shellacking at England's hands at Twickenham in the warm-up campaign.\n\nScotland, though, delivered the square root of not a lot. No belligerence, no anger at getting bullied. They were routed pure and simple.\n\nThe Scots have a desperate propensity for conceding tries early in games. That failing didn't start when Gregor Townsend took over as coach but it's intensified - and here that weakness struck again inside just six minutes. What Townsend would have been looking for would have been a first quarter of control. What he got was a first quarter from his nightmares and Schmidt's dreams.\n\nIt was humid but Ireland's beginning was white hot. The first score had its origins in Iain Henderson bullocking his way into Scotland's 22, evading the tackles of Stuart McInally and Grant Gilchrist. Getting in behind the underdogs was half the job done. A few recycles later, the thing was completed when the towering Ryan stuck his nose to the floor and drove over. Johnny Sexton converted. Ireland were on their way.\n\nIreland were winning every physical battle and practically every breakdown. There was a huge illustration of their confidence after quarter of an hour when Sexton said 'no, thanks' to a kickable penalty and bashed his kick into touch instead. In going for the Scottish jugular, they didn't miss.\n\nHenderson, bruising and quite brilliant, soared to catch and when the rumble went over the line it was Best who got the touch down. There was a question as to whether he had full control of the ball, but the try stood and it was almost poetic that it was the captain who got it.\n\nBest has had a miserable 2019, a year when his 37 years seem to be catching up without him. He appeared to be panting and wheezing his way towards retirement. This, though, was a big day for the captain.\n\nAnd a big day for his team. Though Laidlaw made it 12-3 just after the first quarter, it was a mere crumb in comparison to Ireland's feast, a third try coming soon after. The kick to Scotland's solar plexus was that it came off one of their own attacks, when the ball came bouncing off Tommy Seymour's body only to be hacked downfield.\n\nHogg got back to rescue it under his sticks but was driven back over his own line. Scrum Ireland. Off went CJ Stander from the base and, in quick order, over went Furlong amid a ruck of bodies. All the boys in green must have been scratching their heads at how easy it all was out there.\n\nConor Murray missed the conversion, the scrum-half filling in on the goal-kicking front for Sexton, who was moving gingerly after coming in for a bit of treatment from the Scottish forwards. Briefly discomforting the fly-half was about their only achievement all evening.\n\nIreland found space with ease against a team with a shocking lack of bite. Stander made a gallop up the middle and made 30 metres in one moment. Jacob Stockdale chipped and gathered and made even more ground shortly after. Ireland were 16 points clear and it told a false picture of how dominant they really were.\n\nBefore the break there was more calamity for the Scots when their best forward, Hamish Watson, was taken off on a stretcher in clear distress. Another grim moment on a grim day for Townsend's weirdly passive side.\n\nAs the rain started to fall more steadily, Ireland took an even firmer grip on things. Just before the hour-mark they struck for their bonus point try to all but guarantee top spot in their pool and a probable quarter-final with the Springboks, a game that can't look as daunting to them now as it might have done a while back.\n\nConway, filling in for the absent Keith Earls, got it. Murray's precise box kick was not dealt with by Ryan Wilson in his own 22. Jordan Larmour, filling in excellently for the injured Rob Kearney, picked it up and shipped it back to Murray, who put Conway away. The wing stepped around the last defender to finish with aplomb.\n\nThe scrum-half missed the conversion, not that it mattered. The next time an Irishman had a pot at goal, Jack Carty was on the field and he made no mistake. A 24-point game now. No contest.\n\nScotland finally managed to get some possession late on long after the fight was over. Tadhg Beirne came on to the field as a replacement and then went off again for killing ball under his own posts. The Scots put a line-out to touch and tried to work a fancy one at the front, which was defended well.\n\nThey then tried to move it out the line but Ireland weren't having any of that either. Josh van der Flier ended the attack quite ruthlessly. That single moment could serve as a microcosm of the day. Ireland were too physical, too canny, too good. Far, far too good.", "An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater on holiday in Tanzania.\n\nSteven Weber and his girlfriend, Kenesha Antoine, were staying in a submerged cabin at the Manta Resort, off Pemba Island.\n\nFootage shows Mr Weber diving under water to ask Ms Antoine to marry him.\n\nIn the video, Mr Weber presses a hand-written proposal note against the cabin window as Ms Antoine films from inside.\n\nMs Antoine, confirming Mr Weber's death in a Facebook post, said he \"never emerged from those depths\".\n\nKenesha Antoine and Steven Weber were on a \"once-in-a-lifetime\" trip when the accident happened\n\nThe Manta Resort told the BBC Mr Weber \"tragically drowned while free diving alone outside the underwater room\" on Thursday afternoon.\n\n\"It is with the deepest regret that we inform that a fatal accident occurred at The Manta Resort on Thursday 19 September, 2019,\" the resort said in a statement.\n\nMatthew Saus, CEO of the resort, said \"everyone is shaken to the core\" by Mr Weber's death.\n\nZanzibar police are investigating the circumstances of Steven Weber's death\n\nMr Weber and Ms Antoine had booked four nights at the resort's underwater room, which lies approximately 250m (820ft) from the shore.\n\nCosting $1,700-a-night (£1,300), the cabin is anchored in water around 10m (32ft) deep.\n\nOn the third day of their stay, Mr Weber, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plunged into the water to make his proposal.\n\nWearing a mask and fins, he held a note against the cabin's glass window as Ms Antoine watched on from within.\n\nHis note read: \"I can't hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you. But… everything I love about you, I love more every day!\"\n\nMr Weber wrote \"I can't hold my breath long\" in his proposal note\n\nLater in the video, Mr Weber turns over the sheet of paper to reveal the proposal, before pulling an engagement ring from his shorts and swimming out of view.\n\nMr Saus told the BBC his staff responded to a \"problem in the water\", but when they arrived \"absolutely nothing could be done\".\n\nIn her Facebook post, Ms Antoine said Mr Weber \"never got to hear her answer\" to his proposal, which would have been \"a million times, yes\".\n\n\"We never got to embrace and celebrate the beginning of the rest of our lives together, as the best day of our lives turned into the worst, in the cruellest twist of fate imaginable,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I will try to take solace in the fact that we enjoyed the most amazing bucket list experiences these past few days, and that we both were so happy and absolutely giddy with excitement in our final moments together.\"\n\nThe US Department of State said it is aware of the death of a US citizen in Tanzania, in East Africa.\n\n\"We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss,\" a spokesperson said. \"We stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance.\"", "Film footage has been released showing the moment a vet tried to save the life of an orangutan that had been shot 130 times.\n\nPaul Ramos, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was in Borneo to see the work of animal charities. The injured orangutan was found clinging to a branch in a river.\n\nThe wildlife vet said he wanted to raise awareness about the plight of the great ape.\n\nSee more on Inside Out West Midlands on BBC One on Monday 23 September at 19:30 BST and on the BBC iPlayer here.", "Batman fans around the world have marked the 80th birthday of the \"Caped Crusader\".\n\nMany dressed up as the DC Comics superhero for the occasion and took part in activities such as fun runs.\n\nThe first Batman comic book was published in 1939 in New York.", "Taylor Swift has cancelled her performance at the Melbourne Cup horse racing event in Australia.\n\nThe Cup announced Swift as its headline act earlier this month, but cancelled on Saturday, citing scheduling issues.\n\nThe singer had been criticised by animal rights groups, who accused her of \"endorsing animal abuse\".\n\nSix horses have died at the Cup since 2013, including one horse who was euthanised on the course last year after fracturing his shoulder.\n\nThe Cup's organisers have not confirmed who will replace Swift as the headline act on 5 November.\n\nOn Saturday, Mushroom Events said in a statement that \"changes to [Swift's] Asian promo schedule have made it logistically impossible for her to be here\" for the Cup.\n\nBut the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses, the group that led calls for a boycott, believes Swift cancelled as a result of their campaign.\n\nIn a petition posted last week, the group said the singer was \"either completely unaware of the cruel reality of horse racing or she has put money before compassion by agreeing to perform\" at the races.\n\n\"If she cares at all about other animals the way she appears to care about cats, she will cancel her show and use her voice to make a strong statement that animal abuse is unacceptable,\" they added.\n\nVictoria Racing Club's CEO Neil Wilson said Swift's cancellation would be \"disappointing for everyone\".\n\nBut the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses said they were \"absolutely delighted with the news\".\n\n\"The pressure on Taylor Swift to cancel her performance was significant. Her fans did not want to see her supporting animal abuse,\" campaign spokeswoman Kristin Leigh said.\n\n\"Whilst the reason being used by the racing industry is a scheduling mix up, it appears to us that she has responded to those calls.\"", "A 15-year-old boy was found dead in Salt Hill Park in Slough on Saturday\n\nA third youth has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 15-year-old boy died when he was stabbed in a skate park in Slough.\n\nThe boy was found injured in Salt Hill Park at about 18:30 BST on Saturday. He died at the scene.\n\nPost-mortem tests showed he died of \"a stab wound to the chest\", police said.\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys already being held on suspicion of murder remain in custody, while a 17-year-old boy was arrested later on Sunday.\n\nThe victim's family has been informed, although formal identification has not yet taken place.\n\nThames Valley Police said the stabbing followed an \"altercation\" involving a group of males.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Shearwood said: \"We have now made three arrests as our murder investigation progresses.\n\n\"A scene watch which has been in place at Salt Hill Park will soon be lifted and the park will be re-opened to the public as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone for their patience throughout this.\"\n\nEarlier, he said he wanted to \"further reassure people that we believe that all of those involved in this incident were known or associated with each other, and that this was not a random attack\".\n\nDet Ch Inp Shearwood said he believed a number of people were in the skate park at the time and appealed for witnesses, especially anyone with mobile phone footage, to come forward.\n\nA resident said she was extremely concerned by the stabbing.\n\nChloe, who did not give her surname, said: \"I look at it and think if that was my son how would I be feeling, so I can just imagine how his family are feeling.\"\n\nIn 2017 a man died three weeks after being stabbed in Salt Hill Park.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour is promising free personal care in England for over-65s most in need of it, so they will not have to pay for help with dressing, washing and meals.\n\nCurrently, state help with the cost of home or residential help is available for those with assets below £23,250.\n\nLabour says the pledge, costing an estimated £6bn a year, will double the number of those not having to pay.\n\nIt would bring England into line with Scotland, where personal care is free for those with the most severe needs.\n\nIn his keynote speech to the Labour conference on Monday, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the move would be funded out of general taxation.\n\nA future Labour government would pass legislation to enshrine a right to free personal care for those most in need, consulting on \"eligibility criteria to ensure this system works for all\".\n\nLabour said it would give more details of how it would be paid for in its election manifesto but the Conservatives said the opposition's already extensive spending commitments meant \"there simply won't be enough money to pay for it\".\n\nIn anticipation of a general election this autumn, Labour has already pledged this week to axe prescription charges in England and remove the charitable status of private schools as a first step to \"integrating\" them into the state sector.\n\nBut the leadership remains under pressure over Brexit, with delegates set to vote on a motion pushing for a clearer Remain stance in a future EU referendum if Labour wins power.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to solve the crisis in social care, which has bedevilled previous Tory and Labour governments due to its cost and complexity.\n\nMr McDonnell said cuts to care funding since 2010 had left a million people not getting the care they need and \"87 people dying a day waiting for care\".\n\nSubsidising the cost of basic tasks such as getting in and out of bed and going to the toilet will enable more people to continue to live independently in their homes, he said.\n\nFree personal care is something campaigners have long been calling for in England.\n\nScotland has already introduced it and Wales and Northern Ireland each provide some level of universal entitlement. In Wales the cost of home care is capped, while in Northern Ireland the over-75s get it for free.\n\nBoth the Tories and Labour have been talking about reforming the system for over two decades - Tony Blair came to power in 1997 promising to look at it.\n\nBut neither has managed it. Why? The cost and complexity have proved to be insurmountable barriers.\n\nWhat is more, how much impact the policy has depends on the threshold that is set for accessing it. Even in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the bar for getting help is set very high. Only those with the most severe needs get it.\n\nThe devil, as always, will be in the detail.\n\nBased on Scottish figures, Labour said the move could save those currently self-funding their care almost £10,000 a year while 70,000 fewer families would be liable for \"catastrophic\" lifetime care costs in excess of £100,000.\n\nRemoving the distinction between health and care needs, Mr McDonnell argued, will most help families of dementia sufferers, who face the highest costs and, in many cases, have been forced sell their homes to pay for care.\n\n\"I believe the right to dignity in retirement is a part of that right to health at any stage of life,\" he said. \"The truth is our social care sector is a national scandal.\n\nThe shadow chancellor claimed people were dying due to lack of funds\n\n\"The next Labour government will introduce personal care free at the point of use in England\n\n\"Funded not through the Conservatives' gimmicky insurance schemes But, like the NHS and our other essentials, through general taxation.\"\n\nThe pledge goes beyond what Labour promised in its 2017 election manifesto - in which it vowed to raise the minimum asset threshold for free care, cap the amount anyone has to pay during their lifetime and support free end of life care.\n\nUnder the current means-tested system, if an individual has assets worth more than £23,250, including property, they must pay the full cost of residential care without help from the council.\n\nThose with assets above £14,250 have to contribute, but may get some help from state.\n\nLabour, whose long-term aim is to provide free personal care to all working age adults, says support for over-65s will alleviate the pressure on the NHS by reducing delayed transfers of care from hospital and admissions to care homes and hospitals.\n\nMr McDonnell also pledged to close the gap in social care funding - Labour has already pledged to spend an extra £8bn a year over five years - and give local authorities extra support to provide care so services are not outsourced to private firms.\n\nThe King's Fund think tank has estimated that free personal care could cost £6bn a year in 2020-21, rising to £8bn by 2030.\n\nThe organisation said Labour's announcement was a welcome step but \"it is not the same thing as free social care, and some people would still be left facing catastrophic costs.\"\n\nIn its Spending Round earlier this month, the government announced a further £1.5bn in extra funding for social care and promised to look at giving councils more leeway to raise extra funds via council tax bills.", "Labour says it would scrap England's education watchdog Ofsted, accusing it of being \"unfit for purpose\".\n\nIt would mean the end of grades for schools such as outstanding, good or inadequate.\n\nIt will also be seen as a symbolic shift towards the position of teachers' unions who have opposed Ofsted inspections.\n\nFormer Ofsted chief, Sir Michael Wilshaw, described the plan as \"bonkers\".\n\nThe promise to abolish Ofsted, announced as Labour holds its annual conference, is a major shift in policy.\n\nLabour says it is taking action to tackle a flawed inspection system which works against schools in deprived areas.\n\n\"In too many cases, Ofsted's judgements and grades reflect the affluence of a school's intake and the social class of its pupils - not the performance of the school,\" said shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.\n\n\"School performance is far too important and complex to be boiled down to an over-simplified single grade, reducing all schools to one of four categories,\" she said.\n\nBut opponents will say that is reducing scrutiny and abandoning safeguards over standards.\n\nThere will also be claims that under leader Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's education policy is turning into something of a tribute act to the teachers' unions of a couple of decades ago.\n\nWhile in government in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Labour had repeatedly rejected calls from the National Union of Teachers (now part of a wider National Education Union) to end Ofsted inspections.\n\nThe teachers' unions had attacked Ofsted inspections as being unfair, bureaucratic and excessively stressful.\n\nBut Labour, under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, had kept the education watchdog as a key part of maintaining standards and providing information for parents.\n\nThe plans presented by Ms Rayner would see Ofsted abolished and replaced with a new inspectorate.\n\nThere would be a two-stage inspection system - with regular \"health checks\" run by local authorities and then, if there were concerns, more in-depth visits from full-time, trained inspectors - the HMIs (Her Majesty's Inspectors).\n\nIt would mean that parents looking at schools would no longer have the descriptions of inspection ratings, ranging from \"outstanding\" to \"inadequate\".\n\nLabour says that such single-word labels do not do justice to the complexities of a school's strengths and weaknesses and instead parents will have more detailed information.\n\nBut the fireworks are in the political shift.\n\nCalling for the abolition of Ofsted was once an annual ritual of left-wing delegates at teachers' conferences, under both Conservative and Labour governments.\n\nThere was no real expectation of its implementation - because neither party wanted to concede ground that would leave them open to accusations of being soft on standards.\n\nLabour also argued that without external scrutiny of standards, the schools serving the poorest were most likely to be allowed to slip behind.\n\nBut that alignment seems to have fundamentally changed.\n\nLabour has travelled a long way from the days of Mr Blair and \"education, education, education\" - moving much closer to the teachers' union view of the school system.\n\nThe former leader of the National Union of Teachers, Christine Blower, who once attacked the Labour government's education policies, has recently been nominated by Mr Corbyn to become a Labour peer.\n\nThe demise of Ofsted is likely to be popular among teachers, who have criticised the extra workload created by inspections and challenged the credibility of the judgements.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, backed the idea of reducing the pressure of the accountability system.\n\n\"It is crushing the life out of too many schools and has to change,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nBut he was not convinced by the idea of local authorities running the monitoring of schools in their area.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers thought a \"light-touch health-check approach\" of the kind proposed by Labour is \"the right way to go\".\n\nThe heads' union liked the idea of schools being \"back in the driving seat\".\n\nBut what's harder to know is how this will be received by parents.\n\nOf course, there is no such thing as a typical parent, but parents looking for schools will want straightforward information to help them make comparisons.\n\nThey will also want to know that standards are being monitored by an independent body.\n\nSir Michael Wilshaw, the former head of Ofsted, says surveys have consistently shown that parents value the opinions of inspectors and they want clear information about school performance.\n\nHe says Ofsted has helped to raise standards by identifying \"strengths and weaknesses in the English education system\".\n\n\"I'm old enough to remember how dire our schools were in the 70s and 80s when schools lacked any serious scrutiny,\" said Sir Michael.\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb said the announcement was \"another sign of the extreme left-wing ideological drift that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party has taken\".\n\n\"Now they want to stop parents having even the most basic information so that they can make informed choices about their children's schools,\" he said.", "The government will abide by the Supreme Court's ruling on Parliament's suspension when the judgement is given this week, the foreign secretary says.\n\nAsked if prorogation would be used again if the PM wins, Dominic Raab said he did not want \"to take levers off the table\" that weakens the UK's position.\n\nThe ruling on whether the decision to prorogue was unlawful is due this week.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he will work with other opposition parties to secure Parliament's recall if the PM loses.\n\nDuring a three-day hearing in the Supreme Court last week, the government argued that prorogation was not a matter for the courts.\n\nOn the other side, lawyers opposing the suspension sought to prove the prime minister was trying to \"silence Parliament\" for five weeks - the longest period for 40 years - at a crucial political moment in the run-up to Brexit.\n\nParliament is due to return for a Queen's Speech on 14 October - two weeks before the UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Raab said: \"Of course we will respect whatever the legal ruling is from the Supreme Court.\n\n\"But I think we are getting a little bit ahead of ourselves.\"\n\nHe said the government was \"confident\" in its position.\n\n\"There are different permutations as to what the Supreme Court may or may not decide,\" he said.\n\n\"Later in the week we'll obviously want to look at that very carefully, but I can reassure you of course we are going to abide by a Supreme Court judgement.\"\n\nWhen asked whether Parliament would be prorogued again if the government wins, he said: \"I think, let's wait and see what the first judgement decides and then we'll understand the lie of the land.\"\n\nWhen pushed on the matter, he added he was \"keen not to take levers off the table that weaken the position of the UK in Brussels\".\n\nThe Supreme Court ruling is due early this week\n\nBut Labour leader Mr Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show his party would oppose any attempt to prorogue Parliament again, saying the length of the suspension was \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"If they [the Supreme Court] decide that Parliament should be recalled, in other words the advice he [the prime minister] gave was wrong, then we would seek to take immediate action in Parliament to prevent him closing down Parliament all the way to 31 October,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nMeanwhile, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said there would have to be controls at the Irish border in a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"We have to make sure that the interests of the European Union and of the internal market will be preserved.\n\n\"An animal entering Northern Ireland without border control can enter without any kind of control the European Union via the southern part of the Irish island.\n\n\"This will not happen. We have to preserve the health and the safety of our citizens.\"", "Sunday 22 September is World Car Free Day - but in Ethiopia it happens on the last Sunday of every month, across the country.\n\nThe first Car Free Day was held in Ethiopia in December 2018 to promote healthy living, and to reduce pollution on roads usually clogged with traffic.\n\nIt is now so popular that up to 20 Ethiopian cities take part and there are calls for a weekly car-free day in the capital.\n\nYoung mum Beza Tadesse has joined in from the start. \"If I exercise with my husband and children, it will become a habit,\" she says.", "Three people have been arrested in the Aberdeenshire village of Blackburn after an incident which left a police officer needing hospital treatment.\n\nIt is understood a black Ford Fiesta failed to stop for police in Aberdeen in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe injured officer was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, although his injuries are not believed to be serious.\n\nThose arrested were a 21-year-old woman, and two men aged 22 and 23.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nFleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Killing Eve star Jodie Comer were among the big British winners at this year's Emmy Awards.\n\nThe ceremony, which recognises excellence in television, took place in Los Angeles on Sunday.\n\nComer won best leading drama actress for playing Villanelle in Killing Eve.\n\nFleabag star and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge took home the prize for best leading comedy actress, best comedy series and best comedy writing.\n\nOriginally made for BBC Three, it is the first British-made show to be named best comedy series. \"It's so wonderful and reassuring to know that a dirty, pervy, angry and messed-up woman can make it to the Emmys,\" Waller-Bridge laughed, referring to the show's lead character.\n\nWaller-Bridge also joked that the possibility of winning awards was the reason she wrote the series in the first place.\n\n\"I find writing really hard and really painful, but I'd like to say from the bottom of my heart that the reason that I do it is this,\" she said, holding up the Emmy statuette. \"So it's made it all really worth it guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nGame of Thrones won the night's most prestigious prize - best drama - despite the eighth and final series receiving a mixed response from fans and critics.\n\nOne of the HBO fantasy's stars, Peter Dinklage, also took home the prize for best supporting drama actor.\n\nJodie Comer paid tribute to her Killing Eve co-star Sandra Oh\n\nWaller-Bridge's win for leading comedy actress was a particular surprise, given that she was nominated against Emmy favourite Julia Louis-Dreyfus.\n\nThe US actress has previously won in this category six times for her role in Veep, and was widely expected to win again for the show's seventh and final series.\n\nComer's win for her performance as the ruthless assassin Villanelle in BBC America's Killing Eve tops off an extraordinary year for the actress, who also won a TV Bafta in May for the same role.\n\n\"I was not expecting to get up on this stage tonight,\" Comer said as she picked up her prize. \"I cannot believe I'm in a category alongside these women, one of them who is my co-star Sandra Oh.\n\n\"Safe to say Sandra that this Killing Eve journey has been an absolute whirlwind and I feel so lucky to have shared the whole experience with you.\"\n\nAs Waller-Bridge took to the stage near the end of the ceremony to accept Fleabag's fourth award of the night, for best comedy series, she commented: \"This is getting ridiculous!\n\n\"Fleabag started as a one-woman show at the Edinburgh festival in 2014, and the journey has been absolutely mental to get here.\"\n\nBen Whishaw was among the other British winners\n\nPaying tribute to Fleabag's \"hot priest\", she added: \"Season two would not have exploded in the way that it did if it wasn't for Andrew Scott, who came into our Fleabag world like a whirlwind and gave a performance of such depth and complexity it elevated the whole thing.\"\n\nThe show's director, Harry Bradbeer, won best director for a comedy series. \"For a director, something like Fleabag only comes along once in your life,\" he said.\n\n\"Thank you Phoebe for coming into my life like some kind of glorious grenade. Scientists are still trying to work out how someone so incredibly talented can be so utterly lovely.\"\n\nThe second series of Fleabag aired on the BBC earlier this year and has been released by Amazon in the US.\n\nOther British winners include Ben Whishaw, who won best supporting actor in a limited series for his role in BBC One's A Very English Scandal. He played Norman Scott, the man who accused Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe of trying to have him killed.\n\nCharlie Brooker won best television movie for Netflix's Bandersnatch, a win he said he was \"quite unprepared for\". The interactive Bandersnatch allowed viewers to choose the way the film's storyline unfolded.\n\nIn his speech, Brooker thanked his two children, joking: \"I can never limit your video game screen time again, if I do I'm a disgusting hypocrite [because] it sometimes pays off.\"\n\nBritish writer Jesse Armstrong, whose work on HBO's Succession won him best writing for a drama series, made reference to the strong UK showing at the ceremony.\n\n\"Quite a lot of British winners, maybe too many? Maybe you should have a think about those immigration restrictions,\" he joked.\n\nPeter Dinklage was the only Game of Thrones actor to win on Sunday, for playing Tyrion Lannister\n\nAnother Brit, TV host John Oliver, won outstanding variety talk series for Last Week Tonight. In total, 13 of the night's 27 awards had British involvement, including the three trophies for Chernobyl, which was a Sky/HBO co-production.\n\nThe series, which dramatised the 1986 nuclear disaster, took home the prize for best limited series, as well as best writing and directing for a limited series.\n\nElsewhere, the best drama series prize for Game of Thrones and the best supporting drama actor award for Peter Dinklage meant the fantasy epic won 12 Emmys in total, including the trophies it took home at last week's Creative Arts Emmys.\n\nThe show is already the most honoured series and most-nominated drama in Emmy awards history.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by phoenix This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBilly Porter made history as the first openly gay black man to win best leading drama actor, for his role in Pose.\n\nOther winners included Jharrel Jerome, who won best leading actor in a limited series for When They See Us - a series that told the true story of The Central Park Five, five black and Hispanic men who were jailed for sexual assault despite their innocence.\n\nJharrel Jerome was recognised for his role in When They See Us\n\nAmazon's series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel netted supporting comedy acting prizes for both Tony Shalhoub and Alex Borstein.\n\nSunday's event was only the fourth Emmy ceremony ever not to have a host.\n\nMore than 25,000 members of the Television Academy vote for the awards, which were first presented in 1949.\n\nThe name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube, nicknamed the Immy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"We've had a bad start to our conference\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said he was \"disappointed\" at a move to oust him, but has called for unity after a \"bad start\" to the party conference.\n\nSpeaking as he arrived in Brighton, Mr Watson said he wanted the party to come together, adding: \"I always forgive and forget.\"\n\nThe motion, which aimed to abolish the deputy leader position, was dropped.\n\nLabour MPs, opposing the motion, had warned against an \"internal civil war\".\n\nLabour's stance on Brexit, education and public services will also be on the agenda at the annual party conference, which opened on Saturday and runs until Wednesday.\n\nResponding to the motion, Mr Watson said: \"I think it's very sad. We're supposed to be here this week to fight Boris Johnson... and I think it's been undermined on day one.\"\n\nHe said he was \"particularly disappointed\" with Jon Lansman, founder of Labour grassroots group Momentum, who tabled the motion.\n\nMr Watson, who was met by cheering supporters as he arrived at Brighton Station, said Mr Lansman had undermined the party as well as leader Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum itself.\n\nMr Corbyn and Mr Watson at last year's conference.\n\nHe added that many Momentum members \"have been in touch with me to say they were not consulted\".\n\nMr Watson said: \"I want this week to be the most positive week we can have, I want us to unify, I want us to talk about what our vision for the country during and after a general election is.\"\n\nThe seeds of the current rows overshadowing the first day of Labour conference were sown here in Brighton nearly two weeks ago\n\nJeremy Corbyn thought he had sealed a deal on Brexit behind closed doors at the TUC conference with the big unions.\n\nThe party would officially stay neutral during the election.\n\nBut Tom Watson outraged many on the left less than 24 hours later when he contradicted Jeremy Corbyn and called for an unambiguous campaign to remain.\n\nMany on the left already regarded him as disloyal and for them this was the final straw.\n\nThere was mutterings of disciplining him but angry words only turned in to action last night.\n\nSome of Jeremy Corbyn's closest colleagues have told me they were angry that they hadn't been told of the plot to oust him and the Labour leader himself had to call off the coup.\n\nBut the incident exposes Labour's deep fault lines just ahead of an election - not just between left and right but within the left.\n\nTom Watson's anti-Brexit stance meant that the left-led TSSA union which has campaigned for Remain, rallied to the deputy leader and not Momentum's Jon Lansman.\n\nBut when the deputy leader's post is reviewed, these divisions are likely to reopen.\n\nIn the short term, Labour's strategy of denouncing the Lib Dems undemocratic over Brexit and the Conservative as intolerant towards dissenters has been shattered.\n\nMr Watson said he learned of the plot to oust him in a text message on Friday night, while in a Chinese restaurant in Manchester with his son.\n\nThe move sparked a backlash from Labour backbench MPs who said the party should be focusing on unity ahead of a possible general election.\n\nMr Corbyn later suggested the role should be reviewed instead, and his suggestion was backed by the ruling National Executive Committee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn fields reporters' questions as he arrives at the Labour party conference\n\nMr Watson said he was \"grateful\" for Mr Corbyn's statement, but said it was the chair of the NEC, Wendy Nichols, who stopped the motion.\n\nLen McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, said Mr Corbyn \"came in and calmed everybody down\".\n\n\"There is resentment because Tom, a deputy leader is supposed to support the leader in any organisation and there's a perception that Tom doesn't do that,\" he said. \"That builds up on occasion and manifests itself in frustration, but Jeremy Corbyn came in and calmed everybody down\".\n\nMeanwhile, a row has emerged over where Labour should stand on Brexit in a general election.\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said the executive is to discuss a draft plan which would commit a Labour government to negotiating a new Brexit deal in three months - and putting it to the people in a referendum against Remain within six months.\n\nBut, our correspondent added, the party would not decide its preference until after a general election - meaning Labour would go into a snap poll without saying whether it wanted to remain or leave.\n\nOn Saturday, Labour frontbenchers Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry appeared at a rally for the People's Vote campaign, which supports another referendum, and confirmed they would back Remain.\n\nSpeaking at the rally, Sir Keir said: \"It's got to go back so the public can decide. A basic question. Are you prepared to leave on the terms on offer? Or do you want to remain?\n\n\"When that time comes I will campaign for remain alongside millions people in this country.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says his side do not have to compete with Manchester City's style as the two clubs battle at the top of the Premier League.\n\nThe Reds were not at their attacking best at Chelsea on Sunday but earned a 2-1 win to maintain their five-point lead over City at the top.\n\nPep Guardiola's side, meanwhile, swept aside Watford 8-0 on Saturday.\n\n\"This type of football not a lot of teams can play,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"But we play in our way, we try to win football games.\n\n\"In the end we need to get the points, there is no competition in technical things, it is about the points.\"\n\nKlopp's title pace-setters looked on course to win in comfort as Trent Alexander-Arnold's magnificent free-kick and Roberto Firmino's header gave them complete control at the interval.\n• None Liverpool's win at Chelsea epitomises resilience Jurgen Klopp has built into team\n\nChelsea, who had been denied an equaliser when Cesar Azpilicueta's close-range effort was ruled out for offside by VAR, were in no mood to capitulate and made Liverpool fight every inch of the way to maintain that perfect record.\n\nTammy Abraham had chances to increase his tally of seven goals this season, particularly when he was denied by Liverpool keeper Adrian when clean through in the first half, but it was left to N'Golo Kante to set up a grandstand finish with a superb strike with 19 minutes to play.\n\nLiverpool, however, held on, surviving missed chances from Michy Batshuayi and Mason Mount, to take the three points.\n\n\"It's a difficult place to come, it's a while ago that we won here. It's a big win,\" Klopp added.\n\n\"The boys did really well, they fought really hard. I don't think there is any other way to win here. It's a big win.\"\n\nLiverpool remain unstoppable in their Premier League duel with Manchester City after one of those victories all potential champions will need to secure if they are to claim the big prize at the end of the season.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side have made a habit of unleashing an attacking blitz on opponents in a remarkable run of only one league loss since the start of last season, their winning sequence now extended to 15 games.\n\nThis was totally different.\n\nLiverpool may have looked to have been on cruise control with that interval advantage, but Chelsea were always in this game and pressed the league leaders right until the final whistle.\n\nThey were far below their best, were more sloppy than usual and on occasions looked jaded - but they still emerged victorious from what is traditionally one of the most hazardous away assignments on the calendar.\n\nOver the course of a long campaign, a season Liverpool will hope will end their 30-year wait for the title, it is victories on days such as this that will be vital, if not more so, than the days when opponents are blown away.\n\nKlopp's delight at the final whistle, in contrast to some of his expressions of fury during the game, said it all.\n\nThis was a crucial victory. Liverpool's bandwagon rolls on.\n\nChelsea and Lampard can take heart\n\nChelsea have still to win at home in the Premier League and Champions League this season, and no defeat by Liverpool is anything other than an acutely painful experience.\n\nAnd yet, despite this loss coming hard on the heels of the home defeat by Valencia in their opening Champions League group game, Chelsea manager Frank Lampard will take great comfort and confidence from the performance of his team.\n\nThis is a new Chelsea, leaning heavily on youngsters such as Mason Mount, Fikayo Tomori and Abraham, and being built in a new style by Lampard.\n\nWhen Liverpool went two up through Firmino's header after poor marking at a free-kick, the goal coming moments after Azpilicueta's apparent equaliser had been overruled by VAR, it would have been easy for Chelsea's heads to drop.\n\nNothing could have been further from the truth as they pressed and pressurised Liverpool until the final whistle before receiving a warm and appreciative ovation from the Chelsea supporters.\n\nGoalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga may have kept them in it with a magnificent save from Firmino but Chelsea, driven by the magnificent Kante, were left cursing those late missed opportunities for Batshuayi and Mount that could have earned them a point.\n\nNo Chelsea defeat is easy to take, especially against Liverpool, but this was a performance that will give Lampard hope and encouragement.\n\nWe have to carry on - what they said\n\nChelsea boss Frank Lampard: \"Performance-wise we were the better team. We had more energy in our game, character and spirit. That's why the crowd applauded at the end. Let's take this forward.\"\n\nOn VAR: \"We have to get on with it. It is a sad thing for the celebration and the moment but if we are looking for correct decisions that is where we are at. It changes the atmosphere in the crowd, on the pitch. We are slightly deflated and they get a boost. We deserved to be level at that point.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: \"The first half was hard work. It is about momentum in games like this and I think we got that in the first half. We scored two wonderful goals and we could have scored directly after half time two more. We deserved the three points, it is difficult to win here.\"\n\n\"We are only here. Chelsea, six matches in. We haven't won anything domestic apart from games so we have to carry on. We have to be ready for each opponent. They are all waiting and want to give us a knock, rightly so, but we have to be ready to do what we have to do.\"\n\nReds closing in on City's record - the stats\n• None Chelsea have conceded 13 goals in their six Premier League matches this season - their most after six league matches of a season since 1978-79 (also 13), when they went on to finish bottom of the First Division.\n• None Liverpool have won consecutive Premier League matches against Chelsea for the first time since a run of four wins between November 2010 and May 2012.\n• None Liverpool have won their last 15 league matches - the only team with a longer winning run in top-flight history is Manchester City (18 between August and December 2017).\n• None Chelsea have lost consecutive home matches in all competitions for the first time since April 2014, when they lost against Sunderland and Atlético Madrid.\n• None Jurgen Klopp managed his 150th Premier League game today - he has registered 92 wins in those games, with only José Mourinho (105) winning more in his first 150 matches in the competition.\n• None Frank Lampard is only the second Chelsea manager to fail to win any of his first four home matches in all competitions (W0 D2 L2), after Bobby Campbell in 1988.\n• None Since the start of the 2018-19 season, Liverpool have scored 34 goals from set-piece situations in the Premier League - seven more than any other team.\n• None Chelsea have failed to win any of their opening three home Premier League matches in a season for only the second time, also doing so in 2001-02 during Frank Lampard's first season there as a player.\n\nAttention turns to the League Cup as Liverpool head to League One side MK Dons on Wednesday (19:45 BST), while Chelsea host League Two Grimsby on the same day (19:45 BST).\n• None Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Jorginho (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.\n• None Attempt missed. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcos Alonso with a cross.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jeremy Corbyn is coming under pressure amid divisions over Labour's Brexit strategy as leading figures call for the party to back staying in the EU.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour must \"say no\" to leaving the EU at its party conference.\n\nAnd deputy leader Tom Watson said it must settle its position as \"a Remain party\" once and for all this week.\n\nBut Unite leader Len McCluskey said anyone who could not support Jeremy Corbyn's position should stand aside.\n\nHe said talk of divisions were \"fake news\" given that Labour had a policy of giving the public the final say in another referendum which the shadow cabinet could unite around.\n\nThe party's NEC, or governing body, has agreed a motion which calls for the party to renegotiate the current terms of exit and then give voters the choice to back the new Brexit deal or to remain in the EU.\n\nMr Corbyn has persistently refused to be drawn on which way he would campaign in another vote, saying it would depend on the kind of agreement he struck.\n\nLabour will also decide the terms of further motions on Brexit, which could call for the party to endorse a remain stance outright.\n\nThe exact wording of the motion to be debated will be decided later on Sunday and voted on Monday.\n\nMr Corbyn is under growing pressure to declare his hand from pro-EU figures in the party.\n\nAddressing a rally organised by the Progress group in Brighton, Mr Watson - who saw off an attempt to oust him on Saturday - said the \"simple truth is whatever anyone says - Labour is a remain party\".\n\nCalling on the leadership to \"to settle once and for all our position\", he said by backing remain \"I'm sure we can deliver a Labour government\".\n\nAnd Ms Thornberry questioned \"why on earth\" Labour would be complicit in allowing the UK to leave the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour \"will have a special conference\" to decide its stance on Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn says.\n\n\"Are we going to celebrate a Labour version of Brexit? No. We must have the Labour Party this week saying no to Brexit and we must lead the campaign to remain.\"\n\nYou might think policy is made on the conference floor but what goes behind closed doors - in smoke free rooms these days - is often more important.\n\nRepresentatives from constituencies and from trade unions try to distil disparate motions on the same topic down in to just one, on which they can all agree - and this is then put to the conference for approval the following day in the full knowledge that it will pass.\n\nBut on Brexit, this usual template isn't working.\n\nThe gap between the leadership and many in the grassroots has proved difficult to bridge.\n\nLabour's ruling national executive - which includes representatives of the big unions - has agreed a statement which would not commit the party to backing leave or remain until after any snap election.\n\nOn Sunday night, though, grassroots delegates are expected to agree a motion, which would commit the party to campaigning to remain in the EU during the election.\n\nThe pro-remain Mayor of London Sadiq Khan told me he would be urging delegates to stand firm on this and not to accept a fudge.\n\nAnd I understand it, the call from Len McCluskey of Unite - for remainers to back down in the interests of party unity - is likely to go unheeded.\n\nSo as things stand, the differences between the leadership and much of the rank and file will be displayed in the full glare of publicity.\n\nHowever, the unions account for 50% of the votes at Labour conference - and if they continue to stand firmly behind Jeremy Corbyn then the overtly pro-remain position will be defeated.\n\nThe political price could be high, though, and there will undoubtedly be further appeals for the remain motion to be withdrawn.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Mr Corbyn acknowledged that most Labour supporters backed staying in the EU.\n\nBut he said the party needed to show more understanding of why the country voted leave and even if the UK were to remain in the EU, there needed to be serious reform.\n\nMr McCluskey, a key ally of Mr Corbyn, appealed for loyalty on the issue, saying the party must go into the looming general election \"united\".\n\n\"When we have a policy on Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn makes it clear that that is the policy, then that's what leading members of the shadow cabinet should argue for,\" he told Sky News.\n\n\"If they find they can't argue for it because they feel strongly, well, of course they have that right but they should step aside from the shadow cabinet…and they can argue whatever they want.\"", "Labour has urged Boris Johnson to address claims he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest in how money was given to a US businesswoman while he was London mayor.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Jennifer Arcuri, an entrepreneur associated with Mr Johnson, joined trade missions he led and was given £126,000 in public money.\n\nShe told the paper this was part of her role as a legitimate businesswoman.\n\nNo 10 declined to comment. A government department says it is investigating.\n\nMs Arcuri was quoted by the Sunday Times as saying: \"Any grants received by my companies and any trade mission I joined were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted her for comment.\n\nLabour's London mayor Sadiq Khan has told the BBC that he has ordered City Hall officials to look into the allegations.\n\nMr Khan said: \"All I know is what I have seen in the press. These are very serious allegations. At the moment they are just allegations.\n\n\"I have asked my chief of staff to ask City Hall officials to look into what process there was during this time, were those processes followed, but also whether there are also any lessons that need to be learned.\"\n\nThe newspaper says she moved back to the US in June 2018, but her latest company won a £100,000 grant intended for \"English-based\" businesses earlier this year.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it had found the registered address on the grant application form is a rented house in the UK and no longer connected to her.\n\nThe paper said the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport was investigating the award of the grant after the newspaper's inquiries.\n\nThe government has now confirmed to the BBC it is investigating. But it highlighted the funds were awarded to a UK-registered company.\n\nA statement from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"Funding for this scheme was awarded through open and fair competition.\n\n\"We regularly monitor grant initiatives and treat any allegations of impropriety with the utmost seriousness.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times claims one of Ms Arcuri's businesses also received £10,000 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when Mr Johnson was in office, and she received a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs to build businesses in Britain.\n\nJon Trickett, shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, said Mr Johnson should provide full disclosure on the allegations.\n\n\"Boris Johnson must now give a full account of his actions in response to these grave and most serious allegations of the misuse use of public money in his former role as mayor of London,\" Mr Trickett said in a statement.\n\n\"The public has a right to know how and why these funds were used for the benefit of a close personal friend without on the face of it legitimate reason.\n\n\"This cannot be swept under the carpet. It is a matter of the integrity of the man now leading our country, who appears to believe he can get away with anything.\"\n\nMr Johnson was London mayor between 2008 and 2016.", "BBC's Andrew Marr is joined by leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn MP.\n\nThis broadcast may be interrupted by other news items", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFootage of people throwing items into a prison where a fifth of inmates have a drugs habit have been described by a minister as \"deeply disturbing\".\n\nBBC Inside Out West set up cameras in the garden of a house neighbouring Bristol Prison and twice caught a man throwing in packages.\n\nA former inmate said drugs and phones were often thrown over the prison wall.\n\nJustice secretary Robert Buckland said Bristol Prison would see a staffing increase of a third.\n\nA report from the chief inspector of prisons, released last week, said many inmates developed a drug habit while in the prison.\n\nIt said half the inmates said it was \"very easy\" (36%) or \"quite easy\" (14%) to get hold of illicit drugs in the jail.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"It is always deeply disturbing to see people resort to that sort of criminality.\n\n\"The good news is that in one of those incidents the item was found and seized.\n\n\"The fact that you are focusing on it, the fact that we are talking openly about it, I think is good. I think the public needs to know this.\n\n\"We are now increasing staffing levels. For example, in Bristol, staffing levels have gone up by a third in the past two years.\"\n\nOver half of prisoners said drugs were easy to get inside HMP Bristol\n\nInside Out West found some of the prison's own CCTV cameras on the walls outside the facility were broken. Mr Buckland said they would be repaired.\n\n\"That's one of the items on our list to fix, to get the CCTV sorted,\" he said.\n\n\"I think this has really focused minds and attention. We need to make progress as quickly as possible in Bristol.\"\n\nEleanor Ager, the chair of the prison's independent monitoring board, said the video of the package being thrown into the prison \"shows how easy it is\".\n\nShe said the incidents created an \"unhealthy... black market\" inside the prison.\n\n\"You're going to create an unhealthy environment for rehabilitation,\" she said.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Inside Out on BBC One West at 7.30pm on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nCommemorations have been held to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden during World War Two, near Arnhem in the Netherlands.\n\nThe 1944 operation saw around 35,000 allied soldiers land by parachute and gliders behind enemy lines - in a failed bid to secure bridges to open up a route into Germany.\n\nA mass parachute jump and wreath-laying ceremony on Saturday was attended by the Prince of Wales and veterans.\n\nVeteran Sandy Cortmann, 97, completed a tandem parachute jump as part of the service.", "The Conservative Party has said it is reviewing its Facebook advertising after it was accused of misrepresenting a BBC News story.\n\nAn advert featured the BBC logo with a headline saying \"£14 billion pound cash boost for schools\".\n\nBut a BBC story linked in the advert said the figure was £7.1bn.\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact said political parties should not \"misrepresent the work of independent journalists in this way\".\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said: \"It was not our intention to misrepresent by using this headline copy with the news link, where the BBC's £7bn figure is clearly displayed, but we are reviewing how our advert headlines match accompanying links.\"\n\nClicking on the advert took readers to the original story on the BBC News website by Sean Coughlan, where it had the headline \"Multi-billion pound cash boost for schools\".\n\nBBC analysis in the story from 30 August queried the government's claims about its additional funding for schools.\n\nThe corporation's head of statistics, Robert Cuffe, explained here that the government was not calculating the spending increase in the usual way.\n\n\"Describing this as a £14bn increase would make the government seem more generous than it is in fact being,\" he wrote.\n\nThe spending announcement provided an extra £2.6bn next year, £4.8bn the year after that and £7.1bn in 2022-23.\n\nAdded together that makes £14bn, but it is not how spending increases are normally worked out, Mr Cuffe said.\n\nBecause budgets are normally discussed for individual years, he said the usual practice is to measure the spending increase for one year - usually the last where the increase is the largest.\n\nMr Cuffe told the BBC: \"Independent experts look at the effect of spending increases on a department's annual budget.\n\n\"Adding up those increases over many years exaggerates the government's generosity. It is an old trick of political accountancy that many governments have used.\"\n\nIn his spending review announcement in Parliament on 4 September, Chancellor Sajid Javid used the smaller figure.\n\nHe said: \"Today we are delivering on our pledge to increase school spending by £7.1 billion by 2022-23, compared with this year.\"\n\nThe BBC posted the story on Facebook with its own headline\n\nFull Fact said that various versions of the advert with the altered headline had received between 222,000 and 510,000 impressions - although these can include multiple viewings by the same person.\n\nThe Facebook adverts - which started running on 2 September - have since been deactivated.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"We are looking into this matter.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Gyimah is introduced as a Lib Dem MP at their party conference\n\nFormer Conservative MP Sam Gyimah has joined the Liberal Democrats.\n\nSix MPs have defected to the party in recent weeks, including former Tory MP Philip Lee, and ex-Labour MPs Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna.\n\nMr Gyimah was one of the 21 Tories who had the Conservative whip removed after rebelling against Boris Johnson in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLast December, the East Surrey MP quit as science and universities minister in a row over Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nThe 43-year-old briefly stood in the race to become Conservative Party leader after Mrs May quit.\n\nThe Lib Dems currently have 18 MPs, having been boosted by a victory in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and the defections.\n\nMr Gyimah told BBC News that \"the hard Brexiteers have won in the Conservative party - it is a hard Brexit party\".\n\n\"There just aren't enough Conservatives like me,\" he said, explaining his decision to join the Liberal Democrats.\n\n\"If I want to fight for the values for which I came into politics.. the values of tolerance, the values of being sensible and pragmatic and acting in the interest of the country, then the Liberal Democrats is where I can do that from.\"\n\nNot long ago at Westminster, if you were on the hunt for a smile, you wouldn't bother with the Lib Dems.\n\nThere weren't many of them, for a start, and those left were the last survivors of a near apocalypse for the party; shrivelled, ignored and drowned out.\n\nThey are bouncy, tiggerish and expanding.\n\nThey hope their clarity on Brexit - win an election and scrap it - will win favour with Remain inclined voters who may find Labour's pitch rather more ambiguous.\n\nBut their newbies face a big challenge: can they, realistically, win the seats they currently hold as Liberal Democrats?\n\nOr will they go hunting for more fertile Lib Dem territory elsewhere - potentially dislodging long standing local party stalwarts?\n\nAddressing the Liberal Democrats conference in Bournemouth, Mr Gyimah said: \"There is now no orderly way for the UK to leave the EU on October 31.\n\n\"If the prime minister got a deal at the European Council on October 17 and 18, it would not be possible for us to leave on October 31 in an orderly way.\"\n\nHe added that the government has been left in a position where \"no-deal\" is the only outcome that can be delivered.\n\nHe said he had been \"disheartened\" by the way the whipping process \"had been framed... for us MPs to choose our careers, in other words our own salaries, over putting the country first.\"\n\nMr Gyimah, who has been sitting as an Independent after losing the Conservative whip, has been a prominent advocate for a second referendum.\n\nHe previously signalled his intention to stand as an independent candidate in East Surrey in the event of a snap general election.\n\nMr Gyimah was born in Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire.\n\nWhen he was six years old, his parents split up and he moved with his mother to her native Ghana, while his father remained in the UK.\n\nHe attended Achimota school, a state school in the capital of Accra, before returning to the UK to complete his GCSEs and A-levels at Freman College, a comprehensive in Hertfordshire.\n\nMr Gyimah went on to win a place at Somerville College, Oxford, to read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), and served as president of the Oxford Union in 1997.\n\nAn Arsenal fan, he worked for Goldman Sachs for five years as an investment banker before moving into politics, standing unsuccessfully for Camden council elections in 2006.\n\nIn 2010 he became the MP for East Surrey and had been in Westminster for two years when he was made parliamentary private secretary to the then PM David Cameron.\n\nHe went on to become a government whip in 2013 and childcare and education minister a year later, before becoming prisons minister in 2016 and universities minister after that.\n\nThe married father-of-two quit as universities minister in December last year over Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nHe was introduced to delegates at the conference by the party's leader Jo Swinson as the \"newest Liberal Democrat MP\".\n\nSpeaking to the conference, Mr Gyimah said he did not take the decision to join the Lib Dems lightly and had started reconsidering his position in the Tories while Mrs May negotiated her deal with the EU.\n\nBut he said his concerns with the Conservative party now \"go beyond Brexit\".\n\n\"The values we have taken for granted for so long in our country... are under threat,\" Mr Gyimah said. \"What Jo and I discussed are the Liberal Democrats have a unique opportunity to fight to defend those values and create a new force in British politics. That is why I find myself here today.\"\n\nHe said \"the problem is not just on the Conservative side. When I look across the aisle, I also see on the Labour benches the same issue I have seen on the Conservative side, a doctrinaire, intolerant approach which means centrists are being squeezed out\".\n\nMr Umunna tweeted he was \"absolutely delighted\" and Layla Moran said: \"Welcome... So delighted to have you on the team\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chuka Umunna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChris White, a former government adviser, told the BBC it was \"extremely disappointing\" to see Mr Gyimah join the Lib Dems because he \"stood on a manifesto pledge to deliver the referendum and here he is switching to a party which is manifestly not going to do that\".\n\nA bid by Mr Johnson for an autumn general election has so far been rejected by MPs who wanted to first make sure a bill designed to avoid a no-deal Brexit became law.\n\nBut since the bill, which seeks to force Mr Johnson to ask for a extension to the deadline, has been given Royal Assent, opposition MPs are preparing to start their general election campaigns.\n\nAs the Lib Dem conference opened, Ms Swinson said the party's anti-Brexit message should be \"unequivocal\" in a general election campaign.\n\nShe expressed her hopes that members would back her policy proposal of scrapping Brexit without another referendum.", "The body of the former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has arrived back in Zimbabwe.\n\nHe will lie in state at the Rufaro football stadium in Harare.\n\nThousands have turned out to pay their respects.\n\nMr Mugabe, who was 95, died last week while undergoing medical treatment in a Singapore hospital.", "Creggan is largely a republican community not far from the centre of Londonderry\n\nCreggan in Derry is seen as a dissident republican stronghold.\n\nIt's where journalist Lyra McKee was murdered earlier this year, a bomb was found in a car last week and police officers have been attacked.\n\nWhat do local people think about their neighbourhood being in the headlines?\n\nJames is working in his garden.\n\nAcross the street is graffiti on the wall that reads: \"New IRA here to stay\".\n\nHe says he had to leave his home on Monday night as streets were cordoned off.\n\n\"Young people then started to throw petrol bombs at police Land Rovers,\" he says.\n\nPolice officers found a bomb on Monday during a security search targeting the New IRA.\n\nPolice said a crowd of between 60 and 100 young people also gathered in Creggan that evening.\n\nSome of them attacked the police with petrol bombs and stones. Others stood by watching.\n\nAt least two of the young people suffered burn injuries.\n\n\"At midday I was planting flowers in my garden. At midnight, I was running away to a community centre from a bomb,\" says James, who did not want his full name being used.\n\n\"I am sick to the back teeth with this carry on. I'm elderly now and I've seen a lot through the Troubles. The vast majority of people in Creggan do not want this thuggery.\n\n\"A friend from England called me to ask how I was. All I could say was: 'Planting flowers and avoiding bombs'.\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said, on a number of occasions, that it believes most of the violence in Creggan is orchestrated and that some of the young people are being exploited by paramilitaries.\n\nA bomb, containing commercial explosives, was found in a car on Monday\n\nAt the heart of Creggan there's a school. Not too far from the school gates is a sign saying \"informants will be shot\".\n\nSome community workers act as mediators with dissident republicans on a regular basis in order to prevent further violence.\n\nThe anti-British and anti-police messages are clearly visible when you arrive in the area.\n\nMany families were also directly affected during Northern Ireland's conflict - known as The Troubles.\n\nOne community worker told BBC News NI that dissident republicans - who are prepared to use violence to achieve their aim of a united Ireland - \"like to think they are recruiting young people to push their message forward\".\n\nThe New IRA admitted carrying out the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in April in Creggan.\n\nOne 24-year-old woman says she was standing \"a couple of hundred yards\" from where Ms McKee was shot.\n\nThe woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, told BBC News NI she was by no means happy with the fact that Ms McKee was killed, but that she did support the PSNI being attacked with petrol bombs.\n\n\"A lot of people don't realise what we go through here. I have no job. My family went through a lot during the Troubles. I feel strongly about them leaving us alone in Creggan.\"\n\nLyra McKee wanted to write about the affects of violence on young people in Derry\n\nThe woman was able to show BBC News NI footage on her phone of the police being targeted in recent months and years.\n\n\"We share it in group chats. We don't appreciate their attendance here during the day or at night. I know I don't speak for every young person.\"\n\nA PSNI spokesperson said: \"We are there for the safety of all communities.\"\n\nA 25-year-old man walks past Creggan shops listening to music. He is on his way to a body combat class in the local community centre.\n\n\"I struggle to understand why some of the young people want to cause bother,\" he says.\n\n\"I've lived here all my life, too. I went into the town on Monday night to get away from it all. All I can say to them is: 'Move on'. There are better things to be doing in Creggan and across the city.\"\n\nGraffiti features on a number of walls throughout Creggan and across the city\n\nOutside the community centre, known locally as the corn beef tin, are five women having a cigarette. They are waiting for one of their weekly classes to start.\n\n\"I've lived here since I was born and there are many, many positive people here in Creggan,\" Karen Doherty says.\n\n\"Negative headlines are broadcast about us around the world and it makes me feel sick to the stomach. The good things never get discussed. There are many wonderful people here and things to do.\n\n\"Yes, there are big issues, but it involves a small minority. We are a close community.\n\n\"During the Troubles there were soldiers here, bombs and tanks, but we were almost safer then than we are now. I'm not sure if it's because we were immune to it back then, but the young people now are uncontrollable.\"\n\nKathleen Dalzell (left) and Karen Doherty have lived in Creggan all of their lives\n\nKathleen Dalzell says some of the young people in Creggan are being exploited.\n\n\"There's a bigger picture here,\" she adds.\n\n\"Those dissidents need to back off. No one in Derry wants to see this. I had a great upbringing here.\n\n\"We all help each other out in the hour of need. That's the real Creggan.\"\n\nFr Joseph Gormley is based at St Mary's in Creggan\n\nFr Joseph Gormley, who was called to the scene of Lyra McKee's shooting, says had the bomb on Monday not been found and diffused, \"we could have had another loss of life\".\n\n\"This community has been through a lot,\" Fr Gormley adds.\n\n\"Many people are knackered and fed up with the constant negative headlines but we can't shy away from the fact these things are happening.\n\n\"Those responsible should be able to see that Creggan does not want to go backwards. Let Creggan flourish the way it deserves to.\"", "The Liberal Democrats gather for their annual conference in Bournemouth on Saturday with a real spring in their step.\n\nThe venue may be familiar - it's their third visit to the south coast in the past five years - but in every other respect things look rather different.\n\nThe resurgent party has a new leader, quite a few more MPs, growing political momentum and a new-found hope of playing a pivotal role in the unfolding Brexit drama.\n\nSo what can we expect over the four days?\n\nJo Swinson will be in the spotlight on Tuesday\n\nWhatever else happens, the event will ultimately be defined - in terms of press coverage anyway - by Jo Swinson's leader's speech on Tuesday.\n\nHer predecessors - Tim Farron and Vince Cable - struggled to achieve a real breakthrough beyond the conference hall, as the party languished in the doldrums.\n\nThis is unlikely to be the case this time, when Ms Swinson takes the stage at about 14.30 BST.\n\nThe 39-year old is a fresh face - despite being a relative veteran in Westminster. She is the party's first female leader, as well as its youngest.\n\nThere will be a lot of interest beyond Lib Dem circles as to how she performs, the degree to which she reaches out to other parties on Brexit and her positioning on key issues.\n\nAfter all, many people think a general election is inevitable before the end of the year - an election which could offer the party the best chance of progress in nearly a decade.\n\nWill there be a surprise defection?\n\nFollowing the 2015 election, the jibe that you could fit all the Lib Dem MPs into the back of a taxi was heard for the first time in a generation.\n\nAfter five years of governing in coalition with the Conservatives, the party had been reduced to a rump of eight MPs in Parliament.\n\nBut now things are moving in the opposite direction, with the party's ranks swelling to 17 (or 18 if you include one MP who has lost the whip).\n\nSince June, two former Labour MPs, one former Conservative and a serving Conservative, Phillip Lee, have joined the party. Mr Lee's defection, which came as Boris Johnson was addressing MPs in Parliament, was particularly dramatic.\n\nCould we see others join them this week? There's a reasonable chance, as parties love to unveil high-profile converts with a flourish in the glare of the TV cameras.\n\nThere are more than 20 ex-Conservative MPs sitting as independents in the Commons who are opposed to a no-deal Brexit and, in some cases, opposed to any kind of Brexit.\n\nAs it stands, they have been told they cannot represent their old party at the next election. Will some be tempted to throw their lot in with the Lib Dems?\n\nStop Brexit is set to become the party's election slogan\n\nThe party's strong opposition to Brexit - it has supported another referendum for the past two years - has hardened in recent weeks.\n\nMs Swinson now says that if the Lib Dems win power after the next election - a long shot admittedly - they would revoke Article 50. This would halt the legal process underpinning the UK's departure, and nullify the 2016 Brexit referendum vote.\n\nThe leadership will ask party members to endorse this position in a debate on Sunday.\n\nIt will also seek a mandate to campaign on a Stop Brexit ticket at the next election and for the party's backing for giving all EU nationals in the UK settled status automatically.\n\nExpect the motion, which states there is \"no negotiated deal that could be more beneficial than continued membership\", to receive overwhelming backing.\n\nBut it will be interesting to see how many dissenting voices there are, perhaps worried about the message it sends to Leave voters.\n\nAmong them could be Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd, who lost the whip after backing Theresa May's Brexit agreement, and ex-minister Norman Lamb, who is standing down at the next election but who has joined the cross-party \"MPs-for-a-deal\" group.\n\nChuka Umunna will make his conference debut for his new party\n\nThis is a party in transition and this year's event will reflect that.\n\nThis is likely to be Vince Cable's last conference as a Lib Dem MP, the former leader having said he won't contest his Twickenham seat at the election.\n\nIt will also be Chuka Umunna's first as a Lib Dem. The former Labour politician has been given the plum Monday morning speech slot - second only in prestige to the leader's closing address - and he is likely to command plenty of attention.\n\nThere are also speaking slots for Jane Dodds, the newly elected Brecon and Radnorshire MP and Welsh party leader, and Siobhan Benita, the party's London mayoral candidate.\n\nThere are likely to be a few tears and quite a few cheers during the party's tribute to its beloved former leader Paddy Ashdown, who died last December.\n\nExpect some big names on the fringe, although it is not clear whether ex-deputy PM and now Facebook exec Nick Clegg - normally one of the week's biggest draws - will be among them.\n\nThe party will debate a ban on single-use plastic\n\nUnlike other parties, Lib Dem members have a say in policy-making, which makes debates - even on obscure subjects - worth keeping an eye on.\n\nActivists will debate motions calling on the government to pass a law to scrap the \"gender price gap\" on all consumer items and extend equal marriage to Northern Ireland.\n\nFar-reaching reform of the tax system will also be on the agenda, with a proposal to scrap corporation tax in favour of a new British business tax, while measures to tackle poverty and job insecurity include a 20% minimum wage for workers on zero-hours contracts.\n\nIncreased focus on prisoner rehabilitation would see only women convicted of the most serious and violent crimes sent to prison, and an end to custodial sentences for personal drug use. There would also be tax discounts to encourage firms to employ ex-offenders.\n\nOn education, the party wants to extend the pupil premium to 16 to 19-year-olds and - on the environment - to ban all non-recyclable single-use plastic within three years.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: England v Australia, fifth Specsavers Test (day three of five)\n\nJoe Denly narrowly missed out on a maiden century but still helped England into a match-winning position on the third day of the final Ashes Test against Australia at The Oval.\n\nTwo days after his wife gave birth to their second child, opener Denly made 94 to all but secure his place on England's winter tours.\n\nAfter being dropped on nought on the second evening, the Kent man also should have been given lbw on 54 to Mitchell Marsh, only for Australia to opt against a review.\n\nHe was eventually caught at slip off Peter Siddle after sharing a third-wicket stand of 127 with Ben Stokes, who oozed class for his 67.\n\nJos Buttler sparkled in his 47 before a late Australia improvement left England 313-8, 382 ahead.\n• None A new baby and 94 in the Ashes - Denly's special 48 hours\n\nWith two days remaining and the pitch beginning to show signs of turn, England are primed to level the series at 2-2.\n\nThough Australia have already retained the Ashes, defeat here would deny them a first series win in England since 2001.\n\nEngland are also looking to avoid a first home series loss to anyone in five years.\n\nOn a glorious day in south London, England took advantage of the benign conditions to put together one of their best batting displays of the Test summer.\n\nThey have, though, been helped by some uncharacteristic Australian generosity.\n\nTim Paine's decision to field first is looking increasingly baffling, so too the selection of Siddle over Mitchell Starc. The tourists have dropped five catches and continually failed in their use of the review system.\n\nBut that is to take nothing away from Denly, who had already batted at number three and four this summer before being asked to open.\n\nBy making his third half-century in as many matches, he has suggested he has a future at this level.\n\nThere were fractious moments throughout the day. Matthew Wade and Joe Root exchanged words, as did David Warner and Stokes, who was goaded by the close fielders. Nathan Lyon chatted constantly.\n\nThe home supporters responded on their team's behalf, especially to any Australian fielder who ventured towards the boundary.\n\nThe England batting, Aussie baiting and late arrival of cult hero Jack Leach gave the crowd one more enjoyable day in a memorable summer that is almost at an end.\n• None Relive England's dominant display on third day of final Ashes Test - highlights & analysis\n\nDenly's wife Stacy was in the early stages of labour as he was making 14 on the first morning. He left the ground that night and returned just after lunch on Friday as the father to a second child, a baby girl.\n\nAustralia helped him celebrate with a pair of let-offs, which Denly accepted by playing sweet strokes down the ground and square of the wicket on the off side.\n\nHe nimbly used his feet against off-spinner Lyon, including lofting a straight six, and was dogged enough to survive some painful blows from the fast bowlers.\n\nDenly set the tone for Rory Burns and Joe Root to play freely in the morning, but after both fell to Lyon, Stokes arrived to continue his fine form.\n\nThe Durham all-rounder also benefited from being dropped - by slip Steve Smith off Lyon on seven - and went on to sweep the same bowler for six and swat another savage maximum off Marnus Labuschagne's leg-spin.\n\nStokes was bowled by a beauty from Lyon that turned sharply, while Denly got an equally good one from Siddle that nipped away and resulted in an edge to Smith.\n\nHe departed with his head bowed, eventually bringing himself to raise his bat in acknowledgement of the standing ovation.\n\nAustralia will leave the UK with the urn for the first time in 18 years, but skipper Paine said the series win meant so much to them that this match was a \"grand final\". This was the day it slipped away.\n\nOn top of the toss, selection, drops and failed reviews, their superb new-ball pairing of Hazlewood and Pat Cummins had a rare ineffective day.\n\nLyon is struggling with damage to his spinning finger - not that he will get sympathy from England supporters. He did have Burns caught behind, Root held at slip and, later, produced the ripper to account for Stokes.\n\nHe was also the bowler when the tourists missed another opportunity to use the review system. Buttler could have been lbw on 19.\n\nIt took until the dying embers of the day for Australia to sparkle. First Smith leapt full length to take Chris Woakes one-handed at second slip then, next ball, deep square leg Labuschagne ran and dived forward to hold a pulling Buttler millimetres above the turf.\n\n'Denly has proven a lot of people wrong' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"I wrote Joe Denly off, many did. But I like players that have that inner strength to prove people wrong. He got dropped on nought last night and he must've been thinking he had to make it count.\n\n\"He played so well. He kept his hands a bit closer to him and when there are quality bowlers and a bit of movement, if you play with hands away from your body, you're going to get found out.\n\n\"He played with more control and had a forward defence.\n\n\"Australia have looked tired and sloppy. England have capitalised on Tim Paine's decision at the toss and played a very good game of cricket so far.\"\n\nEngland batsman Joe Denly, speaking to TMS: \"It was good, nice to get that score and disappointing not to get to the milestone.\n\n\"But we're in a great position going into day four and that's the main thing.\n\n\"I wasn't thinking about my place on the winter tours, I was just trying to occupy the crease and if I did that scoring opportunities would come.\"", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says she hopes to convince members to back a policy of scrapping Brexit without another referendum, as the party's conference begins in Bournemouth.\n\nMs Swinson says holding the referendum got the UK \"into a mess\".\n\nAnd she believes revoking Article 50 - the formal process to leave the EU - is the only satisfactory way out.\n\nMs Swinson said the party's anti-Brexit message should be \"unequivocal\" in a general election campaign.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The Liberal Democrats are crystal clear. We want to stop Brexit... If a Liberal Democrat majority government is elected, then we should revoke Article 50 and I think it's about being straightforward and honest with the British public about that.\"\n\nUp until now, the party's policy on Brexit has been to campaign for another referendum - in which it would again call for the UK to stay in the EU.\n\nBut if Lib Dem members vote to back their leader's policy proposal on Sunday, revoking Article 50 would be written into the next election manifesto.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Lib Dem deputy leader Ed Davey said a referendum would have been the best way to solve the problem, but \"people want an end to this, and the only way you can stop Brexit in a democratic exercise like a general election is to say you would revoke\".\n\nMeanwhile, amid reports that a new version of Theresa May's Brexit deal could be supported by MPs, former Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said the party would insist that it be put to a referendum, with an option to remain in the EU.\n\nMs Swinson visited the Bournemouth branch of cosmetics chain Lush to see its efforts against single use plastic packaging\n\nIn an interview with the Guardian, Ms Swinson ruled out any kind of coalition with the Conservatives or Labour.\n\nShe said neither Conservative leader Boris Johnson nor Labour's Jeremy Corbyn were fit to be prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson did not care about anyone but himself, she said, and she criticised Mr Corbyn's failure to tackle anti-Semitism in his own party.\n\nParliament has so far denied Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request for an autumn election, because opposition parties wanted to first make sure a bill designed to avoid a no-deal Brexit became law.\n\nBut since the bill, which seeks to force Mr Johnson to ask for an extension to the deadline, has been given Royal Assent, opposition MPs are preparing to start their general election campaigns.\n\nRevoking Article 50 would effectively undo the legal mechanism under the EU's Lisbon Treaty that was triggered to start Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. Lord John Kerr, the British diplomat who was involved in drafting Article 50, has publicly said the clause is reversible.\n\nLib Dem environment spokeswoman Wera Hobhouse, who was one of the first delegates to address delegates at the Bournemouth International Centre, criticised the government's record on the climate.\n\nShe said while the Tories had committed the UK to net-zero emissions by 2050, its policy on fracking was \"madness\" and they were action like \"climate change deniers\" with a reported plan to cut fuel duty.\n\nMs Swinson is expected to take questions from delegates on Sunday, following a speech by her predecessor Sir Vince Cable. It is likely to be Mr Cable's last conference as a Lib Dem MP as he has said he will not contest his Twickenham seat at the next election.\n\nMs Swinson's main speech will be held on Tuesday, the last day of the conference, after a tribute to the party's former leader, Paddy Ashdown, who died in December.\n\nPaddy Ashdown, the party's longest serving leader, will be remembered at the conference\n\nChuka Umunna, the former Labour MP who joined the Lib Dems three months ago, will speak on Monday in his role as foreign affairs spokesman.\n\nThe Lib Dems are enjoying a resurgence on the back of its anti-Brexit stance. The party currently has 17 MPs, having been boosted by a victory in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and defections from both Labour and the Conservatives over the summer.", "Hundreds protested at the decision by Glasgow City Council to ban this weekend's marches\n\nHundreds of people joined a demonstration in Glasgow in protest at a decision to ban marches this weekend over fears of sectarian disorder.\n\nFour Loyalist marches and an Irish Republican parade were banned by the council after a meeting on Wednesday.\n\nIt followed violent sectarian clashes on the two previous weekends.\n\nThe head of the Orange Order in Scotland said it would soon decide whether to pursue legal action against Glasgow City Council.\n\nThe Scottish Protestants Against Discrimination (Spad) group, backed by the Orange Order, organised Saturday's protest outside Glasgow City Chambers.\n\nProtesters gathered outside Glasgow City Chambers to show their opposition to the council's decision\n\nThe Scottish Protestants Against Discrimination, backed by the Orange Order, organised the demo\n\nJim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said his group was standing \"shoulder-to-shoulder\" with Spad in protest at the council's decision.\n\nHe said: \"There is no evidence of any protests or any planned protests against them. There should have been no reason to ban this parade because of trouble at the Republican parade.\n\n\"Civil religious liberties are being taken away from people of this city and across the country by the nationalist-run authorities. There seems to be an agenda against protestants, against my organisation in particular. We feel it is unjust and unjustifiable.\"\n\nJim McHarg, Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge, said they were considering legal action in response to the ban\n\nHe added: \"At the moment we have paperwork away to our lawyers. We are still awaiting the final written decision by the council processions committee.\n\n\"We will run it past our QC and then make a valued judgement on whether we can take this case up with the courts.\"\n\nIt is understood that the council buildings were closed on Saturday to staff apart from a few exceptions.\n\nThere were counter-demonstrations at an Irish republican march last week\n\nOn Saturday 7 September, a police officer was injured as two Irish Republican marches and Loyalist counter-demonstrations were held in Glasgow.\n\nThe counter-demonstrations at both marches were quickly contained by police, who had deployed officers in riot gear and mounted police.\n\nOn Saturday, police confirmed a 32-year-old man had been charged in connection with an incident in which a police officer was injured after being hit by a pyrotechnic in Glasgow on 7 September.\n\nHe will appear in court on Monday.\n\nA march in Govan two weeks ago led to violent disorder\n\nThe week before the city centre incident, a full-scale riot developed in Govan when Loyalists tried to disrupt another Irish Republican parade.\n\nPolice told Glasgow City Council that its intelligence pointed to a \"strong likelihood\" of disorder at marches in the city this weekend.\n\nSupt John McBride said there had been calls on social media from Republicans to target Loyalist events and demands from Loyalists to protest against Republican parades.\n\nGlasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said the violence and destruction on the city streets over the past two weekends had been \"simply unacceptable\".\n\nGlasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said the violence and destruction was \"simply unacceptable\".\n\n\"We can't have repeats of that nor can we repeat the very heavy police presence that was on the streets last Saturday,\" she said.\n\n\"It is not sustainable or desirable to constantly have 400-plus officers in full public order gear on the city streets every weekend.\"\n\nMs Aitken said there needed to be a moratorium on marches to provide some \"breathing space\" and an opportunity to work out what to do next.\n\n\"Whatever we thought we knew about parades, that's not what is happening any more,\" she said.\n\nThe SNP politician called on the leaders of the organisations involved to \"step up and give some confidence and guarantees\" that there would not be a repeat of the violence of recent weeks.\n\nThe Church of Scotland said it recognised that the decision made by Glasgow City Council was not based on religious discrimination nor a desire to oppress the protestant faith.", "The strangest thing happened to me at Tate Britain's William Blake exhibition; something I'd not encountered before, nor even considered possible.\n\nNothing dramatic, like falling into a trippy hallucinogenic state brought on by seeing Blake's fearful painting The Ghost of a Flea (1819), a gothic, slithery depiction of a vile character who appeared before the artist as a vision.\n\nMy experience was much more prosaic. Most un-Blakeian, in fact. I entered the exhibition as a lifelong fan, a fully signed-up Blake-head, but left some time later faintly irritated by the fellow. That's not his fault, nor mine, I think. It is down to the way his work has been displayed.\n\nThere are some artists who can withstand the mega-blockbuster expo show with its department store aesthetics of huge interconnecting rooms for folks to wander through and browse. A David Hockney or a Bridget Riley can survive the TK Maxx treatment - their paintings are big and bold and colourful and can be enjoyed when seen from a distance.\n\nIt is the largest exhibition of Blake's work for almost 20 years\n\nBut there are other artists, and William Blake (1757-1827) is certainly one, whose detailed, intense images and poetry are not suited to being shown in warehouse-sized spaces. His work is all about atmosphere and otherness, delivered with a psychologically-charged flourish. There's an intimacy to Blake that is compromised when shown on the massive scale of the Tate show. It kills the mood.\n\nTo the curators' credit they have attempted to create a Georgian aura in the vast modern rooms by dimming the lights and painting the walls in rich, dark colours. But covering the entrance foyer leading to the exhibition in a hideous bright red was a mistake: a block of vulgar, shouty colour setting completely the wrong tone for this most sensitive and ethereal of artists.\n\nThe great beauty of Blake's paintings, prints, and coloured engravings are their exquisite intricacies and tonal subtlety. That is immediately obvious when you see the first image in the show, Albion Rose (1793). A naked young man stands atop a mottled rock, his arms outstretched in front of a glorious spectrum of colours heralding a new dawn. It is an optimistic, joyful picture: a jolly \"welcome to the show!\".\n\nThereafter, the exhibition is laid out broadly chronologically, with abundant biographical detail. His family ran a hosiery shop and haberdashery in Soho selling \"all kinds of baizes, Flannels, etc etc\". They indulged young William's interest in art. He was apprenticed to an engraver before enrolling as a student at the Royal Academy of Arts.\n\nThere's a lovely, delicate drawing of his wife, Catherine, who is given a Best Supporting Spouse role by the curators. She shared his artistic burden by colouring some of his work, helping with the printing and finishing off some drawings. Somebody had to. As she once said of her husband: \"I have very little of Mr Blake's company; he is always in Paradise.\"\n\nThe Ghost of a Flea c 1819, graphite on paper\n\nAnd that's where we want him. Away with the fairies, free to see his visions; letting his extraordinary mind and spirit roam at will. That is the essence of Blake, it's what makes reading his poetry alongside his fabulous illustrations so exciting.\n\nThe good news is you'll see plenty of his illuminated books in this show, including his famous Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794). They are all terrific.\n\nBut the curators' desire to contextualise every last part of Blake's output by introducing his patrons, his business practices, the work of his contemporaries - because there's plenty of space in those big rooms to fill - means the mystical, magical nature of the work is usurped.\n\nA visitor to Tate Britain in front of a William Blake projection\n\nBlake is all about the possibilities of the human imagination. He offers us an escape from the dull realities of everyday life. He challenges us to think beyond the rational and the assumed with fantastical creations such as The First Book of Urizen (1794). We don't need to know what his bank account looked like at the time, or where he happened to be living. The work can speak for itself without a nagging commentary dragging into the mundane.\n\nThere are moments when Blake is allowed to breathe. Most notably in the room in which 12 large colour prints hang, which the artist described as \"frescos\". They include some of his finest images, including the mesmerising God Judging Adam (1795), and grotesquely brilliant Nebuchadnezzar (1795).\n\nAfter that, things take a turn for the worse, with an unconvincing mock-up of his disastrous 1809 exhibition, to which almost nobody came, and those who did largely kept their hands firmly in their pockets. This is followed by a dreadful room in which massive digital images of Blake's paintings are projected onto the walls because, we are told, that is what he always wanted. Not like that, he didn't. He'd be appalled.\n\nJerusalem, plate 28, proof impression, 1820, relief etching with pen and black ink and watercolour\n\nThere is something of a recovery after the curatorial theatrics, with an excellent display of his illustrated book Jerusalem (1820). Nearby are his late watercolour illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy (1824-27), which is a marriage made in heaven, not hell.\n\nBy this time, you have seen and read so much Blake, and seen and read so much about Blake, that your head is spinning. It's too much, really. He is a very fine artist, like a very fine wine; not one to overdo. There's a danger of the palette becoming dulled, any sensational radiance diminished.\n\nNevertheless, and notwithstanding my gripes, I would still urge you to go to this imperfect show. To have so much of William Blake's psychedelic imaginary world laid out before you is a once-in-a-generation occasion and not to be missed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas has revealed he is HIV positive, saying he wants to \"break the stigma\" around the condition.\n\nHe said he wants to show how people with HIV are misrepresented as \"walking around with walking sticks who are close to dying\".\n\nHe has also spoken about \"shame\" and \"fear\" of keeping his condition secret.\n\nHe completed the Ironman triathlon in Pembrokeshire after making the announcement - cheered on by crowds.\n\nHe finished the gruelling challenge in 12 hours and 18 minutes with high emotion at times.\n\nThere was a warm embrace for the former Wales rugby captain before he continued his race\n\nIn a Twitter video posted on Saturday night, Thomas said he was compelled to make the announcement after threats were made to to him by \"evils\" to reveal his HIV status.\n\nSince making the announcement, support for the 45-year-old ex-British and Irish Lions skipper flooded in.\n\nIt included a message from the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, on the social platform Instagram where he said: \"Gareth, you are an absolute legend! In sharing your story of being HIV+, you are saving lives and shattering stigma, by showing you can be strong and resilient while living with HIV.\n\n\"We should all be appalled by the way you were forced to speak your truth, it is yours and yours alone to share on your terms and I and millions stand with you. H\"\n\nThe former Wales captain, who won 100 caps for his country, is due to talk about his diagnosis in a BBC Wales documentary on Wednesday.\n\nIn it, he says at his lowest point in 2018 he felt like dying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince William was among the thousands of messages supporting Thomas after his emotional revelation.\n\n\"Courageous as ever - legend on the pitch and legend off it,\" said a tweet from Kensington Palace.\n\n\"You have our support Gareth. W.\"\n\nSupport for Thomas around the epic Ironman challenge has been immense\n\nThe sporting legend was able to roar back his own cheer in thanks\n\nBrothers in arms - ex-Wales rugby mate Shane Williams greets Thomas at the Ironman finish\n\nPublic information campaigns in the 1980s, warning people to take precautions against Aids, have left a legacy of misunderstanding, he says.\n\nAdvances in medicine now allow people who are HIV positive to live long healthy lives. With effective treatment, the virus cannot be passed on.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gareth Thomas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 than waking at 06:00 to take a single pill every day and visiting the hospital for blood tests every six months, the condition has little impact on day-to-day life for Thomas.\n\nOn the contrary, he is taking part in an Ironman challenge on Sunday, which has involved him learning to swim, which to Thomas was a way of demonstrating his physical and mental strength.\n\n\"When I first found out that I was going to have to live with HIV, the first thing I thought was straight away: I was going to die,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not like I blame people for not knowing this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This is a subject that because of the 80s scenarios people don't talk about it because that's the only information they have.\"\n\nHe added: \"The overriding question that everybody said to me - the first question everyone says to me when I tell them I'm living with HIV - is 'Are you going to be OK?'\n\n\"And it's a really compassionate question to ask. But, this is meant the nicest way possible, it's a really uneducated question.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThomas said revealing that he is living with HIV was similar to coming out as gay in 2009 because of \"the fear, the hiding, the secrecy, the not knowing how people are going to react\".\n\n\"But I think when it was all about my sexuality it just seemed like there was more empathy and more understanding because you had more knowledge, because you could turn on the telly and you could see that there was LGBT representation on most platforms.\"\n\nPresenting a shirt to then Prime Minister David Cameron in 2011 at a meeting of sports figures to discuss homophobia and transphobia in sport\n\n1994: Makes debut for home town club Bridgend and goes on to play for Cardiff Blues (twice), Celtic Warriors and Toulouse\n\n1995: Makes his Wales debut and goes on to win 100 caps, scoring 40 tries and also appearing in three British Lions Tests\n\n2005: Wins the 2005 Heineken Cup with Toulouse and captains Wales to their first grand slam in 27 years\n\n2007: Wins his final cap for Wales in the World Cup\n\n2009: Reveals he is gay, saying \"what I choose to do when I close the door at home has nothing to do with what I have achieved in rugby\"\n\n2011: Announces his retirement, last appearing for Crusaders in Wrexham in July\n\n2012: His post-rugby career includes Celebrity Big Brother, roles in pantomime, regular work as a rugby pundit and campaigning against homophobia in sport. Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke is involved in talks to play him in a film\n\n2014: Publishes his autobiography, Proud, which wins sports book of the year\n\n2015: His life story is told in a stage play, Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage\n\n2018: He posts a video on Twitter after being assaulted and becoming victim of a hate crime in Cardiff. Took part in Sport Relief, when he conquered his fear of heights with the fire service\n\nThomas, who finished third in Celebrity Big Brother in 2012 and reached the semi-final of Dancing on Ice the following year, lives near Bridgend with his husband Stephen, 56. They married in 2016.\n\nIn the documentary, Stephen talks about how the public will react to Gareth's announcement and how the couple will be treated.\n\n\"I'm going to have to take it on board and deal with it,\" he says.\n\n\"I'm going to cross it when I come to it.\"\n\nStephen, who does not have HIV, added: \"I think it's going to teach so many people what is HIV. I was one of the ignorant ones, I will be honest, like so many people.\"\n\n\"I think it's a fantastic thing he's doing. He's showing that you can have HIV but you can still do the sport and the Ironman, for goodness sake.\"\n\nWhen you have a secret that other people know about it makes you really vulnerable towards them. And I just I felt like I had no control over my own life\n\nThe documentary shows Thomas's anxiety and having to consult legal representatives after a tabloid newspaper found out about his HIV status. It led to journalists going to his parents' home.\n\n\"I needed to take control of my life\" he said.\n\n\"When you have a secret that other people know about it makes you really vulnerable towards them. And I just I felt like I had no control over my own life.\"\n\nThomas said he currently felt the strongest he had ever been in his life.\n\n\"I've had a shitty rollercoaster of a ride. My parents say to me 'Jesus Christ. What's coming next with you?'.\n\n\"I had the whole emotional challenge of revealing my sexuality and confronting the sporting stereotype within that.\n\n\"And then I felt 'I'm confronting this', which has so many similarities.\"\n\nIn the film he confides in Shane Williams, another former Wales international turned amateur triathlete and actress Samantha Womack.\n\nIn a BBC Wales interview, he explained: \"I'm trying to take control of my life, but I'm not trying to break the stigma and educate for me. Because that's really selfish.\n\n\"I'm trying to educate and break the stigma for everybody, which includes me in that everybody.\"\n\nThe drug PrEP is being used as part of HIV prevention\n\nIan Green, chief executive at Terrence Higgins Trust, said: 'I'm very proud to call Gareth Thomas a friend. Gareth is proof that a HIV diagnosis shouldn't stop you from doing anything you want to do - whatever that is.\n\n\"I hope that by speaking publicly about this, Gareth will transform attitudes towards HIV that are all too often stuck in the 1980s.\n\n\"We've made huge medical advances in the fight against HIV that means that people living with HIV like Gareth now live long healthy lives.\n\n\"We can also say without doubt that those on effective HIV treatment can't pass on the virus. This is exactly the kind of information Gareth wants to get out there to challenge the stigma that still surrounds this virus.\"\n\nGareth Thomas: HIV and Me will be shown on BBC One Wales on Wednesday 18 September, 21:00 BST\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by state-owned Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.\n\nOne was at Abqaiq, which has the world's largest oil processing plant.", "David Cameron has accused the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, and Michael Gove of behaving \"appallingly\" during the EU referendum campaign.\n\nSpeaking to the Times ahead of the launch of his memoir, the former Tory PM attacked some colleagues who backed Leave for \"trashing the government\".\n\nMr Cameron said the result in 2016 had left him \"hugely depressed\" and he knew \"some people will never forgive me\".\n\nHe also said another referendum cannot be ruled out \"because we're stuck\".\n\nMr Cameron criticised Mr Johnson's strategy for dealing with Brexit, including his decision to suspend Parliament ahead of the 31 October deadline and removing the whip from 21 Tory MPs who voted to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has said the suspension - or prorogation - is a normal action of a new government to let it lay out its new policies in a Queen's Speech, and blocking no-deal would \"scupper\" his negotiations with the EU.\n\nMr Cameron called the referendum in 2016 after promising it in the Conservative Party's election manifesto the year before.\n\nHe campaigned for Remain, but lost the vote by 52% to 48%, and announced within hours he would be stepping down as PM.\n\nThe former Tory leader said the Leave side had a \"very powerful emotional argument\", while Remain had the \"very strong technical and economic arguments\", and the former - plus the issue of immigration - was a \"winning combination\" for his rivals.\n\n\"It turned into this terrible Tory psychodrama and I couldn't seem to get through,\" he said.\n\nBut leading Brexiteer and former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Lilley said the 17.4 million people who voted to leave the EU \"didn't care a fig about Tory psychodramas or anything else\", accusing Mr Cameron of using \"an extraordinary Westminster bubble phrase\".\n\n\"Most [Leave voters] put aside party loyalties and voted on the issue,\" he told BBC Two's Newsnight programme.\n\n\"When the British people speak, their voice will be respected, not ignored.\"\n\nLord Lilley said Mr Cameron had vowed before the 2016 referendum the public would decide whether the UK left the EU, but \"now he's saying different things\".\n\nThe former PM famously wrote his memoirs in a shed - which allegedly cost £25,000\n\nIn his interview with the Times, Mr Cameron - who was prime minister between 2010 and 2016 - said his Conservative colleagues Mr Johnson, Mr Gove, Penny Mordaunt and Priti Patel had \"left the truth at home\" on the referendum campaign trail, especially when it came to immigration.\n\nHe said: \"Boris had never argued for leaving the EU, right?\n\n\"Michael was a very strong Eurosceptic, but someone whom I'd known as this liberal, compassionate, rational Conservative ended up making arguments about Turkey [joining the EU] and [the UK] being swamped and what have you.\"\n\nMr Cameron called it \"ridiculous\" and \"just not true\" when Ms Mordaunt made a similar argument about Turkey, followed by claims by the now-Home Secretary Ms Patel that \"wealthy people didn't understand the problems of immigration\".\n\nHe added: \"I suppose some people would say all is fair in love and war and political campaigns. I thought there were places Conservatives wouldn't go against each other. And they did.\"\n\nDespite his criticism of his former colleagues' conduct during the referendum campaign, Mr Cameron defended his decision to call the vote, saying the issue of the EU \"needed to be addressed\".\n\n\"Every single day I think about it, the referendum and the fact that we lost and the consequences and the things that could have been done differently, and I worry desperately about what is going to happen next,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we can get to a situation where we leave but we are friends, neighbours and partners. We can get there, but I would love to fast-forward to that moment because it's painful for the country and it's painful to watch.\"\n\nDavid Cameron and his wife Samantha after he became PM in 2010\n\nSpeaking about the current prime minister's strategy, Mr Cameron said he \"wants him to succeed\", but his plan has \"morphed into something quite different\".\n\nHe said: \"Taking the whip from hard-working Conservative MPs and sharp practices using prorogation of Parliament have rebounded.\n\n\"I didn't support either of those things. Neither do I think a no-deal Brexit is a good idea.\"\n\nDavid Cameron has been very quiet since he walked out of Downing Street for the last time in 2016.\n\nSo his decision to use this interview to come out fighting for why he called the referendum is significant.\n\nDespite admitting that he worries about the consequences and accepting he may be blamed for them by some, he doesn't believe he was wrong to call it.\n\nInstead, he maintains that holding the vote was \"inevitable\".\n\nAfter years of silence, the timing of Mr Cameron's return to the front pages may play badly for Boris Johnson.\n\nHe's highly critical of Mr Johnson's role in the Leave campaign, writing in his book that he and his fellow Leave campaigner Michael Gove behaved \"appallingly\".\n\nAnd although he seemed to be giving Mr Johnson breathing space as the new prime minister, the decision to suspend Parliament and expel 21 Conservative rebels seems to have hardened his tone.\n\nMr Cameron also spoke of the damage to his friendships - including the one between him and Mr Gove, who had been close friends since university.\n\n\"We've spoken,\" he said. \"Not a huge amount. I've sort of had a conversation with him.\n\n\"I've spoken to the prime minister a little bit, mainly through texts, but Michael was a very good friend. So that has been more difficult.\"\n\nBut he did praise his immediate successor, Theresa May, who had been his home secretary throughout his time at No 10, for her \"phenomenal\" work rate and her \"ethos of public service\", even if he was not unquestioning of her strategy.\n\nDavid Cameron with Theresa May, when she was his home secretary\n\n\"I remember frequently texting [Mrs May] about the frustration of getting a Brexit deal and then seeing Brexiteers vote it down, possibly at the risk of the whole project they had devoted themselves to,\" said Mr Cameron. \"Maddening and infuriating.\"\n\nHe continued: \"There's an argument that Brexit is just impossible to deliver and no one could have done, and there's an argument that, well, wrong choices were made. This is somewhere in between.\"\n\nAsked what happens next, Mr Cameron said he did not think a no-deal Brexit \"should be pursued\".\n\nHe also did not reject a further referendum.\n\n\"I don't think you can rule it out because we're stuck,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not saying one will happen or should happen. I'm just saying that you can't rule things out right now because you've got to find some way of unblocking the blockage.\"\n\nMr Cameron became the Conservative Party leader in 2005. Five years later he was voted into Downing Street as the UK's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years - aged 43.\n\nHis six-year tenure - firstly in coalition with the Liberal Democrats and latterly with a majority government - was dominated by his desire to reduce the deficit, and the introduction of austerity measures with his Chancellor George Osborne.\n\nBut when he pledged in his party's 2015 manifesto to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, the focus shifted.\n\nMr Cameron backed Remain during the 2016 campaign and, on the morning of the result after discovering he had lost, he announced he would be stepping down, saying: \"I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.\"\n\nThe former PM has remained silent until now about both of his successors at the helm of the Tory Party - Theresa May and Boris Johnson.\n\nBut his allegedly fractious relationship with Mr Johnson has been well documented since their days together at Oxford University - most notably as members of the infamous Bullingdon Club.", "Daniel Erickson-Hull was found living as a self-styled evangelical preacher in the town of Sliven\n\nA British convicted paedophile who fled the UK has reportedly been charged with sexually abusing children in Bulgaria, following a BBC investigation.\n\nDaniel Erickson-Hull was found living as a self-styled evangelical preacher in a poor Roma community in the town of Sliven, by BBC Radio 4's File on 4.\n\nHe was charged on Friday with abusing four boys under the age of 16, regional prosecutors told AFP.\n\nHe was jailed for 15 months in 2017 on child pornography offences.\n\nErickson-Hull, 44, from Plaistow, in east London, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for having hundreds of indecent images of children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC tracked down Daniel Hull, who breached strict court orders by fleeing to Bulgaria\n\nErickson-Hull has breached strict court orders which banned him from leaving the UK without informing the authorities or being alone with children.\n\nHe was already the subject of a European Arrest Warrant (EAW), according to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nIn the early hours of Thursday, he was arrested by Bulgarian police at his home in Sliven, where he was found in the presence of six boys, Bulgaria's Ministry of Interior said in a press statement.\n\nHe was initially detained for 24 hours, but that was extended to 72 hours following a prosecutor's order, according to the statement.\n\n\"It has been documented that the detainee repeatedly abused sexually minor victims from the town,\" the statement added.\n\nIt continued: \"He has legitimised his stay and contacts with minors from the neighbourhood, in which he lived in Sliven, pretending to be a pastor preaching a Christian denomination.\"\n\n\"The charges... are for sexual abuse between January and September 2019,\" Vanya Beleva, a spokeswoman for the Bulgarian regional prosecutors' office told AFP.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Thursday's arrest did not relate to the offence linked to the current EAW.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said it was aware of Erickson-Hull's arrest \"as a result of an ongoing Bulgarian investigation\".\n\nA spokesperson for the NCA said it had \"provided and will continue to provide liaison support to the Bulgarian authorities and to the Metropolitan Police Service\".\n\nAn investigation by the BBC's File on 4 has discovered that 581 convicted sex offenders are missing or have failed to report to UK police forces.\n\nWhen confronted by journalist Paul Kenyon, Erickson-Hull denied being a \"paedophile on the run\" and disputed that he was spending time with unaccompanied children.\n\nPC Steve Fitzpatrick of the Metropolitan Police, who appeared on the programme, said he was 'horrified' at seeing Erickson-Hull living freely in Bulgaria.", "Hamza Bin Laden was widely seen as a potential successor to his father\n\nUS President Donald Trump has confirmed that Hamza Bin Laden, the son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, was killed in a US operation.\n\nLast month, US media - citing intelligence officials - reported he had died in an air strike.\n\nHe was officially designated by the US as a global terrorist two years ago.\n\nHe was widely seen as a potential successor to his father. Thought to be about 30, he had sent out calls for attacks on the US and other countries.\n\n\"Hamza Bin Laden, the high-ranking al-Qaeda member and son of Osama Bin Laden, was killed in a United States counter-terrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region,\" Mr Trump said in a brief statement issued by the White House.\n\n\"The loss of Hamza Bin Laden not only deprives al-Qaeda of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father, but undermines important operational activities of the group.\"\n\nThe statement did not specify the timing of the operation.\n\nAs recently as February, the US government had offered $1m (£825,000) for information leading to his capture.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHamza Bin Laden was seen as an emerging leader of al-Qaeda. It was reported in August that he had been killed in a military operation in the last two years and the US government was involved, but the exact date and time were unclear.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 18-carat golden toilet was previously displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York\n\nAn 18-carat solid gold toilet has been stolen in a burglary overnight at Blenheim Palace.\n\nA gang broke into the Oxfordshire palace at about 04:50 BST and stole the artwork, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nThe working toilet - entitled America, which visitors had been invited to use - has not been found but a 66-year-old man has been arrested.\n\nThe burglary caused \"significant damage and flooding\" because the toilet was plumbed into the building, police said.\n\nIt was part of an exhibition by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan that opened on Thursday.\n\nThe 18th Century stately home is a World Heritage Site and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. It is currently closed while investigations continue.\n\nSpeaking last month, Edward Spencer-Churchill - half-brother of the current Duke of Marlborough - said he was relaxed about security for the artwork.\n\n\"It's not going to be the easiest thing to nick,\" he said.\n\nBlenheim Palace is currently closed to the public while police investigate\n\nVisitors to the exhibition were free to use the palace's throne for its intended purpose, with a three-minute time limit to avoid queues.\n\nDet Insp Jess Milne, said: \"The piece of art that has been stolen is a high-value toilet made out of gold that was on display at the palace.\n\n\"We believe a group of offenders used at least two vehicles during the offence.\n\n\"The artwork has not been recovered at this time but we are conducting a thorough investigation to find it and bring those responsible to justice.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Blenheim Palace said it would remain shut for the rest of the day, but would reopen on Sunday.\n\nPalace chief executive Dominic Hare said they were \"saddened by this extraordinary event, but also relieved no-one was hurt\".\n\n\"We hope that the wonderful work of our dear friend Maurizio Cattelan becomes immortalised by this stupid and pointless act,\" he added.\n\nThe gold toilet was famously offered to US President Donald Trump in 2017.\n\nThe arrested man is in police custody.\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. Jon Johnston suffered a broken wrist and is unable to work or train hundreds of volunteers\n\nWhen the emergency call came to help an unconscious man, paramedic Jon Johnston did not hesitate to respond.\n\nLittle did he know he would become part of a depressing \"daily\" trend.\n\nJon was assaulted by the very man he was trying to help and a broken wrist has left him unable to work or train hundreds of volunteers.\n\nAttacks on Welsh Ambulance staff rose to almost 100 between April and June this year, from an quarterly average of 70 in 2017, despite tougher new laws.\n\nHowever the full scale of the problem is thought to be far worse, with many incidents still going unreported.\n\nWelsh Ambulance, politicians and unions are \"concerned\" by the rise and say more must be done to protect those on the frontline, such as Jon, from \"unacceptable\" attacks.\n\nThe 31-year-old from Swansea was treating an unconscious man lying in the street last month when he was assaulted.\n\n\"While I was assessing him, he pulled me to the ground. The job took over and I carried on helping but it was later that the pain began,\" he said.\n\nJon had broken the scaphoid bone in his right wrist. Being right-handed, the consequences could become worse. Surgery is a possibility and if he does not regain the mobility and strength needed for his job, there is a concern that the career he loves could be in danger.\n\nJon said the support from colleagues and the NHS Trust convinced him to stay following a previous attack\n\n\"I'm proud to be a paramedic. I enjoy helping and caring for people, just like everyone else in this job. That's why we do it,\" he said.\n\n\"We always have to be apprehensive, you don't quite know what you're going into and sometimes you're alone. It can be scary.\n\n\"We go into the most traumatic and emotional situations.\n\n\"We have training to calm the situation but people under the influence of alcohol, drugs or who have mental health issues are unpredictable.\n\n\"People lash out but the next day have no recollection of what happened and are completely different.\"\n\nVolunteers have seen training courses cancelled while Jon recovers\n\nAs well as a paramedic, Jon leads the training of up to 500 new and current volunteers across west and central Wales.\n\nIt means Welsh Ambulance have been forced to cancel all the training courses he was due to give community responders, often first on the scene at emergencies.\n\nBut as well as Jon the worker, there is the impact on Jon the father of three.\n\n\"I can't lift the baby, I can't eat properly, cut my food or drive. It means a lot more work for my partner. It's very frustrating,\" he said.\n\nIt's not the first time Jon has been attacked having been previously knocked unconscious while on duty and left with a perforated eardrum.\n\nNHS staff would also be covered by the new law\n\nHowever verbal abuse, threats and pushing have become almost a daily occurrence and inevitably takes a toll on staff.\n\n\"It does affect me and my partner does worry but I know there's a lot of support there from the trust and the police,\" he said.\n\n\"Being sworn at, spat on, threatened or pushed largely goes unreported but it needs to change.\n\n\"We go out there to help people so we don't expect abuse back.\"\n\nSince the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act was passed last November, 12 people in Wales have been jailed for assaulting paramedics and a further 33 punished.\n\nHowever Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, who tabled the private members' bill, said more can be done.\n\n\"It makes me furious that thugs attack the very people trying to save their lives and make it far more difficult for the NHS to do its job,\" he said.\n\n\"Sometimes it's about resources or video cameras but the law should come down heavily on them\n\n\"An attack on our emergency services is an attack on all of us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlcohol and drugs are the biggest factors behind the violence, according to NHS figures, though incidents involving mental health are increasing.\n\nWelsh Ambulance said it takes staff safety \"very seriously\" and said the violence was \"unacceptable\".\n\nDirector of operations Lee Brooks said: \"Our people come to work because they care and want to enhance people's lives.\n\n\"Their tolerance levels are probably higher than most but that's not an excuse for abuse or assaults. It's not what our staff should have to accept and as an organisation we stand with them.\n\n\"We would ask the public to be mindful of the impact of violence and aggression has not just on that individual, but on this critical service and the wider community before lashing out.\"\n\nUnison Wales, which represents ambulance staff, has called for tough sentencing.\n\nPaul Summers, Unison Wales head of health, said: \"Violence and abuse should not be tolerated under any circumstances, let alone whilst someone is doing their best to administer potentially life-saving treatment.\n\n\"It is more important than ever that we continue to prosecute offenders to demonstrate that if emergency workers are assaulted, there will be serious consequences.\"\n\nA partnership between police, NHS and Crown Prosecution Service - known as the Obligatory Response to Violence in Healthcare - was established in the wake of the new laws.\n\nThe Welsh Government said NHS staff deserved to be treated with respect.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Any form of attack on NHS Wales staff is completely unacceptable. We are working with NHS Wales employers to eradicate physical or verbal assaults on staff.\"\n\nDespite the pain, Jon bares no grudges against his attacker and fully intends to return to helping save lives.\n\n\"I don't feel anger towards that person. I don't know what his story is or any issues he's facing. It definitely hasn't put me off. I enjoy being a paramedic and I'll be back.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister David Cameron says he will stand down\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron has said he is to step down from his post after the UK voted to leave the EU. Here is the statement he made outside Downing Street.\n\nGood morning everyone, the country has just taken part in a giant democratic exercise, perhaps the biggest in our history.\n\nOver 33 million people from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar have all had their say.\n\nWe should be proud of the fact that in these islands we trust the people for these big decisions.\n\nWe not only have a parliamentary democracy, but on questions about the arrangements for how we're governed there are times when it is right to ask the people themselves and that is what we have done.\n\nThe British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected.\n\nI want to thank everyone who took part in the campaign on my side of the argument, including all those who put aside party differences to speak in what they believe was the national interest and let me congratulate all those who took part in the Leave campaign for the spirited and passionate case that they made.\n\nThe will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered.\n\nIt was not a decision that was taken lightly, not least because so many things were said by so many different organisations about the significance of this decision.\n\nSo there can be no doubt about the result.\n\nAcross the world people have been watching the choice that Britain has made.\n\nI would reassure those markets and investors that Britain's economy is fundamentally strong and I would also reassure Britons living in European countries and European citizens living here there will be no immediate changes in your circumstances.\n\nThere will be no initial change in the way our people can travel, in the way our goods can move or the way our services can be sold.\n\nWe must now prepare for a negotiation with the European Union.\n\nThis will need to involve the full engagement of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland governments to ensure that the interests of all parts of our United Kingdom are protected and advanced.\n\nBut above all this will require strong, determined and committed leadership.\n\nI'm very proud and very honoured to have been prime minister of this country for six years.\n\nI believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.\n\nAnd I'm grateful to everyone who's helped to make that happen.\n\nI have also always believed that we have to confront big decisions, not duck them. That is why we delivered the first coalition government in 70 years, to bring our economy back from the brink.\n\nIt's why we delivered a fair, legal and decisive referendum in Scotland.\n\nAnd it's why I made the pledge to renegotiate Britain's position in the European Union and to hold the referendum on our membership and have carried those things out.\n\nI fought this campaign in the only way I know how, which is to say directly and passionately what I think and feel - head, heart and soul.\n\nI held nothing back, I was absolutely clear about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off inside the European Union and I made clear the referendum was about this and this alone - not the future of any single politician including myself.\n\nBut the British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction.\n\nI will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.\n\nThis is not a decision I've taken lightly but I do believe it's in the national interest to have a period of stability and then the new leadership required.\n\nThere is no need for a precise timetable today but in my view we should aim to have a new prime minister in place by the start of the Conservative Party conference in October.\n\nDelivering stability will be important and I will continue in post as prime minister with my cabinet for the next three months.\n\nThe cabinet will meet on Monday, the governor of the Bank of England is making a statement about the steps that the Bank and the Treasury are taking to reassure financial markets.\n\nWe will also continue taking forward the important legislation that we set before Parliament in the Queen's Speech.\n\nAnd I have spoken to Her Majesty the Queen this morning to advise her of the steps that I am taking.\n\nA negotiation with the European Union will need to begin under a new prime minister and I think it's right that this new prime minister takes the decision about when to trigger Article 50 and start the formal and legal process of leaving the EU.\n\nI will attend the European Council next week to explain the decision the British people have taken and my own decision.\n\nThe British people have made a choice, that not only needs to be respected but those on the losing side of the argument - myself included - should help to make it work.\n\nBritain is a special country - we have so many great advantages - a parliamentary democracy where we resolve great issues about our future through peaceful debate, a great trading nation with our science and arts, our engineering and our creativity, respected the world over.\n\nAnd while we are not perfect I do believe we can be a model for the multi-racial, multi-faith democracy, that people can come and make a contribution and rise to the very highest that their talent allows.\n\nAlthough leaving Europe was not the path I recommended, I am the first to praise our incredible strengths.\n\nI said before that Britain can survive outside the European Union and indeed that we could find a way.\n\nNow the decision has been made to leave, we need to find the best way and I will do everything I can to help.\n\nI love this country and I feel honoured to have served it and I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.\n• None Cameron to quit as UK votes to leave EU", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNorwich City produced a magnificent all-round display to inflict Manchester City's first Premier League defeat since January at an ecstatic Carrow Road.\n\nThe Canaries were missing eight players but made light of those injuries and took full advantage of a performance from the reigning champions that was careless in the extreme and characterised by chaotic defending.\n\nNorwich were 2-0 ahead within 30 minutes after Kenny McLean rose unmarked to meet Emiliano Buendia's corner and then Todd Cantwell finished a flowing move involving Marco Stiepermann and Teemu Pukki.\n\nSergio Aguero's header just before the break hinted at a Manchester City comeback but a misunderstanding between John Stones and Nicolas Otamendi saw Buendia rob the Argentina centre-back and set up Pukki to score.\n\nRodri scored his first goal for Manchester City with two minutes left before referee Kevin Friend's final whistle was the cue for wild celebrations for the home side.\n\nThe rare defeat, meanwhile, leaves Pep Guardiola's side five points behind Liverpool.\n\nIt was inevitable City would miss the class and composure of Aymeric Laporte - set to be out for six months with a knee injury - but this display suggests the gap he leaves is even bigger than Manchester City may have feared.\n\nGuardiola has lost quality and influence with Laporte's injury, as well as Vincent Kompany's departure, and his nightmare scenario unfolded at Carrow Road.\n\nStones and Otamendi had a harrowing time and City's manager will know he must now rely on the pair at least until January.\n\nGuardiola himself should not escape criticism for the defeat though after he left Kevin de Bruyne out of his starting team then delayed his arrival until after Norwich had re-established their two-goal lead.\n\nThey were mystifying decisions and a heavy price was paid.\n\nGuardiola will also be concerned by the manner of Norwich's goals, which ranged from poor marking at set pieces - a recurring theme - to catastrophic attempts to play out from the back.\n\nStones and Otamendi were nervous throughout and their lack of understanding reflected the fact they had only played together at centre-back six times in the past 20 months.\n\nIt would be ludicrous to start writing off the title hopes of a team so rich in quality but that five-point gap to Liverpool looks large when you consider Jurgen Klopp's team only lost once in the league last season, to City, and have won their opening five games this term.\n\nNorwich City's resources were so thin that manager Farke made up the numbers by naming two goalkeepers on the bench as eight players were removed from his squad by injury.\n\nHe said he could not \"park the bus\" because he did not have enough defenders and instead the German relied on his customary intense approach - and what an occasion it gave the Canaries fans inside a bouncing Carrow Road.\n\nNorwich were fiercely disciplined in defence but also ambitious and confident when they had the ball, not afraid to play out from the back.\n\nThey had 11 high-class performers but special mention should go to Ibrahim Amadou at the back and the creative brilliance of Buendia, who pressed City into submission as he proved with the third goal.\n\nAt the head of it all was Pukki, on the mark once more with a poacher's strike but also unselfish when he passed across the face of goal for Cantwell.\n\nWhen City's inevitable charge came, Norwich were almost out on their feet but hurled their bodies around the penalty area to block shots while goalkeeper Tim Krul performed heroics when called upon.\n\nThis was a complete performance that will send self-belief surging through Farke's side and indeed the supporters who kept up relentless noise throughout an occasion they will remember for a very long time.\n\n'A special day for us' - what they said\n\nNorwich City manager Daniel Farke, speaking to BBC Sport: \"Of course it is a special day for us and for the club, against one of the best teams in the world and when we have so many injuries.\n\n\"We had to be special in our plan for City because they are the best team in the world but we had setbacks too with our injuries. We deserve the win, we were exceptional.\n\n\"[Ibrahim] Amadou was beautiful today, playing in an unusual position, and a debut for Alex Tettey and Sam Byram too. I can't praise the lads enough. We had so many things to overcome.\n\n\"Teemu [Pukki] was brilliant, not only because of his goals but for his work rate too. Teemu always thinks about the team first, which is why he deserves all of the praise.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola on BBC Sport: \"Congrats to Norwich. The first goal was from a set-piece and the second on the counter, so credit to them. It is what it is. We have to learn from this and carry on.\n\n\"Our passing was not bad. We created chances but we could not score them. They are a really good team with good players with quality, we saw that in the Championship last year. They were clinical today.\n\n\"We did not have the urgency in the final third we normally have. In football you can't always avoid mistakes. I don't know how many shots we had or how many they had, but football is about goals and about what you do in the boxes.\"\n• None Norwich registered only their second win in their last 15 Premier League meetings with the reigning champions (W2 D1 L12) - their other win was also against Man City in May 2013.\n• None Manchester City suffered a Premier League defeat against a newly-promoted opponent for the first time since March 2015 against Burnley - they had been unbeaten in 25 such matches before today, including all 18 under Pep Guardiola.\n• None Norwich's Teemu Pukki has been involved in eight goals (six goals, two assists) in his first five Premier League appearances - only Sergio Aguero has been involved in more goals in a player's first five appearances in the competition's history (nine).\n• None Man City striker Aguero became the third player to score in a team's first five Premier League matches of a season, after José Antonio Reyes for Arsenal in 2004-05 and Wayne Rooney for Manchester United in 2011-12.\n• None Manchester City conceded three goals in a league match against a newly-promoted team for the first time since August 2013, when they lost 3-2 away at Cardiff City.\n• None Norwich's Emiliano Buendía is the first midfielder to assist as many as four goals in his first five Premier League appearances since Eden Hazard in 2012.\n• None Manchester City conceded twice in the opening half-hour of a Premier League game for only the second time under Pep Guardiola, also doing so in December 2016 against Leicester City, when they conceded three times.\n• None Norwich striker Pukki is the first player to score in his first three home Premier League appearances since Alexandre Lacazette in 2017, and the first Finnish player to do so since Jonatan Johansson in 2000.\n\nMan City open their Champions League campaign away to Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday, 18 September at 20:00 BST, before facing Watford at home in the Premier League on Saturday, 21 Septembr at 15:00.\n\nNorwich are back in action at the same time next Saturday when they travel to Turf Moor to play Burnley.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Rodrigo.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Goal! Norwich City 3, Manchester City 2. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a cross.\n• None Todd Cantwell (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The viaduct opened 150 years ago but was not a trouble-free scheme\n\nStaring out across the Solway Firth it is easy to see how the temptation arose.\n\nInstead of taking a detour via Carlisle, why not cut the corner and make a more direct link between the iron ore mines of Cumberland and the furnaces of Lanarkshire?\n\nThat was the idea behind the Solway Junction Railway which opened 150 years ago on 13 September 1869.\n\nThe only obstacle - the stretch of water between Scotland and England - would be overcome by a viaduct about 2,000 yards (1.8km) long.\n\nThe railway linked Scotland and England across the Solway Firth\n\nThe first sod was cut at Annan in March 1865 and work began on building the iron structure, averaging about 34ft (10m) from rails to the bed of the Solway Firth.\n\nA ballad was even written for the occasion.\n\nIts chorus went: \"Come, come! stout men of Annandale/Bear yourselves nobly; keep in good order./Cheer, cheer! loud let your welcome be/Welcome the strangers from over the Border.\"\n\nThe route helped to \"cut the corner\" from north west England to south west Scotland\n\nIt would take more than four years - and an accident which claimed one man's life - before the line was complete.\n\nIt opened for goods and mineral traffic on Monday 13 September 1869 \"without any ceremony\" and to passengers nearly a year later.\n\nThe northern section joined the Caledonian Railway line at Kirtlebridge while the southern section joined up with the North British Silloth to Carlisle line.\n\nThe iron structure carried the rails about 10m above the sea bed\n\nInitially it proved a success - for both freight and the public - but the tide turned pretty quickly.\n\n\"At first the line was profitable with the ore trains for Lanarkshire passing over the line,\" wrote Stuart Edgar and John M Sinton in their book The Solway Junction Railway.\n\n\"But in the mid-1870s the ore traffic began to decline due to the cheaper imports of Spanish ore and the Solway Junction Railway increasingly experienced financial difficulties as its capital was swallowed up.\"\n\nWithin six years of opening the first weather troubles struck too with some pillars cracked by frost.\n\nA severe winter forced the closure of the viaduct a little over a decade after it opened\n\nIt would be damaged by frost and gales on dozens of occasions - one of the worst in January 1881.\n\nLarge blocks of ice hit the viaduct with the sound described as like \"artillery fire\" and making the whole structure vibrate.\n\nMoney was raised to repair and strengthen the viaduct but it would not fully reopen until 1884.\n\nIt was the beginning of a slow decline which was only temporary reversed during World War One with demand for munitions - but complete closure was not far away.\n\nIn August 1921 - facing a repairs bill estimated at £70,000 at the time - the last train crossed the viaduct.\n\nDifferent licensing laws saw some people risk walking along the viaduct for a drink after it shut\n\n\"The closure of the viaduct to rail traffic in 1921, however, did not mean the end of its use as many a Scottish Border Romeo slipped secretly across the Solway viaduct to keep a rendezvous with his fair English Juliet,\" said the book about the railway.\n\n\"Furthermore many Scots denied licensed hospitality in those days on the Sabbath would daringly get around the laws by walking across the viaduct, their aim being to enjoy the jovial thirst-quenching atmosphere of an English Inn.\n\n\"Even after the viaduct was declared dangerous, these 'excursions' continued along the line on which no trains ran.\"\n\nDismantling began in 1934 with three young men losing their lives during the demolition works the following year.\n\nUsage of the remaining line which had linked the viaduct to the main network also dwindled and it too was closed.\n\nNowadays, only a few hints remain of where the ill-fated line once was - it had flourished briefly before the hard rules of business and the British weather took their toll.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoffrey Boycott has always denied assaulting his ex-girlfriend\n\nThe ex-girlfriend of former cricketer Sir Geoffrey Boycott has said he does not deserve a knighthood after he was convicted of assaulting her in 1998.\n\nMargaret Moore, 67, said in an interview with the Sun newspaper that the decision was \"disgusting\".\n\nThe award, bestowed on him by former PM Theresa May in her resignation honours list, has been strongly criticised by domestic abuse charities.\n\nBoycott told the BBC he \"couldn't give a toss about the criticism\".\n\nThe former England captain was fined around £5,000 and given a three-month suspended sentence after being convicted of beating Ms Moore in a French Riviera hotel.\n\nThe court heard during the trial that Boycott pinned Ms Moore down and hit her 20 times in the face before checking out and leaving her to pay the bill.\n\nBoycott has always denied the claims, saying Ms Moore had slipped after becoming angry when he refused to marry her.\n\nBut Ms Moore told the Sun: \"He doesn't deserve a knighthood. It's disgusting.\"\n\nShe said she would \"never forget\" the night of the attack, adding: \"What sort of man does that and is then made a knight? He should hand it back.\"\n\nThe French judge who convicted the cricketer told the Guardian on Friday she stands by her guilty verdict, saying his conduct during his trial had been \"arrogant\" and \"deplorable\".\n\n\"I cannot believe he's being received by the Queen,\" Dominique Hauman said, also arguing that Boycott did not deserve his knighthood.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWomen's Aid's co-acting chief executive Adina Claire has accused Mrs May of sending a \"dangerous message\" by knighting Boycott.\n\nShe said the honour \"should be taken away\" from him, adding that it sent \"completely the wrong message\" to survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs May has previously said Boycott is one of her sporting heroes and compared her determination to deliver Brexit with the fighting spirit shown by the opening batsman during his career.\n\nShe said in November 2018: \"Geoffrey Boycott stuck to it and he got the runs in the end.\"\n\nSince his retirement from cricket, Boycott has gone on to become a successful broadcaster and is part of the BBC commentary team covering the current Ashes series.\n\nBut he had to apologise in 2017 after joking that he would need to \"black up\" to be awarded a knighthood, reportedly saying they were handed out to West Indian cricketers \"like confetti\".", "David Cameron is stepping down after six years as Britain's prime minister and nearly 11 years as Conservative leader - here are 10 key moments\n\nWithin weeks of beating better-known rival David Davis to the Conservative leadership in a December 2005 vote of party members, David Cameron was boarding a plane to the Arctic Circle for a fact-finding mission on global warming. It was a dramatic way of announcing himself as a new kind of Conservative - one who cared about the environment and didn't mind enduring freezing temperatures without a hat to prove it (predecessor William Hague had never recovered from being pictured with a baseball cap in the early days of his leadership so headgear was banned on Mr Cameron's Arctic trip).\n\nHe never promised us a rose garden. But that's what we got when David Cameron stunned Westminster by making a \"big, open and comprehensive\" offer to the Liberal Democrats on the morning after a May 2010 general election that nobody won. The bloom-filled Downing Street garden was the venue for the first press conference with Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg after four days of frantic deal-making and intrigue. The body language, as Mr Cameron joshed with Mr Clegg over the insults they had hurled at each other in the past, was good. Britain didn't do coalitions - it had never been tried since World War Two - but this looked like it might just work. Despite the doubters it did last all the way to the 2015 election.\n\nDavid Cameron's ability to look and sound prime ministerial when the occasion demanded it was one of his biggest strengths. It was never more evident than during his Commons statement on the Bloody Sunday inquiry in June 2010, which drew praise from across the political spectrum. He described the findings of the Saville Report into the shooting dead of 13 marchers on 30 January 1972 in Londonderry as \"shocking\" - an action that was \"unjustified\" and \"unjustifiable\", and for which he was \"deeply sorry\". His statement in 2012 on Hillsborough and his reaction after the April 2016 inquest verdicts earned similar plaudits.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameron and Sarkozy were greeted as heroes as they visited a hospital in Libya\n\nLibya was David Cameron's first, and in terms of its long-lasting impact arguably most disastrous, foreign policy intervention. He had pushed a reluctant US President Barack Obama to come to the aid of rebel fighters attempting to topple Colonel Gaddafi and help impose a no-fly zone over Libya. Mr Cameron was greeted as a hero when he visited Libya with then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in September 2011, after Gaddafi had been ousted. He pledged not to allow Libya to turn into another Iraq, but critics say that is exactly what happened, as it it rapidly descended into violence.\n\nIt was one of David Cameron's proudest achievements as prime minister. On 21 May, 2013, MPs voted to allow same-sex couples in England and Wales, who could already hold civil ceremonies, to marry. For Mr Cameron it sent a powerful signal of the kind of tolerant, inclusive country he said he wanted Britain to be - but it cost him dear in terms of lost support from grassroots Conservatives, many of whom could not accept it.\n\nAfter years of rejecting calls from his own MPs for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, Mr Cameron dramatically announced, in a speech at financial wire service Bloomberg in January 2013, that he would hold one if he won the next election, after first renegotiating the UK's membership of the 28-nation bloc. It was the biggest gamble of his political career, made against the backdrop of Eurosceptic rebels in the Tory party demanding a vote and evidence that traditional Conservative voters were heading to the UK Independence Party. As they say in politics, it kicked the can down the road and arguably helped him win the 2015 election. But it was also the vote that ended his career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron: \"It is clear to me that the British parliament...does not want to see British military action\"\n\nIn August 2013, David Cameron became the first prime minister in more than 100 years to lose a Commons vote on military action. It seemed to be a devastating blow to his authority. He had failed to persuade enough MPs, including many on his own side, that Britain should take part in air strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. \"I strongly believe in the need for a tough response to the use of chemical weapons, but I also believe in respecting the will of this House of Commons,\" he said minutes after the result was announced.\n\nMr Cameron held more referendums than any British prime minister. He easily won the first one in 2011, opposing his deputy PM's bid to change Britain's voting system, but the September 2014 Scottish independence referendum provoked the biggest panic of his first term in office. As polling day approached, he was forced to cancel Prime Minister's Questions and rush north of the border in an effort to save the Union, with an impassioned speech at the HQ of Scottish Widows in Edinburgh, when a poll suggested the Yes campaign would win. He was later forced to issue an apology to the Queen, after he was overheard telling New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Her Majesty had \"purred down the line\" when he informed her that Scotland had rejected independence.\n\nIn the space of two minutes everything changed. The BBC exit poll predicting the Conservatives would be close to gaining a majority of seats stunned everybody, including, we must assume, David Cameron, who the polls had been suggesting could lose to Labour or have to form another coalition with the Lib Dems. Mr Cameron had been criticised for running a negative, fear-based campaign, but it had succeeded. The pledge to hold an EU referendum if elected also helped gain votes. He formed the first majority Conservative government since 1992 - a personal triumph that would prove to be remarkably short-lived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EU vote: David Cameron says the UK \"needs fresh leadership\"\n\nMr Cameron had staked everything on his ability to persuade the country to vote to remain in the EU, before realising at a late stage in the campaign that it might not be enough. His tone grew more desperate as he contemplated going down in history as the PM who took Britain out of the EU. Despite insisting he would stay on as PM whatever the result, he announced his departure in an emotional statement in Downing Street within hours of the result becoming clear, with wife Samantha at his side.", "After months of peaceful marches and clashes, Hong Kong protesters have begun staging a different type of demonstration - mass singalongs of a new song called Glory to Hong Kong.\n\nSome even think it should be replace the Chinese national anthem.\n\nInterviews and footage by BBC Chinese. Produced by Tessa Wong.", "The ad carried a BBC logo and headline saying \"£14 billion pound cash boost for schools\" - despite the story it linked to putting the figure at £7.1bn.\n\nThe social media giant say the Tories had \"misused\" its advertising platform and it was working to stop headlines being changed in this way.\n\nThe party has said it is reviewing the way its Facebook adverts are produced.\n\nThe advert started running on 2 September following a government announcement on new funding for primary and secondary schools in England.\n\nClicking on the ad took readers to a story on the BBC News website by Sean Coughlan, with the headline \"Multi-billion pound cash boost for schools\".\n\nAnalysis in the story queried the government's claims about its additional funding, with the BBC's head of statistics, Robert Cuffe, explaining the government was not calculating the spending increase in the usual way.\n\nThe spending announcement provided an extra £2.6bn next year, £4.8bn the year after that and £7.1bn in 2022-23.\n\nAdded together that makes £14bn, but it is not how spending increases are normally worked out, Mr Cuffe said.\n\nBecause budgets are normally discussed for individual years, he said the usual practice is to measure the spending increase for one year - usually the last where the increase is the largest.\n\nThe BBC posted the story on Facebook with its own headline\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact said various versions of the advert with the altered headline had received between 222,000 and 510,000 impressions - although these can include multiple viewings by the same person.\n\nIt was already known that the adverts were no longer being run but Facebook has confirmed this was because it had taken the decision to deactivate them.\n\nHowever, it said they will be kept on show in their ads library \"so people can see how our tools were misused\".\n\nA Facebook spokesperson added: \"We are working to put safeguards in place to ensure publishers have control over the way their headlines appear in advertisements.\"\n\nAn earlier statement from the Conservative Party said: \"It was not our intention to misrepresent by using this headline copy with the news link, where the BBC's £7bn figure is clearly displayed, but we are reviewing how our advert headlines match accompanying links.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow's most memorable moments as Speaker of the House\n\nConduct of outgoing Commons speaker John Bercow that \"sometimes feels like bullying\" has been questioned by a contender to replace him.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant says he \"hates it when the speaker tells somebody off in really robust and aggressive terms\" during parliamentary debates.\n\n\"It is absolutely devastating for the individual MP and sometimes it just feels like bullying,\" Mr Bryant said.\n\nMr Bercow, who is quitting after 10 years, has been asked to comment.\n\nMr Bryant, who was deputy leader of the Commons for just under in year in Gordon Brown's Labour government, says he feels \"robust and aggressive\" conduct is \"a really bad message for parliament to send out\".\n\nMr Bercow is to step down on 31 October but has faced criticism from Brexit supporters, who have questioned his impartiality on the issue of exiting the EU and claim he has facilitated efforts by MPs opposed to a no-deal exit to take control of Commons business.\n\nThe 56-year-old former Conservative MP has also been criticised for not doing more to tackle allegations of bullying and harassment in the House of Commons.\n\nChris Bryant has represented Rhondda in Parliament since 2001\n\nMr Bercow himself has been accused of mistreating several members of his own staff, which he denies.\n\nTwo Labour MPs Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the current deputy speaker, and Harriet Harman, the Mother of the House and the longest continuously-serving female MP, are the favourites to succeed Mr Bercow.\n\nMr Bryant, who has been Rhondda MP for 18 years, says he has cross-party support and feels the next speaker needs to \"speak less from the chair\".\n\n\"It feels that everyone has been tearing up the rulebook,\" the 57-year-old told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"The government having a prorogation that goes on for five weeks and suspending parliament and John Bercow being, at the least, imaginative in what has been allowed to happen in the chamber.\n\n\"But at this particular moment we need somebody who completely independent and I think we need a speaker that speaks less from the chair. Somebody who is an umpire, not a player.\"", "Activists planned to fly drones within the exclusion zone at Heathrow Airport\n\nPolice have arrested 19 people believed to be involved in a climate change protest at Heathrow Airport.\n\nHeathrow Pause activists threatened to fly drones in the exclusion zone, but no flight disruption has been reported.\n\nThe arrested people have all been held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance.\n\nHeathrow Pause said one of the arrested - Roger Hallam, an Extinction Rebellion co-founder - was still planning to fly a drone on Saturday.\n\nThe group said Mr Hallam was released from custody at about 22:00 BST on Friday and that he would be flying the drone \"near Heathrow\" with the location \"to be announced nearer the time\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said that, out of those arrested, four remained in custody on Friday night. The others have been bailed.\n\nPolice say those arrested range in age from 19 to 69.\n\nA 53-year-old man who was arrested on Friday was re-arrested on Saturday. He remains in police custody.\n\nHeathrow Pause had previously said it intended to fly drones within the 5km exclusion zone around the airport on Friday morning, but the group claimed the airport was using \"signal jamming to frustrate\" their efforts.\n\nBoth the airport and police refused to comment on \"security matters\".\n\nThe Met Police said a dispersal order at the airport would be effective until early on Sunday morning.\n\nA 5km dispersal zone order has been placed around Heathrow\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said: \"We are really clear that [flying drones] is unlawful, it is a criminal offence, and anybody who turns up expecting to fly drones in that exclusion zone will be arrested.\"\n\nThe force made seven pre-emptive arrests on Thursday, including that of Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam.\n\nHeathrow Airport said it was committed to addressing climate change, but this was best tackled through \"constructive engagement and working together to address the issue\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man carries a wounded child after a Saudi-led airstrike that killed eight members of her family in Sanaa, August 2017\n\nFor a little more than three years, Yemen has been locked in a seemingly intractable civil war that has killed nearly 10,000 people and pushed millions to the brink of starvation.\n\nThe conflict has its roots in the Arab Spring of 2011, when an uprising forced the country's long-time authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over power to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.\n\nThe political transition was supposed to bring stability to Yemen, one of the Middle East's poorest nations, but President Hadi struggled to deal with various problems including militant attacks, corruption, food insecurity, and continuing loyalty of many military officers to Saleh.\n\nFighting began in 2014 when the Houthi Shia Muslim rebel movement took advantage of the new president's weakness and seized control of northern Saada province and neighbouring areas. The Houthis went on to take the capital Sanaa, forcing Mr Hadi into exile abroad.\n\nThe conflict escalated dramatically in March 2015, when Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states - backed by the US, UK, and France - began air strikes against the Houthis, with the declared aim of restoring Mr Hadi's government.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition feared that continued success of the Houthis would give their rival regional power and Shia-majority state, Iran, a foothold in Yemen, Saudi Arabia's southern neighbour. Saudi Arabia says Iran is backing the Houthis with weapons and logistical support - a charge Iran denies.\n\nBoth sides have since been beset by infighting. The Houthis broke with Saleh and he was killed by Houthi fighters in December 2017. On the anti-Houthi side, militias include separatists seeking independence for south Yemen and factions who oppose the idea.\n\nThe stalemate has produced an unrelenting humanitarian crisis, with at least 8.4 million people at risk of starvation and 22.2 million people - 75% of the population - in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN. Severe acute malnutrition is threatening the lives of almost 400,000 children under the age of five.\n\nYemen's health system has all but collapsed, while the world's largest cholera outbreak has killed thousands.\n\nIn June 2018, Saudi-backed government forces began an assault on the key rebel-held port of Hudaydah, the entry point for the vast majority of aid going into Yemen and a lifeline for the starving. Aid agencies warned the offensive could make Yemen's humanitarian catastrophe much worse.", "Coventry will get £2m to restore buildings that survived World War Two\n\nHistoric English shopping centres will benefit from a £95m regeneration fund, the government has said.\n\nIn all, 69 towns and cities will receive money, with projects aimed at turning disused buildings into shops, houses and community centres.\n\nThe largest share of money, £21.1m, will go to the Midlands, with £2m going to restore buildings in Coventry that survived World War Two bombing.\n\nThe government said the move would \"breathe new life\" into High Streets.\n\nThe government's Future High Street Fund is providing £52m of the money, while £40m will come from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). A further £3m is being provided by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.\n\nTowns and cities had to bid for the £95m funding, which was first announced in May.\n\nThe announcement comes after figures showed that about 16 shops a day closed in the first half of the year as retailers restructure their businesses and more shopping moves online.\n\nLisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at PwC which was behind the research, said retailers had to invest more in making stores \"relevant to today's consumers\", but added that \"new and different types of operators\" needed encouragement to fill vacant space.\n\nThe government said the money would \"support wider regeneration\" in the 69 successful areas by attracting future commercial investment.\n\n\"Our nation's heritage is one of our great calling cards to the world, attracting millions of visitors to beautiful historic buildings that sit at the heart of our communities,\" said Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan.\n\n\"It is right that we ensure these buildings are preserved for future generations but it is important that we make them work for the modern world.\"\n\nOther major projects include a £2m drive to restore historic shop-fronts in London's Tottenham area, which suffered extensive damage in the 2011 riots.\n\nBy region, the funding breaks down as follows:\n\nYou can read a full list of the towns and cities that will benefit here.\n\n\"Increasing competition from online outlets is putting High Streets across the country under growing pressure,\" said the DCMS.\n\n\"As part of the government's drive to help High Streets adapt to changing consumer habits, the £95m funding will provide a welcome boost.\"\n\nResponding to the move, shadow culture secretary Tom Watson said High Streets had been \"decimated\" by \"a decade of Tory austerity\".\n\nHe added: \"This funding pales in comparison to the £1bn Cultural Capital fund that Labour is committed to, which will boost investment in culture, arts and heritage right across the country, not just a few lucky areas.\"", "A British-Australian woman detained in Iran has been identified as Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East politics specialist at Melbourne University.\n\nShe has been held for a \"number of months\" already, on charges that remain unclear, the Australian government says.\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert is the third foreign national revealed this week to have been arrested in the country.\n\nMedia reports say she has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.\n\n\"We believe that the best chance of securing Kylie's safe return is through diplomatic channels,\" her family said in a statement issued through the Australian government.\n\nOn Tuesday the Australian government identified two other Australians - Mark Firkin and Jolie King, who also holds a UK passport - who are also being detained in Iran.\n\nThey were blogging their travels in Asia and the Middle East and were reportedly arrested 10 weeks ago near Tehran. Their arrest is not believed to be related to that of Dr Moore-Gilbert.\n\nAll three are reportedly being held in Tehran's Evin prison, where British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been jailed since 2016 on spying charges.\n\nOn Thursday Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the government had been working on securing their release for more than a week.\n\n\"The government have been making efforts to ensure they are being treated fairly, humanely and in custom to international norms,\" she said.\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert's profile on the University of Melbourne website says she is a lecturer in Islamic Studies who focuses on Arab Gulf states.\n\nWhile the charges against her have not been disclosed, 10-year terms are routinely given in Iran for spying charges, the UK's Times newspaper said.\n\nThe situation comes amid a growing stand-off between the West and Iran - although Ms Payne said the cases of those detained were not related to diplomatic tensions.\n\nSeveral people with dual Iranian and foreign nationality have been detained in Iran in recent years.\n\nRelations between the UK and Iran have also been strained in recent months by a row over the seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf.\n\nAustralia also announced in July that it would join the US and the UK in policing the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian threats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)", "A big swastika was daubed inside a chapel at the cemetery\n\nVandals have spray-painted graffiti including a big swastika at a British and Commonwealth World War Two cemetery in the Netherlands.\n\nRandom letters were daubed on many headstones at the Mierlo cemetery, near Eindhoven in the southern Netherlands.\n\nThe Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) said it was \"appalled\", just days after previous damage to the site.\n\nLater this month Prince Charles will attend a Dutch commemoration of the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.\n\nIt will be part of the 75th anniversary of the Allies' liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.\n\nThe Mierlo cemetery is the final resting place of 664 British and Commonwealth soldiers and one Dutch soldier.\n\nThe graffiti included \"MH17 lie\" - a provocative reference to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, which killed 298 people, of whom 193 were Dutch.\n\nInternational investigators concluded that the jet was hit by a Russian-made Buk missile, fired from an area held by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nCondemning the vandals, the CWGC said \"it is distressing to see the damage on the headstones themselves, behind every one of those war graves is a human story of someone who gave their life while in service\".\n\nA regional Dutch news service, Omroep Brabant, gave voice to local Dutch shock and outrage at the vandalism.\n\nOne of its reporters said \"it's not just a bit of daubing here, no, they've daubed everywhere\".\n\n\"There's a letter daubed on nearly every headstone. Unbelievable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Allies' massive parachute drop at Arnhem in 1944\n\nA woman was shocked and tearful, saying her parents had been helping to look after the Mierlo cemetery for years.\n\n\"My heart is crying. Here are 17- and 18-year-old boys buried, who liberated us.\"\n\nDutch police have tweeted an appeal to the public for any information that could lead to the perpetrators.", "Jeremy Corbyn called for a Green industrial revolution at the event in Kirkcaldy\n\nJeremy Corbyn says plans to manufacture parts for a £2bn wind farm off the Fife coast at a site thousands of miles away are not credible.\n\nIt comes after energy giant EDF said no Scottish company had the capability to manufacture and supply the steel required for the Neart na Gaoithe site.\n\nMothballed manufacturer BiFab had hoped to secure the work to build wind turbine jackets for the project.\n\nThere is growing speculation the work will be done in Indonesia.\n\nThe GMB and Unite unions have been campaigning for the work to come to the Bifab yards in Methil and Burntisland, a few miles from where the new wind farm will be created.\n\nEDF said it was currently in a structured procurement process, which started with tier one contractors who would deliver large sub packages of the NnG project.\n\nThe French-owned energy giant said it was working closely with its tier one preferred suppliers to encourage them to use Scottish suppliers for tier two work packages, such as the manufacturing of some of the jackets for the turbine foundations and the manufacturing of towers.\n\nA spokesman for EDF said: \"It is essential whichever supplier is chosen that they are competitive so UK energy consumers are not overpaying for their energy.\"\n\nThe issue was raised at an event in Kirkcaldy on Saturday, where the UK Labour leader addressed workers and trade unionists at a rally following the Fighting For Our Future march.\n\nMr Corbyn, who called for a \"Green industrial revolution\", said it was not credible to \"drag\" manufactured parts 8,000 miles to the wind farm site.\n\nHe said: \"Allocation of work is a very important issue indeed.\n\n\"It really is not credible to say that it's the right thing to do to build facilities that will be used for the generation of electricity on wind farms in the vicinity, almost in sight of the coast, and you're dragging the manufactured parts to make those wind turbines 8,000 miles by sea with steel that's probably come from 10,000 miles away.\n\n\"Where is the sustainability in that? The sustainability is in using the local skills, using the local knowledge, using your own manufacturing capability and developing the infrastructure that goes with it, and so we as a party are working very hard on the principles of what I call a green industrial revolution.\"\n\nHe said there should be no offshore wind farm leases issued from the Crown Estate without the guarantee of local jobs, and that government subsidies should be conditional on local input.\n\nHe added: \"We can't rely on the dead hand of the free market to grow jobs. Oil and gas companies will extract every last drop until production goes over the cliff and takes communities dependent on the jobs with it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Mugabe resigned in 2017, after more than three decades in power\n\nAs independent Zimbabwe's first prime minister, and later its president, Robert Mugabe promised democracy and reconciliation.\n\nBut the hope that accompanied independence in 1980 dissolved into violence, corruption and economic disaster.\n\nPresident Mugabe became an outspoken critic of the West, most notably the United Kingdom, the former colonial power, which he denounced as an \"enemy country\".\n\nDespite his brutal treatment of political opponents, and his economic mismanagement of a once prosperous country, he continued to attract the support of other African leaders who saw him as a hero of the fight against colonial rule.\n\nRobert Gabriel Mugabe was born in what was then Rhodesia on 21 February 1924, the son of a carpenter and one of the majority Shona-speaking people in a country then run by the white minority. Educated at Roman Catholic mission schools, he qualified as a teacher.\n\nWinning a scholarship to Fort Hare University in South Africa, he took the first of his seven academic degrees before teaching in Ghana, where he was greatly influenced by the pan-Africanist ideas of Ghana's post-independence leader Kwame Nkrumah. His first wife Sally was Ghanaian.\n\nIn 1960, Mugabe returned to Rhodesia. At first he worked for the African nationalist cause with Joshua Nkomo, before breaking away to become a founder member of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu).\n\nIn 1964, after making a speech in which he called Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and his government \"cowboys\", Mugabe was arrested and detained without trial for a decade.\n\nMugabe (l) with Nkomo (r) in 1960. The relationship between the two would sour after independence\n\nHis baby son died while he was still in prison and he was refused permission to attend the funeral.\n\nIn 1973, while still in detention, he was chosen as president of Zanu. After his release, he went to Mozambique and directed guerrilla raids into Rhodesia. His Zanu organisation formed a loose alliance with Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu).\n\nDuring the tortuous negotiations on independence for Rhodesia, he was seen as the most militant of the black leaders, and the most uncompromising in his demands.\n\nOn a 1976 visit to London, he declared that the only solution to the Rhodesian problem would come out of the barrel of a gun.\n\nBut his negotiating skills earned him the respect of many of his former critics. The press hailed him as \"the thinking man's guerrilla\".\n\nThe Lancaster House agreement of 1979 set up a constitution for the new Republic of Zimbabwe, as Rhodesia was to be called, and set February 1980 for the first elections which would be open to the black majority.\n\nFighting the election on a separate platform from Nkomo, Mugabe scored an overwhelming and, to most outside observers, unexpected victory. Zanu secured a comfortable majority, although the polls were marred by accusations of vote-rigging and intimidation from both sides\n\nA self-confessed Marxist, Mugabe's victory initially had many white people packing their bags ready to leave Rhodesia, while his supporters danced in the streets.\n\nHowever, the moderate, conciliatory tone of his early statements reassured many of his opponents. He promised a broad-based government, with no victimisation and no nationalisation of private property. His theme, he told them, would be reconciliation.\n\nLater that year he outlined his economic policy, which mixed private enterprise with public investment.\n\nHe launched a programme to massively expand access to healthcare and education for black Zimbabweans, who had been marginalised under white-minority rule.\n\nWith the prime minister frequently advocating one-party rule, the rift between Mugabe and Nkomo widened.\n\nAfter the discovery of a huge cache of arms at Zapu-owned properties, Nkomo, recently demoted in a cabinet reshuffle, was dismissed from government.\n\nWhile paying lip service to democracy, Mugabe gradually stifled political opposition. The mid-1980s saw the massacre of thousands of ethnic Ndebeles seen as Nkomo's supporters in his home region of Matabeleland.\n\nMugabe was implicated in the killings, committed by the Zimbabwean army's North Korean-trained 5th Brigade, but never brought to trial.\n\nUnder intense pressure, Nkomo agreed for his Zapu to be merged with - or taken over by - Zanu to become the virtually unchallenged Zanu-PF.\n\nAfter abolishing the office of prime minister, Mugabe became president in 1987 and was elected for a third term in 1996.\n\nThe same year, he married Grace Marufu, after his first wife had died from cancer. Mugabe already had two children with Grace, 40 years his junior. A third was born when the president was 73.\n\nHe did have some success in building a non-racial society, but in 1992 introduced the Land Acquisition Act, permitting the confiscation of land without appeal.\n\nThe plan was to redistribute land at the expense of more than 4,500 white farmers, who still owned the bulk of the country's best land.\n\nIn early 2000, with his presidency under serious threat from the newly formed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by former trade union leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe lashed out against the farmers, seen as MDC backers.\n\nHis supporters, the so-called \"war veterans\", occupied white-owned farms and a number of farmers and their black workers were killed.\n\nThe action served to undermine the already battered economy as Zimbabwe's once valuable agricultural industry fell into ruin. Mugabe's critics accused him of distributing farms to his cronies, rather than the intended rural poor.\n\n2008: Comes second in first round of elections to Tsvangirai who pulls out of run-off amid nationwide attacks on his supporters\n\n2009: Amid economic collapse, swears in Tsvangirai as prime minister, who serves in uneasy government of national unity for four years\n\n2017: Sacks long-time ally Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, paving the way for his wife Grace to succeed him\n\nNovember 2017: Army intervenes and forces him to step down\n\nZimbabwe moved rapidly from being one of Africa's biggest food producers to having to rely on foreign aid to feed its population.\n\nIn the 2000 elections for the House of Assembly, the MDC won 57 out of the 120 seats elected by popular vote, although a further 20 seats were filled by Mugabe's nominees, securing Zanu-PF's hold on power.\n\nTwo years later, in the presidential elections, Mugabe achieved 56.2% of the vote compared with Mr Tsvangirai's 41.9% against a background of intimidation of MDC supporters. Large numbers of people in rural areas were prevented from voting by the closure of polling stations.\n\nMDC activists were attacked around the country in 2008\n\nWith the MDC, the US, UK and the European Union not recognising the election result because of the violence and allegations of fraud, Mugabe - and Zimbabwe - became increasingly isolated.\n\nThe Commonwealth also suspended Zimbabwe from participating in its meetings until it improved its record as a democracy.\n\nIn May 2005, Mugabe presided over Operation Restore Order, a crackdown on the black market and what was said to be \"general lawlessness\".\n\nSome 30,000 street vendors were arrested and whole shanty towns demolished, eventually leaving an estimated 700,000 Zimbabweans homeless.\n\nIn March 2008, Mugabe lost the first round of the presidential elections but won the run-off in June after Mr Tsvangirai pulled out.\n\nIn the wake of sustained attacks against his supporters across the country, Mr Tsvangirai maintained that a free and fair election was not possible.\n\nAfter hundreds of people died from cholera, partly because the government could not afford to import water treatment chemicals, Mugabe agreed to negotiate with his long-time rival about sharing power.\n\nThe power-sharing agreement was undermined by arguments\n\nAfter months of talks, in February 2009 Mugabe swore in Mr Tsvangirai as prime minister.\n\nIt came as no surprise that the arrangement was far from perfect, with constant squabbling and accusations by some human rights organisations that Mugabe's political opponents were still being detained and tortured.\n\nMr Tsvangirai's reputation also suffered by his association with the Mugabe regime, despite the fact that he had no influence over the increasingly irascible president.\n\nThe 2013 election, in which Mugabe won 61% of the vote, ended the power-sharing agreement and Mr Tsvangirai went into the political wilderness.\n\nWhile there were the usual accusations of electoral fraud - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked that these be investigated - there was not the widespread violence that had marked previous polls in Zimbabwe.\n\nIt was an election that saw Robert Mugabe, at the age of 89, confirm his position as the undisputed power in the country.\n\nHis advancing years, and increasing health problems, saw much speculation as to who might replace him.\n\nBut the manoeuvring among possible successors revealed how fragmented Zimbabwe's administration was and underlined the fact that it was only held together by Mugabe's dominance.\n\nMugabe himself seemed to delight in playing off his subordinates against each other in a deliberate attempt to dilute whatever opposition might arise.\n\nWith speculation that his wife, Grace, was poised to take control in the event of his death in office, Mugabe announced in 2015 that he fully intended to fight the 2018 elections, by which time he would be 94.\n\nHe was the undisputed power in Zimbabwe\n\nAnd, to allay any doubt remaining among possible successors, he announced in February 2016 that he would remain in power \"until God says 'come'\".\n\nIn the event it wasn't God but units of the Zimbabwe National Army which came for Robert Mugabe. On 15 November 2017 he was placed under house arrest and, four days later, replaced as the leader of Zanu-PF by his former vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa.\n\nDefiant to the end Mugabe refused to resign, But, on 21 November, as a motion to impeach him was being debated in the Zimbabwean parliament, the speaker of the House of Assembly announced that Robert Mugabe had finally resigned.\n\nMugabe negotiated a deal which protected him and his family from the risk of future prosecution and enabled him to retain his various business interests. He was also granted a house, servants, vehicles and full diplomatic status.\n\nAscetic in manner, Robert Mugabe dressed conservatively and drank no alcohol. He viewed both friend and foe with a scepticism verging on the paranoid.\n\nThe man who had been hailed as the hero of Africa's struggle to throw off colonialism had turned into a tyrant, trampling over human rights and turning a once prosperous country into an economic basket case.\n\nHis legacy is likely to haunt Zimbabwe for years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Self-professed \"queer girl with a nose ring\" Jamie Barton was the undisputed star of the Last Night of the Proms.\n\nThe US mezzo-soprano, who took to the stage waving a Pride flag, said her mission was to \"unify the audience\".\n\nAnd, with a sensuous reading of Bizet's Habañera and a wistful Over The Rainbow, she achieved her goal.\n\n\"We are witnessing something rather remarkable,\" said Radio 3's Petroc Trelawney. \"That moment an audience falls in love with a singer.\"\n\nHis co-presenter Georgia Mann praised Barton's \"heavenly warmth\" and said her voice was \"so rich, it's like bathing in a really beautiful bubble bath\".\n\n\"There was a wave of love and acceptance and appreciation,\" observed conductor Sakari Oramo, following her performance at London's Royal Albert Hall.\n\nViewers at home seemed to agree.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in the small rural town of Rome, Georgia, Barton was raised on Bluegrass, The Grateful Dead and the Beatles.\n\nShe jokingly describes her operatic career as \"an act of musical rebellion\" against her parents, triggered by a performance of Aida at Atlanta Opera.\n\nAfter studying vocals at St Louis and Houston, her big breakthrough came at the 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Barton won both the main and the subsidiary song prize - foreshadowing the versatility she displayed at the Proms, where she was equally at home with opera, Gershwin and, of course, Rule Britannia.\n\nThe 37-year-old, who revealed her bisexuality on Twitter on National Coming Out Day 2014, said she wanted to use the Proms to make \"a very clear statement of Pride\".\n\nBarton's gown highlighted the colours of the bisexual Pride flag\n\nThe dress was designed by Jessica Jahn and built by Donna Langman\n\n\"It's not only a very important thing to me personally, but it's also something I think unifies the audience,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not just queer pride, it's a connective celebration of people being exactly who they are and loving who they are. And I'm honoured to get to lead that.\"\n\nAs well as singing Judy Garland's gay anthem (\"it felt a little too on-brand not to do\"), Barton wore a gown featuring the colours of the bisexual flag - lavender, pink and blue - as \"a statement of the pride in my community\".\n\nHer messages of tolerance and inclusivity lent a modern touch to the flag-waving frolics of the Proms, but the touchstones of the Last Night remained as stoically immutable as ever.\n\nThe audience bobbed to the Hornpipe, they linked arms to Auld Lang Syne, and they set off party poppers at comically inappropriate moments.\n\nThe programme also included nods to the main themes of this year's Proms: Laura Mvula's Sing To The Moon marked the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings; and a delicately beautiful version of Elgar's Sospiri marked the 150th anniversary of Proms co-founder Sir Henry Wood, who premiered the piece in 1914, just nine days after Britain declared war.\n\nAcross the UK, Proms In The Park events allowed fans to follow the action on big screens, as well as enjoying live performances from the likes of Barry Manilow, Barbara Dickson, Jack Savoretti and Susan Boyle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The best bits of the 2019 Proms in four minutes\n\nAs the concert ended, Oramo, who was conducting the Last Night for his fourth time, paid tribute to live music audiences.\n\n\"The explosion of social media in our lives has caused our attention span to decrease,\" he said from a podium decked in streamers.\n\n\"So why have you lovely people, here tonight, chosen to come and hear live music? Why do you, our radio and TV audiences, switch on?\n\n\"I hope it's because it's a wonderful experience to come to a concert and listen with complete concentration to an orchestra and chorus perform live.\"\n\nHis comments came at the close of a Proms season that encompassed 85 concerts in just 58 days.\n\nHighlights included a soul-stirring tribute to Nina Simone, a musical recreation of the moon landings, and a performance of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, played on Queen Victoria's own piano.\n\nMore than 300,000 concert-goers attended the festival, with one in five purchasing on-the-day tickets for £6.\n\nThe Proms will return for their 126th season on 17 July, 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A US mother says her newborn daughter is a \"little miracle\" after she was born on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at 9:11pm weighing 9lb 11oz.\n\nLittle Christina Brown came into the world at Methodist LeBonheur Hospital in Germantown, Tennessee.\n\n\"She is a new life amongst the devastation and destruction,\" said her mother Cametrione Moore-Brown.\n\nCommemorations were held across the US to mark 18 years since the attack, on 11 September 2001.\n\nChristina was born by Caesarean section and operating theatre staff were stunned when the baby's time of birth and weight were recorded.\n\n\"We heard the doctor announce the time of birth 9/11 and then when they weighed Christina, we heard gasps of astonishment when everyone realized Christina weighed 9/11, was born at 9:11 and on 9/11,\" said father Justin Brown.\n\n\"It was really exciting, especially to find some joy during a day of such tragedy.\"\n\nRachel Laughlin, head of women's services at the hospital said such a coincidence was extremely rare.\n\n\"I've worked in women's services for over 35 years, and I've never seen a baby's birthdate, time of birth, and weight all be matching numbers,\" she said.\n\nChristina's parents say that when she is older they will share with her the significance of her birth.\n\nThe 18th anniversary of the attack saw a moment's silence take place at various locations, including the sites of the attack, \"Ground Zero\", in New York, at the Pentagon, Virginia, and at Stonycreek Township in Pennsylvania.\n\nNearly 3,000 people were killed in the attack and thousands more were injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. America commemorates the nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11", "Using those steps at home to good effect\n\nUsing \"time outs\" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests.\n\nDespite criticism of the \"naughty step\" strategy, children's anxiety did not increase and neither did their aggressive behaviour, the eight-year study of families found.\n\nBut a UK psychologist said the key was how the technique was used.\n\nAnd not all children responded to authoritarian forms of discipline.\n\nThe study, by the University of Michigan, tracked almost 1,400 families and their parenting strategies at three, five and 10 years old.\n\nThe researchers measured children's positivity and negativity to parents, and their mental health and social skills - using games, observations and video-taped interactions.\n\nAt three years old, a third of the parents gave the child \"time out\" or told them to sit quietly in the corner.\n\nAssuming parents continued to use this strategy, the research found no differences in the children's levels of anxiety and depression, self-control or rule-breaking, compared with the group of parents who did not use the \"time out\" technique.\n\nIn contrast, when parents said they had used physical punishment, the children became more aggressive.\n\nAnd, among parents who said they had been depressed, the children were more likely to have symptoms of anxiety and depression, as well as more aggressive behaviour.\n\nBut because the study is observational, it cannot prove that \"time out on the naughty step\" was directly responsible for the children's subsequent behaviour over time.\n\nDr Rachel Knight, study author and paediatric psychologist at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, said parents often questioned whether they were doing the right thing for their children.\n\n\"Unfortunately the first place many parents go for advice is the internet, social media or friends - not a medical provider.\n\n\"There is a lot of conflicting information on the web that isn't vetted or accurate.\"\n\nShe added: \"There's a wealth of research on how effective 'time outs' can be in reducing problematic behaviour, when they are used appropriately.\n\n\"It's a parenting strategy that's often misunderstood and misused.\"\n\nDr Knight said the key to using \"time outs\" were:\n\nDr Helen Barrett, a retired developmental psychologist, said a consistent message was important when disciplining children.\n\n\"Although there are parents who do use the 'naughty step', we have moved away from the idea that kids need to be punished.\n\n\"It always depends on the children - some find it humiliating.\n\n\"And it depends who you're doing it in front of. That can be more devastating,\" she said.\n\nDr Barrett said there were alternatives, for example children being sent to their rooms or asked to sit still.\n\nShe said the most effective parenting was being \"warm and authoritative, not authoritarian.\"\n\nThe NHS offers some tips and advice on dealing with behaviour problems in children.", "In Zimbabwe, mourners have been coming to view the body of the country's founding father Robert Mugabe, who died last week at the age of 95.\n\nIt has been on view at Rufaro stadium in the capital, Harare.\n\nMr Mugabe's coffin arrived in a military helicopter for the second day of public viewing.\n\nTwo of the former president's sons, Robert Junior (left) and Chatunga (second left), and his sister, Regina Gata, were there waiting for the coffin.\n\nSoldiers in ceremonial uniform then carried the casket to its viewing place, where members of the public queued.\n\nThere has been a debate about the legacy of Mr Mugabe, who was in power for 37 years, but for many Zimbabweans, he will be the man who led the struggle against white-minority rule and liberated the country.\n\nSome blame Mr Mugabe for the destruction of what had once been one of Africa's most diversified economies, but he will also be remembered as a man who brought health and education to the masses.\n\nAfter the public viewing on Friday, there will be a state funeral on Saturday with dignitaries from around the world expected. It is not yet clear when he will be buried but it will be at Harare's Heroes Acre shrine to those who fought against colonial rule.", "In the ad, someone is shown receiving a delivery in a field after apparently tunnelling underground to escape from prison\n\nA TV ad for Deliveroo has been banned for suggesting the food delivery firm could deliver anywhere in the UK.\n\nThe ad, shown in March, showed various scenes of people using the Deliveroo app and having food delivered to them, all in unusual places or circumstances.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it was \"likely to mislead\" because it wrongly implied delivery \"was unrestricted throughout the UK\".\n\nDeliveroo said it felt on-screen text had made it clear restrictions applied.\n\nIn the ad someone is shown receiving a delivery in a field after apparently tunnelling underground to escape from prison. An astronaut is also shown receiving a delivery in space.\n\nMeanwhile a voice-over states: \"Order what you want; where you want; when you want it\" while text at the bottom of the screen reads: \"Some restrictions apply, obviously…\"\n\nThere were 22 complaints from people who, knowing that Deliveroo did not deliver to their areas, said that the ad was misleading.\n\nDeliveroo's parent company, Roofoods, said that the exaggerated scenes in the ad showed it was not meant to represent real life - simply that it was possible to order from Deliveroo in different everyday locations.\n\nIt also said customers could check their app to see whether their area was covered without incurring any cost.\n\nBut the ASA said that without any additional explanation, viewers were likely to take the claim \"Order what you want; where you want; when you want it\" literally.\n\nA woman is also shown receiving a delivery during a car chase\n\n\"Because we considered the ad suggested delivery was unrestricted throughout the UK when that was not the case, we concluded that it was likely to mislead,\" it said.\n\nThe ad must not appear again in its current form and Roofoods has been told to ensure that similar claims do not appears in its marketing again.\n\nA Deliveroo spokesman said: \"Deliveroo designed a playful advert to show that, through our service, people are able to order food to a wide range of places, whether home or work, for a range of occasions.\n\n\"We know some will be disappointed that their local area isn't currently served by Deliveroo, but we are expanding rapidly across the UK.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Calais migrants caught on camera trying to reach the UK - This video has no sound\n\nEighty-six people attempted to cross the English Channel in a single day - amid claims that people smugglers were using threats about Brexit to pressure migrants.\n\nBorder Force officials intercepted six small vessels travelling towards the UK on Tuesday.\n\nIt is thought to be the highest number of people found in a single day.\n\nFrench politician Pierre-Henri Dumont said migrants were wrongly being told \"the crossing will close\" after Brexit.\n\nHe blamed \"fake news\" about the UK's departure from the EU and said \"security measures\" alone would not stop the rise in crossings.\n\nThe Home Office said two small boats carrying a total of 23 people were intercepted by Border Force officials on Tuesday morning.\n\nAs the day progressed, four further vessels were intercepted, it said.\n\nMore than 1,100 people have crossed the Channel in small boats this year, with 336 in August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The perils of crossing the Channel in a small boat\n\nMeanwhile, thermal imaging cameras show that attempts by migrants to break into UK-bound lorries in Calais continue in earnest after nightfall.\n\nMr Dumont, Conservative MP for Calais, said: \"Smugglers say to migrants, 'If the UK leaves the EU, you will not ever be able to cross the Channel'.\n\n\"It's a lie, because it won't change anything.\n\n\"Smugglers are giving fake news to migrants, but it's for them to earn money.\"\n\nThe UK's asylum system should be changed to allow migrants to apply at British embassies in Europe, he said.\n\nHe said French police could \"not do more\" to stop boat crossings, adding: \"We need to understand that we cannot monitor 400 or 500km of coast.\"\n\nMr Dumont, said that many migrants had travelled thousands of miles, adding: \"Now everyday they can see the English coast here in Calais. Do you really think controls, police forces, cameras, walls, will stop them from trying to cross? No, never.\"\n\nHe called for a \"new system\", allowing migrants to make asylum applications at British embassies across Europe.\n\n\"Right now if you are a migrant and you want to ask for asylum in Great Britain, you have to be physically present in Great Britain.\n\n\"That is making a big risk for them, because their only chance is to risk their life crossing [the Channel].\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said it was \"working closely at all levels with the French authorities to tackle this dangerous and illegal activity\".\n\n\"Last month the home secretary and her French counterpart agreed to intensify joint action to tackle small boat crossings in the Channel,\" he added.\n\n\"This includes drawing up an enhanced action plan to deploy more resources along the French coast to intercept and stop crossings.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The act of proroguing or suspending Parliament is marked by a traditional ceremony in the House of Lords.\n\nThis begins with an announcement on behalf of the Queen, read by the Leader of the House.\n\nA Royal Commission made up of five peers – usually made up of the leader and deputy leader of the Lords, the Lord Speaker, the shadow leader of the Lords and the convener of crossbench peers – then enter the Chamber dressed in parliamentary robes.\n\nThey instruct Black Rod, a senior officer in the Lords, to summon the House of Commons.\n\nBlack Rod then heads to the Commons where, as is customary, the door is slammed shut in his or her face.\n\nAfter knocking three times with his ebony rod, the door is opened and MPs proceed to the Lords.\n\nWhen MPs arrive, there is a ceremonial greeting from the Royal Commission, who doff their hats, with representatives of the Commons bowing in return.\n\nThe Clerk of the Crown then announces the names of Acts to be given royal assent, declaring “La Reyne le veult” – Norman French for “The Queen wishes it”, after each Act.\n\nThe achievements of the government are reviewed and back in the Commons, MPs traditionally file out of the Chamber and shake the Speaker's hand.\n\nWhether many of them are still awake at this early hour of the morning is another question...", "The teenager was found fatally injured on Edgware Road near the junction of Church Street\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been stabbed to death on a street in central London.\n\nThe teenager was found with multiple injuries after police were called to Edgware Road near the junction of Church Street just before 14:00 BST.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but died at 19:30. His next of kin have been informed, the Met Police said.\n\nNo arrests have been made and a Section 60 order, giving police additional stop and search powers, was enforced in the area until 05:00 on Wednesday.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Partridge said the victim's family had been \"left heartbroken\" by the boy's death.\n\n\"We are keen to hear from anyone with information that can help us build a clearer picture of what took place,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Petrol bombs have been thrown at police after a suspicious object was found in the Creggan area of Londonderry.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said that about 15 homes had been evacuated in the Creggan Heights area.\n\nPolice said it is \"a complex operation\" which is expected to continue throughout the night.\n\nUp to 80 officers are taking part in a security search targeting dissident republicans group, the New IRA.\n\nPSNI Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said petrol bombs and missiles had been thrown at police, and two young people had sustained burn injuries as a result of engaging in disorder.\n\n\"The reality is this type of disorder contributes to the complexity of the policing operation and presents a real risk of injury to those involved,\" he said.\n\nThe PSNI called on parents to \"come bring their children home\" after young people gathered around the police operation.\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\nRathmore roundabout to Fanad Drive is closed, and diversions are in place.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood described the attack on police officers as \"brutal and sustained\".\n\n\"People in this community will not be held to ransom by those who want to hold us all back,\" he said.\n\nThe search comes after the discovery of a mortar bomb in Strabane, County Tyrone, on Saturday, which police have blamed on the dissident republican group the New IRA.\n\nThe police said the searches in Creggan were related to the group.\n\n\"Our search today is focused on public safety and extinguish that threat to the community,\" said PSNI Supt Gordon McCalmont.\n\n\"Community support is key in this, we have disrupted 10 attacks. A key element is community support while we tackle the threat pose.\"", "A British man has died in a skydiving accident in the US, police in the state of Arizona have said.\n\nThe Coconino County Sheriff's Office named the man as Christopher Swales, 55, who had been undertaking a tandem dive near the Grand Canyon on Sunday.\n\nMr Swales' skydiving partner, who worked at a local parachuting centre, survived the fall.\n\nPolice said the pair \"encountered difficulties\" while approaching a landing area at a local airport.\n\n\"These difficulties caused the pair to free fall for an unknown distance and hit the ground in what was described as a 'hard landing',\" a statement from the Coconino County Sheriff's Office said.\n\nEmergency services were called shortly before 10:00 local time but Mr Swales was pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nAn investigation into the accident is continuing, according to police, although there are currently no signs of foul play.\n\nA UK Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that consular staff in the US were supporting Mr Swales' family.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time,\" the spokesman added.", "Police in Brazil have charged a woman who accused the international footballer, Neymar, of raping her in a Paris hotel in May with perverting the course of justice.\n\nNajila Trindade and her former husband, Estivens Alves, have been accused of lying to police and attempting to blackmail the player.\n\nThe Paris St-Germain player has been cleared of any wrongdoing.\n\nMs Trindade's lawyer said the indictment had taken him by surprise.\n\nCosme Araújo rejected the police accusations and said his client had never colluded with Mr Alves to extort money from the Brazilian football star.\n\nThe case dominated newspaper headlines in Brazil and abroad for several weeks.\n\nIt first came to light in June, when the Paris St-Germain star released a seven minute video on Instagram revealing that he had been accused of rape.\n\nHe also published Whatsapp messages and images that he claimed to be of the woman.\n\nIn the video he says he had to make them public to \"prove that nothing really happened\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said they met online. He paid for her trip to France and they had consensual sex before Ms Trindade returned to Brazil and went to a police station to accuse him of attacking her.\n\nMs Trindade then went public, giving a television interview and releasing footage and a video clip purportedly showing an altercation between the two.\n\nPolice later filed a defamation suit against Ms Trindade, who allegedly insinuated the force was corrupt, according to news agency AFP.\n\nNeymar denied the allegations from the beginning and said he was being extorted.\n\nThe São Paulo attorney general's office said the case was suspended due to a lack of evidence.", "The government has failed for a second time to get MPs to agree to an early general election.\n\nThe motion needed the support of two-thirds of all MPs, but only 293 supported holding an election. Forty-six members voted against and 303 did not vote.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe government needed the support of 434 MPs in order to call a snap election.\n\nEarlier on Monday evening MPs voted to force ministers to publish correspondence about suspending Parliament, and no-deal Brexit planning papers. The motion passed by 311 to 302, a majority of nine.", "Chris Packham has previously criticised I'm A Celebrity for its use of animals\n\nChris Packham has hit out at producers of TV wildlife shows for not fully emphasising a \"climate and environment emergency\".\n\nSpeaking at the TV Choice Awards, the Blue Planet Live presenter said the public were only being shown nature at its \"very best\".\n\n\"We've got to start giving them the truth,\" he said, collecting the best factual show award for his programme.\n\nPackham was then booed for criticising I'm A Celebrity... for animal cruelty.\n\nIn his extended speech, Packham said he had another \"duty\" to carry out, and asked I'm A Celebrity to change.\n\n\"I'm A Celebrity, can you please think about no longer abusing animals on your programme?\" he said.\n\nAlthough his words caused some in the audience at the London Hilton to groan, others applauded.\n\nPackham has previously targeted the reality show over the use of wildlife in its celebrity challenges.\n\nIn 2014, he wrote an open letter to the show's presenters Ant and Dec, asking them to stop \"undermining a respect for life, which then impacts negatively upon conservation\".\n\nI'm A Celebrity.... Get Me Out of Here had, minutes before Packham's speech, been given an award for best reality TV show, with Holly Willoughby collecting the trophy.\n\nWilloughby stepped in as joint presenter, alongside Declan Donnelly, on the most recent series of I'm A Celebrity... while Ant McPartlin was on a break from TV to receive treatment for alcohol addiction.\n\nOther winners included Lorraine Kelly, who was given the award for outstanding contribution to television.\n\nShe used her time at the podium to air her frustration with social media and the harm it can do to young people.\n\nThis Morning hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby picked up the award for best daytime show\n\n\"They have to deal with some really vile things on the internet,\" said Kelly.\n\n\"That cannot continue. Don't look at the comments, don't take those comments to heart.\n\nJodie Comer won best actress for Killing Eve. Although unable to attend due to filming series three of the hit series, she sent a message:\n\n\"Biggest thank you goes to the public and fans of the show for their continued support and encouragement,\" she said.\n\nAdrian Dunbar took the best actor award for Line of Duty.\n\n\"It's the first thing I've really ever won as an actor so it's a really big moment for me,\" he said.\n\nDanny Dyer won the award for best soap actor for the second year running, while Emmerdale was named best soap.\n\nLine Of Duty won best drama and Bodyguard best new drama. There was also a first win for Netflix, as Ricky Gervais' After Life was named best comedy.\n\nHere is the full list of winners this year:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Intimate data, including when people have had sex, is being shared with Facebook, a study from Privacy International has suggested.\n\nPI studied a range of period-tracking apps to see exactly what information was shared with the social network.\n\nIt included details such as what contraception was used, when periods were due and the type of symptoms experienced.\n\nSince the investigation, one app said it was changing its privacy policies.\n\nMenstruation apps collect some of the most intimate data imaginable - from general health, to information about sex, moods, what the user eats, drinks and even what sanitary products she uses.\n\nIn exchange for this, the app will offer the user the dates of the month she is most fertile or when to expect her next period.\n\nPI published what it says Facebook sees - \"Purpose: Get Pregnant\" would provide invaluable insights to advertisers\n\nSharing to Facebook happens via the social network's software development kit (SDK), tools that can be used by apps to help them make money by reaching advertisers who, in turn, provide users with personalised ads.\n\nPI found the most popular apps in this category - Period Tracker, Period Track Flo and Clue Period Tracker did not share data with Facebook.\n\nBut others - such as Maya by Plackal Tech (which has 5 million downloads on Google Play), MIA by Mobapp Development Limited (1 million downloads) and My Period Tracker by Linchpin Health (more than 1 million downloads) - did.\n\nPI said: \"The wide reach of the apps that our research has looked at might mean that intimate details of the private lives of millions of users across the world are shared with Facebook and other third parties without those users' free unambiguous and informed or explicit consent, in the case of sensitive personal data, such as data relating to a user's health or sex life.\"\n\nOn being shown the study, Maya told PI that it had \"removed both the Facebook core SDK and Analytics SDK from Maya\" with the changes coming into effect almost immediately.\n\nIt said it would continue to use Facebook Ad SDK for those who had agreed to its terms and conditions and privacy policy, but added that no \"personally identifiable data or medical data\" is shared.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC it added: \"All data accessed by Maya are essential to the proper functioning of the product. Predicting information pertaining to menstrual cycles is complex and dependent on thousands of variables.\n\n\"Our users are made aware of our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy prior to signing up on Maya. Post sign up, our users can export their data and delete their account whenever they choose to.\"\n\nLinchpin Health did not respond to PI and MIA said it did not wish its response to be published.\n\nFacebook told the BBC: \"Our terms of service prohibit developers from sending us sensitive health information and we enforce against them when we learn they are.\n\n\"In addition, ad targeting based on people's interests does not leverage information gleaned from people's activity across other apps or websites.\"\n\nThe Maya app encourages users to enter their mood and this is then shared with Facebook, in this case \"Anxious\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted both companies but at the time of publishing had not received responses.\n\nPI believes its findings raise serious concerns as to how such apps are compliant with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.\n\n\"The responsibility should be on the companies to comply with their legal obligations and live up to the trust that users have placed in them when deciding to use their service,\" PI concluded.\n\nFacebook has announced it will launch a tool for users to stop apps and businesses sharing their data with the social network.", "Marie Claire is to stop producing its UK print edition after November to become a digital-only offering.\n\nTI Media, which publishes the fashion and beauty magazine, says it is making the change \"to best serve the changing needs of its audience's mobile-first, fast-paced, style-rich lifestyles\".\n\nWhile print sales have fallen, the website has two million monthly users.\n\nThe magazine launched in 1988 and its digital-first edition will be published under licence with Groupe Marie Claire.\n\nIts cover price was last increased in February 2018 from £3.99 to £4.20.\n\nJean de Boisdeffre, executive director of Marie Claire International, said: \"We are thrilled to work with TI Media on this very important evolution of the Marie Claire brand. After more than 30 years of achievement in the UK, this new digital-first approach provides the launch pad for even more success in the coming decades.\"\n\nTI Media's chief executive Marcus Rich said Marie Claire UK had led the conversation on the issues that really matter to women - such as women's empowerment and and climate change - for more than three decades.\n\nHe added: \"With full focus on our digital platforms, we will be future-proofing our ability to report on these vital and engaging subjects, alongside our top-ranking fashion and beauty offering and media-first brand extensions.\"\n\nAccording to the latest figures from media data analysts ABC, Marie Claire's combined print and digital total from July to December 2018 was 120,133 per issue - almost a third of which were free copies and 4,729 of which were for the digital edition.\n\nThis was down on the same period in 2017, when the average circulation was 157,412, with 4,012 digital edition readers.\n\nA Marie Claire spokeswoman told the BBC that Marie Claire operated in a challenging fashion and beauty sector and that \"consumers and advertisers have accelerated their move to digital alternatives\".\n\nShe said: \"This has had a significant impact on the level of print display advertising. Across the fashion and beauty sector, print display was down (25%) in 2018 and continues to decline at rates in excess of (30%) in 2019.\n\n\"A strategy focusing on Marie Claire UK's digital business will give the brand the best opportunity to secure a profitable and sustainable future.\"\n\nAmy Winehouse was on the NME front cover after her death\n\nAlexandra Shulman, who was the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for 25 years, told the BBC she was \"very sad\" to hear the news of Marie Claire's closure.\n\nShe added: \"When it launched it was a new magazine that had a unique selling point, which was to mix fashion and high fashion with good journalism and some sensational journalism.\n\n\"It was very, very lively and doing incredibly well, which it did for many years, but it has been struggling for probably the last decade really to find an original spot for itself. The print magazines that are doing all right are the magazines who have an originality.\"\n\nShe said the future for magazines may be to possibly come out less frequently but \"be something that people want to keep - more like a book than a disposable magazine\".\n\nTI Media, formerly known as Time Inc, has more than 40 brands across print and digital in the UK, including Woman's Weekly, Cycling Weekly, Horse & Hound and What's On TV. Its publications reached 11.7 million UK adults in the year ending March 2019.\n\nMarie Claire is not the first print magazine in the TI stable to close in recent times.\n\nMusic publication NME was closed in March 2018, after 66 years, after a move from a paid-for to a free magazine.\n\nAnd earlier this year, TI shut down the print edition of celebrity gossip publication Now.", "The RMT Union represents 10,000 workers on the London Underground\n\nTrade unions suspended a threat of strike action on the London Underground last week after successful talks with Transport for London (TfL). There has not been a strike on the Tube during 2019 but have industrial relations improved since Sadiq Khan took over as Mayor of London from Boris Johnson three years ago?\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC show that in the past 11 financial years, since Mr Johnson took over as mayor from Ken Livingstone, there have been more than 36,000 days lost to strike action.\n\nThe number of days lost is so high because TfL counts \"one day lost for every member of staff missing\" and it has led one academic to describe the London Underground as \"a museum of bad industrial relations\".\n\nVarious disputes over issues including ticket office closures, job cuts, new rotas, employee dismissals and the introduction of the Night Tube have resulted in 68 individual dates of strike action since April 2008.\n\nThe London School of Economics's Prof Tony Travers explained these industrial rows resembled \"trigger points\" that each mayor would aim to avoid in order to prevent any big strikes.\n\n\"These trigger points are usually something new,\" he said. \"These include the Night Tube, Olympics or working Boxing Day.\n\n\"Unions have long used the Underground as good leverage when trying to get better pay because of the monopoly that it serves.\"\n\nMore than 7,000 days were lost to strike action over four dates in early 2014\n\nBetween April 2008 and May 2012, during Mr Johnson's first spell as Mayor of London, 12,523 shifts were lost to strike action - despite him trying to negotiate no-strike deals with the Tube unions.\n\nFigures showed a further 19,689 working days were lost while he was mayor during his second term between May 2012 and May 2016.\n\nIn his 2016 Mayor of London election campaign Mr Khan pledged to \"reduce the number of days lost to strike action\" and he has seen 3,824 shifts lost to strike days during his time at City Hall.\n\nAs Mayor of London Boris Johnson called for strikes to be made illegal unless 50% of staff in a workplace took part in a ballot\n\nWhile there have been significantly fewer working days lost to strikes under Mr Khan, there have been 25 dates of industrial action in his three years as mayor, compared with 33 across the whole eight years Mr Johnson was in office.\n\n\"Under Sadiq there have been fewer days lost,\" Prof Travers said. \"But the entire record for Tube strikes is particularly dire.\"\n\nTfL said the effect of any strike was dependent on the nature of the dispute, the number of unions involved and where the strike had been called.\n\nThe figures included strikes that affected either the whole Tube network or just part of it.\n\nNearly 70 periods of strike action have been taken by various unions since April 2008\n\nA spokesman for the Mayor of London said strike action had \"reduced\" under Mr Khan because he \"listens to the concerns of workers\".\n\nHowever, Conservative London Assembly member Keith Prince defended Mr Johnson's record, instead accusing Mr Khan of having a \"worse strikes record (than) any of his predecessors\".\n\nAccording to the TfL data, strike action was predominantly taken by the RMT union, which has about 10,000 members employed on the Tube, and saw workers walk out on 34 occasions.\n\nTransport for London says it deploys additional staff on strike days\n\nAslef, which represents 2,456 Tube drivers, took 13 dates of strike action, while Unite had eight disputes which led to industrial action.\n\nThe Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) walked out on two occasions over \"employee terms and conditions\".\n\nAslef's Finn Brennan said his union had \"regular meetings between transport unions, Mr Khan and his team\".\n\nHe added: \"Aslef uses these meetings to highlight issues that go beyond the remit of the machinery meetings with employers and to encourage a more reasonable attitude on matters we have raised with the company.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Investments - like the purchase of a water pump for irrigation - can provide a sustainable farming income for farmers like Sanfo Karim in Burkina Faso\n\nInvesting $1.8 trillion over the next decade - in measures to adapt to climate change - could produce net benefits worth more than $7 trillion.\n\nThis is according to a global cost-benefit analysis setting out five adaptation strategies.\n\nThe analysis was carried out by the Global Commission on Adaptation - a group of 34 leaders in politics, business and science.\n\nThey say the world urgently needs to be made more \"climate change resilient\".\n\nThe commission, led by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank chief executive Kristalina Georgieva and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, argues that it is an urgent moral obligation of richer countries to invest in adaptation measures that will benefit the world.\n\nPlanting and restoring mangrove forests provides valuable natural protection for vulnerable coastlines\n\nThe report says those most affected by climate change \"did least to cause the problem - making adaptation a human imperative\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things the world needs to invest in to be \"climate change resilient\"\n\nIts primary aim is to put climate change adaptation on to the political agenda around the world. And to do this, it sets out \"concrete solutions\" and an economic plan.\n\nThere are, it says, five things the world should invest in over the next decade:\n\nEach of these investments, the commission says, would contribute to what they call a \"triple dividend\"- avoiding future losses, generating positive economic gains through innovation, and delivering social and environmental benefits. It is that dividend that the report has valued at $7.1tn (£5.7tn).\n\nPlant experts in Uganda are improving agricultural livelihoods in the country by introducing farmers to crop varieties with better drought and disease resistance\n\nCommenting on the report's findings, Mr Ban said climate change \"doesn't respect borders\".\n\n\"It's an international problem that can only be solved with co-operation and collaboration, across borders and worldwide. It is becoming increasingly clear that in many parts of the world, our climate has already changed and we need to adapt with it.\"\n\nThe report calls for \"revolutions\" in understanding, planning and finance - to \"ensure that climate impacts, risks and solutions are factored into decision-making at all levels\". Turning its recommendations into action will be the next endeavour; there will be a further announcement about adaptation plans at the UN Climate Summit in September.", "A Labour government would introduce the biggest extension of workers' rights ever seen in the UK, including a new department to protect workers' rights, party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nHe told the TUC conference the aim was to deliver better wages, greater security and give workers more of a say in how their workplaces are run.\n\nHe pledged to stand up for the majority who do the work and pay their taxes.\n\n\"Not the few at the top who hoard the wealth and dodge their taxes,\" he said.\n\nAddressing the conference in Brighton, Mr Corbyn said Labour would appoint a secretary of state for employment rights and a workers' protection agency to enforce rights, standards and protections so that every job was a \"good job\".\n\n\"If you're a worker with a boss who makes you work extra hours for no pay or forces you into dangerous situations, you deserve a government that's on your side and ready to step in to support you,\" he said.\n\nHe added that workers would be offered security, dignity, fair pay and rights in the workplace under minimum standards set through collective bargaining.\n\nThe Labour leader also repeated an earlier party pledge to repeal the 2016 Trade Union Act, which made strikes illegal unless at least half of eligible union members take part in the ballot.\n\nOther new policies would include:\n\nMr Corbyn was greeted by delegates at the TUC conference\n\nMr Corbyn told delegates: \"The next Labour government will bring about the biggest extension of rights for workers that our country has ever seen. We will put power in the hands of workers.\n\n\"For 40 years, the share of the cake going to workers has been getting smaller and smaller.\n\n\"It's no coincidence that the same period has seen a sustained attack on the organisations that represent workers - trade unions.\n\n\"We have witnessed a deliberate, decades-long transfer of power away from working people.\n\n\"The consequences are stark for all workers, whether members of a trade union or not. Pay is lower than it was a decade ago in real terms.\n\n\"Labour is on the side of the people in the real battle against the born-to-rule establishment that [Boris] Johnson represents.\"\n\nMr Corbyn's speech also brought clarification on Labour's position on Brexit, with him promising a further referendum with a \"credible Leave option\" if Labour wins the next general election.\n\nHe told the conference an general election was coming, but Labour would not allow Mr Johnson to dictate the terms.\n\n\"And in that election we will commit to a public vote with a credible option to leave and the option to remain.\"\n\nBut some senior party figures, including shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, have said they will campaign to stay in the EU under any circumstances - even if Labour negotiates its own deal.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A charity says councils have powers to take over some homes to bring them back into use\n\nThere are more than 27,000 empty privately-owned homes in Wales, up more than 40% since 2010, figures show.\n\nThe scale of the problem has been described as a \"wasted resource\" when so many people need affordable homes.\n\nShelter Cymru said councils have powers to take over some homes to bring them back into use, but do not out of a fear of \"getting it wrong\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given councils £40m to bring empty properties back into use.\n\nShelter Cymru wants a simpler process introduced - such as in Scotland where councils can take over and auction empty homes.\n\nHomes often remain empty because authorities are unable to contact the owner, the owner cannot afford to renovate when needed or are waiting for the property market to improve.\n\nEmpty homes can attract vandalism, drug use and anti-social behaviour, while flats above shops are particularly difficult to return to use.\n\nJohn Puzey, director of housing charity Shelter Cymru, said: \"We know when you reduce empty homes, you reduce crime and vandalism.\n\n\"We also know there are a lot of people who are desperately seeking affordable homes.\n\n\"So if we can put empty homes in an appropriate place and the right conditions together with people who need them, it's a win-win situation.\"\n\nMr Puzey said there was a lot of variation in policy and practises of local councils.\n\n\"It's complicated. There are things called empty dwelling management orders and compulsory purchase orders but actually there has been no empty dwelling management order issued in Wales for at least the last three years, if not longer.\n\n\"There's these powers there that could be used but not being used. Why is that? Possibly a lack of expertise or concern that they might get it wrong.\"\n\nThe number of empty home has gone up by 8,200 since 2010\n\nWales has 27,213 empty private homes, figures from Data Cymru for 2018-19 showed, compared to the earliest set of available StatsWales figures - 18,980 in 2009-10 - a rise of 43%.\n\nAllan Morris, a councillor in Newport which has more than 7,000 households looking for affordable homes and 1,199 empty private homes, said: \"When you're desperate and see a premises just degenerating it's very difficult to understand why you can't put two and two together, why homeless families can't use those premises.\n\n\"It's absolutely frustrating, it's heartbreaking in many cases.\"\n\nStuart Ropke, the chief executive of the housing charity Community Housing Cymru said housing associations were \"well placed to work with local authorities and the private sector to bring homes back into use\".\n\nHowever, in evidence submitted to a group of AMs on the Equality, Local Government and Communities committee, Community Housing Cymru said: \"Even if all 27,000 of the estimated empty homes were returned to use, this would only meet housing need and demand in Wales for just over two years.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government - which aims to build 20,000 affordable homes by 2021 - said: \"We have provided councils with £40m to help bring empty properties back into use and we expect the number of empty homes to fall over the next two years.\n\n\"We are also improving our Houses to Homes scheme to simplify our grants and loan process and have established a new enforcement team to help councils tackle empty homes.\"", "The Army Foundation College in Harrogate trains recruits between the ages of 16 and 17\n\nSmoking and vaping is to be banned at the UK's only Army training centre for teenage recruits.\n\nHundreds of junior soldiers pass through the Army Foundation College (AFC) in Harrogate each year.\n\nIts commanding officer Lt Col Richard Hall said it was \"unacceptable\" that \"most recruits don't smoke on arrival, yet most do by graduation\".\n\nNew recruits will be barred from smoking next week, with a complete ban on smoking and vaping on site by 2020.\n\nIn a statement, Lt Col Hall said the ban was in order to develop recruits' health and fitness.\n\nHe added: \"I hope that this will discourage smoking amongst new recruits and reverse the recent trend we've seen in recruits taking up the habit.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lt Col Rich Hall MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe decision has met with broad support on Twitter, although one post described it as denying trainees \"the right to choose when in a few years you will be expecting them to defend that right if called upon\".\n\nLt Col Hall said he \"expected critics\", but the decision had been \"discussed at length over many months\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 GrumpyNige This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 college trains recruits between the ages of 16 and 17.\n\nThe Army's website says it \"plays a vital role in providing basic military training and developing future leadership\".\n\nThe military has a higher proportion of smokers than the civilian population.\n\nFigures supplied by the Ministry of Defence in 2013 showed 33% of Army personnel were regular smokers. In comparison, in the same year a NHS report found 19% of adults smoked regularly.\n\nSince then the number of civilian smokers has dropped further, with the latest NHS figures reporting 14.7% of adults smoking.\n\nIt is against the law for under 18s to buy tobacco in England and Wales, although it is not illegal to smoke under the age of 18.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All watches should be banned from exam halls to discourage cheating, says an inquiry into the extent of malpractice in exams taken by pupils across the UK.\n\nSmart watches, connected to the internet, are already banned from use by students taking public exams.\n\nBut the review, commissioned by exam boards, says it is becoming difficult to distinguish between hi-tech and traditional watches.\n\nThe Independent Commission on Examination Malpractice, set up by exam boards to investigate the prevalence of cheating in public exams in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, says that overall there is a \"very low level of malpractice\".\n\nBut it warns of the increasing \"sophistication of internet-enabled devices\" which could be used unfairly in exams such as A-levels or Highers.\n\nSir John, a former head teachers' union leader, said smart watches could look like conventional watches, leaving them open to misuse by cheats.\n\n\"It can look as if it's a time-telling watch and actually, you press a button and it becomes an email-type watch.\n\n\"If you don't ban them all I think you're giving a very difficult job to invigilators who are looking round an exam room.\n\n\"So I think the obvious thing to do here is to ban watches.\"\n\nThere are exam centres which already do not allow pupils to wear watches - but the review says there needs to be clarity with such a ban applying across all exams.\n\nPupils in exams would still need to know the time - and Sir John said schools would have to make sure there were enough visible clocks on the wall.\n\nThe review also raised other hi-tech cheating concerns - such as students potentially concealing a device below a false fingernail - and called on exam boards to check the \"dark web\" for illegal sales of exam papers.\n\nThe Joint Council for Qualifications says it will consider whether such a ban on watches could be in place for exams taken next summer.\n\nThere were also more mundane issues around cheating - with the review calling for \"toilet sweeps\" to make sure toilets were not being used to hide ways of getting information during exams.\n\nThe report also highlighted concerns about the rise in schools seeking extra time for pupils in exams, such as if they have a particular special need or emotional problem.\n\nSir John said there was no evidence that this was \"malpractice\", but there needed to be more investigation to explain a \"remarkable\" growth in such pupils getting 25% more time.\n\nThe most common form of cheating was using a mobile phone in exams.\n\nBut despite the changing technology, Sir John said the review found no overall increase in cheating over time and that levels had remained relatively constant.\n\nFigures for England from last year showed 2,735 pupils had been penalised for cheating - marginally down on the year before.\n\nThis represented 0.02% of entries and was more common at GCSE level than A-level.\n\nAs well as using technology to cheat, concerns were raised about online activity being used to \"destabilise\" pupils.\n\nPete Langley, of the Student Room, warned of a growing problem of people pretending to leak exam questions online, with these \"hoax\" leaks confusing other students.\n\nThis followed a series of online leaks of maths A-level questions.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, backed the finding that cheating remained rare.\n\n\"But the small number of reported incidents, particularly high-profile breaches, can have a disproportionate impact on the public's perception of the exam system,\" he said.\n\nThe exam regulator Ofqual supported the finding that there was no \"endemic problem of malpractice\".\n\nBut a spokesman welcomed the call for \"greater clarity\" about when pupils should be able to get extra time to take exams.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to find a Brexit deal.\n\nHe was speaking ahead of talks with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Dublin.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGeoffrey Boycott has said he \"couldn't give a toss\" about criticism over Theresa May awarding him a knighthood in her resignation honours list.\n\nDomestic abuse charities and Labour said the honour should be removed from the ex-cricketer, who was convicted of beating his girlfriend in 1998.\n\nBoycott, who has always denied the assault, later questioned why the issue had been raised by the media.\n\nMrs May's list of 57 names was made up of mostly political figures.\n\nEvery departing prime minister can draw up a resignation honours list.\n\nMrs May announced her resignation in June after failing to get support for the withdrawal agreement she had negotiated for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nThe former prime minister showed her love of cricket with knighthoods for Boycott and fellow former England captain Andrew Strauss.\n\nBoycott was fined £5,000 and given a three-month suspended sentence in 1998 after being convicted of beating his then-girlfriend Margaret Moore in a French Riviera hotel.\n\nDuring the trial, the court heard Boycott pinned Miss Moore down and punched her 20 times in the face before checking out and leaving her to pay the bill.\n\nBoycott denied the allegations, saying Miss Moore had slipped after flying into a rage when he refused to marry her.\n\nMrs May, who introduced a landmark Domestic Abuse Bill to Parliament earlier this year, was accused of sending a \"dangerous message\" by Women's Aid's co-acting chief executive Adina Claire.\n\nShe said the honour \"should be taken away\" from Boycott, adding that it sent \"completely the wrong message\" to survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked about the criticism from Women's Aid by presenter Martha Kearney on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Boycott responded: \"I don't give a toss about her, love. It was 25 years ago so you can take your political nature and do whatever you want with it.\"\n\nThe 78-year-old, who is part of the BBC's cricket commentary team for the current Ashes series, added: \"It's very difficult to prove your innocence in another country, in another language.\n\n\"I have to live with it - and I do. I'm clear in my mind, and I think most people in England are, that it's not true.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Boycott said his knighthood had been soured\n\nIn a subsequent interview, Boycott said that the day had been \"soured\" by Radio 4 \"setting me up\", saying the station's agenda had been to talk about domestic violence and \"make publicity\".\n\nHe told BBC's Look North Yorkshire: \"Is that what interviewing is about - is it always to ask difficult questions? Shouldn't it be just a nice day for me?\n\n\"I said I don't give a toss about her [Ms Claire from Woman's Aid], not domestic violence. That's not something anyone should feel good about.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Today programme said the question was \"entirely appropriate... given the concerns raised about Geoffrey Boycott's knighthood by Women's Aid and others\".\n\nBoycott scored 8,114 runs in 108 Tests for England from 1964 to 1982\n\nThe shadow minister for women and equalities, Dawn Butler, joined the call for Boycott's knighthood to be rescinded.\n\n\"Honouring a perpetrator of domestic violence just because he is the former prime minister's favourite sportsman shows how out of touch and nepotistic the honours list is,\" she said, adding that the whole system needed \"radically overhauling\".\n\nAnd former Spice Girl Melanie Brown tweeted that Boycott was \"a disgrace to Yorkshire\", saying the \"perpetrators of domestic abuse shouldn't be held up as heroes EVER\".\n\nThe Woman's Trust charity said it was \"disappointed\" to see Boycott included in the honour's list because it either suggested that, despite his conviction, he was believed over the survivor, or his fame meant it did not matter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Woman's Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoycott also had to apologise in 2017 after joking that he would have to \"black up\" to be given a knighthood, reportedly saying they were handed out to West Indian cricketers \"like confetti\".\n\nMrs May once compared her determination to delivering Brexit with the fighting spirit in Boycott's batting marathons.\n\nTelling journalists he was one of her sporting heroes, she said in November 2018: \"Geoffrey Boycott stuck to it and he got the runs in the end.\"\n\nSince his retirement from cricket, Boycott has gone on to become a successful broadcaster and is part of the BBC's cricket commentary team.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"He is a world renowned cricketer and employed for his knowledge and expertise of the sport.\"\n\nThe government checks all nominees are suitable for an honour, including whether they have paid their taxes.\n\nHowever, Mrs May's resignation honours list would not have gone through the same review process as nominations for the New Year and Queen's Birthday honours.\n\nIn those cases, a specific committee, for example one including figures from the world of sport, would consider the nominations before they go before the main honours committee. In contrast, people nominated for resignation honours only undergo propriety and probity checks by the Cabinet Office.\n\nNick Timothy and Fiona Hill were Mrs May's closest advisers before the 2017 general election\n\nThe 37 men and 20 women on Mrs May's list include members of Downing Street staff, political aides and lifelong supporters of the Conservative Party.\n\nIt includes recipients from all four nations of the UK as well as non-political figures and members of civic society.\n\nLabour said the honours rewarded \"big Tory donors and No 10 cronies\".\n\nNick Timothy and Fiona Hill, Mrs May's former chiefs of staff who left their jobs after the 2017 general election in which the Conservatives lost their majority in the Commons, become Commanders of the Order of the British Empire, or CBEs.\n\nThe senior civil servant helped to create Mrs May's Brexit deal before it was defeated in Parliament three times. It has been announced that Mr Robbins is to join investment bank Goldman Sachs.\n\nThere is also a knighthood for her former director of communications, Robbie Gibb.\n\nWhen her predecessor David Cameron awarded a knighthood to his own head of communications, Craig Oliver, Mrs May later joked that she \"retched violently\" at seeing his name on the list.\n\nGavin Barwell, left, and Olly Robbins are honoured by former PM Theresa May\n\nGavin Barwell, the former Tory MP who Mrs May brought in as her chief of staff to replace Mr Timothy and Ms Hill, is one of eight new Conservative peers.\n\nSir Kim Darroch - who was forced to resign as ambassador to the US after comments he made about President Trump were leaked - has been made a crossbench peer.\n\nBoris Johnson, who was then running in the Tory leadership contest prior to becoming prime minister, was criticised at the time for not showing enough support for Sir Kim.\n\nMeanwhile, there is a damehood for Cressida Dick, whose police career started at the age of 23 after a brief spell working in a fish-and-chip shop. She is one of just a few non-political figures on Mrs May's list.\n\nSir Simon Woolley, the founder of operation Black Vote, and Ruth Hunt, the ex-chief executive of Stonewall, have been made crossbench life peers.\n\nBritish Empire Medals, or BEMs, have been awarded to Graham Howarth and Debra Wheatley - Mrs May's head chef at Chequers and housekeeper at Downing Street respectively.\n\nThe list of peerages - which sees those appointed sit in the House of Lords - include several nominated by other parties to sit on their benches.\n\nAmong them are former NUT general secretary Christine Blower, for Labour, and former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, who will become the party's second peer in the House of Lords.\n\nThe Lord Speaker, Lord Fowler, said Mrs May's list was \"substantially smaller\" than those drawn up by predecessors, helping to reduce the size of the House of Lords.\n\nJohn Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw and an independent government adviser on anti-Semitism, received a non-affiliated peerage.\n\nMr Mann is standing down as MP, citing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's handling of the party's anti-Semitism crisis.\n\nMargaret Ritchie, who was leader of the SDLP in Northern Ireland between 2010 and 2011, also received a non-affiliated peerage. She said she would remain \"SDLP to the core\" even though she has had to quit the party to become a peer.\n\nThe former South Down MP made history in 2010 when she became the first leader of a nationalist party to wear a remembrance poppy.\n\nA source close to Mrs May said the list \"recognises the many different people who have made a significant contribution to public life\" during her political career.\n\nCriticising Mrs May's choices, Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"It comes as no surprise that big Tory donors and Number 10 cronies are being honoured yet again.\n\n\"The Tories only care about looking after their own and will only stand up for the wealthy few who fund them.\"\n\nThe SNP's Pete Wishart accused Mrs May of \"handing out peerages like sweeties\", adding that it was the \"worst kind of cronyism\".", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I thought I was going to get stabbed,' says shop worker recalling robbery\n\nShop workers are experiencing \"severe mental health consequences\" as a result of violent store crime, a study says.\n\nThe report by City, University of London, says a rise in violent retail crime is causing \"long-lasting anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder\" among workers in the sector.\n\nMore than 42,000 assaults or threats were recorded in the industry in 2018.\n\nDr Emmeline Taylor, the report's author, says government action is \"urgently needed\" to protect staff.\n\n\"All too frequently, shop workers are suffering physical injuries, as well as chronic and life changing mental health consequences of violence, such as long-term anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder,\" the report states.\n\nAccording to the research, the four main scenarios that lead to violent interactions are: encountering shoplifters, enforcing age-restrictions on the sale of goods, hate-crime related incidents and armed and unarmed robberies.\n\nHome Office data showed that assaults and threats against sector staff rose from 524 incidents per 1,000 premises in 2016, to 1,433 in 2017.\n\nAnd earlier this year, the British Retail Consortium said around 115 workers in the UK faced threats or assaults every day.\n\nJean-Marie Hughes - a 33-year-old former retail worker who now helps other staff overcome traumatic events - told researchers that in the last 12 months she knew of colleagues who had been \"physically injured with axes, needles, machetes and knives\".\n\n\"I know of colleagues that have been dragged through their store, who have had knives held to their throats, or been made to kneel down with guns or other weapons held at their head,\" she said.\n\n\"They have been screamed at, threatened, and left scared to travel home from work.\n\n\"The impact of these incidents last a lifetime, not just on those directly involved but it affects their colleagues, their families and their communities.\"\n\nJean-Marie Hughes said she \"bounced back\" from a robbery - but other colleagues were not so lucky\n\nReflecting on a store robbery that involved her and other staff being threatened with a needle, Ms Hughes told the BBC that such experiences \"breed fear among the team\".\n\n\"I was just shocked, it took me a while to process what actually happened,\" she said. \"But each one of us reacted differently.\n\n\"I bounced back but some didn't and they just didn't want to be in the store following that.\n\n\"They were telling me they were struggling sleeping.\n\n\"It does create a different level of fear, even when you're walking down the street and you hear something, or in the store, you think something's happening that may not be.\n\n\"You're just waiting for something else to happen.\"\n\nOne Co-op worker in Manchester told the BBC an attack on his store had left a colleague \"beside herself\"\n\nThe report - funded by the Co-op - collated data from the Home Office, British Retail Consortium, Association of Convenience Stores and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.\n\nAuthor Dr Taylor - a criminologist studying the effect of store crime on workers - said the report intended to give a better understanding of the human experience behind the rise in retail crime.\n\nShe interviewed both store workers and perpetrators of violence as part of her research.\n\n\"Multiple data sources show that the frequency and severity of violence towards shop workers is increasing\" she said.\n\n\"The strain of constant abuse and fear of physical violence is causing some shop workers to change their shift pattern, their place of work or, in the worst cases, terminate their employment entirely.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some MPs voiced their objection to the suspension in the Commons\n\nParliament has officially been suspended for five weeks, with MPs not due back until 14 October.\n\nAmid unprecedented scenes in the Commons, some MPs protested against the suspension with signs saying \"silenced\" while shouting: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nIt comes after PM Boris Johnson's bid to call a snap election in October was defeated for a second time.\n\nOpposition MPs refused to back it, insisting a law blocking a no-deal Brexit must be implemented first.\n\nIn all, 293 MPs voted for the prime minister's motion for an early election, far short of the two thirds needed.\n\nMr Johnson held a cabinet meeting earlier to update his ministers on Brexit, but a No 10 spokesman said the \"bulk\" of the meeting was focused on domestic issues.\n\nThe PM will later meet the leader of Northern Ireland's DUP, Arlene Foster, and her deputy, Nigel Dodds, in Downing Street to talk about \"a range of subjects, including Brexit\".\n\nParliament was suspended - or prorogued - at just before 02:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAs Speaker John Bercow - who earlier announced his resignation - was due to lead MPs in a procession to the House of Lords to mark the suspension, a group of angry opposition backbenchers tried to block his way.\n\nLate into the night, MPs also burst into song on the Commons benches, singing traditional Welsh and Scottish songs, Labour anthem Red Flag and hymns like Jerusalem.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said \"the uproar in Parliament wasn't just Pantomime politics - there is genuine fury and incredulity that at such a crucial moment for the nation, the place is being shut down.\"\n\nDuring the five-week suspension, parties will hold their annual conferences but no debates, votes or committee scrutiny sessions will take place.\n\nBoris Johnson will not face Prime Minister's Questions until the period is over and his scheduled questioning by the Commons liaison committee on Wednesday has been cancelled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nParliament's suspension means MPs will not get another chance to vote for an early election until they return, meaning a poll would not be possible until November at the earliest.\n\nIt is normal for new governments to suspend Parliament - it allows them to schedule a Queen's Speech to set out a fresh legislative programme - but the length and timing of the prorogation in this case has sparked controversy.\n\nThe decision to prorogue was entirely in the hands of the government, although there have been failed attempts via the courts to stop it.\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\nElsewhere on Monday, in a hectic day of political developments:\n\nAt present, UK law states that the country will leave the EU on 31 October, regardless of whether a withdrawal deal has been agreed with Brussels or not.\n\nBut new legislation, which was granted royal assent on Monday, changes that, and will force the prime minister to seek a delay until 31 January 2020 unless a deal - or a no-deal exit - is approved by MPs by 19 October.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said although No 10 insisted it was not looking to break the new law, efforts were under way to examine ways of getting around it.\n\nMr Johnson said the government would use the time Parliament was suspended to press on with negotiating a deal with the EU, while still \"preparing to leave without one\".\n\n\"No matter how many devices this Parliament invents to tie my hands, I will strive to get an agreement in the national interest,\" he said.\n\n\"This government will not delay Brexit any further.\"\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nMr Johnson told MPs Mr Corbyn had previously said he would back an election if legislation to prevent the government from forcing through a no-deal Brexit on 31 October became law.\n\n\"By his own logic, he must now back an election.\"\n\nBut Labour, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, the Independent Group for Change and Plaid Cymru have all agreed they will not back an election until the no-deal legislation has been implemented.\n\nMr Corbyn told MPs his party was \"eager for an election - but as keen as we are, we are not prepared to risk inflicting the disaster of no deal on our communities, our jobs, our services or indeed our rights\".\n\nAnd he said the prime minister was suspending Parliament to avoid discussions of his plans.\n\nSir Oliver Letwin, who last week defied Mr Johnson to vote to block a no-deal outcome and subsequently lost the Conservative whip - told BBC Radio 4's Today he believed there was now a majority in the Commons to back another referendum.\n\nAsked whether the prime minister would back a further vote, Mr Letwin replied: \"Boris has often changed his mind about many things and that's one of his advantages, that he's very flexible so maybe he can.\"\n\nMr Johnson is now more than 20 seats short of a majority in Parliament, making effective government extremely difficult.\n\nThe prime minister's self-imposed Halloween Brexit deadline looks further out of reach than a few short days ago.\n\nIs it impossible? Absolutely not.\n\nThere is the possibility, still, of a deal, with Number 10 today stressing it was still their primary aim.\n\nWhispers again about a Northern Ireland only backstop, and a bigger role for the Stormont assembly, if it ever gets up and running, are doing the rounds.\n\nSome MPs and some diplomats are more cheerful about the possibilities of it working out.\n\nIf you squint, you can see the chance of an agreement being wrapped up at pace, although it seems the chances range somewhere between slim and negligible.\n\nFormer Conservative Dominic Grieve, who also lost the whip last week, was behind the move the force the publication of government communications relating to prorogation and no-deal Brexit plans, known as Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nIt was backed by 311 votes to 302, after Mr Grieve told MPs it was \"entirely reasonable\" to ask for the disclosure \"so the House can understand the risks involved and this can be communicated more widely to the public\".\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove, who is in charge of no-deal preparations, argued against the move, suggesting he had already given \"sufficient assurances\" to the EU select committee on Yellowhammer.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox questioned the legal right of the government to require employees - including the PM's top aide Dominic Cummings - to open up their private email accounts and personal mobiles to scrutiny.\n\nAfter the vote, a government spokesman said it would \"consider the implications and respond in due course\".\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Johnson held talks with Leo Varadkar in Dublin, his first meeting with the Irish prime minister since he entered No 10.\n\nThe Irish border has proved a key sticking point in attempts to agree a Brexit deal between the UK and the EU.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Kevin de Bruyne inspired Belgium to a brutal defeat of hapless Scotland to all but end hopes of reaching Euro 2020 via their qualification group.\n\nThe Manchester City man set up Romelu Lukaku, Thomas Vermaelen and Toby Alderweireld and netted the fourth.\n\nSteve Clarke's side must now look to next year's play-offs as their best hope of ending a 22-year wait for an appearance at a major finals.\n\nVictory made it six wins from six for Roberto Martinez's Group I leaders.\n\nIn truth, it could have been far worse for Scotland against the world's number one ranked side at Hampden, who played well within themselves.\n\nScotland, in fifth, now trail Russia by nine points and Belgium by 12 with four games to go.\n• None Who did you vote man of the match?\n• None 'We looked like we could become a good team' - Clarke\n\nAfter the chastening 2-1 loss at home to Russia on Friday came this evisceration by Belgium - an Eden Hazard-less Belgium at that. Who needs the Real Madrid man when you already have the supernatural brilliance of De Bruyne on top of desperate weakness from the home team, whose defence was paper-bag thin, with all due apologies to paper bags?\n\nScotland, with Kenny McLean, Ryan Christie, Robert Snodgrass and Matt Phillips coming in for John McGinn, Ryan Fraser, James Forrest and Oli McBurnie, had a few early minutes of optimism and then a harrowing night thereafter, the horror show beginning when they conceded the first goal after just nine minutes. The Scots got done on the counter attack. In leaving themselves so open they were were unbelievably naive and utterly reckless. Incompetence on an international scale.\n\nFrom the edge of their own box, Belgium went like the clappers after regaining possession from a Snodgrass free-kick, Dries Mertens peeling away and finding De Bruyne who was running free up the left. He had time and space and far, far too much excellence for the scrambling Scottish defence. He simply looked up, picked out Lukaku who had strolled in on goal all on his lonesome and the Internazionale striker did the rest.\n\nThe whole thing - from Mertens to De Bruyne to Lukaku to the back of Dave Marshall's net - took 14 seconds. It was Lukaku's 49th goal for his country. He could have had his 50th nine minutes later when De Bruyne - who else? - dinked a gorgeous ball into him. Lukaku failed to clip it past Marshall.\n\nA second Belgium goal was not long in coming. Once again it was De Bruyne who created it, this time with a cross from the right which was poked home by Vermaelen. Scotland, a disorganised mess at the back, failed to pick him up. What gargantuan problems Clarke has in trying to create something resembling a defence worthy of the name.\n\nPhillips tested Thibaut Courtois but a shell-shocked Hampden sunk ever deeper into despair when Belgium struck again just after the half-hour mark. It was another avoidable goal, a free header from a De Bruyne corner. Alderweireld got away from Charlie Mulgrew and thumped his effort in off the underside of Marshall's crossbar.\n\nThree goals and three De Bruyne assists. Belgium had scored 10 goals in two-and-a-half games against the Scots in a year. The thing about this latest hiding was they pulled it off without ever having to move out of second or third gear. They did not have to get anywhere near their best.\n\nMarshall had to tip away a shot by Mertens and De Bruyne missed a great chance. Sandwiched in between was a forlorn dive from Stephen O'Donnell which brought the Scotland right-back a yellow card instead of the penalty he was looking for. Scott McTominay also went into the book and he will miss the trip to Russia next month, not that it matters. Scotland's goose is well and truly cooked now.\n\nThere was a fourth for the Belgians, Lukaku being allowed to turn by some more comatose Scottish defending before finding the unplayable De Bruyne, who slotted a right-footed curler beyond Marshall to pile on the pain for what was left of the home crowd. Many of them had headed for home by then. One has to wonder how many of them will be back.\n\nA masterclass from the playmaker with his passing, pace, awareness and never ending ability to find space beguiling and bemusing Scotland in equal measure. A sumptuous finish late on provided the goal his performance richly deserved.\n• None Belgium have scored 16 goals without reply in their past six meetings with Scotland.\n• None Scotland have won just one of their past 14 games against Belgium (W1 D2 L11), a 2-0 Euro qualifier victory in October 1987.\n• None Steve Clarke has lost three of his first four matches in charge of Scotland.\n• None Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku has scored five goals in his three international appearances against Scotland.\n• None Under Roberto Martinez, Belgium have won all five of their matches against British sides by an aggregate score of 13-0.\n• None Scotland have kept two clean sheets in their past 10 games.\n• None Attempt saved. Yari Verschaeren (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0, Belgium 4. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Christie (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kenny McLean (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Scott McTominay.\n• None Thomas Vermaelen (Belgium) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wages have continued to grow at a strong pace and employment remains at record highs, official figures show.\n\nEarnings excluding bonuses grew at an annual pace of 3.8% in the May to July period, down slightly from the previous reading.\n\nIncluding bonuses, wages rose at an annual pace of 4% - the highest rate since mid-2008.\n\nThe unemployment rate dipped to 3.8%, while the estimated employment rate remained at a record 76.1%.\n\nClick here to take part in a short study about this article run by the University of Cambridge.\n\nThe number of available jobs was at its lowest level since November 2017, with David Freeman from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) saying: \"Vacancies continue to fall back from recent record highs, with much of this decline coming from small businesses.\"\n\nHe added: \"The employment rate has remained fairly constant at a joint record high for some months now, while the unemployment rate was last lower at the end of 1974.\n\n\"Including bonuses, wages are now growing at 4% a year in cash terms for the first time since 2008. Once adjusted for inflation, they have now gone above 2% for the first time in nearly four years.\"\n\nIf you prefer to be \"half-full\", you will be happy that in the three months from May to July, the ONS recorded the fastest pay rise (including bonuses) for more than 11 years.\n\nIf you're more \"half-empty\" you may note that if you strip out the effect of inflation, pay including bonuses is still £23 less than it was more than 11 years ago.\n\nSimilarly, a half-full view might note that employment is at a new record of 32.8 million people. A half-empty one might say it's not always a good thing that more women now have to work into their 60s because they can no longer claim the state pension.\n\nThere is no doubt, though, that the labour market remains tighter - tighter than it was a year ago - and that employees are benefiting, especially in sectors such as construction where there are shortages of labour.\n\nSome of that tightness, however, may now be easing, with vacancies continuing to drop from their recent record highs.\n\nThere was a total of 32.78 million people aged 16 or over in employment. The increase in employment has been mainly driven by more women in work, the ONS said, which is partly down to the rise in the state pension age, meaning fewer retire between the ages of 60 and 65.\n\nThere was a rise of 284,000 employed women over the year to a total of 15.52 million. Male employment also rose by 86,000 to reach 17.26 million, mainly because of rising numbers of self-employed.\n\nHowever, the number of people aged between 16 and 64 considered economically inactive continued to rise, increasing by 6,000 to 8.59 million.\n\nEmployment Minister Mims Davies said the figures indicated the labour market was \"booming\", adding that it was \"especially pleasing to see continued record female employment\". And Chancellor Sajid Javid said the wage data showed \"that people across the country are taking home more every week\".\n\nBut shadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said: \"The slowdown in job creation is a concern with the current uncertainty over Brexit, and average pay still has not returned to the level it was in 2008.\n\n\"For millions of people, the reality of work is one of low pay and insecurity.\"\n\nDebapratim De, UK economist at Deloitte, warned \"the glory days of rapidly falling unemployment could be behind us\".\n\nHe added that the figures indicated \"a tight labour market and further gains in consumer spending power\".\n\nAnd Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: \"The renewed fall in the unemployment rate distracts from an otherwise troubling labour market report.\n\n\"Brexit uncertainty undoubtedly has sapped firms' enthusiasm for hiring new workers, but sharply rising unit labour costs also are playing a role.\"\n\nHowever, PwC economist Jing Teow said evidence of continued jobs growth, together with the stronger-than-expected growth figures released on Monday, \"reinforces our view that the UK should avoid a technical recession in the third quarter\".\n\nHe added that the accounting giant predicted \"potential GDP growth of 0.4% in the third quarter of 2019. This would more than reverse the 0.2% GDP decline seen in the second quarter\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS adventurer Victor Vescovo has become the first person to visit the deepest points in every ocean.\n\nHis fifth and final dive in a prototype submersible was made to the bottom of the Arctic's Molloy Trench, some 5.5km (3.4 miles) below the sea surface.\n\nThis followed dives during the past 10 months to the floor of the Pacific, Indian, Southern and Atlantic oceans.\n\nThe millionaire financier's team also visited the wreck of the Titanic.\n\nAll Mr Vescovo's dives were made using the 12-tonne Deep Sea Vehicle (DSV) Limiting Factor, launched and recovered from a dedicated support ship, the DSSV Pressure Drop, ironically a one-time navy submarine hunter.\n\nThe last leg of the \"Five Deeps Expedition\" was concluded on 24 August when the explorer reached a spot known as the Molloy Hole, which is about 275km (170 miles) west of Norway's Svalbard archipelago.\n\nThe recorded depth on the solo dive was 5,550m, plus or minus 14m. It is the first time any human has been to this location.\n\nMr Vescovo spoke of his elation and deep gratitude to the people who had worked with him.\n\n\"These things need to be done,\" he told BBC News. \"I come from a philosophy that says we're put here not just to survive, or even just to be comfortable - but to contribute in some way. And the path I chose was to have some adventure whilst also doing something that could move us forward as a species.\"\n\nThe former US Navy reservist's wealth and drive have previously led him to ski to both poles and to climb the highest mountains on every continent. But it's evident when you talk to him that he is utterly absorbed by the science he's facilitated.\n\nOver the course of the worldwide tour, researchers deployed more than 100 landers. These are instrumented frames that sink to the seafloor and record what they see and sense on the way down, and at the seabed.\n\nThe VSSV Pressure Drop has collected a large amount of bathymetric (depth) data\n\nThe Five Deeps science team says it has discovered upwards of 40 new species in the process. A large catalogue of biological and water samples awaits analysis in the lab, including a unique set of bottom-water samples retrieved at every one of the five deeps visited.\n\nDr Alan Jamieson is the expedition's chief scientist. He highlighted the measurements of salinity, temperature and depth that were made by the sub and the landers.\n\n\"You cast on the way down and on the way up, and if you add up the metres we measured - it works out at 1.5 million metres of water,\" he said. This will help researchers better understand ocean circulation, which is needed to improve the computer models that project future climate scenarios.\n\n\"We have so few measurements from the deepest parts of the oceans, from below 6,000m,\" the Newcastle University, UK, marine biologist added.\n\nThe DSSV Pressure Drop mapped the seafloor as it traversed the five oceans. This bathymetric (depth) data covers roughly 300,000 sq km - an area equivalent to Italy.\n\nThis is being donated to the international project that seeks to chart the entire global ocean floor by 2030. Currently, less than 20% has been mapped to an acceptable resolution.\n\nBut the Five Deeps Expedition has also fundamentally demonstrated the capability of the latest deep-sea technology.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo spoke to the BBC on completion of his historic five dives\n\nThe hope is that the DSV Limiting Factor will now be followed by many more such vehicles.\n\n\"I think what Victor has done is remarkable and others are going to want to continue what he's started by going back to some of these places and spending more time there,\" said Patrick Lahey, co-founder of Triton Submarines which built the Limiting Factor.\n\n\"You're starting to see more privately funded marine research being conducted by wealthy individuals who bought subs they thought they would use recreationally but are now using to complete scientific expeditions, to give people like Al Jamieson a platform to work from.\"\n\nIt is no surprise to learn that Victor Vescovo has set his sights on going into space; he's actively talking to those who might help him get there.\n\nHowever, he's far from done with ocean research and expects next year to conduct further dives in previously unexplored trenches around the Pacific rim.\n\nThe American oceanographer Don Walsh made history in 1960 when he joined Jacques Piccard in making the first crewed dive to the deepest point on Earth - the Challenger Deep, part of the Pacific's Mariana Trench. Mr Walsh marvels at the latest technology.\n\n\"What you have here is a system - the ship, the sub and the landers. They interact and cooperate, and when you see them working together it's like a ballet,\" Mr Walsh told BBC News.\n\n\"What's impressive is the repeatability - being able to dive time and time again.\"\n\nAtlantic Productions is making a five-part documentary about the Five Deeps Expedition for the Discovery Channel. It's likely to air early next year.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple has unveiled its iPhone 11 range of handsets, which feature more cameras than before and a processor that has been updated to be faster while consuming less power.\n\nThe company said the two Pro models would last between four to five hours longer than their XS predecessors.\n\nBut it did not launch a 5G model, and some rumoured features were missing.\n\nApple also revealed a new version of its smartwatch, which features an \"always on\" display for the first time.\n\nThe Series 5 Watch adjusts how often it refreshes the screen to as little as one frame per second as well as dimming the image to promise the same 18-hour battery life as the previous version.\n\nThe new Apple Watch line-up becomes available on 20 September\n\nIt also introduces a compass as well as the option of a titanium case. Its new operating system will alert owners to when nearby noise rises to risky levels, and adds menstrual cycle-tracking.\n\n\"I love strategically where Apple is going with its health and safety capabilities, but was disappointed to not see a sleep study or feature mentioned,\" commented analyst Patrick Moorhead.\n\nThe company added that it will keep its Series 3 model on the market, which will cost $199 - or £199 in the UK - marking a new entry price point for the wearable.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Geoff Blaber This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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\nApple currently accounts for 49% of the global smartwatch market, according to research firm IDC.\n\nIt is also the UK's top-selling smartphone brand by a wide margin.\n\nThe new iPhones are notable for introducing an \"ultrawide\" rear camera, offering 2x optical zoom-out.\n\nThe iPhone 11 Pro is said to last four hours more than before, while the Pro Max is said to last five hours longer\n\nThe Pro models retain the telephoto and normal lenses found in the last generation's XS and XS Max, while the basic iPhone 11 only has an ultrawide and standard lens.\n\nApple made a virtue of a new Night Mode, which automatically brightens the image when required while taking steps to minimise the digital noise produced as a result.\n\nGoogle, Samsung and Huawei had already introduced a similar feature to their handsets.\n\nApple said the image on the left shows Night Mode turned off, while the one on the right is when it is on\n\nA new facility called Deep Fusion was also teased. It takes nine snaps with a variety of exposures and then picks through them \"pixel by pixel\" to combine the best parts from each to create a superior image.\n\nThis will not, however, be available at launch but should be added via a software update before the year's end.\n\nOther enhancements include the ability to shoot slow-motion videos with the front camera.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ken Hyers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 handsets' processor - the A13 Bionic - has also been upgraded.\n\nApple claims its CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (graphics processing unit) are more powerful than those featured in any Android phone.\n\nIn addition, the chip's \"neural engine\" has been optimised to better handle matrix calculations - a type of algebra used by neural networks - and is said to be 20% faster than the A12.\n\nHowever, the new models are not compatible with Apple's Pencil stylus, as had been expected by many. That feature was already offered by its lowest-end iPad.\n\nNor can they wirelessly recharge other devices, unlike Samsung and Huawei's premium phones.\n\nThe entry-level iPhone 11 is said to last up to one hour longer than the earlier XR\n\nThe handsets also stick with having lightning ports rather than making the shift to USB-C, as has happened with the iPad Pro - which could have made faster data transfers possible.\n\nThe iPhone 11 is slightly cheaper than its XR forerunner in the UK, ranging between £729 and £879 depending on the amount of storage.\n\nBut the Pro models are more expensive than the XS ones, costing between £1,049 and £1,499.\n\nThey go on sale in 10 days time.\n\nApple experienced a bigger drop in demand for new handsets than many of its rivals over the past year.\n\nBut the firm recently reported that its active install base - the number of iPhones in use - was at an \"all time high\".\n\n\"Several forces play here,\" commented Marta Pinto from IDC.\n\n\"Apple designs devices that last longer than an average Android device, and it's been very good at rolling out new versions of its operating system.\n\n\"There's also a very good second-hand trade in iPhones, and the overall smartphone market is slowing down.\n\n\"But Apple doesn't mind because its focus is now turning to services, and its wearables are also doing well.\"\n\nThe new iPhone line-up does not feature a 5G model, in part because Intel struggled to develop the required modem.\n\nSir Jony Ive attended the event despite announcing he was leaving Apple in June\n\nAt a time when consumers are holding onto their handsets for longer before upgrading, that could place a further constraint on sales - especially in countries where 5G networks have already launched, such as the UK.\n\n\"Given people's loyalty to iPhone, if they really want 5G they'll probably just wait,\" said Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"That said, don't be surprised to see rivals, particularly Samsung, positioning 5G devices as 'future-proof' options.\n\n\"I'm sure they will be arguing that buying a premium priced 4G smartphone right now would be like buying a TV a few years ago that was not HD-Ready.\"\n\nEarlier at the event, chief executive Tim Cook revealed that Apple's two forthcoming subscription services would each cost $4.99 - or £4.99 in the UK - per month.\n\nCapcom's Shinksekai: Into the Depths was one of the exclusive video games demoed on an iPad\n\nApple Arcade - a video games deal offering exclusive access to games that do not feature in-app fees - will become available on 19 September.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt will be followed by Apple TV+ - a television programme and movie-streaming platform with content not available elsewhere - which will make its first shows available on 1 November.\n\nThe latter will be cheaper than rival services from Disney and Netflix, but appears to promise less material at this stage.\n\n\"I applaud web access to Apple TV+, but would have preferred an Android and Windows app,\" commented Mr Moorhead.\n\nSee - a fantasy show set in the future starring Jason Momoa - is one of the shows that will be offered by Apple TV+\n\nThere was no mention of Apple bundling the new services with its existing cloud storage, news and music offerings for a discount, as had been speculated.\n\nBut it will offer one year's Apple TV+ membership to consumers buying one of its computers or set-top boxes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Michael Goodman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition, the company unveiled a new iPad.\n\nThe seventh generation model has a 10.2in (25.9cm) screen - making it bigger than before - and will go on sale at the end of the month.\n\nIt will start at £349, a £30 increase on the earlier model.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 has now been nearly 13 years since Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone.\n\nApple has since become one of the world's most valuable companies, in part because of investors' hopes that it can pull off a similar trick.\n\n\"Everyone wants Apple to have a new 'wow' product and its got a pretty good track record,\" commented Mr Wood.\n\n\"But the next big hit is proving elusive right now. My money is still on smart glasses but I think it could still be years before we see anything.\"\n\nThese updates are less about bringing in new features, but enhancing the things we're already familiar with.\n\nThe iPhone Pro's camera setup is being aimed at - as you might guess - professionals. I think Apple sees big potential in indie filmmakers and documentary-makers. The battery-life bump should also help.\n\nApple TV+ is cheap compared to its competitors. But is it good value?\n\nDisney+, Netflix, HBO et al have huge back catalogues of loved TV shows and movies. Apple doesn't, or at least it's not clear what it will have, even one year from now.\n\nAll Apple really has is a boatload of cash to fill up Apple TV+ with content it hopes people will like. We've seen no evidence, yet, that it's capable of fulfilling that goal.\n\nGiving one year's access away with new devices is a way of making sure those new shows have wide exposure - but it needs to convince the entertainment industry that it's worth making a show for Apple+ instead of its rivals.\n\nAlthough there is some dispute over which mobile first featured a built-in colour camera, many credit this handset as having the honour. It featured a 0.11 megapixel (MP) sensor and could only store 20 selfies, but was able to transmit a jerky video feed in real-time at about two frames per second.\n\nSharp's first photo-snapping mobile placed its sensor on the rear of its handset to encourage its use as an alternative to standard cameras. Its 0.11MP snaps could then be sent to friends via email.\n\nThe handset's optional CommuniCam MCA-20 accessory snapped on to the bottom of the handset, helping keep down the phone's size when not in use. It was limited to taking VGA (0.3MP) resolution shots, but the images could be texted to others via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) if they had compatible phones.\n\nThis was one of the first handsets to offer more than one megapixel of image quality. What's more it had a flash. Meanwhile the software made it possible to add graphical frames around photos and turn images sepia or apply a \"negative\" effect.\n\nNokia's N90 had a somewhat clunky swivel design, but a two megapixel sensor and a lens developed in collaboration with the famed German optics firm Carl Zeiss pitched it firmly at camera enthusiasts.\n\nThe megapixel wars were well under way by the time Samsung unveiled the G800. It took 5MP shots, had a 3x optical zoom and even featured a lens-cover slider, meaning that from the rear it could be easily mistaken for a dedicated camera.\n\nApple's fourth-generation iPhone is widely credited with helping kickstart the selfie craze, despite being far from the first to have a front camera. But at its launch, Steve Jobs was keener to show off how the feature could be used for Facetime, the firm's video chat app.\n\nSmartphones with two rear cameras were still a rarity when LG's Android phone went on sale. It used them to create 3D images that could be viewed without special glasses on its display. But 3D phones proved to be as unpopular as 3D TVs, marking an evolutionary dead end for the industry.\n\nHTC's 2013 flagship sought to shift the battle to low-light photography. To do this it made the pixels larger than normal to gather more light, and dubbed them \"ultrapixels\". The trade-off was that its photos were limited to 4MP.\n\nThis Windows Phone featured an industry-leading 41MP sensor attached to an optical image stabilisation system. It allowed users to zoom in and crop without worrying about images becoming blurred, or to combine the data to make 5MP photos with less visual noise than would otherwise be the case.\n\nThis was the first handset to build in Google's doomed Project Tango depth and motion-sensing cameras. They made augmented reality features possible, such as superimposing graphical images of furniture into views of a room. Tango was short-lived, but AR has lived on by other means.\n\nThis was one of the first phones to feature \"live focus\" - a facility that allowed users to adjust background blur in their photos before or after taking them. It achieved this by comparing the view from each of its two rear cameras to create a depth map of the scene.\n\nApple's tenth anniversary handset introduced its Face ID camera system, which used tens of thousands of infrared dots to map the user's features. As a consequence, the display had to make space for a \"notch\", which was widely copied by rivals even if they didn't feature such an elaborate facial recognition system.\n\nGoogle found a way to let users blur the background of their photos using a single camera in its second-generation Pixel. This made it possible to offer the effect from both its front-facing selfie camera as well as the rear sensor.\n\nThe Chinese firm's phone was one of the first to feature three cameras on its back. But the standout feature was its ability to produce quality snaps in near-dark conditions by taking long-exposure snaps and then using machine learning software to keep the details crisp.\n\nThis had two unusual camera features. Firstly, one of the rear cameras has a periscope design that directs light sideways into the device's body, making it possible to let users zoom into a shot more than usual without sacrificing detail. Secondly, the selfie camera pops up from the top, making more space for the display.", "Taylor Swift tried to sue Microsoft over a chatbot which posted racist messages on Twitter, the president of the tech company has revealed.\n\nTaylor's lawyers made a move on Microsoft in 2016, according to a new biography by its boss Brad Smith.\n\nShe was unhappy with the name of its chatbot Tay, meant to interact with 18 to 24-year-olds online, because it was similar to hers.\n\nIf you don't remember TayTweets, it's the Twitter chatbot that turned racist.\n\nTayTweets was controlled by artificial intelligence and was designed to learn from conversations held on social media.\n\nBut shortly after Tay was launched, it tweeted to say it supported genocide and didn't believe the holocaust happened - among other things.\n\nMicrosoft issued an apology and took Tay offline after less than 18-hours of offensive conversations on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Taylor Swift's political views do not align... as he sums up in this video\n\nTaylor Swift's legal action wasn't about what the chatbot had said online, but instead about the similarity to her own name.\n\n\"I was on vacation when I made the mistake of looking at my phone during dinner,\" Brad Smith writes in his new book, Tools and Weapons, reports the Guardian.\n\nBrad Smith is the president of Microsoft\n\n\"An email had just arrived from a Beverly Hills lawyer who introduced himself by telling me: 'We represent Taylor Swift, on whose behalf this is directed to you.'\n\n\"'The name Tay, as I'm sure you must know, is closely associated with our client',\" he adds. \"No, I actually didn't know, but the email nonetheless grabbed my attention.\"\n\nHe says the lawyer argued that the name Tay violated federal and state laws and \"created a false and misleading association between the popular singer and our chatbot\".\n\nTaylor and her legal team are pretty strict on people who come too close to the singer and her intellectual property rights.\n\nHer name, signature and initials are already trademarks and in 2015 she attempted to trademark lyrics from her album, 1989.\n\nJust before the record was released she successfully filed to make sayings like \"this sick beat\" and \"nice to meet you, where you been\" trademarks.\n\nThis made sure she was the only person in the world able to use sayings like these on merchandise - and threatened Etsy sellers with legal action in 2015 for using them on their homemade products.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "In the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAfter losing two male friends to suicide, Rob Moss set up RammyMen in the former mill town of Ramsbottom, Lancashire, to engage local men in activities that would help with depression.\n\nIts aim is to “keep Ramsbottom busy with an eye on mental health and reducing suicide risk in men”.\n\nDan Lilley-Blackman says the group has saved his life.\n\nIf you're affected by emotional distress, you can go to the following link for help and support, or wider information is available via the BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA white supremacist who stabbed a teenager in what a judge described as a \"terrorist act\" has been jailed for more than 18 years.\n\nVincent Fuller, 50, attacked Bulgarian Dimitar Mihaylov in Stanwell, Surrey, a day after a gunman attacked mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.\n\nKingston Crown Court heard Fuller, who admitted attempted murder, had set out to kill Muslims.\n\nOn the night of 16 March, Fuller \"roamed the streets\" in a violent rage \"looking for a target\", the court heard.\n\nHe initially armed himself with a Chelsea FC-branded baseball bat and went on the rampage.\n\nDuring the spree he tried to force his way into a house, swung the bat at cars and was heard shouting racist abuse.\n\nAfter the bat broke in half, Fuller returned home and armed himself with a knife.\n\nHe then approached 19-year-old Mr Mihaylov, who was parked outside a branch of Tesco with his friend, and stabbed him through the open window.\n\nThe court heard Fuller had twice shouted \"You're going to die\" and plunged a large kitchen knife towards his victim's neck.\n\nMr Mihaylov suffered defensive wounds to his hands, and the knife clipped his neck, the court heard.\n\n\"It was only by chance he was not killed,\" said Judge Lodder.\n\nFuller posted on Facebook immediately before launching his attack\n\nSeveral witnesses heard Fuller screaming abuse during his \"rampage\", including one who reported him saying: \"All Muslims should die. White supremacists rule. I'm going to murder a Muslim.\"\n\nIn a Facebook post just before the spree, Fuller praised alleged Christchurch gunman Brenton Tarrant, adding: \"I am English, no matter what the government say kill all the non-English and get them all out of our of England.\"\n\nJudge Lodder told Fuller he was \"motivated by the cause of white supremacy, and his personal anti-Muslim sentiments\", adding: \"This was a terrorist act.\"\n\n\"I find that it was your purpose to strike fear into the heart of people you described as non-English, in particular Muslims,\" he said.\n\nThe judge added: \"It is immaterial that there is no evidence that you were a member of, or subscribed to, to any particular group or organisation.\n\n\"In my judgement a terrorist-related offence may be committed by a person acting alone, on his own initiative, and without any significant planning.\"\n\nIn a police interview, Fuller, who has a British bulldog tattoo, denied being racist and said he could not remember what he had done.\n\nFuller broke his Chelsea-branded baseball bat in the attack\n\nAfter the attack he tested positive for cannabis and alcohol and told detectives he had drunk a large bottle of cider and three cans of strong Special Brew lager.\n\nBut the judge said a blood sample taken after the attack showed that Fuller - a regular drinker - was not intoxicated to a high degree.\n\nFuller, of Viola Avenue, carried out his attack the day after the murder of 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand by a white supremacist, who livestreamed most of the shootings online.\n\nA video excerpt of the Christchurch massacre was found on Fuller's mobile phone, the court heard.\n\nFuller had previously admitted further charges of carrying a weapon, affray and racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress.\n\nHe was jailed for 18 years and nine months on Tuesday, with an additional five-year extended sentence.\n\nOutside court, Supt Andy Rundle, from Surrey Police, said it was clear Fuller had become radicalised and developed \"an extreme right-wing view\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of counter-terrorism at Policing South East, said Fuller was \"clearly an incredibly angry and dangerous individual who went out of his way looking for someone of non-white appearance to attack\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thomas Dunn told his trial he had made a \"bad judgement call\"\n\nA man who put a 13-month-old girl in a tumble dryer has been jailed for seven years.\n\nThomas Dunn claimed he had only \"assisted\" the toddler, saying the child had been climbing into the machine herself.\n\nDunn, 25, said he did not fully close the machine door on the child, but the dryer activated and started rotating.\n\nHe was previously found guilty of culpable and reckless conduct following a trial at Dundee Sheriff Court.\n\nDunn, of Hamilton, was convicted of placing the child in the dryer and closing the door, causing the machine to activate, in Arbroath in 2017.\n\nHe was also found guilty of causing fractures to the child's skull during an assault.\n\nDundee Sheriff Alistair Brown told Dunn that he could only impose a five year sentence on him and remitted the case to the High Court.\n\nJudge Lord Brodie sentenced Dunn to seven years imprisonment and three years supervision following his release, at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nDefence advocate Niall McCluskey said: \"He suffers from depression and mental health problems.\n\n\"He also accepts that the imposition of a prison sentence is inevitable.\"\n\nDuring the trial, Dunn claimed he had not \"pushed\" or \"squashed\" the baby into the machine but had \"tucked her leg into it\" after she had climbed in herself.\n\nHe said: \"She was already climbing into it and I tucked her leg in. I closed the door but not fully, it wasn't like properly shut.\"\n\nProsecutor Nicola Gillespie asked Dunn: \"Why on earth did you do that, assist, tuck, whatever you want to call it, that child into a tumble dryer?\"\n\nHe replied: \"I don't know, it was a bad judgement call.\"", "The US extracted a high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports say.\n\nCiting \"multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge\" of the operation, CNN reported that US intelligence feared the source's cover could be blown by US officials.\n\nThe decision was made soon after a meeting in which President Trump unexpectedly shared classified US intelligence with Russian officials.\n\nReports said the mole was the highest-level US source inside Russia.\n\nReporting by CNN and the New York Times said the source was outside the inner circle of Russian leader President Putin but had regular access to Mr Putin and was even able to photograph documents on the leader's desk.\n\nThe covert source reportedly spied for the US for more than a decade as they rose through the ranks of the Russian government. According to the New York Times, the source was instrumental in the conclusion by US intelligence agencies in 2016 that Mr Putin had personally orchestrated Russia's interference in the US presidential election.\n\nThe source's information was so sensitive that then-CIA director John Brennan prepared special sealed files for President Obama, rather than include it in the president's ordinary briefing, the Times report said.\n\nThe CIA - the intelligence agency said to have run the mole - declined to comment on the apparent revelations. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said CNN's reporting was \"not only incorrect\" but had \"the potential to put lives in danger\".\n\nRussian media named the spy as former presidential administration official Oleg Smolenkov. The Kommersant newspaper said Mr Smolenkov went on holiday with his family to Montenegro in 2017 and disappeared, before a man with the same name and a woman with the same name as Mr Smolenkov's wife purchased a house in the US state of Virginia, near Washington DC.\n\nRussian reports said Mr Smolenkov had worked for Yury Ushakov, a senior aide to President Putin.\n\nAsked by the BBC on Tuesday about the reports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Mr Smolenkov had worked for the presidential administration but denied that he had held a high-level position, adding that he had been sacked.\n\nMr Peskov described the US media coverage of the reported extraction as \"pulp fiction\". Asked whether the Kremlin was concerned about Russian counter-intelligence, he said, \"Russian counter intelligence is working fine\".\n\nNBC news reported on Tuesday that it had visited the home in the Washington area it understood to belong to the exfiltrated agent, but the network said its correspondent, upon knocking on the door, was questioned by two men who approached in a car but declined to identify themselves.\n\nThe CIA reportedly first tried to extract the mole soon after a now-infamous meeting between President Trump, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and then-Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, at which Mr Trump was said to have shared classified operational details which could have exposed a US confidential source.\n\nOther officials present at the meeting reportedly realised the president's mistake and scrambled to inform the CIA and other intelligence agencies.\n\nBut the Russian mole reportedly refused the initial extraction attempt, citing family concerns - a move which threw the CIA for a time into doubt over the source's trustworthiness. Months later, the CIA tried again and the source agreed to be exfiltrated.\n\nThere was no suggestion on Tuesday that President Trump directly compromised the source in Russia, and reports said that widespread media speculation about US intelligence conclusions had contributed to the decision to extract the source.\n\nLast year, Russian operatives travelled to England and used a nerve agent in an assassination attempt against a former Russian military intelligence officer, Sergei Skripal, who had spied for the British.\n\nAnd in 2006, Russian operatives killed a former intelligence officer, Alexander Litvinenko, in central London by poisoning his tea with radioactive material, according to British investigators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Iranian football fans have been campaigning for some time to stop the ban on female spectators\n\nAn Iranian female football fan who set herself on fire a week ago has died.\n\nThe woman set herself alight in Tehran after her trial, for attempting to enter a football stadium disguised as a man, was postponed.\n\nThe authorities in Iran regularly stop women from entering stadiums.\n\nHer story has been followed closely by Iranians around the world who used the hashtag \"blue girl\" - a reference to the colours of her favourite team, Esteqlal of Tehran.\n\nThe woman, named as Sahar Khodayari, was arrested in March when she tried to enter a football stadium.\n\nAfter being jailed for three days she was released on bail and waited six months for her court case.\n\nBut when she appeared at court she found out it had been postponed because the judge had a family emergency.\n\nShe later returned to court to pick up her mobile phone and it is widely reported that she is thought to have overheard someone saying that if she were convicted she could get six months to two years in prison.\n\nShe then set herself alight in front of the court house and later died in hospital.\n\nWomen in Iran have been stopped from going to stadiums to watch men’s sporting events since 1981. This was temporarily lifted last year to allow women to watch the World Cup being streamed at a stadium in Tehran.\n\nWhile the sporting ban is not written into law, it is \"ruthlessly enforced\", says Human Rights Watch.\n\nFootball's governing body Fifa set a deadline of 31 August for Iran to allow women into stadiums - something the country has not yet guaranteed.\n\n\"We are aware of that tragedy and deeply regret it,\" a Fifa statement said. \"Fifa convey our condolences to the family and friends of Sahar and reiterate our calls on the Iranian authorities to ensure the freedom and safety of any women engaged in this legitimate fight to end the stadium ban for women in Iran.\"\n\nCalling the case \"heart-breaking\", Philip Luther from Amnesty International said her death showed the impact of Iran's \"appalling contempt for women's rights\".\n\n\"Her death must not be in vain. It must spur change in Iran if further tragedies are to be avoided in the future.\"\n\nThe woman's self-immolation has led to a lot of debate in Iran.\n\nMasoud Shojaei, the captain of the Iran men's football team, said on Instagram that the ban is \"rooted in outdated and cringe-worthy thoughts that will not be understood by future generations\".\n\nEarlier this month, Iranians started campaigning online for world sporting organisations to ban the country from competitions to stop what they see as state interference in sports.", "The Iranian flag flies on board the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, formerly named Grace 1\n\nOil on an Iranian tanker detained in Gibraltar has been transferred to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nThe ship, seized in July with the help of UK Royal Marines, was released after Iran gave written assurances that it was not bound for Syria.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said it was clear the tanker had transferred its cargo in Syria.\n\nMr Raab has summoned the Iranian ambassador to the Foreign Office.\n\nThe Adrian Darya One - previously called Grace One - had originally listed its destination as Turkey, when it was released after being detained in Gibraltar for six weeks.\n\nSatellite images appeared to show the vessel off the Syrian coast on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said Iran's actions represented an \"unacceptable violation of international norms\" and that the UK would raise the issue at the UN General Assembly later this month.\n\nBut an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman would only say the ship had delivered its cargo after docking \"on the Mediterranean coast\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US vowed on Sunday to impose sanctions on any buyer of the 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil on board.\n\nThe foreign secretary also accused Iran of illegally supplying weapons to Houthi insurgents in Yemen, supporting what he called \"Hezbollah terrorists\" and hijacking commercial ships passing through the Gulf.\n\n\"We want Iran to come in from the cold but the only way to do that is to keep its word and comply with the rules-based international system,\" he added.", "A police campaign to get the public to prepare a \"grab-and-go\" bag in case of emergencies has been both criticised and mocked by social media users.\n\nA Police Scotland tweet urged people to pack essentials such as a first aid kit, radio, torch, and food and water.\n\nIts recommendations were part of an annual Preparedness Month, which is being promoted by local authorities and emergency services across the UK.\n\nHowever, the police force has been accused of scaremongering.\n\nThe tweet read: \"September is preparedness month. Emergencies can happen at any time and it's recommended to have a #GrabBag ready containing essential items including medication, copies of important documents, food/water, torch, radio and other personal items.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Police Scotland Control Rooms This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn accompanying diagram showing a cross-section of a rucksack also included medication, phone charger and battery bank, whistle, pen and paper, and seasonal clothing.\n\nSome users were concerned that the the tweet would scare people into thinking there was a reason for the sudden advice.\n\nOne user, bellshillbaker, wrote: \"This is crass. Scaring people with no explanations. What emergencies do you envisage? Brexit? War? Civil disturbance? Flood? Pestilence? Nuclear accident? Martial Law?\"\n\nSharon Gathercole, replied to Police Scotland: \"Confusing/worrying. I'm 50 years old, lived here all my life and have never been given this kind of advice before. You need to explain.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elisabeth Anderson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut social media quickly responded with humour as the tweet went viral. Robby McBobby asked: \"Some advice please on #grabbag re \"seasonal clothing\". I have packed some fancy dress for Hallowe'en and then a Santa suit for Christmas. Will that be enough do you think?\"\n\nOthers offered alternative suggestions for their grab bags, many featuring Scottish snacks or alcohol.\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\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"The messaging is part of a general resilience awareness campaign that runs each year during September which emergency services and partners across Britain are taking part in.\"\n\nNational Preparedness Month was originally a US campaign run by the Department of Homeland Security. The department's theme for 2019 is \"Prepared, Not Scared\".\n\nIt has been adopted by a number of UK councils, police forces and fire services over the past five years under the banner 30Days30WaysUK.\n\nThe organisation co-ordinating the UK campaign describes emergencies as power cuts, water main bursts, gas leaks, fires, transport strikes and road closures, as well as major disasters.\n\n\"Taking proactive steps to be better prepared will help you not only with everyday emergencies but also with far less likely incidents,\" it advises on its website.", "The suspension of Parliament begins and MPs reject a second call from Boris Johnson for a snap election.", "This refill shop is bringing shoppers to Barry's town centre, which has suffered from large retailers closing down in quick succession\n\nShop closures of large retailers in Wales far outweighed all new chain store openings in the first half of 2019, research has indicated.\n\nThere was a net loss of 37 chain shops in the 11 towns surveyed, suggesting Wales was proportionally the worst-affected part of the UK.\n\nPubs, bookmakers, and men's clothes shops saw the highest fall in Wales.\n\nHowever, there was some growth in opticians, chocolatiers, sports good shops and beauty salons.\n\nResearchers studied town centres deemed to be in Great Britain's top 500 high streets, including Abergavenny, Barry, Newport, Swansea, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath, Pontypridd, Bridgend and Cwmbran.\n\nThe analysis by Local Data Company and PwC showed the shortfall between chains opening and closing was at the highest level since the analysis began in 2014.\n\nBarry in the Vale of Glamorgan was the only town surveyed in Wales not to see a net decline.\n\nThe town's centre saw one chain shop closing and one opening in the first half of this year. Fifty-five per cent of its shops are independent, meaning the chain retailers make up a significant proportion of the occupants.\n\nRachael Williams thinks chain closures can create a negative perception of an area\n\nRachael Williams, who is involved with the Holton Road Traders' Association, said the departure of chains such as Dorothy Perkins, Burton and New Look had affected footfall and created a negative perception of the area.\n\n\"You've either got to make the units bigger to attract the bigger shops, or you've got to make the rates lower to attract the independents,\" she added.\n\nHer husband Ceri Williams, who co-owns Marshalls Butchers on the main street Holton Road, said a reduction in chain shops was \"another nail in the coffin\" for the high street.\n\nIn July, locals Stuart Burnell and his fiancée opened the Awesome Wales zero waste refill shop, next to Marshalls, and said they had been well-supported by residents.\n\n\"It's vitally important we have different types of shop that will bring people back into the town centre,\" he said.\n\nHis neighbour Mr Williams added: \"Getting people in the town is the biggest challenge because it's so hard to draw people in, but the [refill] shop next door, he has brought a lot of people in, and nice people who care about the environment and we're getting a bit of spin off from that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe analysis looked at the top 500 high streets with the largest number of chain stores, which is why there were no towns in north Wales on the list.\n\nBen Cottam, from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Wales, described the analysis as \"sobering\".\n\n\"We now see that some of the pressures of consumer behaviour, business rates burdens and other issues are hitting even the biggest names,\" he added.\n\nFSB Wales called on the Welsh Government to allocate some of the £600m announced for Wales in the chancellor's recent spending review towards a future of Welsh towns fund to develop new thinking on boosting regional towns.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the money did \"not make up for nearly a decade of cuts\" and it was considering how best to use the money and would bring forward a budget for 2020-21 \"as early as possible\".", "Up to 30,000 delegates are expected to attend\n\nA major United Nations climate change summit will take place in Glasgow.\n\nThe UK has won the bid to host the 26th Conference of the Parties, known as COP26, following a partnership with Italy.\n\nUp to 30,000 delegates are expected to attend the event at Glasgow's Scottish Events Campus (SEC) at the end of next year.\n\nIt is designed to produce an international response to the climate emergency.\n\nThe Scottish Events Campus includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro\n\nThe UK will host the main COP summit while Italy will host preparatory events and a significant youth event, as part of the agreement.\n\nClaire Perry, UK nominated president for COP26, said: \"In 2020, world leaders will come together to discuss how to tackle climate change on a global scale - and where better to do so than Glasgow, one of the UK's most sustainable cities with a great track record for hosting high-profile international events.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's Climate Change Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the decision to host COP26 in Scotland was right \"given our leadership on climate action\".\n\nShe continued: \"Scotland was one of the first countries in the world to acknowledge the global climate emergency and the Scottish government has introduced the toughest targets in the UK to ensure our action matches the scale of our climate ambitions.\n\n\"We look forward to working collaboratively with partners to deliver an ambitious and effective conference that ensures Scotland plays a leading role to help promote the increased global effort to tackle climate change.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the announcement was a \"vote of confidence\" from the UK's international partners.\n\nHe added: \"The UK is leading the world in tackling climate change. We're the first major economy to pass laws to end the UK's contribution to global warming.\n\n\"Since 1990 the UK has reduced its emissions by over 40% while growing the economy by over two thirds.\"\n\nThe UK government said it had cut greenhouse gas emissions by 16 million tonnes in the last eight years.\n\nSecretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack said: \"The UK government is showing great leadership on this vital issue - becoming the first major economy to pass new laws to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RSPB Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 conference has been described as the most important gathering on climate change since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015.\n\nLasting for two weeks, it would be the largest summit the UK has ever hosted, with up to 200 world leaders expected to attend for the final weekend.\n\n2020's conference is seen as a major crossroads in the battle against global climate change. It will likely be held just after the next US presidential election.\n\nIt will also be the year in which governments are due to review their promises to cut carbon emissions in line with the latest science.\n\nCampaigners have said the event will give the UK the chance to set the tone for the world's future.\n\nClimate campaigner Greta Thunberg appeared at the 2018 conference in Poland.\n\nIt is expected to pose major security challenges for the Scottish government and police.\n\nSources have told BBC Scotland that police will seek additional funding from the Scottish and UK governments.\n\nDeputy chief constable Malcolm Graham said: \"Police Scotland has an enviable reputation for successfully and safely policing major events.\n\n\"We will now start the detailed process of planning, with partners, for what will be a complex and expensive policing operation to support COP26 and to ensure a safe and secure event.\"\n\nIntense, overcrowded and bewildering - a few impressions from UN climate conferences I've reported from over the years.\n\nThey're a rare chance for the world to get together to tackle climate change but because the stakes are high the atmosphere is always tense.\n\nThe negotiations are complicated - with long arguments over phrases or even individual words. They regularly drag through the night leaving delegates exhausted.\n\nIn Montreal back in 2005, at dawn on the final day, the then British environment secretary Margaret Beckett wept with relief when a deal was reached.\n\nIn Copenhagen in 2009, some environmental campaigners were so frustrated with the lack of progress that they walked out - while at the same time other campaigners, who had staged a march outside the conference centre, battled with police in an effort to get inside.\n\nThe gathering in Paris in 2015 was one of the smoothest, clever French diplomacy navigating towards a landmark deal, what's called the Paris Agreement.\n\nA system of voluntary cuts in carbon emissions, it formally comes into effect next year. The Whitehall view is that this is an extraordinary opportunity.\n\nBut it also means there's a huge responsibility now on British shoulders.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: Government doing what the people want\n\nBoris Johnson has said \"there is a way\" of getting a new Brexit deal, as he defended the decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks.\n\nThe PM said \"loads of people\" wanted an agreement, but he was prepared to leave without one if \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nParliament will not resume sitting until 14 October, three days before a crucial Brexit summit of EU leaders.\n\nThe PM, who has met the leadership of Northern Ireland's DUP, said claims this was undemocratic were \"nonsense\".\n\nAmid unprecedented scenes in the Commons early on Tuesday, some MPs protested against the suspension with signs saying \"silenced\" while shouting: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nBut Mr Johnson rejected claims this was an affront to democracy, saying the opposition parties were given the chance of an election before the Brexit deadline on 31 October but had spurned it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some MPs voiced their objection to the suspension in the Commons\n\nOpposition MPs said a law blocking a no-deal Brexit must be implemented before there could be any election.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has promised a further referendum on Brexit with a \"credible Leave option\" versus Remain if he wins the next general election - but the party is unlikely to commit to either option in its manifesto.\n\nThe prime minister held an hour of talks with Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster and her deputy Nigel Dodds in Downing Street.\n\nMrs Foster, whose party has propped up the Conservative government since the 2017 election, issued a statement later indicating it would not support any revised version of Theresa May's Brexit agreement which separated Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.\n\nShe said renewed talk of a so-called Northern Ireland-only backstop, which would see it remain in the customs union and be bound by EU rules for goods and animal products while the rest of the UK was not, would be \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"A sensible deal, between the United Kingdom and European Union which respects the economic and constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom, is the best way forward for everyone,\" she said.\n\n\"History teaches us that any deal relating to Northern Ireland which cannot command cross community support is doomed to failure. That is why the Northern Ireland backstop is flawed.\n\n\"During today's meeting, the prime minister confirmed his rejection of the Northern Ireland only backstop and his commitment to securing a deal which works for the entire United Kingdom as well as our neighbours in the Republic of Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Irish border has proved a key sticking point in attempts to agree a Brexit deal between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe government has indicated it could support harmonised rules for the agriculture and food sector to prevent the need for any sanitary and other health checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nBut it has distanced itself from reports that plans for a single EU-UK customs territory in the current withdrawal agreement - rejected three times by MPs - could be replaced with a specific Northern Ireland only \"backstop\" arrangement.\n\nAlthough official negotiations with the EU have yet to restart, the bloc's new trade commissioner said it was positive the UK seemed prepared to \"accept some level of divergence between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK\".\n\n\"I remain hopeful that the penny is finally dropping with the UK that there are pragmatic and practical solutions that can actually be introduced into the debate at this stage - albeit at the 11th hour - that may find some common ground between the EU and the UK,\" Ireland's Phil Hogan told the Irish Times\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister urges a group of primary school pupils \"not to get drunk\" at university\n\nParliament was suspended - or prorogued - at just before 02:00 BST on Tuesday amid noisy protests from opposition MPs.\n\nDuring the five-week suspension, parties will hold their annual conferences but no debates, votes or committee scrutiny sessions will take place.\n\nBoris Johnson will not face Prime Minister's Questions until the period is over and his scheduled questioning by the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday has been cancelled.\n\nSarah Wollaston, the Lib Dem chair of the committee, said the PM had gone back on earlier \"reassurances\" that he would appear, telling BBC's Newsnight she was \"appalled\" that he was \"running away from scrutiny\".\n\nParliament's suspension means MPs will not get a third chance to vote for an early election until they return, meaning a poll would not be possible until November at the earliest.\n\nIn Monday's latest vote, 293 MPs backed the prime minister's motion for an early election, far short of the two thirds needed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hannah Bardell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNew legislation, which was granted royal assent on Monday, will force the prime minister to seek a delay until 31 January 2020 unless a deal - or a no-deal exit - is approved by MPs by 19 October.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a primary school in London, Mr Johnson said getting ready to leave the EU on Halloween was among the \"priorities of the people\".\n\nHe said there \"were loads of people around the place\", including in Brussels, who wanted to nail down an agreement but he was willing to leave without a deal \"if absolutely necessary\".\n\n\"There is a way of getting a deal but it will take a lot of hard work - but we must be prepared to come out without a deal.\"\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nLabour, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, the Independent Group for Change and Plaid Cymru have refused to agree to an election on what they say are \"Boris Johnson's terms\".\n\nSpeaking at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn said \"our priority is to stop no deal - and then have a general election\".\n\nThe Lib Dems, meanwhile, are seeking to put distance between themselves and Labour by saying that if they win power at the next election they will have an \"unequivocal\" mandate to cancel Brexit entirely.\n\nAt their conference on Sunday, members will debate a motion reaffirming their support for a referendum, but also urging the revocation of Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the EU - a week before the Brexit deadline if no deal has been agreed.\n\nThe prime minister's self-imposed Halloween Brexit deadline looks further out of reach than a few short days ago.\n\nIs it impossible? Absolutely not.\n\nThere is the possibility, still, of a deal, with Number 10 today stressing it is still their primary aim.\n\nWhispers again about a Northern Ireland-only backstop, and a bigger role for the Stormont assembly, if it ever gets up and running, are doing the rounds.\n\nSome MPs and some diplomats are more cheerful about the possibilities of it working out.\n\nIf you squint, you can see the chance of an agreement being wrapped up at pace, although it seems the chances range somewhere between slim and negligible.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The store was a three-month experiment said Sainsbury's\n\nTills have been reinstalled in an experimental till-less shop opened by supermarket Sainsbury's.\n\nIt had been totally refurbished to remove the entire checkout area, freeing up shop assistants to help customers on the shop floor.\n\nCustomers had to scan their groceries using Sainsbury's Pay & Go app, paying for them as they went around the shop.\n\nBut it resulted in long queues at the helpdesk as people attempted to pay for their groceries in the traditional way.\n\nSainsbury's said it had learned \"a huge amount\" from the experiment.\n\nLaunching the three-month experiment at its Holborn store, group chief digital officer Clodagh Moriarty said executives \"were excited to understand how our customers respond to the app experience\".\n\nBut this week, Sainsbury's said in a blogpost: \"It's clear that not all our customers are ready for a totally till-free store.\"\n\nThe option to pay via app is still available at the Holborn shop and eight others across London.", "British Airways says about 90% of services will run as normal on Wednesday as the airline recovers from a two-day strike by pilots.\n\nHowever, BA said its full schedule would not be in place for \"some time\" as 150 aircraft and 700 pilots started the day \"in the wrong place\".\n\nBA cancelled almost all its flights on Monday and Tuesday in a dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nAnother strike by pilots is planned for later this month.\n\nBA said on Wednesday: \"The nature of our highly complex, global operation means that it will take some time to get back to a completely normal flight schedule however, we plan to fly more than 90% of our flights today.\"\n\nAbout half of the airline's 300 aircraft are out of position. And in addition to pilots being in the wrong place, BA said there was severe disruption to rosters for its 4,000 cabin crew.\n\nThe airline is offering affected customers refunds or the option to re-book to another date of travel or an alternative airline.\n\nBalpa said that the strikes had been a \"powerful demonstration of the strength of feeling of BA pilots\".\n\nTens of thousands of flights had to be cancelled, costing BA an estimated £40m a day.\n\nIt called on the airline to come \"back to the negotiating table with some meaningful proposals\" to try to avert the next scheduled strike, on 27 September.\n\nBalpa general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Surely any reasonable employer would listen to such a clear message, stop threatening and bullying, and start working towards finding a solution.\"\n\nPilots had previously rejected an 11.5% pay increase over three years proposed by BA in July.\n\nBalpa says its members have taken lower pay rises and made sacrifices during more stringent times for the airline in recent years.\n\nBut it says that now BA's financial performance has improved - its parent company IAG reported a 9% rise in profits last year - they should see a greater share of the profits.\n\nBA has said its pilots are already paid \"world-class\" salaries, and has described the pay offer as \"fair and generous\".\n\nAfter three years of the proposed pay deal, some captains could be taking home more than £200,000 per year, including allowances, it said.", "Theresa May's chief Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins will join investment bank Goldman Sachs after a sabbatical, the Cabinet Office has said.\n\nThe civil servant headed talks which led to the former prime minister's withdrawal agreement which formed the basis for the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nHowever, the deal repeatedly failed to get through Parliament, prompting Ms May to resign earlier this year.\n\nMr Robbins, 44, announced he would quit his role shortly afterwards.\n\nThe civil servant attracted criticism from prominent Brexit supporters who accused him of being too pro-EU.\n\nBut new Prime Minister Boris Johnson - who has himself has been fiercely critical of the withdrawal agreement - paid his own tribute to Mr Robbins on Monday.\n\nMr Robbins' work earned him a knighthood from former prime minister Theresa May in her resignation honours list.\n\nMr Robbins will first spend a sabbatical at the University of Oxford, becoming the first holder of a visiting fellowship set up in memory of former Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood.\n\n\"I am delighted that Olly will be the first permanent secretary to take up this fellowship in Jeremy Heywood's memory, which follows his many years of dedication to public service in a variety of different roles,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Robbins will leave the civil service at the end of the fellowship to become a managing director in Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking Division.\n\nHe will join former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who is the non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International.\n\nHe is not the only figure from British politics to have gone into finance. Former Chancellor George Osborne earns £650,000 a year in a role with US investment fund Blackrock, while former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling is a non-executive director at investment bank Morgan Stanley.", "The prorogation of the Commons saw unprecedented scenes with some MPs holding signs saying \"silenced\" while shouting: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nAs this video shows, protesting MPs gathered around the Speaker part way through the procedure. The incident in its extended form follows.\n\nParliament has officially been suspended for five weeks, with MPs not due back until 14 October.", "Johnson (L) and Hart starred alongside Jack Black in the third Jumanji film in 2017\n\nDwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has said Kevin Hart is \"doing very well\" after suffering major back injuries in a car crash earlier this month.\n\nComedian and actor Hart was taken to hospital after a vintage car he was a passenger in rolled down an embankment in the California hills.\n\nSpeaking on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Johnson said his pal was \"a lucky man\".\n\n\"Everything is good,\" he said. \"I spoke with Kevin - I connected with him today.\"\n\nHe added: \"And you know what? These things happen in life and thankfully he was strapped in nicely to his car seat.\"\n\nHart was supposed to be Clarkson's first-ever guest on her new TV talk show, so following the accident Johnson cut short his honeymoon (with his new wife's permission) to fill in.\n\nThe pair are close friends - having starred together in films including Jumanji and Central Intelligence - and the former professional wrestler, 47, confirmed he would soon pay Hart a hospital visit.\n\n\"I love the guy, he's one of my best friends,\" Johnson went on.\n\n\"And honestly, I mean, thank God, it could have been a lot worse. So, he's a lucky man, and he knows it, too.\n\n\"I wish him the best and a speedy recovery and I'm going to see him soon.\"\n\nHart and the car's driver were both taken to hospital following the crash in the hills above Malibu on 1 September.\n\nThe driver of the car was not under the influence of alcohol, according to a California Highway Patrol collision report.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In the last six days you might have been enraged, you might have been shocked, you might have been excited, or you might have just shrugged your shoulders.\n\nBut we are watching a conflict over an issue that is based on what one cabinet minister described as \"love and passion\" - politically, at least.\n\nThe grinding three years of the previous period of Brexit conflict has been superseded in the last week by a hyper-speed helter-skelter, with a new administration, long aware their stance could end up in a battle in the courts.\n\nAs MPs reluctantly pack up for a break of five weeks after the prime minister sent them packing, can we conclude anything lasting from this bout?\n\nBoris Johnson has undeniably had a rude awakening of how Parliament will respond to him.\n\nIt's been a shocker in terms of early defeats for the new prime minister, an unsurprising but dramatic series of clashes between a leader who wants to keep the option of leaving the EU without a deal on the table, and most MPs who don't want to allow him to open that Pandora's box.\n\nNumber 10 has also indulged in tactics that have alarmed many Conservatives, including some of Boris Johnson's team who sit around his cabinet table.\n\nIf you had followed the way that Vote Leave ran its campaign, the subsequent appointment of Dominic Cummings and some of its former staffers, again, that shouldn't surprise you.\n\nBut there are unquestionably plenty of Conservative MPs who have been horrified that it's this version of Boris Johnson, a politician with many guises, that's in charge at Number 10.\n\nAnd some of those tactics have been, at least temporarily, destructive, with a voluntary surrender of his own majority. (Interestingly, there's a whisper that a way back could soon emerge for some of the 21 MPs who were booted out.)\n\nThat \"long shopping list\" of errors, according to one member of the cabinet, means the prime minister's self-imposed Halloween Brexit deadline looks further out of reach than a few short days ago.\n\nIs it impossible? Absolutely not.\n\nThere is the possibility, still, of a deal, with Number 10 today stressing it was still their primary aim.\n\nWhispers again about a Northern Ireland only backstop, and a bigger role for the Stormont assembly, if it ever gets up and running, are doing the rounds.\n\nSome MPs, and some diplomats are more cheerful now about the possibilities of it working out.\n\nIf you squint you can see the chance of an agreement being wrapped up at pace, although it seems the chances range somewhere between slim and negligible.\n\nIt is still possible too, as Number 10 bombastically suggests, that they could just ignore the demand from Parliament that he seeks a delay if there is no-deal.\n\nThis is not as straightforward as ignoring a parking ticket, of course.\n\nBut if the prime minister asks formally, but politically makes it clear he doesn't want it and would do nothing with it, would the EU really force such a policy on an unwilling government with no political reason given? What if the EU was to offer only an extension of several years?\n\nThese are not predictions, but they are imponderables, talking about a political landscape that is some weeks off, and there are all sorts of political gymnastics to come before then that could again turn the situation on its head.\n\nAnd for all that Parliament protests, some Brexiteers, including in Number 10, glory in 'evidence' they could use in an eventual election campaign that tries to pit MPs against the people.\n\nNo question, however, it's been a bruising period for the prime minister, which could be the beginning of a very rapid downfall.\n\nBut just as so many things in politics have changed in the last few years, some of the old truths remain.\n\nA week is still a long time in politics - the seven weeks before Halloween another age.", "Mr Bolton and Mr Trump did not always see eye-to-eye. Indeed, when announcing Mr Bolton’s departure, Mr Trump said he “disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions”.\n\nMr Bolton did have a hand in some of Mr Trump’s major security decisions.\n\nMost notable was Mr Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. But while Mr Trump favoured a new deal with Iran, Mr Bolton wanted to overthrow its regime altogether.\n\nRegime change in Venezuela and North Korea was on Mr Bolton’s agenda, too.\n\nIn Venezuela, Mr Bolton helped orchestrate a campaign to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power. In North Korea, Mr Bolton lobbied Mr Trump to end Kim Jong-un's reign with a pre-emptive strike.\n\nNeither happened on his watch, and Mr Trump went his own way on North Korea, hosting media-friendly summits instead of raining down missiles.\n\nPacts and deals, it seems, are not words in Mr Bolton’s vocabulary. He also pushed for Mr Trump to pull out a key nuclear treaty with Russia this year.\n\nTowards the latter stages of Mr Bolton’s time in office, it was the war in Afghanistan that widened his rift with Mr Trump.\n\nTo Mr Bolton's dismay, Mr Trump announced the withdrawal of thousands of US troops from Afghanistan. To make matters worse, Mr Bolton was sidelined from talks with the Taliban to end the 18-year conflict.", "The husband of former US vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has filed for divorce, according to US media.\n\nPapers filed in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday identified the couple by initials - but birth and wedding dates match those of the Palins.\n\nThe paperwork, reportedly filed by Todd Palin, cited an \"incompatibility of temperament\" as the reason for divorce.\n\nThe Palins, both 55, married in 1988 and have five children together.\n\nThe documents mention \"an incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife\".\n\nThey include the initials rather than full names of the two parties - SLP for Sarah Louise Palin and TMP for Todd Mitchell Palin - but identify the couple's marriage date and the birth date of their only child who is a minor, Trig Palin.\n\nThey are asking for joint custody of the child, according to the papers.\n\nThe paperwork was submitted on 6 September, eight days after the couple's 31st wedding anniversary.\n\nSarah Palin was governor of Alaska from 2006 until she resigned in 2009.\n\nShe shot to prominence when she became Republican Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A \"cartoonish figure\"? Nick Bryant explain Sarah Palin's rise to the top (almost)\n\nShe and Mr McCain lost the election to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.\n\nSince then, she has - along with Mr Palin, a commercial fisherman and oil field worker - appeared in several reality TV shows; she also has a lucrative career as a public speaker and has published two best-selling books.\n\nShe championed the grassroots Republican Tea Party movement, and was also a vocal supporter of US President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.\n\nDuring her time as Alaska governor, Mr Palin was dubbed the \"First Dude\" by supporters.\n\nHe has mostly eschewed the media since Mrs Palin's failed vice-presidential bid.\n\nIn 2016, Mr Palin was severely injured in a snowmobile accident.\n\nThe couple's children have also made headlines.\n\nLast year, eldest son Track Palin was sentenced to a year in custody after he refused to let a female friend leave his home in Wasilla, and took away her phone and hit her in the head.\n\nIn 2017, Track was accused of breaking into his parents' home and leaving his father bleeding from cuts to the head. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in a military veterans court.\n\nDaughter Bristol Palin briefly starred in MTV's Teen Mom programme after giving birth to her son at the age of 17.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland's relentless march towards Euro 2020 continued with a thrilling victory over Kosovo, who scored after just 34 seconds.\n\nHowever, a shoddy defensive display and the fearless approach of their opponents meant this turned into a night of concern for manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThe result leaves England top of Group A with a 100% winning record after four games, while the Czech Republic moved into second place with a 3-0 win over Montenegro.\n\nKosovo arrived in Southampton on a 15-match unbeaten run and with confidence lifted by victory over the Czechs on Saturday - and when Michael Keane's error gifted Valon Berisha a goal inside the first minute they briefly contemplated a huge upset.\n\nIt did not last long as rampant England, inspired by the magnificent Raheem Sterling, responded ruthlessly with five goals inside the first 45 minutes.\n\nKeane swiftly made amends to set up Sterling to head home after a corner then Manchester City's unstoppable attacker set up captain Harry Kane for his 26th goal in 41 England appearances.\n\nEngland extended their lead when Mergim Vojvoda turned Jadon Sancho's cross into his own net before Borussia Dortmund's 19-year-old got his first two goals for England, both expertly provided by Sterling.\n\nAs an occasionally chaotic encounter swung from end to end, Berisha's fine finish reignited Kosovo's hopes early in the second half before more awful defending from Manchester United's Harry Maguire ended with him conceding a penalty, which Vedat Muriqi scored after he was brought down.\n• None 'Sterling's brilliance will not be enough to overcome dire defence against big guns'\n• None Player Rater - who came out on top for England and Kosovo?\n\nEngland manager Southgate will have revelled in his side's attacking variety and intent as they ripped Kosovo apart with those five goals in the first 45 minutes - but this was nothing like plain sailing.\n\nSterling's ascent into world-class for club and country needs no confirmation and it was all on show as he tormented the Kosovo defence, scoring one goal and creating three as a wounded England hit back after that early shock.\n\nKane once again demonstrated his expertise in front of goal while Sancho repaid Southgate's faith with two goals and a fine performance that earned him a standing ovation when he was substituted.\n\nSo far so good. And then came England's defending.\n\nEverton defender Keane had an inexcusable lapse to pass the ball straight to Berisha in a dangerous position to score the first in the opening minute and the sense of threat every time Kosovo got near England's goal was an illustration of their defensive unease.\n\nAnd defensive partner Maguire was no better, clumsily failing to clear before hauling down Muriqi for the penalty.\n\nIn the end there was no long-term harm done thanks to England's potency up front but it is impossible to escape the belief that this defence, and the ability with which Kosovo could get at it, would be relished by better opposition.\n\nEngland can celebrate the win and taking a giant stride towards Euro 2020 - but there are still problems for Southgate to ponder.\n\nKosovo were not going to wait and wonder what fate held for them as they fulfilled colourful coach Bernard Challandes' boast that they would come at England with positive intent.\n\nBacked by a magnificent, noisy support, they had the boost of that early goal and in some ways their front foot approach cost them as England cut them apart when they poured forward.\n\nIt would have been easy to give up or go into their shell at 5-1, but they came out for the second half to a huge ovation from their fans.\n\nAnd how they responded, to occasionally have England living on their nerves.\n\nThey could not complete the miracle turnaround but they fully deserved the standing ovation from their fans at the final whistle and they will still harbour hopes of being at Euro 2020 next summer.\n• None England have netted 14 goals in their three home European Championship qualifiers, scoring more home goals than any other European nation in qualifying so far.\n• None Kosovo became the first team to score three away goals in a competitive international against England since Croatia in November 2007.\n• None England have scored five goals in three different matches in 2019 - the first time they have done so that many times in a calendar year since 1960.\n• None Valon Berisha's goal after 34 seconds was the first goal scored inside the first minute of an England international since Gareth Southgate scored against South Africa in May 2003.\n• None England conceded a goal inside the opening minute of an international match for the first time since November 1993, when San Marino's Davide Gualtieri scored.\n• None Raheem Sterling has been involved in 12 goals in his last eight England international appearances (8 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Harry Kane and Sterling have combined for six goals under Gareth Southgate for England - at least three times as many as any other duo.\n• None Jadon Sancho (19 years, 169 days) became the youngest player to score more than once in a game for England since Wayne Rooney in June 2004 against Croatia (18 years, 241 days).\n• None This was the first time both teams had scored three times in an England match since June 1995, when they drew 3-3 with Sweden at Elland Road.\n• None Kane's missed penalty ended a run of 23 consecutive penalties scored in competitive internationals by England players - David Beckham's at Euro 2004 against France was the previous miss.\n\nThe next international period takes place in October, with England travelling to the Czech Republic on Friday 11th, followed by an away game in Bulgaria three days later.\n• None Attempt missed. Bersant Celina (Kosovo) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Leart Paqarada.\n• None Anel Rashkaj (Kosovo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, England. Marcus Rashford tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mason Mount.\n• None Raheem Sterling (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Michael Keane (England) header from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stones and petrol bombs were thrown at police\n\nA bomb in Londonderry was an attempt by dissident republican group the New IRA to murder police officers, the PSNI has said.\n\nThe bomb was found after up to 80 police officers took part in a security search targeting the New IRA on Monday.\n\nFifteen families had to leave their homes after the discovery of the device in Creggan Heights, but they have since returned home after it was made safe.\n\nSome analysts suggest dissident republicans may be trying to exploit publicity surrounding Brexit to advance their agenda.\n\nMore than 40 petrol bombs and other missiles were thrown at police during the security search.\n\nPolice said a crowd of between 60 and 100 young people gathered in the area, some of whom attacked police vehicles.\n\nAt least two of the young people suffered burn injuries when they tried to attack the police cordon with petrol bombs.\n\nSinn Féin's Karen Mullan said the number of young people who actively attacked police was \"smaller\" than the total size of the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't see anything orchestrated but one person rioting is one person too many,\" she added.\n\nShe said people living in Creggan were \"angry and disgusted\" and those responsible were not \"listening to the community\".\n\n\"There is no justification whatsoever for rioting or attacking the police when they are in to do their job,\" she said.\n\nThe bomb was discovered in a parked car in Creggan\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said the command wire initiated improvised explosive device was discovered in a car parked in the area.\n\nHe said it was in an \"advanced state of readiness\".\n\nThe device would require someone to be \"standing watching for a target to pass by\" and then send an electrical charge down its command wire.\n\n\"This is effectively like a roadside bomb,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a small device to look at but contains what we believe to be commercial explosives and it would have had quite a considerable explosion.\"\n\nIt was made safe by Army bomb disposal experts at about 04:00 BST.\n\nThe PSNI has noted a change of tempo in dissident republican activity in recent months.\n\nSenior officers believe there is a greater determination to cause harm.\n\nPerhaps dissident republicans are out to exploit publicity surrounding Brexit.\n\nThis year, there have been seven attacks, or planned attacks, in Northern Ireland which are known of.\n\nThe majority have been attributed to the so-called New IRA, the bigger of two main dissident groups.\n\nNone of the attacks has gone to plan - only two of six murder bids involving bombs involved a device which went off.\n\nHowever, as the shooting dead of journalist Lyra McKee showed, the intent, the ability to mount attacks, exists.\n\nOverall, the campaign of violence is low-level in historical terms.\n\nMI5, which has the lead role in Northern Ireland counter-terrorism, has hundreds of staff in Holywood working to contain the threat.\n\nACC Hamilton said those responsible had \"no regard for the lives of anyone living in Creggan\" and had \"exploited some of the young people in the community to attack police\".\n\nACC Hamilton said he believes the New IRA was to \"drive policing out of Creggan.\"\n\nPolice said they would remain at the scene and a \"full terrorist investigation\" was under way.\n\nSpeaking at a police press conference on Tuesday he said he believed \"the New IRA want to drive policing out of Creggan\".\n\n\"We believe the New IRA want to deny the people of Creggan the right to phone the police about the most ordinary things that anyone in our society should have the right to phone the police about, be it sexual violence, domestic abuse, burglary, car crime,\" he said.\n\nPolice are carrying out further investigations in the Creggan area\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said those behind the bomb were using their community as a shield.\n\n\"For the sake of the next generation, these people need to be removed from our streets,\" she said.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was \"shockingly reckless to leave a bomb in the middle of a street.\"\n\n\"It just shows these people don't care about their own community, they don't care about who they hurt,\n\n\"They are trying to kill Irish police officers. It is totally and utterly morally wrong,\" he said.\n\nJournalist Lyra McKee was shot dead during rioting in Creggan in April while standing near a police 4x4.\n\nFr Joseph Gormley, who anointed Ms McKee on the night she was shot, said had the bomb not been found and diffused, \"we could have had another loss of life\".\n\nThe New IRA later said its members had murdered the 29-year-old, who was shot in the head when a masked gunman fired towards police and onlookers.\n\nMonday's police operation in Creggan followed the discovery of a mortar bomb in Strabane, County Tyrone, on Saturday, which police blamed on the New IRA.", "Mubashar Hussain ran over the officer as he fled the scene in Moseley, Birmingham, in the police car\n\nA car thief has admitted seriously injuring a police officer who he ran over with a police car.\n\nPC Gareth Phillips suffered potentially life-changing injuries when he was punched to the ground and hit by the car in Moseley, Birmingham, last month.\n\nThe traffic officer was attacked stopping Mubashar Hussain, 29, who had stolen a Range Rover Evoque.\n\nHussain admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on 15 October.\n\nPC Gareth Phillips has been \"absolutely overwhelmed by messages of support\", West Midlands Police said\n\nThe accused, of no fixed address, faced a total of 12 charges when he appeared via videolink at Birmingham Crown Court earlier.\n\nPC Phillips, 42, had gone to reports of a stolen car in Moorcroft Road at about 16:45 BST on 10 August and found Hussain in the driver's seat and his co-defendant Ahsan Ghafoor in the passenger seat.\n\nHussain fought back as the PC and other officers tried to arrest him.\n\nHe was Tasered but managed to break free and got into a BMW police car at the scene which was parked behind the stolen car and drove at the officer.\n\nHussain was arrested in Sparkbrook, about a mile away from the attack in Moseley\n\nHussain, who was already banned from driving, fled the scene, driving over the officer.\n\nHe abandoned the vehicle a short time later in the Sparkbrook area and was arrested. He was originally charged with attempted murder.\n\nPC Phillips underwent two operations within hours of the attack and remains in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Smith QC told the court updated medical evidence about PC Phillips' injuries would be presented at the next hearing.\n\nWest Midlands Police initially said PC Phillips was run over by his own patrol car, but have since clarified it was a different force vehicle which was also at the scene.\n\nPC Phillips had been called along with other officers to the stolen Range Rover in Moorcroft Road, Moseley\n\nHussain admitted causing grievous bodily harm, two counts of vehicle theft, dangerous driving, two counts of driving while disqualified, two counts of assault, assaulting an emergency worker, aggravated vehicle-taking, and two charges of having no insurance.\n\nHis co-defendant Ghafoor, 24, also of no fixed address, admitted two counts of car theft and was also remanded in custody.\n\nGhafoor also admitted dangerous driving, having no insurance and driving other than in accordance with a licence.\n\nPaul Farrow, of the CPS, said: \"This was a sickening offence where Hussain's only thought was to ensure his escape, whatever the cost.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with PC Phillips as he embarks upon a long road to what is hoped will be a full recovery, although this remains uncertain.\"\n\nAhsan Ghafoor was also remanded in custody for sentencing next month\n\nWest Midlands Police said PC Phillips had now moved from the intensive care unit on to a general ward, was \"comfortable and in good spirits\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"He and his family have been absolutely overwhelmed by messages of support and they have asked that their heartfelt thanks be passed on to everyone who has been in touch.\"\n\nHussain pleaded not guilty to a further count of assault with intent to resist arrest, which will not be proceeded with.\n\nThe CPS confirmed Hussain was originally charged with attempted murder \"before all the available footage and other evidence was available\".\n\n\"On careful review of all of the evidence, it could not be proved that Hussain had an intention to kill PC Phillips as he drove forward and this meant that there was insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction for the offence of attempted murder.\n\n\"Causing grievous bodily harm to PC Phillips with intent to resist arrest was considered to be the appropriate charge,\" a CPS spokesman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Apple has unveiled its iPhone 11 range of handsets, which feature more cameras than before and a processor that has been updated to be faster while consuming less power.\n\nBut it did not launch a 5G model, and some rumoured features were missing.\n\nThe BBC's Dave Lee went hands-on with the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, to share his first impressions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patel: Police \"haven't always had enough support\"\n\nThe new home secretary has told police officers she is \"ashamed\" that they have not had enough support from previous governments.\n\nPriti Patel promised more resources to help bring a stop to officers being \"overworked and undervalued\".\n\nThe government has pledged 20,000 more officers over the next three years.\n\nIn her first major speech as home secretary, Ms Patel also said she wanted longer jail terms for \"monsters\" who attack police.\n\nMs Patel told the Police Superintendents' Association (PSA) conference she wanted to \"reset the relationship\" between the government and the police.\n\n\"This is a new government and I'm prepared to be frank. I'm ashamed to say you haven't always had enough support,\" she said at the conference in Warwickshire.\n\n\"You have been overworked and undervalued, unable to do the job you love as well as you'd like. And that stops now.\"\n\nMs Patel spoke alongside PSA Ch Supt Paul Griffiths, who said the rank of superintendent was the most cut rank across the police force\n\nBetween March 2010 and March 2018, police forces in England and Wales lost 21,732 officers - a drop of 15%, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThe cuts came as part of austerity measures brought in by the Conservative and coalition governments, in an attempt to reduce the deficit.\n\nBut Ms Patel said she would do \"everything\" to ensure police had \"the resources, the power and the authority\" needed to help \"restore pride\" in the service.\n\nShe also said she was \"urgently exploring\" what more could be done to support families of officers killed on duty.\n\nIt comes after a recent spate of violent attacks on officers and the death of PC Andrew Harper, who was killed while investigating a burglary in Berkshire in August\n\nOn Monday, car thief Mubashar Hussain admitted seriously injuring PC Gareth Phillips, who he ran over with his own police car in Moseley, Birmingham, last month.\n\nMs Patel said the \"epidemic of attacks\" demanded urgent action, adding she was working to ensure such incidents were handled with \"the appropriate severity\".\n\nTraditionally, the Police Superintendents' Association conference plays second fiddle to the annual gathering of the much larger Police Federation.\n\nThe federation event - attended by hundreds of constables, sergeants and inspectors - has acted as a barometer of the mood of the police service. The home secretary, who always attends, often becomes a recipient of their anger.\n\nBut this year's federation conference was cancelled after a cyber-attack - so all of the focus is on the superintendents' gathering.\n\nThe senior officers greeted Priti Patel's appearance on stage with applause and reacted positively to what she had to say. The questions from the association's members were probing, but polite.\n\nAlthough some complained that her speech lacked detail, there was an acknowledgement that Ms Patel is trying to draw a line under the fractious nature of the police's previous relationship with the government.\n\nThe PSA's Ch Supt Paul Griffiths had earlier highlighted that numbers at the rank of superintendent have been cut by 25% since 2010, making it the most cut rank across the police force.\n\nThe PSA has called for another 300 superintendents to be recruited as part of the additional 20,000 officers that were pledged by Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he took office in July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A majority of people thought it was OK for the brain to be hacked to help those with medical conditions but not for enhancement\n\nDevices that merge machines with the human brain need to be investigated, a study has said.\n\nIn future, \"people could become telepathic to some degree\" and being able to read someone else's thoughts raises ethical issues, experts said.\n\nThis could become especially worrying if those thoughts were shared with corporations.\n\nCommercial products should not come from \"a handful of companies\", they added\n\nIn the study - iHuman: Blurring Lines between Mind and Machine - leading scientists at the UK's Royal Society lay out the opportunities and risks of brain-to-computer devices.\n\nSuch interfaces refer to gadgets, either implanted in the body or worn externally, that stimulate activity in either the brain or nervous system.\n\nIt looked at some of the future possibilities of neural technology, such as:\n\nAs part of the report, scientists asked the public what they thought of such interfaces and found strong support for their use in allowing patients to recover from injury or a medical condition.\n\nBut there was far less support for using such devices to enhance functions such as memory or physical strength in healthy people.\n\nAmong the risks highlighted by the report was the idea of thoughts or moods being accessed by big corporations as well as the bigger question about whether such devices fundamentally change what it means to be human.\n\nDr Tim Constandinou, director of the next generation neural Interfaces (NGNI) Lab, at Imperial College London and co-chair of the report, said: \"By 2040 neural interfaces are likely to be an established option to enable people to walk after paralysis and tackle treatment-resistant depression, they may even have made treating Alzheimer's disease a reality.\n\n\"While advances like seamless brain-to-computer communication seem a much more distant possibility, we should act now to ensure our ethical and regulatory safeguards are flexible enough for any future development.\n\n\"In this way we can guarantee these emerging technologies are implemented safely and for the benefit of humanity.\"\n\nIn July, Elon Musk announced that his firm Neuralink was applying to start human trials in the US, with electrodes inserted into the brains of patients with paralysis.\n\nAnd Facebook is supporting research that aims to create a headset with the ability to transcribe words at a rate of 100 per minute, just by thinking.\n\nIn the US it is estimated that 60,000 spinal-cord stimulators are implanted annually and around the world some 400,000 people have benefited from cochlear implants.\n\nThousands of people with Parkinson's disease and similar conditions have been treated with deep brain stimulation, and artificial pancreases and wireless heart monitors are also common.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour should \"unequivocally back Remain\" in a fresh Brexit referendum and only then pursue power in a general election, its deputy has said.\n\nTom Watson said there was \"no such thing as a good Brexit deal\" and the 2016 Leave vote had been \"invalidated\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he did \"not accept or agree with\" his deputy's view.\n\n\"Our priority is to get a general election in order to give the people a chance to elect a government that cares for them,\" he said.\n\nThe Labour leader wants to hold another referendum once Labour has won power, in which voters would have the choice to remain in the EU alongside a \"credible\" Leave proposal.\n\nHowever, he has said he would only choose a side once the shape of any revised Brexit deal negotiated by a Labour government became clear.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent, Chris Mason, said Mr Watson was directly elected as deputy leader by party members, not appointed by Mr Corbyn, and so has a right to roam on policy other shadow cabinet ministers might not get away with it.\n\nIn a speech in London, Mr Watson said while an autumn general election seemed inevitable \"that does not make it desirable\".\n\n\"Elections should never be single issue campaigns,\" he argued, suggesting vital issues such as the future of the NHS, economic inequality and crime would be \"drowned out\" by the prime minister's \"do or die\" Brexit message.\n\n\"The only way to break the Brexit deadlock once and for all is a public vote in a referendum,\" he said. \"A general election might well fail to solve this Brexit chaos.\"\n\nIn the event of another general election in the coming months, Mr Watson said Labour must be \"crystal clear\" about where it stands on Brexit if it wants to get a hearing for the rest of its domestic policy agenda.\n\n\"There is no such thing as a good Brexit deal, which is why I believe we should advocate for Remain. That is what the overwhelming majority of Labour Party members, MPs and trade unions believe.\"\n\nMr Watson will said that, though \"very difficult\", he and many others \"respected the result of the 2016 referendum for a long time\".\n\nBut, he added: \"There eventually comes a point when circumstances are so changed, when so much new information has emerged that we didn't have in 2016, when so many people feel differently to how they felt then, that you have to say, no... the only proper way to proceed in such circumstances is to consult the people again.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who pushed Labour into third place in May's European elections with a strident anti-Brexit message, are pushing for Brexit to be stopped in its tracks by revoking Article 50 - the legal process for the UK's departure.\n\nWhile stopping short of calling for that himself, Mr Watson said it was not too late for Labour to \"win back\" Remain voters.\n\n\"My experience on the doorstep tells me most of those who've deserted us over our Brexit policy did so with deep regret and would greatly prefer to come back,\" he added.\n\n\"They just want us to take an unequivocal position that whatever happens we'll fight to remain, and to sound like we mean it.\"\n\nFormer Labour leadership contender Owen Smith said Mr Watson was speaking for \"the majority of Labour members and Labour voters\", and that the party \"should be clearing the Brexit issue off the table before we get to an election\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn committed to a referendum with a \"credible Leave option\" on Tuesday\n\nBut another Labour MP, Gareth Snell - one of a group of MPs in the party wanting to bring back an amended version of Theresa May's original withdrawal agreement - said the \"numbers simply don't exist\" in Parliament to approve a further referendum.\n\nHe told Today: \"The public have no appetite for a second referendum. The doors I knock every week… [voters] are not telling me they want to go back to the divisive referendum [but] they want a decision on this process to be taken as soon as possible.\"\n\nJust 24 hours after Jeremy Corbyn hammered out a deal with the Labour-supporting unions, his deputy, Tom Watson, shattered any fragile unity.\n\nMr Watson and many Labour activists want a clearer commitment to campaign on a Remain platform - especially during a snap election.\n\nSo, apart from his own scepticism towards an EU that he believes needs reform, what is the thinking behind Jeremy Corbyn's position?\n\nWell, it comes down to four things - psephology, party unity, politics and personal authority.\n\nUnite's Len McCluskey dismissed Mr Watson's intervention, accusing him of \"undermining\" the leadership and suggesting his views \"don't really matter\".\n\nThe two men, who used to be close friends, fell out spectacularly in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum during an uprising by Labour MPs against Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nThe union leader suggested Mr Watson was \"languishing on the fringes\" of the party, adding: \"It's sad. Now and again Tom pops up from where he has been hiding and comes up with something… which is normally to try and undermine his leader.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said Mr Watson had made it clear he wanted to \"cancel\" the 2016 Brexit referendum result.\n\nLabour has voted twice against Boris Johnson's plans for a poll on 15 October.\n\nThe party's leadership has insisted it is eager for an election after the risk of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October has been ruled out.", "Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays have both announced they are facing billions of pounds in new costs to cover a late rush of claims for the mis-selling of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI).\n\nLloyds said it faced a bill of £1.2bn-£1.8bn after \"a significant spike\" in claims in the run-up to the final deadline of 29 August.\n\nBarclays said it faced new costs of £1.2bn-£1.6bn.\n\nBoth banks have already paid out huge sums to cover compensation claims.\n\nPPI was designed to cover loan repayments if borrowers fell ill or lost their job, but many were sold to people who did not want or need them.\n\nBanks and other providers sold millions of the policies, mainly between 1990 and 2010.\n\nLast month's final deadline for PPI compensation prompted a surge of last-minute claims from consumers.\n\nAn FCA ad campaign featuring an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger urged consumers to make claims before the deadline\n\nLloyds said that at the time of its half-year results in July, it had assumed that PPI claims would continue to come in at the rate of 190,000 a week.\n\nHowever, in the run-up to the final deadline, it said it received 600,000 to 800,000 a week.\n\n\"Including claims by the Official Receiver, the group now estimates that it will need to make an incremental charge for PPI claims, in addition to the provisions to 30 June 2019, in the range of £1.2bn to £1.8bn in its Q3 interim management statement,\" the bank said.\n\nBy May, Lloyds had set aside some £19.5bn to cover PPI claims, but this bill will have now risen.\n\nBarclays, which had already set aside more than £9.2bn, said it too had seen a \"higher than expected volume of PPI-related claims\" during August.\n\nOther UK banks have been hit by the last-minute rush for compensation.\n\nEstimates suggest that the last-minute surge in claims means that banks will ultimately have set aside well over £50bn in total to pay for the PPI scandal.\n\nIn February this year, Lloyds said it planned to buy back £1.75bn of its shares this year.\n\nHowever, given the \"uncertainty around the final outcome for PPI\", Lloyds said it had \"decided to suspend the remainder of the 2019 buyback programme, with [around] £600m of the up to £1.75bn programme expected to be unused at mid-September\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow stands down: \"We degrade this parliament at our peril\"\n\nJohn Bercow says he will stand down as Commons Speaker and MP at the next election or on 31 October, whichever comes first.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament, Mr Bercow said his 10-year \"tenure\" was nearing its end and it had been the \"greatest honour and privilege\" to serve.\n\nIf there was no early election, he said 31 October would be the \"least disruptive and most democratic\" date.\n\nThe ex-Tory MP succeeded the late Michael Martin as Speaker in 2009.\n\nHe has faced fierce criticism from Brexiteers, who have questioned his impartiality on the issue of Europe and claim he has facilitated efforts by MPs opposed to a no-deal exit to take control of Commons business.\n\nHe has also been criticised for not doing more to tackle allegations of bullying and harassment in the House of Commons.\n\nMr Bercow himself has been accused of mistreating several members of his own staff, which he denies.\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 a break from normal convention, Mr Bercow was facing a challenge from the Conservatives in his Buckingham constituency at the next election - whenever it is called.\n\nHis wife, Sally, was in the public gallery as he made his announcement - which comes just hours before Parliament is due to be suspended or prorogued for five weeks.\n\nMr Bercow said he had decided at the time of the 2017 election that this would be his last Parliament as Speaker.\n\nIf MPs reject calls for an early election later on Monday, as seems likely, the Speaker said it was important an \"experienced figure\" chaired debates in the final week of October leading up to the UK's possible exit from the EU.\n\nThe period between 14 October - when the Queen will open the new session of Parliament and the government announces its new legislative programme - and 31 October is likely to be among the most eventful and unpredictable in living memory.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will not ask for a further Brexit delay and the UK must leave the EU on Halloween.\n\nMr Bercow received a standing ovation after his announcement, although not all Tories joined in\n\nBut, unless he negotiates a new deal acceptable to Parliament, he will be legally obliged to seek a delay under the terms of legislation passed by MPs and which gained Royal Assent on Monday.\n\nThere has been speculation that, to avoid this, Mr Johnson could resign or force a vote of confidence which, if he lost, would trigger 14 days of negotiations over forming a new government.\n\nMr Bercow warned that if the appointment of his own successor was left until after the next election, newly-elected MPs might find themselves being \"unduly influenced\" by party whips in their choice of figure.\n\n\"It will mean a ballot is held when all members have some knowledge of the candidates. This is far preferable to a contest at the start of a Parliament where new MPs will not be similarly informed,\" he told the Commons of his plans.\n\n\"We would not want anyone to be whipped senseless, would we?\"\n\nIn an emotional speech, he said he had been proud to stand up for the interests of MPs and to act as the \"backbenchers' backstop\".\n\n\"Throughout my time as Speaker, I have sought to increase the relative authority of this legislature for which I will make absolutely no apology to anyone, anywhere, at any time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Speaker has found fame across Europe with his signature cry capturing the public's attention\n\nMr Bercow received a standing ovation from the Labour benches after announcing his imminent departure, but most Tory MPs stayed in their seats.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn led tributes, saying the Speaker had stood up for and promoted democracy, adding that the \"choice and timing\" of his exit date was \"incomparable\".\n\nFor the government, Michael Gove said his determination to give MPs increased opportunities to hold the government to account were \"in the best tradition of Speakers\".\n\nWhen he was first elected, Mr Bercow said he intended to serve no more than nine years in the job.\n\nThe Speaker is chosen by all MPs in the House by secret ballot.\n\nFor many years, the role alternated between the two largest parties although this unwritten convention was broken in 2000 when Labour's Michael Martin succeeded his colleague Betty Boothroyd.\n\nPotential Labour successors to Mr Bercow include Commons deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, who announced his candidacy on Twitter.\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\nOther possible contenders include Harriet Harman, the former Labour deputy leader and the longest-serving female MP in the House.", "The evidence comes from dental plaque from Neolithic remains\n\nScientists have discovered the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption by humans.\n\nThe team identified milk protein entombed in calcified dental plaque (calculus) on the teeth of prehistoric farmers from Britain.\n\nIt shows that humans were consuming dairy products as early as 6,000 years ago - despite being lactose intolerant.\n\nThis could suggest they processed the raw milk into cheese, yoghurt or some other fermented product.\n\nThis would have reduced its lactose content, making it more palatable.\n\nThe team members scraped samples of plaque off the teeth, separated the different components within it and analysed them using mass spectrometry.\n\nThey detected a milk protein called beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) in the tartar of seven individuals spanning early to middle Neolithic times.\n\n\"Proteomic analysis of calculus is a fairly recent technique. There have been a few studies before, but they have generally been on historical archaeological material rather than prehistoric material,\" co-author Dr Sophy Charlton, from the department of archaeology at the University of York, told BBC News.\n\nDr Charlton, shown here sampling the plaque from ancient teeth, says raw milk might have been processed into cheese or some other dairy product\n\nLactose intolerance arises from the inability to digest the lactose sugar contained in milk beyond infancy. This means that consuming milk-based foods can cause uncomfortable symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhoea and nausea. However, many modern Europeans possess a genetic mutation which allows for the continued consumption of milk into adulthood.\n\nThis mutation affects a section of DNA controlling the activity of the gene for lactase - an enzyme that breaks down lactose sugar. However, previous studies of the genetics of Neolithic Europeans show that they lacked this mutation.\n\nDr Charlton said it was possible these Stone Age people were limiting themselves to small amounts of milk. \"If you are lactose intolerant and you consume very, very small amounts of milk, then it doesn't make you too ill. You can just about cope with that,\" she explained.\n\nBut Dr Charlton added: \"The alternative option, which I think is perhaps slightly more plausible, is that they were processing the milk in such a way that it's removing a degree of the lactose. So if you process it into a cheese, or a fermented milk product, or a yoghurt, then it does decrease the lactose content so you could more easily digest it.\n\n\"That idea fits quite well with other archaeological evidence for the period in which we find dairy fats inside lots of Neolithic pottery, both in the UK and the rest of Europe.\"\n\nThe Neolithic saw the introduction of domesticated animals, such as sheep, cows and goats\n\nIn addition, some of the milk residues found in these pots appear to have been heated, which would be required for processing raw milk into cheese or some other product.\n\nThe human remains tested in the study come from three Neolithic sites: Hambledon Hill in Dorset, Hazleton North in Gloucestershire, and Banbury Lane in Northamptonshire.\n\nMore than one quarter of the pottery fragments at Hambledon Hill had milk lipids on them, suggesting that dairy foods were very important to the people living at that site. Other Neolithic sites show evidence of animal herds that are consistent with those used for dairying.\n\nGenetic studies of ancient populations from across Eurasia show that lactase persistence only became common very recently, despite the consumption of milk products in the Neolithic. The mutation had started to appear by the Bronze Age, but even at this time, it was only present in 5-10% of Europeans.\n\nThe Neolithic age in Britain lasted from about 6,000 to 4,400 years ago and saw the introduction of farming, including the use of domesticated animals such as cows, sheep, pigs and goats.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.", "Sir Cliff said news coverage of a police raid on his house was \"devastating\"\n\nSir Cliff Richard will receive around £2m towards his legal costs from the BBC after agreeing a final settlement following last year's privacy case.\n\nIn July 2018, the star won a High Court case against the broadcaster over its coverage of a police raid on his home.\n\nThe BBC was ordered to pay £210,000 in damages, and later agreed to pay £850,000 to cover legal costs. That figure has now increased.\n\nHowever, the singer said he was still \"substantially out of pocket\".\n\nDuring the trial, the 78-year-old singer said he had spent more than £3m to clear his name.\n\nIn a statement, the star's spokesman said: \"Sir Cliff incurred these costs over a five-year period as a direct result of the actions of the BBC and South Yorkshire Police.\n\n\"He is of course glad that an agreement about costs has now been reached. Ultimately, however, Sir Cliff is substantially out of pocket (a seven figure sum), not least because there are costs that he has not sought to recover from the parties.\"\n\nThe BBC, which also paid £315,000 to South Yorkshire Police for legal costs, said it was \"pleased\" to have reached \"an amicable settlement\".\n\n\"The BBC's costs are within the scope of our legal insurance,\" added a corporation spokesman.\n\nSir Cliff took the BBC to court after the broadcaster filmed a police raid on his home in Berkshire in 2014. The footage, which included aerial shots taken from a helicopter, was shown on news bulletins throughout the day.\n\nOfficers were investigating an allegation made by a man who claimed he was sexually assaulted by Sir Cliff in 1985. But the singer was never arrested or charged and the case was dropped two years later.\n\nThe BBC apologised for the \"distress\" caused to Sir Cliff, but said the privacy ruling could hinder press freedom.\n\nThe star was at his second home in Portugal when he learned of the raid. \"It was very intrusive,\" he later told ITV's Jonathan Ross show.\n\n\"It's hard to explain to people what it feels like. I only went back to that apartment once, to collect my clothes. It was worse than being burgled.\"\n\nA judge later concluded Sir Cliff had a right to privacy while a suspect in the investigation, trumping the broadcaster's right to freedom of expression to publish his name and cover the raid.\n\nAfterwards, he said the allegations and subsequent media coverage were the \"worst thing that has happened to me in my entire life\".\n\n\"What the BBC did was an abuse,\" he said, adding that senior executives at the corporation deserved to lose their jobs. \"They took it upon themselves to be judge, jury and executioner.\"\n\nSir Cliff has subsequently joined other public figures in calling for the law to protect the anonymity of people suspected of sexual offences until they are actually charged with a crime.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson's Conservative government has suffered two blows in the Commons as MPs rejected his call to vote for an early general election.\n\nTo see how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe prime minister's call for an early general election was rejected by MPs when it failed to reach the two thirds majority required under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.\n\nMPs have also voted for a bill aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit, the vote was won by 327 to 299.\n\nThe bill would force the prime minister to ask the European Union for a delay to Brexit to prevent the UK's departure without a deal.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nConservative MP Dame Caroline Spelman voted alongside the Conservative rebels who were expelled on Tuesday for voting against the government, while Brexit-supporting Kate Hoey was the only Labour member to vote with the government.\n\nThe measure must now be approved by the House of Lords. If peers pass the bill it could postpone the UK's departure from the European Union until 31 January 2020, if by 19 October this year MPs have not approved a new deal or voted in favour of a no-deal exit.\n\nDuring the debate on the bill it was amended, so that during a Brexit extension Parliament has to vote on a version of the former prime minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement.", "A breakdown of the baggage belt has also led to long queues at check-in desks\n\nPlanes have been forced to take off from Gatwick without passengers' bags after a technical fault.\n\nA breakdown of the baggage belt has also led to long queues at check-in desks at the airport's North Terminal.\n\nPassengers faced delays of more than five hours, while others have arrived at their destination without luggage.\n\nGatwick apologised for \"any inconvenience\" and said the fault had now been fixed, with luggage to be \"repatriated\" on Tuesday or Wednesday.\n\nYasmin Karabasic, who landed in Dubrovnik, Croatia, to learn her bags had been left behind, said: \"It's a bit of a nightmare.\n\n\"We got to Gatwick at 5am and it was chaos. The staff had no clue what was going on.\"\n\nPassengers are facing delays of more than five hours\n\nHaving run to meet the plane, the trainee lawyer said she had \"no idea\" her bags had not been loaded and was assured by the pilot all the luggage was on board.\n\n\"We landed and thought, can this day get any worse? Everyone was just happy we had got to the flight and made it,\" she added.\n\nMs Karabasic, from Portsmouth, said her family and about 30 other passengers - including a couple on honeymoon - appeared to have no luggage.\n\nEasyjet said bags would be returned to passengers \"as soon as possible\"\n\nHayley Rayner said on Twitter her holiday with her twin babies had been \"ruined\" after arriving in Spain to find their luggage - including car seats and baby milk - had been left behind.\n\nSue Tranter, who was due to fly at 08:00 BST, said she had been transferred to a 12:20 flight, which was then rescheduled to 14:15.\n\n\"It's a shambles. Easyjet do not seem to know what is going on and so far we have only had one employee apologise to us,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Federico Ruiz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEasyjet, which is one of the airlines affected, said in a statement: \"Any passengers who have missed flights because of the resulting congestion at bag drop are being offered free transfers to alternative flights.\n\n\"We are both working closely with the airport team to minimise the disruption and return luggage to our passengers as soon as possible.\"\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. Aidan O'Neill QC says the court and petitioners were being actively misled over prorogation plans\n\nBoris Johnson appears to have approved a plan to shut down the UK Parliament two weeks before publicly announcing it, a Scottish court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard that the prime minister was sent a note on 15 August asking if he wanted to prorogue parliament from mid-September.\n\nA tick and the word \"yes\" was written on the document.\n\nThe PM announced on 28 August that he wants to shut down Parliament for five weeks from next week.\n\nHe would then set out his legislative plans in a Queen's Speech on 14 October. The government insists this will give MPs sufficient time to debate Brexit before the UK's departure on 31 October.\n\nA cross-party group of parliamentarians headed by SNP MP Joanna Cherry and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson wants Scotland's highest civil court to rule that Mr Johnson has acted illegally and unconstitutionally by proroguing Parliament ahead of the UK leaving the EU.\n\nMr Johnson declined to give a sworn statement to the court setting out his reasons for shutting down parliament. The UK government argues that proroguing Parliament is a political decision and that the courts should not be involved.\n\nThe judge, Lord Doherty, heard from both sides in the case on Tuesday, and will deliver his ruling at 10:00 on Wednesday.\n\nBoris Johnson announced on 28 August that he wants to shut down parliament for five weeks\n\nThe parliamentarian's lawyer, Aidan O'Neill QC, told Lord Doherty that one of the documents produced in the case was a note sent by the government's director of legislative affairs, Nikki Da Costa, to the prime minister and his special advisor Dominic Cummings on 15 August.\n\nMr O'Neill said the note was headed \"ending the session\", and asked: \"Are you content for your PPS (principal private secretary) to approach the palace with the request for prorogation to begin with the period 9 September to Thursday 12 September and for the Queen's Speech on 14 October?\"\n\nBeside that paragraph was a handwritten tick and the word \"yes\", Mr O'Neill added.\n\nThe QC said: \"One presumes this is a document which was sent in the red box to the prime minister for him to read at his leisure in the evening of 15 August in which he says 'yes' to approaching the palace with a request for prorogation.\"\n\nHe added: \"That appears to be developing government policy as of 15 August, but this court was told nothing of that (by UK government lawyers) and was told in fact that this judicial review is academic, hypothetical and premature.\n\n\"That is not true. This court and these petitioners were being actively misled.\"\n\nHe also highlighted comments in a handwritten note, understood to be from Mr Johnson, which was dated 16 August and which described the September session of Parliament as a \"rigmarole introduced to show the public that MPs were earning their crust\" and that he did not see \"anything especially shocking about this proposition\".\n\nThe note also said: \"As Nikki notes, it is over the conference season so that the sitting days lost are actually very few.\"\n\nMr O'Neill said that the UK government had only sent him the notes at 22:55 on Monday - which he said was \"long past my bed time\" - after saying last week that they would not be be lodging any further documents.\n\nHe said the fact that the prime minister had declined to give a sworn affidavit to the court meant it \"can and should draw adverse inferences\".\n\nAnd he argued that Mr Johnson had chosen not to be accountable to either the court or to Parliament - and that the prime minister's intention is to facilitate a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr O'Neill is seeking an interim interdict - the Scottish equivalent of an injunction - on the proroguing of Parliament.\n\nCourt of Session case: How we got here\n\nThe UK government's lawyer, David Johnston, later argued that proroguing Parliament is a political decision for the government, rather than a legal matter for the court to decide.\n\nMr Johnston said: \"This is political territory and decision making which cannot be measured against legal standards, but rather only by political judgements which must permit a degree of flexibility according to circumstances.\"\n\nHe said the parliamentarians behind the case had claimed that MPs were being denied the opportunity to scrutinise the government to the extent that it wishes, and to pass legislation related to Brexit.\n\nBut he said Parliament would be able to sit \"for certain periods\" before 31 October, and the case was therefore \"academic\" because \"the constitutional fear that the petitioners raise has been addressed by Parliament itself, in deciding when it wishes to sit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Johnston QC tells the Court of Session prorogation is a political and not a legal matter\n\nHe also said the statute books did not set out mandatory periods when Parliament must sit, or for how long it must sit, adding: \"It simply doesn't provide a legal standard to measure whether a decision to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament is lawful or not.\"\n\nLord Advocate James Wolffe QC - Scotland's top law officer - has been given permission by the judge to take part in the hearing.\n\nMr Wolffe is expected to argue that the suspension of Parliament prevents scrutiny of the government's plans and represents an abuse of executive power.\n\nAs well as the Court of Session hearing, former prime minister Sir John Major and campaigner Gina Miller have joined forces to oppose the decision to suspend Parliament in the English courts.\n\nAnd in Northern Ireland, proceedings have been launched at the High Court in Belfast by prominent Troubles victims' campaigner Raymond McCord - who claims that leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement would be an \"unconstitutional attack on the people of Northern Ireland\"\n\nMr McCord is also seeking a ruling that the prime minister cannot \"bypass\" MPs by proroguing parliament. His case is due to call again on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does proroguing Parliament mean?\n\nParliament is normally suspended - or prorogued - for a short period before a new session begins. It is done by the Queen, on the advice of the prime minister.\n\nParliamentary sessions normally last a year, but the current one has been going on for more than two years - ever since the June 2017 election.\n\nWhen Parliament is prorogued, no debates and votes are held - and most laws that haven't completed their passage through Parliament die a death.\n\nThis is different to \"dissolving\" Parliament - where all MPs give up their seats to campaign in a general election.\n\nThe last two times Parliament was suspended for a Queen's Speech that was not after a general election the closures lasted for four and 13 working days respectively.\n\nIf this prorogation happens as expected, it will see Parliament closed for 23 working days.\n\nMPs have to approve recess dates, but they cannot block prorogation.", "Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg was accused of being contemptuous for reclining across the seats in the chamber.", "Transport Minister Grant Shapps says he will keep an \"open mind\" over the future of the HS2 high-speed railway until another review into the project is complete.\n\nThe review will be chaired by Douglas Oakervee, a civil engineer and former chairman of HS2.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael and Marjorie Cawdery, both 83, died in a \"frenzied\" knife attack\n\nThe family of an elderly couple killed in County Armagh by a man with severe mental health issues say they feel \"discriminated against\" as victims.\n\nMichael and Marjorie Cawdery, both 83, died in a \"frenzied\" knife attack by Thomas McEntee in their home in 2017.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Victims' Commissioner only deals with cases related to the Troubles.\n\nThe Cawdreys' daughter says it is unfair victims are treated differently in NI to other parts of the UK.\n\nIn England and Wales, the victims' commissioner has oversight of all victims of crime.\n\nWendy Little said: \"It's right and proper that there are resources being spent on a victims' commissioner for the Troubles but what about other types of victims?\n\n\"In the aftermath of everything, our world was turned upside down and I wasn't able to function properly - we didn't know who to turn to.\n\n\"It's the same old situation again - why are we being treated differently in Northern Ireland?\n\n\"Victims of all crime need compassion and support for situations that come totally out of the blue.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Victims' Commissioner Judith Thompson was re-appointed for a further 12 months last Friday.\n\nHer office works under specific legislation that defines a victim as someone who has been physically or psychologically injured or bereaved as a result of a \"conflict-related incident\" in Northern Ireland.\n\nOne of its main duties is to provide advice to the government on matters affecting victims and survivors of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and their loved ones.\n\nThe commissioner for victims in England and Wales was set up in 2010; it is independent of government and advocates for victims of all types of crime and their families.\n\nLast year, it produced a report and lobbied the UK government on the entitlements of victims of mentally ill offenders.\n\nMcEntee was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison for killing the couple\n\nAn estimated 120 people a year across the UK are killed by someone who is mentally ill.\n\nA government-funded study by Manchester University found that almost 10% of those convicted of homicide in Northern Ireland between 2006 and 2014 had been in contact with mental health services in the 12 months prior to the offence.\n\nMichael and Marjorie Cawdery's daughter and son-in-law, Wendy and Charles Little, say they were traumatised by the killing - they witnessed the aftermath of the attack at the Cawderys' Portadown home.\n\nMr Little said: \"We are victims, we effectively suffered a psychological assault that day and our lives have changed beyond recognition and there is only so much the police and victims' charities can do.\n\n\"A victims' commissioner is meant to provide victims with a voice and, at the minute, victims of non-Troubles crimes don't have one.\"\n\nHe added: \"Troubles' victims should be represented but so should other victims - it's discrimination, there is no other word for it.\"\n\nThe Department of Justice said the appointment of a victims' commissioner would be a matter for any returning Northern Ireland Executive to consider.\n\nCharles and Wendy Little are calling for a commissioner that can also deal with non-Troubles related crime\n\nIt said the needs of victims were central to the department's work and that it provided funding to a number of charities that worked in that area, including Victim Support NI.\n\nVictim Support NI offers information and advice immediately after a crime occurs and can offer assistance to victims claiming compensation.\n\nGeraldine Hanna, the CEO of Victim Support NI, said she is supportive of the call to establish a commissioner for all victims of crime.\n\nShe said: \"We believe that all victims of crime should have a strong, influential, independent voice to ensure that every victim gets the right support at the right time.\n\n\"A victims' commissioner for Northern Ireland could fulfil a vital dual role, both acting as champion for victims of crime and providing an independent, advisory and challenge function to government.\"\n\nBetween August 2018 and July 2019 there has been a 4% increase in overall crimes reported to the police in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn particular, there was a marked increase in crime involving violence.\n\nCrimes such as homicide, death or serious injury caused by dangerous driving and harassment increased by 7% on the previous year.\n\nMr Little believes the statistics underline the need for victims of non-Troubles related crime to be fully represented.\n\n\"The danger for victims of ordinary crime here is that once the crime has been committed and the court case is over, the victims still have a life sentence and they're forgotten over and over again.\"", "MPs have voted to take control of parliamentary business, in a blow to Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe vote was won by 328 to 301. Twenty-one Conservative MPs voted for the motion, defying their own party.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe vote gives MPs the chance to introduce a law postponing the UK's departure from the European Union until 31 January, if by 19 October MPs have not approved a new deal or voted in favour of a no-deal exit.\n\nAfter the vote, Downing Street said those Tory MPs who rebelled would have the whip removed, effectively expelling them from the parliamentary party. Earlier in the day Conservative MP, Phillip Lee, joined the Liberal Democrats meaning the government lost its working majority.", "Claire Mercer said she plans to sue Highways England for corporate manslaughter over her husband's death\n\nThe widow of a man killed on a \"smart motorway\" plans to sue Highways England for corporate manslaughter.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, died on 7 June on the M1 near Sheffield, where the hard shoulder is now an active lane.\n\nHe was involved in a minor collision but when he and the other driver got out to exchange details they were hit by a lorry. Both died at the scene.\n\nHis widow, Claire Mercer, said Highways England must reconsider using hard shoulders as live lanes.\n\nThe other driver was 22-year-old Alexandru Murgeanu from Mansfield.\n\nSmart motorways are controlled by computers which constantly monitor the road and can change the speed limit on their own\n\nMs Mercer, from Rotherham, said she \"fell to the floor\" when a police officer told her her husband was dead.\n\nTwo months later she is calling on Highways England to outlaw all-lane running and bring back hard shoulders.\n\n\"Highways England failed in their duty of care to my husband and several other people and I'm encouraging others to take the same path as me,\" she said.\n\n\"I want the whole [smart motorway] system stopping with immediate effect while independent bodies analyse the facts.\"\n\nMs Mercer said the system of replacing motorway hard shoulders with live traffic lanes should stop while independent bodies \"analyse the facts\"\n\nJason Mercer and three others have died in the past year between junction 31 and 35 of the M1 where there is no hard shoulder.\n\nSixteen miles of the M1 in South Yorkshire, between Meadowhall and Woodall, have had the hard shoulder replaced every mile or so by a refuge area.\n\nHighways England said overhead gantries advise drivers to move away from a blocked lane.\n\nBut vehicles can become stranded in live running lanes if they are not near a refuge area when they have to stop.\n\nThere are two types of Smart motorway in the UK. The first is where the hard shoulder is opened to traffic when it's really busy, often cutting speed limits at the same time.\n\nThey've been around since 2006 and statistics show they ease congestion and cut accidents, because it's easier to control the traffic. Sensors in the road detect how busy the motorway is and overhead gantries with matrix signs attached declare when the hard shoulder is open.\n\n\"All-lane running\" is different. It's where the hard shoulder is open all the time, effectively converting a three lane motorway into a four lane one.\n\nFor the government it's a cheaper way of increasing road capacity without completely rebuilding a motorway, which would involve widening bridges and junctions.\n\nBut a report from the Transport Select Committee in 2016 called for a halt to \"all-lane running\" schemes, saying there are major safety concerns.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"all-lane running\" was designed to be as safe as ordinary motorways.\n\nClaire Mercer said she \"fell to the floor\" when she was told her husband Jason had died\n\nHe said the UK's motorways are among the very safest roads in the world, and the latest generation of smart motorways have reduced casualty rates by over 25%.\n\n\"We will continue to evaluate all lane running schemes and work closely with all the emergency services to ensure safety is maintained,\" Highways England said.\n\n\"Evidence shows where all-lane running has been introduced, there have been fewer collisions and congestion has reduced despite an increased number of vehicles using them.\"\n\nA 39-year-old man from Hull was arrested over the collision and has been released on bail pending further enquiries.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Designer of Dreams featured more than 200 rare haute couture garments\n\nAn exhibition dedicated to fashion house Christian Dior has broken the V&A's attendance record, attracting almost 595,000 people in seven months.\n\nA total of 594,994 visitors came to see the London exhibition, which ran from 2 February and 1 September this year.\n\nThe V&A's Alexander McQueen exhibition had held the record, having attracted more than 480,000 visitors in 2015.\n\nHowever, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty did run for two months less than Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The exhibition closed on Sunday, seven weeks later than originally scheduled\n\nThe Victoria and Albert Museum's Dior exhibition traced the history and impact of the brand from 1947 to the present day.\n\nThe exhibit was comprised of more than 500 objects that ranged from accessories and garments to Dior's personal possessions.\n\nIn his five-star review, the BBC's Will Gompertz called the \"fantastic\" show \"an unashamed celebration of Dior's joie de vivre\".\n\nV&A director Tristram Hunt said the South Kensington institution had been \"overwhelmed by the phenomenal visitor response\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The big message the government will try to send with its spending round is about the austerity decade ending.\n\nIn particular the thing it will want to get across is that funding is pouring into those public services most visibly problematic for the Conservatives in the 2017 general election, ahead of yet another fairly imminent visit to the polls.\n\nHealth, education, and the police will be boosted just in time.\n\nTotal departmental spending will rise for the first time since before the crisis.\n\nThe political strategy will be clear: neutralise the toxicity of visible spending cuts made to shrink the deficit since the crisis - in order to help win over Leave voters in traditionally Labour seats.\n\nAnd the good news for the Chancellor and the First Lord of the Treasury, the PM, is that there is some space for this spending.\n\nBorrowing costs are low. And deficits have not been lower for 17 years too.\n\nSo we will hear a lot about the phrase \"fiscal headroom\".\n\nThis is not extra money that can be spent, it is extra borrowing. It is room to borrow more within the government's self-imposed overdraft limit of 2% of the value of the national economy.\n\nThe magic number is £15bn. It had been £27bn, but there have been some changes in the way student loans are accounted for, that have served the purpose of helping the Treasury apply at least some limits.\n\nSo £15bn it is, and already the bulk of that has been allocated in announcements to fund the NHS, schools, further education, defence, policing, and foreign aid.\n\nWe will get further detail on the rest of it, and there is enough space essentially to provide at least inflation-terms rises for all departmental spending. It will be quite a moment.\n\nBut the real question is for just how long?\n\nFirstly this is not the ordinary three-year spending review. That has effectively been delayed until after Brexit. This is a one-year spending round.\n\nIt is also being separated from the Budget. This has the happy coincidence that there are no new independent fiscal forecasts from the Office of Budget Responsibility.\n\nIf there had been, it turns out that - both because the economy has slowed since March, and also because the deficit is running larger than forecast - the £15bn number could be considerably smaller, perhaps more than halved.\n\nOn top of that, one has to note that the headroom was left by the previous Chancellor to help deal with the consequences of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe OBR said in July that even in a modest scenario that could mean a £30bn annual hit to the public finances.\n\nAnd yet the plan is not to just to spend the headroom that might not exist, but to go further in the coming weeks and cut taxes on fuel, housing and beyond.\n\nSmall wonder that at the next Budget the government's tax and spending constraints - its fiscal rules - will be reviewed.\n\nGenerally speaking, new Chancellors want to establish fiscal credibility in their first fiscal events. In some ways, at least for a few hours, the shadow chancellor, whose plans are, on paper, funded from tax rises, will.\n\nThe very point of the fiscal framework that has been created over the past few decades was to try to inject some long-term thinking, some stability, and avoid the temptation to rig forecasts to enable unsustainable pre-election giveaways.\n\nBut that's a small price for the greater prizes sought by politicians within weeks of a possible election.", "Hurricane Dorian has brought devastation to the northern Bahamas. The first aerial pictures have now emerged of the destruction on the Abaco Islands.\n\nMost of the other badly hit island - Grand Bahama, home to about 50,000 people - has still to be reached.\n\nPrime Minister Hubert Minnis said this was \"one of the greatest national crises in our country's history\".\n\nHe also said he expected the death toll to rise.\n\nThe image below is of the airport at Marsh Harbour on the Abacos. The airport on Grand Bahama was on Tuesday said to be under 6ft (1.8m) of water.\n\nThe Abaco Islands are home to about 17,000 people. The UN says almost all will need food aid and clean water.\n\nThe International Red Cross fears 45% of homes on Grand Bahama and the Abacos - some 13,000 properties - have been severely damaged or destroyed.\n\nWhen the Abaco Islands were hit over the weekend, the wind speeds of 185mph (298km/h) equalled the fastest ever inflicted by the landfall of a hurricane, matched only by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935.\n\nPM Minnis said the priority now was for search and rescue, but added: \"We can expect more deaths to be recorded.\"", "A judge will rule on whether Boris Johnson's plan to shut down the UK Parliament for five weeks ahead of Brexit is lawful.\n\nThe case was brought to the Court of Session in Edinburgh by a cross-party group of 75 parliamentarians, who argued the PM exceeded his powers.\n\nThe government said the issue should be a political, rather than a legal, one.\n\nLord Doherty heard submissions from both sides on Tuesday, and will deliver his ruling on Wednesday morning.", "The Bahamas suffers massive destruction as Hurricane Dorian batters the islands relentlessly. Matt Taylor has an update", "Iran says it will free on humanitarian grounds seven of the 23 crew members of a Swedish-owned, British-flagged tanker seized in the Strait of Hormuz in July.\n\nThe sailors - five Indians, one Latvian and one Russian - had already left the Stena Impero, a foreign ministry spokesman told state television.\n\nThe seizure came two weeks after an Iranian tanker was held off Gibraltar with the help of the Royal Marines.\n\nThat ship, now called the Adrian Darya 1, was suspected of violating EU sanctions on Syria but it was released by Gibraltar on 15 August.\n\nThe Stena Impero was passing through international waters in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that connects the Gulf and the Indian Ocean, on 19 July when it was detained by Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps.\n\nVideo footage showed troops descending from a helicopter on to the deck.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Fars news agency appears to show Stena Impero being seized\n\nThe UK says a Royal Navy frigate deployed in the Gulf tried to come to the tanker's aid and warned the Iranians by radio that their actions were illegal, but that it was unable to reach the scene in time.\n\nThe Stena Impero was brought to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, where it remains at anchor.\n\nIts Swedish operator, Stena Bulk, said last month it had been able to maintain limited communication with the crew and that they remained in good health \"considering the circumstances\". But it expressed concern about their welfare.\n\nOn Wednesday, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told state TV that the ship's captain had selected seven members of its crew to be released.\n\n\"They have left the vessel and the final procedures are under way to send them back to their countries,\" he said, adding that the decision had been made in line with Iran's \"humanitarian policies\".\n\nMr Mousavi stressed the Iranian authorities had \"no problem with the crew and the captain\" and at issue were \"violations that the vessel committed\".\n\nStena Bulk later said it understood its \"long-standing request to remove non-essential personnel\" from the vessel was now being acted upon by the Iranian government and that arrangements were being made for their release.\n\nErik Hanell, the company's president and CEO, said: \"We are very pleased that for seven crew members their ordeal may soon be over, and they may return to their families. However, we cautiously await official confirmation of their release date.\n\n\"We view this communication as a positive step on the way to the release of all the remaining crew, which has always been our primary concern and focus.\"\n\nIranian media published a photo of some of the Stena Impero's crew on 22 July\n\nThe remaining 16 crew members - 13 Indians, two Russians and one Filipino - will stay on board the Stena Impero to satisfy the vessel's Minimum Safe Manning Certificate (MSMC), which is issued by the flag state, according to Stena Bulk.\n\nThe chief executive of the UK Chamber of Shipping, Bob Sanguinetti, said: \"We welcome the news that Iran has said it will free seven members of the Stena Impero crew, but this must be followed by the immediate release of the vessel and the rest of the crew.\"\n\nStena Bulk has said it is not aware of any evidence that the Stena Impero breached any maritime rules or regulations, and that it stands behind the professionalism and conduct of its crew members.\n\nThe UK has said Iran had no right to obstruct the vessel's passage and accused it of an \"act of state piracy\".", "The attack happened close to Shrub Hill Retail Park on Tallow Hill\n\nA baby was hit with an egg in a racially-aggravated drive-by attack, police believe.\n\nA woman was crossing the road with her baby in a pushchair when someone threw eggs at them from a vehicle near Shrub Hill Retail Park, Worcester.\n\nThe nine-month-old baby, sustained reddening to the face, but was otherwise unharmed.\n\nThe mother, who was uninjured, was attacked at about 11:30 BST, West Mercia Police said.\n\nSgt Paul Smith said: \"This was a nasty and unprovoked assault on a mother and her baby that has left the victims understandably shaken.\n\n\"We're particularly concerned that the motivation for this is believed to be racial - there is no excuse for this type of behaviour and we will not tolerate it.\"\n\nPolice are reviewing CCTV footage to try to identify the vehicle involved.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Sussex flew commercially to the event in Amsterdam\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has defended his use of private jets, saying he occasionally needs to ensure his family is safe.\n\nSpeaking at the launch of an eco-tourism project in Amsterdam, Prince Harry added that he balances out the impact this has on the environment.\n\nThe duke and his wife Meghan have faced criticism after newspapers claimed they flew privately four times in 11 days this summer.\n\nPrince Harry said he flew to the event on Tuesday commercially.\n\nAt the launch of Travalyst, aimed at encouraging the tourism industry to become more sustainable, the duke was asked about his travel behaviour.\n\n\"I came here by commercial. I spend 99% of my life travelling the world by commercial,\" he said.\n\n\"Occasionally there needs to be an opportunity based on a unique circumstance to ensure that my family are safe - it's generally as simple as that.\"\n\nDuring his opening speech, the duke said \"no one is perfect\" in terms of his impact on the environment.\n\nQuestions have been asked about the royal couple's use of private jets and their impact following their support of environmental causes.\n\nPrince Harry has previously spoken about the importance of tackling climate change.\n\nIn September's edition of Vogue - edited by Meghan - the prince spoke about environmental issues and his love for nature, saying: \"We are the one species on this planet that seems to think that this place belongs to us, and only us.\"\n\nThe Sussexes came under fire over the summer after taking a private flight to the home of singer Sir Elton John, in Nice.\n\nSir Elton defended the royal couple, saying he provided them with his private plane to \"maintain a high level of much-needed protection\".\n\nHe also said he paid to carbon offset their trip to his French home.\n\nCarbon offsetting allows passengers to pay extra to help compensate for the carbon emissions produced from their flights.\n\nThe money is then invested in environmental projects - such as planting trees or installing solar panels - which reduce carbon dioxide in the air by the same amount.\n\nThe duke said that what is important is \"what we do to balance out\" negative effects.\n\nHe went on to say that he has always offset his carbon emissions and will continue to do so.\n\n\"In my mind it's the right thing to do and we need to make it cool,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to connect people to where that little bit of extra money is actually going.\"\n\nPrince Harry has spent three years working on the project alongside five co-founders - Booking.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, TripAdvisor and Visa.\n\nHe hopes it will improve conservation, environmental protection and help increase the economic benefits of tourism for local communities.\n\nFigures from accounts published in June show the royal household's carbon emissions due to business travel almost doubled last year.\n\nThe increase was put down to the use of chartered flights for more overseas visits, which are planned by the Foreign Office.\n\nHowever, emissions savings from greener heating and lighting meant the household's overall carbon footprint stayed around the same as the previous year.", "EU nationals arriving in the UK before the end of next year will be able to apply to stay for three years in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe government has announced that a temporary Leave to Remain scheme would replace free movement.\n\nThis would allow EU nationals who arrive before the end of 2020 to stay until December 2023.\n\nThe government had hoped to completely end the free movement of EU nationals under a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut free movement of EU citizens will not automatically end as a result of a no-deal Brexit, because EU law will continue to apply until its legal foundation is repealed.\n\nThe new scheme will be open to European Economic Area and Swiss citizens - as well as \"their close family\" - who move to the UK for the first time, the government said in a statement.\n\nIt added that the online applications process \"will be simple and free\".\n\nAnnouncing the scheme, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the \"tougher checks and ending free movement as it currently stands\" will help the UK in \"taking back control of our borders\".\n\n\"In the future, we will introduce a new points-based immigration system built around the skills and talent people have - not where they are from,\" she added.\n\nLast month, the UK government announced EU free movement rules would end immediately if there was a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nThis would have affected the rights of any EU citizens arriving in the UK from November onwards.\n\nAt the time, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Sir Ed Davey accused the government of being \"irresponsible and reckless\".\n\nAnd the 3million group, which campaigns for the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, said it could mean \"millions of lawful citizens\" would have their legal status removed \"overnight\".\n\nHowever, it emerged at the weekend that the plan had been dropped because the government could have been challenged in the courts.\n\nMigration experts had said the UK could not end freedom of movement from the EU on Brexit day because it has no system to work out who is legally in the country.\n\nEU citizens who are already living in the UK under EEA freedom of movement rules will have until 31 December 2020 to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme if the UK leaves without a deal.\n\nThe scheme aims to register an estimated 3.3 million EU citizens and provide them the right to continue living and working in the UK after 30 June 2021.\n\nBut as of July, only a third of eligible EU citizens had applied, leaving more than two million unregistered.\n\nIf the UK leaves the EU with a deal, the deadline for applying to the scheme will be 20 June 2021.\n\nIrish citizens, and EU citizens with indefinite leave to remain or indefinite leave to enter the UK, do not need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme.", "It was a big defeat for Boris Johnson in the Commons - so now what?\n\nJonathan Blake gives his daily round-up of the key Brexit events in British politics.", "The UK government's lawyer, David Johnston, argued that proroguing parliament was a political decision for the government, rather than a legal matter for the court to decide.\n\nDavid Johnston told the Court of Session: \"There is certainly a wide spectrum of opinion all of which is entitled to respect but the question is where is the right forum for a resolution of views? Where is it? In my submission, it is not here.\"", "MPs now carry on with their usual business - in this case presenting public petitions to the House.\n\nOver in the House of Lords, peers are still voting on amendments to the business motion which aims at ensuring the no-deal bill has time to become law before the suspension of Parliament.\n\nThey are currently discussing amendment 2C but there are over 100 to get through.\n\nBBC parliamentary correspondent Mark D'arcy says: \"There is talk of them talking til they drop to get through all these amendments so they can then deal with the bill.\n\n\"It is not going very fast.\n\n\"There are attempts to get behind-the-scenes talks going but the government seems prepared to just talk it out.\n\n\"The bill may have a rather bumpy ride.\"", "YouTube has been fined a record $170m (£139m) by a US regulator for violating children's privacy laws.\n\nGoogle, which owns YouTube, agreed to pay the sum in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).\n\nThe video-streaming site had been accused of collecting data on children under 13, without parental consent.\n\nThe FTC said the data was used to target ads to the children, which contravened the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa).\n\n\"There's no excuse for YouTube's violations of the law,\" said FTC chairman Joe Simons.\n\nHe added that when it came to complying with Coppa, Google had refused to acknowledge that parts of its main YouTube service were directed at children.\n\nHowever, in presentations to business clients, the company is accused of painting a different picture.\n\nFor example, the FTC said the tech firm had told Mattel: \"YouTube is today's leader in reaching children age 6-11 against top TV channels.\"\n\nYouTube also regularly reviewed content for inclusion in its separate YouTube Kids app.\n\nGoogle will have to pay $136m to the FTC - the largest ever fine in a Coppa case - and a further $34m to the state of New York.\n\nHowever, one of the five FTC commissioners, Rohit Chopra, said in a statement that he thought the settlement did not go far enough.\n\nHe argued that Google had \"baited\" children on YouTube with videos featuring nursery rhymes and cartoons.\n\nVia Twitter, Mr Chopra said he thought the fine handed to Google \"barely bites\" and that the proposed changes to YouTube were \"insufficient\".\n\nAs part of Google's settlement with the FTC, the company will be required to create a new system so that content directed at children will be clearly labelled.\n\nIn a blog, YouTube's chief executive Susan Wojcicki said the video-streaming site would use artificial intelligence to automatically identify and label other videos that \"clearly target young audiences\" - such as those with an emphasis on kids' characters, toys and games.\n\nThe FTC said that YouTubers who make content for children must also be notified that their videos may be subject to rules under Coppa.\n\nPlus, Google and YouTube are now required to be more open about their data-gathering practices.\n\nMs Wojcicki said YouTube had taken \"a hard look\" at what it could do to address children watching videos without parental supervision.\n\nShe also said the firm would stop targeting ads based on data gathered about users who had watched children's videos.\n\n\"Starting in four months, we will treat data from anyone watching children's content on YouTube as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user,\" said Ms Wojcicki.\n\n\"This means that we will limit data collection and use on videos made for kids only to what is needed to support the operation of the service.\"\n\nNews of the fine comes as Google faces allegations in Europe that it has been using secret, hidden web pages to feed web users' personal data to advertisers.\n\nAs the Financial Times reports, Johnny Ryan, chief executive of smaller rival search engine Brave, has submitted what he says is evidence of this practice to the Irish data protection regulator.\n\nMr Ryan says he found indications that data about his web browsing habits was being funnelled by these websites to third-party companies.\n\nA spokesman for Google said: \"We do not serve personalised ads... without user consent.\"", "Tomasz Schafernaker takes a look at the effects of a changing climate on Atlantic hurricanes.", "A bear climbed through a window to take a nap in a hotel bathroom in Big Sky, Montana.", "From schools to the armed forces, the providers of public services have been clamouring to know exactly how much they have to spend. They'll get their wish a bit sooner than expected.\n\nAn unusual flurry of drama from the Treasury, that department better known for the staid crunching of numbers, saw Chancellor Sajid Javid's much-touted speech, in which he was to set out his vision for the economy, cancelled at short notice.\n\nInstead, the instruction was to stand by for the spending review next week. The idea is to get the spending plans out of the way, so that the focus can be on Brexit.\n\nThat, of course, is the official line, but the speculation is that this is the precursor to a snap election, a touting of sweeteners for voters in the form of extra cash for areas such as health, education and policing.\n\nBoris Johnson was elected by party members on the back of a list of spending intentions (and tax cuts). That list was sparse on detail, but some estimates put the total cost at north of £30bn. How much of the former are likely to be delivered next Wednesday?\n\nMr Javid says there'll be no blank cheque. Instead, this chancellor - who'll have been in the post just six weeks come the spending review - appears to be borrowing his predecessor Philip Hammond's playbook.\n\nThat chancellor first told me back in April that if a Brexit deal hadn't been struck by the autumn, it'd be sensible to lay out plans for just one year, not the usual three, in case extra funds needed to be used to support the economy in the event of a no-deal.\n\nMr Hammond's successor is not only doing that, but also sticking to the existing borrowing rules.\n\nIn the short term, that primarily means limiting the deficit to below 2% of GDP, after adjusting for the ups and downs of the economic cycle up to 2021, with an eye to eliminating the deficit altogether by 2025.\n\nThat means Mr Javid can afford to borrow a bit more to spend. He has up to £15bn of such \"headroom\" up to 2021 (down from an earlier £27bn, because of changes in the way student loans are accounted for).\n\nGiven the question marks over the path of Brexit, he probably won't use it all. And it won't be enough to cover the prime minister's wishlist: areas such as defence and culture may not get much of a look in.\n\nAn emphasis on \"choices\" and \"priorities\" again suggests that Mr Javid is sticking to the Hammond script and emphasising fiscal responsibility. But there's still enough to spend and he will inevitably claim to be ending austerity - although there's a way to go to reverse all the cuts in real terms of recent years.\n\nHowever, for the big picture, his vision for the economy, we'll have to wait until the Budget, which may not happen until late autumn. It is only then that we'll get updated forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility on the state of the economy and the public purse.\n\nThere's speculation abound that No 10 was behind the decision to ditch the chancellor's speech and bring forward the spending review.\n\nBut that doesn't mean the prime minister is calling all the shots. The game has changed, but the rules No 11 is playing by seem to remain very much the same - for now.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled in May\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show producers treated guests like criminal suspects, the MP leading an inquiry into reality TV has claimed.\n\nThe House of Commons culture select committee heard from two of the show's former guests on Wednesday.\n\nDwayne Davison, who first appeared in 2014, told MPs he was locked in a small room and had his phone taken off him.\n\n\"I think someone in police custody would have more rights and better treatment,\" Damian Collins MP said.\n\nThe committee is investigating whether enough support is offered during and after filming on reality TV. The inquiry was set up after the death of a man who had taken a lie detector test on The Jeremy Kyle Show, and the suicides of two former Love Island contestants.\n\nMr Davison, who became known as Kyle's \"most-hated guest\", told the committee he was exploited by the show, and that it \"ruined my life\", receiving death threats and losing two jobs as a result.\n\nDwayne Davison said his life \"drastically\" changed after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show\n\nHis requests to have clips of his appearance taken off the show's YouTube channel were repeatedly turned down,\n\n\"I asked them multiple times, cried, they weren't interested one bit.\"\n\nMr Davison said he even attempted suicide at one point: \"In 2018, I took 30 codeine tablets, swallowed them all, I don't remember what happened.\"\n\n\"If I knew what my life would have turned into I would never have gone on that show,\" he added.\n\nHe said the only thing he would class as \"aftercare\" was a \"one-minute phone call\". He said he was given his taxi fare home and kicked out 20 minutes after the recording and \"that was it\".\n\nBefore the recording, he was kept in a locked room, he said. \"The smallest, tiniest room you've ever seen. Your phone is taken off you. I'm sat in this room for 10 hours, the door's locked. My partner has been taken away from me. So you're anxious.\"\n\nMr Collins, who chairs the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee, said that sounded \"astonishing\" and \"horrific\".\n\nMr Davison appeared on the show a second time, in 2015, but only because a \"charismatic\" producer persuaded him he could \"redeem\" himself, he said.\n\n\"I came onto the stage and it was like a war zone,\" he said, adding that the host was goading him, but those parts were not shown. \"They completely edited that out and only showed my reaction. How unfair is that?\"\n\nAnother former Kyle guest, Robert Gregory, who was contacted by the programme after a man told producers he wanted to prove he was his father, said he had been \"totally humiliated\".\n\n\"They crucified me. They absolutely ripped me apart,\" he told the committee. \"I said, 'You've obviously decided I am a bad person.'\" He added: \"There is no aftercare, it doesn't exist.\"\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled by ITV in May after the death of Steve Dymond, who took a lie detector test during an appearance.\n\nAfter the hearing, an ITV statement said: \"As a producer and broadcaster ITV takes its responsibilities around duty of care to participants very seriously. Supporting the physical and mental health of everyone involved in our programmes is our highest priority.\n\nIt added: \"We were truly sorry to hear that Dwayne was experiencing mental health problems and suicidal thoughts and have apologised to him that we did not remove the clips from our official ITV YouTube channel. We have offered to pay for counselling, as he has requested.\"\n\nLove Island's Yewande Biala and Marcel Somerville spoke to the committee\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, former Love Island stars Yewande Biala and Marcel Somerville gave evidence about their experiences on that show.\n\nBoth told the committee they were given psychiatric evaluations by ITV before they appeared on the show and saw doctors in the days and weeks after the series ended.\n\n\"The whole time on the show is fine, when you come off it's fine, but because you are in the spotlight, no matter what you do, there will be a story about it,\" Somerville said.\n\n\"The press will jump on to anything. If you have a public break-up, you think, this is the worst period ever and then you get trolls who add fire to it - that was the worst part of being on the show.\n\n\"They do a psych (evaluation) before you go on and when the show is finished you do another psych, and then again a week later. But it should be one three or six months down the line because that's when you're dealing with it.\"\n\nIn its statement, ITV said it \"constantly strives for best practice in all our programmes\", pointing out that last year it asked former chief medical officer Dr Paul Litchfield to carry out an independent review of the processes on Love Island.\n\n\"This review led us to extend our support processes for this year's series to a level that we consider industry-leading,\" it said.\n\nFormer Blazin' Squad member Somerville also revealed he refused to go on the show the first year he was asked because he had concerns about the diversity of the line-up.\n\n\"I spoke to the casting producers, done a medical, but they wanted me to go on for the last two weeks of the show,\" he said. \"I basically said I wasn't too sure if I wanted to go on the show at that time because the show didn't look very diverse.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the first black person to be on the show as a bombshell because you've go to go in there and try and steal someone's girlfriend.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn to Johnson: \"A lot of people have a great deal to fear\"\n\nBoris Johnson will call for a general election on 15 October if Labour and rebel Tories succeed in blocking a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe challenged Jeremy Corbyn to put his policy of \"dither and delay\" over EU withdrawal to the British people.\n\nMr Johnson needs the support of two-thirds of MPs to trigger an election.\n\nBut shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told Labour MPs the leadership would not back an election until a delay had been agreed with the EU.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid has presented his spending plan to MPs in the Commons, with the health service, education and the police expected to fare well.\n\nHe told MPs the government had \"turned the page on austerity\", outlining £13.8bn of investment on areas including health and education.\n\nMr Javid said it was the fastest spending increase for 15 years, but the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, accused him of \"meaningless platitudes\".\n\nMeanwhile, No 10's decision to expel 21 Tory MPs for defying the party whip on Tuesday continues to causes recriminations in the party.\n\nOne of those booted out of the party, Margot James, has publicly questioned the role played by Dominic Cummings, the PM's senior aide, in the decision.\n\nRaising the issue at PMQs, she urged Mr Johnson to bear in mind his predecessor Margaret Thatcher's famous adage that \"advisers advise and ministers decide\".\n\nAnd in Scotland, a judge has rejected a bid to have Mr Johnson's plan to shut down Parliament ahead of Brexit declared illegal.\n\nThe showdown between the government and opponents of a no-deal Brexit will continue later as Labour and other opposition parties seek to pass a bill requesting a further delay if there is no deal by 19 October.\n\nA total of 21 Tories defied the PM on Tuesday to vote with the opposition to enable the bill to be considered, as Mr Johnson suffered his first Commons defeat as prime minister by a margin of 328 votes to 301.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf the Brexit delay bill passes later on and moves to the Lords, as is expected, Mr Johnson will push for an immediate vote on an early general election.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely clear\" that the UK would get a new deal from Brussels, with the controversial Irish backstop removed.\n\nHe suggested that Mr Corbyn was afraid of the judgement of the people, joking that \"there is only one chlorinated chicken I can see this House and he is on that bench\".\n\nBut the Labour leader said the PM was \"running down the clock\" on a no-deal Brexit and \"hiding the facts\" about the likelihood of food and medicine shortages.\n\n\"I don't see how I can be accused of undermining the negotiations because there are no negotiations taking place,\" he told MPs.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told BBC Radio 4's Today that Labour wanted a general election but \"on its terms not Boris Johnson's terms\".\n\nHe said the party did not \"trust\" the PM to hold the election before the Brexit deadline, as No 10 had \"lied\" last month when it denied reports that it planned to suspend Parliament.\n\n\"We are not shy of a general election but we are not going to be trapped into abandoning control of Parliament or be taken in what Boris Johnson says because we don't trust him.\"\n\nBut, at a meeting in London, a succession of Labour MPs called on the leadership to hold off backing an election until after Brexit had been delayed.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Mason said one MP reportedly told colleagues: \"Johnson said it is Brexit do or die on October 31st. I want him to die.\"\n\nUnder the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, a prime minister must have the backing of at least two-thirds of the UK's 650 MPs before a poll can be called outside of the fixed five-year terms.\n\nThe Lib Dems say they will vote against an early election at this stage.\n\nDowning Street said the 21 Tory MPs who rebelled in Tuesday's vote would have the whip removed, effectively expelling them from the parliamentary party and meaning they could not stand as Conservative candidates in the election.\n\nAmong the jettisoned rebels are former justice secretary David Gauke, Winston Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames, and Rory Stewart, who recently stood against Boris Johnson to be the party leader.\n\nThe former international development secretary told the Today programme he was sacked by text message, as he was being given the GQ magazine award for politician of the year.\n\n\"It was a pretty astonishing moment,\" he said. \"It feels a little bit like something you associate with other countries - one opposes the leader, one loses the leadership race, no longer in the cabinet and now apparently thrown out of the party and one's seat too.\"\n\nMr Stewart said the decision to stop him standing as a candidate was \"un-Conservative\" and the final decision should rest with local associations and not be made centrally.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nAnother of the rebels, Richard Benyon, said he would continue to sit on the Tory benches and support the PM's domestic agenda, saying he hoped to return to the fold \"one day\".\n\nBut there have been calls from loyal MPs for No 10 to rethink its conduct amid anger over the treatment of rebels and the suspension of Parliament.\n\nSir Roger Gale said Dominic Cummings, one of Mr Johnson's closest advisers, had \"abused and swore\" at Tory rebels and should be disciplined.\n\n\"The fact that you have at the heart of No 10 as the PM's senior advisor an unelected, foul-mouthed oaf throwing his weight around is completely unacceptable,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"If the PM doesn't have Dominic Cummings frogmarched out of Downing Street himself then the chances are it not be the Tory rebels or Jeremy Corbyn but Mr Cummings who will bring down this administration.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, the outgoing leader of the Scottish Conservatives, criticised the decision to throw out dissident MPs, tweeting:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ruth Davidson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHours before the vote on Tuesday, the government had already lost its working majority when Tory MP Phillip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment MPs voted to take control of the Commons", "At least seven people are confirmed to have died, and many more are missing, after the category five storm caused flooding and widespread damage to homes and infrastructure.\n\nThe storm, which has now been downgraded to a category two, is moving parallel to the coast of the US state of Florida.", "A US interracial couple was turned away by a wedding venue because the owner said their union went against her Christian beliefs, video shows.\n\nThe footage was filmed at Boone's Camp Event Hall in Booneville, Mississippi, by the groom's sister who met the woman about the rejection.\n\nDuring the exchange the owner says the decision was because we \"don't do gay weddings or mixed race\".\n\nThe video was first reported by website Deep South Voice, and quickly went viral on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Khyla Shumpert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLaKambria Welch said her brother and his partner were first told in an email the venue was not prepared to host the event. So Ms Welch went down in person to find out more.\n\n\"First of all, we don't do gay weddings or mixed race,\" says a woman in a grey shirt, identified as the venue's owner by US media.\n\nAsked why not, she replied: \"Because of our Christian race, I mean our Christian beliefs,\" adding: \"We just don't participate. We just choose not to.\"\n\nWhen asked what passage of the Bible informs that belief, the owner adds: \"I don't want to argue my faith.\"\n\nThe exchange prompted the City of Booneville to release a statement condemning \"these types of discriminatory policies\".\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 City of Booneville 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. End of facebook post by City of Booneville\n\nThe Facebook page for Boone's Camp Event Hall was taken offline following the video's release, but later re-opened on Sunday to post a lengthy apology before being closed again.\n\nIn the post the owner said she had been taught as a child that people were meant to stay \"with your own race\" but that after consulting with her pastor she now realised nothing in the bible prohibited interracial marriages.\n\nShe continued: \"To all of those offended, hurt or felt condemn [sic] by my statement I truly apologise to you for my ignorance in not knowing the truth about this. My intent was never of racism, but to stand firm on what I 'assumed' was right concerning marriage.\"\n\nIn a statement provided to BBC News, the Boone's Camp Event Hall said \"they are grateful that the bride forgave them\" and that the couple has been re-invited to use the event space.\n\nInterracial marriage has been legal across the US since 1967 when the Supreme Court reached that decision in Loving v Virginia.\n\nIn 2016, Mississippi passed a first of its kind law that protects \"sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions\", meaning businesses can legally refuse service to same-sex partners and transgender people.\n\nThe law, which was meant to preserve religious freedom, does not mention race.", "The Commons was bursting at the seams on Tuesday\n\nWell, that was an extraordinary day in Westminster.\n\nWe've just about recovered enough to give you a summary of the key events.\n\nWe had to wait for the biggest moment of the day, but when it came it was certainly dramatic.\n\nTo a House of Commons bursting at the seams, tellers announced that MPs desperate to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a deal on 31 October had succeeded in wresting control of business away from the government.\n\nThat means they can introduce a bill on Wednesday that would force Boris Johnson to ask for a delay to Brexit until at least 31 January 2020 rather than take the country out with no deal.\n\nThe moment of victory was greeted with cheers, clapping and a shout of \"Not a good start, Boris!\"\n\nImmediately afterwards, Mr Johnson said he would now press ahead with efforts to call a general election in October, telling the Commons: \"The people of this country will have to choose.\"\n\nAs an aside, in the middle of all of the night's drama, an image of Jacob Rees-Mogg - Leader of the Commons and voice of the government during the debate - lying down on the front bench went viral. Expect to see it quite a lot in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was Boris Johnson's last opportunity to plead with the whole House of Commons to support his Brexit stance - but within moments of taking to the despatch box, the prime minister's thunder was well and truly stolen.\n\nOne of his MPs, ex-justice minister Phillip Lee, crossed the floor to join the Liberal Democrats.\n\nIn doing so, the government's paper-thin majority became non-existent.\n\nHis decision was greeted with cheers on the opposition benches. The MP for Bracknell, who is against a no deal, said the government was \"pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways\", putting lives and livelihoods at risk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOf course, things got even worse when 21 Tory MPs rebelled against the government - Downing Street later confirmed they would be expelled from the parliamentary party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond told Today he \"is going to defend\" the party from \"incomers\" and \"entryists\"\n\nOnce derogatorily labelled \"Spreadsheet Phil\", former Chancellor Philip Hammond has gone from loyal minister to leading rebel in barely six weeks.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, he made clear just how angry he was with his party's leadership, attacking what he called the \"rank hypocrisy\" of Downing Street when it came to Brexit loyalty.\n\nHe questioned how the Tory whips could, with a straight face, threaten no-deal opponents like him with expulsion from the party given how many current ministers had previously defied Theresa May on the same issue.\n\nMr Hammond also made clear he would not be going quietly if he was indeed expelled - indeed he said Number 10 would have \"the fight of a lifetime\" on their hands.\n\n\"This is my party. I have been a member of my party for 45 years, I am going to defend my party against incomers, entryists, who are trying to turn it from a broad church into a narrow faction,\" he 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 2 by Jessica Parker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPro-EU demonstrators gathered outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nAway from Westminster, Brexit was the subject of fairly explosive court proceedings.\n\nA cross-party group of parliamentarians wants Scotland's highest civil court to rule that Boris Johnson acted illegally and unconstitutionally by suspending Parliament.\n\nOn Tuesday, the court was told that Mr Johnson appeared to have approved the controversial plan two weeks before publicly announcing it.\n\nThis certainly raised a few eyebrows, but the government's lawyer argued that suspending - or proroguing - Parliament was a political decision for the government, rather than a legal matter for the court to decide.\n\nElsewhere in matters legal, Brexit campaigner Gina Miller received a shot in the arm for her efforts to bring a similar challenge when the High Court gave former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major permission to add his weight to it.\n\nNever mind the threat to deselect any Tory MPs who rebel, the list of those taking matters into their own hands by saying they won't stand at the next election grows longer by the day.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, Justine Greening - MP for the overwhelmingly Remain-voting London constituency of Putney - said she would bow out.\n\nShe accused Mr Johnson of offering voters a \"messy\" general election that forced them to choose \"no deal or Jeremy Corbyn\", and said she believed she could be more of a force for good outside Parliament than inside it.\n\nLater in the day, well-liked and highly-respected former minister Alistair Burt followed her lead after 18 years as an MP.\n\nHe blamed \"a fundamental, and irresolvable disagreement with our party leadership on the manner in which we leave the EU.\"\n\nConservative Keith Simpson also announced he would not stand again, but blamed age - he's 70 - not Brexit.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Chancellor Sajid Javid is set to unveil the government's spending plans for the coming year on Wednesday.\n\nThe statement will set departmental budgets for just one year rather than the usual three years, due to uncertainty over the impact of Brexit.\n\nMr Javid will announce a further £2bn of Brexit funding for the government, as well as confirm additional funds for health, schools and the police.\n\nThe extra spending will be funded by borrowing rather than tax rises.\n\nIndependent think-tank the Institute for Government (IFG) says the government is likely to favour vote-winning measures ahead of a \"potentially imminent\" election.\n\nBut it argues the government should be prioritising other areas of spending, such as social care and prisons which it says are the services most in need of extra money.\n\nHere we look at each of the public services, and which needs the most funding, according to the IFG's report.\n\nIt has graded services, according to need based on which are able to keep up with demand: amber for some concerns and red for significant concerns.\n\nWhat has already been announced? Theresa May's government announced that annual funding would rise by £20 billion by 2023. Boris Johnson also announced a one-off injection of £1.8bn, but not all of that is agreed to be new money.\n\nSpending on hospitals and GP services in England has risen since 2009-10, although more slowly than in the past.\n\nIFG estimates suggest that the workload of GPs has risen faster than spending, meaning they have had to do more for less.\n\nDespite practices increasing the number of telephone consultations and pooling resources, patients have been waiting longer for appointments.\n\nThis suggests that GPs, despite becoming more efficient, have not been able to keep up with demand.\n\nHowever, the amount of work hospitals do has risen faster.\n\nWhile hospitals have made efficiencies, hospitals have not been able to keep pace with the growing cost and demand for care, according to the IFG.\n\nThe result has been financial deficits and longer waiting times for treatment.\n\nThe frontline of the NHS knows what its budget is until 2023-24: it was given a five-year settlement last summer.\n\nThe rises, an average of 3.4% a year, are generous compared to what the rest of the public sector can expect and reflect the fact the health service is constantly among the top priorities for voters and facing rising demand from the ageing population.\n\nBut there are still question marks around more than £13bn of funding that goes to things like staff training, buildings and healthy lifestyle initiatives, such as stop smoking.\n\nWhat has already been announced? The government has announced that funding will rise by £2.6bn in 2020-21, £4.8bn in 2021-22 and £7.1bn in 2022-23.\n\nSchools in England have not faced the same financial pressures as many other public services, according to the IFG.\n\nHowever, after a rise in spending per pupil in most years since 2009-10, since 2014-15 the growth in pupil numbers has outpaced spending growth, meaning the per-pupil spending has fallen in both primary and secondary schools.\n\nOn top of this, schools have increasingly been paying for services that would have been previously provided by local authorities - such as educational psychology and extra support for special educational needs - following cuts to local authority budgets.\n\nThere are also signs that this increased workload is putting pressure on the workforce, with schools finding it harder to recruit and retain teachers, the IFG says.\n\nBut overall, schools have become more productive, it adds, with more pupils per teacher and pupil attainment increasing - particularly in primary schools.\n\nSchool funding in England had become a political headache and vote loser for the government, with both headteachers and parents campaigning. Rising costs such as national insurance and teachers pensions, as well as running costs such as utility bills, have contributed to an 8% real terms reduction in money spent in schools since 2010.\n\nThe extra money promised for 5-to-16 year-olds' education will almost reverse that squeeze by 2023. But that leaves financial pressures in England in other areas such as early years, and despite some extra cash for colleges educating 16-19 year-olds, an historic legacy under many governments of relative underfunding of further education.\n\nWhat has already been announced? The government has promised 20,000 extra police officers over three years at a likely cost of £0.5 billion next year but has not yet confirmed how this will be funded.\n\nSpending on the police in England and Wales has fallen sharply since 2009-10, says the IFG.\n\nThe number of police officers has also declined, with total police reserves now 9% lower in real terms than they were in 2009-10.\n\n\"Victim-reported crime has fallen over this period, but police-recorded crime has increased,\" the IFG says.\n\n\"Overall police performance - as judged by inspection reports - has improved, although other indicators - such as public confidence in the police and the length of time taken to bring charges - have deteriorated.\n\n\"There is evidence that the police are struggling to maintain performance with current levels of spending.\"\n\nThe strength of policing reached a record high at the end of the Labour government that left office in 2010 - and then fell back by 21,000 as older officers left and cuts restricted recruitment.\n\nThe prime minister's pledge to re-recruit 20,000 officers in the coming three years is a huge task, because natural loss means forces may need to recruit more than double that number to hit the target.\n\nWhat has already been announced? £0.1 billion pledged to boost security; promise of 10,000 extra prison places, but funding arrangements unclear\n\nPrisons have experienced large spending cuts and a reduction in staff numbers since 2009-10.\n\nThis means prison safety has declined dramatically since 2012-13, according to the IFG.\n\nViolence has risen and prisoners are less likely to have access to learning and development activities.\n\nThe 2016 Autumn Statement saw an injection of extra cash to tackle these safety issues and spending has risen again recently.\n\nAs a result, staff numbers are starting to rise again.\n\nThe IFG hailed a pilot programme to curb violence and drug use in 10 prisons, undertaken last year by the then Prisons Minister, Rory Stewart.\n\n\"This was largely successful, but replicating it across the whole prison system will require extra spending in every future year,\" the IFG says.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice was one of the first big spending departments to settle with the Treasury in 2010, when the then Chancellor, George Osborne, demanded major cuts to public spending. Today, it has 25% fewer staff than back then.\n\nThe departure of experienced prison officers under the cuts coincided with a rise in smuggling of new psychoactive drugs into jails, leading to an increase in violence that the remaining prison officers struggled to control.\n\nWhat has already been announced? In a Sunday Times interview, Boris Johnson said he would give councils £1bn for adult social care, but no formal announcement has yet been made.\n\nSpending on adult social care in England fell between 2010-11 and 2014-15, but has since seen a rise.\n\nThe number of adults receiving publicly funded care packages has decreased, according to the IFG, even though an ageing population would suggest that demand is increasing.\n\nLocal authorities, responsible for providing adult social care, have driven down the price of care commissioned from private and voluntary sector providers following cuts to funding.\n\nHowever, this has not enabled them to meet demand, the IFG says, and unpaid care - such as by family, friends or neighbours - has partially filled the gap.\n\nIn his first speech from Downing Street, Boris Johnson promised to \"fix the crisis in social care once and for all\".\n\nHowever, the IFG says there are no signs that plans to do so will be unveiled in the Spending Review.\n\nNot only has adult social care lost out in terms of funding, the long-awaited reform of the system has also been dodged.\n\nCare services for the elderly and disabled simply do not have the profile of the NHS, although that is beginning to change a little as the problems worsen. But the challenge remains what to do about money.\n\nOnly the poorest and neediest get support from the state. But that means four-fifths of older people who need care go without, rely on family and friends or pay for it themselves.\n\nEach of the areas covered by the IFG's report are devolved: the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run their own services.\n\nSo announcements on Wednesday will effect England (or England and Wales for policing and justice).\n\nThe devolved governments will receive extra money proportionate to the increases in spending, but they will decide how that money is spent.\n\nSince 2010, the Westminster parliament has increased health spending faster and cut education and local government spending faster than the devolved governments.", "MPs who want to stop no deal plan to pass a new law that will force Boris Johnson to seek an extension to the Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation has been presented by Labour MP Hilary Benn, and has been signed by opposition leaders and recently-sacked Conservatives, including Alistair Burt and Philip Hammond.\n\nWell, Mr Johnson will have until 19 October to either pass a deal in Parliament or get MPs to approve a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOnce this deadline has passed, he will have to request an extension to the UK's departure date, taking it from 31 October to 31 January 2020.\n\nUnusually, the bill includes the wording of the letter that the prime minister would have to write to the president of the European Council in his request for that extension.\n\nIf the EU responds by proposing a different date, the PM will have two days to accept that proposal. But during this two-day period, MPs - not the government - will have the opportunity to reject the EU's date.\n\nThe bill also contains a list of provisions that write into law requirements for ministers to report to the House of Commons over the next few months.\n\nNot only would this provide MPs with updates, but could potentially provide more opportunities to take control of the timetable.\n\nBe aware though, this could all change over the next few days because MPs and Lords have the power to pass amendments to any law.\n\nProcedure in the Lords means it could provide the biggest hurdle to the bill's sponsors because it could be possible for those against the legislation to filibuster - talk and talk until there is no time left to get it through.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "A plan to shut down the UK Parliament was hatched two weeks before it was publicly announced, a Scottish court has been told.\n\nAidan O'Neill, the Lawyer for those challenging the prorogation move, highlighted a document dated 15 August containing proposals to shut parliament in September.\n\nHe told the Court of Session in Edinburgh: \"That appears to be developing government policy as of 15 August, but this court was told nothing of that and was told in fact that this judicial review is academic, hypothetical and premature.\n\n\"That is not true. This court and these petitioners were being actively misled.\"", "Daniela Fudge Condon fears what would happen if the government's digital system went wrong\n\nAbout 800 EU citizens have been granted the right to remain in the UK using a system intended for those affected by the Windrush scandal.\n\nMany are using it because of a lack of trust in the government's main EU settlement scheme, which MPs have said is \"blighted\" by technical issues.\n\nUnlike the Windrush scheme, it does not provide a physical ID card showing a person's indefinite right to stay.\n\nThe Home Office said it gives people \"secure digital status\".\n\nIt added that the settlement scheme \"protects the rights of EU citizens in UK law\".\n\nThe Windrush scheme was set up after individuals arriving from Commonwealth countries between 1948 and 1971 were wrongly told they were in the UK illegally, despite living in the country for decades.\n\nBut the application system is open to anyone who arrived, or whose parents arrived, before 1989.\n\nIndividuals are invited to a post office to provide fingerprints and an electronic signature, and would then receive a biometric ID card.\n\nDaniela Fudge Condon - whose mother came to Bradford from Italy in the 1950s to work in the textile mills - said she feared that, without physical documentation, EU citizens could be treated in the same \"horrific\" way as the Windrush generation if the government's purely digital system went wrong.\n\nIn May, MPs also warned a similar scandal could take place with EU citizens if \"serious concerns\" were not put right.\n\nMs Fudge Condon's mother was successful in her application, but she argues it was unfair the 82-year-old had to apply at all.\n\n\"My mum's already jumped through hoops and gone through an immigration system back in the 50s. She shouldn't have to do that again,\" she told BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nDominique Zaccari said she felt \"guilty\" at having to use a system set up in the wake of the Windrush scandal\n\nCurrently, EU nationals - and their families - living in the UK by 31 October have until the end of 2020 to apply to the EU settlement scheme in the event of a no-deal Brexit, or the end of June 2021 if there is a deal.\n\nHome Office estimates suggest more than a million individuals - fewer than a third of those eligible - have been granted settled or pre-settled status so far.\n\nDominique Zaccari - who arrived from Paris in 1973 and went on to establish an English language school in Bournemouth with her husband Antonio - also used the Windrush scheme to ensure she had physical documentation.\n\nShe said she received her ID card within a month of applying.\n\nShe admitted to feeling \"terribly guilty about getting it off the back of the suffering of the Windrush people\", but added that ultimately it was about \"obtaining a document which I felt was due, because we've been here this long\".\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Applying to the EU settlement scheme is quick and easy, and over a million people have been granted status so far in the first few months since fully launching.\n\n\"It protects the rights of EU citizens in UK law and gives them a secure digital status which, unlike a physical document, cannot be lost, stolen or tampered with.\n\n\"There is plenty of support available if people need help, and they have until at least December 2020 to apply.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Mark Winchcombe died from his injuries after an assault in the early hours of Sunday\n\nTwo 16-year-old boys have been charged in connection with the death of a pub landlord in Neath.\n\nMark Winchcombe, 58, was attacked on Main Road, in Neath Abbey, near his pub the Smiths Arms at 00:55 BST on Sunday.\n\nOne of the teenagers has been charged with manslaughter and affray while the other has been charged with affray.\n\nBoth were bailed to appear before Swansea Youth Court on 19 September. Two other 16-year-olds and two 14-year-olds have been released on bail.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Winchcombe's wife has paid tribute to the \"well-respected and well-liked, doting dad.\"\n\n\"Mark was a lively character and he always had a smile on his face for everybody,\" said Christine Winchcome.\n\n\"He had a quick-witted personality, an infectious laugh and he was always on hand to help anybody. Mark had many, many friends.\n\n\"His death has left a big hole in our hearts and our lives will never be the same without him.\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated at the loss of Mark. He was a loving husband, son, brother and a doting dad.\n\n\"He was very well respected and well liked in the local community and we would like to thank them for their kind words and support, which has been overwhelming.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police have called for witnesses to the incident to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Lapper hit out at mental health care after the death of her son Parys\n\nArtist Alison Lapper has hit out at \"appalling\" mental health care after revealing school bullies contributed to her son's struggles before his death.\n\nParys Lapper was 19 when his body was found in a Sussex hotel last month.\n\nHis mother posed nude while pregnant with him for a piece of artwork which was mounted on the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square in 2005.\n\nMs Lapper was born with no arms and shortened legs, which she said became an issue for her son at school.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Parys's mental health problems began when he started at secondary school in Sussex and pupils would give him strange looks because of her disability.\n\nAlison Lapper co-hosted the BBC Four series No Body's Perfect\n\n\"The teenage years kicked in. He went from a small school to a massive school which I think had an impact,\" she said.\n\n\"We all know teenage years are hard; they change. I could just see my happy kid just disappearing in front of my eyes and not knowing what to do.\n\n\"I know he got into a fight and he punched someone because they said something about him or myself.\n\n\"That wasn't Parys. He didn't go around punching people but obviously that triggered something.\"\n\nThe marble sculpture of Ms Lapper by Marc Quinn stood in Trafalgar Square between 2005 and 2007\n\nParys was sectioned at 17 years of age and had treatment in Sevenoaks, Kent.\n\nMs Lapper says she tried to have him moved back closer to her home in Sussex but he was moved to an anorexia unit instead.\n\n\"What good is that to someone who doesn't have anorexia?\" she said.\n\n\"There are no provisions for young people who are suffering from mental health problems.\n\n\"The people who worked with him tried their best but the facilities out there are appalling.\"\n\nMs Lapper said she had been with her son just days before he died. His funeral was held on Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"I miss him. I'm absolutely heartbroken. I feel like he has been let down.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, these organisations offer advice and support. In addition, you can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline- 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm).\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "It's hard to know where to start sometimes.\n\nThe pace and gravity of events in Westminster this week is both monumental and dizzying.\n\nA prime minister has lost his wafer of a majority.\n\nMPs from across the spectrum are making their own history, by collaborating to sabotage the central part of Downing Street's strategy and change the law themselves.\n\nThe two main party leaders both believe that band of rebels will succeed and, if they do, they agree that the country should get a chance to decide who is in charge.\n\nAnd the prime minister and Tory leader is reshaping his party - the product of first a threat, then a punishment, to some of its best known names - even ejecting the grandson of Winston Churchill.\n\nThis rapid escalation is the outburst of conflict that's been brewing since Boris Johnson moved into No 10.\n\nIt was unlikely ever to be sustainable for him to govern as a prime minster intent on keeping the option of leaving the EU without a deal, in the face of a Parliament with a majority set against that.\n\nSome close to the prime minister believe that from this crisis comes an opportunity - to close the unfinished business of the referendum result in 2016, with the Tory party at last being the bearers of a crystal-clear message on Brexit.\n\nIt's a measure of how upside down the political norms are - that the prime minister losing his first vote in office is considered by some of his allies as a benefit.\n\nBut that carries tremendous risk too - decisiveness may be perceived by many voters as arrogance or aggression. The collateral damage or gains from these moves is unknown.\n\nThe only certainty, perhaps, is that nothing will stay the same.", "The millipede-like animal dragged itself along the sea floor half a billion years ago\n\nA millipede-like creature from 550 million years ago is among the earliest examples of an animal showing complex behaviour.\n\nLong before the dinosaurs walked the Earth, the four-inch long creature dragged its body along a muddy sea floor and became fossilised.\n\nThe animal died right next to its trail, giving scientists the rare opportunity to link it to the track it made.\n\nThe fossil was found in eastern China.\n\nIt's among the earliest examples of continuous, directed movement by animals. Researchers say the specimen may hint that a form of complex behaviour had already evolved in these earliest animals half a billion years ago.\n\nThe animal appears in rocks that belong to a slice of geological time known as the Ediacaran. This period is known for the appearance of very early multicellular life forms.\n\n\"It's the continuous trails that are most abundant in the Ediacaran rocks. A lot of times they're not preserved with the animal that made them,\" co-author Prof Shuhai Xiao, from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, US, told BBC News.\n\n\"So it's almost impossible to say what animals made these continuous trails, unless you have the animals preserved together with the trails.\"\n\nCorresponding \"faces\" of the same fossil - the part and counterpart - showing its segmented body plan\n\nProf Rachel Wood from the University of Edinburgh, who was not involved with the study, called the specimen a \"milestone of complexity\".\n\nShe added: \"It's simply a spectacular fossil. It's spectacular because of its age. It's Pre-Cambrian - it's of an age that we now call Ediacaran.\n\n\"But what's particularly noteworthy about it is that it's combining a trace - the movement of an animal across the ancient sea floor - with the actual animal that did it. Without any doubt we can assign the trace to the trace-maker.\"\n\nShe said another thing made the fossil remarkable: \"They show that a type of complex behaviour had evolved before the Cambrian (when multi-cellular life exploded into a wide variety of forms) the ability to move over the sea floor.\"\n\nProf Wood explained that this specimen tied the earlier Ediacaran organisms more closely to those found in the later Cambrian.\n\nThe animal has been named Yilingia spiciformis - which translates to spiky Yiling bug. Yiling is the Chinese city located near the discovery site.\n\nThe four-inch-long (10cm) animal measured about a quarter-inch (0.6cm) to an inch (2.5cm) wide. It dragged its body across the ancient marine mud, but examination of the trail shows that it rested along the way.\n\nThe site near Yiling, eastern China, where the fossil was found\n\n\"Though it's not well-preserved, it has the hint that it has a front and a back... so this animal has already got some sense of unidirectional movement.\" said Prof Wood.\n\n\"The fact that it's segmented tells us that there's some connection between segments and acting out this complex behaviour.\"\n\nSegments are the repetitive units that make up the bodies of arthropods, the large group of animals that includes everything from lobsters to butterflies and millipedes.\n\nHowever, apart from the fact the animal seems to have a defined head and tail, most of its segments \"are fundamentally similar to each other\", said Shuhai Xiao.\n\nThis differs from modern segmented animals where the segments are regionalised, making them rather distinct from one another.\n\n\"It gives us a more complete picture about the transition from simple repetition to advanced segmentation,\" said Prof Xiao.\n\nIn the past, the creatures that lived in the Ediacaran had been extremely difficult to classify. In fact, their position on the tree of life has been one of the greatest mysteries in palaeontology.\n\nYilingia spiciformis fossil (R) along with the track it made (L)\n\nThey were variously classified as lichens, fungi, or an intermediate stage between plants and animals.\n\nBut last year, scientists discovered some Ediacaran fossils retained traces of the molecule cholesterol - a hallmark of animal life.\n\n\"Just 20 years ago, some of us still thought the Ediacaran fossils were unrelated to animals. There was a hypothesis called the 'Ediacaran garden', but I think what we're seeing now is an 'Ediacaran zoo',\" said Shuhai Xiao.\n\n\"The challenge is now to place these in a family tree of animals.\"\n\nAs for what type of animal the Ediacaran fossil represented, Prof Wood said: \"It's very difficult to know what this animal was. The authors of the paper suggest it might be related to worms, or to arthropods - the group that includes crabs and lobsters and insects today.\n\n\"But it's almost certainly a primitive representative of one of these two groups - even a precursor to both of these groups before they diverged. So it's rather hazy as to exactly what type of animal this is. But there's no doubt it's a bilaterian - an animal with bilateral symmetry, which is quite unlike more basal invertebrates, things like sponges and corals.\"", "Men's Ashes: England v Australia, fourth Specsavers Test (day one of five)\n\nSteve Smith once again had the measure of England's bowlers on his return to the Australia side on a rain-shortened first day in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.\n\nSmith, who missed the third Test with concussion, notched up a record-extending eighth successive Ashes half-century to end the day 60 not out and take the tourists to 170-3.\n\nAustralia had been reduced to 28-2 after winning the toss, only for Smith to add 116 with Marnus Labuschagne, whose 67 was his fourth consecutive score in excess of 50.\n\nAfter the euphoria of England's extraordinary one-wicket win at Headingley which levelled the series at 1-1, this was a subdued occasion, thanks mainly to the bitter cold, blustery winds and persistent showers.\n\nBar Stuart Broad's burst with the new ball, the home attack struggled to offer a sustained threat, matching the mood of a crowd which could not raise the atmosphere above the elements.\n\nThe players were not seen for three hours after they went off for lunch and, even though they managed to play through some rain, it got too heavy to prevent any further action after a late tea was taken at 17:30 BST.\n\nStill, even though only 44 overs were possible, Smith took Australia to a good position on a pitch that looks ideal for batting now, but may be difficult when England come to bat last.\n\nAn Australia victory would see them retain the Ashes with a Test to spare.\n• None 'Smith undermines England's bowling foundations like an army of termites'\n• None Talk of momentum from Headingley is nonsense - Vaughan\n\nA September Test in Manchester always seemed susceptible to the elements and, sure enough, this was a day when spectators shivered, players pulled on big sweaters and rain was never far away.\n\nThe gusts had debris constantly drifting across the field from the huge temporary stand and, at one stage, the bails were blown from their grooves with such regularity that the umpires simply did without.\n\nIf only Smith was as easy to blow over. It took a vicious Jofra Archer bouncer to fell him in the second Test at Lord's and subsequently rule the former captain out of the drama at Headingley.\n\nHere he returned and slipped straight back into the focus, judgement and idiosyncrasies that brought him scores of 144, 142 and 92 in his three previous innings in the series.\n\nSmith and Labuschagne formed a master-and-apprentice partnership, the two Australia players that England have not been able to control batting together for the first time this summer.\n\nAlready, it looks like how long Smith spends at the crease on Friday will go a long way to deciding the match, albeit with more rain forecast over the next two days.\n\nAfter confirming that Mitchell Starc had replaced fellow pace bowler James Pattinson in his team, Australia captain Tim Paine took the opportunity to bat first on a slow, dry surface.\n\nWhen Broad had David Warner caught behind for a duck in the first over - the fifth time he has dismissed the opener in the series - and followed that by trapping Marcus Harris lbw, it looked like England would ride the momentum of Headingley.\n\nThey were denied by Smith and Labuschagne, who eased effortlessly into the methods that have brought them so much success.\n\nLabuschagne looked to score off the front foot from the pace bowlers and cut when spinner Jack Leach dropped short.\n\nSmith nudged and nurdled into the leg side and played handsome drives, including an incredible one through the covers off Stokes while on his knees.\n\nIt took a beautiful nip-backer from Craig Overton to bowl Labuschagne, with Travis Head surviving a Stokes review for lbw to accompany Smith to what proved to be the close.\n\nBroad bowled beautifully early on, swinging the new ball away from the left-handers and occasionally getting it to nip back off the seam.\n\nHowever, after that, the England bowlers were collectively below par, even if they can perhaps be slightly excused given the difficult conditions they were having to battle.\n\nThere were times when the fielders were left frustrated at the problems caused by the wind, with the bail issues and constant litter causing the Australia batsmen to delay proceedings.\n\nStill, when the sun was out and the wind calm, Archer was down on pace, failing to fulfil the anticipation of his battle with Smith, one which brought a huge roar from the crowd when the two locked horns for the first time.\n\nLeach began by bowling too short and both Stokes and Overton went at more than four runs an over. Under the floodlights, one was left wondering what the full length and movement of the omitted Chris Woakes may have achieved.\n\nOverton at least produced the ball that got Labuschagne and Stokes bowled a fiery spell at the end of the day, but they were rare moments of penetration.\n\n'Australia have nullified Headingley' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"What today proved to me is that all the talk of momentum between games is absolute nonsense. What Australia have done today is nullify Headingley.\n\n\"Against both batting units, if you can be consistent outside that off stump, things can happen. I wonder whether England will realise that they've potentially missed a big opportunity today.\"\n\nEngland bowler Craig Overton: \"It was quite a frustrating day with the wind but it was nice to get the wicket. It's tough in these conditions.\n\n\"Steve Smith is the big one that we want to get. We'll come back with a positive attitude and try and get him early.\"\n\nAustralia batsman Marnus Labuschagne: \"To have a loss like that [at Headingley] which was in our grasp was disappointing but the way went about the game today we are here and in the contest. We are really keen to secure the Ashes.\"\n\nEx-Australia bowler Glenn McGrath: \"I don't think England bowled as well as they would have hoped. These conditions, going on and off, are always more difficult for the fielding side. I didn't see too many demons in this pitch.\"\n\nInjured England pace bowler Mark Wood: \"On a day like this, it's hard to get that intensity right up. It feel like a miserable day altogether. It was a bitty day.\"", "RBS says its profits could fall by a third this year after a surge of last-minute claims for mis-sold payment protection insurance ahead of the August deadline.\n\nThe bank said it expects to take an additional charge of between £600m and £900m after receiving a \"significantly higher\" amount of claims last month.\n\nIt is a blow for the bank which only recently returned to profitability.\n\nThe state-owned lender had previously forecast profits of £2.7bn for 2019.\n\nPPI was designed to cover loan repayments if borrowers fell ill or lost their job, but many were sold to people who did not want or need them.\n\nBanks and other providers sold millions of the policies, mainly between 1990 and 2010.\n\nThe deadline to seek compensation was 29 August, prompting a surge of last minute claims from consumers.\n\nSantander was forced to extend its deadline for claims until 20:00 on 30 August after its online complaints form stopped working on 28 August.\n\nNat West, which is owned by RBS, also experienced issues online and there were long waits to get through to its phone lines.\n\nRBS has set aside £5.3bn in total to cover PPI compensation, £4.9bn of which has already been spent.\n\nHowever, the latest charges have come as a surprise for the bank which is still 62% owned by the taxpayer.\n\nIn 2018 it posted its first annual profit in a decade, after struggling to recover from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nAnd in its half-year results this year, it reported a 130% jump in earnings to £2bn - its best half-year performance for a decade - as well as a special dividend of 12p a share.\n\nAn astonishing £36bn in compensation has been paid out so far, with the typical payout amounting to £2,000.\n\nIn May Lloyds Banking Group set aside a further £100m as compensation in May, bringing its total provision to £19.5bn.", "The prime minister said a bill that calls for a delay to Brexit makes it impossible to govern.", "The UN experts investigated a coalition air strike on a bus carrying children in August 2018\n\nThe UK, US, France and Iran may be complicit in possible war crimes in Yemen over their support for parties to the conflict there, UN experts say.\n\nA new report warns the countries they could be held responsible for aiding or assisting the commission of violations.\n\nThe Western powers provide weapons and logistical support to the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government, while Iran backs the Houthi rebels.\n\nThe experts say both sides continue to commit violations with impunity.\n\nTheir report documents air strikes on civilian infrastructure, indiscriminate shelling, snipers, landmines, as well as arbitrary killings and detention, torture, sexual and gender-based violence, and the impeding of access to humanitarian aid in the midst of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.\n\nThe UN says the four-year conflict has claimed the lives of at least 7,290 civilians and left 80% of the population - 24 million people - in need of humanitarian assistance or protection, including 10 million who rely on food aid to survive.\n\nThe Group of International and Regional Eminent Experts on Yemen conducted 600 interviews with victims and witnesses, and examined documentary and open-source material, for their second report for the UN Human Rights Council.\n\nIt says they found reasonable grounds to believe Yemen's government and the Saudi-led coalition, as well as the Houthis, had enjoyed a \"pervasive lack of accountability\" for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hidden victims of the Yemen war\n\nThe experts investigated a number of coalition air strikes on rebel-held areas in which civilians were killed. Such strikes raised concerns about the identification of military objectives and respect for the principles of proportionality and precautions in attack, they say. If there were breaches of the latter, which the experts consider highly likely, they would amount to serious violations of international law.\n\nThe experts also found reasonable grounds to believe that the Houthis were responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law for having launched indiscriminate attacks resulting in the death or injury of civilians and, in some cases, by directing attacks against civilians.\n\nAll parties may also have used starvation as a method of warfare.\n\nThe experts call for the immediate cessation of all acts of violence committed against civilians and urge other states to refrain from providing weapons.\n\nThe third city of Taiz has been besieged by the Houthis since 2015\n\n\"States are obliged to take all reasonable measures to ensure respect for international humanitarian law by other states. Furthermore, the Arms Trade Treaty, to which France and the United Kingdom are parties, prohibits the authorization of arms transfers with the knowledge that these would be used to commit war crimes,\" they note.\n\n\"The legality of arms transfers by France, the United Kingdom, the United States and other states remains questionable, and is the subject of various domestic court proceedings,\" they add.\n\nMelissa Parke, an Australian member of the Group of Experts, told reporters in Geneva: \"It is clear that the continued supply of weapons to parties to the conflict is perpetuating the conflict and prolonging the suffering of the Yemeni people.\"\n\nWhere possible, the experts have identified \"individuals who may be responsible for international crimes\" and submitted a confidential list of their names to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.\n\nThere was no response to the report from the coalition, the Yemeni government or the Houthis. But they have all previously denied carrying out war crimes.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"The UK has been at the forefront of international efforts to bring a diplomatic solution to the appalling conflict in Yemen. We operate one of the most robust export control regimes in the world.\"\n\nUK government ministers have said in the past they cannot determine whether any civilian deaths have been the result of British bombs or planes because the coalition does not track their use.\n\nThe US has argued against halting arms sales or assistance to the coalition, saying that continuing them is more likely to help limit civilian casualties.\n• None Yemen: Why is there a war there?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I curled up in fear' - Leanne Truesdale was six when her babysitter started to abuse her\n\nWhen Leanne Truesdale was a little girl, she used to sit in her living room, dreading the sight of her babysitter coming up the garden path.\n\nAged about six, Leanne was sexually abused by George Oliver at her home in Newtownards, County Down, for the first time but she didn't understand what had happened.\n\n\"He said he wasn't going to hurt me and I remember just lying there, frozen,\" Leanne, now 37, told BBC News NI.\n\nLeanne Truesdale as flower girl, at about the time the abuse started\n\n\"I didn't know whether it was right or wrong.\n\n\"I had a fear but I didn't understand what it was. When you're a wee girl of that age and something like that happens, you don't know what is happening to you - why should you?\n\n\"He said that if I told anyone, my mum and dad weren't going to come home, something bad was going to happen to them and nobody would believe me.\"\n\nGeorge Oliver was a family friend and regularly looked after Leanne\n\nTwenty years on and still trying to process what had happened, Leanne became an alcoholic and twice tried to kill herself.\n\n\"I was drinking myself into an early grave - I didn't want to live any more,\" she said.\n\n\"I was self-medicating but it got to the point that alcohol wasn't even working for me and I started to lose people in my life.\n\n\"Then I got help and was asked in an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting why I drank and it was like a light bulb moment. It was George, my babysitter.\"\n\nAfter getting herself sober in 2015, Leanne plucked up the courage to speak to police about the abuse.\n\nShe had seen her attacker at a bus stop and it brought her childhood trauma right back.\n\nLeanne Truesdale said her family situation was \"dysfunctional\" and her babysitter gave her attention\n\n\"All my life I've been in self-destruct mode because of the way George groomed me,\" said the mother-of-one.\n\n\"As a child, my family was quite dysfunctional and George made feel like I was getting attention.\n\n\"I didn't really expect the police or anyone to care or believe me.\"\n\nLast month, William George Oliver, now 68, of Dicksonia Drive in Newtownards, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting Leanne but denied three other similar charges, which were left on the books.\n\nHe received a 14-month sentence, suspended for three years.\n\n\"I can't even describe the feeling... when he pleaded guilty,\" she said.\n\n\"But the funny thing was that when he was stood there in the dock, looking old and really ill, I felt sorry for him.\"\n\nLeanne says the abuse has affected relationships and her self-esteem\n\nLeanne added: \"People have told me that I'm brave for speaking out but it doesn't feel like that to me. I just want people to know that they don't have to suffer in silence.\n\n\"My uncle said to me: 'You could have been lying in the graveyard and nobody would have known anything about what happened in your life,' and I think about that quite a lot.\n\n\"You have to face your fears and speak up - you can't have something as heavy as that hanging over you for the rest of your life. It's only going to drag you down even further.\n\n\"I always had this feeling that I was dirty and I still ask: 'Why did it happen?' but I'll never get the answer.\n\n\"Some of my family still don't want to talk about it but my auntie, uncle and dad have been amazing. These last few years, they have supported me when, at times, I thought I wasn't worthy of it.\n\n\"Even trying to tell my story now, I still feel like I'm not important enough for people to listen to me.\"\n\nWhile Leanne knows there is a long road ahead, she says she has got some closure.\n\nShe finally feels like people believe her and that the abuse was not her fault.\n\n\"I still get days and weeks where I'm brought right back,\" she said.\n\n\"Say, for example, somebody mentions child abuse or I see someone who looks a little bit like George, it triggers me.\n\n\"That sends me into a downward spiral where I find it very difficult to even do simple tasks, like making my daughter dinner.\n\n\"I struggle with being a mum during those times and it's something that I'm working really hard on but it's really hard sometimes. I just want to protect her and do the best for her.\n\n\"Physical wounds can heal but the emotional damage that something like that does to a person has been an eye-opener to me.\n\n\"Since I stopped drinking, I've found out so much about myself and realised how much it has impacted my life.\n• None 'I curled up in fear' - abused aged six by babysitter. Video, 00:01:23'I curled up in fear' - abused aged six by babysitter", "Sarah-Jayne and Steven Roche started the half marathon together\n\nA woman who broke her leg without realising while running the Cardiff Half Marathon died during surgery to repair it, an inquest has heard.\n\nSarah-Jayne Roche, 39, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, pulled out of the run in October 2018 with what was diagnosed as a hamstring injury.\n\nShe had fractured a femur but went to hospital three times before it was diagnosed.\n\nShe had a cardiac arrest 12 days after the race, during surgery, and died.\n\nMrs Roche, a learning support assistant at Treorchy Comprehensive in Rhondda, had two sons aged 12 and eight.\n\nPontypridd Coroners' Court heard she had entered the race with her husband Steven to raise money for Parkinson's disease research after her father was diagnosed with the illness.\n\nSeven miles into the run on 7 October, she felt a \"shooting pain up her leg\", and pulled out of the race.\n\nSt John Ambulance volunteers diagnosed a pulled hamstring but she went to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital because of the pain.\n\nSarah-Jayne Roche was running to raise money for Parkinson's disease research\n\nMr Roche told the inquest: \"She was in a wheelchair in very considerable pain. She was advised to rest up and take paracetamol and ibuprofen.\n\n\"She was seen by a consultant for no more than 20 minutes. There was no mention of an X-ray.\"\n\nHe took Mrs Roche back to hospital the next day when the pain became worse. Two doctors advised stronger painkillers and a hot water bottle.\n\n\"There was no discussion about an X-Ray; their conclusion was there was not much else to do. They believed it was a hamstring injury,\" Mr Roche said.\n\nThe inquest heard Mrs Roche spent the following days in bed, her leg and foot had swollen and her foot was cold to touch.\n\nMrs Roche was admitted to the same hospital by ambulance a week later in \"absolute agony\".\n\nHer husband continued: \"It frightened me. She was in so much pain they had to cut trousers off. Her leg was twice its normal size. They said they would carry out an X-ray. The doctor expressed his surprise that there hadn't been an X-ray.\"\n\nMrs Roche's mother, Patricia Newman, told the hearing she had told one of the doctors who examined her daughter that her leg was swollen, adding: \"He did not carry out a physical examination. In his opinion it didn't warrant an X-Ray.\"\n\nTwo other runners died during the 2018 Cardiff Half Marathon.\n\nThe inquest, which is expected to last two days, continues.", "As a teenager in the 1980s, Sajid Javid, the UK's new chancellor, was an ardent admirer of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the country's first female premier. He even has a portrait of the \"Iron Lady\" in his office.\n\nSo as he packs his things at the Home Office ready for the move to Treasury, that may be one of the things he takes with him, along with the sense that, like her, he is breaking new ground.\n\nHe was the first home secretary from an ethnic minority when he took the post last year. Now he will be the UK's first chancellor from the immigrant community.\n\nHe grew up being taunted with racist names, and hearing his parents' stories of how they arrived here with a pound in their pocket and a determination to work hard.\n\nHe's told the stories many times, although it is not yet clear how - or whether - those experiences will translate into policies, once he has his feet under the desk at Number 11 Downing Street.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI), representing UK employers, has already sent round a long wish-list for the new administration, including calls to make it easier for firms to recruit workers from overseas.\n\nMr Javid has talked of creating a £100bn national infrastructure fund and investing heavily in house building, but the CBI would also like confirmation that big public infrastructure projects such as HS2 will go ahead.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) would like to see the new chancellor focus on increasing real wages and investment in public services, the relaxation of austerity that has been trailed by Mr Javid's predecessor, Philip Hammond.\n\nBut before breaking the mould politically, Mr Javid was already confounding expectations for a state school boy from one of the least affluent parts of Bristol, by rapidly climbing the ranks in international banking.\n\nHe worked first for Chase Manhattan Bank and then Deutsche Bank, where by the age of 40, he was a senior managing director in charge of global credit trading, where according to the Financial Times he earned £3m a year.\n\nSo Miles Celic, chief executive at CityUK, the body representing the financial services industry, hopes that Mr Javid's knowledge and experience of the sector will make him see things from their perspective.\n\n\"He's someone who knows the industry, he's worked in the industry, but most importantly he was city minister previously,\" says Mr Celic. \"He's familiar with our issues, our challenges.\"\n\nStudied politics and economics at Exeter University, where he joined the Conservatives\n\nA Eurosceptic who backed Remain in the referendum with a \"heavy heart and no enthusiasm\"\n\nWhat the City would like most of all, of course, is certainty and continuity in the UK's relationship with the EU. That may be hard for Mr Javid to deliver, his room for manoeuvre determined by the new occupant next door at Number 10.\n\nMr Celic believes Mr Javid will want to build on the plans his predecessor Philip Hammond put in place, trying to negotiate a deal with the EU. But the new chancellor has previously said he would be prepared to take Britain out of the EU without a deal if necessary. He has spoken of preparing an \"emergency Budget\" including tax cuts to smooth the way.\n\nTax cuts won't be popular with everyone.\n\n\"In the leadership election, we heard a lot about increasing funding for public services and making sure public servants get a pay rise. It's something we hope they'd be taking seriously,\" says Kate Bell, head of economics at the TUC. \"We heard other - worrying - things about tax cuts for higher earners which shouldn't be the priority at this stage.\"\n\nDuring that election race, Mr Javid said his priority would be to cut the basic rate, but he told the Telegraph he would consider scrapping the top rate of income tax altogether, if he thought it would inject more \"dynamism\" into the economy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a showdown between Boris Johnson and Tory rebels over Brexit.\n\nDr Lee, the MP for Bracknell, took his seat on the opposition benches as the PM addressed the Commons.\n\nHis defection means Boris Johnson no longer has a working majority.\n\nMPs hoping to pass legislation to block no deal have cleared the first hurdle after Speaker John Bercow granted them an emergency debate.\n\nThat debate could last up to three hours, followed by a vote. If the MPs win the vote - defeating the government - they will be able to take control of Commons business on Wednesday.\n\nThat will give them the chance to introduce a cross-party bill which would force the prime minister to ask for Brexit to be delayed until 31 January, unless MPs approve a new deal, or vote in favour of a no-deal exit, by 19 October.\n\nIt seems right now - although there is still some arm twisting going on behind the scenes - that the government is set to lose the vote.\n\nWe are finding ourselves in the middle of a full-throttle confrontation between a Parliament that does not want to allow the country to leave the EU without a deal and a prime minister who secured his place in power promising he would always keep that as an option.\n\nBoth of them cannot be the victors here.\n\nAnd they are both determined to win.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons earlier, Mr Johnson told MPs he wanted a negotiated exit from the EU and insisted there was \"real momentum\" behind the talks with Brussels.\n\nHe said he would travel to Dublin on Monday for discussions with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, focused on proposed alternative arrangements to the Irish border backstop - a key sticking point in the negotiations.\n\nAsked to provide evidence of progress by several Tory MPs, he said he would not negotiate in public but reassured them he would give details of the UK's proposals well before the end of September to meet a deadline set by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nBut he said the moves by MPs, including Conservatives, to pass legislation effectively blocking a no-deal exit on 31 October would \"destroy any chance of negotiating a new deal\".\n\nIf the rebels succeeded in their aims, Mr Johnson said it would force him to go to Brussels to \"beg for another pointless delay\" to Brexit and he would \"never\" do that.\n\n\"It is Jeremy Corbyn's surrender bill. It means running up the white flag,\" he added.\n\nNo 10 has said the prime minister will push for an election on 14 October if the MPs succeed in blocking no deal.\n\nBut asked if he might simply ignore them and press ahead with a no-deal Brexit regardless, he said: \"We will of course uphold the constitution and obey the law.\"\n\nPhillip Lee (front right) has represented the Berkshire constituency of Bracknell since 2010\n\nLast-ditch efforts to get the Tory rebels on side have been taking place, but BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the first meeting on Tuesday morning between the prime minister and the group went \"less than swimmingly\" and was \"less than cordial\".\n\nFurther discussions reportedly began shortly after the PM's Commons statement.\n\nThere are thought to be about 15 confirmed rebels. The government had hoped the threat of an election - and of deselection and expulsion from the party - would be enough to bring them into line.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBefore Dr Lee's defection, Mr Johnson only had a working majority of one in the Commons.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, Dr Lee said Brexit divisions had \"sadly transformed this once great party into something more akin to a narrow faction in which one's Conservatism is measured by how recklessly one wants to leave the European Union\".\n\n\"Perhaps more disappointingly, it has become infected by the twin diseases of English nationalism and populism.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM the \"bullying\" of MPs opposed to no deal showed the \"tone and culture\" of the Conservative Party had fundamentally changed, and he knew of other like-minded colleagues who were also considering their futures.\n\nWelcoming her latest recruit, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said they would work together to prevent a \"disastrous Brexit\" which would do untold damage to the NHS and other public services.\n\nDr Lee's decision to cross the floor - following that of ex-Tory MP Sarah Wollaston last month - was greeted with cheers on the opposition benches.\n\nAmid angry exchanges during the PM's statement on last month's G7 summit, Jeremy Corbyn urged the PM to \"reflect on his choice of language\" to describe the rebels' bill.\n\nThe Labour leader said the UK was \"not at war with Europe\" and it was a no-deal exit which would see the UK \"surrender\" jobs, employment standards and social protections.\n\n\"His is a government with no mandate, no morals and, as of today, no majority,\" he added.\n\nThe SNP's leader in Parliament, Ian Blackford, said Dr Lee's defection capped what he said was the \"shortest-lived honeymoon period ever\" for a new prime minister.\n\nHe said his party was ready for a general election at any time.\n\nBut veteran Tory Ken Clarke, one of those set to rebel later, said the PM's strategy was to \"set conditions which make no deal inevitable, to make sure as much blame as possible is attached to the EU, and as quickly as he can fight a flag-waving election before the consequences of a no deal become too obvious to the public\".", "The prime minister said the result of the vote means parliament is on the brink of \"wrecking any deal\" with Brussels.\n\nThe Commons voted 328 to 301 to take control of the agenda, meaning they can bring forward a bill seeking to delay the UK's exit date beyond 31 October.", "Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi asked Boris Johnson when he would \"finally apologise\" for his Telegraph column in which he described Muslim women as looking like \"letterboxes\".\n\nMr Johnson said that if Mr Dhesi had read the whole piece then he would have seen it was a \"strong liberal defence\" of a person's right to wear whatever they wanted.", "Boris Johnson has expelled 21 MPs from the parliamentary Conservative Party after they rebelled against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThose who have had the Tory whip removed include two ex-chancellors and a number of senior figures in Theresa May's and David Cameron's governments.\n\nSome have said they will stand down at the next election - whilst others have vowed to fight attempts to stop them standing again as Conservative candidates.\n\nIt comes after the rebels teamed up with the opposition on Tuesday to back a motion paving the way for a law seeking to delay the UK's exit date.\n\nThe legislation would force the prime minister to delay Brexit until January 2020, unless MPs approve either a new deal or a no-deal exit by 19 October.\n\nSo who are the Tory MPs who rebelled against the prime minister?\n\nThe former chancellor, who has been co-ordinating the rebels' efforts, insisted the move was not simply designed to block a no-deal exit but also to give Parliament proper time to scrutinise and implement any new deal agreed.\n\nThe 63-year-old voted for Theresa May's Brexit agreement three times, but has become a bogey figure for many Tory Brexiteers. They believe he has consistently exaggerated the economic risks of Brexit and sought to frustrate planning for no deal while in charge of the Treasury.\n\nThe Runnymede and Weybridge MP has said he will vigorously contest any attempt to deselect him as a candidate in the next election, potentially through legal action.\n\nBut his constituency association, which officially re-adopted him as their candidate on Monday evening, issued a statement on Facebook stating that he would \"no longer be eligible to stand\" after losing the Tory whip.\n\n\"A new Conservative candidate will be selected by the membership in due course,\" it said.\n\nTheresa May's former justice secretary is another key figure - so much so that he and his anti-no-deal associates have been dubbed the \"Gaukeward squad\".\n\nThe 48-year old former solicitor - who was George Osborne's number two at the Treasury in pre-referendum days - has said a no-deal exit would be a \"big mistake\" for the UK and he would not be \"complicit\" in something which would see people lose their jobs.\n\nThe South West Hertfordshire MP faced calls earlier this year from some activists in his constituency to deselect him.\n\nConfronted with the same threat now from No 10, he said he was prepared to put the national interest ahead of his own future career prospects by voting against the government. He said he believed Downing Street wanted to carry out a \"purge\" of dissenting voices.\n\nUnlike Mr Hammond and Mr Gauke, Mr Grieve has been a frequent and high-profile rebel over Brexit during the past two years - opposing Theresa May's withdrawal deal three times.\n\nThe former attorney general is a strong supporter of another referendum on the UK's future in Europe, with the option to remain.\n\nThe 63-year-old says he regards a no-deal exit as \"unacceptable\" and will always vote against it - even if his career takes a hit.\n\nThe Beaconsfield MP has said he wants to fight the next election as a Conservative but being deselected is a price he is willing to pay.\n\nHis constituency chairman, Jackson Ng, said he had urged Mr Grieve to \"desist\" from rebelling but thanked him for his \"long service\".\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Grieve lost a vote of no confidence by local Conservatives following a \"robust discussion\" about Brexit.\n\nAnother former chancellor, Mr Clarke is the most strongly Europhile member of his party and has long been out of step with its views on Europe.\n\nHe opposed the 2016 Brexit referendum and was the only Tory MP to vote against triggering the Article 50 process for leaving the EU.\n\nHe has gone as far as to suggest he would vote against the government in a vote of no confidence in order to stop a no-deal exit.\n\nThe 79-year old has previously suggested he might stand down as MP for Rushcliffe at the next election.\n\nHis constituency association said it was saddened to lose him from the party and paid tribute to his \"enviable and unparalleled\" service since he was first elected in 1970.\n\nIt added that \"all future correspondence should be sent direct to his office at the House of Commons rather than to the Rushcliffe Conservative Association office\".\n\nThe ex-cabinet minister was a ringleader in attempts by MPs in April to hammer out a Brexit compromise by seizing control of the parliamentary timetable.\n\nHe also spearheaded a cross-party bill designed to compel Theresa May to seek a Brexit extension earlier this year, and was the MP who applied for an emergency debate on Tuesday, beginning the process which led Boris Johnson's defeat over the latest no-deal Brexit bill.\n\nA consummate Westminster insider, he is a leading \"soft Brexiteer\" who believes the referendum result must be honoured but the UK should maintain close economic links with Europe.\n\nThe West Dorset MP had already said he will not contest the next general election.\n\nThe former education secretary announced on Tuesday she would stand down as MP for the overwhelmingly pro-Remain constituency of Putney in south-west London whenever the next election comes.\n\nShe warned that Parliament's ability to be a force for change, particularly in terms of improving social mobility, was being compromised by \"Brexit myopia\".\n\nShe voted three times against Theresa May's Brexit agreement, saying it neither delivered on the promises made to Leave voters nor gave anything to younger Remain.\n\nWarning her party was morphing into The Brexit Party, she said she would support legislation to keep all Brexit options \"on the table\" and to ensure Parliament has a real say in the outcome.\n\nThe former international development secretary said claims a no-deal exit would be a \"clean and easy break\" from the EU were disingenuous as, in reality, it would lead to years of economic and political uncertainty.\n\nMr Stewart suggested such an outcome would be \"remembered for 40 years\", and would permanently damage the party's reputation.\n\nDespite losing the whip, he has said he is \"not giving up\" on his Cumbrian constituency and would still be representing residents of Penrith and the Border.\n\nHe says it should be up to his local association whether to let him contest the next election and \"purging\" him and other rebels as candidates was a not a Conservative response.\n\nThe former Middle East minister, a respected figure in the party, has said he has a \"fundamental and unresolvable\" disagreement with the party leadership over Brexit.\n\nHe has said he will standing down as MP for North East Bedfordshire at the next election, having served in the Commons since 1983.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he said he accepted the party rules but asked colleagues to reflect on the question \"if we are being purged now, then who is next?\".\n\nHe said the Brexit convulsions in his party \"may have curtailed my future but it will not rob me of what I believe, and I will walk out of here looking up at the sky, not down at my shoes\".\n\nWinston Churchill's grandson was among those who met the PM on Tuesday for last-ditch talks but rebelled after concluding a deal was not achievable in the available timeframe.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he joked that he had been \"inspired by the serial disloyalty\" of the prime minister and other members of the current cabinet over Brexit in the past.\n\nHe added that it was his \"most fervent hope is that this House will rediscover the spirit of compromise, humility and understanding\" required to bring Brexit to a resolution and refocus on all the other challenges facing the country.\n\nHaving had the whip removed, he has said he will not be standing at the next election - meaning his near 37 year Commons career is nearing its end.\n\nThe veteran Conservative MP for Meriden supported the government in Tuesday's vote on whether to seize control of Parliamentary business.\n\nBut she joined the ranks of the rebels when the bill paving the way for a further delay to Brexit, if no deal is achieved, was voted on for the first time.\n\nUnlike those who rebelled on Tuesday, she has not had the whip withdrawn - but she has said she will not be standing at the next election.\n\nA former Conservative party chair and environment secretary under David Cameron, her Midlands constituency is home to a number of firms supplying parts for the UK car industry.\n\nThe 61-year old has expressed concerns about the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the industry.\n\nGreg Clark: The former business secretary was one of the strongest advocates of Theresa May's Brexit deal. He has said no deal would be \"ruinous\".\n\nSam Gyimah: The former universities minister said there was \"no mandate\" for a no-deal exit which would be \"damaging and disruptive\" for his constituents.\n\nAntoinette Sandbach: The MP for Eddisbury said it was \"important to act\" to stop any chance of no deal. She said she did not \"regret putting her job on the line to save my constituents' jobs\".\n\nStephen Hammond: He has accused Tory Brexiteers of \"lecturing others\" about loyalty. He told the BBC's World at One he would \"reluctantly\" vote against the government.\n\nMargot James: The former digital minister said it had been the hardest decision she had ever made in politics. Her local Stourbridge Conservative association has begun the process of selecting a candidate for the next election, saying the choice was a \"matter for members\".\n\nRichard Harrington: The 61-year old has rebelled over Brexit before and recently announced he would stand down as MP for Watford at the next election.\n\nGuto Bebb: The Aberconwy MP, who is also quitting at the next election, says a vote against no deal is \"truer to Conservative tradition than anyone who traipses through the lobbies out of fear, opportunism or simply unthinking loyalty\".\n\nCaroline Nokes: The Romsey and Southampton North MP said her constituents would be worse off under a no-deal Brexit. She said she would be talking to her constituency association but would not rule out standing as an independent.\n\nEd Vaizey: The ex-culture minister has said a no-deal exit would hurt the digital economy although he told Buzzfeed News he had yet to decide which way to vote.\n\nSteve Brine: The former health minister said last week he was prepared to hold the PM to his claim a no-deal exit is a \"million to one chance\".\n\nAnne Milton: She has kept a low profile since quitting as a minister in July but attended a meeting with other likely rebels in Westminster earlier on Tuesday.\n\nRichard Benyon: The MP for Newbury is a former fisheries minister in the coalition government. He told the BBC that he hoped to return to the fold as a Tory MP, adding that he would \"throw himself on the mercy\" of his local association.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nFive-time champion Roger Federer is out of the US Open after Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov won a late-night thriller to finally beat the Swiss great.\n\nFederer, 38, had won all seven of their previous meetings but unseeded Dimitrov fought back to win 3-6 6-4 3-6 6-4 6-2.\n\nFederer, who needed treatment for a back injury in the latter stages, said: \"I felt it the whole time, but I was able to play.\"\n\nDimitrov, 28, faces Russian fifth seed Daniil Medvedev in the last four.\n\n\"Clearly in the end he was not at his best. I used every opportunity I had,\" said the Bulgarian.\n\nWorld number 78 Dimitrov's shock win ensured there will be at least one first-time Grand Slam finalist on Sunday.\n\nThird seed Federer, who lost to Australian John Millman in the last 16 last year, has now been knocked out of the US Open by players ranked outside of the world's top 50 for the second successive year - after never previously having lost to one at Flushing Meadows.\n\nAfterwards, the 20-time Grand Slam champion said he was struggling with the back problem throughout the match.\n\n\"I feel low. I'm disappointed it is over because I feel as I though I was playing well,\" Federer said.\n\n\"It is a missed opportunity. I thought if I could get through I'd have two days off after.\"\n\nFederer's exit leaves long-time rival Rafael Nadal as the strong favourite to lift the trophy, with defending champion Novak Djokovic also out after retiring injured from his last-16 match against Stan Wawrinka on Sunday.\n\nSpanish second seed Nadal, a three-time US Open champion, faces Argentine 20th seed Diego Schwartzman in their quarter-final on Wednesday.\n\nBut it is clearly a golden opportunity for 33-year-old Nadal to win his 19th Grand Slam title and narrow the gap on Federer in the race to be regarded as the greatest men's player of all time.\n\nFederer's loss also ended the possibility of the illustrious pair, rather remarkably, meeting at the US Open for the first time in their enduring rivalry.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nDimitrov, whose career has stalled spectacularly in the past two years, was not expected to be the man to prevent a 'Fedal' final from happening.\n\nNicknamed 'Baby Fed' in the early days of his professional career because of his technique, the Bulgarian was once heralded as the man who might succeed the Swiss as the leading player in the men's game.\n\nBut he has tumbled down the ATP rankings since reaching a career-high ranking of three in November 2017, with a shoulder injury derailing his season this year and forcing him to withdraw from four tournaments.\n\nComing into the final Grand Slam of the season Dimitrov had lost seven of his previous eight matches, including a chastening defeat by world number 405 Kevin King in Atlanta.\n\nHowever, the 2017 World Tour Finals champion has suddenly rediscovered his form at Flushing Meadows to devastating effect.\n\n\"I think the past six, seven months have been pretty rough for me,\" he said.\n\n\"It was that low that I don't even want to go there any more. It was just obviously injury, losing points, ranking. That's the lowest point of any player.\n\n\"I kept on believing again in the work, the rehab I had to put behind my shoulder, the exercise, the practice. There were so many things I had to adjust.\n\n\"Next thing, you're almost end of the year, you have a result like that. It's pretty special to me.\"\n\nDimitrov bounced back from losing the first set against Federer with ferocious forehands which rocked the Swiss and helped him level the match.\n\nDespite falling behind for a second time, Dimitrov managed to retain belief and dragged his long-time foe into some physically-draining points in the fourth set.\n\nHaving broken in the opening game, Dimitrov pushed for a 5-2 lead in a remarkable eighth game where Federer fought off seven break points to eventually hold.\n\nFederer then had five chances of his own to break back in another marathon game before Dimitrov served out to take the match into a decider, the Swiss then taking a 10-minute medical time-out in a bid to ease his back injury.\n\nThat did not alleviate the problem, however, Dimitrov taking full advantage to win a match ending at 23:46 local time after three hours and 12 minutes.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app. Click\n\nSerena Williams underlined her tag as the favourite for the US Open with a brutal quarter-final win over China's Wang Qiang in just 44 minutes.\n\nThe 37-year-old American broke serve five times and hit 25 winners as she eased to a 6-1 6-0 win over the 18th seed on Arthur Ashe Stadium\n\nShe will face Ukraine's fifth seed Elina Svitolina, who beat Britain's Johanna Konta, in the semi-finals.\n• None Medvedev advances despite thinking he might have to quit\n\n\"When I play someone who is playing well I have to step up or go home and I'm not ready to go,\" said Williams, who earned her 100th singles win at the US Open.\n\n\"I knew I needed to come out and play well. I'm feeling good, had a really tough year and I'm still here.\n\n\"Physically I'm feeling great and more importantly I'm having fun every time I come out here.\"\n\nSix-time US Open champion Williams has not won a Grand Slam title since returning from giving birth to daughter Olympia in September 2017.\n\nShe has fallen short of moving level with Australian Margaret Court's all-time tally with defeats in the past two Wimbledon finals and last year's US Open showpiece.\n\nHere she has moved serenely through the draw, steamrolling three of her opponents - including old rival Maria Sharapova - in straight sets.\n\nAmerican 17-year-old Caty McNally is the only player to have tested Williams, trying to push her illustrious opponent around the court in a bid to expose her perceived lack of movement.\n\nAnd that will be the tactic likely to be adopted by Svitolina, whose relentless returning is the hallmark of her game.\n\nWilliams never had that problem against Wang, keeping the points short with her thunderous serves and booming groundstrokes.\n\nWilliams dropped just seven points as she raced into a 5-0 lead, Wang avoiding the bagel with a hard-earned hold before another forehand winner from the American clinched the opener in 23 minutes.\n\nWilliams won 26 of the first-set points compared to 11 by her opponent, cracking 12 winners and winning 92% of the points when she landed her first serve.\n\nWang, who had not dropped a set on her way to the last eight, looked completed shell-shocked as she continued to be pummelled by a ruthless Williams in the second set.\n\nThe winners continued to flow from the American's racquet as she did bagel Wang at the second attempt, sealing the shortest completed win of the tournament with another sizzling cross-court forehand.\n\nWang won just four points in the second set and ended the match without hitting a single winner.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The South Wales force demonstrated the technology after the case with a member of staff standing in\n\nJudges have ruled against a shopper who brought a legal challenge against police use of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology.\n\nThe court refused the judicial review on all grounds, finding South Wales Police had followed the rules and their use of AFR was justified.\n\nThe High Court said this was the first time any court in the world had considered the use of the technology.\n\nCivil rights group Liberty said its client would appeal against the ruling.\n\nIt had argued it was akin to the unregulated taking of DNA or fingerprints without consent, and it is campaigning for an outright ban of the practice.\n\nEd Bridges has had his image captured twice by AFR technology\n\nThe judicial review was held in May after Ed Bridges, from Cardiff, claimed his human rights were breached when he was photographed while Christmas shopping.\n\nHis legal challenge argued the use of the tool breached his right to privacy as well as data protection and equality laws.\n\nLiberty lawyer Megan Goulding said: \"This disappointing judgment does not reflect the very serious threat that facial recognition poses to our rights and freedoms.\n\n\"Facial recognition is a highly intrusive surveillance technology that allows the police to monitor and track us all.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police are considered the national lead force on its use\n\nMr Bridges said he had his image captured by the technology a second time at a peaceful protest against the arms trade.\n\nOn Wednesday he added: \"South Wales Police has been using facial recognition indiscriminately against thousands of innocent people, without our knowledge or consent.\n\n\"This sinister technology undermines our privacy and I will continue to fight against its unlawful use to ensure our rights are protected and we are free from disproportionate government surveillance.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Information Commissioner, which had argued during the judicial review the legal framework for police use of AFR was not sufficient, said they would be reviewing the judgment carefully.\n\nThey welcomed the finding that the police use of the technology involved processing sensitive personal data.\n\n\"Our investigation into the first police pilots of this technology has recently finished. We will now consider the court's findings in finalising our recommendations and guidance to police forces about how to plan, authorise and deploy any future [facial recognition] systems.\n\n\"In the meantime, any police forces or private organisations using these systems should be aware that existing data protection law and guidance still apply.\"\n\nThere are worries the technology is more likely to return false matches for women and people from ethnic minorities\n\nAutomated facial recognition technology maps faces in a crowd by measuring the distance between features, then compares results with a \"watch list\" of images - which can include suspects, missing people and persons of interest.\n\nConcerns have been raised the technology is intrusive and more likely to return false positives for women and people from ethnic minorities.\n\nSouth Wales Police, Metropolitan Police and Leicestershire Police have used facial recognition in public spaces since June 2015.\n\nSouth Wales Chief Constable Matt Jukes said the decision was welcome but not the end of the \"wider debate\".\n\n\"I recognise that the use of AI and face-matching technologies around the world is of great interest and, at times, concern.\n\n\"So, I'm pleased that the court has recognised the responsibility that South Wales Police has shown in our programme. With the benefit of this judgment, we will continue to explore how to ensure the ongoing fairness and transparency of our approach.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said his priority had been to ensure the police \"make best use of technology to keep the public safe while also working within the law and protecting civil liberties.\"\n\nThe Home Office welcomed the judgment confirming there was a \"clear and sufficient legal framework\" for the use of AFR.\n\nMr Justice Swift and Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, who gave their decision on Wednesday, had previously described it as \"an important case that makes novel and potentially far-reaching\" conclusions.\n• None San Francisco bans facial recognition in US first", "The bill has passed its stages in the House of Commons and now heads to the House of Lords.\n\nMP's approved the bill at third reading by a majority of 28.", "Harry Potter was among Lego's best sellers in 2018\n\nThe boss of Lego has said the toymaker is working with UK retailers to \"make sure they have enough stock\" this Christmas in case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nNiels Christiansen said the Danish firm was not expecting problems but that he was \"monitoring the situation\" nonetheless.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he wants to take the UK out of the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nBut some have warned this could cause chaos for British retailers.\n\nPotential risks include delays at ports and higher prices for imported goods caused by further falls in the pound - although others say the claims have been exaggerated.\n\nLego imports its bricks into the UK from the Czech Republic, Denmark and Hungary, suggesting it could be at risk from new trade barriers.\n\nIt also raised wholesale prices by 5% in the UK in 2016 in response to the pound's devaluation after the Brexit referendum.\n\nThe firm declined to comment on whether its Christmas pricing might be affected in the case of a no-deal scenario, but Mr Christiansen said the toymaker was unlikely to be \"majorly affected\" by no deal.\n\n\"We have been working with customers to make sure the flow of product won't be disrupted,\" he said, but declined to specify what those measures might be.\n\nMr Christiansen made the comments after Lego announced a 4% rise in revenue for the first half of the year to 14.8bn Danish Krone (£1.8bn), although profits fell 16% as it reinvested in its business.\n\nLego plans to open a further 80 stores in China this year\n\nAnd at a time when rival toymakers are struggling, the family-owned firm said it planned to open 160 new stores this year globally - 16 of them in the UK.\n\nEighty of the shops will be in China, with the Danish firm on track to have 140 stores in the country by the end of 2019.\n\nAsked if he was concerned about a recent slowdown in China's economy, driven by Beijing's trade war with Washington, Mr Christiansen said he still saw the country as a growth market.\n\n\"We have been helped by the fact that we produce our products around the world close to where the demand is, so for China we produce in Asia,\" he said.\n\n\"There are also many Chinese kids that don't know Lego and whose parents don't know Lego, so we see a real opportunity there.\"\n\nDespite this, the firm has come up against a wave of counterfeit Lego products in China which Mr Christiansen admitted had been challenging.\n\nCopycat brands have even made their way to the UK, although Mr Christiansen said the Chinese authorities were getting tougher on the practice.\n\n\"There have been some court rulings in our favour in China, so we do see an element of progress.\"\n\nLego has committed to use only sustainable materials in its core products and packaging by 2030 amid rising concerns about plastic waste.\n\nAnd last year it launched its first ever Lego products made from polyethylene, a type of plastic derived from sugar cane, to replace materials sourced from fossil fuels.\n\nThe products only represent 1-2% of the total amount of plastic produced by Lego - leading some to question how committed the firm was to its 2030 goal.\n\nBut Mr Christiansen stressed that Lego bricks were durable, not \"single use\" plastics and rarely thrown away. \"Our bricks are sometimes kept for 40-60 years,\" he said.\n\nDespite this, he said the firm was investing heavily in finding durable yet sustainable alternatives.\n\n\"The safety and durability of blocks is not trivial, and we are looking for the right materials.\"\n• None 'Everything awesome' at Lego as sales rise", "UK-based Ryanair pilots have voted for seven further days of strikes as part of a row over pay and conditions.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) said it wanted to settle the dispute, but Ryanair has refused to seek conciliation.\n\nPilots are currently on strike after also walking out from 22-23 August.\n\nRyanair said the strikes were \"pointless\" as the industrial action had not resulted in any flight cancellations.\n\nThe next rounds of strikes will be:\n\nBalpa said its members want the same kind of agreements that exist in other airlines on pensions, loss of licence insurance, maternity benefits, allowances and pay.\n\n\"While this action has considerably disrupted Ryanair, forcing them to engage contractors and bring in foreign crews to run its operation, it has had limited impact on the public's travel plans,\" said Balpa's general secretary Brian Strutton.\n\n\"Ryanair should stop dragging its feet and get back to the negotiating table.\"\n\nRyanair said most of its pilots had flown during the strike action in August and early September.\n\n\"These latest Balpa strikes are pointless given that during five days of Balpa strikes [on] 22,23 August and 2,3,4 September all Ryanair flights to and from UK airports operated as scheduled - with zero cancellations - thanks to the efforts of over 95% of our UK pilots who flew as rostered and did not support these failed Balpa strikes.\n\n\"We again call on Balpa to return to talks as these failed strikes have not achieved anything.\"\n\nIn August Ryanair said job losses were coming following a 21% fall in quarterly profits after higher costs for fuel and staff, and reduced ticket prices.\n\nOn 31 July, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary told staff in a video message the airline has 900 too many pilots and cabin crew members.\n\nHe said the two weakest markets are the UK, where there were Brexit uncertainties, and Germany, where Ryanair faced fierce competition on price.", "Ryanair pilots are set to strike again in an ongoing row over pay and working conditions.\n\nThe next round of walkouts are pencilled in for 18 and 19 September, with others on 23 September, 25 September, 27 September and 29 September.\n\n“Pilots in Ryanair are seeking the same kind of policies and agreements that exist in other airlines – our demands are not unreasonable,\" the pilots union British Airline Pilots' Association's Brian Strutton said.\n\n\"We want to address issues like pensions; loss of licence insurance; maternity benefits; allowances; and harmonise pay across the UK in a fair, transparent, and consistent structure.\"", "Michigan has become the first US state to ban flavoured e-cigarettes as part of efforts to curb youth vaping.\n\nThe measure goes into effect in the next 30 days and bars the sale of any flavoured vaping products in retail stores and online.\n\n\"My number one priority is keeping our kids safe,\" said Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in a statement.\n\nThe measure will last six months, with the possibility of an extension and comes amid other action against vaping.\n\nMs Whitmer, a Democrat, also banned what she described as misleading marketing of such products, prohibiting adverts that describe vaping products as \"clean\", \"safe\" or \"healthy\".\n\n\"We've seen an explosive increase in the number of Michigan kids exposed to vaping products,\" said Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive for Michigan. \"This is a public health crisis.\"\n\nE-cigarettes have experienced huge growth in recent years, especially among young people.\n\nIn just one year - from 2017-18 - the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported a 78% jump in school students vaping.\n\nLast year, more than 3.6 million children were using e-cigarettes, a \"sharp and startling reversal of overall declines\" in tobacco use among young people, according to the FDA.\n\n\"Youth use of electronic cigarettes has reached an epidemic proportion,\" said FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb.\n\nBut the rise of e-cigarettes has provoked mounting opposition from lawmakers.\n\nMs Whitmer said: \"Right now, companies selling vaping products are using candy flavours to hook children on nicotine and misleading claims to promote the belief that these products are safe. That ends today.\"\n\nMichigan has joined a number of US states and cities taking steps to block the sale of e-cigarettes. In June, San Francisco became the first US city to ban sales of e-cigarettes and lawmakers in Boulder, Colorado, passed a similar ban last week.\n\nNancy Brown, chief executive of the American Heart Association, called the measure a \"bold and appropriate\" response \"to the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use\", noting the recent outbreak in illnesses associated with e-cigarettes.\n\nLast week, Juul - the market leader in e-cigarettes - said in a statement that it recognised youth vaping in the US was a \"serious and urgent problem\". The e-cigarette giant ended sales of most flavoured products in 2018 in an effort to deter teenage use of the product, and stopped sales to anyone under 21 years of age.\n\n\"We want to be the off-ramp for adult smokers to switch from cigarettes, not an on-ramp for America's youth to initiate on nicotine,\" the company said in a statement announcing the changes.\n\nDefenders of e-cigarettes called the Michigan ban misguided, arguing that e-cigarettes are much less unhealthy than cigarettes.\n\n\"This shameless attempt at backdoor prohibition will close down several hundred Michigan small businesses and could send tens of thousands of ex-smokers back to deadly combustible cigarettes,\" Greg Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, said in a statement.\n\nAccording to the FDA, 34.3 million US adults and nearly 1.4 million young people in the US, ages 12-17, currently smoke cigarettes. Despite declines in cigarette smoking, tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the US, killing about 480,000 Americans every year.\n\nThe battle surrounding e-cigarettes has been heightened by a recent spike in respiratory illnesses linked to e-cigarettes. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said last month there were 193 \"potential cases\" of a mystery lung disease related to vaping across 22 US states. The possible cases include one death in Illinois, the first death linked to vaping.\n\nLast year, the FDA announced a series of enforcement actions against more than 1,300 retailers and five major manufacturers for catering vaping products to children.\n\nAccording to the American Lung Association, 97% of current youth e-cigarette users used a flavoured product in the last month, and 70% list flavours as a key reason for their use.\n\nIt says there are 15,000 flavours on the market, from mango and mint to cotton candy and gummy bear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Chancellor Sajid Javid has promised increased spending on priority areas of schools, police and health.\n\nSetting a 4 September date for the 12-month spending round - earlier than previously planned - he said there would be no \"blank cheque\" for departments.\n\nMr Javid said he would stick to the current borrowing rules, limiting the scope for extensive spending increases.\n\nThe announcement of the date for the spending review came after the government cancelled what would have been been Mr Javid's first major speech on Wednesday.\n\nMinisterial sources said bringing the review forward was intended to provide certainty ahead of Brexit, which the government has promised will happen on 31 October.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said it also increases speculation that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing the ground for a general election in the autumn - something that Downing Street denies.\n\nMr Johnson would require the support of two-thirds of MPs to call an early election - or one would follow a successful no-confidence vote in the government.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), said Mr Javid should be able to stay within existing borrowing rules as long as growth continues.\n\n\"We're well within that, assuming the economy continues to grow as expected, in a world in which we get a reasonable kind of Brexit,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe added that the chancellor would have to decide whether to spend money in areas that \"sound most popular\", or in areas that have seen lower funding in recent years.\n\n\"The bits of public services that have really suffered much worse than those areas are the justice system, prisons and courts and so on, local government, social care and further education,\" he added.\n\nMr Javid said the government could afford to spend more on its priorities after a decade of cuts.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said: \"Thanks to the hard work of the British people over the last decade, we can afford to spend more on the people's priorities - without breaking the rules around what the government should spend - and we'll do that in a few key areas like schools, hospitals and police.\n\n\"But at the same time, it's vital that we continue to live within our means as a country.\n\n\"Unlike the Labour Party, we don't believe in just throwing money at a problem. And especially at a time when the global economy is slowing, it's important that we don't let our public finances get out of control. \"\n\nHe said the departments for which he was funding increases were \"lifelines of opportunity\", saying that his teachers put him on the path to be chancellor.\n\nBoris Johnson was elected by party members on the back of a list of spending intentions (and tax cuts). That list was sparse on detail, but some say the total cost could be more than £30bn.\n\nHowever, Sajid Javid says there'll be no blank cheque. Instead, this chancellor - who'll have been in the post just six weeks next Wednesday - appears to be using his predecessor Philip Hammond's playbook. That chancellor first told me in April that if a Brexit deal hadn't been struck by the autumn, it'd be sensible to lay out plans for just one year, not the usual three, in case extra funds needed to be used to support the economy in the event of a no-deal.\n\nHis successor is not only doing that, but also sticking to the existing borrowing rules. That means Mr Javid can afford to borrow a bit more to spend. He has about £15bn of such \"headroom\" up to 2021 (down from an earlier £27bn, because of changes in the way student loans are accounted for).\n\nGiven the question marks over the path of Brexit, he probably won't use it all. And it won't be enough to cover the prime minister's wishlist: areas such as defence and culture may not get much of a look in. But there's still enough to spend and he will inevitably claim to be ending austerity - although there's a way to go to reverse all the cuts in real terms of recent years.\n\nSchools are expected to be in line for an extra £4bn of funding in next week's spending review.\n\nMr Javid also paid tribute to police for keeping his family safe when the street he grew up on became a centre for drug dealers, and to the health service for caring for his father in his final days.\n\n\"These aren't just numbers on a spreadsheet. They're the beating heart of our country,\" he said.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"Nobody is fooled into believing that this is a proper and normal spending review.\n\n\"As each spending announcement is dribbled out it is exposed as inadequate and whole areas of spending needs like local councils and addressing child poverty are ignored. This is not serious government.\"\n\nSpending reviews normally happen every two to four years, but due to Brexit delays the last one took place in 2015.\n\nMr Javid said he asked for a 12-month spending round instead of a longer-term review.\n\nSetting out day-to-day departmental budgets for 2020-21 will \"clear the ground ahead of Brexit while delivering on people's priorities\", he said.\n\nMr Javid said: \"The next 65 days will see a relentless focus across Whitehall on preparing to leave the EU.\"", "After winning about £1m for securing second place in the Fortnite World Cup competition, Jaden Ashman is back to school to focus on his GCSEs.", "Ava had Down's syndrome which can make children more susceptible to infections\n\nA series of hospital failings contributed to the death of a five-year-old girl who died from toxic shock syndrome, an inquest jury has found.\n\nAva Macfarlane died on 15 December 2017 after being treated at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre.\n\nPrescribing antibiotics earlier could have \"given her chances of survival\", Nottingham Coroner's Court heard.\n\nReturning a narrative conclusion the jury said there had been \"missed opportunities\" to diagnose sepsis.\n\nAva's family said her death was a \"stark reminder\" of the dangers of sepsis\n\nAva, who had Down's syndrome, was \"critically ill\" when she returned to hospital two days after being discharged from A&E on 13 December, the inquest had heard.\n\nHer mother Lesley Gearing said her daughter had been vomiting, struggling to breathe, had a high temperature and a rash.\n\nThe jury found there were missed opportunities to diagnose Ava on 13 December and said she was \"inappropriately discharged\".\n\nAva's mother Lesley Gearing and her daughter Mia were at the inquest\n\nIt concluded failures on that day \"probably more than contributed to her death\".\n\nThe family should also have had a \"comprehensive brief on sepsis\" in light of her Down's syndrome and risk of infection, it added.\n\nAssistant coroner Laurinda Bower said the case had raised \"significant concerns\" which had led her to call a meeting with the trust's medical director to discuss what was being done to diagnose sepsis.\n\nNottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust apologised for the \"significant shortcomings\" in its care of Ava\n\nAfter the hearing, the family's lawyer Tania Harrison, of Irwin Mitchell, said: \"The pain that Ava's family feel over the loss of Ava is as strong now as it was nearly two years ago.\"\n\nShe added: \"Sadly the inquest has highlighted a number of areas where Ava was let down.\"\n\nDr Keith Girling, medical director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, apologised for the \"significant shortcomings\" in its care.\n\nHe said a number of changes had been made following Ava's death and greater awareness of sepsis, in relation to children with complex medical conditions, had been raised.\n\nThe inquest heard Ava's family should have been given more information during her illness\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singer Ariana Grande is asking for $10m (£8.3m) in damages from Forever 21, saying the retailer \"stole her name\" to promote its clothing and beauty products.\n\nShe said the firm published at least 30 \"unauthorised\" images and videos that suggested she had endorsed the brand.\n\nIt also hired a model with an \"uncanny\" resemblance to Ms Grande for some of its social media posts, she said.\n\nHer lawsuit comes after a breakdown in talks over a joint marketing campaign.\n\nMs Grande said the firm, which has stores in more than 50 countries around the world, approached her in 2018 about endorsement.\n\nHowever, she said talks broke down because \"the amounts that Forever 21 offered to pay for the right to use Ms Grande's name and likeness were insufficient for an artist of her stature.\"\n\n\"Rather than pay for that right as the law requires, defendants simply stole it,\" she said in the complaint, which was filed in federal court in California.\n\nThe \"misleading campaign\" occurred primarily in January and February of 2019, before the release of Ms Grande's album, 'Thank U, Next', according to the suit.\n\nForever 21 declined to comment on the specifics of the lawsuit.\n\n\"That said, while we dispute the allegations, we are huge supporters of Ariana Grande and have worked with her licensing company over the past two years,\" it said. \"We are hopeful that we will find a mutually agreeable resolution and can continue to work together in the future.\"\n\nMs Grande is a Grammy Award winner and best-selling singer. She also has more than 200 million followers on Instagram and Twitter.\n\nBillboard named her \"Woman of the Year\" in 2018 after she raised $29m for victims of the Manchester suicide bombing attack, the lawsuit said.\n\nMs Grande is one of a long line of celebrities to sue over trademarks.\n\nFor example, in July, Kim Kardashian-West won $2.7m in damages after accusing fashion brand Missguided USA of ripping off her outfits and using her name to sell clothes.\n\nJohn Coldham, a partner at law firm Gowling WLG, said the Ariana Grande case \"should act as a stark warning to brand owners to be very careful about using celebrity images and ensuring they are not implying an endorsement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The drugs were found concealed in a consignment of towels and bathrobes\n\nNearly 1.3 tonnes of heroin with a street value of £120m has been found in what is thought to be the UK's largest ever seizure of the drug.\n\nThe drugs were found concealed in towels and bathrobes on a container ship after it docked in Suffolk.\n\nNational Crime Agency (NCA) officers removed the drugs and returned the container before tracking it to the Netherlands and making arrests.\n\nThe ship docked in Felixstowe, where it was intercepted by the NCA.\n\nIt came in the month £40m of heroin, about 400kg (62st 13lb), was found in similar circumstances at Felixstowe dock on 2 August.\n\nIn the latest seizure, blocks of heroin - each weighing 1kg (2.2lb) - were found stitched inside some of the towels, and it took Border Force officers six hours to remove all of the drugs, weighing a total of 1,297kg (204st).\n\nThe haul was labelled \"one of the largest ever in Europe\"\n\nAfter taking the drugs out on 30 August, officers put the container back on to the ship, which continued on to its destination in Antwerp where it docked two days later.\n\nThe container was then driven by lorry to a warehouse in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, where upon arrival officers arrested four men in the process of unloading it.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the drugs had originated in Pakistan.\n\nNCA deputy director of investigations, Matt Horne, called the haul \"a record heroin seizure in the UK and one of the largest ever in Europe\".\n\nHe said: \"The size of this and other recent shipments demonstrate the scale of the threat we face.\n\n\"We can be certain that some of these drugs would eventually have been sold in the UK, fuelling high levels of violence and exploitation including what we see in county lines offending nationwide.\n\n\"The heroin trade also feeds addictions that put users' lives at risk, while giving rise to crime such as theft which make people feel unsafe in their homes and communities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nHe crossed the floor to take his seat on the opposition benches as the PM addressed the Commons.\n\nIn a statement he said the government was \"pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways\", putting lives and livelihoods at risk.", "LaShawn Daniels, the US songwriter who co-wrote such hits as Destiny's Child's Grammy-winning Say My Name and Lady Gaga's Telephone, has died aged 41.\n\nDaniels, who was known as Big Shiz, also worked with artists including Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Brandy and Toni Braxton.\n\nHe died in a car crash in South Carolina, his wife April confirmed.\n\nTributes came from the likes of singer Kehlani, who wrote on Twitter that \"your legacy will never be forgotten\".\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, April Daniels wrote: \"It is with deep and profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, family member and friend Lashawn Daniels, who was the victim of a fatal car accident in South Carolina.\n\n\"A Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter, Daniels was a man of extraordinary faith and a pillar in our family. We would like to express our sincere appreciation for the continuous outpouring of love and sympathy.\"\n\nDawn Richard, a former member of the groups Danity Kane and Dirty Money, said he was \"one of the funniest people with the best heart\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DAWN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 won the Grammy Award for best R&B song in 2000 for his part in writing Say My Name, and was nominated a further seven times. Other collaborators and fans paid tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 MNEK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Ari Lennox This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDaniels leaves April, his wife of almost 20 years, and three sons. Daniels and his wife created Cool Couples, a platform designed to offer relationship advice.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, Radio 4 LW, online, tablets, mobiles and BBC Sport app. Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nBen Stokes says his heroic innings at Headingley will count for nothing if England do not win the Ashes back from Australia.\n\nStokes' 135 not out led England to an incredible one-wicket victory and levelled the series at 1-1.\n\nHowever, Australia will retain the urn if they win the fourth Test at Old Trafford, which starts on Wednesday.\n\n\"We have to get the point across that we have forgotten about Headingley,\" said Stokes.\n\nIn an interview to be broadcast on the BBC's Test Match Special during lunch on day one of the fourth Test, the all-rounder added: \"That is a message we have been drilling into everyone in the squad.\n\n\"People will talk about it and it will come up in interviews, but it will count for nothing if we don't win these Ashes.\"\n\nAs holders, Australia only need to draw the series in order to take the Ashes back down under.\n\nThat means England cannot afford to be beaten in either of the final two Tests in Manchester and at The Oval next week.\n\nStokes' extraordinary innings kept the series alive when it seemed like England were beaten in Leeds.\n\nThe hosts still needed 73 when he was joined by last man Jack Leach but, between them, the 10th-wicket pair took England to their target of 358 - the highest score they have ever successfully chased to win a Test.\n\nAustralia captain Tim Paine admits he has \"lost a bit of sleep\" pondering what to do about Stokes.\n\n\"I haven't lost a hell of a lot of sleep thinking about my captaincy but I have lost a bit of sleep thinking how we're going to get him out, that's for sure,\" he said.\n\nStokes' brilliance came six weeks after he was named man of the match in the World Cup final, when England lifted the trophy for the first time.\n\nHowever, he said he does not feel any pressure to continue to reproduce match-winning performances.\n\n\"I just go out there and try to do what I am paid to do, which is score runs and take wickets,\" said the England vice-captain.\n\n\"I obviously understand and appreciate what Headingley was, how special that game was, but I still look at it like I was going out there to do my job.\"\n\nStokes did concede that England's remarkable summer so far - the World Cup was won after a super over and the finish to the Headingley Test was one of the most dramatic of all-time - has noticeably heightened interest in the game.\n\n\"This summer has made cricket bigger than I ever remember it to be and the Headingley Test has made cricket go even higher than it was after the World Cup,\" he said.\n\n\"You see even tiny little things, like the number of people who wait at the hotel for autographs has gone through the roof.\n\n\"That has something to do with what we have managed to achieve this summer so far.\"\n\nYou can hear the full interview with Ben Stokes on Test Match Special during the lunch interval on the first day of the fourth Ashes Test.\n\nWhat is the weather forecast for Old Trafford?", "The crash - between junctions 19 and 20 - has caused lengthy delays on the M6\n\nThe M6 has been closed after a lorry carrying 32,000 litres of gin was involved in a crash and began leaking its cargo on to the carriageway.\n\nThe motorway was shut in Cheshire between junction 19 at Knutsford and junction 20 at Lymm following a collision between two HGVs at about 17:30 BST.\n\nCheshire Police said the crash had caused long delays and advised motorists to avoid the area.\n\nThere are no reports of injuries.\n\nThe crash happened at about 17:30 BST\n\nCheshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was \"working hard to stem the leak\" from one of the tankers carrying concentrated gin so it could be pumped into a replacement tanker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt said it was also coating the spilt alcohol with foam to prevent the flammable liquid from igniting.\n\nIt added a 300m (0.3km) cordon has been put in place \"as a precautionary measure\".\n\nOne of those caught up in the tailback, Rachel Sargeant, said she had been caught up in a two-hour delay.\n\nShe tweeted she was sitting \"200yds away from 32,000 litres of spilt gin\", joking it was \"heartbreaking she didn't have a straw\".\n\nThe \"gincident\" prompted a flurry of puns on social media which may have been a tonic for those caught up in lengthy delays.\n\nMr Ree 2 asked if it was in the \"sloe lane\" while Anthony Davies tweeted those in the traffic \"just had to gin and bear it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools in England will receive £2.6bn extra next year under Chancellor Sajid Javid's spending plans.\n\nThis will be the first step towards reversing budget cuts and returning school funding to pre-austerity levels.\n\nThe announcement follows last week's unveiling of a three-year plan to boost school funding by £7.1bn by 2022-23.\n\nSchool leaders have raised concerns about relying on a funding plan that will take three years at a time of such political and economic volatility.\n\nThe chancellor told the House of Commons putting more money into schools was investing in \"lifelines of opportunity\".\n\nThis announcement, relating to spending for 2020-21, confirms the first slice of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to significantly increase school spending.\n\nWhen it was outlined last week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the full three-year funding package would be sufficient to reverse the budget reductions of the past decade.\n\nMr Javid said improving school funding was vital to \"national renewal\" and schools that had been underfunded would receive the biggest increases.\n\nThe promise of more money for schools follows a long-running campaign over cash shortages - with head teachers writing to millions of parents about budget problems.\n\nAlong with supporting the NHS and increasing police numbers, school funding has been seen by the government as a priority for the public.\n\nThe chancellor has promised extra money for further education and vocational qualifications\n\nThe extra cash announced by the chancellor will deliver a real-terms increase.\n\nThe £2.6bn for the first year includes about £1.8bn in additional money, above the increase that would have been in the pipeline from rising pupil numbers and inflation.\n\nAnd the government has separately committed to spending an extra £1.5bn per year to cover the rising costs of school staff pensions.\n\nFor the third year of the package - the £7.1bn increase - this will be worth £4.6bn extra after inflation is taken into account.\n\nJules White, the West Sussex head teacher who has organised a campaign involving thousands of schools, described the funding increase as a \"welcome step in the right direction\".\n\nBut, he said, the initial £2.6bn announced would still leave \"some way to go\" before pre-austerity spending levels were reached.\n\n\"At a time of deep political uncertainty, relentlessly reasonable head teachers will monitor the situation and take time to consider our next steps,\" he said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: \"We've won the argument that the Treasury needed to come up with new money.\n\n\"The government has made a significant stride in the right direction and the money that's been announced is good news - but we're not there yet and we can see where some of the gaps still remain.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the funding promises \"go some way towards closing the gap, but are still significantly short of what is required\".\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, had rejected the three-year funding plan as a \"con trick\" that would still leave schools waiting years for funding they needed straight away.", "Footage has emerged from the Bahamas as it was battered by Hurricane Dorian, causing destruction to homes and flooding.\n\nIt's the most powerful storm to hit the country, and the second strongest Atlantic hurricane on record.\n\nThe hurricane, which is moving westwards, may also hit the US east coast, with several states declaring a state of emergency.", "Brendan Cox whose MP wife Jo was murdered says last night's Commons debate shocked him.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"It creates an atmosphere where attacks and violence are more likely than they otherwise would've been.\" Cox urged all sides of politics to avoid inflammatory words.\n\nBoris Johnson is facing a backlash from MPs after he was accused of using \"dangerous\" language over Brexit.\n\nMr Cox was filmed in a radio car while on-air to Radio 4's Today programme.", "Transport Minister Grant Shapps says he \"wasn't aware\" of the similarities between his speech about the collapse of Thomas Cook and one made by his predecessor about Monarch Airlines.\n\nA comparison suggests his speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday closely followed that of Chris Grayling's in the wake of Monarch's collapse in 2017.\n\nSome facts in the Monarch text were amended with Thomas Cook details.\n\nIn a tweet later, the minister said: \"Although I wasn't aware that some of these words had been used before, the message in my statement stands true.\"\n\nThe overlap of each man's speech is from the start, as shown by transcripts from Hansard, Parliament's official record.\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 Shapps began his speech yesterday with: \"With your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the steps that the Government have been taking to support those affected by the collapse of Thomas Cook, particularly for the 150,000 passengers left abroad without a flight back and the 9,000 people here who have lost their jobs in the UK.\n\nThis compares with Mr Grayling's opening from October 2017: \"With your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the steps the Government have been taking to support those affected by the collapse of Monarch Airlines, in particular the 110,000 passengers left abroad without a flight back to the UK and the almost 2,000 people who have lost their jobs.\"\n\nBoth MPs called the airlines an \"iconic British brand\", and emphasised that their collapse did not reflect \"the general health of the UK aviation sector\".\n\nMr Shapps also said: \"We have never had the collapse of an airline or a holiday company on this scale before, but we have responded swiftly and decisively. Right now, our efforts are rightly focused on getting those passengers home and looking after those employees who have lost their jobs.\"\n\nAnd here is the original from Mr Grayling: \"We have never had the collapse of an airline or holiday company on this scale before, and we have responded swiftly and decisively. Of course, right now our efforts are rightly focused on getting employees into new jobs and getting passengers home.\"\n\nOn Twitter, Liberal Democrat MP Luciana Berger accused Mr Shapps of \"copying people's homework\". She said it demonstrated the government's \"empty words\".\n\nIt is not the first time that Mr Grayling has been caught up in matters of alleged plagiarism.\n\nIn January, while still transport secretary, he was involved in the Seaborne Freight affair, when the government awarded the company a ferry contract to run extra services in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe firm's website used terms and conditions apparently intended for a takeaway food firm. Its original terms and conditions advised customers to check goods before \"agreeing to pay for any meal/order\".", "The BBC has released more detail on its decision to uphold a complaint against news presenter Naga Munchetty.\n\nThe BBC Breakfast host was found to have breached guidelines by criticising Donald Trump's motives after he said four female politicians should \"go back\" to \"places from which they came\".\n\nThe corporation said its editorial guidelines \"do not allow for journalists to... give their opinions about the individual making the remarks or their motives for doing so - in this case President Trump\".\n\nThe statement added: \"It was for this reason that the complaint was partially upheld. Those judgements are for the audience to make.\"\n\nIt also said that President Trump's comments were \"widely condemned as racist, and we reported on this extensively\".\n\nA letter to the complainant revealed the BBC had said that by commenting on Trump's \"possible motive\" and the \"potential consequences\" of his statement, Munchetty had gone \"beyond what the guidelines allow for\".\n\nThe BBC added in the letter that \"audiences should not be able to tell\" the opinions of its journalists on matters of public policy.\n\nThe corporation also released a full transcript of the 17 July broadcast.\n\nMunchetty's comments came after an interview with a supporter of the president.\n\nAddressing the \"go home\" comment, presenter Dan Walker said: \"That was the most telling quote for me last night. I can't remember who said it but she said I've been told to go home many times to go back to where I've come from in my life but never by the man sitting in the Oval office.\"\n\nShe said: \"Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism.\n\n\"Now I'm not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean.\"\n\nWalker then said: \"You're sitting here not giving an opinion, but how do you feel as someone when you've been told that before, and when you hear that from him?\"\n\nTo which Munchetty replied: \"Furious. Absolutely furious. And I imagine a lot of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious that a man in that position feels it's okay to skirt the lines with using language like that.\"\n\nWalker then asked: \"So you feel his use of that then legitimises other people to use this...\"\n\n\"It feels like a thought-out strategy, to strengthen his position,\" noted Walker.\n\nMunchetty added: \"And it is not enough to do it just to get attention… he's in a responsible position.\"\n\nShe has received messages of support after the corporation's complaints unit, the ECU, partially upheld the complaint against her.\n\nOn Thursday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described the decision as \"astonishing\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMunchetty is not facing any action or reprimand, BBC News understands.\n\nThe broadcaster's complaints unit found it was \"entirely legitimate\" for Munchetty to reply to Mr Walker in terms which reflected her own experience of racism and the racist context in which people from ethnic minorities are told to go back to their own countries.\n\nBut it said she went on to comment critically on the possible motive or consequences of Mr Trump's words and \"judgements of that kind are for the audience to make\".\n\nExplaining their thinking, the BBC's letter said: \"Due impartiality does not require absolute neutrality on every issue or detachment from fundamental democratic principles. And the president's remarks were widely regarded as racist and condemned in the UK across the political spectrum.\n\n\"Ms Munchetty had been pressed to comment by her co-presenter and had a legitimate, personal reason for feeling strongly on this issue. She was therefore in our view entitled to give a personal response to the phrase 'go to back to your own country', as it was rooted in her own experience of racism and in a generally accepted interpretation of that phrase.\"\n\nAdding: \"But it is also evident that Ms Munchetty, despite at the end of the exchange acknowledging 'I am not here to give my opinion', did comment directly and critically on the possible motive for, and potential consequences of, the president's conduct, which by their nature were a matter for legitimate discussion and debate. This, in our view, went beyond what the Guidelines allow for under these circumstances, and on those grounds I am therefore upholding your complaint.\"\n\nThe BBC's spokeswoman said Munchetty was not available for comment.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nFormer world champion Nigel Benn likened himself to Benjamin Button as he confirmed he will come out of retirement at the age of 55.\n\nBriton Benn, who last fought in 1996, said the bout with ex-world champion Sakio Bika in Birmingham on 23 November will give him \"closure\".\n\n\"I feel the time is right now. It's nothing to do with age,\" Benn said.\n\nBut ex-world champion Richie Woodhall told BBC Sport: \"I fear for him. I really hope it doesn't come around.\"\n\n\"When I was boxing, you don't really realise but you seem to be tense, stiff, hard, and punches bounce off you. You become immune to punches.\n\nThe 51-year-old added: \"I keep fit and work out on the bag twice a week, doing 10 rounds a session no problem at all.\n\n\"I can work at a high pace but I am so soft, I couldn't take a punch off anyone.\"\n\nAsked if he could withstand the kind of punches now that he felt when winning the world super-middleweight title in 1998, Woodhall told the 5 Live Boxing Podcast: \"Absolutely no way.\n\n\"That is what I worry about with Nigel more than anything. He may feel he can take the shots but when you get in the ring with 10oz gloves and you're hit, it's serious stuff.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing analyst Steve Bunce said a 23-year break after a career before returning to the sport made for \"dreadful cocktail\".\n\nBenn won the middleweight and super-middleweight world titles during a career in which he won 42, lost five and drew one of his 48 fights.\n\nPromoter Frank Warren and current world super-middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders have criticised Benn's decision to come out of retirement.\n\nBut at a London news conference, Benn - nicknamed the 'Dark Destroyer' during his career - likened himself to the fictional Hollywood film character who got younger with age.\n\n\"It's not the 'Dark Destroyer' because everything synonymous with that name is not who I am,\" Benn said.\n\n\"Now it's Nigel 'Benjamin Button' Benn - the older I get, the fitter I am and I 100% mean that. I am so fit.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming. This fight is all about me. It wasn't financial; it was always about closure that I wanted that I never had.\n\n\"I suffered with a lot of issues in my life from a young age, from 1972 when my brother died - the murder of my brother - which I carried through to my adult life.\n\n\"At the age of eight, I started smoking cigarettes to 41, I started doing ecstasy, smoking spliffs all throughout my career, but suffered with depression.\n\n\"There's not one fight that I went through that I didn't suffer with. It was bugging me. I don't event think I was at my best, I don't know how I got that far.\"\n\nThe fight with 40-year-old Australian Bika will be licensed by the British and Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA), rather than the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC).\n\nA BIBA doctor said Benn was fit to fight and that tests show his physiological age is \"at least 15 years younger\" than his actual age.\n\nBika held the WBC world super-middleweight title as recently as 2014 and last fought in 2017.", "Floral tributes have been placed at the scene\n\nA girl who was run over in what police have described as a hit-and-run crash has died in hospital.\n\nThe 10-year-old was struck on Hillsview Avenue in Kenton at about 18:40 GMT on Wednesday, by a Renault Kangoo that was abandoned nearby.\n\nNorthumbria Police said a 23-year-old man, believed to be the driver, had now been arrested.\n\nA second 23-year-old man has also been detained on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nTwo women, aged 31 and 28, were earlier arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.\n\nCh Insp Chris Grice said: \"This is a horrific incident that has robbed a family of their little girl and has had a significant impact on members of the community in Kenton.\n\n\"We know this has had a big impact on the community but we know that the public will rally together at this difficult time to support the victim's family.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information about the crash to contact the force.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A contractor who died in a machine accident at Tata's Port Talbot steelworks has been named.\n\nJustin Day, 44, from Swansea was killed on Wednesday in what South Wales Police described as \"an isolated incident\".\n\nAn air ambulance and hazardous area response team attended reports of a worker needing urgent medical attention at about 14:00 BST.\n\nTata Steel Europe has said its thoughts were with the contractor's family and a full investigation had been launched.\n\nHis family described him as a \"doting dad\" and a \"passionate rugby fan\".\n\n\"Justin was a family man who loved his family so much,\" they said.\n\nMr Day worked for contractors Mii Engineering, of Bedwas, Caerphilly, which has been \"devastated\" by his death, according to Matthew Moody from the company.\n\n\"I've spoken to quite a few people this morning and everybody is absolutely devastated. It's the only word we can use,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family and his colleagues and his friends.\"\n\nIn a separate incident, another worker received minor injuries at the steelworks on the same day.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said paramedics attended but did not take the man to hospital.\n\nHe is understood to have received a cut to the head and sought further medical help himself.\n\nEmergency services were sent to Tata\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced anger in the House of Commons, as MPs returned to the chamber a day after the Supreme Court ruled his prorogation of Parliament unlawful.\n\nHe said the court was \"wrong\" to rule on the suspension, ignoring calls to apologise and challenging opposition MPs to back a general election.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the PM was \"not fit for office, and bitter exchanges went on late into the evening as the prime minister accused his challengers of blocking Brexit.", "Ellie Cooper is the daughter of Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, pictured\n\nThe daughter of an MP has said she is \"scared every single day\" for her mother's safety, in an emotional plea to politicians over their language.\n\nEllie Cooper, whose parents are Labour MP Yvette Cooper and ex-MP Ed Balls, said she is terrified \"something awful\" like Jo Cox's murder could be repeated.\n\n\"I am scared when our house gets fitted with panic buttons... and explosive bags to catch the mail,\" she tweeted.\n\nIt comes as the PM was criticised for his words used in Wednesday's debate.\n\nBoth Yvette Cooper and Mr Balls - who was an MP until 2015 - responded to Ellie's tweets, saying they were \"proud\" of their daughter.\n\n\"We get used to handling all the things that get thrown at us, but it's harder to see it through your children's eyes,\" she said.\n\nIn a lengthy Twitter thread posted on Thursday afternoon, Ellie Cooper said the language of Boris Johnson was \"just beyond words\".\n\nShe writes: \"I was 17 when Jo Cox was murdered. I just rang my mum, who is Yvette Cooper, on my way home from school to complain about the usual things and I distinctly remember her interrupting me to say 'an MP's been shot.'\n\n\"I can honestly say my perspective of the world completely changed that day.\n\n\"Before then, my mum's job was something that kept her working later than bedtime when I was a kid, the source of embarrassing conversations at school, the reason we travelled to and fro between Yorkshire and London every week for the first two thirds of my life.\n\n\"It was never something that could get her killed.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I am scared when I scroll through the replies to her tweets calling her a liar and a traitor.\n\n\"I am scared when our house gets fitted with panic buttons, industrial-locking doors and explosive bags to catch the mail.\n\n\"I am scared because on the 16th of June 2016, two children said goodbye to their mother before she left for her constituency to sit in surgeries and help people all day, and never saw her again.\n\n\"I am scared every single day that the same will happen to mine.\"\n\nEd Balls, who was an MP until 2015, and Yvette Cooper when they were both in cabinet in 2010\n\nMs Cooper said \"of course people have strong opinions\" but called on Mr Johnson to \"take a stand\" to call for an end to \"inflammatory and aggressive language\".\n\nShe described the scenes in the House of Commons on Wednesday - which was the first time MPs had returned to Parliament since it was prorogued - as \"chilling\".\n\nThe debate descended into rowdiness on Wednesday evening, with several MPs criticising the prime minister for his language and urging him to refrain from using words like \"surrender\".\n\nMr Johnson had called the legislation which aims to block a no-deal Brexit a \"surrender bill\".\n\nThe prime minister has also been urged to apologise for saying the best way to honour Ms Cox - who was killed in Birstall, West Yorkshire in 2016 - was to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nBrendan Cox, the husband of Ms Cox, also said he had been shocked by the language used and the Brexit debate had become a \"bear pit of polarisation\".\n\nMr Johnson has refused to apologise for his language.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Johnson defended his words and insisted he \"deplores any threats to anybody, particularly female MPs\" and said \"tempers need to come down\" in Parliament.\n\nWhen asked if he was apologising for his language, he said: \"Obviously I'm deeply sorry for the threats that MPs face and I think it's very important we look after them, particularly look after female MPs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson \"deplores threats\" against MPs but doesn't apologise for his use of language\n\nHe added that the death of Jo Cox was an \"absolute tragedy\".\n\n\"But it's also important to protect the right of MPs to speak freely in the House of Commons about important political matters and the fact of the so-called Benn Act is that it surrenders our powers,\" he added.\n\nTory chairman James Cleverly has called criticism of the PM \"deeply unfair\".\n\nHe said the debate over Brexit in the House of Commons had generated \"a huge amount of temper on both sides\", adding: \"The best thing we can do to calm things down is to get it delivered, get it resolved.\"", "More than 900 species of animals, insects and plants have been recorded in the Pentland Hills, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, which is predominantly sheep farms\n\nMany species and habitats will be lost if a lot more trees are planted in a bid to reverse climate change, a natural heritage officer has warned.\n\nVictor Partridge, who looks after the Pentland Hills, said we must be careful not to destroy important habitats that have formed since deforestation in Scotland thousands of years ago.\n\nHe said many species now thrived in the open space of moors and farmland.\n\nHe said 97 insect species alone have been recorded in the Pentland Hills.\n\nIn total, more than 900 species of animals, insects and plants have been recorded in the upland area, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, which is predominantly sheep farms.\n\nGround nesting birds, stoats, weasels, cuckoos, long eared owls, short eared owls are all found in the Pentlands, which is about 20 miles (32 km) in length, and runs south west from Edinburgh towards Biggar and the upper Clydesdale.\n\nThese animals require open space to hunt and nest.\n\nIn many areas settlers burned the heath and resinous pinewoods to encourage fresh growth of heather for their stock.\n\nThe combination of burning and grazing forced woodland to retreat and prevented it recolonising bare areas.\n\nMr Partridge, City of Edinburgh Council's natural heritage officer, said: \"Humans created different habitats through deforestation and farming and this has led to more diversity for different species.\n\n\"There is the suggestion that we can help the planet by planting more trees but we must be very careful where we plant them so we don't lose important habitats.\n\n\"Planting some trees is good but we must be careful not to destroy the habitats we have created.\"\n\nHe added: \"Instead we need to change our whole behaviour and stop using fossil fuels.\"\n\nHis comments came as two rare dung beetles, Bradycellus caucasicus, Aphodius fasciatus and two species of butterfly, Small Skipper and Northern Brown Argus, were recorded for the first time in the Pentland Hills.\n\nAphodius fasciatus has just been discovered in the Pentland Hills\n\nMary Church, Friends of the Earth Scotland head of campaigns, said: \"Scotland needs a landscape-scale programme of ecological restoration, repairing peatlands, natural habitats and planting millions of trees, to respond to the interlinked crisis of climate change and biodiversity collapse.\n\n\"Obviously reforesting schemes must be sited sensitively with in relation to existing wildlife and ecosystems.\n\n\"To tackle the climate emergency, we need systemic changes to our society that will create a healthier, greener country.\n\n\"This includes changes to how we travel around, how we heat and power our homes and how we grow food.\"\n\nShe added: \"It means rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels in a way that protects communities and workers currently dependent on these industries.\"\n\nLatest forestry statistics show 18.7% of Scotland is forested. The Scottish government's target is for 21% cover by 2032.\n\nAndy Wightman, Scottish Green land reform spokesman, said: \"Trees suck carbon out of the air and are vital in our attempts to tackle the climate emergency.\n\n\"We need to restore Scotland's forests urgently.\n\n\"The European average for forest cover is 40%. At this rate it will take Scotland 155 years to catch up.\n\n\"It is also vital that we understand what is needed. 60% of new planting is conifers rather than native forest.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson is facing a backlash from MPs after he was accused of using \"dangerous\" language over Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister was repeatedly challenged over his use of the word \"surrender\" to describe legislation passed earlier this month which aims to block a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage circulating on social media shows staff at Condor Airlines, a former subsidiary of Thomas Cook, applaud bosses\n\nA Thomas Cook boss has apologised after a video emerged of staff cheering him and other executives at the firm's Condor subsidiary after it secured a bailout.\n\nThe German government stepped in to save the business while Thomas Cook workers all lost their jobs.\n\n\"I never, ever intended to cause offence or appear inconsiderate,\" said Jean Christoph Debus, chief airlines officer at the firm.\n\n\"I am heartbroken that any of my colleagues feel that I have been, and for that I am truly sorry,\" he added in a post on LinkedIn.\n\nThe video was filmed after the German government's announcement, he said.\n\n\"The reaction of myself, the Condor management and employees was one of pure relief that Condor could continue to fly and more redundancies within the Group Airlines were prevented. I realise, however, that this video was inappropriately timed and I am sorry.\"\n\nOn LinkedIn, former employees criticised his focus on Condor over the rest of the business.\n\n\"I'm sorry Christoph, but it feels like you have sacrificed the UK businesses to keep the others going,\" wrote Tom Williamson, who says he worked for the company for 19 years.\n\n\"State aid is apparently not permitted by the EU but the UK seems to be the only country that takes any notice,\" said Karl Plummer, a former pilot at the firm.\n\nBut he did receive some support: \"Unfortunately you can't please everyone, thanks for saving Condor,\" wrote Jochen Heidenberger, a travel agent.\n\nThomas Cook went into liquidation earlier this week, leaving thousands of passengers stranded and 9,000 UK workers jobless. The company had sought £250m from the UK government to continue to operate, but this was turned down as the government argued that it would not survive anyway.\n\n\"Thomas Cook directors need to explain why the UK airline had to be closed but the German one was allowed to continue to operate,\" said the general secretary of the Balpa pilots' union, Brian Strutton.\n\n\"How was it funded, because it seems there is nothing left in the coffers for UK staff? And why couldn't the UK government give the same kind of bridging support as the German government when it was well known that Thomas Cook had a Chinese buyer lined up? It's a national scandal.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has told MPs the Supreme Court was \"wrong to pronounce on a political question at a time of great national controversy\".\n\nAnd he urged smaller parties to table a vote of no confidence in his government to trigger a general election.\n\nIn extraordinary scenes, Tory MPs applauded as he goaded Jeremy Corbyn over his refusal to back an election.\n\nMr Corbyn told the PM he was \"not fit for office\" and should have resigned after the Supreme Court's verdict.\n\nOther MPs also rounded on Mr Johnson for his lack of contrition following the unanimous defeat for the government in the court.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said Wednesday's events in Parliament had been \"an horrendous spectacle\". Her colleague, Jess Phillips, said the PM's response to the court judgement looked \"horrendous\" to the public and he should apologise.\n\nThe SNP's Joanna Cherry - who was one of the lawyers who led the court challenge against the suspension or \"prorogation\" - said the House had been \"treated to the sort of populist rant one expects to hear from a tin-pot dictatorship\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor said the Commons was \"an absolute bear pit\", with \"so much vitriol on all sides\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour and the SNP have refused to vote for a general election until a no-deal Brexit has been taken off the table.\n\nThe PM was forced to cut short his visit to the UN in New York to return to the Commons after the UK's highest court ruled his decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nHe said he \"respected\" the court's verdict, but did not think it should have ruled on a \"political question\".\n\nAnd he dared opposition parties to \"finally face the day of reckoning with the voters\" in an election.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I think the people outside this House understand what is happening.\n\n\"Out of sheer selfishness and political cowardice they are unwilling to move aside and let the people have a say. The Leader of the Opposition and his party don't trust the people.\n\n\"All that matters to them is an obsessive desire to overturn the referendum result.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says Boris Johnson is not fit for office and thinks he is above the law\n\nHe said Labour had \"until the House rises today to table a motion of no confidence in the government, and we can have that vote tomorrow (Thursday)\".\n\n\"Or if any of the other smaller parties fancy a go, table the motion, we'll give you time for that vote.\"\n\nTory MPs broke into sustained applause - something rarely seen in the Commons - after Mr Johnson's attack on the opposition leader, sparking anger on the Labour benches.\n\nLabour has said it does not trust Mr Johnson to obey Parliament's instructions to request a delay to Brexit, which the PM has insisted will happen on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Even my five-year-old knows that if you do something wrong you have to say sorry\"\n\nMr Corbyn told the PM he should have \"done the honourable thing and resigned\" after the Supreme Court verdict.\n\n\"Quite simply, for the good of this country, he (Mr Johnson) should go,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"He says he wants a general election. I want a general election. It's very simple - if you want an election, get an extension and let's have an election.\"\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford said: \"We cannot trust this prime minister, his time must be up. His days of lying, of cheating and of undermining the rule of law...\"\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow asked Mr Blackford to withdraw the \"lying\" comment as it broke Commons rules.\n\nMr Blackford added: \"Do the right thing and do it now, prime minister. End this dictatorship, will you now resign?\"\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson called on Mr Johnson to apologise to the Commons following the court judgement.\n\nShe later tweeted that the prime minister was an \"utter disgrace\" for responding to Labour MP Paula Sheriff's plea for him to stop using \"inflammatory\" words such as \"surrender\".\n\nMr Johnson replied to Ms Sheriff - who referred to the murder of MP Jo Cox during her intervention - by saying: \"I've never heard such humbug in all my life.\"\n\nTracy Brabin, who was elected as MP for Batley and Spen after Mrs Cox was murdered, also urged the prime minister to moderate his language \"so that we will all feel secure when we're going about our jobs\".\n\nMr Johnson replied that \"the best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox and indeed the best way to bring this country together would be, I think, to get Brexit done\".\n\nUnder the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, the prime minister cannot call an election unless two-thirds of MPs back it, meaning the main opposition party has to back it.\n\nBut a motion of no confidence in the government only needs a majority of one - and could lead to a general election being held.\n\nThe government is under no obligation to give time to any call for a motion of confidence from anyone other than the leader of the opposition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The prime minister fought the law but the law won,\" Ian Blackford told the House of Commons\n\nIt is unprecedented for the government to voluntarily offer time to the opposition and smaller parties to debate such a motion.\n\nDowning Street said it would assume MPs had confidence in the government and its Brexit strategy if opposition parties did not table a confidence vote later on Wednesday.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minster said: \"It's put up or shut up time.\"\n\nBut the spokesman would not say whether the PM would resign immediately if he lost a confidence vote - or whether a general election would take place if the government was brought down.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox earlier faced questions about the advice he gave the PM indicating the five-week suspension would be within the law.\n\nMr Cox said he respected the Supreme Court's decision, but launched a blistering attack on MPs for being \"too cowardly\" to hold an election, adding: \"This Parliament is dead.\"\n\nMs Cherry said Mr Cox was being \"offered up as a fall guy for the government's plans\" and urged him to publish the advice he gave.", "The UK's new polar research shop has been officially named after broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge smashed a bottle of Champagne against the ship at a ceremony in Birkenhead.\n\nAn online poll had suggested the ship be named 'Boaty McBoatface' - but one of its robotic submarines has been given this moniker instead.", "Stoke City Council is considering plans for a £3.3m youth hub to be built in the town of Hanley.\n\nStoke-on-Trent is made up of six towns, and some young people in the city feel it will alienate those who don't live in Hanley.\n\nThey also believe it could lead to more violence by bringing postcode rivalries together in one place.\n\nDominic, a student and Labour activist, has set up a petition against the centre, believing it will be more of a \"violence hub than a youth hub\".\n\nBut Jordan, who works at the YMCA in Hanley, thinks the new youth hub might help bring the different towns of Stoke together.\n\nGemma runs a youth club in the suburb of Meir and feels the money would be better spent on youth clubs in the six towns of Stoke, rather than in the centre.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Stoke-on-Trent, a BBC project with people of the city to tell the stories that matter to them.", "Jodie Chesney was stabbed while socialising with friends in the park\n\nJodie Chesney died from an 18cm-deep wound from a knife which almost passed right through her body, a court heard.\n\nThe 17-year-old was socialising with friends in the Harold Hill area of Romford, east London, when she was stabbed in the back on 1 March.\n\nDespite the efforts of medics, Jodie was pronounced dead in a petrol station while on the way to hospital.\n\nManuel Petrovic and Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, both from Romford, and two teenage boys all deny murder at the Old Bailey.\n\nJurors have previously heard Jodie was unlikely to have been the intended target of what is thought to have been a drug dispute.\n\nPathologist Dr Ashley Fegan-Earl carried out a post-mortem examination on Jodie's body on 3 March and found she had a stab wound to the right side of her back from a \"single-edged knife\".\n\nThe scene of the attack in Amy's Park, Harold Hill\n\nDr Fegan-Earl said the blade came within a few millimetres of fully penetrating through the body.\n\nWhile the wound was 18cm deep, the pathologist said it was \"entirely plausible a shorter blade gave rise to the longer wound track\".\n\nJodie's boyfriend Eddie Coyle previously told jurors he was \"forced to catch her\" as she fell from the bench\n\nHe suggested \"moderate force\" would have been required, but added: \"It does not mean severe force was not used.\"\n\nDr Fegan-Earl recorded Jodie's cause of death as \"shock and haemorrhage due to stab wound to back of the chest\".\n\nThe pathologist was asked whether a 19.5cm black-handled, single-edge knife seized from Mr Ong-a-Kwie's room could have caused the wound.\n\nHe said the knife was \"consistent\" with the fatal injury.\n\nManuel Petrovic (left) and Svenson Ong-a-Kwie (far right) deny murdering Jodie Chesney\n\nHowever, Charles Sherrard QC, defending 19-year-old Mr Ong-a-Kwie, said it was a hypothetical question as the wound could have been caused using a \"bog standard kitchen knife\".\n\nDr Fegan-Earl also told jurors the injury could have been caused in a fraction of a second.", "The collapse of Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel agency has left thousands of passengers stranded and put 21,000 jobs at risk, 9,000 of which are in the UK.\n\nWhile people search for answers as to why the company went into liquidation, many businesses in Majorca dependent on Thomas Cook tourists are worried what will happen them.", "Last updated on .From the section Bury\n\nA proposal for Bury to be readmitted to League Two next season was rejected by the English Football League's 71 member clubs at a meeting on Thursday.\n\nBury, who were in League One, were expelled from the EFL in August after a last-ditch takeover bid collapsed.\n\nOn Friday, a group trying to rescue Bury submitted a plan for \"compassionate re-entry\" to League Two.\n\nHowever, an EFL statement said \"it became clear that the proposal did not have the necessary support\".\n\nIt added that EFL clubs' \"preferred direction of travel\" was \"extending the existing principle of a reduction in relegation across all divisions as a means of returning to 72 clubs now and for the future\".\n\nIt means only one team will go down from League Two this campaign, rather than two, while three clubs will go down from League One.\n• None Maidstone United - the demise and rise of an expelled Football League club\n\nEFL executive chair Debbie Jevans said: \"While we are saddened that Bury FC is no longer part of the EFL, the board's difficult decision to withdraw membership was only taken after every opportunity to find a resolution was exhausted.\n\n\"Since then, in recognition of the efforts made on behalf of the club, the EFL has engaged with supporters' groups, shared their submissions with our members and debated at length the issues raised.\n\n\"Following the discussion today, clubs have established that the preferred direction of travel is to reduce relegation from League Two as a means of returning to 72 clubs.\n\n\"The clubs felt that, in a difficult situation, this approach maintains fairness for all members and upholds the principle of the football pyramid.\"\n\nTwo-time FA Cup winners Bury, founded in 1885 and elected to the Football League nine years later, will now have to apply to the Football Association for a place in non-league football.\n\nThe \"Bury FC Rescue Board\" - backed by local MPs, the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and supporters' group Forever Bury - wrote to the EFL to plead for the club's reinstatement, with confirmation of \"active bidders\" and a signed statement from owner Steve Dale pledging to sell the club.\n\nBury North MP James Frith said on Twitter that it was \"devastating to hear self-interest was served cold by many EFL clubs\" at Thursday's meeting.\n\nMeanwhile, Burnham told an audience at his monthly Mayor's Question Time that the rescue board will look for Bury to be admitted into the National League next season.\n\nHow did it come to this?\n\nAt the end of April, Bury were celebrating promotion back to the third tier of English football, but they were already enduring a torrid time off the pitch.\n\nThe club was already in financial trouble when Dale bought it for £1 in December from previous owner Stewart Day, with players and staff often being paid late.\n\nA winding-up petition filed against the club was adjourned three times before eventually being dismissed by the High Court on 31 July.\n\nBy then, creditors had approved a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) put forward by Dale, which was proposed to help settle some of their debts.\n\nThe CVA meant unsecured creditors, including HM Revenue & Customs, would be paid 25% of the money owed - but also triggered a 12-point deduction in the League One table under EFL rules.\n\nHowever, the EFL were unsatisfied Bury had given enough evidence of their financial viability, leading to a string of postponed fixtures while the organisation awaited \"the clarity required\".\n\nOn 9 August, the Shakers were given a 14-day deadline to provide the necessary information or face expulsion but they were unable to comply and were expelled from the EFL on 28 August when a takeover bid by C&N Sporting Risk fell through.\n\nAlso at Thursday's meeting, clubs \"gave their endorsement\" to the proposed appointment of Rick Parry as chairman of the EFL.\n\nFormer Premier League and Liverpool chief executive Parry was recommended as successor to Ian Lenagan by the EFL board.", "Some premium tea bags might be leaving billions of microscopic plastic particles in your cup, new research suggests.\n\nCanadian researchers found that some plastic tea bags shed high levels of microplastics into water.\n\nMicroplastics have widely been found in the environment, in tap and bottled waters, and in some foods.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says such particles in drinking water do not appear to pose a risk.\n\nBut the WHO said the findings were based on \"limited information\" and it called for greater research on the issue.\n\nThe researchers, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, also called for more investigation into the health effects of microplastics, defined as small (less than 5mm in length) pieces of any kind of plastic debris.\n\nFor the study, they bought four different commercial teas packaged in plastic teabags.\n\nMost teabags are made from paper, with a small amount of plastic used to seal them shut. But some premium brands have switched to using greater amounts of plastic mesh for their product instead.\n\nThis is usually so that the tea bag is held in a pyramid shape, which producers claim helps the tea leaves infuse better.\n\nThe researchers removed the tea and placed the empty teabags in water heated to 95C (203F), as if they were brewing tea.\n\nThey found that a single plastic teabag released about 11.6bn microplastic and 3.1bn smaller nanoplastic particles into the hot water. The particles are completely invisible to the naked eye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The plastic particles lurking in your bottled water\n\nThe level of \"particles released from the teabag packaging are several orders of magnitude higher than plastic loads previously reported in other foods\", according to the study, which was published by the journal of Environmental Science and Technology.\n\nResearcher Laura Hernandez says they were surprised by the amount released compared to those recorded in other studies into things like bottled water.\n\nShe says the discrepancy could be in part due to the fact they focused on the tiniest of particles - both microplastics, which are about the thickness of one hair, and nanoplastics, which are a thousand times smaller.\n\nBut she also said it could be due to the fact \"it's a piece of plastic being exposed to boiling water\" and not just water at room temperature.\n\nMs Hernandez and her team did not disclose the particular tea brands used in their study.\n\n\"The consumer should avoid plastic packaging, not a specific brand, and definitely not the tea that comes inside,\" she said in an email. \"We encourage consumers to choose loose teas that is sold without packaging or other teas that come in paper teabags.\"\n\nShe noted this is a chance for consumers, like those looking to reduce their plastic use, to be more aware of their purchases.\n\n\"There is really no need to package tea in plastic, which at the end of the day becomes single-use plastic,\" she said. \"[And] which is contributing to you not just ingesting plastic but to the environmental burden of plastic.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has refused to moderate his language during a heated debate in the Commons, despite a barrage of criticism from opposition benches.\n\nLabour's Paula Sherriff referred to Jo Cox, the MP murdered in 2016, as she pleaded with him to refrain from using \"dangerous\" words like \"surrender\".\n\nHe described her intervention as \"humbug\" and repeated the word again.\n\nThe SNP's Nicola Sturgeon said there was \"a gaping moral vacuum where the office of prime minister used to be\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described scenes in Parliament as an \"absolute bear pit\".\n\nMr Johnson was repeatedly challenged over his use of the word \"surrender\" to describe legislation passed earlier this month which aims to block a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nMs Sherriff, the Labour MP for Dewsbury, told the Commons the prime minister had \"continually used pejorative language to describe an Act of Parliament passed by this House\".\n\nPointing to a plaque in the chamber, commemorating Mrs Cox, who was murdered by a right-wing extremist, she said: \"We should not resort to using offensive, dangerous or inflammatory language for legislation that we do not like, and we stand here under the shield of our departed friend with many of us in this place subject to death threats and abuse every single day.\"\n\n\"They often quote his words 'Surrender Act', 'betrayal', 'traitor' and I for one am sick of it.\n\n\"We must moderate our language, and it has to come from the prime minister first.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said: \"I have to say, Mr Speaker, I've never heard such humbug in all my life.\"\n\nTracy Brabin, who was elected as MP for Batley and Spen after Ms Cox was murdered, also urged the prime minister to moderate his language \"so that we will all feel secure when we're going about our jobs\".\n\nMr Johnson replied that \"the best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox and indeed the best way to bring this country together would be, I think, to get Brexit done\".\n\nMrs Cox's husband, Brendan, later tweeted he felt \"sick at Jo's name being used in this way\".\n\nThe best way to honour her is to \"stand up for what we believe in, passionately and with determination\", he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brendan Cox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said the prime minister was an \"utter disgrace\" for his response to the questions on his language.\n\nShe told MPs: \"I today have reported to the police a threat against my child. That has been dismissed as 'humbug'.\n\n\"This is a disgraceful state of affairs and we must be able to find a way to conduct ourselves better.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson told MPs a threat had been made against her child\n\nLeader of the Independent Group for Change, Anna Soubry, said it \"takes a lot to reduce this honourable member to tears\" but she said she is \"not alone tonight\".\n\n\"There are others I believe who have left the estate, such has been the distress,\" she told MPs.\n\n\"In this, the most peculiar and extraordinary of political times, the language that is used is incredibly important.\n\n\"We have evidence, whatever side of the debate you are on, when you use word like 'surrender', 'capitulation', and others use the word 'traitor' and 'treason', there is a direct consequence.\n\n\"It means my mother receives a threat to her safety. It means my partner receives a death threat.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged the Speaker to unite the party leaders \"to issue a joint declaration opposing any form of abusive language or threats and to put this message out to our entire community that we have to treat each other with respect\".\n\nSpeaker John Bercow said he was \"very open to convening a meeting of senior colleagues for the purpose of a House-wide public statement\".\n\nConservative MP Stephen Crabb told BBC Newsnight that he was \"shocked by the way [the PM] responded to the remarks about Jo Cox\".\n\nHe said Mr Johnson had \"strong support among Conservative MPs... but he also has a duty as prime minister to try to bring unity to our country and reduce the level of poison in our politics\".\n\nCulture Secretary Nicky Morgan said the prime minister was \"aware and sympathetic\" to the threats MPs have received.\n\n\"But at a time of strong feelings we all need to remind ourselves of the effect of everything we say on those watching us,\" she tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nicky Morgan MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmazon has announced that its virtual assistant Alexa will soon be able to mimic the voice of the actor Samuel L Jackson among other celebrities.\n\nThe firm intends to charge a fee for the feature, with each voice costing $0.99 (80p).\n\nThe company has also refreshed its range of Echo speakers, adding a larger high-end version with Dolby Atmos for \"3D sound\".\n\nHowever, that position is being challenged by Chinese companies including Baidu, while Google is also expected to unveil new gear of its own next month.\n\nThe company has also extended its Echo range into a selection of wearable tech for both humans and pets for the first time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A first look at Amazon's Alexa-powered Frame glasses and Loop ring\n\nIn addition, the firm said its smart assistant would be built into General Motors' vehicles from next year, and that some existing models could be upgraded to include the feature.\n\n\"This avalanche of new products underlines Amazon's desire to extend Alexa's reach to every part of people's lives - be that in the home, or on the move via new Echo Buds or in the car through the deal with General Motors,\" commented Geoff Blaber, an analyst at CCS Insight.\n\n\"Not only will it will strengthen Amazon's reach with existing customers that use Alexa-powered products, it will also provide the opportunity to woo more consumers to embrace its increasingly ubiquitous voice assistant.\"\n\nAmazon's pet tracker will use a new wireless data-transfer technology to let owners monitor their dog from up to 500m away\n\nAmazon said it would use a \"neural text-to-speech\" engine to mimic celebrities' voices on Alexa-powered devices. It will use recordings the stars provide as the basis for other computer-generated utterances.\n\nSamuel L Jackson's voice will be offered in both a \"clean\" and an \"explicit\" mode for Alexa\n\nIn the case of Avengers actor Samuel L Jackson, consumers will be given the choice of whether they want a version that swears or not.\n\nThe firm said other famous stars - who will be paid for their services - will follow.\n\nAmazon recently announced it was upgrading its music streaming service to a \"high definition\" format to help its fortunes.\n\nIts new Studio speaker should provide users with a means to appreciate the extra detail it offers. Like Sonos' kit, it fine tunes its sound to suit the acoustics of the room it is placed in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd two of the $200 (£190 in the UK) speakers can be paired and connected to a Fire TV stick or television to create a home theatre experience.\n\n\"Amazon has never really had a smart speaker which was marketed specifically for its audio quality, in the manner of an Apple HomePod or a Google Home Max,\" commented Ben Stanton from the tech consultancy Canalys.\n\n\"Typically, third-parties like Harman and Sonos would be the ones to differentiate in this space on Amazon's behalf.\n\n\"If it [lives up to its promise], it will cannibalise these third-party products, and leave little room left for third-party smart speaker vendors to innovate.\"\n\nAmazon's stock closed the day 1.5% higher, while shares in Sonos sank 5% lower.\n\nAmazon's devices chief Dave Limp addressed users' privacy concerns early on during the launch event at the firm's Seattle headquarters, even showing a tweet it had received complaining about one of its speakers activating without the trigger word \"Alexa\" being uttered.\n\n\"We care about this,\" he said.\n\n\"Privacy is absolutely foundational to everything we do in and around Alexa.\"\n\nMr Limp showed a tweet in which a British father-of-three had expressed concerns about Alexa\n\nHe highlighted the fact that users can now command a device to delete everything they have said that day. In addition, the firm recently added an option to its Alexa app to let users opt out of having their voices transcribed by humans to improve the service's accuracy.\n\nHowever, some of its rivals - including Apple and Google - have gone further by requiring their users to opt in to similar programmes.\n\n\"Privacy is a huge issue for all technology manufacturers and recent revelations show that Amazon is vulnerable,\" commented Adam Simon from the market intelligence firm Context.\n\n\"All our research shows that it is a major concern to consumers.\n\n\"Yet, ironically, it is not the most important barrier preventing people buying smart home products. Privacy is far outweighed by lack of understanding, lack of perception of value, and lack of good use cases.\"\n\nHe added that later this year, users will be able to ask Alexa \"why did you do that?\", to question it about unexpected behaviour.\n\nFurthermore, a new setting will allow them to set recordings to be auto-deleted after a set period of time ranging from three to 18 months.\n\nAmazon said it decided to launch a smart oven after its previous Alexa-enabled microwave became a bestseller\n\nOther announcements included a new 8in (20.3cm) Echo Show smart display, which can now show group video calls with several people on-screen at once.\n\nIt features the same \"high definition\" screen resolution as the 10in model, but only a one megapixel camera versus the 5MP sensor in the larger device.\n\nThat means it will likely never add the kind of auto-framing feature that Facebook's Portal and Google Nest Hub Max video chat devices offer, which is achieved by cropping into the image.\n\nThe Echo Show 8 has similar quality speakers but a lower resolution camera than the older Echo Show (2nd Gen)\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 Limp also announced changes to its Ring-branded smart doorbells.\n\nThese will now gain use of Alexa, including a service that will allow visitors to record a message if the owner is out and unable to answer remotely via the device's app.\n\nHe also unveiled new Ring hardware including a security camera for inside the home - which will compete against Google's Nest Cam as well as similar products from Hive and Canary - and a \"retrofit\" kit that adds smart features to existing alarm systems.", "Shannon Soutter was sentenced to 300 hours of unpaid work as part of a three-year community payback order.\n\nA woman who admitted attacks on a six-month-old girl which left the child badly brain-damaged has avoided being sent to prison.\n\nShannon Soutter was given a community sentence after a judge said it was \"neither appropriate or necessary\" to lock her up.\n\nThe 23-year-old attacked the baby girl over a two-month period in 2018 at a house in Arbroath, Angus.\n\nThe child also suffered fractures to her skull, ribs and ankle.\n\nShe may have permanent blindness with medics describing her prognosis as \"poor\".\n\nSoutter was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow having earlier pled guilty to assaulting the girl to her severe injury, permanent impairment and to the danger of her life.\n\nLord Turnbull said Soutter, of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, had been struggling with a \"history of depression\" and other personal issues at the time.\n\nThe judge went on: \"She punishes herself daily and will continue to do so.\n\n\"I think there is little the court can do by way of punishment that is greater than what she has imposed on herself.\n\n\"In light of factors and the clearly vouched mental health difficulties, I am satisfied the public duty does not require me to pass a sentence which would incarcerate Miss Soutter.\n\n\"The circumstances are so unusual that a degree of understanding, and some mercy, leads to the conclusion it is neither appropriate or necessary to impose a custodial sentence.\"\n\nSoutter sobbed as she was instead ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work as part of a three-year community payback order.\n\nThis also involves her having no unsupervised contact with underage children and to undergo treatment for her mental health issues.\n\nThe baby's father was in court to see Soutter sentenced.\n\nSentencing, Lord Turnbull said the child's father had written a moving victim impact statement of how they are coping.\n\nThe judge said: \"Nothing can be done in this court to alleviate the stress and upset to a father who has the difficult responsibility of providing care for her.\"", "Joanna Sim is a self-confessed member of the Peloton cult. She gets up at 05:00 for the company's classes. She writes about them on her blog for working parents.\n\nShe doesn't just like Peloton, she says, she loves it.\n\n\"It's almost borderline addiction at this point,\" she says. Now she's planning to invest.\n\nThe company, which sells tech-enhanced exercise equipment tied to streaming fitness classes, raised about $1.16bn as it sold its first shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Thursday.\n\nThe shares priced at $29 apiece, valuing the firm at more than $8bn (£6.5bn) - a hefty figure in a notoriously fickle fitness industry.\n\nBut they tumbled lower as trading began, closing down 11%.\n\nPeloton acolytes such as Joanna say the company has matched exercise to the age of social media, combining the convenience of an at-home workout with the interaction and adrenaline rush of live classes.\n\nThe company, which was founded in 2012, has more than 500,000 subscribers. It went live in the UK and Canada in 2018 and in Germany in May. It has started branching out to new areas, offering classes in yoga and strength-training.\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 richardbranson 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\nParticipation is expensive. Peloton's stationary bikes cost more than $2,200 (in the UK they start at £1,990) and its treadmills, which it started selling last year, are almost double that. Unlimited access to the streaming classes runs to another $39 a month (£39 a month in the UK).\n\nDespite the price tag, Joanna says she \"took the plunge\" last year, cancelling her gym membership and buying a bike in the hope it would make it easier to fit in more workouts.\n\nThe mother of two, who lives in California and works full-time as a design strategist at software company Intuit, has not been disappointed.\n\nShe says the flexibility of the company's programmes, and the \"tribe\" of fellow riders she interacts with during a regular 05:00 class, have kept her coming back for more, and more.\n\nHer enthusiasm extends to the firm's financial prospects.\n\n\"They're going to IPO soon and I'm... all over it,\" she says.\n\nPeloton made $915m in revenue in its most recent financial year, more than double the year before, which was double the year before that.\n\nBut growth has come with costs.\n\nPeloton remains unprofitable, losing about $200m last year, as its marketing expense skyrocketed.\n\nIn the run-up to its flotation, music publishers hit the company with a $300m copyright lawsuit, accusing the firm of using music for its classes without permission.\n\nAnd sceptics are asking if the firm, which today relies on big-ticket purchases of equipment, has staying power, given the appearance of lower-cost competitors and fast changing fitness fads.\n\n\"It's very difficult to double every year,\" says Rett Wallace, chief executive of research firm Triton. \"Right now, it looks like we're still very much in a growth phase on the hardware but we don't know how long that will last.\"\n\nOther fitness firms testing the public markets in recent years haven't fared particularly well.\n\nThe pricey cycling studio chain SoulCycle, which once claimed cachet similar to Peloton, filed flotation papers in 2015.\n\nBut the company, a subsidiary of property giant Related Co, dropped those plans last year, citing \"market conditions\". This summer, the mood soured farther, when owner Steve Ross's fundraiser for President Donald Trump triggered a customer boycott.\n\nYogaWorks debuted on the Nasdaq in 2017, after a growth sprint fuelled by private equity backer Great Hill Partners turned it into one of the largest yoga chains in the US.\n\nLess than two years later, the firm de-listed its shares, amid mounting losses and a warning from the exchange that the stock's price no longer met the minimum threshold.\n\nAnd it's not just fitness chains focused on live classes that have struggled.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by thehughjackman 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\nShares in FitBit, which makes wearable fitness trackers, approached $50 in the summer of 2015, when the rapidly growing firm went public. But sales soon slumped and today, the shares trade at about $4.\n\n\"Hardware is difficult. Fitness is difficult,\" says Mr Wallace. \"If you rely on the sale of hardware, even Apple shows us that if you're not reinventing your hardware all the time, your life can become difficult.\"\n\n\"Peloton seems to have established a brand for itself and has a very loyal user base,\" he adds. \"We'll see if that sticks.\"\n\nJoanna says she's heard the doubts but her experience convinced her that Peloton has a long ride ahead of it.\n\n\"Given the amount of content that they're pumping out and the leadership that they have... I have full confidence,\" she says.", "The introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol in Scotland appears to have cut drinking, a study suggests.\n\nSince May 2018, the price of alcohol has had to be at least 50p per unit.\n\nThe study published in the British Medical Journal looked at how much alcohol was bought in shops before and after the move up to the end of 2018.\n\nIt found the amount purchased per person per week fell by 1.2 units - the equivalent of just over half a pint of beer or a measure of spirits.\n\nThe biggest fall was among the heaviest fifth of drinkers - the amount purchased by this group fell by two units.\n\nBut overall Scots were still buying more than 14 units a week, the recommended limit, after the introduction of the new drinking laws.\n\nWhat is more, the analysis excluded pubs, bars and restaurants, where about a quarter of drinks are purchased.\n\nScotland was the first country in the world to introduce a minimum price based on the strength of alcoholic drinks. Research findings have led to calls for the policy to be adopted across the UK.\n\nWales is looking to introduce minimum pricing in 2020, but neither England nor Northern Ireland currently have plans to set a limit.\n\nResearchers, led by a team at Newcastle University, looked at how much alcohol people were buying in shops and supermarkets, but not in pubs.\n\nThey analysed the purchasing habits of 60,000 English and Scottish households between 2015 and 2018. Just over 5,000 of them were in Scotland.\n\nThe English households were used as a control group to measure what would have happened if there had not been a minimum price in Scotland.\n\nWhile households in England increased their consumption slightly, Scottish purchasing fell.\n\nThe study said overall it represented a fall of 7.6%, or 1.2 units, a week per adult on what would have been expected.\n\nThe team said that was about twice the impact predicted ahead of the move.\n\nReductions were most noticeable for beer, spirits, and cider, including own-brand spirits and high-strength white ciders.\n\nBut the team acknowledged there needed to be longer-term follow up to see if the drop was sustained, as there was some evidence that in the later months of 2018 consumption had begun to rise again.\n\nLead researcher Prof Peter Anderson said: \"You would expect some levelling off from the initial impact, but I think the findings are enough to suggest minimum pricing is effective and should be adopted across the UK.\"\n\nEric Carlin from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, agreed the evidence was compelling, but he said risky alcohol consumption was a \"complex\" public health issue.\n\n\"No single policy lever should be seen as a panacea,\" he added.\n\nScottish public health minister Joe Fitzpatrick said the findings were \"very encouraging\".", "The leader of the Labour Party says Boris Johnson is not fit for the office of prime minister and thinks he is above the law.\n\nJeremy Corbyn accused Mr Johnson's government of holding \"sham Brexit negotiations\" and having \"chaotic and inadequate\" preparations for no-deal.", "More than a quarter of secondary school pupils in England and Wales have received private tuition, according to research published by the Sutton Trust.\n\nThe highest levels are in London - with 41% of secondary pupils getting extra lessons outside of school, it says.\n\nThe social-mobility charity is calling for financial support for disadvantaged families to have access to tutoring.\n\n\"With costs of at least £25 per session, many parents can't afford it,\" said charity founder Sir Peter Lampl.\n\nThe annual report from the Sutton Trust tracks the prevalence of parents paying for tuition.\n\nSuch extra lessons have been seen as a hidden factor in exam results - but because of the cost, the charity warns this gives richer families an unfair advantage.\n\nBased on evidence from the National Foundation for Educational Research and a survey of almost 3,000 families, the report suggests 27% of 11 to 16-year-olds have had some private tuition while at secondary school.\n\nThis is higher than the 18% who received tutoring in 2005 but has fallen back on a couple of years ago, when 30% had paid for extra lessons, it says.\n\nBut the use of tutors is skewed towards the affluent, with 34% of better-off families having used tutors compared with 20% of less well-off families.\n\nPaying for extra tuition is twice as common in England than Wales - 28% to 14% - and a separate figure for London suggests much higher levels of 41%.\n\nExtra help with GCSEs is the most common reason families pay for private tuition, the research suggests\n\nThe most common reasons given for hiring tutors were helping with a specific GCSE exam and \"schoolwork in general\".\n\nThe research suggests almost a quarter of classroom teachers in secondary school have worked as private tutors in the past two years, with most of these providing lessons after being asked by parents.\n\nThe Sutton Trust says there is evidence such individual tutoring can make a positive difference.\n\nBut it says there needs to be a way of making it available to the disadvantaged, such as providing means-tested vouchers.\n\nTrust founder and chairman Sir Peter Lampl said such a scheme would \"enable lower-income families to provide tuition for their children\" in an environment in which \"private tuition is widespread\".\n\nMary Bousted, joint leader of the National Education Union, said such subsidies for tuition could seem appealing but the money would be better spent increasing budgets for underfunded schools or pupil premium funding to support disadvantaged pupils.\n\nLabour's annual conference has backed calls to move private schools into the state sector, but a party spokesman said this would not affect private tutoring outside school.", "Men who have fertility treatment have a higher risk of prostate cancer in later life, a study has suggested.\n\nThe research - in the British Medical Journal - looked at 1.2 million pregnancies in Sweden over 20 years.\n\nMen who had ICSI - a treatment specifically for male infertility - had an increased prostate cancer risk.\n\nBut Prostate Cancer UK said researchers must look at a much broader age range before concluding men who have fertility treatment are at higher risk.\n\nResearchers from Lund University in Sweden used data from national birth and cancer registers.\n\nThey looked at more than a million births between 1994 and 2014, and at cancer cases.\n\nMost babies - 97% - were conceived naturally, and 20,618 (1.7%) were conceived using IVF, although the data does not show if fertility issues lay with the man or the woman.\n\nSome 14,882 (1.3%) births resulted from ICSI, where a single, good-quality sperm is selected and injected directly into an egg.\n\nICSI was first used in Sweden in 1992, with every case recorded by the register.\n\nAmong the natural conception group, 3,244 (0.28%) were diagnosed with prostate cancer, compared with 77 (0.37%) in the IVF group and 63 (0.42%) among those who had ICSI.\n\nMen in the ICSI group also had a higher risk of developing early onset prostate cancer, before the age of 55.\n\nProf Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman, who led the study, told the BBC: \"The prostate cancer numbers are quite small, but these men are very young.\n\n\"They are a small, high-risk group, and we should be following them more closely.\"\n\nShe said she hoped there would be further studies to investigate why the link existed.\n\nAllan Pacey, professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, said: \"It has been proposed that male infertility might serve as a \"canary in the coal mine\" for men's health, which both men and their doctors should be better attuned to.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is important to be clear that this is not because the techniques of assisted reproduction go on to cause prostate cancer, but probably because the two have a common cause in some way.\n\n\"Perhaps all men who are diagnosed with a fertility problem in their 20s and 30s should be given a leaflet explaining what this might mean for them in their 50s and 60s, so that they can be aware of possible future problems, and be encouraged to visit their GP a bit quicker than they often do.\"\n\nBut Simon Grieveson, from Prostate Cancer UK, said it was important not to \"leap to any conclusions\" on the basis of this study.\n\n\"Prostate cancer is more common in men over the age of 50. The men involved in this study were younger on average, and therefore already have a very low risk of prostate cancer.\n\n\"This study would need to look at a much broader age range to fully understand whether men who undergo fertility treatment actually have a higher risk overall.\n\n\"If this can be proven, more research would then need to be done to determine the underlying cause. Until then, there is little evidence that there would be any benefit in monitoring these men more closely.\"\n\nHe added: \"We believe it's important that all men are aware of the risks of prostate cancer, and men concerned about the disease should speak to their GP. However, couples considering fertility treatment should not be put off by these results.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs who want to stop no deal plan to pass a new law that will force Boris Johnson to seek an extension to the Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation has been presented by Labour MP Hilary Benn, and has been signed by opposition leaders and recently-sacked Conservatives, including Alistair Burt and Philip Hammond.\n\nWell, Mr Johnson will have until 19 October to either pass a deal in Parliament or get MPs to approve a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOnce this deadline has passed, he will have to request an extension to the UK's departure date, taking it from 31 October to 31 January 2020.\n\nUnusually, the bill includes the wording of the letter that the prime minister would have to write to the president of the European Council in his request for that extension.\n\nIf the EU responds by proposing a different date, the PM will have two days to accept that proposal. But during this two-day period, MPs - not the government - will have the opportunity to reject the EU's date.\n\nThe bill also contains a list of provisions that write into law requirements for ministers to report to the House of Commons over the next few months.\n\nNot only would this provide MPs with updates, but could potentially provide more opportunities to take control of the timetable.\n\nBe aware though, this could all change over the next few days because MPs and Lords have the power to pass amendments to any law.\n\nProcedure in the Lords means it could provide the biggest hurdle to the bill's sponsors because it could be possible for those against the legislation to filibuster - talk and talk until there is no time left to get it through.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The proportion of young people in England going to university has passed the symbolic 50% mark for the first time.\n\nIt comes almost exactly 20 years after then Prime Minister Tony Blair made the call for half of young adults to go into higher education.\n\nFigures from the Department for Education, for 2017-18, show 50.2% of people going into higher education.\n\nThe figures are higher for women, where 57% are going to university.\n\nThe annual statistics on entry to higher education show the proportion of people set to go to university before the age of 30.\n\nThese latest figures are only a fraction higher than the year before - up from 49.9% - but after years of steady increases, it means a majority of young adults are now going on to higher education.\n\nIt shows a significant social change over the decades.\n\nTony Blair announced the aim of reaching 50% going into higher education at the 1999 Labour conference\n\nIn 1980, only 15% stayed in full-time education after the age of 18, in any kind of training or further or higher education, including universities and what were then polytechnics.\n\nBy 1990, that had risen to 25% for all forms of post-18 education, according to House of Commons library figures.\n\nThe target of 50% going into higher education was set in September 1999 in a conference speech by Tony Blair, two years after coming into office.\n\n\"Today I set a target of 50% of young adults going into higher education in the next century,\" Mr Blair told Labour Party delegates.\n\nThe new figures show 50.2% - but there are significant gender differences. While 57% of women are going into higher education, the proportion is 44.1% for men.\n\nIt means the participation rate in university for men is still lower than that reached by women more than a decade ago.\n\nIn the graduating cohort of 1980, there were 43,000 men and 25,000 women. Among about 430,000 starting degree courses for the first time this autumn, more than 245,000 are likely to be women.\n\nBut the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson called on universities to do more to widen access to the disadvantaged.\n\nHe said pupils from the most advantaged areas were 2.4 times more likely to stay on for higher education than those from the most disadvantaged.\n\n\"It is simply not good enough that white working class boys are far less likely to go to university and black students are far less likely to complete their courses than others,\" said Mr Williamson in a letter sent to Universities UK.\n\n\"These inequalities have been around for far too long and should be addressed as a priority.\"", "A migraine drug that has been described as \"life changing\" by some patients will not be made available on the NHS outside of Scotland.\n\nErenumab - also known by the name Aimovig - is one of the first bespoke migraine drugs in decades and has been described by doctors as a \"huge deal\".\n\nBut the body that approves new drugs said there were doubts whether it was good enough or worth the money.\n\nCharities said it seemed to be a \"very bad day\" for migraine suffers.\n\nCurrent drugs to prevent migraine are former epilepsy or heart failure medicines or the anti-wrinkle drug Botox.\n\nHowever, some patients have migraines that do not respond to any available treatments.\n\nWhat makes Erenumab different is it is specifically designed for preventing migraine.\n\nIt uses antibodies to alter the activity of chemicals in the brain that are involved in both pain and sensitivity to sound and light that comes with migraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is what happens when you have a migraine\n\nTrials showed erenumab more than halved the number of migraines each month for around a third of hard-to-treat patients.\n\nThe Scottish Medicines Consortium approved the drug for use in patients with chronic migraine when other treatments had failed.\n\nBut the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) - which evaluates drugs for England, but Wales and Northern Ireland tend to follow suit - has rejected the drug.\n\nNICE's final decision, published on its website, said there was \"substantial uncertainty in the evidence for the clinical and cost effectiveness of erenumab\".\n\nThe price the drug company Novartis is charging the NHS is confidential, but the company insists the cost \"reflects the clinical value\" erenumab brings to patients.\n\nThe British Association for the Study of Headache Council said it was difficult to understand why the treatment was approved in Scotland, but not the rest of the UK.\n\nIts chairman, Dr Mark Weatherall, said: \"This drug is not a panacea, but it is an important advance in the scientific treatment of migraine, which effects huge improvements in the lives of many of those who take it.\n\n\"It is completely unacceptable that patients in England and Wales who suffer with such a debilitating neurological disorder should be denied access to effective treatment.\"\n\nGus Baldwin, the chief executive of The Migraine Trust, said: \"This still feels like a very bad day for chronic migraine patients.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I want to ask the prime minister to apologise\" - Labour MP Jess Phillips\n\nThe prime minister has been urged to apologise after he said the best way to honour Jo Cox, the MP murdered during the EU referendum campaign, was to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nBoris Johnson was also criticised for calling the law aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit the \"surrender bill\".\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips said the \"bravest\" thing for the prime minister to do would be to apologise.\n\nBut Tory chairman James Cleverly called criticism of the PM \"deeply unfair\".\n\nDuring an ill-tempered debate on Wednesday, Mr Johnson was repeatedly challenged by opposition MPs over his use of the term \"surrender bill\" to describe legislation passed earlier this month, which aims to block a no-deal Brexit on 31 October if he fails to come up with a new exit deal with the EU before 19 October.\n\nHe dismissed one MP's intervention, in which she both criticised his use of language and mentioned the killing of Ms Cox, as \"humbug\".\n\nMs Cox, who supported Remain during the referendum campaign, died in 2016 after she was shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire.\n\nHer husband Brendan Cox told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had been shocked by the language used in the Commons on Wednesday, saying Brexit debate had become a \"bear pit of polarisation\".\n\n\"I'm not sure that we can look the nation in the eye and say that was a good day.\"\n\nThat's how a Conservative MP has described the torrid scenes in the Commons in the last 24 hours.\n\nOutrage is a common currency these days, but MPs' jaws dropped as Mr Johnson ramped up the rhetoric in responses to questions - suggesting first that it was \"humbug\" for a Labour MP to demand he temper his language, to try to protect MPs' safety.\n\nThen, he went on to say that the appropriate legacy for the MP who was murdered during the referendum, Jo Cox, was for MPs to complete the Brexit process.\n\nNo surprise that Labour MPs howled in protest, some left the Commons in disbelief.\n\nAnd there may be few Tory MPs willing, as the day goes on, to defend how far he went.\n\nAsking an urgent question in the Commons on Thursday, Ms Phillips said: \"The use of language yesterday and over the past few weeks such as the 'surrender bill', such as invoking the war, such as betrayal and treachery, it has clearly been tested, and workshopped and worked up and entirely designed to inflame hatred and division.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is not sincere, it is totally planned, it is completely and utterly a strategy designed by somebody to harm and cause hatred in our country.\"\n\nMs Phillips also said: \"When I hear of my friend Jo Cox's murder and the way that it has made me and my colleagues feel, and feel scared, described as humbug, I actually don't feel anger towards the prime minister, I feel pity for those of you who have to toe his line.\"\n\nThe \"bravest and strongest thing\" for Mr Johnson to do would be to apologise, she added.\n\nFellow Labour MP Paula Sherriff said she accepted it was \"necessary for all us of to reflect\" on the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Treat each other as opponents, not as enemies\"\n\nBut, responding to MPs, Cabinet Office minister Kevin Foster said the government was working to ensure MPs \"feel safe\", especially online.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"The PM obviously made the broader point last night that he believes we need to get the issue of Brexit resolved because it was causing anxiety and ill-feeling in the country.\"\n\nHe added that, whatever their views, politicians and those in public life \"shouldn't face threats or intimidation... it's completely unacceptable\".\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Downing Street was not planning to shift away from using the term \"surrender bill\".\n\nMeanwhile, the longest-serving male and female MPs, Ken Clarke and Harriet Harman, have called for an inquiry, chaired by Commons Speaker John Bercow, to discuss \"protecting our democracy by guaranteeing the ability of MPs to go about their work without threat, harassment, violence or intimidation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRachel Johnson, the prime minister's sister, told BBC Radio 4's World at One that her brother was using the Commons as a \"bully pulpit\".\n\nMs Johnson, who stood for pro-European party Change UK - which has since altered its name to The Independent Group for Change - in June's European elections, added: \"It's not the brother I see at home. It's a different person.\"\n\nConservative chairman Mr Cleverly said the debate over Brexit in the House of Commons had generated \"a huge amount of temper on both sides\".\n\n\"The best thing we can do to calm things down is to get it delivered, get it resolved,\" he added.\n\nHe also said the accusations levelled at the prime minister were \"deeply unfair\", adding that he had never described people as \"traitors\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about MPs returning to Parliament, the Supreme Court's ruling and what happens now?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "\"I'm not sure that we can look the nation in the eye and say that was a good day.\"\n\nThat's how a Conservative MP has described the torrid scenes in the Commons in the last 24 hours.\n\nDid the prime minister alight on the frustration of many members of the public who may feel that Parliament has simply failed to keep the promise it made to carry out their wishes expressed in the referendum - yes.\n\nDid Boris Johnson confirm his determination to push on with keeping the vow he made to take the UK out of the EU at the end of next month - yes.\n\nBut did the scenes in Parliament suggest that his determination tips into a potentially destructive disdain - yes, to that too.\n\nBoris Johnson's decision has long been clear - he would seek to use everything within his grasp to stick to the Brexit deadline he set.\n\nIf that meant knocking some plaster off the ceiling, rattling some cages in a fractious and perhaps failing Parliament, so be it.\n\nIt is not as if, his allies argue, this Parliament has any measurable or reliable level of support from the public at large.\n\nTheir calculation is that swathes of voters, whatever they chose in 2016, have simply had enough of MPs' inability to decide.\n\nAfter three years of political strife, following a clear, if narrow, result in the referendum, it is of course the case there are plenty of voters who blame politicians collectively for the mess we all witness.\n\nSo, as Boris Johnson and Number 10 have been obviously doing since taking office, Parliament's failure is a political target.\n\nWhatever you think of that interpretation, for most of tonight's debate, this still relatively new prime minister was combatively, precisely on his chosen message.\n\nAccordingly, he decided to stir his benches with rancour rather than make any effort to soothe nerves on all sides, let alone show remorse for his defeat.\n\nYet, even for a politician whose tactics include provocation, it is worth asking if he went too far.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutrage is a common currency these days, but MPs' jaws dropped as he ramped up the rhetoric in responses to questions - suggesting first that it was \"humbug\" for a Labour MP to demand he temper his language, to try to protect MPs' safety.\n\nThen, he went on to say that the appropriate legacy for the MP who was murdered during the referendum, Jo Cox, was for MPs to complete the Brexit process.\n\nNo surprise that Labour MPs howled in protest, some left the Commons in disbelief.\n\nAnd there may be few Tory MPs willing, as the day goes on, to defend how far he went.\n\nThe cabinet minister Nicky Morgan too, who expressed her concern on Twitter, is not the only Tory MP who was unhappy at what happened.\n\nThere is pushback from the other side, of course.\n\nOne minister said, in sadness rather than anger, that Labour was deploying \"double standards\" after several years of calling the Leave side \"racists and criminals\".\n\nThere should be no surprise there was reaction like this.\n\nOthers in government believe that we are seeing the raw conflict that had to play out, the fight Theresa May delayed but couldn't make disappear.\n\nAnd, rightly or wrongly, politics moves so fast in this era, it's impossible to tell if tonight's cries of horror in SW1 will fade fast to nothing, or indeed, how far they have reached beyond Westminster's bubble.\n\nAs ever, forgive but note the caveat that the situation is ever shifting and could transform within days.\n\nFor now, though, it is almost impossible to imagine this group of politicians being able to agree on much.\n\nThe attitude Boris Johnson displayed has made the divisions more stark.\n\nAnd in the unlikely event this prime minister strikes a deal, it seems harder in this moment to imagine that he'd have more than a handful of Labour MPs on side.\n\nAnd if you were hoping that, eventually, our politicians were moving towards a way of working together, Parliament tonight was a place of fear and loathing, not a place of debate and discussion that could provide a solution for us all.", "Could MPs be hastily assembled on a Saturday?\n\nGet out your diary! If you are as much of a nerd as me.\n\nWatching the two sides in Parliament tear each other to shreds this afternoon, it seems impossible to imagine them ever, ever, agreeing anything again.\n\nThe noisiest voices on both sides seem, at the moment, more interested in using every twist and turn to confirm their own views than hunting for a basis for resolving things together.\n\nBut let's for a second, contemplate that they can.\n\nAnd imagine that Boris Johnson is willing to compromise, and manage to persuade his counterparts in the EU to budge enough too to allow him to strike an exit deal.\n\nRemember Boris Johnson's main priority is to stick to his Halloween deadline for Brexit.\n\nBut Parliament has changed the law to force him to ask for a delay if a deal hasn't been done and dusted by the end of the 19 October.\n\nThere is plenty of conventional wisdom around that says that's just not possible, given the EU summit where the deal may or may not be done is only on the 17th and 18th of next month.\n\nWhile the mood music around the negotiations is better than a few weeks ago, the two sides are, in the words of one minister, \"a million miles away\".\n\nBut privately, sources sketch out this possible timetable. Ten days of intense negotiations ramping up as soon as the Conservative conference finishes next week (at the moment, it is expected to go ahead, even if Parliament continues to sit).\n\nIt might be wishful thinking, but if a deal is then done at the summit, the government would try to ram through Meaningful Vote Four, (remember that old phrase?) in a special Saturday sitting of the Commons on the 19th itself.\n\nIf the government were successful, then the process to request a delay might never be triggered, saving the prime minister the humiliation of having to ask for the delay he has claimed that he won't seek time and again.\n\nThen the following 10 days would be spent in frantic efforts to get the legislation through before 31 October.\n\nInsiders point out that even if the government misses the 19 October deadline, and has to write a letter to the EU to seek an extension - despite No 10 sabre rattling that they will find ways to avoid doing so - there is nothing that stops negotiations with Brussels continuing.\n\nAnd there is nothing that stops the government trying to get a deal through the Commons after that point.\n\nThere are, though, lots of 'ifs' before we get to that place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government will do what it can to help after 1,200 job losses at the firm\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"disappointed\" at what has happened at Wrightbus and that the government will \"do what we can to help\".\n\nEfforts are under way to try to help 1,200 workers made redundant after the company entered administration.\n\nJust 50 jobs will be retained at the firm - the last UK-owned bus manufacturer.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Johnson to intervene.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith told BBC NI's The View that he will be speaking to the administrators in the next 24 hours to see what can be done to save Wrightbus jobs.\n\nHe said he will do everything to \"find somebody to rebuild that business\".\n\nThe Ballymena-based bus-builder suffered cash flow problems and had sought investment or a new owner.\n\nTalks with two potential buyers of the firm, best known for building the New Routemaster, known as the \"Boris Bus\", failed to reach a conclusion last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mervyn Wilkinson was among the 1,200 Wrightbus employees made redundant on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson described Wrightbus, which built the Routemaster bus when he was the London mayor, as a \"fantastic business\".\n\n\"We have been working on it the whole time,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"You may know that the negotiations got very close, there was a particular problem that came up to do with the ownership of the land.\n\n\"We want to sort it out, we are going to do what we can to help.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he thought \"one of the problems\" was that London mayor, Sadiq Khan, should have continued with the London transport contract and that he understood there were \"also problems to do with the management of the company\".\n\nIn a statement on Thursday evening, a spokesperson for Wrights said that last week there were two \"final bidders in discussions regarding acquisition of Wright Group\".\n\n\"A rental agreement for the sites was reached with one bidder, who then pulled out of the deal on Friday 20th,\" the statement added.\n\n\"A second bidder discussed purchasing the sites, but no formal letter of offer was made from that bidder.\n\n\"Any reports to the contrary are completely inaccurate.\"\n\nMr Johnson said Wrightbus was part of a \"big industrial agenda\" in relation to Northern Ireland, including the east Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff \"where we have big plans\".\n\n\"Northern Ireland is a great opportunity area for our country,\" he added.\n\nThe company had suffered cash flow problems and had sought investment or a new owner\n\nTUV councillor Timothy Gaston said Mid and East Antrim Council had contacted the prime minister, the secretary of state and the chairman of the NI Select Affairs Committee \"to again raise how vital Wrightbus is to Ballymena\".\n\nHe added: \"Our PM has committed previously to do all he can to save Wrightbus. It's now time for action.\"\n\nMr Gaston said the council will have a dedicated website to help people access services, support and information and have organised a redundancy clinic for employees ‪on Friday.\n\nConcern is also mounting for firms in the supply chain which are still owed money.\n\nManufacturing NI chief Stephen Kelly said some had tried to protect themselves by taking out trade credit insurance or working on a basis of cash on delivery with the company.\n\nBut he added that \"a lot of people are still holding a lot of stock and a lot of people are owed a lot of money\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGeorge Brash, of the Unite union, said that Boris Johnson recently told the House of Commons he would do everything for the future of the company.\n\n\"We are calling him out on that comment and those promises that he made to this workforce, and this Ballymena community,\" Mr Brash said.\n\n\"He needs to stand up and intervene as he said he would.\"\n\nSteven Reynolds, chair of Ballymena Business Improvement District, said that the town was going through \"difficult times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at the Ballymena bus manufacturer fear for the future as 1,200 lose their jobs.\n\n\"It will have an impact, [but] let's remember Wrightbus is in administration not liquidation,\" he said.\n\n\"Every day is a new day, a new opportunity to do a deal and that may still be on the table.\"\n\nEfforts are also under way to bring home former workers based outside Northern Ireland.\n\nThe company had 20 members of staff working between Hong Kong and Malaysia.\n\nIt is understood there are also around nine former staff members in England.\n\nAdministrators are working to secure them transport home.\n\nJonathan McKay from Cullybackey, who has been working for Wrightbus for the past 12 years, is currently in Taunton, in south-west England.\n\nHe told BBC News NI he was only informed about the collapse at about 18:30 BST on Wednesday in a conference call with other workers.\n\n\"We need to get home and see our families and sit down and look at how life is going to change,\" he said.", "The David Hume Institute said past policy had not successfully targeted Scots who settled elsewhere\n\nA public policy think tank said a campaign was needed to target \"wealthy, highly skilled\" Scots living in places such as London to return.\n\nThe David Hume Institute believed the move was necessary to combat Scotland's shrinking working-age population.\n\nIts director Jane-Frances Kelly said politicians needed to \"get to grips\" with the looming \"demographic crisis\".\n\nIn its report, the institute - which is independent, non-partisan and conducts research aimed at aiding the formation of public policy - highlighted that by 2041 the working-age population of Scotland would rise by only 38,000.\n\nIn contrast, the number of people of pension age was expected to increase by 265,000 over the same period.\n\nIts researchers made a number of recommendations, which included;\n\nThe institute said the working-age population crisis could be made worse by the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nMs Kelly said: \"We are sounding a warning signal for Scotland's politicians and policymakers. We need to get to grips with the coming demographic crisis or Scotland's economy will be severely affected.\n\n\"There is a compelling case for the Scottish government to be able to adjust immigration to meet Scotland's unique challenge.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our research shows how important increasing immigration will be to sustain the health of the Scottish economy.\n\n\"This means not just ensuring that existing migrants stay, but actively encouraging people to come to Scotland to live and work, including from the rest of the UK.\"\n• None 31%Rise in over 75s since 1998\n\nThe report said that the Scottish diaspora was often wealthy, highly-skilled and \"suited to many of the roles that Scotland needs to prosper\".\n\nHowever, it suggested that Scotland had not successfully cultivated this group of workers, \"even though many of them are in London - less than 400 miles from the Scottish border\".\n\nThe institute identified campaigns in Ireland, Australia and News Zealand where emigrants had been encouraged to return.\n\nIt highlighted the Irish marketing move by explaining: \"In the 1990s, Ireland managed to reverse its pattern of net emigration by targeting Irish emigrants and their children. People returning home at Christmas and Easter vacations were welcomed with an invite to 'give Ireland a second chance'.\"\n\nEurope and Migration minister Ben Macpherson welcomed the think tank's work on the issue and its recognition that Scotland needed to be able to \"set its own migration policy\".\n\nHe added: \"People who've settled in Scotland from elsewhere in the EU significantly enrich our society and make a huge contribution to Scotland's economy and public services. They're our friends, neighbours and colleagues and we really want them to stay.\n\n\"In addition, as this report makes clear, we need to make it easier for talented hard working migrants to settle in Scotland and contribute to our economy and society.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one man gave birth to his own baby\n\nA transgender man, who has given birth to a child and does not want to be described as \"mother\" on a birth certificate, has lost a legal battle.\n\nFreddy McConnell wanted to be registered as \"father\" or \"parent\".\n\nBut a High Court judge ruled the status of \"mother\" was afforded to a person who carries and gives birth to a baby.\n\nHe said while Mr McConnell's gender was recognised by law as male, his parental status of \"mother\" derives from the biological role of giving birth.\n\nMr McConnell, a journalist at the Guardian, has told the BBC he plans to appeal against the ruling.\n\nDuring the trial in London, the High Court heard how Mr McConnell was a single parent, who was born a woman but now lived as a man following surgery.\n\nHe was biologically able to get pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy last year, but had legally become a man by the time of the birth.\n\nMr McConnell's journey to parenthood was documented in a film called Seahorse and included his thoughts and footage of him going through fertility treatment, conception and the birth of his baby boy.\n\nWhen he registered the birth of the child, he was told by a registrar that the law required people who give birth to be registered as mothers, the court heard.\n\nMr McConnell took legal action against the General Register Office, which is responsible for the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales, accusing it of discrimination.\n\nHe said it breached his human right to respect for private and family life.\n\nInitial reaction to the judgement has been varied - as well as transphobic comments being shared online, some people in support of the transgender community have also said they think that today's ruling was correct.\n\nSome transgender individuals I have spoken to say they are \"deeply disappointed\" by this ruling, but they are not surprised by it.\n\nAside from legality, some see this decision as a \"missed opportunity to send a much-needed positive message about transgender identity\".\n\nLegal representatives have told me that they are hopeful that if Freddy does not appeal, other transgender parents will continue with their fight for equality.\n\nThe ruling means that transgender people will not be recognised as their trans identities in all areas of their lives; in some circumstances, like this, they will now be forced to \"out\" their birth gender.\n\nA transgender man, whose child calls them \"Dad\", will be listed on the child's birth certificate as their mother.\n\nOne transgender individual told me that this will cause further anxiety around trans parenting.\n\nHad he been successful, Mr McConnell's son would have become the first person born in England and Wales not to legally have a mother.\n\nIn his ruling, Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division of the High Court, said: \"There is a material difference between a person's gender and their status as a parent.\n\n\"Being a 'mother', whilst hitherto always associated with being female, is the status afforded to a person who undergoes the physical and biological process of carrying a pregnancy and giving birth.\n\n\"It is now medically and legally possible for an individual, whose gender is recognised in law as male, to become pregnant and give birth to their child.\n\n\"Whilst that person's gender is 'male', their parental status, which derives from their biological role in giving birth, is that of 'mother.'\"\n\nSir Andrew added: \"There would seem to be a pressing need for Government and Parliament to address square-on the question of the status of a trans-male who has become pregnant and given birth to a child.\"\n\nKaren Holden, founder of A City Law Firm, who is representing Mr McConnell, said: \"Equality shouldn't have to come at a price, but this case has taken three years, hours of work and manpower, public attention and yet the courts still failed to help this family set out its actual family structure correctly in terms of its legal status.\n\n\"A birth certificate will stay with a child for life and it will be factually and legally inaccurate under current rules.\"", "Japan Airlines has introduced a feature on its seat booking system that shows where young children are seated.\n\nA \"child\" icon appears when a passenger is travelling with children aged under two years.\n\nOne traveller said the feature let him know where babies \"plan to scream... during a 13-hour trip\".\n\nBut some Twitter commentators urged him to be tolerant, while others said the problem could easily be solved with noise-cancelling headphones.\n\nJapan Airlines' website says the icon \"lets other passengers know a child may be sitting there\". However, the airline warned the tool was not foolproof, as the icon might not appear if a ticket was booked through a third party or if there was a last-minute change of aircraft.\n\nEven so, venture capitalist Rahat Ahmed sent a tweet on Tuesday thanking Japan Airlines for \"warning\" him about where children were sitting.\n\n\"This really ought to be mandatory across the board, \" he said, adding that Qatar Airways should \"take note\".\n\n\"I had three screaming babies next to me on my [New York to Doha] flight two weeks ago,\" he added.\n\nHis tweet attracted a number of responses, with some offering support for the \"awesome\" website booking feature.\n\nHowever, other Twitter users urged people to be tolerant.\n\n\"They are babies, as we all once were. We need to learn tolerance or will soon start needing a map of seat locations for mouth breathers, droolers, farters, drunks, and perhaps a lot more things in life,\" said Twitter user G Sundar.\n\nAndrew Lim said: \"I used to feel and say exactly what you have just said - but after having my own son, I am very sympathetic to parents travelling with kids.\n\n\"If you're not happy with a screaming child in the cabin, then I am more than happy [for] you to try and reason with them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rahat Ahmed ✈️ Tokyo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeirdra Hardimon said: \"Babies are not capable developmentally to 'plan' crying or screaming.\"\n\nOther Twitter users said noise-cancelling headphones were the answer.\n\nJene Johnson said: \"Wow... get some noise cancelling headphones and go about your day.\"\n\n\"I don't understand people that complain about babies crying on planes. I put on my headphones and I hear nothing.\"\n\nAccording to the website flyingwithababy.com, one of the most family-friendly airlines is Etihad, which has extras such as free pushchairs to use at hubs.\n\nEmirates and Gulf Air also score highly according to the website.", "Labour MP calls for review of 'limits of language' in Parliament\n\nLabour MP Seema Malhotra asks the Speaker whether there is any capacity for a \"formal review about the limits of language\" that can be used about MPs in the chamber. \"Experience has shown that raising it again and again in the chamber is not enough,\" she says. \"And yet if we can have other rules about how we conduct ourselves, could you advise the House as to whether there is any capacity to review the language used so that we can create other ways in which calling a colleague a traitor could be ruled out of order?\" Mr Bercow replies that he was not aware of the word \"traitor\" being used in the chamber, and that he would already regard that as \"unparliamentary\" language.", "\"Get Brexit done,\" Boris Johnson adviser Dominic Cummings responds to Labour MP Karl Turner telling him he's \"had death threats overnight\".\n\nThe exchange was filmed in Parliament's Portcullis House.", "British Airways owner IAG has warned that its profits will be lower than expected this year, partly due to the impact of strikes by its pilots.\n\nIt said the strike earlier this month, in a row over pay and conditions, had cost it at least €137m (£121m).\n\nOverall, IAG expects its operating profit for this year to be €215m lower than previous guidance.\n\nThere have been no further talks between BA and the pilots' union, and more strikes will hit profit, IAG said.\n\nAs a result of the two-day strike by pilots on 9 and 10 September, IAG said a total of 2,325 flights had been cancelled. A strike by BA pilots that had been scheduled for 27 September was called off last week.\n\nIn addition to the costs from the pilots' strike, IAG took a €33m hit over threatened strikes at Heathrow Airport by employees.\n\nThe airline group also said its results would include a €45m hit from lower bookings and yields - a measure of the average fare per passenger mile - at its low-cost Vueling and Level airlines.\n\nIAG also forecast lower growth in capacity - that is, the number of seats available - than it had previously thought, meaning it would reduce pilot recruitment plans.\n\nShares in IAG were among the biggest losers on the FTSE 100 in early trading, dropping about 3.7%, before paring some losses.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has said strike action by its members is a \"last resort\" due to \"enormous frustration\" with management.\n\nPilots rejected a pay increase worth 11.5% over three years, which BA proposed in July.\n\nBalpa says its members took lower pay rises and made other sacrifices during tougher times for the airline, and now that BA's financial performance has improved - IAG reported a 9% rise in profits last year - they want a greater share of the profits.\n\nIn a call with analysts, IAG chief executive Willie Walsh said the airline group was interested in slots at Gatwick that may be up for grabs following the collapse of travel firm Thomas Cook.\n\n\"If there's an opportunity to acquire some slots through the administration process, we will be looking at that,\" he said. \"We see Gatwick as an opportunity for us.\"\n\nThe 178-year-old holiday firm collapsed on Monday after rescue negotiations failed, triggering the biggest peacetime repatriation to bring 150,000 UK holidaymakers home.", "\"I believe that Mr Giuliani is the president's personal lawyer, and whatever conversation that the president has with his personal lawyer\" would be covered under attorney-client privilege, says Maguire as the hearing neared its end.\n\n\"I am in no position to criticise the president of the United States on how he wants to conduct that and I have no knowing of what Mr Giuliani does or does not do,\" continued the intelligence chief.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, now Trump's personal lawyer, has dismissed a whistleblower's claim that US officials were \"deeply concerned\" about Giuliani's efforts relating to Ukraine, and that they took efforts to \"contain the damage\" to US national security.\n\nIn a call with CNN on Thursday, which he said was placed from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Giuliani told the network he has \"no knowledge of any of that crap\".\n\nHe says he remained in touch with Kurt Volker, US special representative for Ukraine, and other State Department officials \"at least 10 times\".\n\nGiuliani maintains he has text messages that prove the US government was aware of his efforts on behalf of Trump.", "British couple Sue and Roger Clarke were jailed at a court in Lisbon for drug smuggling\n\nA British couple have been jailed for eight years by a Portuguese court for drug smuggling on a cruise ship.\n\nRoger and Sue Clarke, both 72, were caught last year while attempting to smuggle 9kg (20lbs) of cocaine with a street value of £1m.\n\nThe couple, from Bromley in London, were on the Marco Polo which was sailing from the Caribbean to Europe.\n\nA raid on their cabin as the ship entered Lisbon found the Class A drugs in the lining of four suitcases.\n\nCocaine was found in the lining of the Clarke's suitcases\n\nJudge Margarida Alves dismissed the couple's story they were duped into bringing the cases for a friend.\n\nAs she sentenced them to eight years, Mrs Clarke began crying, while her husband turned to her and said \"we will be 80 when we get out\".\n\nThe judge said she was determined not to let Portugal become a gateway to Europe for drugs.\n\nAs the presiding judge delivered her verdict the two British pensioners stood holding hands in the little courtroom in Lisbon's Campus de Justicia.\n\n\"Eight years for drug trafficking\" the judge said. Roger Clarke, visibly shaken, lifted his hands to his head and with tears in his eyes he turned to his wife.\n\nSue Clarke began crying and the judge said the couple's story, that they had been given empty suitcases in St Lucia to bring to the UK for a friend, wasn't credible.\n\nShe said their prior conviction for smuggling cannabis to Norway should have made them suspicious of such a request.\n\n\"You are not drug users,\" Judge Margarida Alves said. \"You clearly did this because of the high profits you could make.\"\n\nAs he left court Roger Clarke turned to me saying \"the truth needs to get out. Come and see me in prison and I will tell you\".", "HMP Coldingley was part of high-profile prison reforms in 2016\n\nPrison inmates have been resorting to throwing human waste out of their cell windows because of a lack of toilets, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Monitoring Board said it was \"appalled at the lack of in-cell sanitation\" at Surrey's HMP Coldingley.\n\nIt said prisoners were forced to use buckets in their cells at night and some would \"inevitably... dispose of human waste via cell windows\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged to \"address this long-standing issue\".\n\nMore than 350 men live in cells without lavatories or sinks at the Category C prison near Bisley, the report said.\n\nHMP Coldingley was one of six institutions named as a \"reform prison\" in 2016, with governors granted extra powers in what the government called the \"biggest shake-up of the prisons system since the Victorian era\".\n\nIt came alongside a commitment to spend £1.3bn to \"replace decrepit, ageing prisons with modern establishments\".\n\nHeather Cook, chair of the monitoring board at Coldingley, said the prison's biggest problem continued to be the \"poor state\" of four wings built in 1969, which were \"almost impossible to keep clean\".\n\nThe board's report said the \"night sanitation arrangement\" at the jail was \"degrading and totally unsatisfactory\".\n\nAt night, inmates had to press a buzzer and join a queue to be let out of their cell to use communal toilets.\n\nThe report said queues could be long and a prisoner's \"only other option is to use a pot in his cell and then to 'slop out' in the morning\".\n\nFrances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the problem stemmed from prisoners being locked in their cells during the day and \"sleeping through their sentences\", meaning they were more likely to be awake at night, needing the toilet.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said: \"All prisoners have access to proper sanitation facilities and nearly 99% of them have access to in-cell toilets.\n\n\"HMP Coldingley, which was built in the 1960s, is one of the few prisons with shared toilets and installing in-cell facilities would cut its capacity in half.\"\n\nHe said prisoners can access a toilet at all times during the day and night through the use of computer controlled electronic unlocking at night.\n\n\"The overnight system is due to be upgraded next year,\" he said.\n\nThe Independent Monitoring Board said it \"remains to be seen when this essential work will be undertaken\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emergency services were sent to Tata\n\nA worker has died in a machine accident at Tata's Port Talbot steelworks.\n\nTata Steel Europe said the company's thoughts were with the contractor's family and a full investigation had been launched.\n\nAn air ambulance was sent to the scene following the accident at about 14:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA South Wales Police spokesman described it as \"an isolated incident\" and said there was no threat to the wider public.\n\nHe added that the man's next of kin had been informed and the force was now liaising with the health and safety executive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Tata Steel in Europe\n\nA hazardous area response team was also sent to the scene along with an emergency ambulance.\n\nThe steelworkers' union Community called it \"absolutely tragic news\" and said its thoughts were with the family of the worker who died.\n\nIts general secretary Roy Rickhuss added: \"We will be pressing Tata Steel to carry out a full investigation and ensuring that all lessons are learnt and procedures and processes are reviewed and necessary changes are implemented to ensure all workers at the Port Talbot plant are safe at work.\"\n\nNeath Port Talbot council leader Rob Jones said: \"Port Talbot has strong links with Tata Steel and the workers at the plant, and I know that our local communities will be feeling a mixture of shock and sadness at this time.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Aberavon AM David Rees said: \"My thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues at this sad time. We must now await police & HSE investigation on this incident.\"\n\nIn April, two workers were injured at the plant following an incident after several fires broke out when molten metal came into contact with cold water on a railway track.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a huge police presence at recent parades\n\nGlasgow City Council has said it cannot go ahead with a temporary ban on loyalist and republican marches because there is currently \"no legal basis\".\n\nIt had been exploring the idea following recent sectarian disorder.\n\nCouncil chiefs said the city was \"sick and tired\" after weeks of violence and clashes during marches.\n\nPolice Scotland's chief constable Iain Livingstone has also said policing them is unsustainable and presents a \"significant challenge\".\n\nThe local authority's leader, Susan Aitken, instructed her teams to explore the idea of a moratorium on processions to \"lower the temperature.\"\n\nShe had previously vowed to \"push the law\" in order to protect the public following sectarian disorder.\n\nBut, in a paper due to go before councillors on Thursday, officials say the legal advice is that - under current laws - there is no legal basis to impose such a ban.\n\nThere will also be a discussion about setting up a cross-party group to find a long-term solution.\n\nThere were violent clashes in Govan\n\nA council spokesman said: \"A report setting out proposals for a cross-party group, requested at a meeting of the council on September 12, will go before members on Thursday.\n\n\"The paper also confirms that the council has received legal advice that, under current legislation, there is no legal basis on which the council could impose a moratorium on processions.\"\n\nIt comes after the Scottish Police Authority board heard that, on one day, 600 officers were deployed to the city centre to cover parades.\n\nThe operation on 7 September - when one officer was hurt by a pyrotechnic - cost about £176,000.\n\nIt came after violent clashes in Govan the previous weekend.\n\nOfficers have arrested 14 people in connection with a variety of offences during recent parades.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland hit their World Cup straps with a seven-try demolition of the USA to make it two bonus-point wins from two. Billy Vunipola and Luke Cowan-Dickie scored first-half tries from driving mauls after skipper George Ford went under the posts after six minutes. Four more in the second half - two from Joe Cokanasiga, one apiece from latecomers Ruaridh McConnochie and Lewis Ludlum - were a fitting reward for a much-improved performance in the heat and humidity of Kobe. In a World Cup becoming defined by safe tackling technique, US flanker John Quill was sent off for a horrible shoulder charge on replacement Owen Farrell, the England talisman lucky not to suffer serious injury. But the man Farrell had come on for, Piers Francis, may himself face retrospective action after a questionable challenge in the opening moments of the game. England's set-piece was dominant, the US forwards unable to cope at the scrum or to find an answer when their opponents set the maul. Tougher tests lie ahead in the shape of Argentina and France but England will travel to Tokyo this weekend in much improved mood. Joe Cokanasiga scored two of England's four tries in the second half Eddie Jones had promised a fast start and his team delivered, Ford slicing through a stretched defence on the angle - after Vunipola's initial run and Francis's foray down the left - to touch down under the posts. Four penalties conceded in the first 15 minutes slowed the charge, World Cup debutant Willie Heinz over-exuberant and indisciplined at a scrum and ruck and then spilling the ball forward with England three metres out. But with Ford pulling the strings England kicked a penalty to the corner, Cowan-Dickie went to Tom Curry at the back of the line-out and Vunipola rumbled over at the back of the driving maul. The US pack was splintering at the set-piece, and after Ford kicked a scrum penalty into touch, another maul sent Cowan-Dickie in for a replica try down the right. And England nearly had their fourth try just before the interval as Ford's cute chip was gathered by Jonathan Joseph, Cokanasiga not able to gather the centre's pass with the line beckoning. Their 19-0 half-time lead was a fair reflection of the balance of power, England with 66% of possession and 76% territory. Owen Farrell carried on after receiving medical attention following a dangerous high tackle Jones took off Vunipola, Dan Cole and Joe Marler at the break with Mark Wilson, Kyle Sinckler and Ellis Genge coming into the fray. Sinckler and Wilson combined beautifully in midfield before Joseph's dummy foxed the remaining cover, the centre stepping and spinning to within two metres before Cokanasinga crashed over. On came Farrell, Ben Youngs and Courtney Lawes, Jones trying to manage the workload on his players with the short turnaround between games. Winger McConnochie blew one opening when he opted to step in rather than pin his ears back for the corner, but the late bolter for England's World Cup squad made amends moments later as he rolled in after England ran another scrum penalty. Ludlum was another who was nowhere near this team six months ago yet his dynamic performance was capped with a try of his own after Ford's sidestep down the left. And Cokanasiga grabbed his second and England's seventh after a storming 70-metre run from Genge, who left white-shirted defenders scattered in his wake like tenpins. Quill was rightly dismissed by Australian referee Nic Berry for his charge on Farrell before a late consolation score from Bryce Campbell with the clock red. Ford scored the opening try in the sixth minute as England dominated from the start A smart try and 10 points from the tee capped a confident display, England's skipper for the night making the most of the time given him by his dominant pack. What they said England head coach Eddie Jones: \"The conditions were such it was like a wet weather game but we found our rhythm and tempo really well in the second half. We made some handling mistakes but we will improve. \"They had 14 players in the line and it was hard to get a numerical advantage. As soon as we started to play through them we were much better.\" England World Cup winner Matt Dawson on Radio 5 Live: \"The highlight for me was the discipline. I think there were only three penalties, that were all in the first half. It is in stark contrast to where they were last week and the team needed to move on. \"If they can get anywhere near four or five penalties against Argentina, they will blow them away. If they keep progressing like that, they are going to be a difficult team to beat.\"\n• None England had gone 240 minutes without conceding a try in World Cup matches before Campbell scored at the end\n• None England have won all 18 of their World Cup matches against non-tier one opposition, those wins coming by an average margin of 41 points.\n• None England's tally of 54 defenders beaten is the second most they have managed in a World Cup match (60 v Uruguay in 2003).\n• None George Ford scored one and assisted two tries in this match, the first England fly-half to score a try and assist another in a World Cup match.\n• None Joe Cokanasiga gained over 75 metres with the ball in hand for the sixth time in seven starts for England.\n• None Ben Youngs and Dan Cole won their 91st England caps, drawing level with Jonny Wilkinson as the joint third most capped England players in Test history, behind Jason Leonard (114) and Dylan Hartley (97).", "Miller: 'Part of the cut and thrust of politics'\n\nMaria Miller says MPs \"faced a perfect storm\" in Parliament yesterday, debating questions \"at the very heart of the principles of democracy\", such as freedom of speech and the rule of law. The Tory MP says both language and behaviour matter in politics. But she says the accusations being levelled at the prime minister were examples of \"inflammatory language accusing others of being inflammatory\", and that is \"as damaging as damaging can be\". \"We must tread carefully\", she says, comparing last's night's debate as \"high politics\" which \"risks people feeling as if they can't speak out\". And she defends the much-repeated phrase used by Boris Johnson - \"the surrender bill\". \"It is not [inflammatory]. It is simply explaining to people who did not... read it word for word,\" she says. \"This is part of the cut and thrust of politics.\"", "The prince has been planting trees in Botswana during a tour of southern Africa\n\nThe Duke of Sussex says there is \"a race against time\" to halt global warming, adding that he is \"troubled\" by climate change deniers.\n\n\"I don't believe that there's anybody in this world that can deny science,\" he said.\n\nHe called it \"an emergency\", adding \"the world's children are striking\" after teenage activist Greta Thunberg led a worldwide protest on Friday.\n\nPrince Harry is visiting Botswana as part of a tour of southern Africa.\n\nHe says it was the place he went to \"to get away from it all\" after his mother's death.\n\nThe duke had visited the country soon after Diana, Princess of Wales, died in August 1997 and had made \"some of my closest friends\" there.\n\n\"Now I feel deeply connected to this place and to Africa,\" he said during a visit to the Chobe Tree Reserve.\n\nThe prince helped plant trees at the site, which has been affected by decades of deforestation.\n\n\"This last week, led by Greta, the world's children are striking,\" the prince said.\n\n\"It's a race against time and one in which we are losing. Everyone knows it.\n\n\"There's no excuse for not knowing that and the most troubling part of that is that I don't believe that there's anybody in this world that can deny science.\"\n\nHe went on to say there had been scientific evidence of climate change for at least 30 years.\n\n\"And it's only getting stronger and stronger,\" he added.\n\nHe worked with a group to push a 10-metre tree tree upright and packed it with soil.\n\nWhen he saw the large mound of earth that needed to be shovelled, he smiled and asked: \"How long do we have?\"\n\nAfrica is close to Harry's heart. It is the continent where he appears most at ease.\n\nHe's been coming here since he was a teenager. It helped him to find solace after his mother's death and it was to Africa, specifically to Botswana, that he brought Meghan Markle shortly after their romance began.\n\nLittle surprise then that it is to southern Africa that they have come for their first official overseas trip as a family - Harry, Meghan and four-month-old Archie.\n\nThere has been ground to make up after what was regarded as recent ill-judged steps - involving celebrity friends, private jet flights and costly house renovations.\n\nFor several months the headlines have tended to be negative.\n\nBut this visit has marked a return to a more grounded approach with Meghan's fluent sincerity as she addressed the issue of violence against women in Cape Town's most violent township. She identified with them as a \"woman of colour and as their sister.\"\n\nHarry too has struck the right note in his comments about mental health and the need to mobilise more effectively against climate change.\n\nEven young Archie did his bit with a happily headline-stealing appearance when the family went to visit Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAs Harry struck out on his own to Botswana, Angola and Malawi he is entitled to feel that everything, so far, has gone according to plan.\n\nPrince Harry is on an official tour with the Duchess of Sussex and their baby son Archie, who was introduced to the renowned anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa on Wednesday.\n\nThe royal couple also met faith leaders at South Africa's oldest mosque and visited a charity that provides mental health support to young people.\n\nThe duchess told girls in a deprived part of the country she was visiting South Africa not only as a member of the Royal Family, but also \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The duke and duchess introduced their son to Archbishop Desmond Tutu", "Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger are both switching to new seats for the election\n\nFormer Labour MP Luciana Berger is to fight the seat of Finchley and Golders Green in north London for the Liberal Democrats at the next election.\n\nShe has chosen not to contest her current seat, Liverpool Wavertree, which she has represented since 2010.\n\nMs Berger quit Labour in February, blaming a culture of anti-Semitism in the party and personal attacks on her.\n\nThe Lib Dems came third in the London seat in 2017, but hope to do better due to their Brexit opposition.\n\nThe Jewish MP was a founding member of the Change UK party which launched in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May.\n\nHowever, she quit the party after its poor performance and joined the Lib Dems earlier this month.\n\nIn a letter addressed to her Liverpool Wavertree constituents posted on Twitter, Ms Berger says she made the decision with her husband, with whom she has two children.\n\n\"Balancing personal and and professional responsibilities is complicated for everyone,\" she writes.\n\n\"As a family, we have had to make a decision about how best to navigate work and raising our young children.\"\n\nShe adds they had decided to move to London after the next general election \"after a great deal of thought\".\n\nIn a statement, Liverpool Wavertree Lib Dems said they regretted her decision to contest a different seat but \"understood the reasons for doing so\".\n\nRichard Kemp, who leads the Liberal Democrat group on Liverpool Council, said Ms Berger had been subject to \"appalling anti-Semitism and gender bullying\" during her time representing Labour in the constituency.\n\nShe has spoken of receiving thousands of anti-Semitic taunts online, as well as death threats.\n\nAn internet troll who sent anti-Semitic messages to Ms Berger and other victims was jailed for more than two years in 2017.\n\nLiverpool Wavertree has been regarded as a safe Labour seat since boundary changes in the 1990s. The Lib Dems came third with less than three 3,000 votes in 2017.\n\nIn contrast, Finchley and Golders Green is a marginal seat which has fluctuated between the Conservatives and Labour since it was created in 1997.\n\nAccording to the UK Polling Report, the constituency has the largest Jewish population of any seat in the UK, with more than 20% of residents describing themselves as Jewish in the 2011 census. It is also a heavily pro-Remain constituency.\n\nThe Lib Dems had selected Clareine Enderby to contest the seat.\n\nUnder different boundaries, the constituency of Finchley was represented by former Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher for more than 30 years between 1959 and 1992.\n\nConservative Mike Freer retained the new seat with a 1,657 majority in 2017, an election in which the Liberal Democrats received only 3,463 votes.\n\nMs Berger's move follows that of her fellow Lib Dem Chuka Umunna, who has decided to fight the seat of the Cities of London and Westminster, rather than Streatham in south London, whose MP he has been since 2010.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKevin Burns, chief executive of vaping firm Juul, has stepped down, amid growing concerns around vaping health risks and criticism of its marketing.\n\nThe firm has also announced it will withdraw all US advertising.\n\nMr Burns will be replaced immediately by KC Crosthwaite, former chief growth officer at tobacco giant Altria, Juul said.\n\nJuul is 35%-owned by Altria, and in the past has been accused of targeting vaping devices at children.\n\nMr Burns said: \"Since joining Juul Labs, I have worked non-stop, helping turn a small firm into a worldwide business, so a few weeks ago I decided that now was the right time for me to step down.\"\n\nAt the same time, Altria said its merger talks with fellow cigarette-maker Phillip Morris would not move forward.\n\nThe changes come as Juul faces serious threats to its once explosive growth.\n\nThe Trump administration this month said it was preparing a nationwide ban on flavoured e-cigarettes. Juul is also facing multiple investigations, including into its marketing practices.\n\nJuul has for years promoted its e-cigarettes, which contain addictive nicotine, as a safer alternative to traditional tobacco products.\n\nHowever, the Food and Drug Administration recently warned Juul against making health claims without presenting scientific evidence to authorities for approval.\n\nJuul said it would not lobby against the proposed ban on flavoured e-cigarettes.\n\nHowever, Mr Crosthwaite said he remains committed to making Juul's products available to adult smokers.\n\n\"Unfortunately, today that future is at risk due to unacceptable levels of youth usage and eroding public confidence in our industry,\" he said.\n\nThe crackdown on Juul, which dominates the US e-cigarette market, follows a spate of serious lung injuries in the US linked to vaping.\n\nHealth authorities have not blamed the outbreak, in which nine people have died and more than 530 people been taken ill, on any one product.\n\nMost of the patients had a history of using vaping products that contain THC, the chemical in marijuana, they said.\n\nHowever, the injuries have raised alarm, especially in conjunction with surging rates of teen vaping.\n\nTwo US states, New York and Michigan, have already imposed bans on flavoured e-cigarettes, while Massachusetts has announced a four-month ban on all vaping products.\n\nWalmart last week announced it would stop e-cigarette sales, citing the regulatory uncertainty.", "Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi got engaged in Italy earlier this month\n\nPrincess Beatrice is engaged to her boyfriend Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, her parents have announced.\n\nThe 31-year-old daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, got engaged to the 34-year-old property tycoon in Italy earlier this month.\n\nThe princess, who is ninth in line to the throne, will marry Mr Mapelli Mozzi next year.\n\n\"We are both so excited to be embarking on this life adventure together,\" the pair said in a statement.\n\n\"We share so many similar interests and values, and we know that this will stand us in great stead for the years ahead, full of love and happiness,\" they added.\n\nThe couple said they were \"extremely happy\" to share the news of their engagement\n\nBeatrice said on Twitter she was \"so excited\" by the announcement, while her fiance said on Instagram: \"You will never be alone my love, my heart is your home.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of York said: \"We are thrilled that Beatrice and Edoardo have got engaged, having watched their relationship develop with pride.\"\n\n\"We are the lucky parents of a wonderful daughter who has found her love and companion in a completely devoted friend and loyal young man. We send them every good wish for a wonderful family future,\" they added.\n\n\"I know what a mother feels so I have tears of joy,\" the duchess added on Twitter.\n\n\"I am so proud of this sensational news,\" she said.\n\n\"Andrew and I are just the luckiest people ever to have two great sons in law.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Ferguson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Mapelli's parents, Nikki Williams-Ellis and Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, said they were \"truly delighted\" by the engagement.\n\n\"Our family has known Beatrice for most of her life. Edo and Beatrice are made for each other, and their happiness and love for each other is there for all to see,\" they said.\n\n\"They share an incredibly strong and united bond, their marriage will only strengthen what is already a wonderful relationship.\"\n\nPrincess Beatrice and her fiance Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at singer Ellie Goulding's wedding last month\n\nBeatrice (right) and Eugenie at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011\n\nBeatrice's sister, Princess Eugenie, married her long-term partner Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle in October 2018.\n\n\"I'm so happy for you my dearest big sissy and dear Edo,\" she said in an Instagram post congratulating the pair.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming and you two are meant to be,\" Eugenie added.\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi - known as Edo - is descended from Italian aristocracy, according to AFP.\n\nHe is the son of former alpine skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, who competed for Britain in the 1972 Olympics.\n\nHis mother, Nikki Williams-Ellis, was formerly known as Nikki Shale, from her marriage to the late Christopher Shale - Edoardo's stepfather.\n\nMr Shale - who died from heart disease at Glastonbury Festival in 2011 - was a senior Tory and close friend of former prime minister David Cameron.\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi has been a friend of Beatrice's family for some time.\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond, said he believed the pair had been together for about two years - and that they have only been seen together in public a handful of times. He said things have \"moved pretty quickly\".\n\nBeatrice is the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's granddaughter, and a cousin of the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex.\n\nHer parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, divorced in 1996. The duke, Prince Andrew, is the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nRoyal Family fans will be preparing to celebrate another royal wedding.\n\nIn addition to his royal engagements, Andrew served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011, when his links to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein forced him to step down.\n\nSince their separation the duchess has been involved in various charitable projects, appeared on British and American TV and published several children's books.\n\nFurther details of Beatrice's wedding will be announced in due course, her parents said.", "Jess Phillips told BBC News her staff had to be locked in her constituency office\n\nA man has been arrested for allegedly verbally abusing staff at MP Jess Phillips' constituency office.\n\nThe MP said her staff had to be locked inside the office in Birmingham while a man reportedly shouted \"fascist\" at them while hitting doors and windows.\n\nWest Midlands Police said they were called to a disturbance in Acocks Green at about 14:30 BST.\n\nA 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and possession of cannabis.\n\nHe has been taken into police custody and will be questioned in due course, the force said.\n\nThe Birmingham Yardley MP told BBC News she had since spoken to her team to check they were OK.\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 Duke and Duchess of Sussex have introduced their baby son Archie to renowned anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nIt is the first time the four-month-old has been seen in public on the couple's 10-day tour of Africa.\n\nArchie was seen smiling in his mother's arms and was held up on her lap.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan joked about their son's time in front of the cameras as they greeted the archbishop and his daughter Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe.\n\n\"He's an old soul,\" said Meghan, while Harry remarked: \"I think he is used to it already.\"\n\nThe duke, duchess and Archie met Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Thandeka\n\nA Nobel Peace Prize winner for his opposition to apartheid, the archbishop said he was \"thrilled\" by the \"rare privilege and honour\" of meeting the royals.\n\nHe spent half an hour with the couple and Archie at his Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, based in a centuries-old building which was constructed by enslaved people.\n\nThe archbishop told the couple: \"It's very heart-warming, let me tell you, very heart-warming to realise that you really, genuinely are caring people.\"\n\nThe couple also posted a video to their official SussexRoyal Instagram account of their arrival at the meeting with the archbishop in Cape Town, with the caption: \"Arch meets Archie!\"\n\nBiscuits decorated with \"Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor\" were offered by the archbishop\n\nJuggling royal duties with a four-month-old baby is \"a lot\", the duchess told female entrepreneurs in Cape Town\n\nLater, the Duchess of Sussex spoke about the excitement and pressures of being a working mother as she met female entrepreneurs in Cape Town.\n\nSpeaking to them at an event called Ladies Who Launch, she said looking after Archie as well as carrying out royal duties was \"a lot\" but added: \"It's all so exciting.\"\n\nShe described one non-profit group, which employs disadvantaged women to make bracelets for good causes, as \"fascinating\".\n\n\"By empowering these women from those backgrounds they are changing the focus of their communities and empowering the next generation,\" she said.\n\nMeghan also met mothers and young children at mothers2mothers, a non-profit organisation which provides support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV.\n\nShe played with toddlers on the floor and invited other mothers to join her.\n\nThe duchess met health workers and families at mothers2mothers, which works with women living with HIV\n\nThere was a warm welcome for the duchess outside the non-profit organisation\n\nSome of the children could end up wearing royal hand-me-downs after the duchess handed over two bags of \"loved but outgrown\" clothes as she left.\n\nShe told the women: \"It's so important we're able to share what's worked for our family and know that you're all in this together with each other. So we wanted to share something from our home to yours.\"\n\nOn their tour so far, the duke and duchess have also visited South Africa's oldest mosque and visited a charity which provides mental health support for young people.\n\nMeghan told teenage girls in a deprived part of South Africa she was visiting the country not only as a member of the Royal Family, but also \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".", "Munchetty has been a presenter on BBC Breakfast for the last 10 years\n\nNaga Munchetty breached BBC guidelines by criticising President Donald Trump for perceived racism, the corporation's complaints unit has ruled.\n\nIn July the BBC presenter took issue with comments made by the US President after he told opponents to \"go back\" to the \"places from which they came\".\n\nThe BBC said the Breakfast host was entitled to her own views but had gone \"beyond what the guidelines allow for\".\n\nIt said any action taken as a result of the finding would be published later.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said the corporation's Executive Complaints Unit [ECU] had ruled that \"while Ms Munchetty was entitled to give a personal response to the phrase 'go back to your own country' as it was rooted in her own experience, overall her comments went beyond what the guidelines allow for\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on 17 July after Mr Trump's online remarks, Munchetty said: \"Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism.\n\n\"Now I'm not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean.\"\n\nThe US president's comments prompted a wave of criticism\n\nMunchetty said she felt \"absolutely furious\" and suggested many people in the UK might feel the same way.\n\n\"I can imagine lots of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious that a man in that position feels it's okay to skirt the lines with using language like that,\" she told co-presenter Dan Walker.\n\nHer comments followed Mr Trump posting several messages that made references to the Democrat politicians Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.\n\n\"Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,\" he wrote on Twitter on 14 July.\n\nSome BBC journalists tweeted their disapproval at the ECU's ruling.\n\nPresenter Carrie Gracie, who resigned her post as China Editor in a dispute over equal pay, said it had caused \"unease\" among BBC journalists \"for whom 'go back' = racist\" and called on the ECU to explain its decision.\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\nBBC correspondent Sangita Myska tweeted: \"Right now, there is a lot of bewilderment among BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] staff\", adding \"there is unique self-censoring that BAMEs do across all industries & workplaces\".\n\nReplying to Ms Myska, presenter Matthew Price tweeted his \"solidarity\", saying: \"There's a lot of bewilderment (and some anger) among non-BAME staff too... and I agree there's general concern about voicing it openly.\"\n\nWhen Munchetty made the comment in July, she received praise online for her \"off-script\" moment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Marina Hyde This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ECU found Munchetty's assertion that Mr Trump's comments were \"embedded in racism\" went beyond what the BBC allows and upheld a complaint made about the presenter's comments.\n\nChannel 4 news anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy tweeted he found the decision to partially uphold the complaint \"perplexing\".\n\n\"When you think about what those (mostly) older white men have got away with saying on the BBC and Twitter day after day this is a quite perplexing finding.\"\n\nThe BBC's spokeswoman said a summary of the complaint and the ECU's decision would be published on the BBC's online complaints pages and that it would \"include a note of any action taken as a result of the finding\".\n\nLabour MP David Lammy called the ECU's decision \"appalling\", while journalist Kevin Maguire said it was a \"bad, bad day\".\n\nA representative for BBC Breakfast said Munchetty was not available for comment.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The woman has been named locally as Elayne Stanley\n\nA woman has died after she was attacked by two dogs, police have said.\n\nNeighbours said mum-of-three Elayne Stanley, 44, was mauled at the house in Graham Road, Widnes, on Tuesday evening.\n\nThey reported hearing screams from the terrace house before police arrived to find Ms Stanley seriously injured.\n\nCheshire Police said one of the dogs had to be destroyed while the other had been captured and taken to a secure kennel. No arrests have been made.\n\nOfficers made repeated attempts to capture both animals, the force said.\n\nNeighbour Marie Airey said she \"heard screaming\" at the time of the attack.\n\nShe heard panicked shouting, she said, and the sound of someone kicking a door.\n\n\"Then they put the dogs out the back and... all hell broke loose,\" she said.\n\nOthers told the BBC that one neighbour had attempted, unsuccessfully, to stop the attack by throwing bricks at the dogs.\n\nPictures posted online show two dogs believed to be those involved in the attack\n\nMs Airey said another resident had attempted to resuscitate Ms Stanley, said to be a mother to three girls, including twins.\n\nDorothy Woodward, who also lives on the road, described Ms Stanley as \"a good woman... a lovely lady\".\n\nShe said she \"had a little cry\" when it became apparent paramedics would be unable to save her.\n\nCheshire Police has not confirmed the breed of either dog, but said it believed both lived at the address.\n\nThe woman was attacked at a house in Graham Road, Widnes\n\nDet Insp Ian Whiley said: \"We understand people in the community will be concerned... but I would like to reassure residents that we are doing all that we can to establish the full circumstances of the incident.\"\n\nThe victim's next of kin have been informed, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Andrew Harper had been married for four weeks when he was killed on duty\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with the murder of a police officer who was killed while investigating a burglary.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it had authorised Thames Valley Police to charge Henry Long, 18, and two 17-year-old boys with murder and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, died after he was dragged along a road by a vehicle in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on 15 August.\n\nThe suspects are due to appear at Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThomas King, 21, has been charged with conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThames Valley Police said on Tuesday the latest arrests followed \"new evidence coming to light\".\n\nPC Harper was killed on the A4 Bath Road\n\nJed Foster, 20, who is also charged with the murder of the PC and the theft of a quad bike, has previously appeared in court.\n\nMr Foster, of Pingewood, Burghfield, did not enter a plea and was remanded in custody when he appeared via video link at Reading Crown Court.\n\nHe was told a provisional trial date of 20 January had been fixed.\n\nPC Harper, who got married four weeks before his death, was killed on the A4 Bath Road.\n\nHis wife Lissie paid tribute to her husband as the \"kindest, loveliest, most selfless person you will ever meet\".\n\nThe roads policing officer, who became a regular officer in 2011 after joining as a special constable a year earlier, had attended a reported break-in with a fellow officer in Sulhamstead at about 23:30 BST on 15 August.", "Strike action has been suspended at spirits giant Diageo's Scottish operations after management and unions struck a last-minute pay deal.\n\nWorkers had been set to walk out at dozens of sites after unions rejected a \"final\" pay offer of 2.8% on Monday.\n\nBut a deal was struck shortly before the first of a wave of strikes was due to start at 22:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe Unite and GMB unions said they would now consult their members on the new offer.\n\nThe offer is understood to be a two-year deal with a 3% rise this year and an increase in pay next year, in line with the retail price index (RPI) rate as it stands in June 2020.\n\nA new collective agreement will also be negotiated by then.\n\nIn a joint statement, GMB Scotland organiser Keir Greenaway and Unite Scotland officer Stevie Deans said: \"We are pleased that on the brink of strike action, Diageo tabled an offer that we feel merits our members' consultation.\n\n\"The offer is a two-year commitment on pay and also sets out a timeframe for the negotiation of a new collective agreement.\n\n\"Our strike action is now suspended while a full consultative ballot of our members takes place on the offer.\"\n\nA Diageo spokesman said: \"Following further negotiations today, our improved offer has been recommended for acceptance by both the GMB and Unite unions and strike action has been suspended.\n\n\"We are pleased to have reached agreement on a good, fair offer that ensures our employees can receive an increase on their pay while maintaining the competitiveness of our operations.\"\n\nUnite and GMB Scotland members account for nearly half of Diageo's total workforce of 3,000 in Scotland.\n\nThe \"rolling programme\" of 24-hour strikes had been due to run until 27 September.\n\nUnions had claimed the action would hit all of Diageo's bottling, maturation and distillery plants in Scotland, including well-known distilleries such as Talisker, on the Isle of Skye, Lagavullin on Islay and Knockando in Moray.\n\nThe unions had disputed claims by Diageo that it could not afford to match last year's 3.2% pay award, arguing that the company had made pre-tax profits of £4.2bn in its last financial year.\n\nDiageo operates dozens of sites north of the border, including distilleries in Perthshire, Fife, Aberdeenshire, the Isle of Skye, the Black Isle and Argyll and Bute.", "A man has died while working on one of Waterloo station's moving walkways\n\nA man has died while working on a moving walkway at Waterloo station.\n\nParamedics were unable to save the 44-year-old engineer, who has yet to be identified, and he was pronounced dead shortly after 02:20 BST.\n\nBritish Transport Police officers are investigating the death, which is being treated as unexplained.\n\nVernon Everitt, London Underground's managing director, expressed \"deepest condolences\" to the man's family from the rail network.\n\n\"We are also very conscious of the impact this sort of incident has on first responders and station staff, and a full support network has been stood up,\" he added.\n\nPassengers were told they would not be able to change lines because of a fault\n\nPolice confirmed the man, from Cambridgeshire, was a contractor and was injured while working at the Underground station.\n\nPassengers were advised they would be unable to change lines because of a fault with one of the Tube station's two travelators.\n\nA one-way system was implemented during rush hour on Wednesday morning.\n\nDet Insp Darren Gough said: \"This is a truly tragic incident and our deepest condolences are with the man's family.\n\n\"They are currently being supported by specially-trained family liaison officers as they come to terms with this devastating news.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan called for an urgent inquiry into what happened.\n\nHe said on Twitter: \"Very sad to hear of the tragic death of a contractor at Waterloo Station this morning.\n\n\"I know I speak for everyone at City Hall and TfL in sending our deepest condolences to their family & friends.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A popular giant panda has died unexpectedly in a Thai zoo - prompting China to send experts to investigate.\n\nChuang Chuang had been at the Chiang Mai zoo on loan from China since 2003.\n\nThe 19-year old bear was widely popular across Thailand, especially due to repeated efforts by the zoo to get him to mate with his female companion.\n\nHis unexplained death on Monday caused uproar on Chinese social media, with many users accusing Thailand of not caring properly for the animal.\n\nGiant pandas, which are native to China, usually live for 25 to 30 years in captivity. They were regarded as endangered, but were reclassified as \"vulnerable\" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, following an increase in numbers.\n\nChina loans the animals to countries around the world as a way of strengthening diplomatic ties.\n\nThere's extensive reporting in China about the animals' lives overseas, and Chuang Chuang's early death has received widespread coverage in state media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to Chinese news agency Xinhua, an investigation will be carried out to establish the cause of death, and experts from the China Conservation and Research Centre will travel to Chiang Mai to work with their Thai counterparts.\n\nSome social media users on China's Twitter-like platform Weibo were concerned, saying: \"Thailand is not suitable for raising pandas\", and \"they don't treat animals as well as we think\".\n\nOthers asked for the remaining female panda in Chiang Mai, Lin Hui, to be returned to China.\n\nChuang Chuang had been at the Chiang Mai zoo since 2003, alongside his female companion.\n\nFailing to show any sexual interest in Lin Hui, the zoo tried various methods to boost his sex drive, including putting him on a low-carb diet, and showing videos of mating pandas.\n\nWith all efforts failing, the zoo eventually resorted to artificial insemination and Lin Hui gave birth in 2009.", "A huge blaze which ripped through an Edwardian mansion in Cumbria has been tackled by 40 firefighters.\n\nCumbria Fire and Rescue Service said no-one was injured in the fire at Scalesceugh Hall, near Carlisle.\n\nThe site is in the process of being converted into retirement apartments and is a Grade II-listed building.\n\nThe building's owners said they owed \"an enormous debt of gratitude\" to the firefighters for their \"tireless efforts\" to control the fire.\n\nBruno and Anita Herdeiro said they were \"devastated by what has happened\".\n\n\"We have put our hearts and souls, time, love and much money into restoring the Edwardian mansion that brought us to this beautiful corner of Cumbria,\" they said.\n\nFirefighters were called to the site just after 23:00 BST on Tuesday and brought it under control by about 06:00, but remain at the scene.\n\nNo-one was in the building at the time. Ten neighbouring properties were evacuated and firefighters managed to stop the fire spreading.\n\nAbout 40 firefighters from Longtown, Brampton, Carlisle, Lazonby, Wigton, Appleby and Penrith, are at the scene.\n\nIt is not known what caused the fire, but it is not believed to be suspicious.\n\nBruno and Anita Herdeiro said they were committed to redeveloping the site\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 father of a sick child confronted Boris Johnson during a ward visit\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is \"glad\" the father of a sick child challenged him about NHS funding in a hospital corridor.\n\nThe prime minister was confronted by Omar Salem at Whipps Cross University Hospital in north-east London.\n\nMr Salem, who said his seven-day-old daughter had been \"gravely ill\", told Mr Johnson there were not enough staff.\n\nThe PM later wrote on Twitter that the encounter was not \"an embarrassment\" but \"part of my job\".\n\nHe added that it did not matter whether people \"agree with me\" - a reference to Mr Salem's work as a Labour activist.\n\nIn a conversation lasting around two minutes, the new father said the situation he had experienced at Whipps Cross was \"not acceptable\".\n\n\"There are not enough people on this ward, there are not enough doctors, there's not enough nurses, it's not well organised enough,\" he told Mr Johnson.\n\n\"The NHS has been destroyed... and now you come here for a press opportunity.\"\n\nMr Johnson said \"there's no press here\" but Mr Salem gestured to cameras filming the confrontation, and said: \"What do you mean there's no press here? Who are these people?\"\n\nThe prime minister explained he was \"here to find out\" about the situation, but the man said: \"It's a bit late, isn't it? Years and years and years of the NHS being destroyed.\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Mr Johnson said later that it was part of his job to talk to people on the ground.\n\n\"I've been PM for 57 days, part of my job is to talk to people on the ground and listen to what they tell me about the big problems. It doesn't matter if they agree with me,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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'm glad this gentleman told me his problems. This isn't an embarrassment, this is part of my job.\"\n\nMr Salem wrote in a tweet: \"Boris Johnson had the temerity to come to [Whipps Cross Hospital] for a press opportunity on the children's ward that my seven-day-old daughter is on, having been admitted to A&E yesterday gravely ill.\n\n\"The A&E team were great but she then went for hours on the ward without seeing a doctor.\n\n\"Boris Johnson has been an MP, [Mayor of London], cabinet minister and now PM while the NHS has been neglected, just as my daughter was last night.\n\n\"Rather than drips of money for press opportunities he should get on with properly supporting the NHS so that patients get the care they deserve, there is adequate staffing with good working conditions and worried fathers like me can have some peace of mind.\"\n\nAlan Gurney, chief executive of Whipps Cross hospital, said: \"We are constantly reviewing staffing levels on our wards to ensure our patients are safe at all times, but occasionally - as in fact happened on this ward last night- an unexpected emergency in one part of the hospital can cause a temporary pressure elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You should be in Brussels; you're in Morley,\" a member of the public told Boris Johnson when he arrived\n\nIt is not the first time Mr Johnson has experienced an impassioned exchange with a member of the public since becoming prime minister in July.\n\nOn a visit to Yorkshire two weeks ago, the prime minister was told by a member of the public he should be in Brussels negotiating with the EU instead of touring Morley high street, near Leeds.", "Poland's ambassador to the UK has written to 800,000 Polish nationals, advising them to \"seriously consider\" returning home after Brexit.\n\nHe called on Poles living in the UK to secure their future by either applying for settled status or returning.\n\nArkady Rzegocki said living standards in Poland were improving, providing \"a very good opportunity to come back\".\n\nMr Rzegocki described the current number of applicants to the EU settlement scheme as \"alarmingly low\".\n\nHe wrote: \"To date, around 27% of Poles living in the British Isles have applied for settled status.\n\n\"This is an alarmingly low level, meaning that thousands of Polish citizens may be exposed to complications related to the lack of regulating their status.\"\n\nThe ambassador told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Many people do not realise they have to register, they have lived here for many years - even if they have resident status, they still have to register.\"\n\nHe added: \"Quite a lot of people have some problems with receiving their settled status. People who live here for 10 or more years also had some problems.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the EU Settlement Scheme application process is supposed to be \"as easy as possible\".\n\nMinister Victoria Atkins said: \"[EU citizens] are our friends, our neighbours, we want to make this as easy as possible.\"\n\nShe said the government had dealt with 1.1 million applications already, with another 300,000 currently being processed.\n\nMs Atkins added that the system was \"designed with the EU\" and that the government had invested in advertising \"to ensure people can be assisted\".\n\nMr Rzegocki said although a significant number of Poles remain in the UK, many are considering a return to Poland.\n\n\"Last year 116,000 left [Britain]. There are still about a million here but you can see there is a discussion being had,\" he added.\n\n\"Soon, Great Britain, which has been home to thousands of Poles for generations, will most likely cease to be a member of the European Union - which we regret, but we also see this process as an opportunity to strengthen the bond between our two countries,\" he said in his letter.\n\nThe most recent data from the Office for National Statistics suggests around 832,000 people born in Poland were resident in the UK in 2018, the joint highest overseas-born population alongside India.\n\nMigration from Poland to the UK increased when the country joined the EU in 2004. At the time, the unemployment rate there was around 20% and incomes four times lower than in the UK.\n\nEU citizens who are already living in the UK under EEA freedom of movement rules (rules for the EU countries and also Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) will have until 31 December 2020 to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme if the UK leaves without a deal.\n\nThe scheme aims to register an estimated 3.3 million EU citizens and provide them the right to continue living and working in the UK after 30 June 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EU citizen Lily has lived near Bristol for 16 years. But she's worried about what Brexit means for her future\n\nThe scheme has faced complaints that EU citizens with long-standing ties to the UK face difficulties in applying.\n\nLily Beurrier, a French citizen from Bristol, said that despite living in the UK for 16 years and working for the same employer for 15 years, and being married to a UK citizen with two British children, her application lacked enough evidence to be instantly approved.\n\n\"I never actually thought it would happen to me, I think my voice is not being heard,\" she said.\n\nAre you a Polish person in the UK thinking about moving back to Poland? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen QC, argued on behalf of the government\n\nThe most senior judge in the UK says the case surrounding Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament raises \"a serious and difficult question of law\".\n\nLady Hale and 10 other judges must decide whether advice he gave to the Queen about prorogation was lawful.\n\nGovernment lawyer Lord Keen QC said the PM was \"entitled\" to act as he did and the issue was not one for the courts.\n\nLord Pannick QC for campaigners against the move told the Supreme Court it was done to \"silence\" MPs ahead of Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson announced at the end of August that he intended to suspend - or prorogue - Parliament for five weeks.\n\nHe maintains it was right and proper to do so in order to pave the way for a Queen's Speech on 14 October to outline the government's legislative plans for the year ahead.\n\nThe prime minister insisted the move had nothing to do with Brexit and his \"do or die\" pledge to take the UK out of the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal - but opposition MPs and campaigners dispute that and have taken the matter to court.\n\nThe Supreme Court is hearing two appeals this week relating to the decision after two lower courts ruled in contradictory ways.\n\nScotland's highest court ruled last week the five-week suspension was \"unlawful\", after a challenge by a cross-party group of politicians.\n\nEdinburgh's Court of Session said the shutdown was designed to \"stymie\" MPs in the run-up to the Brexit deadline and Mr Johnson had effectively misled the Queen in the sovereign's exercise of prerogative powers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, the High Court in England had previously ruled the opposite way, following a challenge to prorogation brought by businesswoman and campaigner Gina Miller.\n\nJudges there said the suspension was \"purely political\" and therefore \"not a matter\" for the judiciary.\n\nProtesters from both sides of the Brexit debate gathered outside the court off Parliament Square in Westminster as the three-day hearing began.\n\nLady Hale, President of the Supreme Court, said in her opening statement: \"That this is a serious and difficult question of law is amply demonstrated by the fact that three senior judges in Scotland have reached a different conclusion from three senior judges in England and Wales.\"\n\nShe said the court would endeavour to address these questions, but would not determine \"wider political questions\" relating to the Brexit process or have any impact on its timing.\n\nSNP MP Joanna Cherry - who was also one of the lawyers involved in the Scottish case - told the BBC she was \"cautiously optimistic\" the Supreme Court would uphold that ruling.\n\nOtherwise, she said, it would be \"accepting that it's possible... for the prime minister of a minority government to shut down Parliament if it is getting in his way\".\n\nArguing on behalf of the government on Tuesday, the Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen, told the Supreme Court that in declaring the prorogation \"null and of no effect\", the Scottish court had \"simply gone where the court could not go\".\n\nHe said if the ruling was upheld, the prime minister would take \"all necessary steps\" to comply.\n\nHowever, after being pushed by the judges, he said he would not comment on whether Mr Johnson might subsequently try to prorogue Parliament again.\n\nLord Keen said previous prorogations of Parliament - including in 1930 and 1948 - had \"clearly been employed\" when governments wanted to \"pursue a particular political objective\", adding: \"They are entitled to do so.\"\n\nHe said that if MPs did not want Parliament to be suspended they had \"adequate mechanisms\" and opportunities to stop it in its tracks by passing new laws - pointing to the fact a bill to block a no-deal Brexit was passed in just two days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Clive Coleman takes a look inside the UK's Supreme Court\n\nArguing on behalf of Ms Miller - and against the English court ruling - crossbench peer Lord Pannick said Mr Johnson suspended Parliament to avoid the risk of MPs \"frustrating or damaging\" his Brexit plans.\n\nThere was, Lord Pannick added, \"strong evidence\" the PM saw MPs \"as an obstacle\" and wanted to \"silence\" them.\n\nHe said he had \"no quarrel\" with a prime minister's right to prorogue Parliament in order to present a Queen's Speech.\n\nHowever, he said the \"exceptional length\" of this suspension was \"strong evidence the prime minister's motive was to silence Parliament because he sees Parliament as an obstacle\".\n\nGina Miller is appealing against an earlier ruling which found in favour of the government\n\nLord Pannick said the facts showed the PM had advised the Queen to suspend Parliament for five weeks \"because he wishes to avoid what he saw as the risk that Parliament, during that period, would take action to frustrate or damage the policies of his government\".\n\nHe said the effect of the suspension was to take Parliament \"out of the game\" at a pivotal moment in the UK's history and he disagreed with the High Court's judgement that the issue was outside the scope of the courts.\n\n\"The answer is either yes, or it is no, but it is an issue of law, and the rule of law demands the court answers it and not say 'it is not for us and it is for the discretion of the prime minister'.\"\n\nAmid the protests outside the Supreme Court, and the calm but focused legal debate inside, the first day of this potentially monumental constitutional battle came down to two questions.\n\nDo judges have the power to stop a prime minister proroguing Parliament? And, if so, did Boris Johnson act illegally and mislead the Queen?\n\nLord Pannick QC, for Gina Miller, hammered out attack after attack.\n\nWhere was the prime minister's witness statement showing he had an honest reason for closing Parliament? How could a prime minister who is accountable to Parliament prevent it from holding his feet to the fire?\n\nLord Keen QC, the government's top lawyer in Scotland, argued judges couldn't even consider these questions.\n\nThere was a key moment of political intrigue when the justices wondered what Mr Johnson would do if he were to lose.\n\nBut his lawyer could not say whether he might simply ask the Queen to re-open Parliament - and then shut it down again.\n\nMs Miller is seeking a mandatory order which would effectively force the government to recall Parliament, BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said.\n\nOpposition parties have called for Parliament to be recalled but at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Mr Johnson told ministers he was \"confident\" of the government's arguments.\n\nHe told the BBC on Monday he had the \"greatest respect for the judiciary\", and its independence was \"one of the glories of the UK\".\n\nDowning Street has refused to speculate on how the government might respond should they lose this court case.\n\nPressed this morning, the Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland, declined to say whether Parliament would be recalled, or indeed whether the prime minister might seek to suspend Parliament for a second time.\n\nMr Buckland said any decision would hinge on the precise wording of the court judgement.\n\nNevertheless, defeat would be a significant blow.\n\nIt would be the first time in modern history that a prime minister had been judged to have misled Parliament.\n\nAnd if MPs were recalled, Mr Johnson would almost certainly face contempt of Parliament proceedings, accusations that he'd lied to the Queen, and pressure to reveal more details about his negotiating strategy and his planning for no deal.\n\nDefeat in the Supreme Court would also make it much harder for the prime minister to defy MPs for a second time as he has threatened to do over their bill to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nElsewhere on Tuesday, the prime minister has discussed Brexit in a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nNo 10 said afterwards: \"The prime minister reiterated that the UK and the EU have agreed to accelerate efforts to reach a deal without the backstop which the UK Parliament could support, and that we would work with energy and determination to achieve this ahead of Brexit on 31 October.\"", "Encouraging more people into electric vehicles is at the heart of the government's efforts to tackle climate change.\n\nThat's because transport accounts for 23% of the UK's CO2 emissions - more than any other sector.\n\nSales of all-electric vehicles are up 70% on last year, leading to suggestions that we have reached a turning point. But there are good reasons to remain cautious.\n\nOne of the UK's best-selling cars is the all-electric Tesla Model 3. But its success doesn't change the fact that only about 1.1% of new cars sold this year are electric, and that the market for used electric vehicles hardly exists.\n\nAs it takes most UK drivers anywhere between one and 15 years to change their vehicles, many of us won't be thinking about buying an electric model any time soon.\n\nBigger changes are needed. We will need many more places for charging electric vehicles, for example. And because fuel tax is an important source of income for the government - and electric vehicle users pay lower taxes - changes to the tax system may be required.\n\nIndividuals and businesses also need to be convinced that electric vehicles suit their needs. This is perhaps the hardest part.\n\nThe government aims to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in 2040, a target criticised by MPs who want the change made by 2030.\n\nBut even if these goals are met, it is likely to be decades before the most common vehicles on our roads are electric ones.\n\nThe number of vans on the UK's roads is increasing faster than any other type of vehicle, in part because of the rapid growth in online shopping\n\nSmall e-vans are already available and the choice on offer is only likely to increase.\n\nIt is difficult to compare prices for diesel and e-vans. However, it can be significantly more expensive to lease an electric version of a popular van, than a diesel one. This is likely to mean that electric vans remain unaffordable for many small firms and self-employed delivery drivers for some time.\n\nThere is more choice for those looking for a new car, but electric vehicles are disproportionately aimed at the higher end of the market. Few all-electric models are available for less than £20,000, and buying a new Tesla Model 3 costs about £37,000.\n\nPrices are likely to continue to fall and operating an electric vehicle tends to be cheaper than a petrol or diesel equivalent. But the higher upfront costs may stop many drivers from buying electric vehicles for the foreseeable future, even when a vibrant second-hand market emerges.\n\nThere are rapid developments in battery and charging technology, but this is causing deep uncertainty. Which charging technologies will become the gold standard?\n\nThis is a particular problem for people living in apartment blocks, or houses without a private parking space. Should they expect charging to be available at bollards or lamp posts along their street?\n\nPerhaps home charging will not be as important as it is now. Should drivers use facilities at petrol stations, their office or in empty supermarket car parks at night?\n\nOther options being explored include induction pads embedded in major roads, which charge cars as they drive over them.\n\nBBC Briefing is a mini-series of downloadable guides to the big issues in the news, with input from academics, researchers and journalists. It is the BBC's response to audiences demanding better explanation of the facts behind the headlines.\n\nThis uncertainty about which approach will become most common slows down private sector investment in charging infrastructure. It also makes the role of local authorities more difficult.\n\nActing too soon could mean betting on the wrong horse. Waiting too long could encourage more people into hybrid vehicles, which are less dependent on charging infrastructure, but still use fossil fuels.\n\nEven when a standard design for charging emerges, the age-old question of who will pay for installing it remains.\n\nIt is widely assumed that the private sector will build, operate and maintain charging infrastructure in the UK.\n\nBut businesses have long been slow to get involved, in part because profit margins remain small and government has heavily subsidised the development of charging points. This is slowly changing: BP and Shell have taken over market leaders Chargemaster and Newmotion, and Tesla is actively rolling out its own charging network at motorway service stations.\n\nYet the question remains: how large should the government's contribution be in future infrastructure development?\n\nIf getting people into electric vehicles is for the public good, should local government pay for charging points in areas where demand is too low to offer healthy profits?\n\nAnd how should investment compare with that in social care, libraries or safe cycling routes, especially when local authority budgets remain as tight as they currently are?\n\nEven 100% electric vehicles are not a zero-carbon solution.\n\nThey may not produce the usual exhaust pipe emissions, but even if all of the UK's electricity was from renewable sources, there would still be an environmental cost.\n\nSourcing the minerals used for batteries, dismantling batteries which have deteriorated, and building and delivering vehicles to customers worldwide all involve substantial CO2 emissions. It is impossible to break all of the links.\n\nElectric vehicles are a crucial part of the UK's attempts to drastically reduce transport's emissions. Yet they are no panacea.\n\nA large shift away from motorised vehicles is the only way to fundamentally reduce transport's contribution to climate change, however hard and politically unpalatable that may be.\n\nRead more reports inspired by the BBC Briefing on energy.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nTim Schwanen is a professor of transport studies and geography. He is director of the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford.\n\nYou can follow him on Twitter here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Standing next to Mavis Eccleston, her daughter Joy Munns thanked jurors for their verdict\n\nAn 80-year-old woman has been found not guilty of murdering her terminally ill husband in a \"mercy killing\".\n\nMavis Eccleston was accused of giving her husband Dennis, 81, a potentially lethal dose of prescription medicine without his knowledge.\n\nShe told Stafford Crown Court they both intended to take their own lives. Jurors heard she also took an overdose but survived.\n\nMrs Eccleston was also cleared of manslaughter after a two-week trial.\n\nSpeaking outside court, one of the couple's three children Joy Munns called for a change in the law on assisted dying \"so that dying people aren't forced to suffer, make plans in secret or ask loved ones to risk prosecution by helping them\".\n\nThe court heard Mr and Mrs Eccleston had written a note saying they had decided to take their own lives, to explain their actions to their children.\n\nBut they were found by family members at their bungalow in Huntington, near Cannock in Staffordshire, on 19 February last year.\n\nThey were rushed to hospital where Mrs Eccleston was given an antidote for the drugs she had taken.\n\nMavis and Dennis Eccleston were found at their home in February 2018\n\nThe court heard that after his bowel cancer was diagnosed as terminal, Mr Eccleston had made a decision to receive no further treatment except for medication for pain management and did not wish to be resuscitated by medical staff.\n\nMrs Eccleston told jurors her husband had kissed her hand after she agreed to \"go with his wishes\" to die.\n\nShe said he \"knew full well\" what medication they were taking and administered his overdose himself after she had fetched it from a cupboard at his request.\n\n\"It was an understanding between us. He had to tell me what I had got to do,\" she said.\n\nThe court heard after they had both taken medication, Mrs Eccleston kissed her husband on the head, pulled a cover over him and he said \"good night darling\" as she went to lie down on a sofa.\n\n\"The next thing I knew I was in hospital,\" she told the court.\n\nMrs Eccleston told jurors her husband had previously talked about travelling to Switzerland to end his life on his own terms.\n\nMavis and Dennis Eccleston pictured with their children (L-R) Kevin, Joy and Lynne\n\nSpeaking outside court stood next to her mother, Ms Munns, 54, said the family were \"grateful and relieved\" that the jury recognised \"our mum's love for our dad\".\n\n\"But since dad's death our family has been through a terrible ordeal, waiting over 18 months for this court case, worrying that having already lost our dad to cancer, we might now see our mum imprisoned.\n\n\"If there had been an assisted dying law here in the UK our dad would have been able to have the choice to end his suffering, with medical support, and with his loved ones around him.\"\n\nSarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying, said: \"Because of the UK's outdated laws on assisted dying, Dennis felt his only option was to end his own life behind closed doors.\n\n\"Dennis should not have been forced to take such drastic actions and Mavis should never have been put in this agonising position.\"\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. Former PM David Cameron explains how he sought the Queen's help in Scottish independence vote\n\nFormer PM David Cameron has revealed he asked whether the Queen could \"raise an eyebrow\" about the prospect of Scotland voting for independence.\n\nHe told the BBC he sought help from royal officials days before the 2014 vote amid \"mounting panic\" he may lose.\n\nWhat was discussed was not \"anything that would be in any way improper... but just a raising of the eyebrow even... a quarter of an inch\", he said.\n\nThe Queen later urged people to \"think very carefully about the future\".\n\nThe comments - made to a well-wisher outside a church on the Balmoral estate - were one of the main talking points of the referendum campaign.\n\nReflecting on his rise to power and six years in Downing Street in a two-part BBC documentary, Mr Cameron said the Queen's words on the issue were \"very limited but helped to put a slightly different perception on things\".\n\nScotland went on to reject independence by a margin of 55.3% to 44.7%, a result which Mr Cameron said left him \"blissfully happy\".\n\nIn a statement, Alex Salmond, who resigned as Scotland's first minister in the wake of the result, said Mr Cameron's actions were not only improper, but showed how desperate the No side was during the final stages of the independence campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron criticises Boris Johnson's motives for supporting Leave campaign\n\nThe Cameron Years, which begins on Thursday, examines Mr Cameron's modernisation of the party, his decision to enter a coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the 2010 election and the fallout from 2016 Brexit referendum, which led to his resignation.\n\nOn the EU referendum, Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he \"wasn't the slightest bit complacent\" during the campaign, saying that he fought \"with every fibre of my being\".\n\nBut he said the Labour leadership during the campaign \"simply wasn't there, wasn't committed\" and it was \"very hard to fight these things on your own\".\n\nHe added that the result would \"probably have been even worse\" if people knew he would quit if Leave won the vote.\n\nJust as the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of the relationship between the prime minister and the Queen is that you never, ever talk about the relationship between the PM and the Queen.\n\nIt is difficult to imagine anything other than horror in the Palace at David Cameron's revelations. Not just because he has broken the first rule. But because he has made it painfully clear that in 2014 he used the Queen for his own political purposes. And that she and her advisors thought that was OK.\n\nThe revelation comes as her suspension of Parliament - a suspension made on the effective instruction of Boris Johnson - comes under unprecedented scrutiny in the Supreme Court.\n\nThe two cases are very different; but they both highlight the dark greys of the Queen's constitutional position, the discretion she has or lacks, under extraordinary circumstances, to speak out and act.\n\nIn the run-up to the 18 September poll on Scottish independence, it was reported that the Queen was concerned about the possibility of Scotland opting to sever the 300-year union with England and Wales.\n\nA Sunday Times poll on 7 September putting the Yes campaign ahead contributed to a \"mounting sense of panic\" in Downing Street, Mr Cameron recalls.\n\nThe poll, which was published while he and his wife, Samantha, were staying at Balmoral, \"hit me like a blow to the solar plexus\".\n\nA poll finding the Yes campaign in front contributed to a \"mounting sense of panic\" in Downing Street\n\nMr Cameron - who agreed to hold the independence referendum in the face of opposition within his party - said there followed urgent conversations between advisers in Downing Street and Buckingham Palace to figure out how the Queen could comment while still remaining within the constitutional boundaries of neutrality.\n\n\"I remember conversations I had with my private secretary and he had with the Queen's private secretary and I had with the Queen's private secretary, not asking for anything that would be in any way improper or unconstitutional but just a raising of the eyebrow even, you know, a quarter of an inch. We thought would make a difference.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace insisted that the Queen was above politics\n\nWhen asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme for more detail about what had happened, Mr Cameron said he \"didn't want to say anything more about this\".\n\n\"I'm sure that some people would think, possibly even me, that I've already said perhaps a little bit too much,\" he said.\n\nAt the time, the BBC's royal correspondent said the Queen's words were \"more of an observation than an intervention\", while Buckingham Palace said any suggestion the Queen was seeking to influence the outcome of the referendum was \"categorically wrong\".\n\nOfficials insisted the monarch was above politics, and the issue of Scotland's future was a matter for the people.\n\nTwo weeks after the Scottish referendum, Mr Cameron was forced to apologise after suggesting the Queen \"purred down the phone\" when she was told about the No result.\n\nWhile he feels \"sorry\" about events since the 2016 Brexit vote, Mr Cameron said he did not regret the decision to hold the EU referendum.\n\nWhile some people would \"never forgive\" him, he maintained the UK's 40-year membership was becoming \"unstable\" and the duty of leaders was to \"see difficulties coming and try to resolve them and shape the country's response to them\".\n\nHe accepted he \"totally underestimated the latent Leave gene\" in his party and that during the campaign while \"he had a winning hand, he could not seem to play it\".\n\nAfter losing the vote, Mr Cameron said he knew he had to quit because he did not have the \"credibility to deliver Brexit\", but was \"desperately sad\" his time in office was cut short.\n\nMr Cameron said the coalition government staved off a financial crisis\n\n\"I think of all the things we could and should have done if we had been able... to win the referendum,\" he recalls. \"A whole lot of what we could have done effectively ran into the sand of the European issue.\"\n\nOn his economic and social record, he rejects as \"total nonsense\" opponents' claims that he embraced deep spending cuts as a political choice to reduce the size of the state.\n\nHe says the multi-billion pound budget deficit inherited by his government in 2010 was a \"clear and present danger to the British economy\" requiring immediate action.\n\n\"In the end there were difficult and painful decisions, but inequality fell and the share of income tax paid by the richest went up, not down,\" he argued. \"We protected pensioners, we protected the NHS, we protected help for the poorest.\"\n\nMr Cameron's long-awaited memoirs, entitled For The Record, was published on Thursday.\n\nIn excerpts published by the Times last week, he accused Boris Johnson and Michael Gove of behaving \"appallingly\" during the Brexit referendum.\n\nThe first episode of The Cameron Years will be broadcast on BBC One at 21.00 BST.", "The government's lawyer, Sir James Eadie QC, has argued that the decision to suspend Parliament is not one for the court to decide on.\n\nAt the Supreme Court he said that prorogative power had been \"expressly preserved by Parliament\" and that outside of \"specific legislative control in particular context... the prorogative power is not subject to legislative control\".\n\nCritics have accused the PM of trying to stop the scrutiny of MPs in the run-up to Brexit on 31 October.\n\nThe PM suspended - or prorogued - Parliament for five weeks earlier this month, saying it would allow him to hold a Queen's Speech on 14 October to outline his new policies.", "Everything is very close in this troubled land. It's small. Travelling around and across land that has been fought over doesn't take long. Enemies, resentment, hopes and disappointment are never far away.\n\nI took a drive down the Jordan Valley. It runs between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, mostly sandy and rocky desert. It is the deepest valley in the world, going down to 1,300 feet (400m) below sea level. The domes of the monastery of the Temptation, built into the cliffs stare down on Jericho, the Palestinian city that claims to be the oldest in the world. Christians believe Satan appeared somewhere near here to Jesus, tempting him during his 40 days and nights of fasting.\n\nThe southern end of the valley, where I am, has been occupied by Israel since 1967, a big part of the land it captured in that year's Middle East War\n\nUsually the valley is a sleepy place. But Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed it into his country's general election, which is coming up this Tuesday. He declared that if he was returned as prime minister, he would annex the Jordan Valley, and Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The suggestion has been condemned by many of Israel's friends, including Britain, on the grounds that it would be yet another nail in the coffin containing hopes for peace. Israel would have absorbed land Palestinians want for a state.\n\nMr Netanyahu has said similar things before. Perhaps he won't keep his promise if he wins. Perhaps he will.\n\nHe's offering Israeli right-wingers a tasty electoral inducement to vote for him. He needs the votes. The election will be close.\n\nMore than anything else, it is a referendum on Mr Netanyahu, who has overtaken Israel's founding father David Ben Gurion as its longest-serving prime minister.\n\nIn Jerusalem, I went to an ultra-Orthodox rally. I headed for one of the religious neighbourhoods of the city. Thousands of men in black coats and hats, beards and skullcaps jammed into a closed-off major city highway. They were there to declare support for a coalition of religious parties, who are staunch supporters of Mr Netanyahu. He needs their support to form a new government.\n\nIsrael's electoral system always produces coalitions. Would-be prime ministers need to add their own party's seats to those of smaller parties who exact a price for giving their support. The ultra-Orthodox have been staunch supporters of Mr Netanyahu. Without their seats, he would not be able to form a government.\n\nIsrael is a strong country. Its achievements are remarkable. But it also has a streak of insecurity, understandable given the history of the Jews and of the Israeli state. Mr Netanyahu plays on those fears. His campaign has majored on Israel's enemies in Iran, Syria and Lebanon.\n\nHis message, repeated time after time, is that the Middle East is a tough neighbourhood and he is the only politician who can keep Israelis safe. Election posters show him with US President Donald Trump, both men smiling, suggesting a unique partnership that only Mr Netanyahu can maintain.\n\nHis main rival is a centre-left coalition, called Blue and White, led by a retired general, Benny Gantz, and Yair Lapid, a TV personality turned politician. General Gantz says he can restore honour to the premiership. Mr Netanyahu faces serious corruption charges, which he denies. His opponents say he has divided and cheapened Israel.\n\nOn polling day, it might come down to turnout. Israelis get election days off - and it's perfect beach weather.", "The actor plays an astronaut in his latest film, and spoke to the real-life astronaut about how he navigates life on the International Space Station.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We must stop Brexit\", Jo Swinson says\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson has warned Boris Johnson that \"if he thinks being a woman is somehow a weakness, he's about to find out it is not\".\n\nShe said the PM's choice of insults such as \"big girl's blouse\" and \"girly swot\" were \"revealing\".\n\nIn her first conference speech as leader, she said she could not wait to \"take on\" Mr Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage in an election.\n\nAnd she vowed a Lib Dem government would stop Brexit \"on day one\".\n\nThe Lib Dems currently have 18 MPs - a figure boosted by recent defections - but it would require a seismic shift in the electoral landscape for them to win power.\n\nNevertheless, Ms Swinson received a standing ovation when she told the conference she wanted to be prime minister, adding: \"There is no limit to my ambition for our party.\"\n\nMr Johnson called Mr Corbyn \"a big girl's blouse\" during their first clash at Prime Minister's Questions earlier this month - a remark that prompted some criticism.\n\nIt also emerged he had labelled former PM David Cameron a \"girly swot\".\n\nOn Tuesday, as the Supreme Court began hearing two appeals relating to the suspension of Parliament, Lib Dem conference delegates backed an emergency motion calling for the suspension of Parliament to be reversed.\n\nEarlier at the conference they voted overwhelmingly to back her proposal for a manifesto pledge to revoke Article 50 if the party came into power with a majority government.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Swinson criticised Mr Johnson's pledge to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nShe told the conference in Bournemouth the prime minister's spending on no-deal preparations was \"sickening\".\n\n\"The truth is you can't plan for no deal. Planning for no deal is like planning to burn your house down,\" she said. \"You might have insurance, but you're still going to lose all your stuff.\"\n\nThe six new Lib Dems - acquired from Labour and the Tories - were front and centre\n\nAsk Liberal Democrat members here what they think of their leader and words like \"refreshing\", \"energetic\" and \"relatable\" trip off the tongue.\n\nSome praise Jo Swinson's ability to communicate with voters, others gush about her confidence and composure in the House of Commons.\n\nBut old hands who've seen leaders come and go sound a note of caution about fulfilling expectations.\n\nOne senior figure said she needed to \"rise to the occasion\".\n\nJo Swinson has won her party's backing for a bold shift in policy on Brexit, and talks of winning 300 seats in a general election.\n\nBut with big ambitions come big expectations and soon Jo Swinson will be judged by her party on what she can deliver not just on what she can promise.\n\nMs Swinson, who succeeded Sir Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader in July, added: \"The first task is clear. We must stop Brexit. There is no Brexit that will be good for our country.\"\n\nShe criticised Mr Johnson for withdrawing the Conservative whip from 21 Tory rebels - including one, Sam Gyimah, who later joined the Lib Dems - and for deciding to suspend Parliament.\n\nShe said he was \"silencing critics, purging opponents, ignoring the law\".\n\n\"For someone who proclaims to hate socialist dictators, he's doing a pretty good impression of one.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Swinson also turned her fire on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of holding on to Eurosceptic views.\n\n\"Even now, when faced with all the clear and obvious dangers that Brexit brings, Jeremy Corbyn still insists that if Labour win a general election, they will negotiate their own Brexit deal to take us out of the EU,\" she said.\n\n\"Nigel Farage might be Brexit by name, but it is very clear that Jeremy Corbyn is Brexit by nature.\"\n\nEarlier, shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti described the Lib Dem's promise to revoke Article 50 without a further referendum as \"illiberal and anti-democratic\".\n\nTurning to Scotland, Ms Swinson highlighted its support to remain in the EU in the 2016 referendum and urged supporters there to give \"a big vote\" to her party.\n\n\"Together we can stop Brexit,\" she said. \"We are building a movement across the United Kingdom that is on the verge of stopping it.\"\n\nIn her keynote speech, Ms Swinson also touched on policy matters away from Brexit.\n\nOn climate change, she said a Lib Dem government would create a green investment bank and set up a citizens' assembly to debate how the UK would reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045.\n\nShe said her government would tackle climate change \"because, as the placards say, there is no Planet B.\"\n\nMs Swinson also said she wanted the party to \"fundamentally rethink the purpose of our economy\", asking why a country's success was \"reduced to a GDP figure\".\n\n\"It [GDP] measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile,\" she said quoting the American politician Bobby Kennedy.\n\nShe pledged to introduce a wellbeing budget \"to spell out our priorities for public spending on the things that matter most\".\n\nThe Lib Dem leader also promised to fund youth services in order to tackle knife crime and to ringfence funding for mental health services.", "Sam Walker posted a photograph of himself at HMP Peterborough\n\nMore action is needed to stop mobile phones entering jails after a prisoner was able to set up a YouTube channel from his cell, a union says.\n\nPrison Officers' Association chairman Mark Fairhurst said it was \"frustrating\" prisoners were finding \"ingenious\" ways to hide phones.\n\nDrug dealer Sam Walker was found using a smuggled phone to run a YouTube and Twitter account from Leeds jail.\n\nMr Fairhurst said body scanners and signal-blocking technology were needed.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said Walker had since been moved to HMP Peterborough, but his social media activity has apparently continued.\n\nHis Twitter account has more than 19,000 followers and carries the description \"unofficial account being run until Sam's home\".\n\nIt also links to a YouTube channel, which carries videos captured in Leeds.\n\nOne video, published on 10 August, purportedly shows Walker in a room with Charles Bronson.\n\nA caption alongside the video said: \"Big Charlie Bronson becomes camera shy while I video him. All 6ft5ins & 20 stone of him.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice later clarified the prisoner in the video was not the notorious armed robber.\n\nSam Walker's Twitter account has more than 19,000 followers\n\nMr Fairhurst said prison staff believed somebody outside the jail was posting the material on Walker's behalf.\n\nHe said prison officers had tried and failed to find a phone in Walker's cell, and he may have concealed it \"in his person\".\n\nHe said: \"What we need is for the officers to get in that cell and get [the phone] off him, but they have ingenious ways of hiding mobile phones.\n\n\"If in fact he uses the popular choice, and he secretes the mobile phone in his person, we do not have the authority to take it from him.\n\n\"We're very reliant on storming in his cell and getting it while he's using it. It is very frustrating.\"\n\nIn 2018, 36-year-old Walker also posted videos while on the run in Sierra Leone before his eventual arrest.\n\nOne of the videos showed an inmate who Walker likened to notorious armed robber Charles Bronson\n\nYet despite the move, his social media activity has continued, with the prisoner posting a photograph of himself at the jail.\n\nA spokesman for Sodexo, which runs the jail in conjunction with the MOJ, said \"immediate action\" had been taken, but declined to say what form that action took.\n\nTwitter and YouTube have been approached for a comment.\n\nMr Fairhurst said: \"Realistically, as we've been highlighting, we want the technology in our jails to prevent mobile phone signals.\n\n\"That technology is available. It can isolate specific points in a prison. Of course, it costs money. I get the impression it's all down to funding.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Earlier this year the UN released data showing that more civilians were killed by allies than insurgents in Afghanistan.\n\nThe BBC has gained incredibly rare access to Taliban-controlled territory, in Faryab province, to meet those civilians most at risk.", "The proposals for nurses in north Wales will be discussed at the assembly on Wednesday\n\nProposed changes to nurses' rotas could result in a \"loss of goodwill\", an AM has warned.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board's plans to not pay staff for their 30-minute breaks would mean an extra unpaid shift each month, Plaid Cymru's Llyr Gruffydd has said.\n\nThe proposals were discussed in the assembly on Wednesday, as the health board's consultation ends.\n\nThe health board said it was to ensure staff could take their breaks.\n\nIt added plans to standardise shift patterns, breaks and handover periods were designed to benefit staff.\n\nYsbyty Gwynedd is one of the hospitals run by the health board\n\nMr Gruffydd, before the debate, warned the plan could backfire: \"The loss of goodwill among thousands of nurses who are already working under immense pressures will probably make matters worse.\n\n\"These proposals... will mean an extra half-hour unpaid per shift.\n\n\"That's unacceptable when nurses are already working long hours under pressure, not least because one in 10 nursing posts are vacant within the health board.\"\n\nComments on a petition launched by Plaid Cymru show some are unhappy with the plans.\n\n\"Staff on the ward regularly miss breaks due to staff shortage and acuity,\" one wrote.\n\n\"Myself and other members of staff regularly stay over our shift hours and never claim the time back.\n\n\"[I] think this will put the nail in the coffin for an already struggling health board.\"\n\nThe union Unite, which protested against the changes outside a health board meeting earlier this month, said it believed they would have a detrimental effect on the work-life balance of its members.\n\nRegional officer Jo Goodchild said: \"Nursing staff are working in this organisation because they care and always put patients first, often to the detriment of their own wellbeing.\"\n\nNurses always put patients first to the detriment of their own wellbeing, a union says\n\nTrevor Hubbard, the health board's executive director of nursing, said: \"Currently, there are too many instances where staff work through their breaks or are unable to take the protected time on a shift they are entitled to.\n\n\"Key to our proposal to standardise shift patterns is ensuring that staff receive adequate breaks, especially when they are working longer shift patterns.\"\n\n\"The proposals also provide an opportunity for us to reduce the reliance upon agency staff in the process, which has a patient care and staff safety benefit as well as a financial benefit,\" he added.\n\nHe said the plans would make the board compliant with the Working Time Regulations and the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act.\n\nHealth minister Vaughan Gething told AMs said staff rotas were an \"operational matter and the responsibility of individual organisations\".\n\nHealth bodies should \"should ensure that all of their rotas take into consideration compliance with the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016; are designed to meet the needs of staff for service delivery; and place patient need at the centre of the management of the workforce\", he said.\n\n\"I expect all NHS employers to work closely with trade unions on the staff side on proposed changes to consider and respond appropriately to all comments and concerns,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police established that Barr had stolen and sold thousands of books\n\nA prolific thief who stole more than £80,000 of books from three university libraries and then sold them online has been jailed for 25 months.\n\nDarren Barr made £30,450 after he targeted colleges in Edinburgh between October 2017 and September 2018.\n\nA court heard Barr, 28, stole thousands of texts from Edinburgh University and Napier and Heriot-Watt universities.\n\nHe was caught after a PhD student bought a book stolen from her own university library.\n\nEdinburgh Sheriff Court heard there were supposed to be six copies of the text in the library but none was available.\n\nThe woman then bought a copy from online company Webuybooks - only to discover it had actually come from her university library, and had a fake withdrawn notice marked on it.\n\nCourt documents revealed Napier University was made aware last year of the possible thefts from its libraries at its campus sites at Craiglockhart and Sighthill in Edinburgh.\n\nA stock check revealed between 4,000 and 4,250 books had been stolen with around 3,500 books being taken from the Sighthill Campus alone.\n\nThe value of these books was approximately £72,800.\n\nThe court heard that various inquiries were carried out with Webuybooks.\n\nIt emerged that the company had purchased hundreds of university textbooks from what appeared to be the same person linked to the same bank account.\n\nThe account was set up under a false name but detectives discovered it belonged to Barr, who is also known as Alexander Van De Kamp.\n\nSearches of CCTV footage showed Barr arriving at various times at the library with a black rucksack and a large hold-all before leaving and driving away.\n\nWhen he was arrested in September 2018 his car was searched and officers found a number of university textbooks.\n\nHis home address was also searched and a receipt for a courier was found.\n\nA courier box was then discovered by the police and found to contain more university books.\n\nAlmost 1,300 stolen books were later recovered from across the UK , with more than 1,000 of these belonging to Napier University.\n\nIt was established that around 7,000 had already been sold online.\n\nBarr, of Kinross, admitted four charges of theft earlier this year.\n\nPassing sentence, Sheriff Kenneth McGowan said: \"What I have before me here is a course of conduct continuing over a lengthy period of 11 months during which a very substantial number of books were stolen from Napier University in particular.\n\n\"These were of a high value. There was clearly careful planning on your part.\n\n\"In my view a custodial sentence is appropriate.\"\n\nDet Sgt Dougal Begg of Police Scotland said: \"This is one of the most brazen and high-value thefts from our universities that I can ever recall and the amount of money Darren Barr was able to make by resetting stolen books is staggering.\n\n\"Had it not been for the staff at Edinburgh Napier University raising their concerns about missing stock, we may never have uncovered what Barr was up to and even larger quantities of books may have ended up being taken from the institutions.\n\nPolice discovered that WeBuyBooks paid the accused £10,612 for 1,995 books. Ziffit paid £18,600 for 4,488 books and Zapper paid £1,238 for 253 books.\n\nBarr's solicitor Murray Robertson acknowledged that the thefts caused significant loss to the universities involved.\n\nBarr now faces a proceeds of crime action later this year.", "Last updated on .From the section Rangers\n\nFormer Rangers player Fernando Ricksen has died at age 43 after a six-year battle with motor neurone disease, the Ibrox club have confirmed.\n\nThe Dutch international had been battling the condition since 2013.\n\nRicksen was a fans' favourite during his six-year spell at Rangers after being signed by Dick Advocaat in 2000.\n\nHe helped the club win the domestic cup double in 2002, the treble in 2003 and was captain for a trophy double in 2005.\n\nRangers said they were \"deeply saddened\" to be announcing the news of Ricksen's passing.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at Rangers is today with his wife Veronika, his daughter Isabella and all his family and friends,\" the club added.\n• None 'He gave 100% for the jersey'\n• None 'We want to win for Fernando'\n\nAfter diagnosis in 2013, Ricksen spent his years battling motor neurone disease campaigning and raising money to find a cure for the debilitating condition, which affects the nerves and causes weakness over time.\n\nHis charity has raised over £1m in a bid to help scientists with research. Speaking to ITV News in June , when he used eye movements to talk via a computer, Ricksen urged those in sport to do more to help pressure drugs companies to find a cure.\n\n\"The sports world could put more pressure on the pharmaceutical companies,\" he said. \"This disease is not lucrative enough so it has no priority.\n\n\"If tomorrow an MND epidemic came we would have a cure within a week. It's disgusting but a reality.\"\n\nThe former Dutch international also opened up about his own battle with the illness.\n\n\"Your body doesn't want to anymore but your brain is functioning without problems. You start losing the ability to speak. Then the legs start to get wobbly. Then you can't lift your legs anymore and you start falling.\n\n\"Don't give up,\" was his message to others inflicted with MND.\n\n'He showed who he is, he never gave up'\n\nRicksen arrived at Rangers from AZ Alkmaar after starting his career at Fortuna Sittard and through his character, attitude, and commitment, quickly became a fans' favourite.\n\nRangers team-mate Arthur Numan played alongside Ricksen for three years, and says his friend was full of passion on the pitch.\n\n\"Straight from the beginning he gave 100% for the jersey, he was a winner,\" the Dutchman told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"He was a favourite of the fans because of what he gave on the park and also as captain of the team he gave 110% for the result.\n\n\"I think that's one of the reasons why he came back to Scotland. He wanted to stay there in the hospice, he treasured those really good memories of playing for Rangers.\n\n\"He was a strong character. In 2013 he came out with the news that he was suffering from MND and people thought he wouldn't last long.\n\n\"But he fought for nearly six years against it and that shows how he is as a person and as a character - never give up, always give 100% and go for it.\"\n\nRicksen left Ibrox for Russian side Zenit St Petersburg and was there reunited with Advocaat. He was part of the Zenit squad that reached the 2008 Uefa Cup final against Rangers, though he did not feature as the Russian side won 2-0.\n\nBetween 2000 and 2003, Ricksen won 12 caps for his country. Former Scotland striker Billy Dodds also played alongside him at Rangers and shared some fond memories.\n\n\"He would cause trouble in an empty house, but he was so genuine and that's what has saddened me,\" Dodds said. \"It's ok talking about him as a player, but there was a good side to Fernando that a lot of people will miss.\n\n\"I remember one pre-season we were in Holland, and we had a bus journey and that's when he decided to open up a wee bit. I was sitting next to him and he just told me about his family, his journey and it wasn't easy.\n\nDodds added: \"There was a thinking side to him, there was a bit of bedevilment, he wanted to kick you, but that's because he was a winner. Opposing fans loved to hate him, but he loved that, that made him tick and made him play.\"", "Top retailers are holding what some describe as \"clear-the-air\" talks with government after a recent row over the impact of no-deal Brexit on the supply of fresh food in particular.\n\nThe meeting is the result of a demand from some chief executives to meet the prime minister.\n\nEarlier this month, Michael Gove, his minister in charge of no-deal preparations, told the BBC: \"Everyone will have the food they need\" and \"no, there will be no shortages of fresh food.\"\n\nThat last point was condemned immediately by the industry group, the British Retail Consortium, as \"categorically untrue\".\n\nIndeed, the government's internal Yellowhammer no-deal document from last month, obliged to be published by the Commons before it was suspended, clearly states its reasonable worst-case planning assumption that \"certain types of fresh food supply will decrease\".\n\nThere are two different meetings this afternoon with Mr Gove and a separate scheduled meeting with top civil servants, all occurring today and attended by various top retail and food chiefs from Tesco, Sainsbury's, Co-op and John Lewis, among others.\n\nRetailers have told me they are deeply wary that they are now on the end of a no-deal Brexit blame game from the Boris Johnson government, as it claims to be ready for no-deal and says the French government is ready.\n\nThe message in some meetings is that the only factor that will cause disruption, tailbacks and delays is, therefore, a lack of preparedness from traders, hauliers and businesses.\n\nThis has depleted levels of trust between a vital sector and the government at a tense time. Retailers report that despite some improvement in the predicted rate of flow of freight traffic across the Channel in a no-deal Brexit, the timing of Brexit Day comes at the worst possible time, with warehouses full of Christmas stock and the UK at peak dependence on European imports for fresh produce.\n\nOne top retailer told me that whereas it had more than four weeks of supply in warehouses for the original March Brexit date, its current supplies are between nine and 14 days.\n\nRetailers are trying to work out exactly how to deal with a possible consumer response to no-deal. As the published Yellowhammer document puts it: \"There is a risk that panic buying will cause or exacerbate food supply disruption.\"\n\nRetailers are particularly concerned that should the government, for immediate political reasons, play down the specific narrow risks to some fresh food supply, consumers will not be prepared on 1 November and will be difficult to reassure.\n\nOne retailer has been reviewing the sensitivity of consumers to shops' \"just-in-time\" supply chains in previous supply disruptions, such as the fuel crisis and the \"Beast from the East\" snow disruption.\n\n\"It took two weeks to get full supplies back to normal,\" one chief executive told me.\n\nRetailers are finding it difficult to stockpile supplies\n\nOf specific concern is the interaction between social media and and localised supply shortages. In particular, the industry is wondering who exactly will reassure consumers not to stockpile.\n\nSome insiders, present at key planning meetings, believe the lack of trust of large parts of the public in politicians mean that reassurances from government ministers designed to stop panic-buying could provoke the opposite response.\n\nHowever, those retailers concerned by an emerging Brexit blame game are also increasingly sceptical that it is their job to be reassuring about the consequences of government policy not of their making.\n\nIt was revealed in Welsh government no-deal papers released this week that a \"UK-wide table top exercise to test the coordinated response for the disruption to food supply and potential public response\" has been scheduled for the end of the month.\n\nThe administration in Cardiff is believed to be particularly concerned about the impact on more remote communities at the end of supermarket supply chains. It has allocated £2m to spread food bank coverage more widely, in anticipation of rising food prices.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes has the support of \"the whole sport and the country\" after criticising the Sun over a story it ran about his family, a leading cricket chief says.\n\nTom Harrison, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), added he was \"disgusted and appalled\" by the newspaper's actions.\n\nBut the Sun has defended its journalism.\n\nIt pointed out it had received the co-operation of a family member and said the events described were \"a matter of public record\" and \"the subject of extensive front-page publicity in New Zealand at the time\".\n\nThe story prompted a statement from Stokes, the England and Durham all-rounder. The 28-year-old said it was the \"lowest form of journalism\" which dealt with \"deeply personal and traumatic events\" that affected his New Zealand-based family more than 30 years ago.\n\nStokes was born in New Zealand and moved to Cumbria with his family aged 12.\n\nHe won the Cricket World Cup with England this summer, then made an unlikely 135 not out in the third Ashes Test against Australia at Headingley last month to keep England in contention in the series.\n\nHis comments on the story drew support from various figures in the sport and public life, and team-mates including England captain Joe Root.\n\n\"We, like the wider sporting world, are disgusted and appalled at the actions taken in revealing the tragic events from Ben's past,\" Harrison said in the ECB's statement.\n\n\"We are saddened that an intrusion of this magnitude was deemed necessary in order to sell newspapers or secure clicks. Ben's exploits at Lord's and Headingley cemented his place in cricket history this summer - we are sure the whole sport, and the country, stands behind him in support.''\n\nToday the Sun has seen fit to publish extremely painful, sensitive and personal details concerning events in the private lives of my family, going back more than 31 years.\n\nIt is hard to find words that adequately describe such low and despicable behaviour, disguised as journalism. I cannot conceive of anything more immoral, heartless or contemptuous to the feelings and circumstances of my family.\n\nFor more than three decades, my family has worked hard to deal with the private trauma inevitably associated with these events and has taken great care to keep private what were deeply personal and traumatic events.\n\nOn Saturday the Sun sent a 'reporter' to my parents' home in New Zealand to question them, out of the blue, on this incredibly upsetting topic. If that wasn't bad enough, the Sun think it is acceptable to sensationalise our personal tragedy for their front page.\n\nTo use my name as an excuse to shatter the privacy and private lives of - in particular - my parents, is utterly disgusting. I am am aware that my public profile brings with it consequences for me that I accept entirely.\n\nBut I will not allow my public profile to be used as an excuse to invade the rights of my parents, my wife, my children or other family members. They are entitled to a private life of their own.\n\nThe decision to publish these details has grave and lifelong consequences for my mum in particular.\n\nThis is the lowest form of journalism, focussed only on chasing sales with absolutely no regard for the devastation caused to lives as a consequence. It is totally out of order.\n\nThe article also contains serious inaccuracies which has compounded the damage caused. we need to take a serious look at how we allow our press to behave.\n\nWhat does the Sun say?\n\nA spokesperson for the Sun said: \"The Sun has the utmost sympathy for Ben Stokes and his mother but it is only right to point out the story was told with the co-operation of a family member who supplied details, provided photographs and posed for pictures.\n\n\"The tragedy is also a matter of public record and was the subject of extensive front page publicity in New Zealand at the time.\n\n\"The Sun has huge admiration for Ben Stokes and we were delighted to celebrate his sporting heroics this summer. He was contacted prior to publication and at no stage did he or his representatives ask us not to publish the story.\"\n\nThere was no justification for the Sun story beyond selling papers, according to press regulation campaign group Hacked Off.\n\nBoard member Steve Barnett - who is a lecturer in communications - told BBC Radio 5 Live that the story was \"graphic evidence\" of a newspaper \"driving a coach and horses through their own code of conduct\".\n\n\"He's done absolutely nothing wrong and his own family history is dragged through the mud. I can't see any justification for this other than the fact it will sell papers. It was a brutally commercial decision which took no account of their own code of conduct, which says everyone deserves respect for their private and family life. \"\n\nHe also questioned the newspaper's defence that the information had come from a family member, saying giving \"carte blanche for any family member to come forward and say 'I've got some dirt or story or can give you some inside track on some tragedy'\" was \"not a good way to run a journalistic operation\".\n\n\"Ben Stokes himself said if it was about him he could stand up and take it. He's man enough to say I'm in the public life and will take whatever's coming - but to do that to your family, to people who have never done anything apart from be related to you, is unforgivable,\" he added.\n\nIan Murray, the executive director of the Society of Editors, told the station: \"I know there will be a lot of people who agree with Ben Stokes in what he said and will side with him. There will be a lot of journalists who will find this actually distasteful.\n\n\"It's not for the Society to say whether it is distasteful or not but what we will do is defend a free press in this country.\n\n\"Was it editorially justifiable? Evidently the paper thought that it was.\n\n\"I'm not defending the Sun - what I am defending is the principle and saying let's be very careful about what we do. We have freedom of expression in this country to a large extent - there are lots of regulations there, there are lots of laws. We have a free press. It's such a jewel in the crown of any free society. And there are always the sharks circling, the politicians, the rich, the powerful who would like to see that free press closed down.\"\n\nNew press regulation was introduced after the Leveson Inquiry into press standards in 2011 and 2012. It saw a small number of publications joining Impress, a self-regulatory body set up to be \"Leveson-compliant\".\n\nHowever most newspapers signed up to Ipso, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, and abide by their own Editors' Code of Practice.", "DUP Leader Arlene Foster spoke to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce on issues concerning devolution and Brexit\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said that she wants a solution to Brexit that does not affect Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nMrs Foster was speaking to reporters before she addressed the Dublin City Chamber of Commerce.\n\nShe also met with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar in Government Buildings after her address.\n\nThey discussed Brexit and the need for restoration of devolution.\n\nAsked if NI-specific solutions would not affect the current constitutional position of Northern Ireland, Mrs Foster said she wants a recognition that Northern Ireland is in the United Kingdom.\n\n\"What I want to see is Northern Ireland firmly being with the rest of Great Britain,\" she said.\n\n\"What we want to see happening is a recognition that we are on an island, we recognise that and we recognise the unique history and geography,\" she said.\n\n\"But we also have to recognise that we're in the UK and sometimes I think people forget that.\"\n\nShe said that she wants to see a sensible deal that works for Northern Ireland and \"our neighbours down here in the Republic of Ireland\".\n\n\"But one that works for the UK constitutional position as well. That's very important and one I hope the European Union will respect,\" she said.\n\nMrs Foster added that the DUP is often incorrectly pitted as a no-deal party.\n\n\"I think the sort of presentation that the DUP deal is a no-deal party is wrong and I think people get very alarmed when they hear that sort of rhetoric,\" she said.", "British Airways pilots have called off the next strike in their dispute, which had been scheduled for 27 September.\n\nLast week, a two-day stoppage called by the pilots' union, Balpa, forced BA to cancel almost all its flights.\n\nThe strike followed failed negotiations between the union and the airline over a pay offer of 11.5% over three years.\n\nBalpa said the strikes on 9 and 10 September had demonstrated the anger and resolve of pilots.\n\nIt was now time for a period of reflection before the dispute \"escalates further and irreparable damage is done to the brand\", the union said.\n\nA spokesman for BA said: \"We have just received this news. We are considering the implications and we will give updates in due course.\"\n\nBritish Airways had already started cancelling flights for 27 September last Thursday - just outside the 14-day window when the company must pay passengers compensation if their travel is cancelled.\n\nThe airline has said it will try to reinstate as many of the flights as possible, but it is not yet clear if they will all be put back on the schedule for 27 September.\n\nBritish Airways said it will be in touch with customers to let them know.\n\nThe airline was forced to cancel 1,700 flights last week during the pilots' walkout over pay.\n\nSome 200,000 passengers had to change their travel plans because of the strikes.\n\nAround 200,000 people were forced to change their travels plans because of last week's pilots' strike\n\nBalpa said it hoped BA would \"now change its approach and negotiate seriously\" with a view to ending the dispute.\n\nBalpa general secretary Brian Strutton said: \"Someone has to take the initiative to sort out this dispute and with no sign of that from BA, the pilots have decided to take the responsible course.\n\n\"In a genuine attempt at establishing a time out for common sense to prevail, we have lifted the threat of the strike on 27 September.\"\n\nHowever, Balpa said it retained the right to announce further strike dates.\n\nBA had offered pilots an 11.5% pay rise over three years in July, but this was rejected.\n\nBalpa said that its members had taken lower pay rises and made sacrifices during tougher times for the airline.\n\nIt said that now BA's financial performance had improved - its parent company IAG reported a 9% rise in profits last year - pilots should benefit.\n\nBA said the 11.5% offer was \"fair and generous\".\n\nIt has already been accepted by Unite and the GMB, whose members include BA cabin crew, ground staff and engineers.", "Graduates of 24 top UK universities are more likely to find work soon after graduating than those from other universities, research says.\n\nFour-fifths of Russell Group graduates entered full-time work within weeks of leaving compared with two-thirds of those from other institutions, a survey for graduate recruiter Milkround found.\n\nIt said firms used a tick-box system to filter candidates via the league table position of their universities.\n\nThe graduate jobs board has helped students and graduates to connect with leading employers for decades.\n\nIt pointed out that some of the best academic universities, such as Aberdeen, St Andrews and Lancaster, did not belong to the prestigious research-focused Russell Group.\n\nThe Russell Group is made up of 24 leading universities: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Imperial College London, King's College London, Leeds, Liverpool, London School of Economics and Political Science, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Queen Mary University of London, Queen's University Belfast, Sheffield, Southampton, University College London, Warwick and York.\n\nGeorgina Brazier, a graduate jobs expert at Milkround, said businesses were missing out on the chance to recruit some \"fantastic grads from other universities\".\n\nShe also urged employers to take a more balanced approach, rather than taking \"tick-box exercises such as filtering candidates by university league tables\".\n\n\"While there's no doubt that many students dream of attending reputationally prestigious universities such as Oxford or Cambridge, most graduates are left with the same level of debt or student loans (and same tuition fees) regardless of what university they attended,\" she said.\n\n\"The investment students make to attend university and gain their degree is substantial and whilst academic success should be applauded, some graduates feel the return on investment when entering the workplace should be fairer.\"\n\nA separate poll of 7,000 students for Milkround found a significant minority wanted recruitment to be carried out \"blind\" to candidates' gender, religion and anything that would denote socio-economic background.\n\nA number of high profile firms, such as Deloite, KPMG and the civil service, already use name blind application processes.\n\nDr Jack Britton, at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found, in 2017, Russell Group graduates earned an average of £33,500 after five years - about 40% more than those who had studied at other universities.\n\nGraduates of several other institutions - many of them dance and drama colleges - had average earnings closer to £15,000.\n\nBut Dr Britton said much of this could be attributed to the abilities and interests of the graduates themselves rather than the quality of their universities.\n\nAnd he pointed out entrants to Russell Group universities started their degrees with better exam grades, on average.\n\nIn November last year a study from Department for Education and Institute for Fiscal Studies found that women with a degree earn on average 28% more than non-graduate women.\n\nThe study also found men with degrees earn an average of 8% more than non-graduates.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Soldier F is to be charged with the murder of William McKinney and James Wray\n\nThe case of the Army veteran facing a murder trial over Bloody Sunday has been adjourned until later this year.\n\nSoldier F was not in Londonderry Magistrates' Court, but 28 members of the Bloody Sunday families watched proceedings from the public gallery.\n\nThe Army veteran, now aged in his 60s, faces two counts of murder and five of attempted murder.\n\nThe case against the former soldier has been adjourned until 4 December.\n\nSoldier F's legal team told the court it needed time to consider evidence served on him.\n\nHis anonymity remains in place by court order.\n\nSome of the Bloody Sunday families have walked together to Londonderry's courthouse\n\nA prosecution lawyer told the court that committal papers had been served in mid-August and that this was a complex matter involving a significant number of papers.\n\nA lawyer for Soldier F told the court they wanted an adjournment so that the papers containing the evidence could be fully considered.\n\nHe said the defence wanted to consider what witnesses would need to appear at a later stage.\n\nHe added the defence wanted an anonymity order on Soldier F's identity maintained.\n\nThe Solider F cipher had been used since 1972 and was not objected to by the prosecution, he said.\n\nGranting the adjournment, Judge Barney McElholm said it would allow time for the defence to fully consider the voluminous papers in the case and prepare a witness list.\n\nSpeaking outside court, William McKinney's brother Mickey said the start of a case was a 'significant event'\n\nIt would also allow prosecutors to ascertain their availability, he told the court.\n\nJudge McElholm said it is important there is fairness to all concerned.\n\nEarlier relatives of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday walked to Londonderry's court house before the court hearing.\n\nThe families marched from the city's Diamond to the Bishop Street court prior to the start of proceedings.\n\nCourtroom four was crowded for the hearing. Twenty-eight relatives of the Bloody Sunday families occupied every available seat in the public gallery.\n\nIn front of them, the glass-sided dock was empty.\n\nAs expected, proceedings were opened and quickly adjourned.\n\nAlmost 50 years separated this hearing from the events of Bloody Sunday.\n\nThe families came to court knowing this would be the start of lengthy process - and this could be the first delay of many.\n\nSoldier F is to be charged with murdering James Wray, 22, and William McKinney, 27.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, William McKinney's brother Mickey described the legal proceedings as a \" very significant event\" in the Bloody Sunday justice campaign.\n\nThe attempted murder charges relate to Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon and Patrick O'Donnell.\n\nA fifth attempted murder charge - not revealed earlier this year - relates to persons unknown.\n\nThousands of people took part in the civil rights march in Derry\n\nThirteen people were killed and 15 wounded when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry on Sunday, 30 January 1972.\n\nThe day became known as Bloody Sunday.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service decided in March that Soldier F, as he was known at the Bloody Sunday public inquiry, would be the only ex-paratrooper to be charged.\n\nThe former soldier was served with a court summons in recent weeks.", "Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked in a park near Romford, east London\n\nA 17-year-old girl was killed in a \"terrible and cowardly\" stabbing during a drug turf war, a court has heard.\n\nJodie Chesney was stabbed in the back while playing music and smoking cannabis with friends in a park in Harold Hill, east London, on 1 March.\n\nShe may not have been the intended target of the attack, the prosecution told the Old Bailey jury.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, Svenson Ong-a-kwie, 19, both from Romford, and two boys, aged 16 and 17, deny murder.\n\nThe jury was told two people came out of the dark in the park and the taller of them swung his right arm at Jodie's back.\n\nShe suffered a deep wound to her back and was left bleeding heavily as her attackers disappeared seconds later.\n\nJodie suffered a deep wound to her back and was bleeding heavily after the attack in a park\n\nJodie's boyfriend Eddie Coyle, 18, caught her as she fell and eased her to the ground, crying and screaming at Jodie to stay awake while holding her hand.\n\nThe first call to emergency services was made at 21:22 GMT and two police officers were on the scene within 13 minutes.\n\nThe ambulance set off for the Royal London Hospital but it was decided that doctors in a car should meet it halfway at an Esso Garage in Gants Hill.\n\nThey attempted to resuscitate Jodie on the forecourt of the petrol station, prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said.\n\n\"Despite the best efforts of all concerned, there had been no cardiac activity for some time. Jodie was pronounced dead at 22:26,\" he added.\n\nManuel Petrovic (left), Svenson Ong-a-Kwie (right) and two boys (behind) who cannot be identified due to their age\n\nMr Aylett told jurors none of Jodie's friends had any idea who was responsible for the \"terrible and cowardly\" attack.\n\nJurors were told the four defendants were involved in the supply of drugs and one or more of Jodie's friends had bought cannabis from those accused in the past.\n\n\"The drug-dealing world is one of turf wars, rivalries and pathetic claims for 'respect',\" Mr Aylett said.\n\nHe said, however, that there was \"nothing to suggest that Jodie was involved in the supply of drugs or that she might have upset anyone\".\n\n\"If the prosecution are right in saying that Jodie Chesney was an entirely blameless individual who got caught up in some quarrel between drug dealers, then her murder was the terrible but predictable consequence of an all-too casual approach to the carrying - and using - of knives.\"\n\nJodie's father described his daughter as \"a beautiful, well-liked, fun, young woman\"\n\nFollowing national publicity, police got a breakthrough when a witness reported two males getting into a stationary black Vauxhall Corsa.\n\nMr Aylett said Jodie's murder might have gone unsolved if not for the chance sighting by witness, Andrei Mihai, who reported seeing a stationary car near to the park where Jodie was stabbed and from where he heard screaming.\n\nA couple of hours after the killing, a black Corsa registered to Mr Petrovic was found abandoned about two miles away, he said.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Petrovic, of Highfield Road, Romford, east London, admitted driving to Harold Hill with a friend and two others who had gone into the park to collect money and drugs.\n\nHe denied knowing the pair were armed beforehand, the court heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood in a scene from the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring\n\nNew Zealand is poised for another Middle-earth-tied economic boost after Amazon Studios picked the country as the location for its much-anticipated Lord of the Rings television series.\n\nThe show is widely tipped to be the most expensive ever made, at a cost of at least $1bn (£801m).\n\nThe Amazon unit wants to tap the huge success of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, also shot in New Zealand.\n\nThe franchise delivered a boost to the country's tourism and jobs.\n\nAmazon Studios, which bought the rights to the television series two years ago, said the new adaptation will explore fresh storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Fellowship of the Ring.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, the firm said pre-production had started and shooting in Auckland would begin in the coming months.\n\n\"As we searched for the location in which we could bring to life the primordial beauty of the Second Age of Middle-earth, we knew we needed to find somewhere majestic, with pristine coasts, forests, and mountains,\" the firm said.\n\nNew Zealand's Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford said the project would create a range of benefits \"including jobs and significant overseas investment\".\n\nFilmed in the early 2000s by Kiwi director Peter Jackson, the Lord of the Rings trilogy pulled in nearly $3bn at the box office and won a slew of Academy Awards.\n\nThose films - along with The Hobbit trilogy - sparked a tourism boom in New Zealand.\n\nThey exposed the country's lush landscapes to the world and prompted millions of visitors to flock to the locations used.\n\nThe large-scale productions also transformed New Zealand's small film industry into a world leader, including in digital special effects.\n\nThe country has also welcomed Middle-earth as part of its cultural identity and giant models of dragons and wizards decorate Wellington airport.\n• None 'Lord of the Rings or Thor, prime minister?'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nIf the prime minister's team and the government machine of a small country can't agree happily on arrangements for a press conference, then it doesn't exactly feel like anyone is in the mood to edge a little bit closer to a Brexit deal.\n\n\"Podiumgate\", as it has inevitably been labelled, immediately gave a pantomime distraction - complete with a booing crowd - to Monday's developments in the bigger Brexit story.\n\nIt's no secret that the Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel held the views that he was so happy to express.\n\nHe has gladly - and candidly - expressed on many occasions his sadness that the UK voted to leave, and his frustration with how UK governments have handled it so far.\n\nBut if what happened was an expression of the state of diplomacy between the UK and EU member states, then don't hold your breath for a breakthrough in understanding between the two sides that could lead us all to a new version of a Brexit deal.\n\nAs ever with the UK's departure from the EU, there are two dramatically different interpretations of what happened.\n\nIf you think that it's a bad idea and Boris Johnson is blundering his way to a crash-out, then the Luxembourg leader's protestation will have given yet more evidence to that cause - the suggestion that the UK has made a terrible mistake, the EU has tried its best, and yet the prime minister is insisting on carrying on and, to boot, failing to offer any real and new options that could provide a civilised exit.\n\nIf, on the other hand, you reckon that the EU's leaders have looked for every opportunity to thwart the UK's reasonable efforts to deliver the referendum result, you may well think that it was another episode in the pantomime that demonstrates the continent's unwillingness to acknowledge the UK's decision to leave.\n\nForget those two sides for a second. What do the last 24 hours tell us about the chances of a deal actually being done?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: EU have had \"bellyful\" of delays\n\nPodiumgate tells us that both sides find it hard to present a joint front, and perhaps the relations of Brexit are so fractured that political leaders are not willing to observe the normal rules of diplomatic engagement.\n\nAnd if, in the months to come, either side is looking to apportion blame, Monday's events could play equally strongly into both sides' hands.\n\nMore pertinently maybe, when we asked the prime minister how he actually intended to get a deal, he suggested that there was space to revise the arrangements around the controversial backstop but simply wouldn't elaborate on what those details might be.\n\nAnd when we asked, repeatedly, exactly how he intends to get round Parliament's decision to try to outlaw leaving without a deal he just would not say.\n\nRight now it seems the volume is rising, but the clock is still ticking down.", "The app will offer advice alongside the text and messages children type\n\nThe BBC has created a \"wellbeing\" smartphone app called Own It aimed at children.\n\nIt monitors how young people interact with friends and family online and through messaging apps.\n\nIt uses AI to evaluate a child's mood so it can offer advice or encourage them to talk to trusted adults.\n\nThe app is designed to offer help and support especially if children are about to share sensitive data or send an upsetting message.\n\n\"The digital world is a fantastic place for people to learn and share, but we know many young people struggle to find a healthy online balance, especially when they get their first phones,\" said Alice Webb, director of BBC Children's, in a statement.\n\nMs Webb said the app would act as a \"helping hand\" to guide children into developing good habits when using their first phone and avoid some of the potential pitfalls of digital life.\n\nThe app is built around a special software keyboard that pops up when kids type messages and monitors the tone of the words being typed and language used.\n\nThe Own It app also has its own content that aims to help children manage the amount of time they spend looking at their screen and passes on other advice about responsible online interaction.\n\nThe BBC said the app would also regularly encourage children to talk to parents and guardians about good and bad online experiences and their phone use.\n\nThe app has no reporting system that parents can consult to oversee phone use, said the BBC.\n\nThe app would be \"warmly welcomed\" by some parents, said Prof Sonia Livingstone, a social psychologist from the London School of Economics who heads the EU Kids Online project which researches the digital diets of younger people.\n\nInstagram has also put in place tools to help combat bullying\n\nProf Livingstone, who has seen demonstration versions of Own It, added: \"Based on my research on children's online risks and opportunities, I think it should be very helpful for children, especially younger ones, and ideally would also stimulate constructive conversations between children and parents.\"\n\nShe said one of the \"strengths\" of the app was the effort it took to protect a child's privacy. This stood in contrast to other apps that many parents use to monitor and control their children's online lives.\n\nHowever, said Prof Livingstone, there were likely to be limits on its usefulness for some young people.\n\n\"The challenge will be to get it to the children who are more at risk online,\" she said.\n\nThe Own It app began development in 2018 and has drawn on input and support from many different child-focused charities and welfare groups.\n\nPartners include the Mental Health Foundation, the Anti-Bullying Alliance, the NSPCC, the Diana Award and Childnet.\n\nThe app is being launched against a background of research which shows how concerned some parents are about phone use among their offspring.\n\nOne study published in August suggests half of all UK parents want mobiles banned in schools to help regulate use.\n\nSeparate studies suggest teenagers are not damaged by prolonged screen use but official advice in the UK says parents should tell children to put down their devices in the hour before bed.", "Kevin Lunney is the chief operating officer at Quinn Industrial Holdings\n\nA prominent businessman has been abducted in County Fermanagh before being beaten and left at the side of a road in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nKevin Lunney, 50, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, was driving from work to his home in Kinawley when he was attacked at 18:40 BST on Tuesday.\n\nHe was found 22 miles (35km) away beside a road in County Cavan at about 21:00 and was taken to hospital.\n\nDetectives on both sides of the Irish border are investigating the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. He was 'bundled into the boot' of a car\n\nPSNI Supt Clive Beatty said: \"His injuries are severe and savage. Although not life threatening, they will definitely be life changing.\n\n\"Four masked men appeared, smashed the windows of Mr Lunney's vehicle, forcibly removed him from the vehicle and bundled him into the boot of a black Audi saloon and drove him away from his home.\"\n\nMr Lunney was badly beaten, suffering a broken leg and \"other very severe but non-life-threatening injuries\", said Quinn Industrial Holdings.\n\nHis car and another vehicle were found on fire near the Lunney family's home.\n\nKevin Lunney was a close associate of the County Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn and worked with him in his attempts to regain control of the Quinn Group business empire that collapsed in 2012 after Mr Quinn made a disastrous investment in Anglo Irish Bank.\n\nThere was a series of attacks in 2014 on property belonging to the new owners, including a fuel tanker that was driven into the headquarters building and set on fire.\n\nAfter a buyout by local businessmen, Mr Lunney and other former colleagues were brought back into the manufacturing business and Mr Quinn was employed as a consultant.\n\nBut Mr Quinn left amid accusations he had been \"stabbed in the back\" and since then there has been a new wave of attacks, threats and intimidation.\n\nIn spite of Mr Quinn condemning the attacks, they have continued and the company has warned that if they don't stop someone will be seriously injured or even killed.\n\nMr Lunney's abduction and beating has proved those fears are justified.\n\nAdrian Barden, the chairman of Quinn Industrial Holdings, said the \"brutal\" incident was the latest in a series of attacks targeting senior staff in the company.\n\nLast year, a car belonging to the company's chief finance officer was set on fire outside his home as his young family slept.\n\nPosters marked \"wanted\" and branding Mr Lunney and other Quinn Industrial Holdings directors as \"traitors\" appeared last year in Derrylin, County Fermanagh, where the company is based.\n\nIn February, Mr Lunney's nose was broken in an alleged attack at a service station in County Cavan.\n\nPosters like this are part of a campaign to intimidate Kevin Lunney and other directors, a court heard in March\n\n\"Kevin Lunney's abduction and assault is an outrageous attack on a hard-working father of six children but also on his 830 colleagues at Quinn Industrial Holdings and the wider community in the Cavan-Fermanagh region,\" added Mr Barden.\n\n\"For several hours last evening Kevin's wife, family and very many friends were left to contemplate the worst.\"\n\nMr Barden called on police forces on both sides of the border to \"act quickly and decisively to prevent an inevitable loss of life\" by \"bringing those responsible to justice\".\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it wanted information about what it described as a \"horrific attack\".\n\nIt has asked anyone who saw a black Audi car being driven in Derrylin or Swanlinbar in County Cavan to contact detectives.\n\nMr Lunney joined the Quinn business in 1995, working in its then newly-established insurance division.\n\nHe later became responsible for other parts of the business, including its property portfolio.\n\nThe area where Kevin Lunney was abducted was cordoned off by police on Wednesday\n\nThe companies comprising Quinn Industrial Holdings were formerly owned by Sean Quinn, who was once Ireland's richest man.\n\nHis business empire included insurance, property development and the manufacture and supply of building products, glass and plastics.\n\nWhen it collapsed, businessmen backed by three investment funds bought the manufacturing companies in December 2014 - the firms are run by former close associates of Mr Quinn.\n\nAfter he was discharged from bankruptcy, Mr Quinn was employed as a consultant at his former company but he left the role in 2016 amid tension between him and the management team.\n\nIt was reported at the time that he left by mutual agreement with the owners.\n\nMr Quinn later said he had been forced out and that his family had been \"stabbed in the back\" by their former company.\n\nBut he has repeatedly condemned attacks on property belonging to the owners of his former businesses.\n\nKevin Lunny was a close associate of Sean Quinn, who was once Ireland's richest man\n\nHis son Sean Quinn Jr said on Wednesday that his family was horrified by the attack on Mr Lunney.\n\n\"The people that are carrying out these despicable acts are not doing so for our benefit... and we are totally against this type of activity,\" he added.\n\nIn March, a court heard that other people who are unhappy Mr Quinn is no longer in charge of the firms he established were behind a campaign targeting Quinn Industrial Holdings executives.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster, a Northern Ireland Assembly member for the area in which Mr Lunney lives and works, said the incident was \"totally abhorrent\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew, the MP for the area, said the attack had caused \"widespread disgust\" in County Fermanagh.\n\n\"This is not just a horrific assault on Kevin and his family, but on jobs and stability in Fermanagh,\" she added.", "Five years is a long time in politics\n\nFive years have passed since the Scottish independence referendum. BBC Scotland looks at how the country's politics has changed since then, and how likely we are to do it all again.\n\nWhere were you on 18 September, 2014?\n\nIf you're a Scot who was over the age of 16, there's an 84.59% chance you were in a polling station at some point, ticking Yes or No on the question of independence.\n\nWhen those ballot papers were counted up, the No pile was bigger by 55% to 45% - but that was just the beginning of the story.\n\nWherever you were that day, it's unlikely you would have predicted where we would all be five years later, with the UK seemingly jammed halfway out the exit door of the EU and the question of Scotland's part in it decidedly unresolved.\n\nWhat has happened during this extraordinary period of political turmoil, and where does it leave us?\n\nRemember them? A lot of big names have bowed out of frontline politics since 2015\n\nThe wheels of history were turning within hours of the vote. Alex Salmond, Scotland's longest serving first minister and SNP leader, announced he was stepping down.\n\nHe was far from the last - if a year is a long time in politics, five is apparently a lifetime. The cast of characters at the top of the game has changed almost completely.\n\nThis is particularly true on what was supposedly the winning side - David Cameron, Alastair Darling, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, Jim Murphy, Kezia Dugdale and now even Ruth Davidson have all bowed out of frontline politics.\n\nMr Salmond's replacement was at least a familiar face - his deputy Nicola Sturgeon, who embarked on a sold-out stadium tour before returning the SNP to government in the 2016 Holyrood election.\n\nOther members of the Yes campaign have gone on to secure prominent positions - like Mhairi Black taking Douglas Alexander's Westminster seat, or Jeane Freeman winning one at Holyrood and rising to the post of health secretary.\n\nSomehow, the issue of Scottish independence has boosted the fortunes of both the party most strongly in favour of it - the SNP - and the one most staunchly opposed to it - the Conservatives.\n\nThe SNP were the first to have a surge post-indyref, recruiting tens of thousands of new members under Ms Sturgeon and going on to score a stunning landslide in the following year's general election.\n\nIt's hard to understate just how massive the 2015 election result was. The SNP gained almost a million votes and 50 constituencies, leaping from third place in Scotland in 2010 to holding all but three seats.\n\nThe SNP almost wiped their rivals off the map entirely in 2015\n\nFor the losers, the headline was Labour's near wipeout, losing 40 seats. But the Lib Dems, fresh from five years of coalition with the Tories, also saw their vote utterly collapse, losing more than half their support and 10 seats.\n\nAll of a sudden, the SNP were the third party at Westminster - and by a comfortable margin.\n\nSome of the new MPs didn't have a lot of time to settle in, though, because another election was coming down the tracks only two years later. This time, the pendulum swung in a different direction.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives were the ones cashing in on the constitutional question in 2017, draping themselves in the Union flag as the \"no to indyref2\" party on their way to gaining 12 seats in the snap election.\n\nThe SNP lost almost half a million votes as the electoral tide went out again, shedding 21 seats - but remained in position as the dominant force in Scottish politics with the majority of the country's Westminster seats.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems had mini-recoveries of their own, but it was the two parties camped most vocally on either side of the question of independence who were streets ahead, combining to take almost two thirds of the votes cast in Scotland.\n\nThe electoral shifts inside the span of a few years have been dizzying in some areas. The swingometer hasn't just broken, it's melted.\n\nThere were seats comfortably held by Labour or the Lib Dems in 2010, which yielded double-digit majorities for the SNP in 2015, but then turned blue for the Tories in 2017.\n\nWho might win them in the election broadly expected for later in 2019?\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been as involved in the debate over Brexit as she is in the independence one\n\nThe reason we had a snap election in 2017 and seem poised to have another is because the electorate were asked another binary constitutional question - about membership of the European Union.\n\nIn that 2016 contest, 62% of voters in Scotland backed Remain - while 52% across the UK as a whole voted to Leave.\n\nPoliticians have spent the three and a half years since then trying to work out exactly what \"leave\" means, and how to go about doing it.\n\nTheresa May - who succeeded David Cameron as prime minister shortly after the referendum - tried a snap election to boost her majority, and ended up wiping it out. After failing to get a deal she negotiated with European leaders past the Commons, she handed over to Boris Johnson, who is locked in a struggle of his own with MPs.\n\nAll the while, the disparity between the vote in Scotland and the vote UK-wide has gnawed away, ever-present in the local debate. Unsurprisingly, the pro-independence parties see it as a decisive point in their favour; equally unsurprisingly, the unionist parties are unconvinced.\n\nAs we can see in the wild swings in the various elections held since - including a European election which saw the Brexit Party finish second in Scotland and Labour fifth - what the electorate make of it all is less clear.\n\nCombined, the two referendums seem to have raised constitutional questions which are, as of yet, unresolved.\n\nThe issue of independence hasn't exactly gone away in the last five years\n\nYou will probably have noticed that the issue of independence hasn't exactly gone away over the last five years. Each of the political parties have marked the anniversary by restating arguments which have by now become extremely familiar.\n\nSo...are we going to have another referendum?\n\nAs with everything in politics, it's uncertain - and depends on who you ask.\n\nThe Scottish government are certainly pushing for a new vote, in the second half of 2020, and have drawn up legislation which might pave the way for one.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon insists she wants to do a deal with the UK government first - the model followed in 2014 - to make sure everything is nice and legal. And given the UK government has spent the last two years saying no, that could prove a considerable sticking point.\n\nWell, whoever ends up in Downing Street - Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn - it seems like they would be far more focused on Brexit in the first instance.\n\nMr Johnson is staunchly against independence, and Mr Corbyn wants to hold a fresh referendum on EU membership. While the SNP would welcome one of those, it would presumably impact on the timetable for indyref2, were the new PM to agree to it.\n\nSo the 2021 Holyrood election could end up being another contest which becomes a battle for a mandate, for or against indyref2.\n\nThe question of Scotland's place in the UK hasn't gone away over the past five years, and it doesn't seem like it's going to be going away any time soon.", "Speaking at a congressional hearing, climate activist Greta Thunberg pushed a Republican lawmaker on the issue of climate change.\n\nThe teenager attended the hearing alongside other young activists.", "Saudi Arabia's defence ministry has shown off what it says is wreckage of drones and cruise missiles that prove Iranian involvement in weekend attacks on two oil facilities.\n\nIt said 18 drones and seven cruise missiles were fired from a direction that ruled out Yemen as a source.\n\nYemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels had said they were behind the attacks.\n\nIran has denied any involvement and warned it would retaliate against any attack that targeted it.", "Crossbench peer and QC Lord Pannick has told the Supreme Court that Boris Johnson suspended Parliament to avoid the risk of MPs \"frustrating or damaging\" the PM's Brexit plans.\n\nHe also said there was \"strong evidence\" that Mr Johnson saw MPs as \"an obstacle\" and wanted to \"silence\" them.\n\nThe prime minister says he wanted the five-week suspension of Parliament - or prorogation - so that a Queen's Speech could be held in October to outline his policy plans.", "Chairman Jerome Powell voted in favour of the cut\n\nThe US central bank has cut interest rates for only the second time since 2008, amid concerns about slowing global growth and trade wars.\n\nAs expected, the Federal Reserve lowered the target range for its key interest rate by 25 basis points to between 1.75% and 2%.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly criticised the Fed for cutting rates too slowly.\n\nThe president took to Twitter in the minutes immediately following the rate cut announcement to lambast the move: \"Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve Fail Again. No \"guts,\" no sense, no vision! A terrible communicator!\".\n\nThe bank said the cut is aimed at shoring up the US economy, amid \"uncertainties\" about future growth.\n\nBut officials were divided about the decision and over the need for future cuts.\n\nSeven members of the Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee, which sets the rates, voted in favour of Wednesday's cut, including Mr Powell.\n\nTwo members wanted to hold the rate steady, while one wanted to cut further.\n\nMr Powell said policymakers decided on a second cut after global growth slowed and trade tensions worsened over the summer.\n\n\"The thing we can't address really is what businesses would like, which is a settled roadmap for international trade ... but we do have a very powerful tool which can counteract weakness to some extent,\" he said, referring to the rate cut.\n\nHowever, he dismissed the need for negative interest rates - a proposal backed by Mr Trump - as \"not at the top of the list\".\n\nThe comments underscored the strain between Mr Powell and the president, who has sought to blame the Fed for economic slowdown, while waging trade wars with China, Europe and others.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nCutting rates helps fuel economic activity, by making it cheaper to borrow money for both businesses and consumers.\n\nBut with interest rates in the US already low by historic standards - and much of the economic uncertainty caused by the trade war with China - analysts have questioned how much rate cuts will help.\n\nUS share markets fell after the announcement, but later recovered.\n\nThe Fed's decision to lower rates on Wednesday follows a similar cut in July and marks a reversal from its policy only a year ago, when America's healthy economy had convinced policy makers to enact a series of small hikes.\n\nBut US economic growth slowed to 2% in the second quarter, job creation has slipped and inflation remains lower than US policymakers would like.\n\nIn recent days, parts of the financial markets have also shown signs of a cash-crunch, temporarily pushing short-term interest rates above the Fed's target and prompting the bank to intervene.\n\nThe cut in interest rates was of course the headline from this Fed meeting. But the Chairman Jerome Powell also commented on some developments in the US financial system that have really had people scratching their heads this week.\n\nThere was a sharp rise in borrowing costs in a rather arcane corner of the financial system known as the repo (repurchase) market which firms use to raise or lend cash for short periods.\n\nWhat was going on? Could it be a warning sign of serious stress somewhere in the financial world? The crisis a decade ago has made people more sensitive to that kind of possibility.\n\nMr Powell said it was due to companies needing a lot of cash for tax payments and for investors buying government bonds. Although the Fed and the markets knew these developments were coming, Mr Powell said they \"had a bigger effect than most folks anticipated\". He said these issues have no implications for the economy. So, flap over? Maybe. Let's hope so.\n\nIn economic projections released on Wednesday, Federal Reserve policymakers said they expect the economy to grow 2.2% this year, faster than they forecast in June.\n\nBrian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings, said the upgrade to that growth prediction underscores the fact that the Fed is worried about global factors, such as the trade war, rather than the underlying health of the US economy.\n\n\"This move is all about the deterioration in the global economic outlook over the late summer and very little about incoming US data,\" he said.\n\n\"While the Fed has maintained its 'will act as appropriate' language, we still see this as an insurance policy move and don't expect a series of further rate cuts,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I can never ever, ever get that moment back\"\n\nFormer rugby player Gareth Thomas has said a journalist spoke to his parents about his HIV status before they had discussed it.\n\nHe said he would \"absolutely not\" have made his diagnosis public if a tabloid had not made threats to publish it.\n\nThe ex-Wales captain broke the news on Saturday, the day before finishing an Ironman triathlon.\n\nThomas was speaking a day after cricketer Ben Stokes criticised the Sun for running a story about his family.\n\nThe former British & Irish Lions captain said he had been living in fear of the press publishing details of his HIV status.\n\nAnd he criticised the fact a reporter approached his parents before the family had discussed it properly.\n\n\"Imagine what position that puts me in. I can never, ever, ever have that moment back with my mother and father of sitting down and telling them something so personal to me,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"They took that right away from me.\n\n\"I'm lucky that I have parents who love me and will support me through anything, but I deserved to have that moment with them.\"\n\nGareth Thomas completing the triathlon in Tenby on Saturday\n\nThe 45-year-old, from Sarn, Bridgend, said keeping a secret had been the hardest part of the diagnosis.\n\n\"I've been living in fear of it being published,\" he told BBC Radio Wales on Wednesday, adding: \"The tabloids will create their own law.\n\n\"You'll send them a letter and all they'll do is ignore it. I haven't got the money to be able to fight a giant tabloid in court.\n\n\"When they do it they'll somehow find justification for doing it. They'll say it's OK, a family member told us something.\"\n\nIn a Twitter video, Thomas had said he was compelled to make the announcement after threats were made to him by \"evils\" to reveal his HIV status.\n\nAsked if he would have spoken about his HIV status without the press involvement, he replied: \"I would love to sit here and say yes but I'd be a hypocrite if I did.\n\n\"Absolutely not. It's got nothing to do with anyone else.\"\n\nHe spoke out the day after Stokes called a front page story in the Sun newspaper about his family \"utterly disgusting\" and \"the lowest form of journalism\".\n\nIt had dealt with \"deeply personal and traumatic events\" that had affected his family in New Zealand more than 30 years ago.\n\nThe Sun told the BBC it had received the co-operation of a family member.\n\nDamian Collins MP, chairman of the parliamentary Digital, Culture, Media and and Sport committee, told BBC Wales: \"I don't believe there is any public interest in putting people under that sort of pressure.\n\n\"Putting them in that sort of situation, I think that is a private matter... It should be entirely a decision for [Thomas] to take.\"\n\nBen Stokes said he was 'disgusted and appalled' by the Sun's story\n\nAngela Phillips, professor of journalism at Goldsmiths University, London, who gave evidence at the Leveson inquiry into media ethics, said stories like those of Stokes and Thomas were a question of ethics rather than press freedom or the law.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We've now got ourselves into a situation in this country where our tabloid press, partly because of the internet and social media and the way of which stories now travel is that anything that brings in money is justifiable.\n\n\"They seem to have lost any sense of whether this story is going to do so much harm to the people whose background you're revealing that you shouldn't touch it with a barge pole.\"\n\nHowever, speaking after the Stokes story broke, Ian Murray, executive director of the Society of Editors, said care had to be taken over the principle of a free press.\n\n\"I'm not defending the Sun - what I am defending is the principle and saying let's be very careful about what we do.\"\n\nHe continued: \"We have a free press. It's such a jewel in the crown of any free society. And there are always the sharks circling, the politicians, the rich, the powerful who would like to see that free press closed down.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Thomas said he wanted to show how people with HIV were misrepresented as needing walking sticks and \"close to dying\".\n\nThe following day he completed the gruelling Ironman in 12 hours and 18 minutes cheered on by crowds and with high emotion along the way.\n\nSince making the announcement, support for Thomas has flooded in.\n\nHe spoke to the Duke of Sussex on Tuesday, and said the duke was \"passionate about breaking down the stigma so people will go and not be afraid of getting tested\".\n\n\"We are going to work together,\" he added.\n\nPrince Harry also posted a message on Instagram, saying: \"Gareth, you are an absolute legend! In sharing your story of being HIV+, you are saving lives and shattering stigma, by showing you can be strong and resilient while living with HIV.\"\n\nPrince William also tweeted his support to the former player.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kensington Palace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThomas tells his story in a documentary being screened on the BBC on Wednesday.\n\nGareth Thomas: HIV and Me will be shown on BBC One Wales on Wednesday 18 September at 21:00 BST, and on the BBC iPlayer.", "The prime minister was visiting a children's ward at Whipps Cross Hospital when he was approached by a father.\n\nThe man, who is also a Labour activist, told Boris Johnson that the ward was understaffed and the NHS was being destroyed.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister later said Mr Johnson was visiting public services to see for himself the reality of the situation.\n\nThey added the prime minister was \"not going to hide away from those circumstances when he goes on these visits, and so obviously is keen to talk to people and empathise and see what he can do to help.\n\n\"It's also a reminder of why exactly he is so keen to make the NHS a priority.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News revealed that 14 council investigations have been launched into \"organised and complex abuse\" in unregulated homes\n\nVulnerable teenagers in care are being placed at risk of abuse while living in unregulated homes in England and Wales, a BBC News investigation has found.\n\nAt least 14 council investigations have been launched into \"organised and complex abuse\" in the past four years.\n\nBBC News also obtained a confidential briefing reporting \"significant failings\" and spoke to one girl who had been trafficked and abused.\n\nThe government said children in care or leaving care \"deserve to be kept safe\".\n\nChildren over the age of 16 are increasingly being placed in unregulated homes, often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation.\n\nAs they are deemed to be providing support rather than care, they are not inspected by a regulator in England and Wales, despite the vulnerabilities of many of the children.\n\nSupport worker Andy says the homes run by Centurion Care were \"completely wild\"\n\nFreedom of Information requests to all UK councils revealed 13 investigations involving unregulated homes in England and one in Wales launched in the past four years.\n\nThe NSPCC says this suggests \"young people who need support are being exposed to serious dangers\".\n\n\"Organised and complex abuse\" is defined as \"abuse involving one or more abusers and a number of related or non-related abused children\" by the London Child Safeguarding Board.\n\nIncidents do not necessarily involve the staff themselves.\n\nOne of the investigations concerned children and young people living in homes in Essex and London run by a company called Centurion Care.\n\nBBC News obtained a confidential briefing sent around councils, claiming there were \"significant and numerous safeguarding failings\".\n\nMany of the children who lived in the homes - closed in 2017 - had faced some of the most challenging home lives imaginable and some had been involved in crime from an early age.\n\nCarla spent years in foster homes before being sent to Centurion Care.\n\nShe had a history of self-harm, which continued inside one of the company's homes in Basildon.\n\n\"There was a situation where it'd been really bad, I'd lost a lot of blood,\" she says.\n\nBut she says when she asked a member of staff to be taken to hospital, he said he could not leave the other residents alone - and there were no bandages for her to use.\n\n\"He was like, 'Oh, you should go walk to the shop,'\" she says.\n\nShe says an hour later, she was taken to a pharmacy.\n\nCarla says staff refused to take her to the hospital after she had taken an overdose\n\nAnd on another occasion, she took an overdose but says she was not taken to hospital until the next day.\n\n\"The staff shrugged it off,\" she says.\n\nCarla says she overdosed on three occasions while living in the home - but Centurion Care told BBC News it was aware of only one incident and the NHS 111 non-emergency telephone service had advised she did not require hospital care.\n\nAll its homes had first-aid kits, it added.\n\nAndy worked as a support worker across many of Centurion Care's homes, his first job working with young people.\n\n\"They were all very high risk - sexually exploited kids, drugs and alcohol abuse, some that had disabilities - all [under] one roof,\" he says.\n\nThe homes were \"completely wild\", with residents keeping drugs and large amounts of cash in their rooms, and Andy says he felt powerless to intervene.\n\n\"There was nothing you could have really done about it because the other staff members didn't do anything about it,\" he says.\n\nOne home was subject to police surveillance over concerns around criminal activity\n\nThe confidential briefing says one of the homes was under surveillance by Essex Police \"over concerns around drug dealing and criminal gang activity\", while other young people lived inside.\n\nCenturion Care said it had been aware of the police surveillance, had worked with the authorities and had introduced a CCTV system across all its homes to prevent drug dealing.\n\nEssex Police declined to say when the police surveillance had ended and how long residents had remained in the property.\n\nAndy says one child's story troubled him more than any other - a girl that frequently went missing.\n\nAnd he remembers looking out the window when he saw her for the last time.\n\n\"I just saw a bunch of boys in a car and she just jumped in,\" he says.\n\nShe was missing for more than a week before being found in the West Midlands, where she had been abused.\n\n\"It was the worst, no-one deserves that,\" she says. \"Whoever did what they did, someone needs to pay a price for the pain.\"\n\nLike a large number of children in care, she had been placed in a home outside of her local authority. She says she did not know the area at all and did not have any friends.\n\n\"I was always just running away, trying to get away from the home,\" she says.\n\nThere is no suggestion Centurion Care staff were involved in her trafficking.\n\nIt said they had all had local-authority safeguarding training and it had had relevant policies and procedures in place, including notifying the authorities.\n\nThree of the Centurion Care homes were in Basildon, Essex\n\nOne council that placed children in Centurion Care homes said it was unable to comment on \"police matters\" or \"individual cases\". Another said it had removed children as soon as it had become aware of concerns.\n\nLocal authorities are responsible for checks on unregulated homes in England and Wales. Many conduct unannounced visits but there is no mandatory inspection regime. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, the homes are regulated although not to the same the standard as children's homes.\n\nThe Department for Education in England declined to be interviewed.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Children in care or those leaving care, including older children, deserve to be kept safe in good quality accommodation.\n\n\"Councils have a legal duty to make sure accommodation for these children is suitable.\n\n\"We have written to all directors of children's services to remind them of this duty and we are working with the sector and with Ofsted to bear down on issues related to poor practice in the use of semi-independent accommodation.\"\n\nWhat are your experiences of unregulated homes or semi-independent accommodation? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Benjamin Netanyahu is serving an unmatched sixth term in office as prime minister\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu is facing one of the biggest crises of his long political life, amid uproar over his government's attempts to change the way the country's judicial system works.\n\nRe-elected for a record fifth time in November 2022, leading the most right-wing coalition in Israel's history, he promised to govern for all Israelis, regardless of political differences. But, instead, his planned reforms have met with mass protests on a scale barely seen since the creation of the state 75 years ago.\n\nThe Likud party leader's return to power followed a relatively brief spell in opposition after 12 straight years as prime minister, his dramatic comeback sealing a belief among his supporters that \"King Bibi\" is politically invincible.\n\nIsrael's longest-serving leader, Mr Netanyahu has held office six times - more than any other prime minister in the country's history.\n\nThe 73-year-old's unrivalled success owes much to the image he has cultivated as the person who can best keep Israel safe from hostile forces in the Middle East.\n\nHe has taken a tough line towards the Palestinians, putting security concerns at the top of any talk of peace, and long warned of existential danger to Israel from Iran.\n\nBut hanging over his political achievements is the cloud of an ongoing criminal trial for alleged bribery, fraud and breach of trust - charges he fiercely denies. And for a man described by the Times of Israel as \"ultra-divisive\", his opponents see him as a danger to Israeli democracy itself.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. In 1963, his family moved to the US when his father Benzion, a prominent historian and Zionist activist, was offered an academic post.\n\nAt the age of 18, he returned to Israel, where he spent five distinguished years in the army, serving as a captain in an elite commando unit, the Sayeret Matkal. He was wounded in a raid on a Belgian airliner hijacked by Palestinian militants which landed in Israel in 1972, and fought in the 1973 Middle East war.\n\nMr Netanyahu (R) was a captain of the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit\n\nIn 1976, Mr Netanyahu's brother, Jonathan, was killed leading a raid to rescue hostages from a hijacked airliner in Entebbe, Uganda. His death had a profound impact on the Netanyahu family, and his name became legendary in Israel.\n\nMr Netanyahu set up an anti-terrorism institute in his brother's memory and in 1982 became Israel's deputy chief of mission in Washington.\n\nOvernight, Mr Netanyahu's public life was launched. An articulate English speaker with a distinctive American accent, he became a familiar face on US television and an effective advocate for Israel.\n\nHe was appointed Israel's permanent representative at the UN in New York in 1984.\n\nMr Netanyahu became involved in politics when he returned to Israel in 1988, winning a seat for the Likud party in the Knesset (parliament) and becoming deputy foreign minister.\n\nHe later became party chairman, and in 1996, Israel's first directly elected prime minister after an early election following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.\n\nMr Netanyahu has a loyal political base in the Likud party\n\nMr Netanyahu was also Israel's youngest leader and the first to be born after the state was founded in 1948.\n\nDespite having fiercely criticised the 1993 Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians, Mr Netanyahu signed a deal handing over 80% of Hebron to Palestinian Authority control and agreed to further withdrawals from the occupied West Bank, to much opprobrium from the right.\n\nHe lost office in 1999 after he called elections 17 months early, defeated by Labour leader Ehud Barak, Mr Netanyahu's former commander.\n\nMr Netanyahu stepped down as Likud leader and was succeeded by Ariel Sharon.\n\nAfter Mr Sharon was elected prime minister in 2001, Mr Netanyahu returned to government, first as foreign minister and then as finance minister. In 2005, he resigned in protest at the Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip.\n\nHis chance came again in 2005, when Mr Sharon - just before a massive stroke that left him in a coma - split from Likud and set up a new centrist party, Kadima.\n\nMr Netanyahu won the Likud leadership again and was elected prime minister for the second time in March 2009.\n\nHe agreed to an unprecedented 10-month freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank, enabling peace talks with Palestinians, but negotiations collapsed in late 2010.\n\nAlthough in 2009 he had publicly announced his conditional acceptance of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, he later toughened his position. \"A Palestinian state will not be created, not like the one people are talking about. It won't happen,\" he told an Israeli radio station in 2019.\n\nPalestinian attacks and Israeli military action repeatedly brought Israel into confrontation in and around the Gaza Strip before and after Mr Netanyahu returned to office in 2009.\n\nThe fourth such conflict in just 12 years erupted in May 2021, putting a temporary halt to efforts by parties opposed to Mr Netanyahu to oust him following a series of inconclusive elections.\n\nIsrael has fought four major conflicts with militants in Gaza\n\nAlthough during the conflicts Israel had the support of the United States, its closest ally, relations between Mr Netanyahu and President Barack Obama were difficult.\n\nThey reached a low point when Mr Netanyahu addressed Congress in March 2015, warning against a \"bad deal\" arising out of US negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme. The Obama administration condemned the visit as interfering and damaging.\n\nThe advent of Donald Trump's presidency in 2017 led to a closer alignment between US and Israeli government policies, and within a year Mr Trump announced his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.\n\nThe move sparked fury across the Arab world - which supports the Palestinians' claim to the eastern half of Jerusalem occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war - but it handed Mr Netanyahu a major political and diplomatic coup.\n\nAnd in January 2020, Mr Netanyahu hailed Mr Trump's blueprint for peace between Israel and the Palestinians as \"the opportunity of the century\", though it was spurned by Palestinians as one-sided and left on the table.\n\nMr Netanyahu also saw eye-to-eye with Mr Trump on Iran, welcoming the president's withdrawal in 2018 from the Iran nuclear deal and reinstatement of economic sanctions.\n\nMr Trump however made stinging remarks about the Israeli leader, accusing him of disloyalty, after he congratulated Joe Biden on winning the presidency in November 2020.\n\nAfter 2016, Mr Netanyahu was dogged by a corruption investigation, which culminated in him being charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three separate cases in November 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After being charged in 2019, Benjamin Netanyahu railed against what he saw as an \"attempted coup\"\n\nMr Netanyahu is alleged to have accepted gifts from wealthy businessmen and dispensed favours to try to get more positive press coverage.\n\nHe denies wrongdoing and says he is the victim of a politically motivated \"witch hunt\" engineered by his opponents. He went on trial in May 2020, becoming the first serving prime minister to do so.\n\nThe spectacle did not, though, harm his electability.\n\n\"We have won a huge vote of confidence from the people of Israel,\" he told jubilant supporters in November.\n\nFor his political base, Mr Netanyahu's return marked the start of another, new dawn.", "Finnish PM Antti Rinne (left) says he and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) agreed the new deadline for Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson has 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU, according to Finland's prime minister.\n\nAntti Rinne said he and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the UK needed to produce the proposals in writing by the end of September, adding if not, \"then it's over\".\n\nA Downing Street source said: \"We will continue negotiating and put forward proposals at the appropriate time.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said a deal is possible at a crucial summit of EU leaders on 17 October, but he has insisted Brexit will happen by the 31 October deadline, even if a deal is not agreed.\n\nThe UK government said talks with the EU have been making progress since Mr Johnson came into No 10 in July.\n\nIt said it had put forward \"a number of proposals\" as alternatives to the Irish border backstop - the policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland and a key sticking point in former PM Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has repeatedly refused to reveal details of the proposals in interviews, saying he did not want to negotiate in public.\n\nThe EU has continued to criticise the UK for not putting any plans in writing.\n\nEarlier, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said a meeting with Mr Johnson on Monday had been \"constructive\".\n\nBut he said until proposals had been put forward, \"I will not be able to tell you, looking you straight in the eye, that any real progress has been achieved\".\n\nMr Rinne spoke to reporters after a meeting with the French president in Paris on Wednesday.\n\nHe said: \"We both agreed that it is now time for Boris Johnson to produce his own proposals in writing - if they exist.\n\n\"If no proposals are received by the end of September, then it's over.\"\n\nThe Finnish PM intends to discuss the new deadline with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and Mr Johnson in the coming days, but the position has not yet been agreed with other EU nations.\n\nAn official at the Elysee said the plan was \"not at all a new proposal\" and added: \"If we don't get the proposals before the end of September, we will not have enough time to discuss them before the summit in October.\"\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted the prime minister was on course to deliver a \"fundamentally different\" Brexit deal to ensure the UK leaves on October 31.\n\nHe told a Telegraph event that to achieve such an outcome the government had to \"listen very carefully to what the DUP says\".\n\nDUP Leader Arlene Foster spoke to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce on issues concerning devolution and Brexit\n\nOn Wednesday, DUP leader Arlene Foster told business leaders in Dublin that she wanted a solution to Brexit that does not affect Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nMrs Foster - whose party's support had until recently given the Conservatives a majority in Parliament - said a Brexit deal \"will not be achieved that involves a backstop - whether it is UK-wide or Northern Ireland specific\".\n\nThe whole of the UK had to leave the customs union and single market, she said.\n\nBut she added that the DUP was prepared to \"look at Northern Ireland-specific solutions achieved with the support and consent of the representatives of the people of Northern Ireland\".\n\nProtesters outside the UK's Supreme Court in London\n\nIt comes as the legal battle over the suspension of the UK Parliament is to go into a third day at the Supreme Court later.\n\nThe UK government is arguing the decision to prorogue Parliament was a political matter and not for the courts to \"design a set of rules\" around it.\n\nBut campaigners say the move was used \"for an improper purpose\" - to stop MPs scrutinising Mr Johnson's plans in the run up to Brexit on 31 October.\n\nThe prime minister prorogued Parliament earlier this month for five weeks, with MPs not scheduled to return until 14 October.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who travelled to Balmoral to seek the Queen's approval over the move, said it was \"nonsense\" to suggest she was misled over the decision.", "The court has just finished today's sitting.\n\nThis morning, the Supreme Court's 11 judges heard arguments from the government's representative, Sir James Eadie QC.\n\nHe said prorogation was \"a well-established constitutional function exercised by the executive\" and decisions about it were \"squarely… within that political or high policy area\".\n\nSir James argued Parliament had previously passed laws addressing aspects of prorogation, but there was no law relevant to this particular case.\n\nTherefore, he said, the courts could not intervene in the decision.\n\nThis afternoon we heard from Aidan O'Neill QC, who was defending a Scottish court’s previous ruling that the prorogation was “unlawful”.\n\nHe argued Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament was \"an improper purpose\" to stop MPs holding the government to account over Brexit.\n\nHe said one of the advantages of the ruling from Edinburgh was it had \"distance\" from the “Westminster bubble”, which lends \"perspective\".\n\nOn Thursday, we will hear submissions from those who have been given permission to intervene in the appeals, including former prime minister Sir John Major.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I want the people to have a choice, says Jeremy Corbyn\n\nJeremy Corbyn has refused to say which side he might back in a future Brexit referendum under a Labour government.\n\nHe said he would offer voters a choice between Remain and a deal negotiated by Labour, and deliver the outcome.\n\nPushed on whether he would personally support Leave or Remain, he refused to commit, saying instead: \"As PM, my job will be to bring people together.\"\n\nHis remarks come ahead of Labour's conference where he is expected to face increasing pressure to back Remain.\n\nAccording to campaign group Another Europe is Possible, more than 80 motions have been submitted by local Labour groups for debate at conference in Brighton calling for the party to back Remain in a future public vote.\n\nMr Corbyn's apparently neutral stance has been openly challenged by First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford on Wednesday.\n\nHe said Welsh Labour \"must and will campaign to remain in the EU\".\n\nA number of shadow cabinet members, including shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, have said they would campaign for Remain.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has called for another public vote on Brexit before any general election, but Mr Corbyn has said an election should come first.\n\nA parallel is being drawn with Harold Wilson, who allowed Labour ministers to campaign for either side in the 1975 Common Market referendum while arguing for the UK to stay in\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour was the only party offering a choice and he would be asking the Labour conference to \"realise the importance of giving the people a choice\".\n\n\"I want the people to have a choice between the offer of remaining in the EU and the offer of an agreement with the EU which will give us a trade relationship, which will give us a customs union, will give us rights, consumer rights, workers rights and environmental standards.\n\n\"My job, as prime minister, will be to deliver that option that is chosen by the British people.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the Liberal Democrats agreed a new manifesto pledge that if they won a majority government in a next election, they would scrap Brexit altogether without another vote.\n\nBut their leader, Jo Swinson, said they would continue to call for another referendum alongside other opposition parties until an election was called.\n\nMr Corbyn initially outlined his position in an interview with the Guardian where he repeated Labour's four sticking points for a \"sensible\" deal with the EU - a new customs union, a close single market relationship, guarantees of workers' rights and promises on environmental protections.\n\nOnce these were secured, he said they would put that deal to a vote against Remain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry has said she would back Remain in another referendum.\n\nMr Corbyn said the pledge made Labour \"the only UK-wide party ready to put our trust in the people of Britain\".\n\nHe said Boris Johnson wanted to \"crash out\" of the EU without a deal, while the new position of the Lib Dems would be a \"parliamentary stitch-up\" and \"simply undemocratic\".\n\nBut Michael Chessum, national organiser for Another Europe is Possible, said Labour members were the party's \"secret weapon\" at a general election, and Mr Corbyn \"ignores them at its peril\".\n\n\"Support for an explicit Remain stance is evidently overwhelming,\" he said.\n\n\"Only if Labour can get clarity on this part of its policy can it fight the election on its domestic agenda.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn's political opponents - externally and internally - are already satirising him on social media. They say that he's even sitting on the fence on whether he'd remain neutral in an EU referendum called by his own government.\n\nMy understanding is he'd decide between Leave and Remain after the election, and once a leave deal had been negotiated. But in his TV interview today, he didn't quite commit to taking a position at all.\n\nIn Labour circles, they often cite Harold Wilson's position on the 1975 European Community referendum as a precedent. Wilson allowed his cabinet to campaign on either side - Corbyn would do the same.\n\nBut although taking a back seat in the campaign, Wilson did not remain neutral.\n\nHe personally backed staying in, or, if you like 'Remain'. In doing so, though, he ignored official party policy - which was to leave.\n\nNow, of course, the vast majority of party members want to stay in the EU. So come a referendum, could Jeremy Corbyn yet do a Wilson-in-reverse?\n\nIt's worth pointing out that only a year ago Labour was not formally committed to a 'public vote' with Remain definitely on the ballot paper.\n\nWhatever his own views on Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn is promising what many of his own MPs and members were previously demanding.\n\nThe Conservatives said the growing movement within Labour for the party to campaign for remain showed it wanted to \"cancel\" the 2016 referendum result.\n\n\"They had the chance to let the public decide how to resolve Brexit via a general election - but Jeremy Corbyn doesn't trust the people,\" said party chair James Cleverly.\n\nMeanwhile, the party's National Executive Committee has voted to scrap its affiliation with Labour Students - which, up until now, had been the official student wing of the party.\n\nEarlier, the chair of Labour's Momentum campaign group, Jon Lansman, put a motion to the NEC calling for it to set up a new student body.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by iain 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUK police and companies must stop using live facial recognition for public surveillance, politicians and campaigners have said.\n\nThe technology allows faces captured on CCTV to be checked in real time against watch lists, often compiled by police.\n\nPrivacy campaigners say it is inaccurate, intrusive and infringes on an individual's right to privacy.\n\nBut its makers say it helps protect the public as it can catch people like terror suspects in a way police cannot.\n\nThe Home Office said it supported the police \"as they trial new technologies to protect the public, including facial recognition, which helps them identify and locate suspects and criminals\".\n\nA letter, written by privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch, has been signed by more than 18 politicians, including David Davis, Diane Abbott, Jo Swinson and Caroline Lucas. Twenty-five campaign groups including Amnesty International and Liberty, plus academics and barristers also signed.\n\nThey argue facial recognition is being adopted in the UK before it has been properly scrutinised by politicians.\n\nThe director of Big Brother Watch, Silkie Carlo, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"What we're doing is putting this to government to say: 'Please can we open this debate and have this conversation.\n\n\"'But for goodness sake, while it is going on, there is now a surveillance crisis on our hands that needs to be stopped urgently'.\"\n\nThe Kings Cross estate has recently been at the centre of controversy, when it was revealed its owners were using facial recognition technology without telling the public.\n\nIt then emerged both the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police had supplied the company with images for their database. Both had initially denied involvement.\n\nSouth Wales Police was taken to the High Court over its trial of the technology, by a man who was caught on camera. The court ruled it was lawful, although that is now being appealed against.\n\nResearchers have raised concerns that some systems are vulnerable to bias, as they are more likely to misidentify women and darker-skinned people.\n\nAreeq Chowdhury, head of the Future Advocacy think tank, said this was due to things like colour contrasts on people of colour and systems being confused by cosmetics, while some systems have not been trained with enough diverse datasets of people from different demographics.\n\n\"You could see a situation where you are identifying innocent individuals who are from a particular minority. Which means they'll be questioned by the police even though they're innocent and they may even have their details and picture captured on record, despite having committed no crime,\" he said.\n\nThere is \"no clarity\" over the rules governing facial recognition technology, says Digital Barriers CEO Zak Doffman\n\nDigital Barriers, a worldwide supplier of the technology, says facial recognition is an essential tool for counter-terrorism.\n\nIts CEO, Zak Doffman, said: \"Imagine I know there is a group of individuals in central London that want to do harm on a massive scale to the public. Would you have public support to use facial recognition to try and intercept that group of individuals before they can do harm? I would suggest almost categorically you would.\"\n\nHe added that he did not support indiscriminate use of the technology.\n\n\"I'll give you the opposite example, an individual has been kicked out of the pub for drinking too much on a Saturday night. The pub has taken a photo of that individual, should they then be prevented from getting into that establishment or other establishments because of that incident? I think you'll have very little public consent for that example.\n\n\"Unfortunately there's no clarity. There's no regulation that governs either case and that is the challenge.\"\n\nThe UK Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Tony Porter, says there must be a set of strict standards governing how the technology is used, before it is formally adopted by police forces.\n\n\"There should be a standard around its siting, efficiency and effectiveness,\" he explained. \"I suppose you might say, 'What is an appropriate force hit-rate that is tolerable against the totality?' There needs to be a lot more assurance to the public that any notion of bias through ethnic background is eradicated.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it welcomed a recent judgment confirming \"there is a clear and sufficient legal framework for the use of live facial recognition technology in the UK\".\n\nIt added the technology had demonstrated the ability to tackle crime and identify criminals in an efficient way that would not otherwise be possible.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nItalian champion speed boat racer Fabio Buzzi and two other people have died after a power boat crashed near the Italian city of Venice.\n\nThe boat hit an artificial reef near the end of an attempt to break the offshore speed record from Monte Carlo.\n\nThe crash took place near the finish line at the Lido di Venezia, propelling the boat over the reef and back into the water on the other side.\n\nMr Buzzi, 76, was attempting to set a new record.\n\nThe other two dead include a Dutch mechanic who has not been named, and Luca Nicolini, also from Italy, according to the president of the Italian Offshore and Endurance Committee, Giampaolo Montavoci.\n\nMr Montavoci told the BBC the information came from the only survivor, Mario Invernizzi who is now being treated in hospital for injuries after being thrown overboard.\n\nEarlier reports about two British pilots being among those dead are incorrect, Mr Montavoci said.\n\nOrganisers of the Assonautica race told Venezia Today that the boat was travelling at around 80 knots (148km/h, 92mph) when it hit the manmade dam known as Mose.\n\nThe boat ran into a spit of large boulders which have been lowered on to the seabed to protect the dam, which serves as a flood barrier to protect Venice.\n\nMr Buzzi won 10 world championships since he began his racing career over 40 years ago.\n\nIn 1978, he set the world speed record for diesel-powered boats, hitting 191.58 km/h (119mph).\n\nThe company's boats have set 40 world speed records and won 52 world championships.\n\nThe latest incident comes months after a cruise ship crashed into a tourist boat in Venice, injuring four people.", "James Anderson says his work has received a \"boost\" from international attention\n\nA not-for-profit plumbing company in Burnley has earned worldwide attention after it refused to charge an elderly customer for work on her boiler.\n\nA receipt for the work shows a 91-year-old woman with leukaemia would not be charged \"under any circumstances\".\n\nThe receipt was shared on social media by the woman's daughter in the past week and has since been liked hundreds of thousands of times.\n\nPlumber James Anderson says he hopes to expand his altruism across the UK.\n\nJames is originally from Liverpool, where he was a bin man before he became a plumber in 1998. He has been running Depher - Disabled & Elderly Plumbing and Heating Emergency Repair - as a not-for-profit plumbing company since March 2017.\n\n\"There are too many elderly and disabled people suffering in silence,\" he explains. \"They don't like asking for help. They don't want to be a burden.\n\n\"We take away the burden, the stigma.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, James says the company's work \"stops them getting into debt\" and helps them regain an independence they fear they may lose \"if they think they can't afford repair costs\".\n\nDespite running up debts for such a selfless ethos, James says he will keep doing it until \"the day God calls me\".\n\nHe now owes \"just under £8,000\" but the situation is \"under control,\" because of his arrangements with both his bank and his supplier.\n\nThe company also has a crowdfunding page, and performs regular plumbing jobs: \"Any money we make goes back into the Depher account\".\n\nJames says he had to lay off two workers because of a lack of funds.\n\nHe wants to expand the philanthropic work beyond Burnley, and the attention brought by the receipt could help.\n\n\"I've got other plumbers... offering help. My hope is to get Depher national, in every city and town.\"\n\n\"We need to be a human race, to look out for each other,\" says James, pictured with his daughter\n\nJames was not initially aware of his note being shared online. \"I was at my grandson's christening,\" he says. \"I got a couple of likes and cheers on Sunday,\" but since then the reaction has been \"absolutely global\".\n\nHe has been taking calls from as far away as Germany and the US, and from international broadcasters, talking about his aims to help those in need.\n\n\"It's going to give it a boost,\" he adds. But he's reluctant to take all the credit, calling his actions \"a community effort\".\n\n\"We all do what we can and we all come together as a community. We need to be a human race, to look out for each other.\"", "Vanessa George was ruled by the Parole Board to no longer pose a \"significant risk\"\n\nPaedophile nursery worker Vanessa George has been released from prison, sources have confirmed.\n\nThe 49-year-old was jailed for a minimum of seven years in 2009 for abusing children at a Plymouth nursery.\n\nOne parent, \"Simon\", told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he was \"disgusted\" at learning of her release.\n\nThe Parole Board found George no longer posed \"a significant risk\" but would face strict conditions upon her release.\n\nThese include a ban on returning to Devon and Cornwall and restrictions on her movements and contacts.\n\nGeorge took photographs of herself abusing children in her care and swapped indecent images over the internet.\n\nSimon - whose name has been changed - fears his child, who attended the Little Ted's nursery, was one of those sexually assaulted.\n\nSpeaking about George's release, he said: \"I knew this was coming.\n\n\"But to find out on the day it's already happened has made it worse. Again there's no consideration for the victims.\"\n\nSimon has previously said he is \"tormented\" by George's refusal to name the infants she abused.\n\nLittle Ted's nursery was closed following the discovery of abuse of young children\n\nIn July, the Parole Board said George would never be allowed to work with children would be placed on the sex offenders register for the rest of her life.\n\nHer release has been described as \"sickening\" by Luke Pollard, Labour MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.\n\nHe said: \"She should not be released at all. She still refuses to name the babies and toddlers that she abused and the sheer level of anger and disgust that families here in Plymouth feel about this cannot be underestimated.\n\n\"I don't think you can show genuine remorse for a crime like this when you are refusing to name the children that you, she abused.\n\n\"And I also think the whole system around parole here isn't valuing the voice of victims well enough.\"\n\nJohnny Mercer, Conservative MP for Plymouth Moor View, said he had asked the government to include perpetrators who refuse to name their victims in a forthcoming sentencing review.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Johnny Mercer MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGeorge pleaded guilty in 2009 to seven sexual assaults on children and making 124 indecent images of children.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The EU's chief negotiator acknowledged Boris Johnson's concerns about the backstop\n\nThe UK and EU \"should not pretend to be negotiating\" a Brexit deal if there are no new proposals on the table, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said.\n\nHe said the UK telling the EU what it does not like was \"not enough\".\n\nHe cast doubt on a UK proposal to give Northern Ireland a future veto over EU rules, saying all parts of the UK would have to sign up to the terms of exit.\n\nThe government said it had offered \"a number of proposals\" as alternatives to the Irish border backstop.\n\nThe backstop - an insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - has proved a key sticking point.\n\nThe government said \"constructive discussions\" were ongoing and the UK had been \"clear\" in those discussions \"that the antidemocratic backstop needs to be removed\" if a new deal was to be reached.\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted a deal is possible at a crucial summit of EU leaders on 17 October - although ministers have been reluctant to reveal the details of new proposals in advance for fear they will be \"rubbished\" by the EU.\n\nThe PM has insisted he will not accept a further delay beyond 31 October despite MPs passing a law requiring him to seek an extension if there is no deal by 19 October.\n\nAfter meeting Mr Barnier and Mr Juncker in Luxembourg on Monday, Mr Johnson said both sides agreed to accelerate efforts to reach an agreement.\n\nThere were significant moments in Strasbourg this morning, even if the discussion lacked the fireworks present in the Brexit debate elsewhere.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker clearly signalled that in his last few weeks in office he will show solidarity with the Republic of Ireland rather than siding with the UK to get a deal. That will disappoint those in the UK who bank on him wanting an agreement to secure his legacy.\n\nThe EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a cautious thumbs-up to the big British idea of an all-Ireland zone for plant and animal health.\n\nBut he appeared to give a thumbs-down to another - giving the Stormont Assembly a decisive say over the Irish backstop, or whatever takes its place.\n\nBriefing the European Parliament, Mr Juncker said the lunch had been \"friendly and constructive\" but there had been no progress on the main sticking point - the UK's demand that the Northern Irish backstop should be removed from the current agreement.\n\nMr Juncker said any alternative to the backstop must achieve the same objectives - to prevent the need for physical infrastructure on the border with the Republic of Ireland, to safeguard the EU's single market and protect all-Ireland economic co-operation.\n\n\"I said to Mr Johnson that I have no emotional attachment to the backstop but I stand by the objectives it is intended to achieve,\" he said.\n\n\"That is why I called on the PM to come forward with operational proposals in writing.\n\n\"Until such time those proposals have been presented, I will not be able to tell you looking you straight in the eye that any real progress has been achieved.\"\n\nMr Barnier said the UK had made it clear which parts of the backstop - which would see Northern Ireland closely tied to the single market and the UK follow EU customs rules until a new trade deal is agreed - it did not like, but \"that is not enough to move towards a solution\".\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\"Almost three years after the British referendum, ladies and gentlemen, it is certainly not a question of pretending to negotiate,\" he said.\n\nIf the UK wanted to remove the backstop, he said it must come up with answers to all the problems the temporary \"safety net\" was designed to solve.\n\nHowever, he appeared to reject UK proposals to give the Stormont Assembly in Belfast a say over how much Northern Ireland conforms with EU customs rules and diverges from England, Wales and Scotland while the UK remained in any backstop arrangement.\n\n\"It is up to the UK government to ensure the support of the Northern Irish institutions for the withdrawal agreement that would be signed on behalf of the whole of the UK,\" he said.\n\nFollowing a three-hour debate, the European Parliament approved a motion calling for any Brexit deal to include a backstop and also voted for the UK to be granted a further extension beyond 31 October if it asks for one.\n\nMEPs called on the EU to give the UK a further Brexit extension if it asked for one\n\nDuring the session, MEP Guy Verhofstadt called on the UK to give all three million EU nationals living in the country an automatic right to remain.\n\nRather than channelling the \"angry Hulk\" - a reference to Mr Johnson's recent comparison of the UK to the Incredible Hulk - the Parliament's Brexit spokesman said the PM should adopt the persona of a \"caring nanny\", such as Mrs Doubtfire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said it was clear the UK and EU were paving the way for an agreement next month which would be portrayed as a \"victory\" for both sides.\n\nEven without the backstop, he said the deal on the table would be \"bad\" for the UK as it would see it \"trapped in EU rules and under the auspices of the European Court\".\n\nHe also criticised they way Mr Johnson was treated during a visit to Luxembourg last week.\n\nHe said the country's \"pipsqueak\" leader Xavier Bettel had \"ritually humiliated\" his counterpart by appearing at a press conference without him and berating his Brexit policy.", "An investigation is continuing into what caused the deadly fire\n\nAt least 27 people, many of them children, have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb of the Liberian capital Monrovia.\n\nThe fire is believed to have broken out in the early hours of the morning, when Koranic school students were sleeping in a building near their mosque.\n\nPolice have told the BBC they are still looking for bodies in the building, in the Paynesville area.\n\nPresident George Weah has visited the scene and expressed his condolences.\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\nPolice spokesman Moses Carter told Reuters news agency that the fire was caused by an electrical problem, but investigations are continuing.\n\nEyewitness Pastor Emmanuel Herbert told the BBC that he woke up to sounds of the fire and raised the alarm.\n\n\"When I looked through the window, I saw the whole place blazing with fire,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut he said he could not get into the building because there was only one entrance, which was blocked.\n\nOfficials told AFP news agency that the victims were 10 years old and above.\n\nCrowds of people gathered near the school on Wednesday\n\nHundreds of people stood in shock as Red Cross ambulances evacuated the bodies of the children from their boarding house in Paynesville, seven miles (11.3km) east of Monrovia.\n\nSo many curious onlookers had made their way to the scene that the police had to grapple with the crowd to make way for ambulances to pass through.\n\nOne of the visitors in the morning was President Weah. He was due to attend the funeral at mosque in Monrovia in the afternoon.\n\nThe plan was for the burial to follow shortly after, in keeping with Islamic law which says a person must be buried as soon as possible after death, usually within 24 hours.\n\nMeanwhile, more people were still heading to the school half way through the day.", "Greta Thunberg has told US politicians that they're not doing enough to combat climate change.\n\n\"I know you are trying, but just not hard enough. Sorry,\" said the climate activist, who's inspired young people across the world to protest against the impact of global warming.\n\nShe told the Senate climate task force in Washington DC to \"save your praise\".\n\n\"Don't invite us here to just tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it,\" she said.\n\nThe 16-year-old was one of several young activists from around the world invited to address the task force during two days of action and speeches.\n\nTheir aim is to increase support among US lawmakers for the urgent action on climate change, which Greta and others are campaigning for.\n\nSenator Ed Markey, who leads the climate team, ignored Greta's advice not to praise her, describing her as a \"superpower\".\n\n\"You put a spotlight on this issue in a way that it has never been before. And that is creating a new X factor,\" he said.\n\nInstead of submitting a personal statement, as is usual ahead of a hearing, she sent Congress a major report on global warming along with eight sentences of her own.\n\n\"I am submitting this report as my testimony because I don't want you to listen to me,\" she said. \"I want you to listen to the scientists. And I want you to unite behind the science. And then I want you to take action.\"\n\nDuring her visit to the US capital, the teen activist also met former President Barack Obama who called her \"one of our planet's greatest advocates\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barack Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGreta's appearance in front of US politicians comes ahead of planned climate strikes around the world on Friday.\n\nThere will be 4,638 events in 139 countries, according to the Swedish activist. A further strike is planned for the following Friday.\n\nIn some places, like Victoria in Australia, students and public workers are being actively encouraged to walk out of school and work.\n\n\"We want our kids to be engaged in the world around them, so we don't think it's fair to criticise students for holding a peaceful protest about an issue as important as this,\" a government spokesman told The Age - a Melbourne-based daily newspaper.\n\nGreta reminded the senators she was speaking to that this was \"not about youth activism\".\n\n\"This is not about us... we don't want to be heard. We want the science to be heard.\"\n\nShe'll testify in the US Congress on Wednesday before heading to New York for the climate strike, and addressing the UN Climate Action Summit next week.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil installations are an attack on the \"whole world\" and its economy, according to the newly appointed Saudi ambassador to London.\n\nPrince Khalid Bin Bandar Al-Saud told the BBC's Frank Gardner that Iran was most likely behind the attack.\n\nHe also called last year’s murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Al-Khashoggi by Saudi government agents \"a stain\" on Saudi Arabia and defended his country’s role in the war in Yemen.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City bounced back from their shock Premier League defeat at Norwich by launching their Champions League campaign in style with a deserved victory at Shakhtar Donetsk.\n\nHumbled at Carrow Road on Saturday evening, the English champions were imperious in Ukraine against an initially tenacious, but ultimately inferior, opponent.\n\nRiyad Mahrez opened the scoring midway through the first half, firing into a largely empty net after Ilkay Gundogan's curling shot came back off the post.\n\nMahrez then turned provider for the onrushing German to toe-poke the ball past the helpless Andriy Pyatov and give the visitors a firm grip on the game - a grip they did not relinquish.\n\nAfter spurning a number of good opportunities, including an untypically forgiving close-range effort from Raheem Sterling that struck the post, Gabriel Jesus gave the one-sided game a more fitting scoreline with a neat finish after Kevin de Bruyne's pass.\n\nOnly Dinamo Zagreb's 4-0 hammering of Italian side Atalanta in Croatia prevents Pep Guardiola's side topping the group.\n• None Fernandinho: Pep Guardiola had no doubts over Brazilian's defensive ability\n\nCity's 3-2 defeat by Norwich left them five points behind leaders Liverpool (the side they pipped to last season's title) with just five games played.\n\nBut they have the start they wanted in the Champions League - the only trophy Guardiola has yet to deliver to the Etihad - after arguably the toughest game of a group from which they are favourites to qualify.\n\nThere was little of the apprehensive defending on display in Norfolk and a far greater level of fluency and attacking verve as the home side's largely counter-attacking attempts were regularly repelled and their defence repeatedly unpicked.\n\nRestored to the starting XI, De Bruyne was full of intelligent runs and passes to match, while the direct and pacy trio of Mahrez, Sterling and Jesus (who scored three against the same opponent in a 6-0 win last November) terrorised the home back four.\n\nBut for some wayward finishing, City could well have matched the scoreline they racked up against Shakhtar in that game at the Etihad a little under a year ago.\n\nRegardless, City's recent dominance over a side who are their regular Champions League opponents continues, with this their fourth win in five encounters, the only defeat of which came in a dead rubber at the end of the group stage in 2017-18.\n\nCity have been plunged into something of a defensive injury crisis of late as a result of the muscle injury that has consigned John Stones to a spell on the sidelines alongside fellow centre-back Aymeric Laporte, who is out until the new year.\n\nIn their absence, Fernandinho - a midfielder by trade but long touted as a potential central defender by Guardiola - made the short move into the back four in Ukraine, alongside Nicolas Otamendi.\n\nIf, as expected, the Brazilian is to be the man to deputise at the back (and he hinted as much after the game by admitting he had been training as a defender since the start of the season), he will have sterner tests than this, but what he was required to do, he did well.\n\nTwo interceptions, two solid headers won and a passing accuracy of 90% make for a quietly efficient night.\n\nShakhtar's best opportunities fell to Junior Moraes, but after three times finding himself with just Edersen to beat he first struck the Brazilian's chest with a shot, then missed the ball completely with an attempted flick finish before floating a lob harmlessly off target after the City keeper had rushed out of his box.\n\nThey sent on wily and capable Ukraine international Yevhen Konoplyanka and Brazilians Marcos Antonio and Dentinho but to zero alteration to the flow of the game.\n\nMeanwhile, City were able to give Benjamin Mendy a first run-out of the season and some minutes to Joao Cancelo - a clear indication that while they currently lack depth in some defensive areas they are spoilt for choice in others.\n• None Shakhtar Donetsk have conceded 15 goals in their five meetings with Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League; the most they've conceded against an opponent in the competition.\n• None Manchester City have kept clean sheets in four of their five Champions League matches against Shakhtar Donetsk, double the amount than they have versus any other side.\n• None Since the start of 2016-17 campaign, only Real Madrid (84) and Bayern Munich (72) have scored more Champions League goals than Pep Guardiola's Man City (71).\n• None Shakhtar Donetsk have failed to keep a clean sheet in any of their last 17 UEFA Champions League matches (36 goals conceded).\n• None Riyad Mahrez has had a hand in seven goals in seven Champions League appearances for Man City (2 goals, 5 assists).\n• None Goal! Shakhtar Donetsk 0, Manchester City 3. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne following a fast break. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ineos says the new Bridgend plant will employ 500 people and produce 25,000 cars a year\n\nIneos Automotive has chosen Bridgend for the production of its new 4x4 vehicle, it has been announced.\n\nIt is expected to initially create around 200 jobs to make the Grenadier, and up to 500 in the long-term.\n\nThe company is building a manufacturing and assembly plant and plans to begin production in 2021.\n\nIt has received support from the Welsh Government, and funding from the UK Government as part of a competition to develop new technologies.\n\nThe new plant is being built at Brocastle, close to Ford Bridgend, which is to close in 2020 with the loss of 1,700 jobs.\n\nSome of the skills Ineos requires will be transferable from Ford, the company said.\n\nIt is not known how much public funding Ineos will receive, but it is planning to invest £600m in the new car, inspired by the original Land Rover Defender which went out of production in 2016.\n\nThe plant will be built on a new site at Brocastle in Bridgend\n\nThe new model is likely to face significant competition.\n\nLast week at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Jaguar Land Rover launched their new version of the Defender, a modern car which has also been inspired by the original machine.\n\nAt peak production, it is hoped 25,000 vehicles a year will roll off the line at the new 250,000 sq ft (23,250 sq m) Bridgend site.\n\nKey parts for the Ineos vehicle - including the body and chassis - will be built at a second factory in Portugal before being brought to Bridgend for assembly.\n\nBMW will supply the engines, and engineering assistance will be provided by another German company, MBTech.\n\nIneos Group chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe said it had seen \"lots of good options to choose from\" for a manufacturing facility.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe says the car aims to be the \"spiritual successor\" to the Land Rover Defender (pictured)\n\n\"The decision to build in the UK is a significant expression of confidence in British manufacturing,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Economy Minister Ken Skates said their work to support Bridgend in the run up to the closure of Ford would \"not stop here\".\n\n\"We will continue to do all we can to attract new business opportunities,\" he said.\n\nFord opened in Bridgend in 1980 but is due to close the plant in 2020\n\nThe Welsh Government also said the company was in talks with two Wales-based component supply companies to support their work.\n\nThe UK government's competition funding was aimed at technologies for the motor industry's transition to zero-emission vehicles.\n\nThe Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns described the Ineos investment as a \"welcome boost\" and said they had been supporting the industry through their industrial strategy.\n\n\"There have been some significant automotive investments to Wales over the last few years, including at Aston Martin in St Athan and together with the Welsh Government we will continue to provide incentives for firms like Ineos to make Wales their home,\" he said.\n\nTom Crotty, a director of Ineos Group, told BBC Wales the Welsh Government's funding and general support was more significant than that received from the UK government - although Mr Cairns had been helpful, he added.\n\nHe would not be drawn on the exact level of Welsh Government funding, but said it was below the rumoured £13m. It was not the deciding factor he added, and the grant was linked to the creation of jobs.\n\n\"It's a great area with an industrial tradition, and... there's some really great skilled people and we're going to need up to 500 really skilled people,\" he said.\n\nOn Brexit, he emphasised the investment did not depend on a withdrawal deal being struck with the EU, but said the company had made no secret of supporting Theresa May's deal and a continued open market across Europe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ken Skates This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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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End of twitter post 2 by UK Government in Wales\n\nThe plant is being constructed on a 14-acre (five hectare) plot of land it is buying at market value from the Welsh Government.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the new business area, Brocastle Business Park, next to the established Bridgend Industrial Estate, will be able to accommodate a further 500,000 sq ft (46,500 sq m) of space.\n\nThe closure of Ford Bridgend was one of a series of recent blows to the automotive industry in Wales, which included the closure of Schaeffler in Llanelli and job losses at Calsonic Kansei in the town.\n\nPeter Hughes, Unite Wales regional secretary described the Ineos decision as \"welcome news\" but highlighted it was not enough on its own to mitigate the loss of the 1,700 Ford jobs.\n\n\"The Welsh Government must ensure that Ineos lives up to the standards of what we expect in Wales from socially responsible employers. It is imperative that the jobs being created are of the highest quality, well paid and unionised,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Human childbirth can be a long, painful, drawn-out process, needing assistance and sometimes taking days.\n\nSo why do close living relatives like chimps have an easier labour, giving birth in hours and on their own?\n\nIn an attempt to answer this evolutionary question, scientists have been looking at how ancient members of the human family tree gave birth.\n\nHuman-like relatives two million years ago had it \"pretty easy\", according to birth reconstruction in a fossil.\n\nFor Australopithecus sediba, which lived 1.95 million years ago in South Africa, we see \"a relatively easy birth process\", says study researcher Dr Natalie Laudicina.\n\n\"The foetal head and shoulder breadth have ample space to pass through even the tightest dimensions of the maternal birth canal,\" she says.\n\nIt's a different story today, where the size and shape of the modern pelvis (a trade-off needed for walking upright), and the large size of a baby's head, make for a tight fit.\n\nHuman infants have to make several rotations through the birth canal during labour, rather than popping straight out.\n\nBy studying the few female pelvises we have of our ancient human-like relatives - only six spanning more than three million years of evolution - researchers can get an idea of what birth might have been like further back in the human family tree.\n\nIt's not the case, though, that birth became progressively more difficult during the course of human evolution.\n\nAs the University of Boston anthropologist explains, the fossil \"Lucy\" (Australopithecus afarensis) had a more difficult birth process than A. sediba, in terms of a tighter fit between the foetus and the birth canal, but lived about a million years earlier.\n\n\"There is a tendency to think about the evolution of human birth as a transition from an 'easy', ape-like birth to a 'difficult', modern birth,\" says Dr Laudicina, who reports the team's findings in the journal, Plos One.\n\n\"Instead, what we are seeing is that is not the case. \"\n\nAnswering the question of when modern childbirth evolved is complicated, she says, because each fossil in the human family tree exhibited their own obstetric challenges.\n\nAnd even today we see variation in how women give birth: some women have relatively easy births that take no time at all, while other women have births that last more than 20 hours with extreme pain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nLuxembourg's PM has attacked Boris Johnson's approach to Brexit, calling the situation a \"nightmare\".\n\nXavier Bettel said the British government had failed to put forward any serious proposals for a new deal.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who pulled out of a joint press conference with Mr Bettel because of noisy protesters, said there was still a good chance of a deal.\n\nA government source said the gap the UK and Brussels needed to bridge to achieve a deal \"remains quite large\".\n\nMr Johnson was visiting Luxembourg to hold talks with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, as well as Mr Bettel.\n\nAfter the working lunch with Mr Juncker and Mr Barnier, Mr Johnson said he had been encouraged by the EU's willingness to engage with the UK in their shared desire to avoid a no-deal exit - but there had not been a \"total breakthrough\".\n\nHowever, the European Commission said the PM had yet to present concrete proposals for it to consider and insisted any new plans had to be \"compatible\" with the existing withdrawal agreement, which has been rejected three times by MPs.\n\nThere was then confusion after Mr Bettel held a press conference without Mr Johnson amid noisy protests by anti-Brexit protesters.\n\nMr Bettel, who addressed the media on his own after the UK PM pulled out, said his counterpart \"holds the future of all UK citizens in his hands\" and suggested it was his responsibility to break the deadlock in the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: EU have had 'bellyful' of delays\n\nStanding next to an empty lectern, Mr Bettel warned Mr Johnson \"you can't hold the future hostage for party political gain\".\n\nHe said there were \"no concrete proposals at the moment on the table\" on a new Brexit deal from the UK and said the EU \"needs more than just words\".\n\n\"We need written proposals and the time is ticking, so stop speaking and act,\" he said.\n\nThe existing withdrawal agreement was the \"only solution\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson said his joint press conference was cancelled over fears the two leaders would have been \"drowned out\" by pro-EU protesters.\n\nIt is understood that his request for it to be held inside was turned down.\n\nWhat exactly should we make of the oh so public venting on Monday by the prime minister of Luxembourg following his meeting with Boris Johnson?\n\nDoes this mean the EU has lost patience and will no longer engage in negotiations with the Johnson government? Can we expect an Angela Merkel rant or a Mark Rutte rave next?\n\n\"As long as there is a chance of a deal, it's in our own interest to engage. However frustrating negotiations are,\" a high-level EU contact told me.\n\nThe EU's Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, tweeted a photograph of the empty podium where Mr Johnson had been due to speak alongside Mr Bettel with the caption: \"From Incredible Hulk to incredible sulk\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guy Verhofstadt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOver the weekend Mr Johnson told a newspaper that the UK would break out of its \"manacles\" like cartoon character The Incredible Hulk - with or without a deal.\n\nAfter the working lunch with Mr Juncker, Mr Johnson told the BBC's political editor he was \"cautiously optimistic\" about the state of negotiations and suggested the EU wanted to bring the two and half years of arguments about the terms of the UK's exit to an end.\n\n\"I see no point whatever in staying on in the EU beyond October 31st and we're going to come out. And actually that is what our friends and partners in the EU would like too.\n\n\"And I think that they've had a bellyful of all this stuff. You know they want to develop a new relationship with the UK. They're fed up with these endless negotiations, endless delays.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile he was working \"very hard\" to get a deal, Mr Johnson said there would be no agreement unless the EU shifted its position on the backstop, the insurance policy to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland unless and until another solution is found.\n\n\"If we can't get movement from them on that crucial issue... we won't be able to get it through the House of Commons, no way.\"\n\nHe said there were a number of ideas under discussion which would allow the whole of the UK to leave the EU while protecting the integrity of the bloc's single market, upholding the Good Friday Agreement and supporting the Irish economy.\n\nThese, he said, included the use of technology to minimise border checks as well as the so-called Stormont lock, a mechanism to give Northern Irish politicians a say on the rules that apply to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is all doable with energy and goodwill,\" he insisted.\n\nA UK government source later said: \"It's clear Brussels is not yet ready to find the compromises required for a deal, so no-deal remains a real possibility - as the gap we need to bridge remains quite large.\"\n\nAs soon as we arrived at the office of the prime minister of Luxembourg it became obvious a planned outdoor news conference could not go ahead.\n\nThe anti-Brexit protesters in the square numbered less than 100 but their music and megaphones made it sound like a lot more and they occasionally used language you wouldn't want to hear on the news.\n\nBehind the scenes the British and Luxembourgish delegations grappled with a diplomatic dilemma: Move the event inside but exclude the majority of the journalists? Gamble that the demonstrators could pipe down for a bit? Silence the host to save the guest's blushes?\n\nThe end result saw Mr Johnson do a short interview at the ambassador's residence to be shared with everyone while Mr Bettel took to the stage next to an empty podium.\n\nHe used the moment in the spotlight to deliver an impassioned speech, made all the more dramatic by the fact he's famed as one of the EU's most smiley, mild-mannered leaders.\n\nMr Johnson said he would meet the Halloween Brexit deadline come what may, insisting that the UK would be \"in very good shape\" whether there was a deal or not.\n\nBut pushed on how he would get around the law requiring him to ask for an extension if there is no deal by 19 October, the PM did not explain how it would be possible.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's Supreme Court hearing into whether the prorogation of Parliament was lawful, Mr Johnson defended the decision to suspend Parliament.\n\nParliament was prorogued last week, ahead of a Queen's Speech on 14 October. Legal challenges to the decision have been lodged in the courts by opposition MPs and campaigners.\n\nMr Johnson described claims that Parliament was \"being deprived of the opportunity to scrutinise Brexit\" as \"all this mumbo jumbo\" and a \"load of claptrap\".\n\n\"I think people think that we've somehow stopped Parliament from scrutinising Brexit.\n\n\"What absolute nonsense. Parliament will be able to scrutinise the deal that I hope we will be able to do both before and after the European Council on October 17.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nWhat exactly should we make of the oh so public venting on Monday by the prime minister of Luxembourg following his meeting with Boris Johnson?\n\nDoes this mean the EU has lost patience and will no longer engage in negotiations with the Johnson government? Can we expect an Angela Merkel rant or a Mark Rutte rave next?\n\n\"As long as there is a chance of a deal, it's in our own interest to engage. However frustrating negotiations are,\" a high-level EU contact told me.\n\n\"It's no secret the EU prefers an orderly Brexit. And if talks breaks down and end in no deal, we (the EU) won't be the ones to have closed the door in the UK's face. It's important that European voters know that.\"\n\nThat said, Prime Minister Bettel's effervescent irritation with the Brexit process is shared by most EU leaders behind closed doors. Frustration seems to seeps out of every pore sometimes in off-the-record conversations with EU diplomats and politicians.\n\nBut most EU figures (bar a couple of well-known exceptions) think it politically prudent to hide any teeth-clenching and nostril-flaring in public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: EU have had 'bellyful' of delays\n\nBoris Johnson said on Monday he wanted to step up EU-UK Brexit contacts to daily meetings. Fine, responded the EU. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker repeated his assertion, previously made to Theresa May, that the EU was open for talk 24/7.\n\nBut it's important to remember that Mr Juncker and European Commission negotiators don't have the legal power to change the Brexit deal, even if they wanted to. That power lies with the EU national leaders.\n\nAnd they are locked in a tussle of words and \"alternative facts\" with the UK prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson insists EU leaders must compromise if they really want a deal. They reply that Mr Johnson has yet to come up with any realistic proposals.\n\nSuggesting, as the UK prime minister has, that Northern Ireland follow EU rules on animal, plant and food safety doesn't fly with the EU as an alternative to the backstop.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU wants to know what goods are entering its single market after Brexit. So what about customs?\n\nThe perceived patchy approach of the Johnson government - \"Oh that'll work itself out. There's technology and trusted trader schemes\" - is not acceptable to the EU.\n\n\"As long as UK proposals remain flabby and aspirational,\" one key EU diplomat put it to me, \"Brussels is unlikely to budge.\"\n\nThe devil as always is in the detail. If the UK had specific, targeted requests for compromise on the backstop, the other EU leaders would look to Ireland and if Dublin gave the nod, the EU as a whole would most likely follow suit.\n\nEqually, if Boris Johnson made a realistic request (from Brussels' point of view) on the backstop and Ireland were reluctant, then Dublin could well come under \"gentle pressure\" from other EU leaders to compromise.\n\nBut with no concrete, legally operable proposals from the UK at this stage, the pressure felt on Ireland the EU as a whole to \"compromise\" is \"basically zero,\" my contacts tell me.", "India's cabinet has announced a ban on the production, import and sale of electronic cigarettes, saying they pose a risk to health.\n\nAn executive order had been approved banning vaping products because of their impact on young people, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.\n\nIt is not clear if the order will also prohibit the use of vaping equipment.\n\nIndia has more than 100 million adult smokers, making it a huge potential market for e-cigarette companies.\n\nVaping - which involves inhaling a mix typically made of nicotine, water, solvents and flavours - is seen as an alternative to smoking which can help you quit, but its impact on health is still not fully known.\n\nThe ban will include jail terms of up to three years for offenders. Traditional tobacco products are not affected.\n\n\"This means the production, manufacturing, import and export, sale, distribution and advertising related to e-cigarettes are banned,\" Ms Sitharaman told a news conference.\n\nShe said evidence from the US and India suggested some young people saw vaping as a \"style statement\".\n\nIndia has more smokers than any other country, except for China\n\nIndia is the world's second-largest consumer of tobacco products after China, and more than 900,000 people die in the country each year from tobacco-related illnesses.\n\nProponents of vaping say it helps people stop smoking and that banning it would encourage ex-smokers to pick up the habit again.\n\nBut India's health ministry, which proposed the ban, says it is in the public interest to ensure vaping doesn't become an \"epidemic\" among young people.\n\nWhile the Indian market seemed ripe for the expansion of popular e-cigarette companies like Juul, it hadn't taken off like it has in the US or the UK.\n\nVapers in the US, UK and France spent more than $10bn (£8bn) on smokeless tobacco and vaping products in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to the World Health Organization, there has been a small but steady decrease in the estimated number of smokers globally, to just over one billion.\n\nBut it's a different matter when it comes to vaping.\n\nThe number of vapers has been increasing rapidly - from about seven million in 2011 to 41 million in 2018.\n\nMarket research group Euromonitor estimates that the number of adults who vape will reach almost 55 million by 2021.\n\nIn the US, where the potential health risks of e-cigarettes are in the spotlight, there have been 450 reported cases of lung illness tired to vaping this year. There have also been at least six deaths across 33 states.\n\nHealth investigators in the US are trying to establish whether a particular toxin or substance is behind the outbreak, or whether it's the result of heavy usage.\n\nIndia's ban came a day after New York became the second US state to prohibit the use of flavoured e-cigarettes. Critics of vaping say flavours appeal particularly to children and risk them becoming addicted to nicotine.", "The global wealthy will soon be able to send their children to a top English private school without having to leave home.\n\nHarrow is setting up a virtual sixth form which will teach A-levels online to pupils anywhere in the world.\n\nIt will charge £15,000 per year and will initially focus on science and maths subjects, with education firm Pearson providing the technology.\n\nThe new Harrow School Online will begin teaching from September 2020.\n\nPrincipal Heather Rhodes said the historic school was adapting to a \"rapidly changing world\".\n\nThis is the latest attempt to use online technology to sell UK education overseas - with the school's brand being used to attract pupils who want to be taught through the internet.\n\nThe online classes will only be available to pupils outside the UK - and so will not compete with its own bricks and mortar school in north-west London, where fees for boarders are almost £42,000 per year.\n\nThe school is expected to appeal to affluent families in Russia, China, Nigeria, the Gulf and Hong Kong, who want A-levels from a prestigious private school teaching in English.\n\nLogging in to Harrow: The online version of the school will teach A-levels over the internet\n\nMs Rhodes said it might also appeal to families working abroad who want more flexibility than a conventional international school.\n\nHarrow School Online will operate as a joint project with Pearson, which provides educational technology and also A-levels through its Edexcel exam board.\n\nSharon Hague of Pearson said the online platform had already been tested, and was being used by more than 75,000 pupils learning online in the United States.\n\nThe A-level subjects - chemistry, physics, maths, further maths and economics - will be taught through video-conferencing, with classes of up to 15 pupils per teacher.\n\nThe school expects to begin with a relatively small number of online pupils, but as the numbers grow, classes are likely to be scheduled around different time zones.\n\nThere will also be one-to-one teaching and extra-curricular projects, said Ms Rhodes, creating a \"full-school experience\".\n\nUnlike the rest of Harrow, which only admits boys, the online school will teach both boys and girls - with entry depending on passing an admissions test.\n\nFounded in the 16th Century, Harrow has taught many famous pupils, including Sir Winston Churchill and actor Benedict Cumberbatch.\n\nThe income will be shared between Pearson and Harrow, with the school saying money from online courses will be used to support bursaries for disadvantaged pupils.", "Nicole Jacobs has worked for domestic abuse charities for two decades\n\nThe first domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales is \"relieved\" the prime minister has pledged to re-introduce a new law on the issue.\n\nNicole Jacobs told the BBC she expects to see the Domestic Violence Bill included in the new Queen's Speech when Parliament returns.\n\n\"I know that everyone will be watching and listening to see it in there,\" she said.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is \"fully committed\" to re-introducing the bill.\n\nMs Jacobs, who has worked for domestic abuse charities for two decades, will be responsible for championing victims of domestic abuse and recommending improvements to the government.\n\nSpeaking of concern over the fate of the Domestic Violence Bill, which fell when Parliament was suspended, Ms Jacobs, 48, said: \"Everyone was [concerned], and now that we have the commitment we can be a bit relieved.\n\n\"It was heartening how quickly politicians from all parties were asserting how much they wanted to see the bill in the Queen's Speech and back on track, as well as from the public and people in the court system.\n\n\"It is very good for the government to respond and give some assurance, and I know that everyone will be watching and listening to see it in there.\"\n\nThe new role is legislated for within the bill and Ms Jacobs will work as designate commissioner with no formal powers until it passes through Parliament and becomes law.\n\nThe bill would end the cross-examination of victims by their abusers in the family courts and allow police and courts to intervene earlier where abuse is suspected.\n\nMs Jacobs, previously chief executive of the domestic abuse charity Standing Together, said she wanted to end a \"postcode lottery\" of services that many victims face.\n\nShe said: \"You will hear something where you go 'wow, that shouldn't have happened' or where you say 'that wouldn't have happened elsewhere'.\"\n\nCharities said Ms Jacobs' appointment ensures \"survivors and their needs are front and centre\" but some expressed concern that her job will be part-time.\n\nWomen's Aid's Adina Claire said the charity was \"concerned that this crucial role is a part-time position, given the extent of its remit\".\n\nSandra Horley, of the charity Refuge, said she wants assurances the government's promise to re-introduce the new bill is fulfilled.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"absolutely determined to do all I can to protect victims and their families and ensure perpetrators face tough action\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, you can find information and support on the BBC Action Line website.", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "A police officer was injured as two Republican marches were held in Glasgow.\n\nOfficers in riot gear and mounted police were deployed to the parades, one week after clashes between marchers and protesters in the Govan area.\n\nThere were counter demonstrations at both marches but they were quickly contained by police. Eleven people were charged for a variety of offences.\n\nA \"pyrotechnic\" was thrown on Clyde Street which injured an officer.\n\nOne of Police Scotland's top officers described his disgust at the \"recklessness\" displayed.\n\nPolice said about 1,000 people took to the streets to either march or take part in counter protests.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins, said: \"The majority of those who took part in the processions listened to us and complied with our instructions.\n\n\"I am, however, disgusted at the recklessness and stupidity of those who decided to throw pyrotechnics, one of which injured an officer.\n\n\"He was simply carrying out a duty which allows us to facilitate people's rights and ultimately we were here today to keep everybody safe.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by India Grant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said the officer was taken to hospital. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nCharges against the 11 people arrested included a 33-year-old man accused of carrying an offensive weapon and a 15-year-old boy accused of possessing an offensive weapon. A 14-year-old boy was also among those arrested.\n\nOthers were charged with being drunk and disorderly, obstructing police, public order offences and sectarian breaches of the peace. They are expected to appear in court on Monday.\n\nThe first march - A Cairde Na Heireann (Calton Republicans) - started on Millroad Street in the east end at 14:00, finishing on Clyde Street.\n\nThe second event - the Friends of Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association parade - was due to start at Blythswood Square at 15:00 but was held up for an hour. It ended at Barrowland Park in the Gallowgate.\n\nA heavy police presence was on hand to separate both sides. The majority of counter-protesters appeared to be held at King George V Bridge, next to the Riverboat Casino.\n\nFireworks, which appeared to have come from the counter-protesters, were set off, with police telling members of the public to move back from the area.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf praised the police operation and wished a fast recovery to the injured police officer.\n\nHe said: \"I am very grateful to all of the officers and police staff involved in the robust policing operation around two processions in Glasgow this afternoon.\n\n\"I hope the officer injured as a result of a pyrotechnic thrown during the event will make a full and speedy recovery.\n\n\"This is a further reminder of how Scotland's police officers put themselves in harm's way to keep all of us safe.\"\n\nAbout 1,000 people were involved in the marches and the counter protests\n\nWhile recognising the right to hold processions and demonstrations as \"central to our democratic society\", Mr Yousaf added: \"It is important that we do not lose sight of the collective need for action to achieve a zero-tolerance approach towards sectarianism and offensive behaviour.\n\n\"Scotland's communities also have a right to feel safe and to be protected from disorder and thuggery.\"\n\nGlasgow City Council allowed the processions to go ahead a week after a march through Govan was marred by sectarian violence.\n\nBut there is a series of further marches planned.\n\nA Glasgow City Council spokesman said: \"We want to thank the police for everything they did to ensure that trouble was kept to a minimum yesterday.\n\n\"But with 14 processions coming up this month alone, we know this kind of march continues to disrupt Glasgow's communities and impact on policing outside the city.\n\n\"We will be very carefully considering that community impact when we receive notifications of processions in future.\"\n\nCouncil bosses had previously threatened to take action against marches to protect the public.\n• None Police to have 'significant' presence at marches", "Exactly two weeks on from their last one, England will ask for another greatest day.\n\nThey do so again in order to save the Ashes, an urn they have been desperately clinging on to for so long that their fingertips have no skin and the nails have been ripped from the beds.\n\nA fortnight ago at Headingley, it was win or bust. There was too much time left in the Test for it to be drawn. England either pulled off a magnificent run-chase, or they were beaten.\n• None England lose late wickets as Australia close in on Ashes\n\nAt Old Trafford, there will be no audacious pursuit, no Ben Stokes endangering spectators with mighty sixes, no Australians staring blankly into the distance as they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.\n\nIt will be all about survival - 98 overs of backs-to-the-wall, over-my-dead-body repulsion of three tearaway fast bowlers and a scheming off-spinner who will feel like he owes his team an Ashes-winning moment.\n\nMere occupation of the crease, rather than trying to win the game, was the size of the task even before the late carnage of Saturday, when England's two highest scorers of the first innings - Rory Burns and Joe Root - were removed from Sunday's equation by successive Pat Cummins deliveries.\n\nAt that stage, England were two wickets down for fewer runs than their footballing counterparts were on goals at Wembley.\n\nThe Cummins-led drama silenced an Old Trafford crowd which had been treated to a day that was almost the series in microcosm. It was a greatest hits, except for Stokes doing something ridiculous.\n\nThere were times when wickets tumbled and the pace bowlers of both sides seemed irresistible.\n\nJonny Bairstow was bowled because Jonny Bairstow is always bowled. His stumps are not a fortress to be defended with his life, but the pins in a bowling alley, spending more time knocked over than they are upright.\n\nStuart Broad got David Warner because Stuart Broad always gets David Warner. Six times in eight innings, Warner's third successive duck. Broad has made Warner his bunny - he should keep him in a hutch and feed him lettuce.\n\nThe England fans taunted Nathan Lyon because they will always taunt Nathan Lyon. In the party stand, cricket's equivalent of a nightclub only with stickier floors, it might have been necessary to wear three layers for the times the sun dipped behind a cloud, but that didn't stop Lyon being mocked every time he caught the ball.\n\nLyon might still be haunted by his Headingley fumble - he hasn't taken a wicket since - but on the other occasion in this series that England attempted to bat through a final day, it was Lyon who bowled them out.\n\nAnd, naturally, Steve Smith made runs because Steve Smith always makes runs.\n\nYes, there were times when Broad and Jofra Archer were flooding England supporters with belief, even to the point that every conversation seemed to end with \"if we can just get Smith out\".\n\nBut Smith doesn't get out. Not cheaply, anyway. And here his sense of occasion failed him. Whereas the allowance of one tiny mistake or error of judgement would have sent Old Trafford, Greater Manchester and the entire country into rapture, Smith's selfish love of batting was the denial of a moment of celebration.\n\nIn fact, as he moved through the gears, he proved that he is more than just maddening ticks, umpteen nudges off the pads and cover drives that his footwork has no right to allow.\n\nIn one Archer over, he played a short-arm pull like a man whose arms were being operated by a puppeteer, followed that up with a geometry-bending late cut to a delivery that was over the leg stump and finished with an overarm smash at a bouncer that could have been a man playing tennis with a frying pan.\n\nIn the frivolity of it all he holed out for 82, his lowest score of the series, and still looked livid with himself. The declaration came soon after, allowing Cummins to deliver the one-two combination that floored Burns and Root.\n\nJust lately, England haven't been very good at saving Test matches. The last time they batted through a final day to save a match Sir Alex Ferguson was Manchester United manager, Smith had yet to make a Test ton and Sam Curran was only 14.\n\nThey used to do it quite often. Matt Prior in Auckland and Steven Finn in Dunedin on the same 2013 tour of New Zealand. Graham Onions twice in South Africa in 2009-10.\n\nIf they want Ashes inspiration, James Anderson and Monty Panesar in Cardiff is a decade ago this year.\n\nFor something on this ground, they can look to how the 2005 Australians defied England on the day that thousands were locked out.\n\nAnd just imagine if they pull it off. A finale at The Oval that this summer of all summers truly deserves.", "Former Labour MP Angela Smith has joined the Liberal Democrats, calling them \"the strongest party to stop Brexit\".\n\nShe said: \"We are facing a national crisis and people deserve better than the choice of the old two parties.\"\n\nMs Smith is the third MP to join the Lib Dems in a week, after Luciana Berger and Philip Lee defected.\n\nShe quit Labour in February to form the Change UK party with six other MPs.\n\nThe decision by Ms Smith, who is MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, brings the total number of Lib Dem MPs to 17, with Mr Lee dramatically crossing the floor from the Conservatives on 3 September.\n\nMs Smith's former Labour and Change UK colleague Ms Berger joined the Lib Dems days later.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said Ms Smith made a \"brave decision\" to leave Labour earlier this year over \"the mishandling of anti-Semitism claims and Jeremy Corbyn's stance on Brexit\".\n\nShe said: \"We welcome Angela's commitment to stopping Brexit, and to building a fairer, more liberal society.\"\n\nMs Smith said she intended to fight against Brexit and campaign for \"the constitutional reform needed to mend our broken politics\".\n\nShe said: \"We need a more inclusive, tolerant politics for our country that values diversity.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats are the strongest party to stop Brexit and build a society that gives opportunities to everyone, tackle the climate crisis and invest in our public services.\"\n\nMeanwhile Labour MP John Mann has used his exit from the Commons to criticise Jeremy Corbyn's record as leader, and blame him for the party's current anti-Semitism crisis.\n\nMr Mann - who is standing down as the Labour MP for Bassetlaw - is set to take up a full-time post as the Government's \"anti-Semitism tsar\".\n\nHe said he could not campaign for Mr Corbyn knowing he could become prime minister, and told The Sunday Times he would \"never forgive\" him for allowing the party to be \"hijacked\" by anti-Semites.\n\nHe told the paper: \"Corbyn has given the green light to the anti-Semites and, having done so, has sat there and done nothing to turn that round.\"", "Tom Hanks spoke to reporters at the Toronto Film Festival\n\nTom Hanks has said the increasing level of cynicism in society is partly what led him to take a role as a loveable children's entertainer.\n\nThe actor plays Fred Rogers in his new movie - a legendary US kids TV host whose brand was wholesome and warm.\n\n\"Cynicism has become the default position for so much of daily structure and daily intercourse,\" Hanks told reporters.\n\n\"Why? Because it's easy, and there's good money to be made.\"\n\nHe added: \"Cynicism is a great product to sell, and it's the perfect beginning of any examination of anything. And part of that is conspiracy theories and what have you.\n\n\"But I think when Fred Rogers first saw children's programming, he saw something that was cynical, and why would you put something that is cynical in front of a two or three-year-old kid? That you are not cool because you don't have this toy? That it's funny to see someone being bopped on the head?\n\n\"That's a cynical treatment of the audience, and we have become so inured to that, that when we are met with as simple a message as 'Hey you know what, it's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood!' we get slapped a little bit. We are allowed, I think, to feel good. There's a place for cynicism, but why begin with it right off the bat?\"\n\nA Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood serves as the title of the Rogers film, which is directed by Marielle Heller - well known for the Oscar-nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me?\n\nHeller has explained that, because Mr Rogers (as he was known) had such little conflict in his life, he was not an obvious protagonist for a movie, and his career alone wouldn't have served as a strong enough storyline.\n\nTom Hanks plays the gentle and softly-spoken TV host, who was usually seen in zip-up sweaters\n\nInstead, A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood follows the relationship between Mr Rogers and a journalist for Esquire magazine, who wrote a profile of the entertainer in 1998.\n\nThe journalist who wrote the original piece, Tom Junod, possessed by trade just the kind of cynical personality Hanks refers to. But when he met Mr Rogers, he found a more complex character than he was expecting.\n\nOver a series of sittings, he and Mr Rogers developed a friendship. The entertainer won Junod over with his seemingly unrelenting kindness and empathy, helping him examine his own issues and find a deeper appreciation for life.\n\nlt is, frankly, an outstanding film - one of the best seen so far at the Toronto Film Festival and undoubtedly an awards season contender.\n\n\"Marielle Heller excels at pulling heartstrings from sturdy foundations, injecting smart and insightful details into material that could easily default to sentimentality,\" wrote Eric Kohn in IndieWire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Hanks leads his fans in a sing-along of his movie's theme song at the Toronto Film Festival\n\n\"Hanks isn't just good - he's transporting,\" added Variety's Owen Gleiberman. \"He takes on Mr Rogers' legendary mannerisms and owns them, using them as a conduit to Rogers' disarming inner spirit. He makes you believe in this too-nice-for-words man... [the film] is a soft-hearted fable that works on you in an enchanting way.\"\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter was more sceptical: \"It is a sympathetic and yet entirely predictable in its dramatic trajectory of making a believer of an angry, cynical journalist. Still, the lure of the Hanks/Rogers match-up looks to stir some reasonable commercial returns.\"\n\nThe script for A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood had been floating around Hollywood for some time before production began.\n\nHanks even passed on the role several times - but then ended up saying yes once director Marielle Heller became attached to the project.\n\nThe pair had been looking to work on a film together for some time and Hanks said he felt she was the right person to deliver it to the screen.\n\nMatthew Rhys, who plays the journalist, said the film taps into a vulnerability which men in particular often keep hidden under the surface.\n\n\"Marielle talked about giving men in general a greater emotional vocabulary, or working towards articulating their emotions, and not just generally men, I think society in general would benefit from it,\" he said.\n\nMatthew Rhys (right) plays a sceptical journalist who is eventually won over my Mr Rogers' kindness\n\n\"And I think it was instantly relatable that someone was so desperately wanting to be seen, but hiding behind this castle that he built for himself, and I think it's a message of hope.\"\n\nMr Rogers, who died in 2003, isn't well known in many international territories, however, in the same way he is in the US.\n\nTherefore, while a Tom Hanks movie can generally be expected to draw the public to the cinema, the distributors may have a struggle on their hands to market it in some international territories.\n\nBut by the time it reaches UK cinemas, the awards season buzz it is generating may well be enough to carry it to significant box office success.", "Marcelo Crivella, a former bishop, has previously decried homosexuality as \"evil behaviour\"\n\nBrazil's Supreme Court has ruled that a Marvel comic showing two men kissing can be sold despite attempts to ban it by the mayor of Rio de Janeiro.\n\nMayor Marcelo Crivella, a former bishop, had demanded the comic be withdrawn from a book fair, saying it included content unsuitable for minors.\n\nThe Supreme Court overturned a decision by a lower court that permitted a ban.\n\nCopies of the comic book, Avengers: The Children's Crusade, quickly sold out after the mayor's intervention.\n\nThe Supreme Court made it illegal to ban any LGBT publication. It ruled that Mr Crivella's actions were illegal as they only targeted LGBT content.\n\nThe illustration that upset that mayor was also printed on the front page of Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Folha de S.Paulo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 picture depicts two male characters, Wiccan and Hulkling, kissing while fully clothed. In the storyline, they are portrayed as being in a committed relationship.\n\nThe Children's Crusade series has been available in Brazil since 2012. The luxury hardcover volume available at the book fair was released three years ago, according to the O Globo newspaper.\n\nFelipe Neto, a popular Youtube star in Brazil bought 14,000 books that had LGBT themes and handed them out for free at the fair.\n\nMarvel's first portrayal of a gay kiss was published in 1991 in its X-Force series, and a year later Northstar became the publisher's first openly gay superhero.\n\nGay relationships were also included years earlier in a 1985 issue of Captain America.\n\nIn a Twitter video on Friday, Mr Crivella called for issues of the comic book to be seized.\n\n\"Books like this need to be wrapped in black sealed plastic with a content warning displayed on the outside,\" he said in another message.\n\nMayor Crivella has in the past decried homosexuality as \"evil behaviour,\" despite same-sex marriage being legal in the country since 2013.\n\nBrazil's largest literary event \"gives voice to all audiences, without distinction, as it should be in a democracy\", the book fair's organisers told AFP news agency.", "Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd says no deal is \"the worst possible outcome\" of all potential Brexit options.\n\nAsked if she would resign over the issue, she said there were \"lots of moving parts\" in Westminster at the moment.\n\nThis interview was originally published in January 2019.", "The memo suggested a poll that \"shows up the inequity of the existing border\"\n\nA top-secret memo written by an Army general during the Troubles refers to Britain needing to find a way to \"gradually escape\" from its commitment to Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was discovered by the BBC NI's Spotlight programme during the making of a major new series on the conflict.\n\nIt was written by Sir Michael Carver, who was providing advice to government in 1972 as the Army's chief of staff.\n\nLord Carver was the Army's chief of staff in 1972\n\nThe former chief of staff, later Lord Carver, wrote: \"If I am right, and we want a lasting solution, it must lie in finding a way in which HM Government can gradually escape from the commitment to the border.\"\n\nHe suggested a \"plebiscite\", or poll, organised \"in such a way that it shows up the inequity of the existing border\".\n\nRare film footage shows Martin McGuinness (right) present as a car bomb is assembled\n\nThe programme makers have also obtained rare film footage showing Martin McGuinness, the former IRA commander, in the presence of people assembling a car bomb.\n\nIdentifiable by its licence plate, the vehicle was used in an attack on Shipquay Street in the centre of Londonderry in 1972.\n\nThe car was used in a bomb explosion in Derry city centre\n\nIn other footage, the former Sinn Féin deputy first minister of Northern Ireland is seen showing children weapons and ammunition.\n\nPart one of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History covers 1966 to 1972 and also explores the rise of Ian Paisley, who went on become DUP leader and first minister.\n\nA former senior army officer, David Hancock, told the programme Mr Paisley \"financed\" a UVF bombing in Kilkeel in 1969.\n\nTargeting infrastructure, the blast was blamed on the IRA, but was part of a loyalist campaign designed to destabilise the Stormont government of Terence O'Neill.\n\nMr Hancock said police had shown him \"evidence\" that Mr Paisley \"had supplied the money which financed the explosion\".\n\nMr Paisley's son Ian, the DUP MP for North Antrim, said the allegations were \"complete and total poppycock\" and criticised the BBC for not approaching the Paisley family with them.\n\nIan Paisley told the Nolan programme on BBC Radio Ulster there was \"absolutely no truth whatsoever in what I can only describe as a filthy story designed to try and impugn the reputation of a dead man\".\n\nA BBC Spokesperson said: \"The BBC has complete confidence in the editorial integrity of the programme.\n\n\"As no allegations were made against the wider Paisley family it was not necessary to offer them a right to reply.\"\n\nThe series comprises seven programmes and contains interviews with around 100 people as well as archive never shown before.\n\nThe editor of Spotlight, Jeremy Adams, said the series had uncovered \"new findings\" on the Troubles.\n\n\"The past has shaped our present and it's vitally important that truths continue to be told.\"\n\nThe first episode of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Four on Tuesday, 10 September at 20:30 BST.", "Amber Rudd has resigned from her cabinet post in Boris Johnson's government. Here is the full text of her letter to the prime minister.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I am resigning as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Minister for Women and Equalities.\n\nIt has been an honour to serve in a department that supports millions of people and can be such a force for good. I would like to pay tribute to the thousands of people who work for the DWP across the country. They are committed public servants and I am proud of the work that we have done together over the last 10 months to create a more compassionate welfare system.\n\nI would also like to thank you and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for your support in the recent Spending Review. I am so pleased that you committed to spend millions more supporting the most vulnerable in society, and I hope that the Government will stay committed to going further at the next fiscal event, building on the work the department has done.\n\nThis has been a difficult decision. I joined your Cabinet in good faith; accepting that 'no deal' had to be on the table, because it was the means by which we would have the best chance of achieving a new deal to leave on October 31.\n\nHowever, I no longer believe leaving with a deal is the Government's main objective.\n\nThe Government is expending a lot of energy to prepare for 'no deal' but I have not seen the same level of intensity go into our talks with the European Union, who have asked us to present alternative arrangements to the Irish backstop.\n\nThe updates I have been grateful to receive from your office have not, regretfully, provided me with the reassurances I sought.\n\nI must also address the assault on decency and democracy that took place last week when you sacked 21 talented, loyal One Nation Conservatives.\n\nThis short-sighted culling of my colleagues has stripped the party of broad-minded and dedicated Conservative MPs I cannot support this act of political vandalism.\n\nTherefore, it is with regret that I am also surrendering the Conservative whip.\n\nBritain's body politic is under attack from both sides of the ideological debate. I will now play whatever role I can to help return it to a better place.\n\nI have been lucky to have had extraordinary support from my Conservative Association since I was adopted as their candidate in 2006. Three times they helped elect me as their MP, keeping Labour at bay through nail-biting campaigns.\n\nI remain a proud conservative and will continue to champion the values of fairness and compassion, and to support my constituents of Hastings and Rye.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: England v Australia, fourth Specsavers Test (day five of five)\n\nAustralia finally broke England's brave resistance to retain the Ashes with a 185-run victory in the fourth Test at Old Trafford.\n\nAmid incredible tension on the fifth evening, England ninth-wicket pair Craig Overton and Jack Leach survived for 14 overs, delighting a partisan crowd that grew in noisy belief.\n\nThere was hope that England could pull off one more stunning achievement in a summer of astonishing moments, only for it to be sucked away when Leach turned the leg-spin of Marnus Labuschagne to short leg.\n\nOverton was lbw to Josh Hazlewood with 13.3 of the day's 98 overs remaining, sparking Australian jubilation.\n• None Where did it go wrong for England?\n• None I'm the right man to be captain - Root\n\nEngland began on 18-2, chasing 383, but more realistically looking to bat through the day and set up a series decider at The Oval.\n\nJoe Denly made 53, while Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler showed defiance and the big-hearted Overton spent 105 balls at the crease.\n\nBut the relentless Australia attack was simply too much to hold back as pace bowler Pat Cummins ended with 4-43.\n\nIt means Australia will leave the UK with the urn for the first time since 2001, while England will not add the Ashes to the World Cup they won in July.\n\nEngland must now win the final Test if they are to avoid suffering their first home series defeat against any side since 2014.\n\nThe fifth Test - coach Trevor Bayliss' final game in charge - begins on Thursday.\n• None Winning Ashes in England was my dream - Paine\n• None 'England have not been good enough' - TMS podcast\n• None Quiz: Can you name last England team to lose Ashes at home?\n\nDespite the result, England cannot be accused of a lack of fight in their bid to follow up the World Cup final and their third-Test win with one more remarkable Sunday.\n\nDenly's forward defence to the first ball of the day was cheered by a crowd that was willing England to hang on, and the Kent batsman came through a number of scares to register his second half-century in as many matches.\n\nRoy played within himself for 31 from 67 balls, only to be bowled by Cummins, who had Ben Stokes caught behind for one. Denly punched off-spinner Lyon to short leg after lunch, yet England had plenty more defiance left.\n\nButtler used up 14 overs with Bairstow and 21 with Overton, with whom he was roared back after tea. Although Buttler's 111-ball vigil was over when he played no shot to Hazlewood's wonderful inswinger, even that was not the end.\n\nLeach joined Overton to face the second new ball. Every defensive stroke, every time Leach stopped to clean his glasses, every occasion that a new pair of gloves appeared from the dressing room was greeted with delight by a crowd louder than at any point in the match.\n\nWhen Leach was caught by Matthew Wade, it ended a 51-ball stay and punctured the atmosphere.\n\nTwo overs later, Overton, who had earlier overturned being given out lbw to Cummins, was pinned by a Hazlewood inswinger and, this time, the review could not save him.\n\nBowlers take Australia to the Ashes\n\nCummins removed Rory Burns and captain Joe Root in successive balls on the fourth evening and it was the world's number one bowler who again led the Australia attack on Sunday.\n\nAlong with Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc, the fast bowlers incessantly tested England's patience with accuracy, technique with movement, and mettle with hostility.\n\nOften they rotated at the opposite end to off-spinner Lyon, who struggled to provide a constant threat, but did at least account for Denly with bounce and, later, Jofra Archer with one that scuttled.\n\nIn between, left-armer Starc got one to nip back and trap Bairstow leg before and, when the ball needed changing after 58 overs, the replacement swung prodigiously, allowing Hazlewood to produce the beauty that accounted for Buttler.\n\nOnly against the stoic pairing of Overton and Leach did the fast men start to show signs of tiredness.\n\nAustralia turned to Labuschagne, who needed only five balls to deliver, then, as they gathered to watch the Overton review, the resulting decision sparked wild celebrations.\n\nFor the past 18 years, only one touring team - England in 2010-11 - have ended a series with the Ashes. That this Australia side have ended their own drought is an impressive turnaround from the turmoil of the ball-tampering scandal 18 months ago.\n\nThat controversy has led to them being taunted by the home crowds throughout this series, none more so than former captain Steve Smith.\n\nHe responded with 671 runs in only five innings and has been backed up by some superb pace bowling by Cummins and Hazlewood.\n\nAustralia would have secured the urn in the third Test had Stokes not played one of the all-time great innings to give England a one-wicket win.\n\nEngland can point to the rain that denied them victory in the second Test at Lord's and the calf injury that hit James Anderson on the first morning of the first Test and ruled him out for the rest of the series.\n\nBut, in a contest of two fragile batting units, the insatiable Smith has been the big difference and Australia's bowling has carried a more constant threat.\n\n'I've not had too much sleep' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"I'm bitterly disappointed. To come so close to taking it to The Oval is hard to take.\n\n\"The way we fought today, the character we showed - every single one of them can be proud of that today. You learn a lot about your team. Everyone stood up and played bravely.\n\n\"We have seen some wonderful Test cricket and I expect the same at The Oval. We want to level the series. We have to pick ourselves up and turn up at The Oval.\"\n\nAustralia captain Tim Paine: \"I'm pretty pumped. This team has been through a lot. The character we have showed says a lot about the people in our side. The boys have got what they deserved.\n\n\"It's been an unbelievable series. Every Test has almost gone down to the wire. I've not slept that well!\n\n\"Steve is the best player I have ever seen. He showed that again in this Test match. He knows the game so well and reads it so well.\"\n\nPlayer of the match Steve Smith: \"I have been here a few times and didn't get the chocolates then. To know the urn coming home is incredibly pleasing.\n\n\"We came here to win the Ashes. We'll celebrate hard tonight, knowing the urn is coming home, but we also want to win at The Oval.\n\n\"I'm not sure I have ever played better. I have come back fresh from a year out, but relaxed and chilled out. I want to be the one in the middle doing my job for the team as I don't particularly enjoy watching cricket!\"\n\nAustralia coach Justin Langer: \"We got everyone together after Headingley and watched that horrible final 15 minutes. The feeling in the camp was so bad the night before, we had to face it head on.\n\n\"I've been coaching a while now - this has been the most challenging week of my career, and now my most satisfying.\"", "MP Amber Rudd has quit the cabinet and surrendered the Conservative whip, saying she cannot \"stand by\" while \"moderate Conservatives are expelled\".\n\nMs Rudd described the sacking of 21 Tory MPs on Tuesday as an \"assault on decency and democracy\".\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, she said there was not \"sufficient concentration and planning\" by the government on getting a Brexit deal.", "Emergency services were called to the Tate Modern on 4 August\n\nA six-year-old boy who was allegedly thrown off a balcony at the Tate Modern is making \"amazing progress\", his family have said.\n\nThe boy, who was visiting London with his family, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain in the fall on 4 August.\n\nHe \"can't speak or move his body for the moment\" but was responding to his family by smiling and laughing.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder. A trial will start on 3 February at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe six-year-old boy, who is a French national, fell five floors from a 10th floor viewing platform.\n\nA court previously heard he sustained a fractured spine, along with leg and arm fractures.\n\nThe boy was taken to hospital after he was found on a fifth floor roof\n\nIn their statement, his family thanked people for their support and said he remained in hospital.\n\nThey said: \"Even if he can't speak or move his body for the moment, we now know for sure that he understands us.\n\n\"He smiles and we saw him laughing several times since a couple of days when we were telling him some funny things or when we were reading to him some stories.\n\n\"It gives us lots of strength and hope, as much as the strength you, all of you, give us since the beginning with your kind messages.\"\n\nA GoFundMe page has already raised nearly €60,000 (£54,000) for the boy and his family to help with \"medical funds\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Part of Strabane was cordoned off during the security alert\n\nA mortar bomb left near a police station in County Tyrone was a \"callous attempt to kill or maim\" officers, the PSNI chief constable has said.\n\nThe device was found by a resident on a wall near houses in Church View, Strabane, at 8:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nA 33-year-old man has been arrested under terrorism legislation.\n\nBBC News NI home affairs correspondent Julian O'Neill said: \"The PSNI strongly suspects dissident republicans were behind the attempt to kill officers.\"\n\nThe device can be seen on a wall in Strabane as an Army robot deals with it\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne tweeted it was a \"stark reminder\" of why the Police Service of Northern Ireland needed \"7,500 officers to grow our presence in communities to deal with this severe threat\".\n\nDet Insp Andrew Hamlin said the device had been an attempt to target police officers, but that it had \"the capacity to kill or seriously injure anyone in the vicinity\".\n\n\"This is not the first time a deadly device has been left in a public space recently and serves to remind us all how little the terrorists responsible care for the lives of local people,\" he added.\n\nA number of houses were evacuated on Saturday, but residents were allowed to return home in the early hours of Sunday after Army technical officers made the device safe.\n\nThe police are linking the incident to the hijacking of a pizza delivery driver's car in the Mount Sion area at about 21:30 BST on Friday.\n\nA fake order was placed with a pizza outlet from a phone box on Bridge Street in the town.\n\nWhen the driver arrived at the stated address, the orange-coloured Fiat Sedici was taken by a group of three men.\n\nThe car was found on fire at Evish Road, about 45 minutes later.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley condemned those responsible for the bomb.\n\n\"This was an attack on the entire community. Thankfully no one was injured in this disgraceful incident,\" she said.\n\nSDLP MLA for West Tyrone Daniel McCrossan described those behind the bomb as \"reckless, cowardly and selfish\".\n\nThe wall where the bomb was found is close to the local police station and homes\n\n\"This device obviously was very sophisticated and was placed there deliberately, not only to cause a huge inconvenience but, ultimately has endangered human life,\" he said.\n\n\"This could have been much, much worse.\n\n\"There's no mandate for it, no-one wants it. We want them off our streets, we want them to leave and go away. That's the message that this community will be sending very strongly to those responsible.\"\n\nThe Police Federation chairman Mark Lindsay told the BBC's Sunday News programme: \"It's a worrying development, not only for our police officers, who were obviously the target, but for members of the community.\n\n\"These devices are inherently unstable, even before they are initiated. If it was a child that came across it, we could have been looking at a fatality.\n\n\"Police officers do not feel that any sacrifice of one of them will progress things one iota, it will only be a waste of life.\"\n\nOn its Facebook page, PSNI Strabane thanked residents for their \"support and understanding\".\n\n\"To those affected by the inconvenience of having to be asked to leave your homes etc we can only apologise,\" the post added.\n\nDissident republican activity has been stepped up in recent months, with attempted bomb attacks on police in Belfast, Craigavon and Fermanagh.\n\nBoth the New IRA and Continuity IRA have been involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is 'dolphin snot' being tested?\n\nBlow, or snot, exhaled by dolphins off the Welsh coast has been collected as scientists try to better understand the health of pods.\n\nThe method has been used to collect DNA from humpback whales, which have the lung capacity equivalent to the size of a Ford Ka.\n\nBut with dolphins having a smaller lung volume, about the size of two rugby balls, it had never been attempted.\n\nSwansea University researchers, though, developed a way to collect samples.\n\nThe method involves reaching a pole off a boat to collect dolphin \"blow\" after they have risen to the surface.\n\nSamples were collected last week using a pole and Petri dish\n\nIt is hoped this will help scientists better understand pods of cetacean species- including common and bottlenose dolphins, and porpoises.\n\nThis will then guide efforts to protect them in the future.\n\n\"When an infected person sneezes, lung vapour (i.e. snot) can be projected quite a distance before snot hitchhikers (i.e. viruses and bacteria) take up home in another host,\" said Dr Chloe Robinson, who helped develop the method.\n\n\"When they come to the surface to breathe, they exhale air at a considerable force, thus firing snot up into the air.\"\n\nThe samples collected from off Gower are being analysed\n\nThere is currently little accurate information on how many live off the Welsh coast.\n\nHowever, there are estimated to be about 250 bottlenose dolphins resident in Cardigan Bay, around New Quay, all year round.\n\nPorpoises are the most common cetacean, in large numbers off Swansea Bay, but are sometimes hard to spot because they are small and shy.\n\nLots of common dolphins also come close to shore in summer, off Gower, Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay.\n\nDorsal fins have previously been used to identify these, but genetic samples give more accurate information.\n\nAlthough there are no overall population estimates for common dolphins in the eastern North Atlantic, there are thought to be about 75,000 in the Celtic Deep\n\nHowever, collecting skin biopsies when dolphins rise to the surface proved invasive, leaving some shy of boats with the blubber hole left behind prone to infection.\n\nBut advancements in DNA extraction and techniques have opened up a whole ocean of opportunity.\n\nBlowhole samples have been collected from species such as humpback whales, since 2010, using Petri dishes on poles and drones.\n\n\"The technique is already being used for larger cetaceans which can be easier if you find them as their blow or breathe is huge,\" said researcher Chiara Bertelli.\n\n\"But it hasn't been done in the UK or with smaller cetaceans as far as we know.\n\n\"We had one successful sample last year, so it does work although very difficult.\"\n\nWork is being carried as part of Swansea University's EU-funded research project SEACAMS2 with help from New Quay-based marine charity Sea Watch\n\nSwansea-based researchers collected 37 samples on their first attempt in 2018.\n\nDNA was only found in one of these - from a female, short-beaked common dolphin.\n\nBut it is still believed to be the first successful collection from a small, wild cetacean species and has helped researchers to improve their methods.\n\nFollowing a large number of sightings off Gower over bank holiday weekend, more samples were collected last week that are now being analysed in the laboratory.\n\nThe ultimate goal is to use the technique alongside photo identification to create a catalogue on population genetics.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app. Click\n\nTeenager Bianca Andreescu stunned Serena Williams in a gripping US Open final to claim a first Grand Slam title and deny the American a 24th major.\n\nWilliams, 37, did not cope with the 19-year-old's quality in a 6-3 7-5 loss.\n\nCanadian 15th seed Andreescu, in the main draw here for the first time, blew a double break in the second set before taking her third match point and falling to the ground in disbelief.\n\n\"This year has been a dream come true,\" Andreescu told the crowd.\n\n\"I am beyond grateful and truly blessed. I've worked really hard for this moment. To play on this stage against Serena - a true legend of the sport - is amazing.\"\n• None From a fake cheque to cashing £3.1m - Andreescu on 'crazy' reality of winning US Open\n• None 'I could have been more Serena' - Williams criticises 'inexcusable' performance\n\nTo the disappointment of a stunned home crowd on a passionate Arthur Ashe Stadium, Williams has now lost four successive major finals.\n\n\"Bianca played an unbelievable match,\" Williams said. \"I'm so proud and happy for you, it was incredible tennis out there.\"\n\nWilliams, seeded eighth, looked edgy throughout as she aimed to match Australian Margaret Court's tally of all-time major wins, handing over the first three of Andreescu's five breaks of serve with double faults.\n\nBy contrast, Andreescu played with the confidence which has marked her out as a star in a stunning breakthrough year.\n\nShe is the first Canadian to win a tennis major and the first teenager to win a Grand Slam since Maria Sharapova claimed the 2006 title at Flushing Meadows.\n\nShe is the first teenager to win their maiden Slam since Russian Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004.\n\nAndreescu kept her nerve to take a third match point with a forehand down the line, dropping her racquet to the ground and then, after a warm hug with Williams, lying on the court with her arms spread out as she contemplated her achievement.\n\nAfter returning to her feet, she used a hastily-arranged step ladder to climb into her player's box and embrace her nearest and dearest, including parents Nicu and Maria.\n\nBefore the match, Andreescu said if someone told her 12 months ago she would be facing Williams in the US Open final she would have thought they were \"crazy\".\n\nTellingly, in a sign of her unwavering confidence, she said she would not have felt the same if they told her the same thing a fortnight ago.\n\nTwelve months ago she lost in the first round of qualifying at Flushing Meadows and was ranked outside the top 200 in the world.\n\nBut she has become the most talked-about young player on the planet following a remarkable rise this year.\n\nAndreescu, whose Romanian parents Nicu and Maria emigrated to Canada in the 1990s, had only played six tour-level matches at the turn of the year.\n\nSince then she has won prestigious WTA Premier titles at Indian Wells and Toronto, rising to 15th in the world as a result and raking in £1.79m of her £1.97m career prize money.\n\nNow she will climb to fifth in the world and take home another $3.85m (£3.13m) after this success.\n\nAndreescu was fearless throughout her maiden Grand Slam final and unfazed by the occasion of playing an American icon on the biggest tennis court in the world.\n\nAlthough the crowd was unsurprisingly backing Williams throughout inside an incredible noisy Ashe, the manner in which Andreescu coped and reset after seeing her double break in the second set disappear was remarkable.\n\nAt one point, Andreescu even put her fingers in her ears as the volume became particularly loud as Williams fought back from 5-1 down.\n\nAfter her first Championship point went begging in the seventh game, another disappeared when Williams hit an ace for 30-40 in what proved to be the final game before Andreescu sealed victory at the third attempt with a forehand winner.\n\n\"I definitely had to overcome the crowd. I knew you guys wanted Serena to win,\" a smiling Andreescu said in her on-court victory speech.\n\n\"Obviously it was expected for Serena to fight back, but I tried my best to block everything out. I'm glad how I managed to do that.\"\n\nWilliams fails to get over the line again\n\nWilliams said after July's defeat in the Wimbledon final against Simona Halep that the weight of history was not a burden as she aimed to clinch that record-equalling 24th Grand Slam.\n\nYet, after also losing last year's Wimbledon final and a controversial US Open final against Naomi Osaka 12 months ago, this latest defeat inevitably leads to more questions about why she cannot get over the line.\n\nWith time seemingly running out for the six-time US Open champion, who turns 38 this month, it makes you wonder how many more chances she will have to earn her place as the greatest ever, at least in numerical terms.\n\nHowever, BBC Radio 5 Live analyst Jeff Tarango is in no doubt she will reach more Grand Slam finals.\n\n\"I think Serena will pull it together. I don't have any doubt. She's going to be back, she's not going to give up,\" the American said.\n\nIf Williams was looking for a comfortable start following her three previous final defeats, that did not materialise.\n\nNerves again seemed to take hold as she produced two double faults to gift the opening game to Andreescu, leaving her chasing a deficit which she could not recover.\n\nIt was the first break point she had faced - and lost - since the first set of her fourth-round win over Croat Petra Martic.\n\nThe confidence she showed in the routine wins over China's 18th seed Wang Qiang and Ukrainian fifth seed Elina Svitolina were not apparent as Andreescu's depth and variety, plus her ability to absorb Williams' power, unsettled the American.\n\nWilliams, who had close friend Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, sitting with her family, could not play with the control she showed against Wang and Svitolina, producing 14 unforced errors in a loose opening set.\n\nAll of her nine previous defeats in Grand Slam finals came after losing the opening sets and this miserable record did not look like changing when Andreescu started racing away with the second set.\n\nWilliams looked dejected as she continued to struggle to land a first serve, regularly looking at her racquet and shaking her hand as though she had no answers.\n\nSuddenly she started to provide them in a spirited fightback, only for two more unforced errors to creep in to stall her momentum as Andreescu broke for a sixth time.\n\n\"I was just fighting at that point [at 5-1 down in the second set], trying to stay out there a little bit longer. The fans started cheering so hard and it made me feel better and fight a bit more,\" Williams said.\n\n\"Bianca played an unbelievable match. If anyone could win this, outside of [sister] Venus, I'm happy it's Bianca.\"\n\nTennis great Billie Jean King: \"Congratulations to Bianca Andreescu on winning her first major title at the #USOpen. She is Canada's first Grand Slam singles champion! The Future is now. A phenomenal effort by Serena Williams until the very end.\n\n2019 Cincinnati Masters champion Madison Keys: \"Congrats Bianca Andreescu on your first Grand Slam. So happy for you! Always a fighter, always inspiring - win or lose Serena Williams. Such a great match to watch.\"\n\nWimbledon champion Simona Halep: \"Congratulations Bianca Andreescu on an amazing performance and your first Grand Slam! Romania is very proud of you.\"\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: \"Congratulations Bianca Andreescu! You've made history and made a whole country very proud.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live tennis commentator David Law: \"Andreescu was just magnificent for the first set and a half. We ran out of superlatives to describe the way she was playing. She has presence and buckets and buckets of ability. It's remarkable to see it in a 19-year-old. She is totally unfazed by her surroundings, it would appear. That is four Grand Slam finals in a row that's Williams has not been able to win, but I don't know how much more she could have done today. Andreescu is the real deal.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The Joker - directed by Todd Phillips (left) and starring Joaquin Phoenix - is based on the Batman villain\n\nJoker, starring Joaquin Phoenix, has taken the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival.\n\nDirector Todd Phillips' film about the comic villain, starring Joaquin Phoenix, is already being tipped for the Oscars.\n\nRoman Polanski won the Grand Jury Prize for An Officer and a Spy, despite controversy over its inclusion.\n\nThe director was convicted of statutory rape in 1978 and has faced various other allegations of sexual assault.\n\nPolanski did not attend the ceremony. His wife Emmanuelle Seigner, who stars in the film, took to the stage instead.\n\nProducer Alain Goldman, actor Emmanuelle Seigner and co-producer Luca Barbareschi accepted the award for An Officer and a Spy\n\nThe chair of the jury, Argentine director Lucrezia Martel, had previously defended the film's inclusion, while admitting it made her \"uncomfortable\"\n\n\"I will not congratulate him, but I think it is correct that his movie is here at this festival,\" she said during the festival's opening press conference.\n\nThe festival had also been criticised for its male-dominated line-up, with just two of the 21 films coming from female directors.\n\nHowever, it was climate protesters who occupied the red carpet ahead of the closing ceremony.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate protesters take over the Venice red carpet\n\nThey were protesting against huge cruise ships visiting Venice, something, they say, which is damaging the environment.\n\nRolling Stones front man Mick Jagger and actor Donald Sutherland were were among those to acknowledge the protesters and back their cause.\n\nThe pair were promoting Giuseppe Capotondi's film, The Burnt Orange Heresy, which they star in.\n• None First look at Joaquin Phoenix's Joker", "Police dog Finn was stabbed as he protected his handler from an attacker in 2016\n\nA law named after a police dog who was stabbed while trying to protect his handler from an attacker is to be implemented in Scotland.\n\nFinn's Law came into force in England earlier this year and makes it harder for those who harm service animals to claim they were acting in self-defence.\n\nIt came after a campaign by PC Dave Wardell whose German shepherd was injured as he chased a suspect in 2016.\n\nThe pair appeared on TV show Britain's Got Talent.\n\nA new Animal Welfare Bill was part of the programme for government announced by Nicola Sturgeon at Holyrood on Tuesday.\n\nAs well as incorporating Finn's Law, it will also increase the maximum jail time for extreme animal cruelty from 12 month to 5 years.\n\nPC Dave Wardell and Finn met Scotland's minister for rural affairs, Mairi Gougeon, at Holyrood\n\nFinn saved PC Wardell's life when a knife-wielding robbery suspect attacked them in Stevenage in 2016.\n\nFinn was stabbed in the chest and head and was not expected to survive. PC Wardell was stabbed in the hand.\n\nThe suspect who attacked Finn, inflicting near fatal injuries, could only be charged with criminal damage and punished with a small fine.\n\nScotland's minister for rural affairs, Mairi Gougeon, met Finn and his owner PC Wardell.\n\n\"Like so many of our service animals, Finn selflessly put himself in the way of danger in order to protect us and was very nearly killed in the process,\" she said.\n\n\"Thankfully he survived and, after some equally tenacious campaigning from Dave, they were able to have the law changed in England to provide service animals with the protection they deserve.\n\n\"This week's programme for government announced that the Scottish government is set to create new legislation to further protect animals and wildlife, which will include an increase in the maximum available penalties for the worst offences, and includes implementing Finn's Law.\"", "Cambridge has seen a steady increase in state school students going to the university\n\nThe proportion of state school pupils starting at the University of Cambridge this autumn will be the highest for decades - rising to 68%.\n\nThe university also says one in four are from \"disadvantaged backgrounds\".\n\nCambridge has faced accusations of being socially exclusive and this year ran a scheme ensuring more places for poorer youngsters.\n\nApplicants have not been put off by \"false perceptions\", says director of admissions, Sam Lucy.\n\nThe official admission figures for 2019-20 will not be published until next year, but the university says the proportion of state school students among its UK intake will be the highest in records going back to the 1980s.\n\nLast year, about 65% of students starting at Cambridge were from state schools - but this year's figure has risen to 68%.\n\nFour years ago, there were 62% of students from state schools.\n\nThis shift has seen Cambridge's intake, in terms of state-educated pupils, becoming more similar to other Russell Group universities.\n\nAbout 7% of pupils in England are in private schools - but that figure rises to more than 15% by sixth form.\n\nLeading universities have been under pressure to ensure fair access to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\nFor this year's intake, the university offered 100 places only available to deprived students.\n\nThis provided a second chance for disadvantaged students who might have got better exam results than expected, and who could re-apply after they had their A-level grades.\n\nThis has contributed to more students from poorer backgrounds going to Cambridge this year, with the university saying about one in four new students will be classified as disadvantaged.\n\nThe university defines disadvantage using measurements such as the \"Index of Multiple Deprivation\" and whether students live in areas where not many people go to university.\n\nCambridge says it wants this to rise to one in three new students coming from \"under-represented and disadvantaged\" backgrounds.\n\nThe university does not have official figures yet for numbers of ethnic minority students beginning in the autumn, but says it expects a \"significant increase\".\n\nDr Lucy, head of admissions, said: \"It is deeply encouraging to see that our actions to provide educational opportunity for all those who have the potential to study here are paying off.\"\n\nShe said the university wanted to \"make our student population truly representative of the UK population\".\n\n\"This has included challenging false perceptions that put off applicants.\"", "The chancellor, Sajid Javid, has responded to criticism from former cabinet colleague Amber Rudd that the UK isn't working enough on securing a Brexit deal.\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, Mr Javid said there had been progress but it had been stalled by the events in parliament over the last week.", "An estimated one million people attended a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the outskirts of Madagascar's capital city, Antananarivo, the Vatican said.\n\nWorshippers braved the windswept dust to ensure a place at the Mass.\n\nCatholics turned up early in the morning for the service at 10:00 local time to ensure finding a space.\n\nSome even camped out days before.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the wind did not let up for the Pope or bishops taking part in the Mass.\n\nAddressing worshippers, the Pope spoke out against what he termed the patronage which produces a few rich people while the vast majority live in grinding poverty.\n\n\"When 'family' becomes the decisive criterion for what we consider right and good, we end up justifying and even 'consecrating' practices that lead to the culture of privilege and exclusion: favouritism, patronage and - as a consequence - corruption\", he said in his homily.\n\nMany people wore white and yellow - the colours of the Vatican - and some even received communion while wearing Pope-branded T-shirts.\n\nSome have described it as the biggest public gathering in Madagascar's history.\n\nIt is not, however, the Pope's biggest gathering.\n\nThat record stands at six million people when Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the Philippine capital Manila in 2015.\n\nMadagascar is the second part of his three-leg Africa tour. He has already visited Mozambique and his next stop is Mauritius.", "Amber Davies and her boyfriend were confronted by door staff\n\nA student who was accused of taking drugs while using a disabled toilet at a Wetherspoons pub is calling for better awareness of invisible disabilities.\n\nAmber Davies, 21, from Builth Wells, has a stoma after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis aged 13.\n\nWhile on a night out in Birmingham, she was \"grabbed\" by a bouncer after coming out of the disabled toilet.\n\nWetherspoons said staff apologised for the \"confusing situation\".\n\nAmber posted an open letter on her Instagram account detailing her experience, saying the door staff \"very happily and very openly accused me of snorting, dealing and having sex in the disabled toilet for 'there is no other reason I would need to visit it so often'\".\n\n\"I got grabbed by a female bouncer and my boyfriend by a male bouncer, we were accused of using them [the disabled toilet] for the wrong reasons,\" Amber told the BBC.\n\n\"She [the bouncer] was quite reluctant to listen to my side of the story, I said it bluntly and I didn't raise my voice once.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amber has a stoma after having her bowel removed\n\nDespite gaining access to the locked disabled toilet using a radar key, staff \"kept shouting\" and her boyfriend, who had gone in the toilet with her, was taken outside.\n\n\"I was upset at the time, we hadn't done anything wrong, I spoke well considering. I was more annoyed that people were allowed to behave that way,\" she added.\n\n\"[It's] just completely unacceptable and they're such a big chain, you'd think they'd have training or be knowledgeable before grabbing us.\"\n\nAmber, who is about to start her third year at Cardiff University, said she had come to expect \"funny looks\" but not the kind of treatment she received at the Dragon Inn in Birmingham.\n\nAmber and her friends were enjoying a night out in Birmingham when the incident happened\n\nIn her post she said her stoma \"needs constant care\" and can be emptied up to 15 times a day, \"it can make going out, especially on nights out, a pretty daunting prospect\".\n\nThe 21-year-old described her disability as a \"chronic, debilitating, lifelong illness\".\n\nShe contacted the chain to complain about her treatment and has been offered a gift card in response.\n\nA JD Wetherspoon spokesman said: \"A female member of door staff spoke with Ms Davies, who explained her disability.\n\n\"Staff expressed that if this had been known beforehand, or an explanation given sooner, the situation could have been avoided.\n\n\"Staff listened at length to Ms Davies' points, never once questioning her disability and apologised for the confusing situation on both sides.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some of the world's best cyclists have been in action in the Scottish Borders in the second stage of the Tour of Britain.\n\nThe riders raced in a giant loop from Kelso, through Coldstream, Duns and Melrose, before heading back to Kelso.\n\nIt was won by Italian cyclist Matteo Trentin.\n\nThe second stage of the tour was won by Italian cyclist Matteo Trentin\n\nThe second stage of the tour set off from Kelso on a loop\n\nThe first stage was held from Glasgow to Kirkcudbright on Saturday morning and was won by Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen.\n\nOther big names taking part were British sprinter Mark Cavendish and rising star Mathieu van der Poel.\n\nThey were among the field leaving Glasgow - the third Scottish start for the race in the last four years.\n\nThe first stage was won by Dylan Groenewegen\n\nDylan Groenewegen winning the first stage at the Kirkcudbright finish\n\nThe first stage of the race went through the countryside, down through Ayrshire into Dumfries and Galloway for a finish in Kirkcudbright.\n\nScotland was omitted from the race last year but has returned in style with two stages of the event which finishes in Manchester next weekend.\n\nThe cyclists set off from Glasgow on Saturday morning\n\nThe first stage is from Glasgow to Kirkudbright\n\nMark Cavendish is one of the big names taking part\n\nRiders headed out into the countryside and down through Ayrshire into Dumfries and Galloway\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Catherine McKenna says the \"vocal sexism\" directed towards her is unacceptable\n\nCanada's environment minister says she has been assigned a security detail because of abuse she has received both online and in person.\n\nCatherine McKenna said in one recent incident a man in a car pulled up alongside her and her children, swore and called her a \"climate Barbie\".\n\nIn Canada, government ministers rarely need high levels of protection.\n\nThe move comes as environmental campaigners, particularly women, report increasing levels of abuse.\n\nClimate change has become a major issue in Canada's federal election in October, with the two main parties taking opposing stances on the subject.\n\nMs McKenna said she would now have extra protection at certain times, but did not give details.\n\n\"There are places, yes, that I have to have security now and I don't think that's a great situation,\" she said, quoted by Canadian Press news agency.\n\n\"I'm someone who is trying to do my job, live my life, and talk and engage with people, and it makes it harder. I'm not going to let this stop me but I wish it would stop.\"\n\nOnline abuse has been going on since she was elected, she added, but in recent months public confrontations have become worse.\n\nShe said she had received messages that included sexualised insults and threats against her family. In person she has been called an enemy, a traitor and a \"communist piece of garbage\".\n\n\"The vocal sexism and hateful comments that are directed to people who work on climate change is unacceptable,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\nTwo years ago Canadian Conservative MP Gerry Ritz apologised to Ms McKenna after calling her \"climate Barbie\".\n\nAs the climate change debate rages, many activists have found themselves the targets of threats and abuse.\n\nGreta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who inspired a global movement, recently completed a voyage across the Atlantic on board an environmentally friendly yacht - but faced a barrage of attacks along the way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Environmental activist Greta Thunberg says climate change is 'an existential crisis'\n\n\"Freak yachting accidents do happen in August,\" Arron Banks, a UK businessman and prominent Brexit campaigner, tweeted. He later dismissed his comments as a joke.\n\nCanadian environmental activist Tzeporah Berman recently revealed that she had received anti-Semitic abuse, death threats, and threats of sexual violence over her stance on Canada's controversial oil sands industry.\n\nThe government of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has imposed carbon taxes on four of Canada's 10 provinces for failing to introduce their own plans for tackling climate change.\n\nIn October's election, in which Mr Trudeau will seek a second term, his Conservative rival Andrew Scheer has vowed to roll back the tax as his first act in office if elected.", "Andrew Griffiths stood down as small business minister last summer\n\nA Conservative MP who sent sexual messages to two barmaids has been cleared of wrongdoing by the parliamentary standards watchdog.\n\nAndrew Griffiths, 48, resigned as small business minister last July after the messages were published in a newspaper.\n\nThe watchdog said it found no evidence he sent them while he would have been engaged in parliamentary activities.\n\nAllegations he breached the House of Commons Code of Conduct were not upheld, it added.\n\nAn party investigation into the married MP for Burton and Uttoxeter found in November he may have breached the Conservatives' code of conduct.\n\nBut, \"given his state of mental health both now and at the time\", it concluded further action would be inappropriate.\n\nMr Griffiths reportedly sent the women more than 2,000 messages in 21 days, weeks after the birth of his first child.\n\nA resolution letter from the watchdog said: \"Mr Griffiths' conduct has undoubtedly damaged his own reputation, as well as his health and family relationships.\n\n\"However damaging these events have been for Mr Griffiths personally, I am not persuaded that the texts he exchanged with the two women have caused significant damage to the reputation of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its Members generally.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joichi Ito has previously faced calls to resign over Epstein's donations\n\nThe head of MIT's Media Lab has resigned following revelations about the academic centre's financial ties to the late US financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nMIT President Rafael Reif confirmed the resignation of Joichi Ito on Saturday following media reports.\n\nMr Reif added that university was engaging a law firm to conduct an independent review.\n\nIt comes a day after a New Yorker article outlined donations Epstein made and solicited for MIT.\n\nThe article also alleged that MIT staff sought to conceal the university's relationship with Epstein, who died in prison while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.\n\n\"The acceptance of the Epstein gifts involved a mistake of judgment,\" Mr Reif said in a statement.\n\nIn an email published by the New York Times, Mr Ito told university provost Martin Schmidt that he had made the decision to step down \"after giving the matter a great deal of thought over the past several days and weeks\".\n\nHe apologised an a separate email to members of the Lab, saying: \"While this chapter is truly difficult, I am confident the lab will persevere.\"\n\nMr Ito shared the emails with the New York Times, where he has served as a board member since 2012.\n\nAccording to the New Yorker, internal MIT emails and documents show that, although Epstein was blacklisted from the university's official donor database, Mr Ito and other Lab staff continued to accept contributions from him and actively tried to conceal where they came from.\n\nEpstein was also allegedly consulted about the use of funds, and served as an intermediary between the Lab and other wealthy donors.\n\nThe New Yorker alleges that Epstein helped to secure at least $7.5m (£6.1m) in donations, including $2m from Microsoft founder Bill Gates.\n\nEpstein was already a convicted sex offender when MIT's Media Lab began accepting his donations\n\nMr Ito has acknowledged that he had accepted a $525,000 donation from Epstein, along with $1.2m for his own personal investment funds.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Gates told the New Yorker that \"any claim that Epstein directed any programmatic or personal grantmaking for Bill Gates is completely false\".\n\nMr Ito first revealed in August that he had accepted donations from Mr Epstein, along with investments into his own personal funds.\n\nThe revelation prompted calls for him to resign as director, and two academic staff announced plans to leave the Lab.\n\nMr Ito met around 200 staff earlier this week to apologise again and seek to make amends to the centre.\n\nBut towards the end of the meeting, Nicholas Negroponte, a founder of the Lab, interrupted and said he had told Mr Ito to take the donation and would do it again.\n\nThe Media Lab was behind several technological innovations\n\nAccording to the MIT Technology Review, the meeting ended with one woman in tears. Another told Mr Negroponte to \"shut up,\" adding: \"We've been cleaning up your messes for the past eight years.\"\n\nMIT's Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research centre founded in 1985.\n\nIt has been behind several technological innovations, including the electronic ink used in the Amazon Kindle, and video game Guitar Hero.\n\nMuch of the lab's funding comes from nearly 90 corporate sponsors, although these companies are not allowed to support or direct any of the research.\n• None The place where crazy inventors create your future", "Boris Johnson has expelled 21 MPs from the parliamentary Conservative Party after they rebelled against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThose who have had the Tory whip removed include two ex-chancellors and a number of senior figures in Theresa May's and David Cameron's governments.\n\nSome have said they will stand down at the next election - whilst others have vowed to fight attempts to stop them standing again as Conservative candidates.\n\nIt comes after the rebels teamed up with the opposition on Tuesday to back a motion paving the way for a law seeking to delay the UK's exit date.\n\nThe legislation would force the prime minister to delay Brexit until January 2020, unless MPs approve either a new deal or a no-deal exit by 19 October.\n\nSo who are the Tory MPs who rebelled against the prime minister?\n\nThe former chancellor, who has been co-ordinating the rebels' efforts, insisted the move was not simply designed to block a no-deal exit but also to give Parliament proper time to scrutinise and implement any new deal agreed.\n\nThe 63-year-old voted for Theresa May's Brexit agreement three times, but has become a bogey figure for many Tory Brexiteers. They believe he has consistently exaggerated the economic risks of Brexit and sought to frustrate planning for no deal while in charge of the Treasury.\n\nThe Runnymede and Weybridge MP has said he will vigorously contest any attempt to deselect him as a candidate in the next election, potentially through legal action.\n\nBut his constituency association, which officially re-adopted him as their candidate on Monday evening, issued a statement on Facebook stating that he would \"no longer be eligible to stand\" after losing the Tory whip.\n\n\"A new Conservative candidate will be selected by the membership in due course,\" it said.\n\nTheresa May's former justice secretary is another key figure - so much so that he and his anti-no-deal associates have been dubbed the \"Gaukeward squad\".\n\nThe 48-year old former solicitor - who was George Osborne's number two at the Treasury in pre-referendum days - has said a no-deal exit would be a \"big mistake\" for the UK and he would not be \"complicit\" in something which would see people lose their jobs.\n\nThe South West Hertfordshire MP faced calls earlier this year from some activists in his constituency to deselect him.\n\nConfronted with the same threat now from No 10, he said he was prepared to put the national interest ahead of his own future career prospects by voting against the government. He said he believed Downing Street wanted to carry out a \"purge\" of dissenting voices.\n\nUnlike Mr Hammond and Mr Gauke, Mr Grieve has been a frequent and high-profile rebel over Brexit during the past two years - opposing Theresa May's withdrawal deal three times.\n\nThe former attorney general is a strong supporter of another referendum on the UK's future in Europe, with the option to remain.\n\nThe 63-year-old says he regards a no-deal exit as \"unacceptable\" and will always vote against it - even if his career takes a hit.\n\nThe Beaconsfield MP has said he wants to fight the next election as a Conservative but being deselected is a price he is willing to pay.\n\nHis constituency chairman, Jackson Ng, said he had urged Mr Grieve to \"desist\" from rebelling but thanked him for his \"long service\".\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Grieve lost a vote of no confidence by local Conservatives following a \"robust discussion\" about Brexit.\n\nAnother former chancellor, Mr Clarke is the most strongly Europhile member of his party and has long been out of step with its views on Europe.\n\nHe opposed the 2016 Brexit referendum and was the only Tory MP to vote against triggering the Article 50 process for leaving the EU.\n\nHe has gone as far as to suggest he would vote against the government in a vote of no confidence in order to stop a no-deal exit.\n\nThe 79-year old has previously suggested he might stand down as MP for Rushcliffe at the next election.\n\nHis constituency association said it was saddened to lose him from the party and paid tribute to his \"enviable and unparalleled\" service since he was first elected in 1970.\n\nIt added that \"all future correspondence should be sent direct to his office at the House of Commons rather than to the Rushcliffe Conservative Association office\".\n\nThe ex-cabinet minister was a ringleader in attempts by MPs in April to hammer out a Brexit compromise by seizing control of the parliamentary timetable.\n\nHe also spearheaded a cross-party bill designed to compel Theresa May to seek a Brexit extension earlier this year, and was the MP who applied for an emergency debate on Tuesday, beginning the process which led Boris Johnson's defeat over the latest no-deal Brexit bill.\n\nA consummate Westminster insider, he is a leading \"soft Brexiteer\" who believes the referendum result must be honoured but the UK should maintain close economic links with Europe.\n\nThe West Dorset MP had already said he will not contest the next general election.\n\nThe former education secretary announced on Tuesday she would stand down as MP for the overwhelmingly pro-Remain constituency of Putney in south-west London whenever the next election comes.\n\nShe warned that Parliament's ability to be a force for change, particularly in terms of improving social mobility, was being compromised by \"Brexit myopia\".\n\nShe voted three times against Theresa May's Brexit agreement, saying it neither delivered on the promises made to Leave voters nor gave anything to younger Remain.\n\nWarning her party was morphing into The Brexit Party, she said she would support legislation to keep all Brexit options \"on the table\" and to ensure Parliament has a real say in the outcome.\n\nThe former international development secretary said claims a no-deal exit would be a \"clean and easy break\" from the EU were disingenuous as, in reality, it would lead to years of economic and political uncertainty.\n\nMr Stewart suggested such an outcome would be \"remembered for 40 years\", and would permanently damage the party's reputation.\n\nDespite losing the whip, he has said he is \"not giving up\" on his Cumbrian constituency and would still be representing residents of Penrith and the Border.\n\nHe says it should be up to his local association whether to let him contest the next election and \"purging\" him and other rebels as candidates was a not a Conservative response.\n\nThe former Middle East minister, a respected figure in the party, has said he has a \"fundamental and unresolvable\" disagreement with the party leadership over Brexit.\n\nHe has said he will standing down as MP for North East Bedfordshire at the next election, having served in the Commons since 1983.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he said he accepted the party rules but asked colleagues to reflect on the question \"if we are being purged now, then who is next?\".\n\nHe said the Brexit convulsions in his party \"may have curtailed my future but it will not rob me of what I believe, and I will walk out of here looking up at the sky, not down at my shoes\".\n\nWinston Churchill's grandson was among those who met the PM on Tuesday for last-ditch talks but rebelled after concluding a deal was not achievable in the available timeframe.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, he joked that he had been \"inspired by the serial disloyalty\" of the prime minister and other members of the current cabinet over Brexit in the past.\n\nHe added that it was his \"most fervent hope is that this House will rediscover the spirit of compromise, humility and understanding\" required to bring Brexit to a resolution and refocus on all the other challenges facing the country.\n\nHaving had the whip removed, he has said he will not be standing at the next election - meaning his near 37 year Commons career is nearing its end.\n\nThe veteran Conservative MP for Meriden supported the government in Tuesday's vote on whether to seize control of Parliamentary business.\n\nBut she joined the ranks of the rebels when the bill paving the way for a further delay to Brexit, if no deal is achieved, was voted on for the first time.\n\nUnlike those who rebelled on Tuesday, she has not had the whip withdrawn - but she has said she will not be standing at the next election.\n\nA former Conservative party chair and environment secretary under David Cameron, her Midlands constituency is home to a number of firms supplying parts for the UK car industry.\n\nThe 61-year old has expressed concerns about the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the industry.\n\nGreg Clark: The former business secretary was one of the strongest advocates of Theresa May's Brexit deal. He has said no deal would be \"ruinous\".\n\nSam Gyimah: The former universities minister said there was \"no mandate\" for a no-deal exit which would be \"damaging and disruptive\" for his constituents.\n\nAntoinette Sandbach: The MP for Eddisbury said it was \"important to act\" to stop any chance of no deal. She said she did not \"regret putting her job on the line to save my constituents' jobs\".\n\nStephen Hammond: He has accused Tory Brexiteers of \"lecturing others\" about loyalty. He told the BBC's World at One he would \"reluctantly\" vote against the government.\n\nMargot James: The former digital minister said it had been the hardest decision she had ever made in politics. Her local Stourbridge Conservative association has begun the process of selecting a candidate for the next election, saying the choice was a \"matter for members\".\n\nRichard Harrington: The 61-year old has rebelled over Brexit before and recently announced he would stand down as MP for Watford at the next election.\n\nGuto Bebb: The Aberconwy MP, who is also quitting at the next election, says a vote against no deal is \"truer to Conservative tradition than anyone who traipses through the lobbies out of fear, opportunism or simply unthinking loyalty\".\n\nCaroline Nokes: The Romsey and Southampton North MP said her constituents would be worse off under a no-deal Brexit. She said she would be talking to her constituency association but would not rule out standing as an independent.\n\nEd Vaizey: The ex-culture minister has said a no-deal exit would hurt the digital economy although he told Buzzfeed News he had yet to decide which way to vote.\n\nSteve Brine: The former health minister said last week he was prepared to hold the PM to his claim a no-deal exit is a \"million to one chance\".\n\nAnne Milton: She has kept a low profile since quitting as a minister in July but attended a meeting with other likely rebels in Westminster earlier on Tuesday.\n\nRichard Benyon: The MP for Newbury is a former fisheries minister in the coalition government. He told the BBC that he hoped to return to the fold as a Tory MP, adding that he would \"throw himself on the mercy\" of his local association.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Crowds have gathered in Merthyr Tydfil for Wales' third independence march this year\n\nThousands of independence campaigners have marched through Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nSupporters included stars of rugby and football Eddie Butler and Neville Southall, and singer Kizzy Crawford.\n\nOrganisers All Under One Banner Cymru estimated 5,300 people attended the rally and said the situation in Westminster meant Wales needed to make \"its voice heard\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We support a strong devolution settlement for Wales within a strong United Kingdom.\"\n\nIt is the third march, following demonstrations in Cardiff and Caernarfon earlier this year.\n\n\"I've been waiting for this moment, this awakening, for a long time,\" said broadcaster Butler, a former Wales and Pontypool rugby captain.\n\nHe was joined by former Wales and Everton goalkeeper Southall and poet and playwright Patrick Jones.\n\n\"The shenanigans in Westminster this week are the best recruitment tool for Welsh independence,\" said Phyl Griffiths, chairman of the Yes Merthyr group, which organised the event.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liz Saville Roberts AS/MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople started gathering in Penderyn Square from early morning and it was the location for a later rally, after the march through the town.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil-raised singer Kizzy Crawford said she was taking part because she was \"disappointed with the racism, fascism, unfairness and chaos\" she had seen in politics recently.\n\nA rally is taking place in Penderyn Square after the march\n\nDrums and Welsh pipes were played at the event\n\n\"I think fighting for independence is a way to combat this chaos and make a difference,\" she said.\n\nAUOB Cymru, a grassroots movement which organises marches calling for Welsh independence, is supported by groups including Yes Cymru but is not affiliated to any political party.\n\nAUOB Cymru spokesman Llywelyn ap Gwilym said: \"With the anti-democratic mess that is currently happening in Westminster, it is more important than ever for Wales to make its voice heard, and for the people of Wales to realise that there is a viable alternative: independence.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesman added that it was \"fiercely devolutionist and firmly believes in a strong union, which respects and reflects the distinct identities and interests of the UK's four nations\".\n\nPeople marched in a circuit around the town\n\nThousands of people are marching in Merthyr Tydfil\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher has been announced as the replacement for Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing on Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nLaing, 30, injured himself during filming for Saturday night's pre-recorded launch show.\n\nFletcher, who is best known for playing Andy Sugden in Emmerdale, will dance with professional Oti Mabuse.\n\nThe announcement was made after celebrities were paired with their professional dance partners.\n\nThe new series launched on BBC One on Saturday evening to an average of 7.8m viewers - peaking at 8.3m - which marks a slight dip in the ratings compared with the launch show last year.\n\nFormer England footballer Alex Scott - the favourite to win Strictly Come Dancing - has become professional dancer Neil Jones's first celebrity partner.\n\nReigning champion Kevin Clifton was paired with Anneka Rice in the opening show of Strictly's 17th series.\n\nNew judge Motsi Mabuse said she felt \"a part of the family\" on her debut.\n\nFormer Arsenal footballer Alex Scott is the favourite to win the show\n\nThe pairing of Scott and Jones comes after a torrid year for the professional dancer.\n\nHis personal life hit the headlines after he separated from his wife and fellow Strictly dancer Katya Jones after she was photographed kissing her celebrity partner - comedian Seann Walsh.\n\nAnneka Rice cast doubt on whether her partner would be able to win for a second year running. She said: \"I haven't got a rhythm gene, I can't even clap in time.\"\n\nFan favourite Anton Du Beke has been paired with EastEnders star Emma Barton, another celebrity who is tipped to make it to the grand final.\n\nDu Beke has been on the show since its first series but has never won, having often been paired with the show's less skilful dancers, such as Ann Widdecombe.\n\n\"So this is what it feels like... Book me in until Christmas,\" said Du Beke.", "Sir Mo Farah broke clear of Tamirat Tola to take his sixth successive win\n\nThousands of people are taking part in the 2019 Great North Run in Tyneside.\n\nOrganisers said about 57,000 runners registered for the 13.1 mile event, which stretches from Newcastle to South Shields.\n\nSir Mo Farah won a record sixth successive victory by winning the elite men's race in 59 minutes and seven seconds.\n\nWhile Brigid Kosgei, beat the women's course record with a time of 64 minutes and 28 seconds.\n\nFirst held in 1981, the half-marathon has grown from an initial 12,000 runners.\n\nLionesses stars Steph Houghton and Jill Scott, along with England and Durham cricketer Mark Wood, started the event at 10:40 BST.\n\nThousands of cheering spectators lined the route to encourage the runners.\n\nFarah got under way in the elite men's race with the rest of the field following them across the start line.\n\nSir Mo high-fived fans lining the side of the course\n\nSpeaking after the win, Farah told BBC Sport the crowd had been so loud he did not know if anyone had been close behind him at the finish.\n\n\"I've really enjoyed it but the past couple of years has been in the middle of marathon preparation. It was good to test myself. Things are looking good and I'm happy with the win.\n\n\"Tokyo is definitely on the cards - as an athlete you always want to represent your country. You just have to take it one year at a time. Hopefully, come Tokyo time, we will be in the mix.\"\n\nSunderland runner Aly Dixon ran the Great North Run dressed as Wonder Woman for charity\n\nAlyson Dixon, from Sunderland, broke the record for the fastest superhero to run a half-marathon.\n\nShe said: \"I loved every second out there, it was absolutely amazing, completely different experience to being in the elites.\n\n\"From the first step across the start line, the crowds were enormous, there wasn't an inch of the course where there wasn't a \"go Aly, go Wonder Woman\" and it was just absolutely fantastic atmosphere out there. \"\n\nThousands of runners made their way along the opening few hundred metres\n\nEthiopia's Tamirat Tola challenged Farah in the men's elite race and took second place.\n\nBrigid Kosgei, who won the London Marathon in April, not only beat the women's course record on Sunday, she also beat the world half-marathon record.\n\nMultiple Paralympics champion David Weir was first across the finish line in the men's wheelchair race and sealed an eighth victory.\n\nSaturday saw thousands of fans line the banks of the River Tyne for the Junior and Mini Great North Runs, and the Great North 5K.\n\nElites were in attendance for the Great North City games, held in Stockton-On-Tees for the first time.\n\nTaking part in the Great North City Games in Stockton was Great Britain's Richard Kilty, who raced to victory in 100m and came third in the 150m.\n\nOther leading names taking part included British Paralympics champion Sophie Hahn, who won the women's IPC 100m.\n\nAs always, many runners donned their fancy dress costumes\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A seven-day limit is to be introduced on the use of temporary accommodation for homeless people in Scotland.\n\nThe limit on spending time in unsuitable accommodation currently applies to families and pregnant women but will be extended to everyone at risk of homelessness.\n\nCharities have previously warned people were living in bed and breakfast and hostel rooms for more than a year.\n\nThe change in regulations will take place from May 2021.\n\nA Scottish government consultation on the change found 97% of respondents backed the move.\n\nHousing Minister Kevin Stewart said: \"We know that people living in these unsuitable environments can for too long often lack cooking or washing facilities, and some have reported that they cannot have visits from family or friends.\n\n\"These experiences have a detrimental effect on people's physical and mental wellbeing, preventing them from rebuilding their lives.\n\n\"While temporary accommodation can offer an important emergency safety net for anyone who finds themselves homeless, such as those fleeing domestic violence, it should be a purely temporary measure.\"\n\nA total of 29,894 people were assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness in 2018-19, a 2% rise on the previous year and the third year in a row the tally has gone up\n\nMr Stewart said the Scottish government was investing £32.5m in supporting local authorities to \"prioritise settled accommodation for all\".\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show that 36,465 people asked for help to find a home from their local council in 2018-19, up 3% on the previous year.\n\nIt is the second year applications have risen after a period of consistent decline since 2005-06.\n\nThe figures showed also showed increasing numbers of people were also staying in temporary accommodation, such as B&Bs.\n\nThere were a total of 620 breaches of the rules on suitable accommodation offered to vulnerable people or families, an increase of 225 compared with the previous year.\n\nA total of 465 of these were in Edinburgh.\n\nJon Sparkes, chief executive of homeless charity Crisis, said: \"We strongly welcome the announcement that the Scottish government will change the law so that people will no longer have to live in the most unsuitable forms of temporary accommodation for longer than seven days.\n\n\"This marks a major achievement for our Life in Limbo campaign, a three-year project which has sought to put an end to lengthy and dehumanising stays in unsupported hostels, hotels and B&Bs.\n\n\"This decision is a recognition of the resolve of our clients to shine a light on the inhumane conditions they were experiencing and the determination to ensure no-one else was subjected to these prolonged stays.\"\n• None Homelessness on the rise in Scotland", "Summer heatwaves led to drought conditions across areas of France and western Europe\n\nRecord heatwaves in June and July caused the deaths of 1,435 people in France this year, according to the country's health minister.\n\nSpeaking on French radio, Agnès Buzyn said half of those who died were aged over 75.\n\nBut Ms Buzyn said, thanks to preventative measures, the rate was 10 times lower than the same period in 2003 when a deadly heatwave hit Europe.\n\nFrance recorded its highest-ever temperature of 46C (114.8F) in June.\n\nThe capital, Paris, also saw a record high temperature of 42.6C (108.7F) in July.\n\nAccording to the Ministry of Health, 567 people died during France's first heatwave this year, from 24 June to 7 July. A further 868 died during the second from 21 to 27 July.\n\nMs Buzyn said that 10 people had died while at work.\n\nDuring the summer, red alerts - the most severe warning category - were issued in several areas of France.\n\nDuring hot periods, many schools and public events were closed to minimise public exposure.\n\nLarge parks and swimming pools were also kept open in some cities to help people stay cool. Paris authorities organised emergency phone lines and set up temporary \"cool rooms\" in municipal buildings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is it so hot and is climate change to blame?\n\nThe heat spurred wildfires in neighbouring Spain, with Catalonia experiencing some of its most devastating blazes in 20 years.\n\nAll-time high temperatures were also recorded in other European countries, including the UK, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\n\nNo other country has yet released official data on deaths caused by this year's heatwaves.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Mo Farah has won a record sixth successive Great North Run with a personal best time.\n\nFarah, 36, finished in 59 minutes seven seconds after racing ahead of Ethiopian Tamirat Tola in the final mile.\n\nKenyan Brigid Kosgei, who won the London Marathon in April, set a new half marathon world best to take the women's race in 1:04:28.\n\nDavid Weir won his eighth wheelchair title, while Jade Jones-Hall made it a British double in the women's race.\n\nFarah - a two-time Olympic champion at both 5,000m and 10,000m - said the race was good preparation for the Chicago Marathon on 13 October, with Tokyo 2020 on the horizon.\n\n\"I've really enjoyed it but the past couple of years has been in the middle of marathon preparation. It was good to test myself,\" he told BBC Sport after beating the record of Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, who won five consecutive wheelchair titles.\n\n\"Things are looking good and I'm happy with the win. Tokyo is definitely on the cards - as an athlete you always want to represent your country.\n\n\"You just have to take it one year at a time. Hopefully, come Tokyo time, we will be in the mix.\"\n\nBehind Farah, Tola finished second in 59:13, with Dutchman Abdi Nageeye in third. Britain's Callum Hawkins, 27, was fourth.\n\nKenya dominated the women's race, claiming the top four places. Behind Kosgei's record run, Magdalyne Masai finished second, with older sister Linet third and Mary Keitnay, last year's champion, in fourth.\n\nCharlotte Purdue set the third-fastest half marathon time by a British woman, finishing fifth in 1:08:10.\n\nBritons were also strong in the wheelchair events, with Simon Lawson third behind Canadian Brent Lakatos in the men's race.\n\nFormer women's wheelchair champion Shelly Woods, who only returned to competition in May following the birth of her son in 2017, finished second behind compatriot Jones-Hall, with Poland's Martyna Snopek third.", "The Conservative Party plans to stand a candidate against Speaker John Bercow for his role in allowing MPs to take control of the Commons agenda.\n\nBusiness secretary Andrea Leadsom accused the Speaker in the Mail on Sunday of \"flagrant abuse\" of process.\n\nBreaching convention, the party plans to oppose Mr Bercow in his Buckingham constituency at the next election.\n\nFormerly a Tory, Mr Bercow gave up his party affiliation when he took on the impartial role.\n\nAs the highest authority in the House of Commons, the Speaker chairs MPs' debates.\n\nIn order to be impartial, the Speaker resigns from their party, and - while they still stand in general elections - they are usually unopposed by the main parties, and they do not campaign on political issues.\n\nBut Ms Leadsom - who has clashed with Mr Bercow in the past - said the Tories would ignore this convention and stand against him at the next election.\n\nShe said the role of the Speaker was to be \"a politically impartial, independent umpire of proceedings\" and to \"protect the constitution and oversee the behaviour of the House\".\n\n\"But last week, the current Speaker failed us,\" she said.\n\nBy allowing the use of Standing Order Number 24 - a procedure normally used to trigger emergency debates - to take over the Parliamentary timetable, Mr Bercow had not \"just bent the rules, he has broken them\", she said.\n\nThe move meant opposition and rebel MPs could pass a law blocking a no-deal Brexit, which the prime minister said undermined his Brexit strategy.\n\nMs Leadsom said allowing the opposition to control the agenda in this way \"ignores the government's right to govern\" and undermines democracy, prompting Mr Johnson's call for a general election.\n\n\"Bring it on, I say, and give us back an impartial speaker,\" she said.\n\nMs Leadsom clashed with the Speaker repeatedly as Leader of the Commons\n\nIt would not be the first challenge Mr Bercow has faced in his constituency since he became Speaker in 2009.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage, then standing as a candidate for UKIP, lost to Mr Bercow in Buckingham in the 2010 election.\n\nMs Leadsom repeatedly clashed with Mr Bercow in the two years when she was Leader of the Commons, a role which made her responsible for arranging government business in Parliament.\n\nIn May last year, the Speaker apologised after claims he called Ms Leadsom a \"stupid woman\".\n\nIn 2018 Mr Bercow let it be known he would stand down this summer - his tenth in office.\n\nBut earlier this month he told an audience at the Edinburgh festival fringe he would \"fight with every breath in my body\" to stop the government forcing through a no-deal Brexit by by-passing Parliament.\n\nLast year, Mr Bercow was among MPs accused of bullying by staff in the House of Commons, although he denied the allegations.", "The parents of a newborn girl whose life was saved after her heart rate rose to 320 beats per minute are doing today's run to raise money for two charities which helped them.\n\nHolly was born on 19 December and was diagnosed with viral meningitis on Boxing Day and discharged from hospital 48 hours later.\n\nOn New Year's Eve Mrs Hutchinson, who is a nurse, saw Holly's condition had deteriorated and took her to Sunderland Royal Hospital where her heart rate climbed because of an infection.\n\nAmong the treatment to try to shock her heart into a regular rhythm was dunking her head into a bucket of ice cold water.\n\nWhen that didn't work she was taken to Newcastle's Freeman Hospital where she was given powerful drugs and, shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, the 12-day-old baby stabilised.\n\nShe was then in hospital for 10 days before being discharged to her home in Gateshead.\n\nMrs Hutchinson and her husband Ian are raising money for the Sick Children's Trust and the Children's Heart Unit Fund.\n\nMr Hutchinson said training for the Great North Run had been tough.\n\n\"But if Holly can hold on with a heartbeat of 320, a half marathon should be pretty simple right?\" he said.", "Storm Dorian has smashed into the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, toppling trees and cutting power for more than 450,000 people.\n\nNow a post-tropical cyclone, Dorian hit Halifax on Saturday with winds of 100mph (160km/h) and is due to cross into Newfoundland.\n\nThe Canadian government said the military would help recovery efforts.\n\nIt comes days after Dorian devastated parts of the Bahamas. The death toll there is 43 but expected to increase.\n\nThe former hurricane has churned northwards up the US eastern seaboard to Canada. The Canadian Hurricane Centre said it had received reports of rainfall as high as 150mm (six inches) in some areas.\n\nVideo footage from Halifax showed a crane being blown on to a block of partially built flats. There were no reports of injuries.\n\nThe collapsed crane fell against a building and blocked a main road in Halifax\n\nThe storm is expected to pass over northern Newfoundland and eastern Labrador on Sunday. Residents close to the shore have been advised to evacuate as a precaution.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been briefed on the storm.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast Sunday, Dorian struck islands in the north-west Bahamas as a category five hurricane, with winds reaching 185mph (295km/h).\n\nOn Sunday, ships and aircraft were still helping to move thousands of people from Grand Bahama and the Abacos Islands.\n\nOfficials believe hundreds of bodies are yet to be found in areas flattened by the winds or smashed by storm surges.\n\nUN officials said about 70,000 people were in need of assistance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Survivors of the hurricane say there is utter devastation\n\nAid agencies say the situation on Great Abaco is desperate, with residents unable to find food or clean water.\n\nDarren Tosh, director of the aid group Samaritan's Purse, told the BBC that he was concerned about the spread of disease from unsafe water, bodies and destroyed crops.\n\n\"There's a horrible amount of disease that can develop after an event like this,\" he said.\n\nTourism minister Dionisio D'Aguilar called on Bahamians to \"come together\" to help the recovery effort.\n\n\"There are no words to convey the grief we feel for our fellow Bahamians in the Abacos and Grand Bahama,\" he said.\n\nHe said many parts of the Bahamas - an archipelago of more than 700 islands - were not affected by the hurricane.\n\n\"We also implore travellers to continue visiting the Bahamian islands that were not impacted by Hurricane Dorian as this will help our people tremendously,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane scored a hat-trick as they cruised to victory against Bulgaria at Wembley to maintain their 100% record in Euro 2020 qualifying.\n\nGareth Southgate's side made it three wins from three with 14 goals scored, barely needing to break sweat as they comfortably cleared another obstacle in their path to next summer's showpiece.\n\nKane and Raheem Sterling were deadly once more as England built momentum from a low-key first 45 minutes to brush Bulgaria aside.\n\nThe pair combined to give England a 24th-minute lead when Sterling pounced on an error by Bulgaria goalkeeper Plamen Iliev at a goal-kick to set up Kane for a smart finish on the turn.\n\nKane scored England's second from the spot four minutes after the break, the penalty awarded for Nikolay Bodurov's foul on Marcus Rashford, then he crossed for Sterling to bundle home the third in the 55th minute.\n\nTottenham's Kane completed his treble with another spot-kick after he was hauled down by Kristian Dimitrov to take his outstanding international record to 25 goals from 40 appearances, with this his second hat-trick after achieving the same feat against Panama in the 2018 World Cup.\n\nSouthgate, with victory assured, was able to give a senior debut to Chelsea's Mason Mount as England had the perfect preparation for the next qualifier against Kosovo in Southampton on Tuesday.\n• None Southgate says England must up training intensity\n\nKane and Sterling will claim the headlines for England once more and rightly so - they are a deadly pair of attackers operating at the top of their game.\n\nKane's hat-trick takes him past England's 1966 World Cup final hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst, who scored 24 goals in 49 appearances for the Three Lions.\n\nSterling set him up for his first and Kane repaid the compliment for England's third, their partnership growing in stature and providing Southgate with an attacking weapon that will cause problems for most defences.\n\nSterling's pace was a constant threat to an admittedly very poor Bulgaria side but, in tandem with Kane, he was able to lift England from a poor first-half display on to a level that eventually made it simply a matter of how many they would score.\n\nEngland have been presented with what, on the surface, looks like a very comfortable passage to Euro 2020 from Group A - but the manner in which they have swept aside the Czech Republic, Montenegro and now Bulgaria has been quietly impressive.\n• None See how the players rated\n• None England youngsters should get get chance\n\nEngland may have come up short at the 2018 World Cup in Russia and this summer's Uefa Nations League Finals, but it seems a formality that they will get another crack at ending the years of hurt at Euro 2020.\n\nIn reality, England and manager Gareth Southgate could barely have asked for a kinder draw than the one they have been given and it is hard to see any of the teams in their group seriously troubling them.\n\nThe only problem England may face is that, once again, the first serious test of their credentials, ambitions and progress may yet come in the Euros next summer.\n\nSouthgate must make sure England are ready and match sharp for that, both with performances and by building a squad that will hit the ground running once the serious action starts at Euro 2020.\n\nEngland may not have too many serious tests before then so Southgate will need to use time and games wisely to assemble a squad that is finally in shape to get over the line when it matters.\n\n'We enjoy playing together' - what they said\n\nEngland striker Harry Kane speaking to ITV: \"First half we got caught on the counter a couple of times, we said at half-time we needed to try and come out and get an early goal and that's what we did. It's a good result we hope to take into Tuesday.\n\n\"It's great for [Raheem Sterling] that he's taken his club form into international form, he's an amazing player. We enjoy playing together, we all do.\"\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate speaking to ITV: \"I think it improved as the game went on. We didn't need to over-complicate things. We looked dangerous, at times we took a few too many touches. Their formation caused us problems out of possession as well.\n\n\"In a game like this you have got to make sure the concentration is right. I always felt we had enough firepower to win the game. I'm not sure it's complacency - every team will have some moments, you just have to make sure you see the runs - but I'm generally pleased. Some of our attacking play was really exciting.\"\n\nNo qualifying defeat in almost 10 years - the stats\n• None England are unbeaten in their 11 matches against Bulgaria (W7 D4 L0) - they've faced no nation more times without losing (11 - level with Finland and Turkey).\n• None England are unbeaten in their last 42 Euro/World Cup qualifying matches (W33 D9 L0), since losing 0-1 to Ukraine in October 2009.\n• None Bulgaria haven't won an away match in qualifying for the World Cup or the European Championship since June 2015 against Malta, drawing two and losing eight since then.\n• None Harry Kane became the first player to score 25+ goals in his first 40 appearances for the England men's team since Gary Lineker (27 goals). It was his 13th hat-trick for club and country (11 for Spurs, two for England).\n• None Kane has scored eight penalties for England (excluding shoot-outs) - only Frank Lampard (nine) has netted more for the Three Lions.\n• None Raheem Sterling has been directly involved in nine goals in his last seven appearances for England (seven goals and two assists); as many goal involvements as he registered in his previous 33.\n• None Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid) became the first player representing a Spanish club to play for the England men's team since David Beckham (Real Madrid) in June 2007.\n• None Danny Rose (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Rose.\n• None Attempt blocked. Danny Rose (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt saved. Ivelin Popov (Bulgaria) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Doug Shipsey's 21-year-old daughter Bethany died after taking an overdose of diet pills containing dinitrophenol (DNP) in 2017.\n\nThe BBC's Adina Campbell accompanied him to Ukraine, where it's not illegal to produce or sell DNP. He wanted to confront the man who he believed sold her the drugs online.\n\nDNP is a highly toxic fat-burning substance widely available online, but in the UK it's illegal to sell for human consumption.", "A man has been shot dead in south-east London.\n\nPolice said officers were called at 15:45 BST to reports of \"suspicious activity\" in Sydenham Road in Sydenham.\n\nThey then heard shots being fired and firearms officers were called to the scene, along with the London Ambulance Service.\n\nA man in his 20s was found with gunshot wounds. He died at the scene at 15:50. No arrests have been made and the force is appealing for witnesses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James O'Brien was blinded in his right eye more than 20 years ago when a corrosive substance was thrown in his face.\n\nFor the last 18 months he has been undergoing pioneering treatment at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital.\n\nSurgeons used stem cells to replace the scar tissue over his eye.\n\nMr O'Brien is the first NHS patient to receive this treatment and it is hoped the procedure will help other victims regain their sight.\n\nSee more on this from Inside Out on BBC One London at 7.30pm on 9 September, or on iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Typhoon Lingling has arrived in North Korea, after battering the South\n\nA powerful typhoon has passed over the Korean peninsula, leaving five people dead and 460 houses damaged or destroyed in North Korea, according to state media.\n\nThe storm flooded 460 sq km (178 sq miles) of farmland, the official KCNA news agency said, in a country already suffering food shortages.\n\nFlights were cancelled and tens of thousands of homes left without power.\n\nThe typhoon struck North Korea at 14:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Saturday, KCNA said.\n\nThere were concerns the storm, which injured three people, could worsen already severe food shortages.\n\nEarlier this year, the UN warned that up to 10 million North Koreans were \"in urgent need of food assistance\".\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un held an emergency meeting on Friday and scolded officials for their lack of action as Typhoon Lingling approached, KCNA said.\n\nThe government was giving \"primary attention\" to the protection of crops as well as dams and reservoirs, the agency said.\n\nA satellite image of Lingling as it approached South Korea on Friday\n\nLingling made landfall in South Korea earlier on Saturday before heading north with winds gusting up to 140 km/h (86 mph), the South's Yonhap news agency reported.\n\nThe Japan Meteorological Agency showed the storm weakening considerably on Sunday as it continued overland into China.\n\nTyphoon Lingling battered Seoul and led to the closure of many roads\n\nSouth Korea is now recovering from the typhoon, according to Yonhap, with power restored to nearly all 160,000 affected homes and flights resuming.\n\nLingling packed the fifth-strongest winds of any typhoon to hit the country, the agency said.", "The Adrian Darya-1, formerly the Grace 1, was released after Iran said it would not head to Syria\n\nThe Iranian oil tanker at the centre of an international incident has been sailing just off the Syrian coast, satellite images appear to show.\n\nThe Adrian Darya-1 was seized by Gibraltar in July with the aid of British forces over fears it was bound for Syria, violating EU sanctions.\n\nIt was eventually released after assurances were given that it would not head for the war-ravaged country.\n\nBut images released on Saturday seemed to show it two nautical miles offshore.\n\nThe images, from US company Maxar Technologies, appeared to place the tanker very close to the Syrian port of Tartus on 6 September.\n\nUS National Security Advisor John Bolton tweeted that anyone who believed the ship was no longer headed for Syria was \"in denial\".\n\n\"Tehran thinks it's more important to fund the murderous Assad regime than provide for its own people,\" he said, alongside another satellite picture. \"We can talk, but #Iran's not getting any sanctions relief until it stops lying and spreading terror!\"\n\nThere is however no confirmation that the ship is unloading its cargo of 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil.\n\nNeither Iran nor Syria have commented.\n\nIn a statement, the UK's Foreign Office called the reports \"deeply troubling\".\n\nA spokesperson said that if Iran had broken its assurances, it would be \"a violation of international norms and a morally bankrupt course of action\".\n\nThe ship, originally known as Grace 1 when it was detained off the British territory in July, has caused a major diplomatic spat between Washington and Tehran.\n\nBritish marines had helped Gibraltar authorities detain the vessel, partly drawing the UK into the row.\n\nThe United States made an official request to seize the ship in August, but the courts in Gibraltar denied it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US last year withdrew from the international 2015 deal to limit Iran's nuclear programme, and reinstated sanctions. In response, Iran stopped abiding by some commitments in the deal.\n\nThe EU has sought to salvage the accord but the Iranian tanker was seized because it was suspected of heading to Syria, which would breach EU sanctions on that country.\n\nThe Gibraltar authorities freed the vessel on 15 August after receiving assurances from Iran that it would not discharge its cargo in Syria.\n\nThe US has been seeking to seize the tanker since it was released by Gibraltar. It issued a warrant and blacklisted the vessel, threatening sanctions on any country which offered it aid. The ship has since been sailing east across the Mediterranean.\n\nEarlier this week it was revealed that a US official had even offered the captain of the ship millions of dollars to change course and sail the tanker to somewhere the US might be able to seize it.\n\nA British-flagged tanker was seized by Iran in July, in what was widely seen as retaliation for Britain's role in helping to seize the Iranian vessel - a link Tehran denies.\n\nThe Stena Impero was passing through the Strait of Hormuz when it was seized. It remains in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.", "Jesy Nelson from Little Mix has revealed that online bullying following her appearance on X Factor drove her to try to kill herself.\n\nIn a new BBC Three documentary, Jesy Nelson: 'Odd One Out', the singer, 28, says that comments about her appearance made her so unhappy she “just wanted to die”.\n\nIn a candid and tearful moment, Jesy recalls how she took an overdose after taunts about her looks became too much to bear.\n\nJesy and her bandmates won the reality show in 2011, instantly taking them from complete unknowns to celebrities.\n\nIn the documentary, the singer also explores how the trolling affected her mum, her sister, her bandmates and her relationships – and meets ordinary people who tell Jesy their stories of being bullied online.\n\n◾ You can watch Jesy Nelson: ‘Odd One Out’ on BBC iPlayer and on BBC One from 12 September\n\nThe moment Little Mix won X Factor in 2011 – but Jesy's joy was short-lived\n\nThe bullying began almost immediately after Jesy appeared on TV in the X Factor.\n\nShe was put into the girl group alongside Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock.\n\nWhen Little Mix were announced as that year’s winners, Jesy says they were all “on cloud nine”. But just hours after winning the show, her excitement was tainted by trolling.\n\n“I had about 101 Facebook messages in my inbox, and the first one that came up was from some random man, saying: ‘You are the ugliest thing I’ve seen in my life, you do not deserve to be in this girl band. You deserve to die’.”\n\nIt was a devastating blow to Jesy who, up until the barrage of insults and hate started during her time on X Factor, hadn’t had any problems with her body image.\n\n“It became the worst time of my life,” she says. “I wasn’t just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as ‘the fat, ugly one’.”\n\nIn 2013, the group returned to the show as guest stars.\n\n'This is never going to go away'\n\n“I’d lost quite a bit of weight, and we were going back on X Factor to perform our new single,” she says.\n\nJesy says this time their performance was not her priority.\n\n“All I cared about was people seeing me and saying ‘Oh, she looks good’. I starved myself for a week.”\n\nBut the comments continued, and Jesy says her mental health “spiralled out of control”.\n\n“I thought, 'I could be the skinniest girl in the world, and this is never going to go away’,” she remembers. “That was the point I got severely depressed.”\n\n◾ Reality TV bosses ask for help picking stars who can cope\n\n◾ Little Mix's Perrie: Anxiety made me feel 'so alone'\n\nThe bullying left Jesy unable to enjoy her early years in Little Mix, despite the fact that performing, she says, was something she always wanted to do.\n\nAfter seeing yet more unpleasant comments on Twitter after the 2013 X Factor performance, Jesy says she couldn’t take the pain.\n\n“I was sat in bed crying, thinking, ‘This is never going to go, I’m going to feel sad for the rest of my life, so what is the point in being here?’” she remembers, wiping away tears.\n\n“The only way I can describe the pain is like constantly being heartbroken. I remember going to the kitchen and I just took as many tablets as I could. Then my ex, who was with me at the time, he woke up and was like, ‘why are you crying?’ I kept saying, ‘I just want to die’.\n\nJesy was taken to hospital, and wasn’t left with any complications following her attempt to take her own life.\n\nLittle Mix's Jesy Nelson describes the toll online abuse took on her\n\nSeparately to the documentary, Jesy spoke to BBC Three about the experience of making it.\n\nThinking back to when she was in the depths of depression while also dealing with her newfound fame with Little Mix, she says: “It was such a weird feeling to be living your dream but hating it at the same time.”\n\nThis led her to try to hide her unhappiness.\n\n“I didn’t want to annoy anyone or be seen as a diva,” she explains. “That’s how I thought it would be perceived if I was getting upset. So I thought, 'OK, I'm just gonna ignore this'. It was the worst thing I could have done.”\n\nThe trolls only got more vicious if she showed any signs of being upset, she says. \"It was like the more people knew it affected me the more they wanted to do it.\"\n\nBut eight years on from when the bullying began, she's feeling much stronger, and has changed her mindset about the people behind the insults.\n\n\"Back then I just thought everyone hated me,\" she remembers. \"But no, actually, they're doing it because they feel bad about themselves. So now when I look at trolls being nasty, I feel a bit sorry for them. The only way I can understand it is that being nasty makes them feel better in themselves. I didn't have the mindset to think like that back then – I wish I did.\"\n\nShe admits the comments made it hard to fulfil her commitments as a member of Little Mix.\n\n\"I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn't bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I used to feel disgusted in myself,\" she reveals.\n\n\"And if the stylist hadn't got the right size for me – by accident – I used to go into a meltdown and think, 'It's not just because I've got the wrong size clothes, it's because I'm too fat to be in them'.\"\n\nJesy has now stopped using Twitter, and says she's \"a lot mentally stronger and happier\".\n\nShe says her motivations for making the programme were to try to help others.\n\n“I’m a completely different person now, I’m a lot happier and mentally stronger,” she says. “I really wanted to make this because, as much as it was a horrible experience for me, I want to make something good come out of it. I’ve got this huge platform – why would I not use that to raise awareness of how social media is affecting people?”\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can find advice here.", "The coroner looking into the death of Scottish teenager Amy Allan has found significant failings in her care by Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nAmy, from Dalry in North Ayrshire, was 14 when she died in September last year following surgery on her spine.\n\nCoroner Edwyn Buckett outlined poor planning and support from the hospital.\n\nBut he said he \"was not able to make a firm conclusion\" that those omissions \"had caused or materially contributed to her death.\"\n\nThe coroner is however likely to issue a prevention of future deaths report.\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital admitted Amy's care \"fell short of the high standards\" it should be meeting but said it had made changes to the way it worked.\n\nAmy Allan was born with a genetic condition called Noonan Syndrome, which caused a number of heart problems throughout her life.\n\nAs she got older her spine started to curve due to scoliosis and it was clear she needed surgery to reduce her pain and prevent it getting worse.\n\nHowever, her heart problem - pulmonary hypertension- made the surgery more complicated.\n\nIt was decided the operation should be carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London, because it had the necessary heart specialists on site to treat any complications, specifically a life-support system known as ECMO which oxygenates blood outside the body.\n\nHowever, when Amy's ventilation tube was removed after the operation and she needed the back-up cardiac and ECMO teams, they were not available.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mrs Allan said her daughter was a \"live wire\" who always had a smile on her face.\n\n\"She had an attitude to life we all envied,\" her mother said.\n\nShe said it took two years from her first hospital appointment in Kilmarnock until the date of the operation at Great Ormond Street.\n\nAmy had an heart condition from birth\n\nDuring that time Amy made four visits to the London hospital and underwent a battery of tests.\n\n\"She had every test known to man plus two multi-disciplinary meetings about her,\" her mother said.\n\nHer parents said there were assured that the ECMO back-up would be available if anything went wrong.\n\nAmy was excited about the operation, her parents said. Her biggest concern was the ventilation tube being left in for 24 hours after her operation.\n\nSt Pancras Coroner's Court heard that a junior doctor extubated Amy - removed her ventilation tube - shortly after 23:20, just hours after her surgery, and she rapidly declined.\n\nLeigh and Richard Allan said their daughter had an attitude to life they all envied\n\nThe tube was removed despite several medical readings suggesting she wasn't stable enough.\n\nIt was only then that her parents found out that there was no ECMO back-up at that time of night and the cardiac team was not aware of Amy's presence.\n\nAmy's mother told the BBC: \"I wish I had asked more questions and said 'are these people on standby?' I honestly didn't think for a minute they weren't. I just assumed they were there.\"\n\nMrs Allan said she was told that the tube was removed because Amy had asked for it.\n\n\"That's the only justification they gave for taking it out,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't accept that was even a consideration. Of course, the child was going to wake up and want the tube out. Even an adult would want that.\"\n\nHer parents were at the bedside as Amy's blood pressure plummeted and her heart rate start racing.\n\n\"We watched it all,\" her father said. \"We were there all through the night watching them panic in front of our eyes.\"\n\nThey said Amy had been sedated earlier but she was conscious and \"terrified\" as doctors tried to help her.\n\nAt about 03:00 they decided to put her tube back in and her parents were asked to leave.\n\nThe ECMO team was assembled at 04:00 but did not begin to work on Amy until 07:15 because they are not routinely available at all hours.\n\nAmy died 23 days later from sepsis on 28 September.\n\nHer mother said: \"She didn't look like Amy by that point, she had suffered so much.\"\n\nAmy's parents said Great Ormond Street had never admitted their mistakes and called for a full inquiry by the Care Quality Commission.\n\nShe said: \"We are appalled to see the lack of openness and honesty in the hospital's response. We want GOSH to tell the truth.\"\n\n\"It is not the 24-hour service they offer, there is a lack of nursing staff, there's a lack of consultants and I don't think it is the service they advertise.\n\n\"I would expect the relevant bodies to go in and look at it now because it's not right.\"\n\nA spokesman for Great Ormond Street Hospital said: \"We are very sorry Amy's care fell short of the high standards we should always be meeting.\"\n\nHe said changes had already been made to the way they worked to support children with complex conditions.\n\nThis included improving the way clinical information is shared between teams and enhancing multi-disciplinary assessments, he said.\n\n\"We will look closely at the Coroner's findings to consider if any additional action is needed,\" he said.", "Boris Johnson's Conservative government has suffered two blows in the Commons as MPs rejected his call to vote for an early general election.\n\nTo see how your MP voted use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe prime minister's call for an early general election was rejected by MPs when it failed to reach the two thirds majority required under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.\n\nMPs have also voted for a bill aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit, the vote was won by 327 to 299.\n\nThe bill would force the prime minister to ask the European Union for a delay to Brexit to prevent the UK's departure without a deal.\n\nTo find out how your MP voted, use the look-up below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nConservative MP Dame Caroline Spelman voted alongside the Conservative rebels who were expelled on Tuesday for voting against the government, while Brexit-supporting Kate Hoey was the only Labour member to vote with the government.\n\nThe measure must now be approved by the House of Lords. If peers pass the bill it could postpone the UK's departure from the European Union until 31 January 2020, if by 19 October this year MPs have not approved a new deal or voted in favour of a no-deal exit.\n\nDuring the debate on the bill it was amended, so that during a Brexit extension Parliament has to vote on a version of the former prime minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement.", "Double Dave was spotted in New Jersey's Pine Barrens forested area\n\nA rare two-headed baby timber rattlesnake has been found in a forest in the US state of New Jersey.\n\nThe reptile, named Double Dave, was spotted last month and taken by an environmental group.\n\nJoined at the body, the baby venomous snake has two fully-formed heads, four eyes and two flickering tongues - which work independently of each other.\n\n\"It would be pretty difficult for this snake to survive in the wild,\" environmentalist Dave Schneider said.\n\nHe said the snake stiffens when trying to escape, and it would have been an easy catch for predators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Schneider from Herpetological Associates (HA), a consultancy specialising in the study of endangered and threatened reptiles and amphibians, said he and his colleague spotted Double Dave on 25 August in the Pine Barrens forested area.\n\nThis happened as they were observing a rattlesnake giving birth.\n\nTwo-headed snakes are usually born the same way as conjoined twins: a developing embryo begins to split into identical twins - but then stops part way.\n\nThey came up with the name Double Dave because Mr Schneider and his colleague are both called David.\n\nMr Schneider told the BBC a special permit had been obtained from the state authorities for HA to keep and study the rare snake.\n\n\"We'll take care of it,\" he said.", "British Airways and its pilots have been urged by Number 10 to \"sort out\" the dispute which will see pilots walk out next week in a row over pay.\n\n\"The unions and BA need to get round the table and sort this out. The public would expect nothing less,\" it said.\n\nBA pilots are due to strike on Monday and Tuesday over a pay offer pilots' union Balpa says is too low.\n\nThe vast majority of flights are expected to be cancelled on those two days, causing knock-on disruption.\n\nBA would not say how many flights had been affected, but reports suggested it was around 1,600 flights.\n\n\"Nobody should have their travel plans disrupted or their holidays ruined,\" Number 10 said.\n\nThe airline says it has emailed customers travelling on flights that are affected but the flight's status can still be checked on the website.\n\nThe airline and the union did not provide an update on the status of their dispute on Friday.\n\nThe two-day strike, set for next week, follows failed negotiations between the union and the airline over a pay offer of 11.5% over three years.\n\nUnite and GMB, representing cabin crew and engineers, have accepted the offer.\n\nHowever, pilots have argued that the pay award should be higher, following recent years of low pay increases and BA's recent strong financial performance.\n\nBA has said it was open to \"constructive talks\", but said Balpa was not acting in good faith.\n\nThe union has said it would call off the strike if BA would discuss a new proposal outlined in a letter on Thursday to the airline.\n\nThe union's general secretary Brian Strutton said his members were still \"very angry\" with BA, but were also willing to be flexible.\n\n\"They also want to leave no stone unturned in trying to find a resolution to their dispute,\" he said.\n\nIn response, BA had said: \"We do not believe the union is acting in good faith by making an 11th-hour inflated proposal which would cost an additional £50m.\"\n\nThe airline said Balpa should return to the talks without pre-conditions. The union was acting \"cynically\" by waiting until a late stage when the airline had already made arrangements to manage the industrial action, BA added.\n\n\"Our customers need the certainty that Balpa will call off the strikes for good, not just for two days next week,\" the airline said.\n\nA further day of strike action is scheduled for 27 September.", "Yahoo says most of its email services are working again following a fault that affected users across the world for more than seven hours.\n\nIt had been impossible for people to send and receive messages using the platform or check their webmail accounts.\n\nIn the UK, the problem had impacted BT, Sky and TalkTalk's email accounts, which are powered by the firm.\n\nDowndetector indicates that the problem began at about 07:00 BST.\n\n\"Most services are back online,\" Yahoo tweeted shortly after 14:30 BST.\n\n\"We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience as we get everything back up and running.\"\n\nThe business is owned by the US communications firm Verizon.\n\nThose with AOL accounts had also been affected.\n\nInternet faults of one kind or another are not uncommon, but it is relatively unusual for them to last this long.\n\nSome customers who have reported being able to access their accounts again, say that several hours-worth of emails appear to be missing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael and Marjorie Cawdery, both 83, died in a \"frenzied\" knife attack\n\nThe family of an elderly couple killed in County Armagh by a man with severe mental health issues say they feel \"discriminated against\" as victims.\n\nMichael and Marjorie Cawdery, both 83, died in a \"frenzied\" knife attack by Thomas McEntee in their home in 2017.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Victims' Commissioner only deals with cases related to the Troubles.\n\nThe Cawdreys' daughter says it is unfair victims are treated differently in NI to other parts of the UK.\n\nIn England and Wales, the victims' commissioner has oversight of all victims of crime.\n\nWendy Little said: \"It's right and proper that there are resources being spent on a victims' commissioner for the Troubles but what about other types of victims?\n\n\"In the aftermath of everything, our world was turned upside down and I wasn't able to function properly - we didn't know who to turn to.\n\n\"It's the same old situation again - why are we being treated differently in Northern Ireland?\n\n\"Victims of all crime need compassion and support for situations that come totally out of the blue.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Victims' Commissioner Judith Thompson was re-appointed for a further 12 months last Friday.\n\nHer office works under specific legislation that defines a victim as someone who has been physically or psychologically injured or bereaved as a result of a \"conflict-related incident\" in Northern Ireland.\n\nOne of its main duties is to provide advice to the government on matters affecting victims and survivors of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and their loved ones.\n\nThe commissioner for victims in England and Wales was set up in 2010; it is independent of government and advocates for victims of all types of crime and their families.\n\nLast year, it produced a report and lobbied the UK government on the entitlements of victims of mentally ill offenders.\n\nMcEntee was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison for killing the couple\n\nAn estimated 120 people a year across the UK are killed by someone who is mentally ill.\n\nA government-funded study by Manchester University found that almost 10% of those convicted of homicide in Northern Ireland between 2006 and 2014 had been in contact with mental health services in the 12 months prior to the offence.\n\nMichael and Marjorie Cawdery's daughter and son-in-law, Wendy and Charles Little, say they were traumatised by the killing - they witnessed the aftermath of the attack at the Cawderys' Portadown home.\n\nMr Little said: \"We are victims, we effectively suffered a psychological assault that day and our lives have changed beyond recognition and there is only so much the police and victims' charities can do.\n\n\"A victims' commissioner is meant to provide victims with a voice and, at the minute, victims of non-Troubles crimes don't have one.\"\n\nHe added: \"Troubles' victims should be represented but so should other victims - it's discrimination, there is no other word for it.\"\n\nThe Department of Justice said the appointment of a victims' commissioner would be a matter for any returning Northern Ireland Executive to consider.\n\nCharles and Wendy Little are calling for a commissioner that can also deal with non-Troubles related crime\n\nIt said the needs of victims were central to the department's work and that it provided funding to a number of charities that worked in that area, including Victim Support NI.\n\nVictim Support NI offers information and advice immediately after a crime occurs and can offer assistance to victims claiming compensation.\n\nGeraldine Hanna, the CEO of Victim Support NI, said she is supportive of the call to establish a commissioner for all victims of crime.\n\nShe said: \"We believe that all victims of crime should have a strong, influential, independent voice to ensure that every victim gets the right support at the right time.\n\n\"A victims' commissioner for Northern Ireland could fulfil a vital dual role, both acting as champion for victims of crime and providing an independent, advisory and challenge function to government.\"\n\nBetween August 2018 and July 2019 there has been a 4% increase in overall crimes reported to the police in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn particular, there was a marked increase in crime involving violence.\n\nCrimes such as homicide, death or serious injury caused by dangerous driving and harassment increased by 7% on the previous year.\n\nMr Little believes the statistics underline the need for victims of non-Troubles related crime to be fully represented.\n\n\"The danger for victims of ordinary crime here is that once the crime has been committed and the court case is over, the victims still have a life sentence and they're forgotten over and over again.\"", "Leprechauns may be considered quintessentially Irish, but research suggests this perception is blarney.\n\nThe word \"leprechaun\" is not a native Irish one, scholars have said.\n\nThey have uncovered hundreds of lost words from the Irish language and unlocked the secrets of many others.\n\nAlthough \"leipreachán\" has been in the Irish language for a long time, researchers have said it comes from Luperci, a group linked to a Roman festival.\n\nThe feast included a purification ritual involving swimming and, like the Luperci, leprechauns are associated with water in what may be their first appearance in early Irish literature.\n\nAccording to an Old Irish tale known as The Adventure of Fergus son of Léti, leprechauns carried the sleeping Fergus out to sea.\n\nThe team from Queen's and Cambridge spent five years studying old manuscripts and texts\n\nA new revised dictionary created from the research spans 1,000 years of the Irish language from the 6th to the 16th Centuries.\n\nA team of five academics from Cambridge University and Queen's University Belfast carried out painstaking work over five years, scouring manuscripts and texts for words which have been overlooked or mistakenly defined.\n\nTheir findings can now be freely accessed in the revised version of the online dictionary of medieval Irish.\n\nAn 'ogach' or 'eggy' place was considered just right for setting up home in medieval Ireland\n\nAmong the words brought back to life in this project are \"ogach\", which means \"eggy\" - but in a good way: If you were choosing where to live in medieval Ireland you would want somewhere ogach - \"abounding in eggs\".\n\nOn the other hand it is probably bad news if you hear the word \"brachaid\", meaning: \"It oozes pus.\"\n\nThe scholars discovered other quirky words, such as \"séis\" - an old Irish word for a six-day week.\n\nThe dictionary of medieval Irish is 23 volumes long. It spans a period from 700 to 1700.\n\nFor Professor Greg Toner from Queen's University Belfast, finding and documenting the words has been a labour of love spanning nearly 20 years.\n\nAcademics have uncovered about 500 lost words in the Irish language\n\n\"People think it is an old language and there are no new words, but our interpretation changes,\" he said.\n\n\"We found about 500 words that have not been recorded. Among them is the word \"séis\", which means a period of six days.\n\n\"This is great, if you can't be bothered working a full week.\"\n\nOther words include the Irish for curlew - \"crottach\" or \"the humped one\" - and might be an allusion to the bird's distinctive beak.\n\nThe old Irish word for curlew is \"crottach\"\n\nThe resource is a full academic dictionary with scholarly references and it already reaches a wide audience.\n\nProf Toner said the web version attracts 20,000 users a month - about a third from Ireland, a third from America and a third from the rest of the world.\n\n\"A key aim of our work has been to open the dictionary up, not only to students of the language but to researchers working in other areas such as history and archaeology, as well as to those with a general interest in medieval life,\" he said.\n\nThe resource allows users to put in any word to discover what the old Irish word was.\n\nYou can find the first reference to potato and how many different words there were for a knife or a sword.\n\nMáire Ní Mhaonaigh, professor of Celtic and medieval studies at Cambridge, said the dictionary offered \"real insight into the past and into how people lived\".\n\nThe modern Irish word for computer dates back from a long time before they were invented\n\nSome words suggest that the medieval world still resonates, she said.\n\nOne of these is \"rímaire\", the modern Irish word for computer (in its later form ríomhaire).\n\n\"In the medieval period, rímaire referred not to a machine but to a person engaged in the medieval science of computistics who performed various kinds of calculations concerning time and date, most importantly the date of Easter.\n\n\"So it's a word with a long pedigree whose meaning was adapted and applied to a modern invention.\"\n\nThe researchers are also developing educational resources for schools in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I'd rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask for Brexit delay\n\nBoris Johnson has said he would \"rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask the EU to delay Brexit beyond 31 October.\n\nBut the PM declined to say if he would resign if a postponement - which he has repeatedly ruled out - had to happen.\n\nMr Johnson has said he would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal, but Labour says stopping a no-deal Brexit is its priority.\n\nThe prime minister's younger brother, Jo Johnson, announced earlier that he was standing down as a minister and MP.\n\nSpeaking in West Yorkshire, Boris Johnson said Jo Johnson, who backed Remain in the 2016 referendum, was a \"fantastic guy\" but they had had \"differences\" over the EU.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation earlier in the day, the MP for Orpington, south-east London, said he had been \"torn between family loyalty and the national interest\".\n\nDuring his speech at a police training centre in Wakefield, the prime minister reiterated his call for an election, which he wants to take place on 15 October.\n\nHe argued it was \"the only way to get this thing [Brexit] moving\".\n\n\"We either go forward with our plan to get a deal, take the country out on 31 October which we can or else somebody else should be allowed to see if they can keep us in beyond 31 October,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe told the audience he hated \"banging on about Brexit\" but accused MPs of having \"torpedoed\" the UK's negotiating position with the EU by voting for a Labour-backed bill designed to block a no-deal exit on 31 October.\n\nThe legislation would force the prime minister to delay Brexit until January 2020, unless MPs approve either a new deal or a no-deal exit by 19 October.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the PM of having \"no plan to get a new deal\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said the prime minister's comments were \"deeply troubling\", and the PM would soon be legally forced to seek a Brexit delay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he and his brother Jo \"haven't seen eye-to-eye for a long time\" about the EU\n\nThe House of Commons rejected Mr Johnson's plan for a snap election in a vote on Wednesday.\n\nBut the government has announced that MPs will get another chance to back this plan next Monday.\n\nThe fresh vote on an early election is scheduled just before Parliament is due to be prorogued - or suspended - from next week until 14 October.\n\nOpposition parties are holding talks about how to respond to the prime minister's call for a mid-October election, amid concern over whether it should be delayed until after an extension has been agreed to prevent a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nMeanwhile, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned Mr Johnson that he \"cannot win an election, whenever it comes, if the Brexit Party stands against him\".\n\nHowever, if they were to make a pact during a general election \"with a clear policy, we'd be unstoppable\", he told the BBC.\n\nYvette Cooper, Labour MP and chairwoman of the Home Affairs Committee, criticised the PM for using police officers as a backdrop to his speech.\n\n\"This is an abuse of power by Boris Johnson, making so many police stop their training and work to be part of his political stunt,\" she said.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police chief constable John Robins said he was pleased the force was \"chosen as the focal point of the national recruitment campaign\" and welcomed Mr Johnson's pledge to increase police funding.\n\nOne of the student officers standing behind the prime minister appeared to become unwell during his speech and question-and-answer session.\n\nTwenty minutes in, she sat down with her head bowed, at which point Mr Johnson apologised and said: \"That is the signal for me to actively wind up.\"", "\"We're snookered,\" a member of the Cabinet whispered as they stopped for a brief word, rushing past during this most frantic 48 hours.\n\nAnd it seems they may well be right. On paper, the prime minister is dead set on securing the election he claims not to want.\n\nThe opposition parties claim that they are desperate to have a chance to turf the Tories out of office.\n\nFor two years, week after week, Jeremy Corbyn has said he wants an election to bring an end to years of Tory rule.\n\nAnd Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP, yesterday said an election must be called before Parliament is suspended next week.\n\nBut, as things stand, there is no way that Boris Johnson's ruthless team in Number 10 can be sure they will get the chance to ask the country for a majority on the breakneck timetable they have set out.\n\nMr Corbyn has said - on the record and in the official party statements - he will back a general election once the legislation to exclude the possibility of leaving without a deal has landed on the statute book.\n\nDepending on the progress in the Lords, that could mean Boris Johnson gets his way - and an election is agreed for 15 October.\n\nLate on Tuesday night senior figures in Labour conceded that could mean signing on the dotted line on Friday.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said an election must be called before Parliament is suspended\n\nBut opinion in the Labour party is hardening against that timetable. There was a passionate meeting of Labour MPs yesterday morning where there was near unanimous agreement that they simply could not play along.\n\nThey would agree to an election, Sir Keir Starmer said, only once the prime minister had actually been forced to ask the EU for an extension.\n\nIn other words, they'd only say yes to going to the country after mid-October, so an election would not be possible until November, after the current Brexit deadline has passed and departure has been delayed.\n\nOne senior backbencher told me they'd had personal assurance from Mr Corbyn himself late on yesterday night that was the case.\n\nAnd a senior source in attendance at the meeting of opposition leaders yesterday said there was agreement there that they would not grant an election before an extension was implemented.\n\nOf course that leaves Labour open to the charges Mr Johnson has already laid, that Mr Corbyn is \"frit\", or less traditionally a \"great big girl's blouse\". And Downing Street believes that allows them the upper hand, to portray Labour to the nation as cowardly, afraid of the country's verdict.\n\nIndeed, more aggressive elements inside the Johnson bunker (and yes, it feels like a bunker already), believe even this could help them build up the sense they are merely trying to represent the public, while \"Parliament\" is thwarting their choice.\n\nOne member of the shadow cabinet suggested they might be right, telling me yesterday \"no elected politician could stand in the way\" of facing the ballot box, worried about the damage an impression of holding back from an election could give.\n\nIt's also true that asking the House of Commons for a two-thirds majority is not the only way for Boris Johnson to force an election.\n\nNo 10 could introduce a simple vote where they would only need a majority of one, or in a more extreme circumstance, hold a vote of no-confidence in itself, that Labour might find hard to stand against.\n\nOpinions are fluid. The prime minister may yet get his way. But do not put a 15 October election in your diary in anything more than pencil for now.\n\nIn time, whether it's in mid-October or November, it's hard to find an MP who believes an election is not coming soon.\n\nThe government has no majority, so it cannot govern effectively. For all the howls about rule-breaking, our traditions tell us that means an election is on the way.\n\nOpinion in the Labour party is hardening against Boris Johnson's timetable\n\nThis Parliament has simply not been able to find a resolution to the result of the referendum. So before too long, the public will be asked to press refresh.\n\nBut here's the irony. By deciding to suspend Parliament early next week, Mr Johnson might not have time in the Commons to try all the ploys that might grant him an election on the schedule he so desires.\n\nAt the very least he could be racing against the controversial deadline he himself did not need to set.\n\nPS If anything, the helter skelter has been steeper and more twisted in the last two days in Parliament than even in the closing crazy few months before the summer .", "Three-year-old Bobby is enjoying having his mum home after five weeks in hospital\n\nWhen Arlene Leitch went to her GP complaining about heart palpitations she was relieved to be told they were likely to be a result of anxiety or drinking too much caffeine.\n\nHowever, the 32-year-old mother-of-one, from Port Glasgow, then suffered a cardiac arrest one night as she slept.\n\nDoctors later said the quick reaction of her husband Barry probably helped \"save her life\".\n\nArlene has now been told she has a rare condition known as ARVC (Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy) and wants to raise awareness about underlying heart issues that can often go undiagnosed.\n\nShe told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme: \"I was in my 20s when I started getting the palpitations more often.\n\n\"They were kind of panicking me a wee bit because they were quite intense.\n\n\"It felt like my heart was sucking in and then beating out really hard, and then as if it was trying to catch up with itself.\"\n\nArlene Leitch with her gran and mum Jackie\n\nHer doctor did some tests, but when the results came back and showed nothing out of the ordinary, her symptoms were put down to anxiety, which she said she was relieved to hear.\n\nHowever the heart palpitations continued and began to cause her to wake during the night.\n\nOn the night of her cardiac arrest, her husband woke to find her almost unconscious.\n\n\"He said that he heard me making noises, my eyes were glassy and I just wasn't breathing properly,\" Arlene said.\n\n\"He had to phone an ambulance and my mum because my wee boy was in the next room asleep and he was conscious of him waking up.\"\n\nHer mother, Jackie Dunn, had spent the evening with her daughter so the 05:00 phone call came as a shock. Her parents rushed to the house.\n\n\"By the time we arrived and got upstairs Barry was on top of Arlene giving her CPR. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing,\" Jackie told the programme.\n\n\"Barry had a three-way conversation going with the ambulance people and they were counting him in and telling him to keep doing what he was doing, and that he was doing everything right.\"\n\nDoctors say Barry 'saved Arlene's life' with his fast response\n\nJackie said Arlene's father Patrick did not think she was going to \"make it\" and left the room while the ambulance crew used a life-saving defibrillator.\n\nShe was taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock and put into an induced coma to let her body rest while the intensive care team did tests.\n\n'We just stayed by her bedside,\" her mother said. \"We didn't know if she was going to have brain damage or be able to speak or recognise anybody.\"\n\nThe following morning she woke and within minutes recognised her husband.\n\n\"We knew then that something was functioning, but when she said 'Barry' it was a kind of relief for us all that she was going to hopefully pull through,\" said Jackie.\n\nOn the road to recovery- now Arlene wants other people to take heart palpitations seriously\n\nARVC is a rare inherited disease of the heart muscle and often those who have it do not know.\n\nIt affects the heart's ability to pump blood effectively as the muscle cells become thin and stretchy and are not secure, resulting in poor function.\n\nThe tests that were done on Arlene before her attack did not link to her condition. Only a MRI scan, along with other specific heart tests, can identify the condition.\n\nMaureen Talbot, a senior cardiac nurse from the British Heart Foundation, told BBC Scotland it is difficult to diagnose without sufficient testing.\n\nShe said: \"There are no typical symptoms but symptoms could include what Arlene experienced, some people have none at all.\n\n\"Others may have swelling in ankles, legs and in some cases to the abdomen, with extreme fatigue and breathlessness, which it's worth getting checked out especially if you are fainting.\"\n\nThe main symptom for many, including Arlene, is a cardiac arrest.\n\nMs Talbot said the condition acts in an inherited pattern so there was a need for the family of people with AVRC to be tested.\n\n\"I don't think there was a point I realised that I had a cardiac arrest, I was just drip-fed it everyday until I understood,\" says Arlene\n\nAfter the doctors identified Arlene's heart disease she was moved to the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank where she underwent surgery to have a Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (SCID) fitted in her side.\n\n\"I feel much more confident now knowing that I have an SICD fitted,\" Arlene says.\n\n\"I feel more reassured with that being in because before I was always getting these heart palpitations and obviously in the back of your mind that is what you're thinking - 'Am I going to have a heart attack?'\"\n\nAfter five weeks recovering in hospital, Arlene is home and gradually getting back to normal life and taking each day as it comes.\n\n\"You know your own body. If you're not feeling right and something's not right you need to just be persistent,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tomasz Schafernaker takes a look at the effects of a changing climate on Atlantic hurricanes.", "A bear climbed through a window to take a nap in a hotel bathroom in Big Sky, Montana.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled in May\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show producers treated guests like criminal suspects, the MP leading an inquiry into reality TV has claimed.\n\nThe House of Commons culture select committee heard from two of the show's former guests on Wednesday.\n\nDwayne Davison, who first appeared in 2014, told MPs he was locked in a small room and had his phone taken off him.\n\n\"I think someone in police custody would have more rights and better treatment,\" Damian Collins MP said.\n\nThe committee is investigating whether enough support is offered during and after filming on reality TV. The inquiry was set up after the death of a man who had taken a lie detector test on The Jeremy Kyle Show, and the suicides of two former Love Island contestants.\n\nMr Davison, who became known as Kyle's \"most-hated guest\", told the committee he was exploited by the show, and that it \"ruined my life\", receiving death threats and losing two jobs as a result.\n\nDwayne Davison said his life \"drastically\" changed after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show\n\nHis requests to have clips of his appearance taken off the show's YouTube channel were repeatedly turned down,\n\n\"I asked them multiple times, cried, they weren't interested one bit.\"\n\nMr Davison said he even attempted suicide at one point: \"In 2018, I took 30 codeine tablets, swallowed them all, I don't remember what happened.\"\n\n\"If I knew what my life would have turned into I would never have gone on that show,\" he added.\n\nHe said the only thing he would class as \"aftercare\" was a \"one-minute phone call\". He said he was given his taxi fare home and kicked out 20 minutes after the recording and \"that was it\".\n\nBefore the recording, he was kept in a locked room, he said. \"The smallest, tiniest room you've ever seen. Your phone is taken off you. I'm sat in this room for 10 hours, the door's locked. My partner has been taken away from me. So you're anxious.\"\n\nMr Collins, who chairs the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee, said that sounded \"astonishing\" and \"horrific\".\n\nMr Davison appeared on the show a second time, in 2015, but only because a \"charismatic\" producer persuaded him he could \"redeem\" himself, he said.\n\n\"I came onto the stage and it was like a war zone,\" he said, adding that the host was goading him, but those parts were not shown. \"They completely edited that out and only showed my reaction. How unfair is that?\"\n\nAnother former Kyle guest, Robert Gregory, who was contacted by the programme after a man told producers he wanted to prove he was his father, said he had been \"totally humiliated\".\n\n\"They crucified me. They absolutely ripped me apart,\" he told the committee. \"I said, 'You've obviously decided I am a bad person.'\" He added: \"There is no aftercare, it doesn't exist.\"\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled by ITV in May after the death of Steve Dymond, who took a lie detector test during an appearance.\n\nAfter the hearing, an ITV statement said: \"As a producer and broadcaster ITV takes its responsibilities around duty of care to participants very seriously. Supporting the physical and mental health of everyone involved in our programmes is our highest priority.\n\nIt added: \"We were truly sorry to hear that Dwayne was experiencing mental health problems and suicidal thoughts and have apologised to him that we did not remove the clips from our official ITV YouTube channel. We have offered to pay for counselling, as he has requested.\"\n\nLove Island's Yewande Biala and Marcel Somerville spoke to the committee\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, former Love Island stars Yewande Biala and Marcel Somerville gave evidence about their experiences on that show.\n\nBoth told the committee they were given psychiatric evaluations by ITV before they appeared on the show and saw doctors in the days and weeks after the series ended.\n\n\"The whole time on the show is fine, when you come off it's fine, but because you are in the spotlight, no matter what you do, there will be a story about it,\" Somerville said.\n\n\"The press will jump on to anything. If you have a public break-up, you think, this is the worst period ever and then you get trolls who add fire to it - that was the worst part of being on the show.\n\n\"They do a psych (evaluation) before you go on and when the show is finished you do another psych, and then again a week later. But it should be one three or six months down the line because that's when you're dealing with it.\"\n\nIn its statement, ITV said it \"constantly strives for best practice in all our programmes\", pointing out that last year it asked former chief medical officer Dr Paul Litchfield to carry out an independent review of the processes on Love Island.\n\n\"This review led us to extend our support processes for this year's series to a level that we consider industry-leading,\" it said.\n\nFormer Blazin' Squad member Somerville also revealed he refused to go on the show the first year he was asked because he had concerns about the diversity of the line-up.\n\n\"I spoke to the casting producers, done a medical, but they wanted me to go on for the last two weeks of the show,\" he said. \"I basically said I wasn't too sure if I wanted to go on the show at that time because the show didn't look very diverse.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the first black person to be on the show as a bombshell because you've go to go in there and try and steal someone's girlfriend.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Crime recorded on British railways increased by 12% last year including a rise in the number of violent and sexual offences, new figures show.\n\nBritish Transport Police recorded 68,313 crimes in 2018/19, up from 60,867 during the previous 12 months.\n\nViolent crime accounted for a fifth of all cases after a 16% rise to 13,591, while sexual offences rose by 8% over the same period to 2,635.\n\nBTP said the figures show serious crime is rare across 3.3 billion journeys.\n\nThe latest figures show theft of passenger property was the most common offence recorded on the network - accounting for more than one in five (21%) crimes.\n\nPolice figures also show a number of other crimes increasing on the rail network, including:\n\nBTP noted that there was fewer than one serious crime per million passenger journeys in 2018/19.\n\nThe total number of all crimes recorded per million journeys made has fallen from 25.6 in 2009/10 to 20.8 in 2018/19.\n\nDeputy chief constable Adrian Hanstock said that last year's overall increase in crime was \"of concern\" but that \"with record levels of passengers using the railway, we anticipated there could be a subsequent rise in crime\".\n\n\"As stations become increasingly commercial environments, a large proportion of this increase is as a result of theft of passenger property, anti-social behaviour or shoplifting,\" he said.\n\n\"Despite this increase, when put into context, it is important to remember that the chance of becoming a victim of crime on the railway is very low.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course, any rise in crime is of concern to us and we are tackling this head-on through our problem-solving initiatives at key locations.\"\n\nSusie Homan of the Rail Delivery Group, said the figures show \"Britain's railway remains one of the safest in the world\".\n\nShe added: \"As an industry we are working with the BTP to return to a long-term trend of falling crime on the railway, by trialling and investing in new technology like body-worn cameras for staff and working with police to increase the reporting of crime.\"\n\nThe figures do not cover Northern Ireland, as railway policing there is the responsibility of the PSNI.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn to Johnson: \"A lot of people have a great deal to fear\"\n\nBoris Johnson will call for a general election on 15 October if Labour and rebel Tories succeed in blocking a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe challenged Jeremy Corbyn to put his policy of \"dither and delay\" over EU withdrawal to the British people.\n\nMr Johnson needs the support of two-thirds of MPs to trigger an election.\n\nBut shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told Labour MPs the leadership would not back an election until a delay had been agreed with the EU.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid has presented his spending plan to MPs in the Commons, with the health service, education and the police expected to fare well.\n\nHe told MPs the government had \"turned the page on austerity\", outlining £13.8bn of investment on areas including health and education.\n\nMr Javid said it was the fastest spending increase for 15 years, but the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, accused him of \"meaningless platitudes\".\n\nMeanwhile, No 10's decision to expel 21 Tory MPs for defying the party whip on Tuesday continues to causes recriminations in the party.\n\nOne of those booted out of the party, Margot James, has publicly questioned the role played by Dominic Cummings, the PM's senior aide, in the decision.\n\nRaising the issue at PMQs, she urged Mr Johnson to bear in mind his predecessor Margaret Thatcher's famous adage that \"advisers advise and ministers decide\".\n\nAnd in Scotland, a judge has rejected a bid to have Mr Johnson's plan to shut down Parliament ahead of Brexit declared illegal.\n\nThe showdown between the government and opponents of a no-deal Brexit will continue later as Labour and other opposition parties seek to pass a bill requesting a further delay if there is no deal by 19 October.\n\nA total of 21 Tories defied the PM on Tuesday to vote with the opposition to enable the bill to be considered, as Mr Johnson suffered his first Commons defeat as prime minister by a margin of 328 votes to 301.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf the Brexit delay bill passes later on and moves to the Lords, as is expected, Mr Johnson will push for an immediate vote on an early general election.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely clear\" that the UK would get a new deal from Brussels, with the controversial Irish backstop removed.\n\nHe suggested that Mr Corbyn was afraid of the judgement of the people, joking that \"there is only one chlorinated chicken I can see this House and he is on that bench\".\n\nBut the Labour leader said the PM was \"running down the clock\" on a no-deal Brexit and \"hiding the facts\" about the likelihood of food and medicine shortages.\n\n\"I don't see how I can be accused of undermining the negotiations because there are no negotiations taking place,\" he told MPs.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told BBC Radio 4's Today that Labour wanted a general election but \"on its terms not Boris Johnson's terms\".\n\nHe said the party did not \"trust\" the PM to hold the election before the Brexit deadline, as No 10 had \"lied\" last month when it denied reports that it planned to suspend Parliament.\n\n\"We are not shy of a general election but we are not going to be trapped into abandoning control of Parliament or be taken in what Boris Johnson says because we don't trust him.\"\n\nBut, at a meeting in London, a succession of Labour MPs called on the leadership to hold off backing an election until after Brexit had been delayed.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Mason said one MP reportedly told colleagues: \"Johnson said it is Brexit do or die on October 31st. I want him to die.\"\n\nUnder the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, a prime minister must have the backing of at least two-thirds of the UK's 650 MPs before a poll can be called outside of the fixed five-year terms.\n\nThe Lib Dems say they will vote against an early election at this stage.\n\nDowning Street said the 21 Tory MPs who rebelled in Tuesday's vote would have the whip removed, effectively expelling them from the parliamentary party and meaning they could not stand as Conservative candidates in the election.\n\nAmong the jettisoned rebels are former justice secretary David Gauke, Winston Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames, and Rory Stewart, who recently stood against Boris Johnson to be the party leader.\n\nThe former international development secretary told the Today programme he was sacked by text message, as he was being given the GQ magazine award for politician of the year.\n\n\"It was a pretty astonishing moment,\" he said. \"It feels a little bit like something you associate with other countries - one opposes the leader, one loses the leadership race, no longer in the cabinet and now apparently thrown out of the party and one's seat too.\"\n\nMr Stewart said the decision to stop him standing as a candidate was \"un-Conservative\" and the final decision should rest with local associations and not be made centrally.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nAnother of the rebels, Richard Benyon, said he would continue to sit on the Tory benches and support the PM's domestic agenda, saying he hoped to return to the fold \"one day\".\n\nBut there have been calls from loyal MPs for No 10 to rethink its conduct amid anger over the treatment of rebels and the suspension of Parliament.\n\nSir Roger Gale said Dominic Cummings, one of Mr Johnson's closest advisers, had \"abused and swore\" at Tory rebels and should be disciplined.\n\n\"The fact that you have at the heart of No 10 as the PM's senior advisor an unelected, foul-mouthed oaf throwing his weight around is completely unacceptable,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"If the PM doesn't have Dominic Cummings frogmarched out of Downing Street himself then the chances are it not be the Tory rebels or Jeremy Corbyn but Mr Cummings who will bring down this administration.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, the outgoing leader of the Scottish Conservatives, criticised the decision to throw out dissident MPs, tweeting:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ruth Davidson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHours before the vote on Tuesday, the government had already lost its working majority when Tory MP Phillip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment MPs voted to take control of the Commons", "At least seven people are confirmed to have died, and many more are missing, after the category five storm caused flooding and widespread damage to homes and infrastructure.\n\nThe storm, which has now been downgraded to a category two, is moving parallel to the coast of the US state of Florida.", "MPs who want to stop no deal plan to pass a new law that will force Boris Johnson to seek an extension to the Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation has been presented by Labour MP Hilary Benn, and has been signed by opposition leaders and recently-sacked Conservatives, including Alistair Burt and Philip Hammond.\n\nWell, Mr Johnson will have until 19 October to either pass a deal in Parliament or get MPs to approve a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOnce this deadline has passed, he will have to request an extension to the UK's departure date, taking it from 31 October to 31 January 2020.\n\nUnusually, the bill includes the wording of the letter that the prime minister would have to write to the president of the European Council in his request for that extension.\n\nIf the EU responds by proposing a different date, the PM will have two days to accept that proposal. But during this two-day period, MPs - not the government - will have the opportunity to reject the EU's date.\n\nThe bill also contains a list of provisions that write into law requirements for ministers to report to the House of Commons over the next few months.\n\nNot only would this provide MPs with updates, but could potentially provide more opportunities to take control of the timetable.\n\nBe aware though, this could all change over the next few days because MPs and Lords have the power to pass amendments to any law.\n\nProcedure in the Lords means it could provide the biggest hurdle to the bill's sponsors because it could be possible for those against the legislation to filibuster - talk and talk until there is no time left to get it through.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Former Labour MP Luciana Berger has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying the party is \"unequivocal in wanting to stop Brexit\" Image caption: Former Labour MP Luciana Berger has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying the party is \"unequivocal in wanting to stop Brexit\"\n\nIt's been another busy day in British politics.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Thursday afternoon that he would \"rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask the EU to delay Brexit beyond 31 October.\n\nBut lawyers representing businesswoman Gina Miller have said decision to suspend parliament is an unlawful abuse of power.\n\nIn the latest blow to hit the new Prime Minister, his brother Jo announced he is resigning as an MP and minister, saying he is \"torn between family loyalty and the national interest\".\n\nMeanwhile, as the prospect of an early General Election looms, nearly 200,000 people have applied to register to vote in just 72 hours - and more than half of them are under 35.\n\nMPs will get another chance to vote for an early election on Monday, the government has announced.\n\nAnd former Labour MP Luciana Berger has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying the party is \"unequivocal in wanting to stop Brexit\".\n\nThat's the end of our live page coverage today.", "Men's Ashes: England v Australia, fourth Specsavers Test (day two of five)\n\nSteve Smith's relentless double century demoralised England and put Australia in prime position to retain the Ashes after two days of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.\n\nSmith remorselessly worked his way to 211 - taking advantage of being dropped by Jofra Archer on 65 and dismissed off a Jack Leach no-ball on 118 - to lead the tourists to 497-8 declared.\n\nHis third century of the series took his tally of runs to 589 runs at an average of 147.25, all despite having missed the third Test because of concussion.\n\nEven with the brilliance of Smith, England may have had the chance to chip away at the other end had Australia captain Tim Paine not been dropped twice in his 58.\n\nInstead, their tired attack was flogged by Mitchell Starc's 54 not out as the tourists, who at various points could have been 246-6 or 273-6, surged towards a declaration.\n\nEngland were given a difficult 10 overs to bat and lost Joe Denly to Matthew Wade's superb reaction catch at short leg to close on 23-1. Rory Burns has 15 and nightwatchman Craig Overton three.\n\nAll is not lost for the home side - the placid pitch should provide no obstacles as they bid to bat well into Saturday in order to get close to the Australia total.\n\nHowever, because Australia have such a large score on the board, any sort of England collapse could see the Ashes secured with a Test to spare.\n• None 'The warm glow from Headingley turned into a chill wind'\n\nIn the same way that all of England's plans for Smith have been exhausted - he also racked up 687 runs in the 2017-18 Ashes series down under - so too are there no more superlatives for unquenchable desire to bat for hours on end.\n\nIn just four innings he has become the leading run-scorer in Test cricket this year, a remarkable achievement considering he did not play a five-day match until 1 August because of his ban for the ball-tampering scandal.\n\nIf there was any question that he would be rattled by the blow from Archer that concussed him at Lord's, Smith answered with another peerless display of patience, sound judgement and an ability to hit the ball in areas where only he is capable.\n\nYes, he had the fortune of the reprieves, but he capitalised to flatten both the home side and the Old Trafford crowd, the latter mercifully allowed to watch in more pleasant conditions after the rain and cold of Wednesday.\n\nThroughout the World Cup and the first two Tests, Smith was booed at every opportunity - when he walked out to the middle, reached a milestone, even when he came back out to bat after being hit by Archer.\n\nThis time, when he was finally dismissed, Old Trafford gave him a standing ovation, recognition that we are witnessing an Ashes performance for the ages.\n\nIf England had the excuse of the elements for their below-par performance on day one, there was no hiding from their ragged and wasteful display on Thursday.\n\nArcher has been lacklustre with the ball throughout - he returned 0-97 from 27 overs - and it was he who gave Smith his first life, getting both hands to the ball in his follow-through after the former captain drove a low full toss back to the bowler.\n\nPaine was reprieved from simpler chances - Jason Roy put down an edge at second slip when he was on nine, while a diving substitute fielder Sam Curran failed to cling on to a miscued pull at mid-on on 49.\n\nBut the most galling was the Leach no-ball, discovered after Smith edged a beautiful delivery to slip. Leach at least continued to bowl tidily, but Smith added a further 93 runs.\n\nEngland's misery was compounded by Headingley hero Ben Stokes leaving the field mid-over with a shoulder niggle. After Stokes returned - he did not bowl again - wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow needed treatment on his right thumb.\n\nDespite captain Joe Root's attempts to rally his side, their frustration and dejection was palpable until Australia's declaration gave them the opportunity to drag themselves off.\n\nAt 170-3 at the start of the day, 183-4 when Travis Head played around a straight one to give Stuart Broad his third wicket and 224-5 at the point Wade inexplicably skied Leach, Australia were far from in charge.\n\nThat was changed by the stand of 145 between Smith and Paine, the captain making his first Test half-century for almost a year.\n\nSmith was Smith. If the ball was not being left with comical flamboyance, it was tucked into the leg side or driven beautifully through the covers and down the ground.\n\nThere were times when he was troubled by Leach, or when England tried to test his patience, but Smith outlasted them. Only when the declaration became apparent did he open his shoulders, lofting two sixes before reverse-sweeping Root's spin to short third man.\n\nBy that point, Starc was climbing into the bowling, hitting Broad for four successive fours, then slapping Root and Archer for a six apiece.\n\nWhen Denly was brilliantly caught at short leg off Pat Cummins by Wade, who dived to hold a rebound off his own body, it epitomised Australia's superb day.\n\n'Smith is the greatest artist I have seen' - what they said\n\nAustralia batsman Steve Smith on BBC Test Match Special: \"I went through a period where I lost concentration for 20-odd minutes, gave a chance, got caught off a no-ball and tried to hit one for six that landed safely.\n\n\"After that I switched myself back on and it was a bit of a wake-up call for me. You always need a bit of luck and I got that today.\"\n\nEngland wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow: \"He is good, isn't he? He is in some serious form. He has had a lay-off and has come back with the bit between his teeth to score as many as he can. To score the runs he has in the series so far is a commendable effort.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"Smith is an artist - the greatest artist I have seen. I love watching him bat.\n\n\"This is a must-win match. England had to arrive with the right mentality but what I have seen is an England side that looks a little dejected. England have three days of real discipline and technical nous ahead. It will test their mentality.\"\n\nCricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"Smith is a run machine. You can't say he is pretty to watch. He is exhausting to watch.\n\n\"It is going to be a huge day tomorrow. England have got to bat well or they will lose.\"\n• None Despite not playing until August this year, Smith is the highest run-scorer in Tests in 2019 with 589 from four innings\n• None Smith has scored three Ashes double centuries, second only to Donald Bradman\n• None Since making his maiden Test century, Smith averages 110.28 in the first innings of Tests\n• None Since The Oval in 2015, Smith has scored 1,419 runs - including seven hundreds and three fifties - at an average of 141.9\n• None Smith averages 174.33 since returning from his ball-tampering ban; David Warner averages 11.29\n• None Smith has been out only twice playing a reverse sweep - Joe Root was the bowler on both occasions\n• None Smith and Tim Paine's partnership of 145 is the biggest of the series", "The millipede-like animal dragged itself along the sea floor half a billion years ago\n\nA millipede-like creature from 550 million years ago is among the earliest examples of an animal showing complex behaviour.\n\nLong before the dinosaurs walked the Earth, the four-inch long creature dragged its body along a muddy sea floor and became fossilised.\n\nThe animal died right next to its trail, giving scientists the rare opportunity to link it to the track it made.\n\nThe fossil was found in eastern China.\n\nIt's among the earliest examples of continuous, directed movement by animals. Researchers say the specimen may hint that a form of complex behaviour had already evolved in these earliest animals half a billion years ago.\n\nThe animal appears in rocks that belong to a slice of geological time known as the Ediacaran. This period is known for the appearance of very early multicellular life forms.\n\n\"It's the continuous trails that are most abundant in the Ediacaran rocks. A lot of times they're not preserved with the animal that made them,\" co-author Prof Shuhai Xiao, from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, US, told BBC News.\n\n\"So it's almost impossible to say what animals made these continuous trails, unless you have the animals preserved together with the trails.\"\n\nCorresponding \"faces\" of the same fossil - the part and counterpart - showing its segmented body plan\n\nProf Rachel Wood from the University of Edinburgh, who was not involved with the study, called the specimen a \"milestone of complexity\".\n\nShe added: \"It's simply a spectacular fossil. It's spectacular because of its age. It's Pre-Cambrian - it's of an age that we now call Ediacaran.\n\n\"But what's particularly noteworthy about it is that it's combining a trace - the movement of an animal across the ancient sea floor - with the actual animal that did it. Without any doubt we can assign the trace to the trace-maker.\"\n\nShe said another thing made the fossil remarkable: \"They show that a type of complex behaviour had evolved before the Cambrian (when multi-cellular life exploded into a wide variety of forms) the ability to move over the sea floor.\"\n\nProf Wood explained that this specimen tied the earlier Ediacaran organisms more closely to those found in the later Cambrian.\n\nThe animal has been named Yilingia spiciformis - which translates to spiky Yiling bug. Yiling is the Chinese city located near the discovery site.\n\nThe four-inch-long (10cm) animal measured about a quarter-inch (0.6cm) to an inch (2.5cm) wide. It dragged its body across the ancient marine mud, but examination of the trail shows that it rested along the way.\n\nThe site near Yiling, eastern China, where the fossil was found\n\n\"Though it's not well-preserved, it has the hint that it has a front and a back... so this animal has already got some sense of unidirectional movement.\" said Prof Wood.\n\n\"The fact that it's segmented tells us that there's some connection between segments and acting out this complex behaviour.\"\n\nSegments are the repetitive units that make up the bodies of arthropods, the large group of animals that includes everything from lobsters to butterflies and millipedes.\n\nHowever, apart from the fact the animal seems to have a defined head and tail, most of its segments \"are fundamentally similar to each other\", said Shuhai Xiao.\n\nThis differs from modern segmented animals where the segments are regionalised, making them rather distinct from one another.\n\n\"It gives us a more complete picture about the transition from simple repetition to advanced segmentation,\" said Prof Xiao.\n\nIn the past, the creatures that lived in the Ediacaran had been extremely difficult to classify. In fact, their position on the tree of life has been one of the greatest mysteries in palaeontology.\n\nYilingia spiciformis fossil (R) along with the track it made (L)\n\nThey were variously classified as lichens, fungi, or an intermediate stage between plants and animals.\n\nBut last year, scientists discovered some Ediacaran fossils retained traces of the molecule cholesterol - a hallmark of animal life.\n\n\"Just 20 years ago, some of us still thought the Ediacaran fossils were unrelated to animals. There was a hypothesis called the 'Ediacaran garden', but I think what we're seeing now is an 'Ediacaran zoo',\" said Shuhai Xiao.\n\n\"The challenge is now to place these in a family tree of animals.\"\n\nAs for what type of animal the Ediacaran fossil represented, Prof Wood said: \"It's very difficult to know what this animal was. The authors of the paper suggest it might be related to worms, or to arthropods - the group that includes crabs and lobsters and insects today.\n\n\"But it's almost certainly a primitive representative of one of these two groups - even a precursor to both of these groups before they diverged. So it's rather hazy as to exactly what type of animal this is. But there's no doubt it's a bilaterian - an animal with bilateral symmetry, which is quite unlike more basal invertebrates, things like sponges and corals.\"", "Men's Ashes: England v Australia, fourth Specsavers Test (day one of five)\n\nSteve Smith once again had the measure of England's bowlers on his return to the Australia side on a rain-shortened first day in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.\n\nSmith, who missed the third Test with concussion, notched up a record-extending eighth successive Ashes half-century to end the day 60 not out and take the tourists to 170-3.\n\nAustralia had been reduced to 28-2 after winning the toss, only for Smith to add 116 with Marnus Labuschagne, whose 67 was his fourth consecutive score in excess of 50.\n\nAfter the euphoria of England's extraordinary one-wicket win at Headingley which levelled the series at 1-1, this was a subdued occasion, thanks mainly to the bitter cold, blustery winds and persistent showers.\n\nBar Stuart Broad's burst with the new ball, the home attack struggled to offer a sustained threat, matching the mood of a crowd which could not raise the atmosphere above the elements.\n\nThe players were not seen for three hours after they went off for lunch and, even though they managed to play through some rain, it got too heavy to prevent any further action after a late tea was taken at 17:30 BST.\n\nStill, even though only 44 overs were possible, Smith took Australia to a good position on a pitch that looks ideal for batting now, but may be difficult when England come to bat last.\n\nAn Australia victory would see them retain the Ashes with a Test to spare.\n• None 'Smith undermines England's bowling foundations like an army of termites'\n• None Talk of momentum from Headingley is nonsense - Vaughan\n\nA September Test in Manchester always seemed susceptible to the elements and, sure enough, this was a day when spectators shivered, players pulled on big sweaters and rain was never far away.\n\nThe gusts had debris constantly drifting across the field from the huge temporary stand and, at one stage, the bails were blown from their grooves with such regularity that the umpires simply did without.\n\nIf only Smith was as easy to blow over. It took a vicious Jofra Archer bouncer to fell him in the second Test at Lord's and subsequently rule the former captain out of the drama at Headingley.\n\nHere he returned and slipped straight back into the focus, judgement and idiosyncrasies that brought him scores of 144, 142 and 92 in his three previous innings in the series.\n\nSmith and Labuschagne formed a master-and-apprentice partnership, the two Australia players that England have not been able to control batting together for the first time this summer.\n\nAlready, it looks like how long Smith spends at the crease on Friday will go a long way to deciding the match, albeit with more rain forecast over the next two days.\n\nAfter confirming that Mitchell Starc had replaced fellow pace bowler James Pattinson in his team, Australia captain Tim Paine took the opportunity to bat first on a slow, dry surface.\n\nWhen Broad had David Warner caught behind for a duck in the first over - the fifth time he has dismissed the opener in the series - and followed that by trapping Marcus Harris lbw, it looked like England would ride the momentum of Headingley.\n\nThey were denied by Smith and Labuschagne, who eased effortlessly into the methods that have brought them so much success.\n\nLabuschagne looked to score off the front foot from the pace bowlers and cut when spinner Jack Leach dropped short.\n\nSmith nudged and nurdled into the leg side and played handsome drives, including an incredible one through the covers off Stokes while on his knees.\n\nIt took a beautiful nip-backer from Craig Overton to bowl Labuschagne, with Travis Head surviving a Stokes review for lbw to accompany Smith to what proved to be the close.\n\nBroad bowled beautifully early on, swinging the new ball away from the left-handers and occasionally getting it to nip back off the seam.\n\nHowever, after that, the England bowlers were collectively below par, even if they can perhaps be slightly excused given the difficult conditions they were having to battle.\n\nThere were times when the fielders were left frustrated at the problems caused by the wind, with the bail issues and constant litter causing the Australia batsmen to delay proceedings.\n\nStill, when the sun was out and the wind calm, Archer was down on pace, failing to fulfil the anticipation of his battle with Smith, one which brought a huge roar from the crowd when the two locked horns for the first time.\n\nLeach began by bowling too short and both Stokes and Overton went at more than four runs an over. Under the floodlights, one was left wondering what the full length and movement of the omitted Chris Woakes may have achieved.\n\nOverton at least produced the ball that got Labuschagne and Stokes bowled a fiery spell at the end of the day, but they were rare moments of penetration.\n\n'Australia have nullified Headingley' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"What today proved to me is that all the talk of momentum between games is absolute nonsense. What Australia have done today is nullify Headingley.\n\n\"Against both batting units, if you can be consistent outside that off stump, things can happen. I wonder whether England will realise that they've potentially missed a big opportunity today.\"\n\nEngland bowler Craig Overton: \"It was quite a frustrating day with the wind but it was nice to get the wicket. It's tough in these conditions.\n\n\"Steve Smith is the big one that we want to get. We'll come back with a positive attitude and try and get him early.\"\n\nAustralia batsman Marnus Labuschagne: \"To have a loss like that [at Headingley] which was in our grasp was disappointing but the way went about the game today we are here and in the contest. We are really keen to secure the Ashes.\"\n\nEx-Australia bowler Glenn McGrath: \"I don't think England bowled as well as they would have hoped. These conditions, going on and off, are always more difficult for the fielding side. I didn't see too many demons in this pitch.\"\n\nInjured England pace bowler Mark Wood: \"On a day like this, it's hard to get that intensity right up. It feel like a miserable day altogether. It was a bitty day.\"", "The prime minister said a bill that calls for a delay to Brexit makes it impossible to govern.", "Laing appeared at the Strictly launch at the end of August\n\nMade In Chelsea star Jamie Laing has pulled out of this year's Strictly Come Dancing after injuring his foot while recording the launch show.\n\nHe will be seen in the pre-recorded launch episode on BBC One on Saturday, but won't play any further part.\n\n\"I'm absolutely devastated that I'm unable to continue in the competition,\" the 30-year-old said. \"I was so excited to hit the dance floor.\"\n\nAt the weekend, he was seen on crutches and with a protective boot on his foot.\n\nNo details have been released about whether he will be replaced in the line-up.\n\n\"I would like to wish the lovely couples all the very best and hope they enjoy their time on the show to the fullest,\" he added.\n\nExecutive producer Sarah James said: \"We are so sad that Jamie won't be able to take part in the series, he had already lit up the ballroom during the launch show with his boundless energy and enthusiasm. We all wish him a full and speedy recovery.\"\n\nKevin Clifton, who lifted the glitterball trophy last year with Stacey Dooley, sent a message of sympathy on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kevin Clifton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian Chris Ramsey, a contestant on this year's show, said he was \"gutted\" 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. Skip twitter post 2 by Chris Ramsey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 footballer Alex Scott, another of this year's hopefuls, wished Laing a quick recovery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Alex Scott MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWithdrawals from Strictly have been very rare over its 17 series to date, with just a handful leaving the ballroom bonanza without being voted off:\n\nOxford-born Laing has been one of the stars of Channel 4's structured reality show Made In Chelsea since 2011. He also co-hosts the Private Parts podcast and appeared in the first series of Celebrity Hunted in 2017.\n\nThis year's Strictly line-up also includes TV star Anneka Rice, Olympic rower James Cracknell, former footballer David James, sports presenter Mike Bushell and ex-Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Johnson: \"It's time to move on\"\n\nJo Johnson, the younger brother of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is resigning as an MP and minister, saying he is \"torn between family loyalty and the national interest\".\n\nThe business minister and Tory MP for Orpington, south-east London, cited an \"unresolvable tension\" in his role.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was \"unbelievable timing\".\n\nMr Johnson voted Remain in the 2016 EU membership referendum, while his brother co-led the Leave campaign.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation follows the removal of the Tory whip from 21 MPs this week for supporting moves to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOur political editor tweeted that Mr Johnson was \"understood to be upset about the purge of colleagues\" and that the brothers were \"in very different places\" on Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at an event in West Yorkshire, Boris Johnson called his brother a \"fantastic guy\" and a \"brilliant minister\".\n\nBut he added that he had a \"different approach to me about the European Union\".\n\nJo Johnson resigned as a minister last year in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal with the EU. But he re-entered government during the summer, after Conservative Party members elected his brother as leader.\n\nJo Johnson's resignation also comes as the government announced it would give MPs another chance to vote for an early election on Monday.\n\nThe fresh vote on an early election is scheduled just before Parliament is due to be prorogued - or suspended - from next week until 14 October.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Downing Street spokesman said: \"The PM, as both a politician and brother, understands this will not have been an easy matter for Jo. The constituents of Orpington could not have asked for a better representative.\"\n\nFormer cabinet minister David Gauke, one of the MPs who lost the Conservative whip, tweeted: \"Lots of MPs have had to wrestle with conflicting loyalties in recent weeks. None more so than Jo. This is a big loss to Parliament, the government and the Conservative Party.\"\n\nDowning Street said Jo Johnson (right) had been a \"brilliant\" minister\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: \"Boris Johnson poses such a threat that even his own brother doesn't trust him.\"\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the resignation showed the \"centre of gravity in the Conservative party is shifting rapidly\".\n\nBut, in a tweet, Rachel Johnson, the Remain-supporting sister of Boris and Jo Johnson, said \"the family avoids the topic of Brexit, especially at meals, as we don't want to gang up on the PM\".\n\nJo Johnson appeared at several of his brother's campaign events during the Conservative Party leadership contest.\n\nIn 2013, Boris Johnson predicted Jo Johnson was himself \"very likely\" to become prime minister, telling The Australian newspaper: \"He'd be brilliant.\"\n\nAt the last general election, Jo Johnson held the Orpington seat by a 19,461 majority.\n\nHe is expected to stand down at the next general election, rather than leaving Parliament immediately and prompting a by-election.\n\nNorthern Ireland Minister Nick Hurd also announced that he would not stand as an MP in the next election.\n\nHe said politics had become \"dominated by the ongoing division over Brexit\". He also said his life had been \"changed profoundly by the birth of my two youngest children\".", "The secondary ticketing website Viagogo has improved how it communicates with customers, prompting the Competition and Markets Authority to suspend plans for legal action.\n\nThe competition watchdog said its concerns over how Viagogo presented information had been addressed.\n\nThe website was now \"worlds apart\" from the one that prompted the legal action, the CMA's chief executive said.\n\nHowever, he said it had taken Viagogo far too long to make the changes.\n\n\"Key information needed to make informed decisions before buying a ticket is now much clearer, including on where you'll sit in a venue and whether you might be turned away at the door,\" said Andrea Coscelli.\n\n\"What is clearly not acceptable is the time it's taken to get to this stage.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Viagogo said the company was \"pleased\" it had been able to work with the CMA \"to find solutions to the final few areas of discussion\".\n\n\"This has been a complex and detailed process, and open dialogue with the market authority has been essential.\n\n\"We are grateful to the CMA for their engagement over the past few months and the ability of both parties to work collaboratively to reach this point.\"\n\nViagogo, like rival ticket reselling operator, Stubhub, offers customers the chance to resell tickets for concerts, theatre, sporting, and other events that they have already purchased via an app.\n\nBut the arrival of such sites was blamed for hugely inflating costs for ordinary fans, with ticket touts buying up large numbers of tickets for resale on the secondary market.\n\nLast year, the CMA asked operators to improve the information provided about things like whether there is a risk the buyer will be turned away at the door, which ticket they are getting, and the availability and popularity of tickets.\n\nTwo other rival sites, GetMeIn and Seatwave, subsequently closed down.\n\nEarlier this year, Viagogo was told it would face legal action because it had failed to comply adequately with the CMA's instructions.\n\nHowever, the CMA said as a result of improvements to the Viagogo website since then the watchdog had now suspended its preparations for court action. But it said it had not ruled out future action if the problems recurred or if other issues were identified.\n\nThe CMA said it would keep up its pressure on Viagogo to ensure that it complied with UK consumer protection law.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I curled up in fear' - Leanne Truesdale was six when her babysitter started to abuse her\n\nWhen Leanne Truesdale was a little girl, she used to sit in her living room, dreading the sight of her babysitter coming up the garden path.\n\nAged about six, Leanne was sexually abused by George Oliver at her home in Newtownards, County Down, for the first time but she didn't understand what had happened.\n\n\"He said he wasn't going to hurt me and I remember just lying there, frozen,\" Leanne, now 37, told BBC News NI.\n\nLeanne Truesdale as flower girl, at about the time the abuse started\n\n\"I didn't know whether it was right or wrong.\n\n\"I had a fear but I didn't understand what it was. When you're a wee girl of that age and something like that happens, you don't know what is happening to you - why should you?\n\n\"He said that if I told anyone, my mum and dad weren't going to come home, something bad was going to happen to them and nobody would believe me.\"\n\nGeorge Oliver was a family friend and regularly looked after Leanne\n\nTwenty years on and still trying to process what had happened, Leanne became an alcoholic and twice tried to kill herself.\n\n\"I was drinking myself into an early grave - I didn't want to live any more,\" she said.\n\n\"I was self-medicating but it got to the point that alcohol wasn't even working for me and I started to lose people in my life.\n\n\"Then I got help and was asked in an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting why I drank and it was like a light bulb moment. It was George, my babysitter.\"\n\nAfter getting herself sober in 2015, Leanne plucked up the courage to speak to police about the abuse.\n\nShe had seen her attacker at a bus stop and it brought her childhood trauma right back.\n\nLeanne Truesdale said her family situation was \"dysfunctional\" and her babysitter gave her attention\n\n\"All my life I've been in self-destruct mode because of the way George groomed me,\" said the mother-of-one.\n\n\"As a child, my family was quite dysfunctional and George made feel like I was getting attention.\n\n\"I didn't really expect the police or anyone to care or believe me.\"\n\nLast month, William George Oliver, now 68, of Dicksonia Drive in Newtownards, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting Leanne but denied three other similar charges, which were left on the books.\n\nHe received a 14-month sentence, suspended for three years.\n\n\"I can't even describe the feeling... when he pleaded guilty,\" she said.\n\n\"But the funny thing was that when he was stood there in the dock, looking old and really ill, I felt sorry for him.\"\n\nLeanne says the abuse has affected relationships and her self-esteem\n\nLeanne added: \"People have told me that I'm brave for speaking out but it doesn't feel like that to me. I just want people to know that they don't have to suffer in silence.\n\n\"My uncle said to me: 'You could have been lying in the graveyard and nobody would have known anything about what happened in your life,' and I think about that quite a lot.\n\n\"You have to face your fears and speak up - you can't have something as heavy as that hanging over you for the rest of your life. It's only going to drag you down even further.\n\n\"I always had this feeling that I was dirty and I still ask: 'Why did it happen?' but I'll never get the answer.\n\n\"Some of my family still don't want to talk about it but my auntie, uncle and dad have been amazing. These last few years, they have supported me when, at times, I thought I wasn't worthy of it.\n\n\"Even trying to tell my story now, I still feel like I'm not important enough for people to listen to me.\"\n\nWhile Leanne knows there is a long road ahead, she says she has got some closure.\n\nShe finally feels like people believe her and that the abuse was not her fault.\n\n\"I still get days and weeks where I'm brought right back,\" she said.\n\n\"Say, for example, somebody mentions child abuse or I see someone who looks a little bit like George, it triggers me.\n\n\"That sends me into a downward spiral where I find it very difficult to even do simple tasks, like making my daughter dinner.\n\n\"I struggle with being a mum during those times and it's something that I'm working really hard on but it's really hard sometimes. I just want to protect her and do the best for her.\n\n\"Physical wounds can heal but the emotional damage that something like that does to a person has been an eye-opener to me.\n\n\"Since I stopped drinking, I've found out so much about myself and realised how much it has impacted my life.\n• None 'I curled up in fear' - abused aged six by babysitter. Video, 00:01:23'I curled up in fear' - abused aged six by babysitter", "The BBC has obtained pictures from inside the Grace 1, which was seized in July.\n\nThe ship was raided by Royal Marines off the coast of the British overseas territory, triggering a standoff with Tehran.\n\nJudges in Gibraltar are expected to decide within days whether to extend the detention of the supertanker. and on Tuesday Iran suggested a resolution may come soon.", "\"There's just no way everyone's going to get out,\" says a woman fleeing Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, adding that people are trying to shoot each other for supplies.", "The wreckage of the plane was discovered after a long search of the sea floor\n\nMagistrates in France have dropped charges against Air France and Airbus over a mid-Atlantic plane crash in 2009 that killed all 228 people on board.\n\nThe Airbus A330 aircraft flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris stalled in a storm and plunged into the ocean.\n\nOn Thursday, the magistrates looking into manslaughter charges brought by victims' relatives decided that there were not enough grounds to prosecute.\n\nThey blamed the plane's crew for losing control after speed sensors froze.\n\nThe main association of victims' families called the magistrate's decision an \"insult to the memory of the victims\" and announced plans to appeal, AFP news agency reports.\n\nIn 2012, a civil investigation found a combination of technical failure and human error had led to the loss of Flight AF447 on 1 June 2009.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2012 investigator-in-charge Alain Bouillard told reporters: ''The crew had almost lost complete control of the situation''\n\nThe report by the French aviation authority highlighted faults with the Airbus 330's air-speed sensors which confused the pilots.\n\nBut it also pointed to inappropriate action by the pilots.\n\nOne of the mistakes of the crew was to point the nose of the aircraft upwards after it stalled, instead of down.\n\nThe accident is the worst disaster in the history of Air France.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane was discovered after a long search of 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles) of sea floor.\n\nSince the crash, Air France has replaced the speed sensors on its fleet of Airbus jets with a newer model.", "Graham said his daughter's trousers were just centimetres above her shoe\n\nA father has said his daughter was left \"angry and humiliated\" after she was taken out of class because her trousers were \"too short\".\n\nThe year 11 pupil at George Spencer Academy, in Nottinghamshire, was excluded from class on Tuesday.\n\nHer father Graham said being placed in another room with 15 other pupils had upset his daughter.\n\nThe school, in Stapleford, said it had changed its uniform policy and expected trousers to touch the top of shoes.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The academy has updated its uniform policy to bring it in line with other schools. We don't make exceptions for any pupils.\"\n\nThe girl's father said his daughter had worn the same trousers last year and believed the new policy was too harsh.\n\n\"They were a plain, simple pair of black Marks & Spencer school trousers,\" he told the BBC. \"They weren't fashion. They weren't ankle grabbers.\n\n\"I think she had just slightly outgrown the trousers and they were just a little bit off the top of the shoe. That was enough for her to be singled out and put in isolation for the entirety of Tuesday.\"\n\nThe George Spencer Academy said trousers had to touch the top of the shoe\n\nHe added: \"I accept rules should be abided by, but the sanctions and punishment have to be appropriate.\n\n\"The blame shouldn't be on the child, it should be with the parents, so why punish the child?\"\n\nThe academy said its new uniform policy states trousers should be a plain style and cover ankles and socks.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the school would be happy to discuss the matter further with the girl's father.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Avi Maharaj was jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to fraud\n\nA police officer who bought pornography at the family home of a dead child has been jailed for 12 months.\n\nMet PC Avi Maharaj was asked to guard the house on 11 February 2018 while the family was \"being consoled elsewhere\" after their 14-year-old son had taken his own life.\n\nMaharaj guessed the password to the household Virgin Media account and downloaded four pornographic films.\n\nHe was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nMaharaj, 44, of Kingswood Place, Hayes, had previously pleaded guilty to fraud.\n\nThe family had initially thought their son had downloaded the clips before realising Maharaj was responsible.\n\nSentencing, Judge Deborah Taylor told him that while the parents of the boy were grieving elsewhere he had responsibility to guard the house.\n\n\"Instead of performing that duty with respect and professionalism, you took it upon yourself to guess the password to the household Virgin Media account, to act as if you were the account holder, and use it to purchase, download and view four pornography films.\"\n\nThe judge added the family were \"vulnerable, traumatised by the loss of their son, and trusted you to guard their house\" and his actions had led to a \"false understanding of their son's last hours\".\n\n\"All right-thinking people would be appalled by your gross lack of decency and respect in indulging yourself at all in those circumstances, let alone deviously, and at the expense of the bereaved parents.\"\n\nPc Maharaj was supposed to be waiting for the undertaker to take the body away when he downloaded pornography worth £25.96.\n\nHe then falsified his attendance logs, claiming he left the property in Littleton Street almost two hours earlier than he really did as part of a bid to cover up his actions, the court heard.\n\nIn a letter, the boy's father, Graham Miller, said Maharaj's actions had initially \"upset\" his image of his son, adding it \"made me feel like I didn't know my own son\".\n\nThe boy's father only realised his son was not responsible for the downloads when he contacted Virgin Media and was told what time the clips were downloaded.\n\nMaharaj, who was based in Earlsfield, Wandsworth, initially denied the allegations when interviewed by police, the court heard.\n\n\"He provided officers with a prepared statement in which he denied the allegation and questioned security of the premises,\" Prosecutor Gregor McKinley said.\n\nEdmund Gritt, representing Maharaj, said the defendant \"expressed his wholly ashamed apologies to the Miller family\".\n\nAvi Maharaj pleaded guilty to fraud at Westminster Magistrates' Court in July\n\nMr Gritt told the court that Maharaj's guilty plea would \"terminate\" his police career \"forever\".\n\nHe added it was \"inevitable\" he would be dismissed.\n\nThe Met officer's conviction follows a complaint from a member of the child's family, which led to an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nThe IOPC's regional director Sal Naseem described PC Maharaj's behaviour as \"shocking\" and \"deceitful\", adding that he \"caused considerable distress for the family involved who were dealing with the sudden death of a family member\".\n\nThe Met said there would be a special case hearing on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people who died as a result of road collisions involving police has reached the highest number for at least 10 years.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct says there were 42 such deaths in 2018/19 across England and Wales, 13 more than the year before.\n\nThirty of the deaths were from police pursuit-related incidents and five came from emergency response incidents.\n\nThe IOPC said it was \"critical\" to see if lessons could be learnt by police.\n\nIt added: \"These deaths have a tragic and lifelong impact on the family and friends of those who have died, and the police officers who are involved.\"\n\nOf the 30 pursuit-related fatalities, 20 were the driver or passenger in the pursued vehicle.\n\nA further 10 were in an unrelated vehicle or were a pedestrian hit by the car being pursued.\n\nOther figures showed there were 16 deaths in or following police custody, a reduction of seven from a 10-year high in 2017/18 though no one died within a police custody suite.\n\nSix people died in hospital after becoming unwell in a police cell, and six people were taken ill at the scene of arrest and died in hospital.\n\nThere were three fatal police shootings, compared to four fatalities last year.", "Ms Sturgeon was speaking at first minister's questions at Holyrood\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she would relish a general election and predicted the SNP would again \"beat the Tories\".\n\nThe first minister said her party would pledge to oppose Brexit and for \"Scotland having the right to choose our own future\".\n\nBut Scottish Conservative interim leader Jackson Carlaw said voting SNP would be a vote for \"more division\".\n\nThe SNP joined other opposition parties at Westminster on Wednesday to prevent the PM holding an early election.\n\nThey are concerned that Boris Johnson would not stick to his pledge to have the vote on 15 October, and would instead wait until after the UK leaves the EU on 31 October - potentially without a deal.\n\nMSPs at Holyrood voted to reject the idea of a no-deal exit on Thursday afternoon, with only the Conservatives opposing the symbolic motion.\n\nThe SNP, Labour, Liberal Democrats and other opposition MPs say they will not back an election while the option of a no-deal Brexit remains open to the prime minister.\n\nA bill aimed at preventing no-deal was approved by the Commons on Wednesday, and is expected to complete its passage through the Lords on Friday.\n\nThe bill gives the Conservative government until 19 October to either pass a deal in Parliament or get MPs to approve a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAfter that Mr Johnson will have to request an extension to the UK's departure date to 31 January 2020.\n\nMr Johnson has accused his opponents of wanting to \"surrender\"\n\nThe prime minister has described the legislation as a \"surrender bill\" that would pave the way for more \"dither and delay\", and says a snap general election was now the only way for the issue to be resolved.\n\nSpeaking at First Minister's Questions, Mr Carlaw claimed that Ms Sturgeon did not want the UK to negotiate a Brexit deal with the EU, and instead was aiming to \"weaken the UK's hand in those talks\".\n\nHe said: \"Perhaps there is one thing we can agree on here - that it may now require a general election to sort this out.\"\n\nMr Carlaw, who became interim Scottish Conservative leader when Ruth Davidson quit last month, went on to say that Ms Sturgeon has \"never seen a referendum result she doesn't want to overturn\".\n\nHe told Holyrood his party would use an election to stand up for Scotland's decision to remain in the UK, and also the UK's decision to leave the EU, so that \"this country can move on\".\n\nAnd he added: \"If you want more years of division, vote for Nicola Sturgeon. If you want to get back to the things that matter - schools, jobs, police, the people's business - vote for us.\n\n\"That is the clear choice that Scotland now faces\".\n\nJackson Carlaw became interim leader of the Scottish Conservatives when Ruth Davidson quit last month\n\nMs Sturgeon responded by saying neither Ms Davidson nor the prime minister's own brother Jo Johnson, who quit as a Tory MP, could \"stomach the direction that Boris Johnson is taking this country in\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"I really relish the prospect of a general election. The SNP will beat the Tories in a general election, just as we have done in the past number of elections.\n\n\"Unashamedly and unapologetically in that election, the message from the SNP will be clear.\n\n\"We stand up for Scotland's opposition to Brexit, and we stand up for Scotland having the right to choose our own future - not having a future imposed on us by Boris Johnson.\"\n\nElection expert Prof Sir John Curtice told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme earlier this week that the SNP could be on course to win more than 50 of Scotland's 59 seats in an election.\n\nHe was responding to the publication of a YouGov poll in the Times, which suggested the SNP would win 43% of the votes in Scotland, with the Conservatives on 20%, Labour on 15%, the Liberal Democrats on 12% and the Brexit Party and the Greens on 6% and 4% respectively.\n\nProf Sir John said the poll suggested the Conservatives could lose as many as 10 of the 13 Scottish seats they won at the last general election in 2017.\n\nHe added: \"This suggests that an early general election would be a gift wrapped by Boris Johnson to Nicola Sturgeon as far as Scotland is concerned.\"\n\nAlso on Thursday, MSPs voted by 87 to 28 for a motion saying the UK \"should in no circumstances leave the EU on a no-deal basis\".\n\nSNP, Labour, Green and Lib Dem members argued that such an exit would be a \"disaster\" and spell \"chaos\", and \"must not be allowed to happen\".\n\nThe Scottish Tories alone opposed the motion, although they argued that leaving with a negotiated deal would be \"the best outcome and the best way to deliver on the referendum result\".", "The bill has passed its stages in the House of Commons and now heads to the House of Lords.\n\nMP's approved the bill at third reading by a majority of 28.", "The Bahamas has begun to count the cost of the devastation brought by Hurricane Dorian.\n\nDorian struck the Abaco Islands as a category five hurricane, then pounded Grand Bahama for two days.\n\nThousands of homes were destroyed and at least 20 lives lost, though that toll is expected to rise.\n\nPrime Minister Hubert Minnis said the storm had caused \"generational devastation\".\n\nDorian has headed north and is now threatening the eastern US seaboard.\n\nDorian severely damaged the international airport on the island, hampering rescue efforts.\n\nSome newer homes survived well, while other structures were obliterated.\n\nThe Abacos took the full force of Dorian last weekend. Only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane matched its landfall wind speed of 185mph (298km/h).\n\nThe town of Marsh Harbour was devastated.\n\nEntire communities were flattened on the Abacos, with thousands of people needing shelter and aid.\n\nThe coastal surges have still to recede in many parts.\n\nThere was joy for some families as they were reunited in the capital, Nassau, after evacuations from the Abacos.", "The latest twists in the Westminster Brexit drama are gripping Europe's newspapers.\n\nSome see a frustrating impasse, others a democratic push-back, but several believe UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will emerge the ultimate victor in an election.\n\nMr Johnson's best bet now, the paper suggests, is to campaign for a general election \"by playing the role of a leader restrained by a parliament favourable to the EU and deaf to the 2016 popular vote, which sabotaged his negotiating strategy with Brussels\".\n\nFor Italy's largest-circulation daily, Il Corriere della Sera, \"Boris Johnson is like a cornered boxer\".\n\nIt says the prime minister's strategy has been to force Europe to face the real possibility of a no-deal exit. \"But it's been a kamikaze strategy because Brussels does not appear ready to cede. Great Britain is falling headlong into the abyss,\" the paper says.\n\nItaly's liberal Repubblica compares Mr Johnson's defeats to the fall from power of Italian populist leader Matteo Salvini. \"The good news is that for any leader, no matter how powerful and popular the same rules of moderation, attention and reflection apply, which are essentially democratic values.\"\n\nAccording to the Irish Independent, \"We are moving into the realm of the last chance.\"\n\nIt questions the grasp of reality by MPs on all sides of the argument. \"So often we see how people make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. But the facts of Brexit have been distorted to such a degree that it is small wonder so many are in two minds.\"\n\n\"If Brexit was conceived - as it sometimes seems - purely as an experiment by a cabal of ill-advised politicians to outsmart reality, they have come undone for now. Their zeal for their project took them a long way, but their progress was halted on encountering an equal and opposite force - otherwise known as democracy.\"\n\nExhausted Brits are tuning out in droves, according to Belgium's Le Soir. \"The storm does not seem ready to stop, or the fog to dissipate. In pubs around Westminster, the British are sipping their beer and no longer paying attention to television which broadcasts hours of heated parliamentary debates. Brexit fatigue?\"\n\nTwo very different German papers both believe that Mr Johnson will win a general election, despite yesterday's parliamentary votes.\n\nA headline in centre-right Die Welt says his \"100% error rate does not help his opponents\".\n\nIt adds: \"His prospects for success? Very good... considering an opposition that still does not know which Brexit it wants.\"\n\nFor Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a centre-left daily, it may look as if Mr Johnson has been weakened, \"but should he be successful in his plans, he would have a good chance of winning those elections - which could explain his current confrontational tactics\".\n\nWorse still, they're suffering \"a pathological vertigo in the face of a precipice and a decision that will define the lives of several generations of British people\", the centre-right daily warns.\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.", "UK-based Ryanair pilots have voted for seven further days of strikes as part of a row over pay and conditions.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) said it wanted to settle the dispute, but Ryanair has refused to seek conciliation.\n\nPilots are currently on strike after also walking out from 22-23 August.\n\nRyanair said the strikes were \"pointless\" as the industrial action had not resulted in any flight cancellations.\n\nThe next rounds of strikes will be:\n\nBalpa said its members want the same kind of agreements that exist in other airlines on pensions, loss of licence insurance, maternity benefits, allowances and pay.\n\n\"While this action has considerably disrupted Ryanair, forcing them to engage contractors and bring in foreign crews to run its operation, it has had limited impact on the public's travel plans,\" said Balpa's general secretary Brian Strutton.\n\n\"Ryanair should stop dragging its feet and get back to the negotiating table.\"\n\nRyanair said most of its pilots had flown during the strike action in August and early September.\n\n\"These latest Balpa strikes are pointless given that during five days of Balpa strikes [on] 22,23 August and 2,3,4 September all Ryanair flights to and from UK airports operated as scheduled - with zero cancellations - thanks to the efforts of over 95% of our UK pilots who flew as rostered and did not support these failed Balpa strikes.\n\n\"We again call on Balpa to return to talks as these failed strikes have not achieved anything.\"\n\nIn August Ryanair said job losses were coming following a 21% fall in quarterly profits after higher costs for fuel and staff, and reduced ticket prices.\n\nOn 31 July, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary told staff in a video message the airline has 900 too many pilots and cabin crew members.\n\nHe said the two weakest markets are the UK, where there were Brexit uncertainties, and Germany, where Ryanair faced fierce competition on price.", "Chancellor Sajid Javid has promised increased spending on priority areas of schools, police and health.\n\nSetting a 4 September date for the 12-month spending round - earlier than previously planned - he said there would be no \"blank cheque\" for departments.\n\nMr Javid said he would stick to the current borrowing rules, limiting the scope for extensive spending increases.\n\nThe announcement of the date for the spending review came after the government cancelled what would have been been Mr Javid's first major speech on Wednesday.\n\nMinisterial sources said bringing the review forward was intended to provide certainty ahead of Brexit, which the government has promised will happen on 31 October.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said it also increases speculation that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing the ground for a general election in the autumn - something that Downing Street denies.\n\nMr Johnson would require the support of two-thirds of MPs to call an early election - or one would follow a successful no-confidence vote in the government.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), said Mr Javid should be able to stay within existing borrowing rules as long as growth continues.\n\n\"We're well within that, assuming the economy continues to grow as expected, in a world in which we get a reasonable kind of Brexit,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe added that the chancellor would have to decide whether to spend money in areas that \"sound most popular\", or in areas that have seen lower funding in recent years.\n\n\"The bits of public services that have really suffered much worse than those areas are the justice system, prisons and courts and so on, local government, social care and further education,\" he added.\n\nMr Javid said the government could afford to spend more on its priorities after a decade of cuts.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said: \"Thanks to the hard work of the British people over the last decade, we can afford to spend more on the people's priorities - without breaking the rules around what the government should spend - and we'll do that in a few key areas like schools, hospitals and police.\n\n\"But at the same time, it's vital that we continue to live within our means as a country.\n\n\"Unlike the Labour Party, we don't believe in just throwing money at a problem. And especially at a time when the global economy is slowing, it's important that we don't let our public finances get out of control. \"\n\nHe said the departments for which he was funding increases were \"lifelines of opportunity\", saying that his teachers put him on the path to be chancellor.\n\nBoris Johnson was elected by party members on the back of a list of spending intentions (and tax cuts). That list was sparse on detail, but some say the total cost could be more than £30bn.\n\nHowever, Sajid Javid says there'll be no blank cheque. Instead, this chancellor - who'll have been in the post just six weeks next Wednesday - appears to be using his predecessor Philip Hammond's playbook. That chancellor first told me in April that if a Brexit deal hadn't been struck by the autumn, it'd be sensible to lay out plans for just one year, not the usual three, in case extra funds needed to be used to support the economy in the event of a no-deal.\n\nHis successor is not only doing that, but also sticking to the existing borrowing rules. That means Mr Javid can afford to borrow a bit more to spend. He has about £15bn of such \"headroom\" up to 2021 (down from an earlier £27bn, because of changes in the way student loans are accounted for).\n\nGiven the question marks over the path of Brexit, he probably won't use it all. And it won't be enough to cover the prime minister's wishlist: areas such as defence and culture may not get much of a look in. But there's still enough to spend and he will inevitably claim to be ending austerity - although there's a way to go to reverse all the cuts in real terms of recent years.\n\nSchools are expected to be in line for an extra £4bn of funding in next week's spending review.\n\nMr Javid also paid tribute to police for keeping his family safe when the street he grew up on became a centre for drug dealers, and to the health service for caring for his father in his final days.\n\n\"These aren't just numbers on a spreadsheet. They're the beating heart of our country,\" he said.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"Nobody is fooled into believing that this is a proper and normal spending review.\n\n\"As each spending announcement is dribbled out it is exposed as inadequate and whole areas of spending needs like local councils and addressing child poverty are ignored. This is not serious government.\"\n\nSpending reviews normally happen every two to four years, but due to Brexit delays the last one took place in 2015.\n\nMr Javid said he asked for a 12-month spending round instead of a longer-term review.\n\nSetting out day-to-day departmental budgets for 2020-21 will \"clear the ground ahead of Brexit while delivering on people's priorities\", he said.\n\nMr Javid said: \"The next 65 days will see a relentless focus across Whitehall on preparing to leave the EU.\"", "Ava had Down's syndrome which can make children more susceptible to infections\n\nA series of hospital failings contributed to the death of a five-year-old girl who died from toxic shock syndrome, an inquest jury has found.\n\nAva Macfarlane died on 15 December 2017 after being treated at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre.\n\nPrescribing antibiotics earlier could have \"given her chances of survival\", Nottingham Coroner's Court heard.\n\nReturning a narrative conclusion the jury said there had been \"missed opportunities\" to diagnose sepsis.\n\nAva's family said her death was a \"stark reminder\" of the dangers of sepsis\n\nAva, who had Down's syndrome, was \"critically ill\" when she returned to hospital two days after being discharged from A&E on 13 December, the inquest had heard.\n\nHer mother Lesley Gearing said her daughter had been vomiting, struggling to breathe, had a high temperature and a rash.\n\nThe jury found there were missed opportunities to diagnose Ava on 13 December and said she was \"inappropriately discharged\".\n\nAva's mother Lesley Gearing and her daughter Mia were at the inquest\n\nIt concluded failures on that day \"probably more than contributed to her death\".\n\nThe family should also have had a \"comprehensive brief on sepsis\" in light of her Down's syndrome and risk of infection, it added.\n\nAssistant coroner Laurinda Bower said the case had raised \"significant concerns\" which had led her to call a meeting with the trust's medical director to discuss what was being done to diagnose sepsis.\n\nNottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust apologised for the \"significant shortcomings\" in its care of Ava\n\nAfter the hearing, the family's lawyer Tania Harrison, of Irwin Mitchell, said: \"The pain that Ava's family feel over the loss of Ava is as strong now as it was nearly two years ago.\"\n\nShe added: \"Sadly the inquest has highlighted a number of areas where Ava was let down.\"\n\nDr Keith Girling, medical director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, apologised for the \"significant shortcomings\" in its care.\n\nHe said a number of changes had been made following Ava's death and greater awareness of sepsis, in relation to children with complex medical conditions, had been raised.\n\nThe inquest heard Ava's family should have been given more information during her illness\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A ruthless gang that lured victims from Poland to the UK is believed to have enslaved around 300 vulnerable people.\n\nMembers of the gang lured their victims to the West Midlands with false promises of free travel, accommodation and jobs paying £300 a week, but the people were held captive in squalid conditions, some having to wash in canals and eat from skips.\n\nEight members of the gang who are thought to have made £2m cashing in on the misery of others are now behind bars.\n\nPanorama, The Hunt for Britain's Slave Gangs, Thursday 5 September at 21:00 on BBC One.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacob Rees-Mogg likened Dr Nicholl to Dr Wakefield during a debate in the Commons\n\nA doctor who spoke out against the government's no-deal plans has said Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg is \"bullying whistleblowers\".\n\nDavid Nicholl expressed concern over medical plans for a no-deal Brexit during a radio phone-in this week.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Rees-Mogg told MPs that Dr Nicholl was \"as irresponsible as Dr [Andrew] Wakefield\", who inaccurately linked the MMR vaccine with autism.\n\nThe Conservative MP later apologised to Dr Nicholl for making the comparison.\n\nDr Nicholl, a consultant neurologist with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, shared his concerns about the supply of drugs in the event of a no-deal Brexit in an interview with BBC Newsnight in March.\n\nAnd on Monday he called in to LBC to ask Mr Rees-Mogg what mortality rate he would accept if the UK were to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg said this was \"the worst excess of Project Fear\" and the doctor should be \"quite ashamed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr Rees-Mogg referred to the exchange when challenged about preparations for leaving the EU without a deal.\n\n\"Preparations have been made, they are in place and they have been done with remarkable efficiency, but a lot of remainers wish to make our skins crawl,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm afraid it seems to me that Dr David Nicholl is as irresponsible as Dr Wakefield.\n\n\"What he [Nicholl] had to say - I will repeat it - is as irresponsible as Dr Wakefield.\n\n\"In threatening that people will die because we leave the European Union - what level of irresponsibility was that?\"\n\nIn response, Dr Nicholl said he was \"appalled\" by the comments and visited Westminster to call on the MP to apologise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A neurologist who was involved in planning for a no-deal Brexit calls out Rees-Mogg for \"bullying\" him\n\nHe added that the remarks were \"an attempt by government to bully whistleblowers, and it's not just doctors.\"\n\n\"I challenge him to repeat outside the chamber the allegation that I am comparable to Andrew Wakefield - let's see what happens.\"\n\nAs an MP, Mr Rees-Mogg cannot be sued for any comments he makes during his duties in the House of Commons.\n\nBut on Thursday evening, the MP for North East Somerset, apologised to Dr Nicholl for his comments in the Commons.\n\nIn a statement he said he had \"the utmost respect for all of the country's hardworking medical professionals and the work they do in caring for the people of this country.\"\n\nHe added that the government was \"working closely with the NHS, industry and distributors to help ensure the supply of medicine and medical products remains uninterrupted\" by the UK's withdrawal from the EU.\n\nDr Nicholl came to Newsnight in March with his concerns about the inability to stockpile medicines for conditions such as epilepsy, neuropathic pain and bipolar disorder in the event of no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe was neurology lead for Brexit planning and gave us NHS England documents. He said it was his duty as a doctor to speak up over concerns about patient safety.\n\nA range of health organisations supported him, telling the BBC there needed to be transparency about supplies. Unavailability of certain drugs may affect doctors' decisions about what to prescribe.\n\nHis concerns were later supported by Operation Yellowhammer - the leaked government report describing the possible consequences of leaving without a deal - which said there may be significant disruption to medicines supplies lasting up to six months.\n\nIn response to the row, the Chief Medical Officer for England, Prof Sally Davies, has written to Mr Rees-Mogg to express her \"sincere disappointment in the disrespectful way\" he spoke to and about Dr David Nicholl.\n\nIn the letter, she said that Brexit \"obviously divides opinion\" but that comparing Dr Nicholl to Dr Wakefield is \"going too far and is frankly unacceptable\".\n\nShe thanked Dr Nicholl for his help in planning for no-deal and added that \"there are now full plans in place that we believe, if enacted to plan, should ensure unhindered medical supplies\".\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\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association, said Mr Rees-Mogg's \"unwarranted attack\" was \"utterly disgraceful and totally irresponsible\".\n\n\"Highly experienced doctors like David Nicholl who decide to speak out about risks to life and patient care, should be supported and listened to, not attacked and derided by those who hold positions of responsibility.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth criticised Mr Rees-Mogg's comments, describing them on Twitter as \"offensive, irresponsible garbage\".\n\nHe added: \"His casual belittling of experienced, medical opinion really is shameful and straight out of the Trump playbook.\"\n\nAlistair Burt, who was one of 21 MPs who lost the Tory whip after they rebelled against the party, said: \"The Brexit obsession is giving rise to sheer irrationality.\"\n\nHe added: \"As a former minister fully aware of the worldwide risks to health security from Wakefield's anti-vax consequences, I am distressed such a comparison could come from a government minister in the UK.\"\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Labour MP Luciana Berger has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying the party is \"unequivocal in wanting to stop Brexit\".\n\nShe said leader Jo Swinson had offered \"a vital, positive alternative\" to Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nMs Berger left Labour in protest at the handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nAlong with six other MPs she formed Change UK, but left after disappointing results in the European elections earlier this year.\n\nMs Swinson said she was \"delighted\" to welcome Ms Berger to the Liberal Democrats.\n\n\"We're thrilled to add her perspective, expertise and skills to our ever-growing parliamentary team,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree, said: \"We need to do everything possible to make sure the country, when the election comes, has a proper choice rather than choosing between the two terrible options of Johnson vs Corbyn.\"\n\n\"The two-party system is over,\" she added.\n\nNina Houghton, Labour's constituency chairman in Wavertree, said Ms Berger was \"ignoring the 80% of Wavertree voters who voted Labour\".\n\nShe accused the MP of lacking the \"courage\" to resign and hold a by-election.\n\nMs Berger is the fourth MP in three months to join the Liberal Democrats - who now have 16 MPs in Parliament.\n\nOn Tuesday, Conservative Phillip Lee defected to the party, accusing the government of \"pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways\", putting lives and livelihoods at risk.\n\nEx-Change UK MPs Chuka Umunna and Sarah Wollaston have also joined the party.\n\nMs Berger has been the MP for Liverpool Wavertree since 2010, where she has a majority of 29,466.\n\nAs an MP she held a number of posts, including shadow minister for energy and climate, shadow minister for public health and shadow minister for mental health.\n\nBefore becoming an MP she worked for management consultancy company Accenture and the NHS Confederation, a body representing healthcare organisations.\n\nBefore leaving the Labour Party, she faced the threat of a no-confidence vote from local Labour members for criticising Jeremy Corbyn, but it was withdrawn after individuals in the constituency party were accused of \"bullying\" her.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said any attempts to deselect her had been a result of her association with a breakaway party.\n\nShe attended a protest against anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in Westminster's Parliament Square in March 2018, and has campaigned vigorously on the issue.\n\nThis is not massively surprising. We have seen a steady trickle of those unaligned, lost MPs moving to the Lib Dems.\n\nThe Remainers are beginning to shuffle towards the Lib Dems as the most clear, overt force for Remain.\n\nThere is no doubt that Brexit is now really beginning to play for the party. For everyone who wants to stop Brexit, they are a natural home.\n\nAnd new leader Jo Swinson has injected a bit of energy and colour which frankly Vince Cable was unable to do.\n\nThey've got a bit of mojo and we've seen that in the polls too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is \"very excited\" about starting school, the Duke of Cambridge said as he dropped her off for her first day.\n\nWalking across the playground with both parents and her brother, Princess Charlotte smiled as she met the head of the lower school at Thomas's Battersea.\n\nPrince George has attended the private school in south west London since 2017.\n\nHe began his first day of year two - his final year in the lower school before he moves to the middle school.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released a photograph of Princess Charlotte and Prince George taken outside Kensington Palace before they left for St Thomas's.\n\nPrincess Charlotte photographed outside Kensington Palace with Prince George before her first day of school\n\nAnd as she arrived at the school, Princess Charlotte, four, was photographed by the press meeting head teacher Helen Haslem.\n\nHer uniform includes a navy pleated skirt and cardigan, white socks and black shoes.\n\nThe duchess carried her daughter's backpack, which was decorated with a pink key-ring in the shape of a pony's head. She smiled as she greeted Ms Haslem and asked about her summer holidays.\n\nMs Haslem bent down to shake hands with both George and Charlotte, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nThe duke and duchess accompanied Charlotte to her classroom before saying their goodbyes.\n\nPrince William, who drove the family to the school, said: \"First day - she's very excited.\"\n\nPrince George was also photographed on his first day at Thomas's Battersea, a preparatory school located a few miles from the family residence in Kensington Palace, in September 2017.\n\nHe, too, was greeted by Ms Haslem, after Prince William drove him through the school gates. The Duchess of Cambridge missed the occasion as she was not well enough to take him.\n\nPrince George on his first day of school\n\nThe school has around 560 pupils between the ages of four and 13.\n\nIt charges £6,429 per term for a family's eldest child and £6,305 for their second eldest child throughout reception, year one and year two, according to its website.", "LaShawn Daniels, the US songwriter who co-wrote such hits as Destiny's Child's Grammy-winning Say My Name and Lady Gaga's Telephone, has died aged 41.\n\nDaniels, who was known as Big Shiz, also worked with artists including Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Brandy and Toni Braxton.\n\nHe died in a car crash in South Carolina, his wife April confirmed.\n\nTributes came from the likes of singer Kehlani, who wrote on Twitter that \"your legacy will never be forgotten\".\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, April Daniels wrote: \"It is with deep and profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, family member and friend Lashawn Daniels, who was the victim of a fatal car accident in South Carolina.\n\n\"A Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter, Daniels was a man of extraordinary faith and a pillar in our family. We would like to express our sincere appreciation for the continuous outpouring of love and sympathy.\"\n\nDawn Richard, a former member of the groups Danity Kane and Dirty Money, said he was \"one of the funniest people with the best heart\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DAWN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 won the Grammy Award for best R&B song in 2000 for his part in writing Say My Name, and was nominated a further seven times. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDaniels leaves April, his wife of almost 20 years, and three sons. Daniels and his wife created Cool Couples, a platform designed to offer relationship advice.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The payment protection insurance (PPI) scandal could cost banks £53bn, according to a forecast made as firms warned of mounting bills from claims.\n\nDominic Lindley of New City Agenda made the estimate as CYBG warned of a potential £450m bill for new claims. Shares fell 21% to record lows.\n\nThe owner of Clydesdale, Yorkshire and Virgin Money blamed an \"unprecedented volume\" of complaints sparked by the 29 August deadline for claims.\n\nRoyal Bank of Scotland, owner of NatWest, said on Wednesday it could face a £900m charge, while Co-operative Bank said on Thursday it was assessing its costs.\n\nMr Lindley, who has been keeping a tally at the think tank, said: \"This means that total provisions from the banks could reach £53bn.\"\n\nHe believes the bank with the biggest bill, Lloyds Banking Group, could announce an extra provision of £2bn, while Barclays might set aside as much as £1bn more.\n\nNeither Lloyds nor Barclays was able to comment on the speculation.\n\nThe FCA advert urged customers to make claims before the 29 August deadline\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority set the deadline for PPI claims at 23:59 on 29 August to try to stem the wave of claims.\n\nPolicies were mis-sold to people who were borrowing money, but did not need the cover or would not be able to use it.\n\nPPI was designed to protect borrowers if they had an accident, fell sick or lost their job.\n\nBut in millions of cases, the policyholders did not understand what they were paying for or that they might not be covered.\n\nThe deadline sparked a wave of publicity and fresh claims, according to the industry.\n\nCYBG, which bought Virgin Money last year, said it received more than eight months' worth of requests for information about potential claims in just one month, with approximately 340,000 in aggregate over five weeks,.\n\nSome 120,000 of these were received in the final three days.\n\nIt said it also received a sustained increase in complaints during the same period, with an average of 5,000 a week during the first four weeks of August and an additional 22,000 complaints submitted during the final three days.\n\nThe typical compensation award across the industry is running at more than £2,000, but some people have been sent tens of thousands.\n\nCo-op Bank on Thursday said it had \"received a substantially greater volume of inquiries and complaints than expected in the final days prior to the complaint deadline\" and was assessing the impact on its costs for processing and paying out claims.\n\nMr Lindley said the last-minute spike in PPI complaints would have \"a significant impact on the banks when they announce their next financial results\".\n\nIan Gordon, analyst at Investec, said the announcement by CYBG was \"really quite shocking in terms of the anticipated damage\".\n\nHe pointed out that £400m is 20% of CYBG's current stock market. He now assumes that the bank will not pay a dividend for this year.\n\nCYBG's shares fell 20% to 110p - the lowest level since since it was spun out of National Australia Bank in 2016.", "The crash - between junctions 19 and 20 - has caused lengthy delays on the M6\n\nThe M6 has been closed after a lorry carrying 32,000 litres of gin was involved in a crash and began leaking its cargo on to the carriageway.\n\nThe motorway was shut in Cheshire between junction 19 at Knutsford and junction 20 at Lymm following a collision between two HGVs at about 17:30 BST.\n\nCheshire Police said the crash had caused long delays and advised motorists to avoid the area.\n\nThere are no reports of injuries.\n\nThe crash happened at about 17:30 BST\n\nCheshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was \"working hard to stem the leak\" from one of the tankers carrying concentrated gin so it could be pumped into a replacement tanker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt said it was also coating the spilt alcohol with foam to prevent the flammable liquid from igniting.\n\nIt added a 300m (0.3km) cordon has been put in place \"as a precautionary measure\".\n\nOne of those caught up in the tailback, Rachel Sargeant, said she had been caught up in a two-hour delay.\n\nShe tweeted she was sitting \"200yds away from 32,000 litres of spilt gin\", joking it was \"heartbreaking she didn't have a straw\".\n\nThe \"gincident\" prompted a flurry of puns on social media which may have been a tonic for those caught up in lengthy delays.\n\nMr Ree 2 asked if it was in the \"sloe lane\" while Anthony Davies tweeted those in the traffic \"just had to gin and bear it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah-Jayne and Steven Roche started the Cardiff Half Marathon in October 2018 together\n\nA mother-of-two who broke her leg running a half marathon was wrongly diagnosed and died after doctors' \"gross failings\", a coroner has ruled.\n\nSarah-Jayne Roche, 39, pulled out of the 2018 Cardiff Half Marathon with what was diagnosed as a hamstring injury - but she had fractured a femur.\n\nMrs Roche, of Rhondda Cynon Taff, went to hospital three times before surgery.\n\nShe had a cardiac arrest during surgery 12 days after the race and died because of neglect, coroner Graeme Hughes said.\n\nMr Hughes said there was \"a failure to provide basic medical attention\" for Mrs Roche and delivered a narrative conclusion.\n\nHe added: \"There have been gross failings by clinicians to diagnose the fracture and that contributed to the development of deep vein thrombosis which was responsible for pulmonary thromboembolism that led to cardiac arrest.\"\n\nMr Kamal Asaad, medical director at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, apologised to Mrs Roche's family and friends for the failings in her care.\n\n\"Words are of little comfort at this distressing time but we would like to assure the family that changes have already been made to help prevent such failures in the system from happening in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"A full investigation into the care she received was instigated immediately, and actions are being taken and closely monitored to address the shortcomings that were identified. These include strengthening our clinical processes, including X-ray procedures in A&E as well as our protocols for more detailed assessments and investigations before reaching a definitive diagnosis.\n\n\"We accept the coroner's ruling and will now review all of his findings to ensure we fully address all of the failings.\"\n\nPontypridd Coroners' Court heard Mrs Roche, of Beddau, entered the race with her husband Steven to raise money for Parkinson's disease research after her father was diagnosed with the illness.\n\nSeven miles into the run on 7 October Mrs Roche, who had two sons aged 12 and eight, felt a \"shooting pain up her leg\" and pulled out of the race.\n\nSt John Ambulance volunteers diagnosed a pulled hamstring but she went to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant because of the pain.\n\nSarah-Jayne Roche was running to raise money for Parkinson's disease research\n\nMr Roche told the inquest his wife was \"in a wheelchair in very considerable pain\" and was advised to \"rest up and take paracetamol and ibuprofen\".\n\n\"There was no discussion about an X-ray, their conclusion was there was not much else to do. They believed it was a hamstring injury,\" he said.\n\nMs Roche, a learning support assistant at Treorchy Comprehensive in Rhondda, was admitted to the same hospital by ambulance a week later in \"absolute agony\".\n\nShe died of cardiac arrest during an operation to pin her broken thigh bone on 19 October.\n\nMr Hughes said: \"Simple checks of procuring an X-ray on three opportunities did not happen.\n\n\"There was serious underestimations of Mrs Roche's condition. A simple X-ray could have detected it.\n\n\"The fact Mrs Roche was unable to bear weight on the leg and was in excruciating pain on each visit to the hospital. I believe there were three red flag opportunities to procure an X-ray.\"", "Schools in England will receive £2.6bn extra next year under Chancellor Sajid Javid's spending plans.\n\nThis will be the first step towards reversing budget cuts and returning school funding to pre-austerity levels.\n\nThe announcement follows last week's unveiling of a three-year plan to boost school funding by £7.1bn by 2022-23.\n\nSchool leaders have raised concerns about relying on a funding plan that will take three years at a time of such political and economic volatility.\n\nThe chancellor told the House of Commons putting more money into schools was investing in \"lifelines of opportunity\".\n\nThis announcement, relating to spending for 2020-21, confirms the first slice of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to significantly increase school spending.\n\nWhen it was outlined last week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the full three-year funding package would be sufficient to reverse the budget reductions of the past decade.\n\nMr Javid said improving school funding was vital to \"national renewal\" and schools that had been underfunded would receive the biggest increases.\n\nThe promise of more money for schools follows a long-running campaign over cash shortages - with head teachers writing to millions of parents about budget problems.\n\nAlong with supporting the NHS and increasing police numbers, school funding has been seen by the government as a priority for the public.\n\nThe chancellor has promised extra money for further education and vocational qualifications\n\nThe extra cash announced by the chancellor will deliver a real-terms increase.\n\nThe £2.6bn for the first year includes about £1.8bn in additional money, above the increase that would have been in the pipeline from rising pupil numbers and inflation.\n\nAnd the government has separately committed to spending an extra £1.5bn per year to cover the rising costs of school staff pensions.\n\nFor the third year of the package - the £7.1bn increase - this will be worth £4.6bn extra after inflation is taken into account.\n\nJules White, the West Sussex head teacher who has organised a campaign involving thousands of schools, described the funding increase as a \"welcome step in the right direction\".\n\nBut, he said, the initial £2.6bn announced would still leave \"some way to go\" before pre-austerity spending levels were reached.\n\n\"At a time of deep political uncertainty, relentlessly reasonable head teachers will monitor the situation and take time to consider our next steps,\" he said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: \"We've won the argument that the Treasury needed to come up with new money.\n\n\"The government has made a significant stride in the right direction and the money that's been announced is good news - but we're not there yet and we can see where some of the gaps still remain.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the funding promises \"go some way towards closing the gap, but are still significantly short of what is required\".\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, had rejected the three-year funding plan as a \"con trick\" that would still leave schools waiting years for funding they needed straight away.", "Boris Johnson had an eventful first Prime Minister's Questions and failed to gain support for an early general election after a bill passed to prevent a no-deal Brexit.", "Claire Hoang says managers told her: \"Don't worry, we'll sort it out\".\n\nOver 1,000 Thomas Cook staff will take legal action after losing their jobs when the airline collapsed.\n\nAt an event in Manchester on Friday, around 1,000 former employees came to sign up to legal action under the Protective Award, which is being co-ordinated by union Unite.\n\nMore unionised ex-workers are expected to sign up next week at events around the airline's other UK hubs.\n\nThe firm's liquidators said they will co-operate with any tribunal process.\n\nThe Unite-represented employees join around 100 non-union staff who earlier today said they will take legal action.\n\nBoth groups argue the airline and tour company acted unlawfully by not offering a Protective Award, a form of compensation given to staff of larger companies who are made redundant without being properly informed or consulted with.\n\nLike the Unite-affiliated staff, the non-unionised Thomas Cook employees believe the firm acted unlawfully in the way they were dismissed and have appointed lawyers to seek redress through an employment tribunal.\n\nUnite was meeting with former staff in Manchester to also inform members of their rights, how to begin redundancy claims with the government and to advise laid-off workers on job opportunities and updating their CV.\n\nThe union said it was calling on other airlines currently recruiting staff to \"fast-track\" the job applications of former Thomas Cook workers.\n\nOne ex-senior manager told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme Thomas Cook was still offering jobs just days before going bust.\n\nLawyers from one firm, Simpson Millar, told the BBC that thousands of former workers at the firm could be due some money.\n\nEmployees are entitled to a Protective Award if they are made redundant from an office of more than 20 people without being properly informed - and are entitled to up to 90 days' pay.\n\nClaire Hoang, who is part of the legal action, said: \"I woke up on Monday with no job. I've lost that month's income. I've also had over £700 of expenses I'll never get back,\" she told the Victoria Derbyshire show.\n\nShe said: \"Company troubles had been hanging over us - but we always thought they'd be a bailout. We were always given the mantra: 'don't worry about it we'll sort it out'.\"\n\nDavid [not his real name] was headhunted into the company over the summer. He hadn't seen his first pay cheque before the company was liquidated.\n\nHe had concerns, given chatter about the business going under. But a senior executive at the company met him face-to-face to reassure him, and David joined Thomas Cook as a head of department.\n\n\"We were told there was a recapitalisation in the works - and that it was quite simple and always happen. Then last week the message changed. The deal was still a game changer, but there will be a lot of noise in the media and we should ignore it.\n\n\"Then on Friday we were told the next 48 hours are critical and the negotiations are in a critical phase. The same day letters went out to people offering them jobs.\"\n\nOne Thomas Cook flight was in the air when the company went into liquidation, only for the crew to land and discover they no longer had jobs.\n\n\"Some people say this might not be a lot of money,\" says Aneil Balgobin, employment lawyer at Simpson Millar.\n\n\"But this is 9,000 families losing a breadwinner - £2,000-£3,000 can make a huge difference when someone is job hunting.\n\n\"When people do contact us is often when their mates are getting payments - but by then they've missed the boat.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Thomas Cook liquidators said: \"We will co-operate with the tribunal process during the liquidation.\"", "Some premium tea bags might be leaving billions of microscopic plastic particles in your cup, new research suggests.\n\nCanadian researchers found that some plastic tea bags shed high levels of microplastics into water.\n\nMicroplastics have widely been found in the environment, in tap and bottled waters, and in some foods.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says such particles in drinking water do not appear to pose a risk.\n\nBut the WHO said the findings were based on \"limited information\" and it called for greater research on the issue.\n\nThe researchers, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, also called for more investigation into the health effects of microplastics, defined as small (less than 5mm in length) pieces of any kind of plastic debris.\n\nFor the study, they bought four different commercial teas packaged in plastic teabags.\n\nMost teabags are made from paper, with a small amount of plastic used to seal them shut. But some premium brands have switched to using greater amounts of plastic mesh for their product instead.\n\nThis is usually so that the tea bag is held in a pyramid shape, which producers claim helps the tea leaves infuse better.\n\nThe researchers removed the tea and placed the empty teabags in water heated to 95C (203F), as if they were brewing tea.\n\nThey found that a single plastic teabag released about 11.6bn microplastic and 3.1bn smaller nanoplastic particles into the hot water. The particles are completely invisible to the naked eye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The plastic particles lurking in your bottled water\n\nThe level of \"particles released from the teabag packaging are several orders of magnitude higher than plastic loads previously reported in other foods\", according to the study, which was published by the journal of Environmental Science and Technology.\n\nResearcher Laura Hernandez says they were surprised by the amount released compared to those recorded in other studies into things like bottled water.\n\nShe says the discrepancy could be in part due to the fact they focused on the tiniest of particles - both microplastics, which are about the thickness of one hair, and nanoplastics, which are a thousand times smaller.\n\nBut she also said it could be due to the fact \"it's a piece of plastic being exposed to boiling water\" and not just water at room temperature.\n\nMs Hernandez and her team did not disclose the particular tea brands used in their study.\n\n\"The consumer should avoid plastic packaging, not a specific brand, and definitely not the tea that comes inside,\" she said in an email. \"We encourage consumers to choose loose teas that is sold without packaging or other teas that come in paper teabags.\"\n\nShe noted this is a chance for consumers, like those looking to reduce their plastic use, to be more aware of their purchases.\n\n\"There is really no need to package tea in plastic, which at the end of the day becomes single-use plastic,\" she said. \"[And] which is contributing to you not just ingesting plastic but to the environmental burden of plastic.\"", "Women say being left short of money by universal credit is forcing them to make desperate decisions\n\n\"I would drop my son off on a Friday and start to get goosebumps thinking, 'I know what I've got to go and do tonight'.\"\n\nAlison says she became a prostitute as a last resort after being left short of money by universal credit.\n\nHer story is becoming familiar to the group of MPs looking into \"survival sex\" - women being forced into sex as a result of the changes to benefits.\n\n\"This is something that shouldn't be happening in a wealthy nation,\" says independent MP Heidi Allen, who's on that Work and Pensions Committee.\n\nUniversal credit helps with living costs, replacing six benefits including housing benefit and child tax credit.\n\nBut since its introduction in 2013, it's been accused of making things harder for people receiving it.\n\nAlison had her son - who is disabled - when she was 18 years old and has relied on the benefit system to support them both.\n\n\"There are some weeks after you've paid your bills, you don't have enough and you think, 'I have to do it'.\"\n\nAn inquiry is looking into claims that women on universal credit are being forced to rely on sex work to survive\n\nAlison is matter of fact about the situation.\n\nShe says making money to support herself and her son was always the priority, but admits the experiences have left her traumatised.\n\n\"I always have lots of showers. Once there was this guy, I could smell him on me afterwards - a big, disgusting man.\n\n\"He said he deliberately didn't wash for a week because he wanted to be near a woman that's clean. It's disgusting.\n\n\"One guy, his mum opened the door and he was in the shed in the back trying to make me do drugs, so I had to escape.\"\n\n\"I do get scared of dying - some men take things to a whole other level.\"\n\nThe Work and Pensions Committee - chaired by independent MP Frank Field - launched an inquiry in March after listening to the concerns of charities.\n\nThe English Collection of Prostitutes - which campaigns for the safety and decriminalisation of sex workers and has often linked universal credit to sex work - has given evidence to the group.\n\nHeidi Allen says she quit the Conservative Party because \"they've got it wrong\" on universal credit\n\nHeidi Allen says she quit the Conservative Party earlier in the year because of the party's rollout of universal credit.\n\n\"The welfare state should be there to pick you up when you are at your lowest.\n\n\"At the moment rather than a net that's holding people up, it's dragging them down and that's the bit we need to change.\"\n\nAround 700,000 lone parents miss out on an average £2,380 per year because of universal credit, the Institute Of Fiscal Studies says.\n\nResearch economist Tom Waters says it's to do with timing: \"You have to wait at least five weeks now to get your first benefit payment.\n\n\"Although the government has made advances available for that period, that can be a difficult time for people that don't have many other resources to draw on.\"\n\nMany users with computer access say the \"confusing\" online system makes the process even more difficult\n\nAlison says having a disabled son to care for makes it harder for her to find a job that fits her schedule.\n\n\"The government needs to get a system in where they can put enough money in people's banks.\n\n\"They really need to understand we're not like them - we haven't got loads of money.\"\n\nMrs Allen and Frank Field have been \"humbled\" by what people have shared with them around the UK.\n\nBoth will be making recommendations to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Amber Rudd, but Heidi Allen is worried.\n\n\"Amber's the best on this and gets it, but when we have a new Prime Minister [on 23 July] all the ministers will probably change.\n\n\"We could be back to the drawing board again.\"\n\nWomen have given anonymous evidence to a committee looking into the scale of the problem\n\n\"What changed my mind was hearing the testimony of some of the women in front of the committee,\" says MP Will Quince, a minister for family support at the Department of Work and Pensions.\n\nHe'd originally dismissed the link between sex work and universal credit as \"anecdotal\" but has now done a U-turn.\n\nHis job isn't safe either but he says that won't stop him from raising awareness.\n\n\"Don't underestimate our determination - even if I'm on the back benches we will continue to be a champion on this and other issues because we feel strongly about it.\"\n\nAlison has not given evidence to the inquiry over fears of social services being alerted - which the commission has reassured won't happen.\n\nHowever, she says she's stopped doing sex work due to being in a loving relationship.\n\n\"I'm still on universal credit and my partner helps to looks after me and my son.\"\n\nShe goes quiet for a bit when asked if she'd ever return to sex work to make ends meet.\n\n\"Honestly, I dread thinking about if we ever split up and it's just me and my son.\n\n\"I'd have no choice, really.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Prince Harry sits beneath the Diana Tree, which marks the spot where Diana was pictured in the minefield\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has visited the former minefield in Angola where his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, walked 22 years ago, shortly before she died.\n\nPrince Harry visited the site in Huambo, which has become a \"bustling community\" since Diana's campaign.\n\nWearing body armour, he also visited a partially-cleared minefield nearby and set off a controlled explosion.\n\nDiana captured global attention when she walked through the live minefield in 1997.\n\nShe never lived to see the full impact of her visit - such as the signing of an international treaty to outlaw the weapons - as she died later that year.\n\nRetracing his mother's footsteps in central Angola, Prince Harry is being escorted by the British landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust, which also accompanied Diana on her visit.\n\nDiana visited the minefield Huambo in Angola in 1997\n\nThe site is now a bustling community, and Prince Harry retraced his mother's steps on Princess Diana Street\n\nAfter walking along the suburban street, which was once filled with the explosives, the duke said it was \"quite emotional\" to retrace Diana's steps \"and to see the transformation that has taken place, from an unsafe and desolate place into a vibrant community of local businesses and colleges\".\n\nHe added: \"Without question if she hadn't campaigned the way that she did, this arguably could still be a minefield.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud of what she's been able to do, and meet these kids here who were born on this street.\"\n\nThe area has become a \"completely different place\" since demining and now is a \"bustling community\" with houses and schools and shops, added Camille Wallen, director of strategy at the Halo Trust.\n\nEarlier, Prince Harry visited a minefield near the south-eastern town of Dirico, which is in the process of being cleared.\n\nThe site was mined by anti-government forces in 2000 when they retreated from their base.\n\nIn 2005, a 13-year-old girl lost a foot after stepping on one of the explosive devices in the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: \"Landmines are an unhealed scar of war\"\n\nHalo Trust staff have been working to make the minefield safe since August and hope to clear it by the end of October.\n\nPrince Harry was given a safety briefing and told not to stray off the cleared lanes, not to touch anything or run.\n\nIn a speech, the duke said the Halo Trust was helping the community \"find peace\".\n\n\"Landmines are an unhealed scar of war. By clearing the landmines we can help this community find peace, and with peace comes opportunity,\" he said.\n\n\"Additionally, we can protect the diverse and unique wildlife that relies on the beautiful Kuito river that I slept beside last night.\"\n\nThe prince called for an international effort to clear landmines from the Okavango watershed in the Angolan highlands, where the weapons remain 17 years after the end of a civil war.\n\nThe conflict - between 1975 and 2002 - has left Angola one of the most mined places in the world, with around 1,200 minefields, according to the Halo Trust.\n\nThe organisation says it has decommissioned almost 100,000 mines since 1994 but it is impossible to know exactly how many remain.\n\nThere are two main types of mine: anti-personnel landmines, aimed at killing or injuring people, and anti-tank mines, designed to destroy vehicles.\n\nThe random placement of the explosive devices became part of military strategy in the 1960s.\n\nAround 50 years later, about 60 countries and territories are still contaminated with anti-personnel mines.\n\nMore than 120,000 people were killed or injured by landmines between 1999-2017, according to research by Landmine Monitor.\n\nCivilians made up 87% of casualties, while nearly half of the victims were children.\n\nMs Wallen described Prince Harry's visit as a \"really significant moment\".\n\n\"As we saw in 1997, Princess Diana really helped raise awareness of the issue of landmines and the plight that people who live with landmines have every day,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"It effectively transformed what we do, and it transformed it for those people. They really felt they were being heard.\"\n\nPrincess Diana's involvement in the cause involved a call for a global ban on landmines.\n\nThree months after her death in 1997, 122 countries signed the Ottawa Treaty, which prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel mines.\n\nMs Wallen said Prince Harry's visit helped \"remind the world that landmines are not just a thing of the past\".\n\n\"Decades after conflict they continue to threaten people's lives,\" she added.\n\nAngolan minister Lucio Goncalves Amaral said Diana's anti-mine campaign left a \"humanistic heritage\" that motivated the country's authorities to push to remove all the devices from the country by 2025.\n\n\"We will never forget her priceless contribution to the campaign to ban the anti-personnel landmines,\" Angola's deputy minister for social integration said in a speech.\n\n\"The Angolan people will be eternally grateful for her performance in the demining process of our territory.\"\n\nPrince Harry, who is on a tour of southern Africa, visited Botswana on Thursday, where he helped plant trees.\n\nThe duke said there was a race against time to stop global warming, adding he was \"troubled\" by climate-change deniers.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prince Harry visited South Africa, where he and the Duchess of Sussex introduced their baby son to the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nThe couple also met faith leaders at South Africa's first and oldest mosque and visited a mental health charity.\n\nThe duchess told teenage girls in a deprived part of the country she was visiting South Africa not only as a member of the Royal Family, but also \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".\n\nOn Friday, Buckingham Palace confirmed the duchess had paid a private visit to the memorial of a murdered South African student \"after closely following the tragic story\".\n\nMeghan made the \"personal gesture\" at the post office where 19-year-old University of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana was raped and murdered last month.\n\nA spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said: \"Having closely followed the tragic story, it was a personal gesture she wanted to make.\"\n\nA 42-year-old male post office worker has been arrested over the killing.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nFormer world champion Nigel Benn likened himself to Benjamin Button as he confirmed he will come out of retirement at the age of 55.\n\nBriton Benn, who last fought in 1996, said the bout with ex-world champion Sakio Bika in Birmingham on 23 November will give him \"closure\".\n\n\"I feel the time is right now. It's nothing to do with age,\" Benn said.\n\nBut ex-world champion Richie Woodhall told BBC Sport: \"I fear for him. I really hope it doesn't come around.\"\n\n\"When I was boxing, you don't really realise but you seem to be tense, stiff, hard, and punches bounce off you. You become immune to punches.\n\nThe 51-year-old added: \"I keep fit and work out on the bag twice a week, doing 10 rounds a session no problem at all.\n\n\"I can work at a high pace but I am so soft, I couldn't take a punch off anyone.\"\n\nAsked if he could withstand the kind of punches now that he felt when winning the world super-middleweight title in 1998, Woodhall told the 5 Live Boxing Podcast: \"Absolutely no way.\n\n\"That is what I worry about with Nigel more than anything. He may feel he can take the shots but when you get in the ring with 10oz gloves and you're hit, it's serious stuff.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing analyst Steve Bunce said a 23-year break after a career before returning to the sport made for \"dreadful cocktail\".\n\nBenn won the middleweight and super-middleweight world titles during a career in which he won 42, lost five and drew one of his 48 fights.\n\nPromoter Frank Warren and current world super-middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders have criticised Benn's decision to come out of retirement.\n\nBut at a London news conference, Benn - nicknamed the 'Dark Destroyer' during his career - likened himself to the fictional Hollywood film character who got younger with age.\n\n\"It's not the 'Dark Destroyer' because everything synonymous with that name is not who I am,\" Benn said.\n\n\"Now it's Nigel 'Benjamin Button' Benn - the older I get, the fitter I am and I 100% mean that. I am so fit.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming. This fight is all about me. It wasn't financial; it was always about closure that I wanted that I never had.\n\n\"I suffered with a lot of issues in my life from a young age, from 1972 when my brother died - the murder of my brother - which I carried through to my adult life.\n\n\"At the age of eight, I started smoking cigarettes to 41, I started doing ecstasy, smoking spliffs all throughout my career, but suffered with depression.\n\n\"There's not one fight that I went through that I didn't suffer with. It was bugging me. I don't event think I was at my best, I don't know how I got that far.\"\n\nThe fight with 40-year-old Australian Bika will be licensed by the British and Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA), rather than the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC).\n\nA BIBA doctor said Benn was fit to fight and that tests show his physiological age is \"at least 15 years younger\" than his actual age.\n\nBika held the WBC world super-middleweight title as recently as 2014 and last fought in 2017.", "The Duke of Sussex has walked through a partially-cleared minefield in Angola to highlight the threat posed by landmines, 22 years after his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, visited a similar site.\n\nPrince Harry wore body armour as he visited the ex-artillery base near the town of Dirico and set off a controlled explosion to destroy a mine.", "Floral tributes have been placed at the scene\n\nA girl who was run over in what police have described as a hit-and-run crash has died in hospital.\n\nThe 10-year-old was struck on Hillsview Avenue in Kenton at about 18:40 GMT on Wednesday, by a Renault Kangoo that was abandoned nearby.\n\nNorthumbria Police said a 23-year-old man, believed to be the driver, had now been arrested.\n\nA second 23-year-old man has also been detained on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nTwo women, aged 31 and 28, were earlier arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.\n\nCh Insp Chris Grice said: \"This is a horrific incident that has robbed a family of their little girl and has had a significant impact on members of the community in Kenton.\n\n\"We know this has had a big impact on the community but we know that the public will rally together at this difficult time to support the victim's family.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information about the crash to contact the force.\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. \"I want to ask the prime minister to apologise\" - Labour MP Jess Phillips\n\nThe prime minister has been urged to apologise after he said the best way to honour Jo Cox, the MP murdered during the EU referendum campaign, was to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nBoris Johnson was also criticised for calling the law aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit the \"surrender bill\".\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips said the \"bravest\" thing for the prime minister to do would be to apologise.\n\nBut Tory chairman James Cleverly called criticism of the PM \"deeply unfair\".\n\nDuring an ill-tempered debate on Wednesday, Mr Johnson was repeatedly challenged by opposition MPs over his use of the term \"surrender bill\" to describe legislation passed earlier this month, which aims to block a no-deal Brexit on 31 October if he fails to come up with a new exit deal with the EU before 19 October.\n\nHe dismissed one MP's intervention, in which she both criticised his use of language and mentioned the killing of Ms Cox, as \"humbug\".\n\nMs Cox, who supported Remain during the referendum campaign, died in 2016 after she was shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire.\n\nHer husband Brendan Cox told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had been shocked by the language used in the Commons on Wednesday, saying Brexit debate had become a \"bear pit of polarisation\".\n\n\"I'm not sure that we can look the nation in the eye and say that was a good day.\"\n\nThat's how a Conservative MP has described the torrid scenes in the Commons in the last 24 hours.\n\nOutrage is a common currency these days, but MPs' jaws dropped as Mr Johnson ramped up the rhetoric in responses to questions - suggesting first that it was \"humbug\" for a Labour MP to demand he temper his language, to try to protect MPs' safety.\n\nThen, he went on to say that the appropriate legacy for the MP who was murdered during the referendum, Jo Cox, was for MPs to complete the Brexit process.\n\nNo surprise that Labour MPs howled in protest, some left the Commons in disbelief.\n\nAnd there may be few Tory MPs willing, as the day goes on, to defend how far he went.\n\nAsking an urgent question in the Commons on Thursday, Ms Phillips said: \"The use of language yesterday and over the past few weeks such as the 'surrender bill', such as invoking the war, such as betrayal and treachery, it has clearly been tested, and workshopped and worked up and entirely designed to inflame hatred and division.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is not sincere, it is totally planned, it is completely and utterly a strategy designed by somebody to harm and cause hatred in our country.\"\n\nMs Phillips also said: \"When I hear of my friend Jo Cox's murder and the way that it has made me and my colleagues feel, and feel scared, described as humbug, I actually don't feel anger towards the prime minister, I feel pity for those of you who have to toe his line.\"\n\nThe \"bravest and strongest thing\" for Mr Johnson to do would be to apologise, she added.\n\nFellow Labour MP Paula Sherriff said she accepted it was \"necessary for all us of to reflect\" on the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Treat each other as opponents, not as enemies\"\n\nBut, responding to MPs, Cabinet Office minister Kevin Foster said the government was working to ensure MPs \"feel safe\", especially online.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"The PM obviously made the broader point last night that he believes we need to get the issue of Brexit resolved because it was causing anxiety and ill-feeling in the country.\"\n\nHe added that, whatever their views, politicians and those in public life \"shouldn't face threats or intimidation... it's completely unacceptable\".\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Downing Street was not planning to shift away from using the term \"surrender bill\".\n\nMeanwhile, the longest-serving male and female MPs, Ken Clarke and Harriet Harman, have called for an inquiry, chaired by Commons Speaker John Bercow, to discuss \"protecting our democracy by guaranteeing the ability of MPs to go about their work without threat, harassment, violence or intimidation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRachel Johnson, the prime minister's sister, told BBC Radio 4's World at One that her brother was using the Commons as a \"bully pulpit\".\n\nMs Johnson, who stood for pro-European party Change UK - which has since altered its name to The Independent Group for Change - in June's European elections, added: \"It's not the brother I see at home. It's a different person.\"\n\nConservative chairman Mr Cleverly said the debate over Brexit in the House of Commons had generated \"a huge amount of temper on both sides\".\n\n\"The best thing we can do to calm things down is to get it delivered, get it resolved,\" he added.\n\nHe also said the accusations levelled at the prime minister were \"deeply unfair\", adding that he had never described people as \"traitors\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about MPs returning to Parliament, the Supreme Court's ruling and what happens now?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "\"I'm not sure that we can look the nation in the eye and say that was a good day.\"\n\nThat's how a Conservative MP has described the torrid scenes in the Commons in the last 24 hours.\n\nDid the prime minister alight on the frustration of many members of the public who may feel that Parliament has simply failed to keep the promise it made to carry out their wishes expressed in the referendum - yes.\n\nDid Boris Johnson confirm his determination to push on with keeping the vow he made to take the UK out of the EU at the end of next month - yes.\n\nBut did the scenes in Parliament suggest that his determination tips into a potentially destructive disdain - yes, to that too.\n\nBoris Johnson's decision has long been clear - he would seek to use everything within his grasp to stick to the Brexit deadline he set.\n\nIf that meant knocking some plaster off the ceiling, rattling some cages in a fractious and perhaps failing Parliament, so be it.\n\nIt is not as if, his allies argue, this Parliament has any measurable or reliable level of support from the public at large.\n\nTheir calculation is that swathes of voters, whatever they chose in 2016, have simply had enough of MPs' inability to decide.\n\nAfter three years of political strife, following a clear, if narrow, result in the referendum, it is of course the case there are plenty of voters who blame politicians collectively for the mess we all witness.\n\nSo, as Boris Johnson and Number 10 have been obviously doing since taking office, Parliament's failure is a political target.\n\nWhatever you think of that interpretation, for most of tonight's debate, this still relatively new prime minister was combatively, precisely on his chosen message.\n\nAccordingly, he decided to stir his benches with rancour rather than make any effort to soothe nerves on all sides, let alone show remorse for his defeat.\n\nYet, even for a politician whose tactics include provocation, it is worth asking if he went too far.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutrage is a common currency these days, but MPs' jaws dropped as he ramped up the rhetoric in responses to questions - suggesting first that it was \"humbug\" for a Labour MP to demand he temper his language, to try to protect MPs' safety.\n\nThen, he went on to say that the appropriate legacy for the MP who was murdered during the referendum, Jo Cox, was for MPs to complete the Brexit process.\n\nNo surprise that Labour MPs howled in protest, some left the Commons in disbelief.\n\nAnd there may be few Tory MPs willing, as the day goes on, to defend how far he went.\n\nThe cabinet minister Nicky Morgan too, who expressed her concern on Twitter, is not the only Tory MP who was unhappy at what happened.\n\nThere is pushback from the other side, of course.\n\nOne minister said, in sadness rather than anger, that Labour was deploying \"double standards\" after several years of calling the Leave side \"racists and criminals\".\n\nThere should be no surprise there was reaction like this.\n\nOthers in government believe that we are seeing the raw conflict that had to play out, the fight Theresa May delayed but couldn't make disappear.\n\nAnd, rightly or wrongly, politics moves so fast in this era, it's impossible to tell if tonight's cries of horror in SW1 will fade fast to nothing, or indeed, how far they have reached beyond Westminster's bubble.\n\nAs ever, forgive but note the caveat that the situation is ever shifting and could transform within days.\n\nFor now, though, it is almost impossible to imagine this group of politicians being able to agree on much.\n\nThe attitude Boris Johnson displayed has made the divisions more stark.\n\nAnd in the unlikely event this prime minister strikes a deal, it seems harder in this moment to imagine that he'd have more than a handful of Labour MPs on side.\n\nAnd if you were hoping that, eventually, our politicians were moving towards a way of working together, Parliament tonight was a place of fear and loathing, not a place of debate and discussion that could provide a solution for us all.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine after one of the largest hauls of the drug in UK history was found on board a boat.\n\nAbout 750kg of cocaine was recovered from the boat in Pembrokeshire in August.\n\nGary Swift, 53, and Scott Kilgour, 41, from Liverpool, were arrested on board the yacht about a mile off the Fishguard coast.\n\nThe pleas were made at Swansea Crown Court. They next appear in December.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA), working closely with the Spanish National Police, identified the SY Atrevido boat as carrying the large cocaine shipment.\n\nSwift and Kilgour were stopped on 27 August, after Border Force cutter HMC Protector was dispatched and intercepted the yacht.\n\nThe vessel was searched, with 751kg cocaine found with a purity of up to 83%, the NCA said.\n\nScott Kilgour (L) and Gary Swift (R) were arrested on board the yacht about a mile off the Fishguard coast\n\nIt added that the quantity found would have a wholesale value of about £24m and a potential street value of £60m.\n\nCraig Naylor, NCA deputy director of investigations, said: \"Drugs fuel violence and exploitation, damaging communities and leaving destruction in their wake.\n\n\"Seizing this large quantity of cocaine will have had a huge impact on the organised crime group - damaging their reputation amongst other criminals, and ultimately stripping them of their assets.\"\n\nFour others - three men aged 23, 31, 47, and a woman aged 30 - were arrested in Liverpool and Loughborough in connection with the seizure, and remain on bail until November.", "The Bank of England may need to cut interest rates should Brexit uncertainty persist, one of its policymakers has said.\n\nEven if the UK avoids a no-deal Brexit, rates may still need to be cut, Michael Saunders said.\n\nInterest rates have been on hold at 0.75% since August 2018, when they were raised from 0.5%.\n\nLast week, the Bank said Brexit uncertainty meant the UK economy was performing below its potential.\n\n\"If the UK avoids a no-deal Brexit, monetary policy also could go either way and I think it is quite plausible that the next move in Bank Rate would be down rather than up,\" Mr Saunders told local businesses in Barnsley.\n\nThe pound dropped against the dollar after his comments were reported, trading down about 0.4% at $1.2277, before paring losses.\n\nMr Saunders, who is a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), said that even without a no-deal Brexit, high levels of uncertainty surrounding the UK's departure from the EU would persist and act as a kind of \"slow puncture\" for the economy.\n\n\"In this case, it might well be appropriate to maintain a highly accommodative monetary policy stance for an extended period and perhaps to loosen policy at some stage, especially if global growth remains disappointing,\" he said.\n\nPassively waiting to see what happened with Brexit risked inappropriate monetary policy, and the cost of reversing a rate cut if the outlook improved would be low, he added at the event at the Barnsley and Rotherham Chamber of Commerce and Institute of Chartered Accountants.\n\n\"In general, I would prefer to be nimble, adjusting policy if it appears necessary to keep the economy on track, and accepting that it may be necessary to change course if the outlook changes significantly,\" he said.\n\nAt its last meeting on interest rates, the MPC unanimously held rates at 0.75%.\n\nMr Saunders said he still agreed with recent Bank guidance that a limited and gradual increase in interest rates would be needed over the medium term, if Brexit uncertainty reduced significantly and global growth speeds up.\n\nIn the event of a no-deal Brexit, Mr Saunders repeated the Bank's position that all policy options would be open, depending on the damage to growth and how much inflation spikes from a further fall in sterling.\n\nA disorderly no-deal Brexit could leave the Bank of England's rate setters with an unenviable dilemma.\n\nDo they cut interest rates to boost growth - or raise them to curb inflation caused by a possible fall in the exchange rate, shortages and tariffs?\n\nWith tackling inflation at the top of its remit, the Bank's economic models assume rates would rise in such circumstances. But rates are set by nine humans, not machines.\n\nThe governor, Mark Carney, recently indicated he'd be inclined to cut in the event of a no-deal - and the vote usually goes the boss's way.\n\nBut what is remarkable is that there appears to a change of view on his panel of what to do even in the event of a deal.\n\nJust last week, the MPC repeated its mantra that rates would likely go up slowly and gradually in the event of a deal.\n\nBut now, one of those who had previously warned of the dangers of not raising rates - Michael Saunders - says that a cut is plausible, deal or no deal.\n\nThe Bank says the economy has lost momentum; Michael Saunders likens the pace to a slow puncture. If he's shifting in his position, it's likely others are too\n\nBut how much would lower rates help in the event of a disorderly no-deal?\n\nA cut aims to put more money in pockets. But if any hit to growth was due to shortages and disruption, a supply shock, boosting demand, may be counterproductive.\n\nMore money is great - as long as there's things to spend it on.\n\nEarlier this month, Bank governor Mark Carney estimated that in a worst-case, chaotic scenario that a no-deal Brexit could reduce the size of the economy by 5.5%.\n\nThe Paris-based OECD has predicted a 2% hit in the case of a more managed no-deal Brexit.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly vowed to take the UK out of the European Union by 31 October, without a deal if necessary, but is in a stand-off with Parliament which has passed a law designed to block a no-deal Brexit.", "Angela Rayner took a screenshot of the soldier's tweet as an example of \"vile\" abuse\n\nThe Army and police are investigating after a soldier sent an offensive tweet to Labour MP Angela Rayner.\n\nThe soldier's Twitter account - which has now been deleted - posted a message swearing at Ms Rayner and saying she \"will perish when civil war comes\".\n\nMs Rayner called it an example of a \"usual vile tweet I get daily\".\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said it was \"unacceptable\", while a senior Army commander apologised and said it \"is being dealt with\".\n\nIt comes as MPs have spoken more frankly about the abuse they face amid a row over the language used by politicians.\n\nShadow education secretary Ms Rayner, the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, took a screenshot of the soldier's tweet, which was sent in reply to one of her tweets criticising the government's Attorney General Geoffrey Cox.\n\nIn the tweet, the soldier said: \"17.4 million people are gunning for blood if we don't leave\".\n\nMs Rayner shared the screenshot and later tweeted: \"I have constantly called out abuse publicly against elected MPs including to Tories as I think our democracy is built on mutual respect for difference and the rule of law.\n\n\"What's being unleashed is ugly and should be condemned by all.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Wallace said: \"This is an unacceptable tweet from a member of the British Army to Angela Rayner.\n\n\"This foul language goes against the values of the Armed Forces and is now being investigated by the Army and civilian police.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rt. Hon Ben Wallace MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLt Gen Ivan Jones, who is commander of the Field Army, tweeted that he would like to \"apologise personally\" to Ms Rayner and \"anyone affected by appalling tweets\" from the British soldier.\n\n\"He does not represent the remarkable men and women in [the] British Army who serve this nation,\" Gen Jones wrote.\n\n\"Rest assured this is being dealt with.\"\n\nMs Rayner is one of several MPs who in recent days has criticised the language used by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson was criticised for using words like \"betray\" and \"surrender\" on Wednesday night, the first day MPs had returned to Parliament after it was prorogued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour MP Paula Sherriff called on the prime minister to \"moderate\" his language, saying many MPs receive death threats and abuse which \"often quote\" the same words.\n\nMr Johnson initially described her safety concerns as \"humbug\".\n\nHe has since refused to apologise for his language, but insisted he \"deplores any threats to anybody, particularly female MPs\".", "Cleveland Police has been \"operating without a clear plan or direction\", inspectors said\n\nA scandal-hit police force's catalogue of failings has been \"putting the public at risk\", a watchdog has said.\n\nCleveland Police has been \"operating without a clear plan or direction\", HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services said in a report.\n\nIt is the first force in England or Wales to be rated inadequate across all areas, the inspectorate said.\n\nThe report followed an inspection in May that led to the force being placed in special measures.\n\nStaff told inspectors they found the organisation \"directionless, rudderless and clueless\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cleveland Police Chief Constable: 'Stop me and talk to me'\n\nThe inspectorate said senior officers were \"not consistently demonstrating ethical behaviour\", resulting in a \"profoundly negative impact on the force's ability to be effective and efficient\".\n\nThere were \"too many examples\" of high-ranking officers and staff \"not taking responsibility, not acting with honesty, integrity and competence, and apportioning blame\", it concluded.\n\nInspectors highlighted senior officers providing \"incorrect\" statements during the inspection and said they were \"unable to provide evidence\" of actions they claimed the force was taking.\n\nThey said they had \"concerns the chief constable is unable to trust the information he receives\" from those officers.\n\nThe father of Zac Newton was promised help by the force but he says \"nothing has happened\"\n\nPeter Newton said Cleveland Police told him officers would respond to a report about his 10-year-old son Zac being attacked by a gang of youths in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool.\n\nIt was almost two weeks ago and Mr Newton says he is still waiting.\n\n\"It's a disgrace,\" he said.\n\n\"When I called the police they said they would send someone round to talk to Zac and reassure him and also go and find out who had attacked him.\n\n\"He has been bullied for a while and when he went out to the park these lads gave him a good kicking and tried to strangle him.\n\n\"He had a really rough time and we wanted something done, but absolutely nothing has happened.\"\n\nMr Newton, 55, added: \"He's just a child. Surely there should be a priority when a child is the victim of a crime like this? They should take things more seriously.\n\n\"We understand they're stretched sometimes, but we asked for help and we got nothing.\"\n\nWhile the force acts \"promptly\" on reports of corruption within its ranks, \"it needs to proactively root out corruption and identify those people at risk of it, to try and prevent it from happening\", the report said.\n\nFurther criticism included crime prevention not being treated as a \"priority\" and the force not having a good enough understanding of local concerns.\n\nAlmost 450 assessments for people judged to be at high and medium levels of risk were not progressed with some having waited three months, and children were put in danger of domestic abuse after the force failed to class them as vulnerable.\n\nInspectors said their findings were \"so worrying\" they had chosen to publish the report sooner than originally planned.\n\nPhil Gormley, Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, told the BBC: \"The most critical issue is getting stable, competent and capable leadership into Cleveland Police. The workforce needs clarity and leadership.\n\n\"What we are seeing is a force that has individual, collective and systemic failings.\"\n\nRecent years have seen the force engulfed by controversy. It has admitted misusing anti-terror legislation to spy on journalists and there have been numerous scandals centring on officers' behaviour including an inspector who targeted junior colleagues for sex.\n\nIn April, the force's assistant chief constable Adrian Roberts was arrested and suspended on suspicion of gross misconduct.\n\nThe allegations against him have not been made public.\n\nHow can somebody who gets paid £80,000 a year to oversee the running of the force, dare to come out and say it's not his responsibility? How dare he do that.\"\n\nThe force, which covers areas including Hartlepool, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton and Middlesbrough, has had five chief constables in seven years.\n\nMike Veale resigned from the post in January over allegations he behaved inappropriately towards colleagues.\n\nMr Lewis, who was appointed his successor in April, said the report was \"entirely accurate\" and \"must act as a line in the sand\".\n\n\"This must be the basis from which we improve. It is a wake-up call for the organisation and we are now being honest about where our requirements for improvement lie.\n\n\"It is a fundamental requirement of a police service to protect the people it serves.\n\n\"Our staff have not been well served by the senior leadership of this force.\"\n\nCleveland has now achieved official infamy - the first force in the country to be declared as failing by the police inspectorate.\n\nIn recent years local people could be forgiven for wondering who was in charge.\n\nIn 2012 the then Chief Constable Sean Price was sacked for gross misconduct. In the years since, four other chiefs have gone through the revolving doors at police HQ.\n\nIn April, Richard Lewis was appointed. He now has a new top team as he faces the mammoth task of turning the force around. He insists it should not be scrapped and merged with a neighbouring force.\n\nIf there is no improvement the Home Secretary has the power to step in and decide Cleveland's future.\n\nNeighbourhood policing teams were being re-established, Mr Lewis said, while \"every stage of the reporting, investigating and safeguarding process is under review\".\n\nBarry Coppinger, who has been Cleveland's Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012, again rejected calls for his resignation.\n\nHe described the force's performance as \"unacceptable\" and said he had sought assurance from Mr Lewis that \"immediate changes are being made to resolve the most serious issues\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government will do what it can to help after 1,200 job losses at the firm\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"disappointed\" at what has happened at Wrightbus and that the government will \"do what we can to help\".\n\nEfforts are under way to try to help 1,200 workers made redundant after the company entered administration.\n\nJust 50 jobs will be retained at the firm - the last UK-owned bus manufacturer.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Johnson to intervene.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith told BBC NI's The View that he will be speaking to the administrators in the next 24 hours to see what can be done to save Wrightbus jobs.\n\nHe said he will do everything to \"find somebody to rebuild that business\".\n\nThe Ballymena-based bus-builder suffered cash flow problems and had sought investment or a new owner.\n\nTalks with two potential buyers of the firm, best known for building the New Routemaster, known as the \"Boris Bus\", failed to reach a conclusion last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mervyn Wilkinson was among the 1,200 Wrightbus employees made redundant on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson described Wrightbus, which built the Routemaster bus when he was the London mayor, as a \"fantastic business\".\n\n\"We have been working on it the whole time,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"You may know that the negotiations got very close, there was a particular problem that came up to do with the ownership of the land.\n\n\"We want to sort it out, we are going to do what we can to help.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he thought \"one of the problems\" was that London mayor, Sadiq Khan, should have continued with the London transport contract and that he understood there were \"also problems to do with the management of the company\".\n\nIn a statement on Thursday evening, a spokesperson for Wrights said that last week there were two \"final bidders in discussions regarding acquisition of Wright Group\".\n\n\"A rental agreement for the sites was reached with one bidder, who then pulled out of the deal on Friday 20th,\" the statement added.\n\n\"A second bidder discussed purchasing the sites, but no formal letter of offer was made from that bidder.\n\n\"Any reports to the contrary are completely inaccurate.\"\n\nMr Johnson said Wrightbus was part of a \"big industrial agenda\" in relation to Northern Ireland, including the east Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff \"where we have big plans\".\n\n\"Northern Ireland is a great opportunity area for our country,\" he added.\n\nThe company had suffered cash flow problems and had sought investment or a new owner\n\nTUV councillor Timothy Gaston said Mid and East Antrim Council had contacted the prime minister, the secretary of state and the chairman of the NI Select Affairs Committee \"to again raise how vital Wrightbus is to Ballymena\".\n\nHe added: \"Our PM has committed previously to do all he can to save Wrightbus. It's now time for action.\"\n\nMr Gaston said the council will have a dedicated website to help people access services, support and information and have organised a redundancy clinic for employees ‪on Friday.\n\nConcern is also mounting for firms in the supply chain which are still owed money.\n\nManufacturing NI chief Stephen Kelly said some had tried to protect themselves by taking out trade credit insurance or working on a basis of cash on delivery with the company.\n\nBut he added that \"a lot of people are still holding a lot of stock and a lot of people are owed a lot of money\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGeorge Brash, of the Unite union, said that Boris Johnson recently told the House of Commons he would do everything for the future of the company.\n\n\"We are calling him out on that comment and those promises that he made to this workforce, and this Ballymena community,\" Mr Brash said.\n\n\"He needs to stand up and intervene as he said he would.\"\n\nSteven Reynolds, chair of Ballymena Business Improvement District, said that the town was going through \"difficult times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at the Ballymena bus manufacturer fear for the future as 1,200 lose their jobs.\n\n\"It will have an impact, [but] let's remember Wrightbus is in administration not liquidation,\" he said.\n\n\"Every day is a new day, a new opportunity to do a deal and that may still be on the table.\"\n\nEfforts are also under way to bring home former workers based outside Northern Ireland.\n\nThe company had 20 members of staff working between Hong Kong and Malaysia.\n\nIt is understood there are also around nine former staff members in England.\n\nAdministrators are working to secure them transport home.\n\nJonathan McKay from Cullybackey, who has been working for Wrightbus for the past 12 years, is currently in Taunton, in south-west England.\n\nHe told BBC News NI he was only informed about the collapse at about 18:30 BST on Wednesday in a conference call with other workers.\n\n\"We need to get home and see our families and sit down and look at how life is going to change,\" he said.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a police officer in a hit-and-run crash.\n\nPC Christopher Burnham, 48, was struck by a Mini he was trying to stop in Holbrook Lane, Coventry, just after 14:45 BST on Wednesday.\n\nHe was taken to hospital with a fractured skull, bleed on the brain and a shattered knee.\n\nWest Midlands Police said a 37-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening and is being held for questioning.\n\nDetectives said the driver involved in the crash left the scene and the Mini was found abandoned a short distance away.\n\nPC Burnham, who is married and has a 10-year-old son, has been with the West Midlands force for 25 years and has a number of commendations.\n\nColleagues said he is likely to have to remain in hospital for some time.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to return from Brussels with Theresa May's \"reheated deal\".\n\nAt a rally in London, he said the Tories will \"lose votes to us\" in \"huge numbers\" when voters \"realise nothing has changed\" if they keep that deal.\n\nHe then criticised Labour's \"policy of uncontrolled mass immigration\".\n\nThe party also unveiled some policy plans, but little detail, including scrapping HS2 and inheritance tax.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nMrs May's deal was rejected three times by MPs, with the Irish backstop - a policy Mr Johnson has said he wants to scrap - proving a major sticking point.\n\nThe policy is aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nMr Farage told the crowd of supporters, referring to the prime minister and his senior adviser: \"Mr Johnson, Mr Cummings - if you do get this through, that you can sell this as Brexit, you're in for a big surprise.\n\n\"The British people won't swallow it if they realise nothing has changed, they will not put up with it and you will lose votes to us in absolutely huge numbers - heed that warning please.\"\n\nHe reiterated his pledge that if Mr Johnson campaigns in a general election \"for a clean-break Brexit\" then \"far from fighting against him we will work with him with a non-aggression pact\" - something which has already been rejected by Number 10.\n\n\"To get this done, we will always put country before party,\" he said.\n\nMr Farage went on to criticise Labour for changing its policy on freedom of movement.\n\nThe Labour Party's 2017 manifesto vowed to end free movement when the UK leaves the European Union, but delegates at the party conference last week voted overwhelmingly to reject that.\n\nMr Farage said Labour had decided \"to embark upon a policy of uncontrolled mass immigration into Britain\".\n\n\"All of us in this party recognise that immigration can be a very good and a very positive thing for our nation, but you have to control it sensibly and selectively,\" he said.\n\nHe said the Brexit Party would be the \"main challenger\" to the Labour Party in \"many traditional parts of this country, seats they've held for 100 years\".\n\nThe rally was the final date of the party's \"we are ready\" conference tour, which took place in 10 venues across England and Wales and featured some of the party's prospective parliamentary candidates.\n\nThe party says it has pledged to invest £200bn in transport and digital infrastructure outside London.\n\nParty chairman Richard Tice also unveiled some policies at the London event without going into detail, including:\n\nThe Brexit Party's final rally comes after a week of stormy debate in the House of Commons over the use of language.\n\nThe prime minister was criticised by a number of MPs for - among other remarks - describing one Labour MP's safety concerns as \"humbug\" and repeatedly referring to legislation aimed at blocking no-deal as \"the surrender bill\".\n\nMr Johnson has insisted he \"deplores any threats to anybody\".\n\nBut Mr Farage said the \"real surrender\" will not be that piece of legislation, \"the real surrender, the real sell-out, will be to sign us up to a dreadful deal that will leave us trapped for year upon year\".\n\n\"Do not reheat Mrs May's deal. That would be surrender,\" he said.\n\nOn the subject of \"the temperature of political debate\", Mr Farage referenced Commons Speaker John Bercow, former Labour PM Tony Blair and former Conservative PM John Major, all of whom were booed.\n\nHe went on to describe former Tory MP - now Independent Group for Change leader - Anna Soubry as the \"least popular figure with Leave voters\".\n\nOn a second referendum, Mr Farage said: \"Provided we were given a proper question with a genuine leave on the ballot paper we would vote to leave by a bigger margin.\"\n\nHe said there will \"not be violent riots on our streets because we have got a well-run sensible moderate democratic political party\".", "Japan Airlines has introduced a feature on its seat booking system that shows where young children are seated.\n\nA \"child\" icon appears when a passenger is travelling with children aged under two years.\n\nOne traveller said the feature let him know where babies \"plan to scream... during a 13-hour trip\".\n\nBut some Twitter commentators urged him to be tolerant, while others said the problem could easily be solved with noise-cancelling headphones.\n\nJapan Airlines' website says the icon \"lets other passengers know a child may be sitting there\". However, the airline warned the tool was not foolproof, as the icon might not appear if a ticket was booked through a third party or if there was a last-minute change of aircraft.\n\nEven so, venture capitalist Rahat Ahmed sent a tweet on Tuesday thanking Japan Airlines for \"warning\" him about where children were sitting.\n\n\"This really ought to be mandatory across the board, \" he said, adding that Qatar Airways should \"take note\".\n\n\"I had three screaming babies next to me on my [New York to Doha] flight two weeks ago,\" he added.\n\nHis tweet attracted a number of responses, with some offering support for the \"awesome\" website booking feature.\n\nHowever, other Twitter users urged people to be tolerant.\n\n\"They are babies, as we all once were. We need to learn tolerance or will soon start needing a map of seat locations for mouth breathers, droolers, farters, drunks, and perhaps a lot more things in life,\" said Twitter user G Sundar.\n\nAndrew Lim said: \"I used to feel and say exactly what you have just said - but after having my own son, I am very sympathetic to parents travelling with kids.\n\n\"If you're not happy with a screaming child in the cabin, then I am more than happy [for] you to try and reason with them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rahat Ahmed ✈️ Tokyo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeirdra Hardimon said: \"Babies are not capable developmentally to 'plan' crying or screaming.\"\n\nOther Twitter users said noise-cancelling headphones were the answer.\n\nJene Johnson said: \"Wow... get some noise cancelling headphones and go about your day.\"\n\n\"I don't understand people that complain about babies crying on planes. I put on my headphones and I hear nothing.\"\n\nAccording to the website flyingwithababy.com, one of the most family-friendly airlines is Etihad, which has extras such as free pushchairs to use at hubs.\n\nEmirates and Gulf Air also score highly according to the website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay: \"There's still a long way to go\".\n\nThe UK government is planning to put out \"concrete proposals\" next week for reaching a Brexit deal with the EU, the BBC understands.\n\nBrussels correspondent Adam Fleming said it was expected they would be revealed after the Tory conference but in time for scrutiny ahead of the EU summit on 17 October.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said the \"moment of truth\" was approaching.\n\nThe UK is currently due to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says this will happen whether or not there is a new deal with Brussels - but adds that he would prefer leaving with a deal.\n\nHowever, MPs have passed a law requiring Mr Johnson to seek an extension to the deadline from the bloc if he is unable to pass a deal in Parliament, or get MPs to approve a no-deal Brexit, by 19 October.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's first minister has warned that Mr Johnson could force through a no-deal Brexit unless the opposition acts.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"open-minded\" about who might emerge to lead a temporary government if Mr Johnson is removed from office in a vote of no confidence.\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said he had been told by a senior SNP source that the party's MPs were prepared to put Mr Corbyn in 10 Downing Street \"as soon as next week\" to extend the Brexit deadline and call an election.\n\nMr Barclay held talks with the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, on Friday, telling the BBC afterwards: \"I think there is still a long way to go. I think we are coming to the moment of truth in these negotiations.\n\n\"We are committed to securing a deal. The prime minister has made clear he wants a deal, but there has to be political will on both sides and that's what we are exploring.\"\n\nThe biggest obstacle to a deal is the backstop - the plan to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.\n\nThe policy - agreed to by former PM Theresa May in her withdrawal deal with the EU, which was rejected three times by Parliament - is unacceptable to many Conservative MPs.\n\nStephen Barclay and Michel Barnier met for Brexit talks in Brussels\n\nBut the European Commission said Mr Barnier had stressed to Mr Barclay during the meeting that it was \"essential\" there was a \"fully operational solution in the withdrawal agreement to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, protect the all-island economy and the integrity of the single market\".\n\n\"The EU remains open and willing to examine any workable and legally operative proposals that meet all these objectives,\" a statement issued after the meeting said.\n\nIf the UK's new proposals prove acceptable to the EU it would trigger a frantic period of treaty-making.\n\nThe experts at the European Commission would have to assess whether they are legally watertight and politically acceptable.\n\nThe 27 other member states would have to be consulted and the deal tweaked if they had concerns.\n\nIdeally this would all be done a week before the summit of EU leaders of 17 October.\n\nThat's an incredibly - and I mean incredibly - tight timeline by the standards of the Brexit process… by any EU process.\n\nAnd Brussels diplomats are very gloomy because they say the ideas tabled so far by the UK do not go in the right direction.\n\nSome think that means there's virtually no chance of agreement being reached next month.\n\nAlthough if the prime minister is only going to unveil his plans when Tory party conference has finished, does that mean he has an ace up his sleeve that he knows will satisfy the EU and antagonise his own party?\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for", "Sarah Barrass and Brandon Machin will be sentenced on 12 November\n\nA mother has admitted the murder of her two teenage sons and hatching a plot to kill four more of her children.\n\nSarah Barrass, 35, killed Tristan and Blake Barrass, aged 13 and 14, at a house in Shiregreen, Sheffield, on 24 May.\n\nFamily member Brandon Machin, 39, also pleaded guilty to their murder.\n\nAt Sheffield Crown Court, both admitted a further charge of conspiracy to murder six children, including Tristan and Blake.\n\nJudge Jeremy Richardson QC warned both defendants they could be sentenced to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.\n\n\"No words of mine can ever fully reflect the enormity of what you have both done,\" he said.\n\n\"The crimes you have committed quite frankly speak for themselves.\"\n\nHe told both he had \"little doubt\" they would be sentenced to \"several terms of life imprisonment\".\n\n\"This may well be a case... where a whole life order is imposed,\" he added.\n\nBikers provided an escort for the funeral of Tristan and Blake in August\n\nBarrass, of Gregg House Road, Sheffield, also pleaded guilty to five counts of attempted murder against four children.\n\nThe charges relate to both of the murdered boys and two of their siblings.\n\nHer four surviving children cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nNo details were given in court about how the children died or what happened in the house in the days before the deaths on 24 May.\n\nThe judge said the full case would be heard at sentencing on 12 November.\n\nThe charges of conspiracy to murder date from 14 to 20 May.\n\nThe attempted murder of Tristan, Blake and two other children happened on 23 May. The pair also attempted to murder one of the children again on 24 May.\n\nA whole-life order means a prisoner can never be considered for parole.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jay Sewell was stabbed three times in the attack, the court heard\n\nSeveral members of a family have been convicted of killing a teenager who was stabbed in a car in south east London.\n\nDaniel Grogan, 21, harboured \"intense feelings of jealousy and rejection\" towards Jay Sewell after the 18-year-old began a relationship with his ex.\n\nMr Sewell was attacked near Eltham last year by a group of nine people who were \"armed to the teeth\" after a \"feud\" over his girlfriend.\n\nGrogan was found guilty of murdering Mr Sewell after a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nViolence broke out on 11 December last year as a result of Grogan, of Grove Park, Lewisham, and his ex-girlfriend Gemma Hodder's relationship ending, the Crown Prosecution Service said.\n\nThe pair had broken up some months before, and Ms Hodder had started a new relationship with Mr Sewell.\n\nAccording to the CPS, Grogan had made numerous threats to kill Mr Sewell and made no secret of his jealousy just days before the killing.\n\nOn the night of Jay's death, the teenager and Ms Hodder, along with some friends, had driven up from Kent to Grove Park to confront Grogan.\n\nThey were confronted by a group who launched an attack on them which resulted in Mr Sewell being fatally stabbed. He later died in hospital.\n\nGrogan's parents, Robert and Ann, both 54 and both from Grove Park, Lewisham, were found not guilty of murder but were convicted of manslaughter and violent disorder.\n\nHis sister, Francesca Grogan, 30, of Grove Park, Lewisham, was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter, but found guilty of violent disorder.\n\nCharlie Dudley, 25, of Grove Park, was also convicted of manslaughter, but cleared of murder.\n\nLiam Hickey, 18, of Eltham, Jamie Bennett, 31, of Grove Park, and a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, were all found not guilty of murder and manslaughter - but guilty of violent disorder.\n\nAll will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi got engaged in Italy earlier this month\n\nPrincess Beatrice is engaged to her boyfriend Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, her parents have announced.\n\nThe 31-year-old daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, got engaged to the 34-year-old property tycoon in Italy earlier this month.\n\nThe princess, who is ninth in line to the throne, will marry Mr Mapelli Mozzi next year.\n\n\"We are both so excited to be embarking on this life adventure together,\" the pair said in a statement.\n\n\"We share so many similar interests and values, and we know that this will stand us in great stead for the years ahead, full of love and happiness,\" they added.\n\nThe couple said they were \"extremely happy\" to share the news of their engagement\n\nBeatrice said on Twitter she was \"so excited\" by the announcement, while her fiance said on Instagram: \"You will never be alone my love, my heart is your home.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of York said: \"We are thrilled that Beatrice and Edoardo have got engaged, having watched their relationship develop with pride.\"\n\n\"We are the lucky parents of a wonderful daughter who has found her love and companion in a completely devoted friend and loyal young man. We send them every good wish for a wonderful family future,\" they added.\n\n\"I know what a mother feels so I have tears of joy,\" the duchess added on Twitter.\n\n\"I am so proud of this sensational news,\" she said.\n\n\"Andrew and I are just the luckiest people ever to have two great sons in law.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Ferguson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Mapelli's parents, Nikki Williams-Ellis and Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, said they were \"truly delighted\" by the engagement.\n\n\"Our family has known Beatrice for most of her life. Edo and Beatrice are made for each other, and their happiness and love for each other is there for all to see,\" they said.\n\n\"They share an incredibly strong and united bond, their marriage will only strengthen what is already a wonderful relationship.\"\n\nPrincess Beatrice and her fiance Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at singer Ellie Goulding's wedding last month\n\nBeatrice (right) and Eugenie at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011\n\nBeatrice's sister, Princess Eugenie, married her long-term partner Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle in October 2018.\n\n\"I'm so happy for you my dearest big sissy and dear Edo,\" she said in an Instagram post congratulating the pair.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming and you two are meant to be,\" Eugenie added.\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi - known as Edo - is descended from Italian aristocracy, according to AFP.\n\nHe is the son of former alpine skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, who competed for Britain in the 1972 Olympics.\n\nHis mother, Nikki Williams-Ellis, was formerly known as Nikki Shale, from her marriage to the late Christopher Shale - Edoardo's stepfather.\n\nMr Shale - who died from heart disease at Glastonbury Festival in 2011 - was a senior Tory and close friend of former prime minister David Cameron.\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi has been a friend of Beatrice's family for some time.\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond, said he believed the pair had been together for about two years - and that they have only been seen together in public a handful of times. He said things have \"moved pretty quickly\".\n\nBeatrice is the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's granddaughter, and a cousin of the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex.\n\nHer parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, divorced in 1996. The duke, Prince Andrew, is the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nRoyal Family fans will be preparing to celebrate another royal wedding.\n\nIn addition to his royal engagements, Andrew served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011, when his links to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein forced him to step down.\n\nSince their separation the duchess has been involved in various charitable projects, appeared on British and American TV and published several children's books.\n\nFurther details of Beatrice's wedding will be announced in due course, her parents said.", "\"Get Brexit done,\" Boris Johnson adviser Dominic Cummings responds to Labour MP Karl Turner telling him he's \"had death threats overnight\".\n\nThe exchange was filmed in Parliament's Portcullis House.", "Jess Phillips told BBC News her staff had to be locked in her constituency office\n\nA man has been arrested for allegedly verbally abusing staff at MP Jess Phillips' constituency office.\n\nThe MP said her staff had to be locked inside the office in Birmingham while a man reportedly shouted \"fascist\" at them while hitting doors and windows.\n\nWest Midlands Police said they were called to a disturbance in Acocks Green at about 14:30 BST.\n\nA 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and possession of cannabis.\n\nHe has been taken into police custody and will be questioned in due course, the force said.\n\nThe Birmingham Yardley MP told BBC News she had since spoken to her team to check they were OK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Qasr al-Farid tomb in Madain Saleh is a Unesco World Heritage site\n\nSaudi Arabia will open its doors to international tourists for the first time as part of a broader push to cut its economic dependence on oil.\n\nOn Friday, the kingdom will launch a visa regime for 49 countries and relax strict dress codes for female visitors.\n\nTourism Minister Ahmad al-Khateeb described it as a \"historic moment\" for the country.\n\nVisas have until now largely been restricted to pilgrims, business people and expatriate workers.\n\nSaudi Arabia is also hoping to secure foreign investment in the tourism industry. It wants tourism to rise from 3% to 10% of gross domestic product by 2030.\n\n\"Visitors will be surprised... by the treasures we have to share - five Unesco World Heritage Sites, a vibrant local culture and breathtaking natural beauty,\" Mr Khateeb said.\n\nForeign women visitors will not be required to wear the body-covering abaya robe required to be worn in public by Saudi women, but must still dress modestly. There will also be no restrictions on unaccompanied women visiting the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi Arabia reforms: Are they good news for women?\n\n\"We have a culture. We believe our friends and our guests will respect the culture, but definitely it is modest and it will be very clear,\" Mr Khateeb said.\n\nNon-Muslims will still not be allowed to visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the ban on alcohol will be maintained.\n\nMore details on the scheme, including which countries are eligible, are due to be provided later on Friday.\n\nBut Mr Khateeb said he did not believe the recent attack on Saudi Arabia's oil industry would put people off visiting.\n\n\"Our cities are among the most safest cities globally. Therefore, we don't believe at all it will impact our plans. We have all the expats living in Saudi Arabia, enjoying Saudi Arabia. We're very secure,\" he said.\n\nThe moves to open up tourism is central to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's wider economic reform programme that aims to reduce the kingdom's focus on oil.\n\nUnder the plan, Saudi Arabia wants to increase international and domestic visits to 100 million a year by 2030. The government expects to create one million tourism jobs.\n\nStill, the push comes as the kingdom faces a tarnished international image amid criticism of its human rights record following last year's murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and a recent crackdown on women's rights activists.\n\nIn 2017 Saudi Arabia announced a massive tourism development project that will turn 50 islands and other sites on the Red Sea into luxury resorts.\n\nLast year construction began on Qiddiya \"entertainment city\" near Riyadh, which is to include high-end theme parks, motor sport facilities and a safari area.\n\nThis is not the first time Saudi Arabia has opened its doors to tourism. In the summer of 2000 it hired French Alpine instructors from Chamonix to take visitors rock-climbing and paragliding in the mountainous southwestern province of Asir. I jumped off a cliff with one of them in a tandem flight that had us soaring on thermals for 45 minutes, hundreds of feet above juniper forests where wild Hamadryas baboons foraged amongst the rocks.\n\nBut everything came to a grinding halt one year later after the 9/11 terrorist attacks involving, amongst others, 15 Saudi nationals.\n\nSince then, domestic and religious tourism have continued apace. Up to three million Muslims come to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina each year to make the Hajj pilgrimage.\n\nWith the country's hot, arid climate, a lot of Saudis like to get away to the over-developed Red Sea coast or to the cool, verdant mountains of Asir. The views here are simply stunning. But it is still Saudi Arabia, so don't expect cocktails at sundown!\n\nHave you visited Saudi Arabia? Where did you visit and how was your experience? Tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "An estimated 35,000 people working for police forces across England and Wales have not been properly vetted, a police watchdog report has found.\n\nThe number includes officers as well as non-frontline staff and contractors.\n\nThe report, by the Inspectorate of Constabulary, says forces must do more to root out sexual predators.\n\nIt highlights the case of Ian Naude, a predatory paedophile who slipped through the net and became a PC. He went on to rape a 13-year-old girl.\n\nThe inspectorate says vetting is the \"first line of defence\" for forces but warns that more than 10% of the police workforce do not have up-to-date vetting.\n\nNaude, who joined Cheshire Constabulary as a student constable, was among those cited in the report, which was published alongside broader findings on pressures facing the police workforce.\n\nHe was jailed for 25 years in December last year after he preyed on a teenager who he met when he was called to a domestic incident.\n\nNaude's trial was told that he joined the force to meet vulnerable young girls and have sex with them\n\nAt his trial, Naude was described as having joined the police to \"gain the keys to a sweet shop\".\n\nAccording to the report, better vetting would have revealed that complaints involving other children had been made against him to other forces.\n\nIt also highlighted the case of West Midlands officer Palvinder Singh, who bombarded vulnerable victims with hundreds of messages.\n\nThe inspectors - Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services - scrutinised 43 forces across England and Wales to look at those who abused their positions for sexual purposes. Five forces did not provide any vetting information but some details have since been given.\n\nPalvinder Singh was jailed for 14 months in July this year\n\nInspector of constabulary Zoe Billingham said the estimated 35,000 people who did not have the required levels of vetting could include officers and staff, as well as contractors and volunteers.\n\nShe said it was the \"best estimate\" since forces were inconsistent in how they recorded this information - but added the number could be higher.\n\n\"Most of the victims are women and most of the perpetrators are men,\" she said.\n\n\"Too often their abuser plays the role of the saviour in policing. They play the role of the knight in shining armour.\"\n\nInspectors also say two thirds of forces have outdated technology which means they cannot detect misuse of IT systems.\n\nThe report also says police watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct received 415 complaints under the category about abuse of position for sexual purposes in the three years to the end of March, .\n\nBut it is not clear in how many allegations of misconduct were found to be proven.\n\nA report published at the same time finds pressures on the police workforce have led to delays in attending calls, investigations taking too long, and officers and staff lacking adequate training and supervision.\n\nAlthough it says \"most forces are performing well\", it notes that \"a workforce under pressure cannot give the public its best level of service\".\n\nThe Inspectorate of Constabulary has also published a series of reports on individual forces. They include an inspection report on the scandal-hit Cleveland Police, which it found has been \"putting the public at risk\" because of a catalogue of failings.\n\nCommenting on the findings about vetting, Ms Billingham said she was \"deeply disappointed\" to find some forces had still not put even \"basic\" measures\" in place, despite inspectors calling for improvements for years.\n\nAnd she said there was \"no agreed way of passing soft intelligence between forces\" when police officers move to a new force, so predators who \"get wind\" of a complaint \"run before they are caught\".\n\nInspector of constabulary Matt Parr added: \"It is entirely possible for someone to be vetted and slip through the net. That's not an excuse for not doing it [vetting] in the first place.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it noted the concerns and recommendations, adding: \"The MPS is currently recruiting in large numbers and has made the decision to prioritise the vetting of new police officers in order to grow our officer numbers as quickly as possible. This means that some other cases will take longer, including the re-vetting of existing staff. However, we have taken steps to increase the size of the vetting team to cope with the increased demand.\n\n\"This will take some time to become fully effective but good progress is being made.\"", "The new owner shipped the Georgian-style mansion down the Tred Avon River on a 50-mile journey. The ageing property will be restored once at its new home in Queenstown, Maryland.", "Boris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nThe police watchdog is to decide whether or not to investigate Boris Johnson for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office while he was London mayor.\n\nIt is alleged businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri received favourable treatment due to her friendship with Mr Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister was referred by the Greater London Authority on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson has denied any impropriety, while a government source described the referral as \"politically motivated\".\n\nThe allegations regarding Mr Johnson's friendship with technology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri first emerged last weekend in the Sunday Times.\n\nThey refer to claims that Ms Arcuri joined trade missions led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor of London and that her company received several thousand pounds in sponsorship grants.\n\nThe Greater London Authority's monitoring officer - whose job it is to monitor the conduct of the mayor and other members - said it had written to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nIt said it had referred the PM to the IOPC \"so it can assess whether or not it is necessary to investigate the former mayor of London for the criminal offence of misconduct in public office\".\n\nIt added that it has recorded a \"conduct matter\" against Mr Johnson which happens when there is information that indicates that a criminal offence may have been committed.\n\nBut it does not mean that a criminal offence is proved in any way, the GLA's monitoring officer added.\n\n\"The IOPC will now consider if it is necessary for the matter to be investigated.\"\n\nThe reason the IOPC is involved is because the role of the mayor of London is also London's police and crime commissioner.\n\nThe IOPC deals with complaints against police forces in England and Wales\n\nIn a letter to the PM setting out the referral, the monitoring officer says: \"The conduct matter relates to your time as mayor of London between 2008 and 2016.\n\n\"During this time it has been brought to my attention that you maintained a friendship with Ms Jennifer Arcuri and as a result of that friendship allowed Ms Arcuri to participate in trade missions and receive sponsorship monies in circumstances when she and her companies could not have expected otherwise to receive those benefits.\"\n\nResponding to the referral, No 10 said: \"The prime minister, as Mayor of London, did a huge amount of work when selling our capital city around the world, beating the drum for London and the UK.\n\n\"Everything was done with propriety and in the normal way.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Everything done in the proper way\"\n\nA senior government source said the timing of the referral, coming days before the start of the Conservative Party conference, was \"overtly political\" and \"a politically motivated attack\".\n\n\"No evidence of any allegations has been provided by the monitoring officer nor was the PM given any opportunity to respond to the monitoring officer prior to the publishing of a press release late on a Friday night,\" the source said.\n\n\"The public and media will rightly see through such a nakedly political put-up job.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell tweeted: \"It's important to note that this was a decision by the GLA monitoring officer, who is a completely, independent non political official.\"\n\nMs Arcuri appearing on the BBC's Talking Business programme in 2013\n\nThe BBC has now spoken to several people who went on the overseas \"trade missions\" with Boris Johnson to Malaysia and Singapore, to New York, and to Tel Aviv.\n\nThey said that Jennifer Arcuri seemed a bit out of place on the trips, as her companies were much less substantial than those of the other participants,\n\nJennifer Arcuri was originally turned down for the trip to Malaysia and Singapore, but then re-applied using a different company and was accepted.\n\nShe was told her companies were not relevant for the trip to New York, but she went under her own steam and was allowed into some of the events.\n\nShe was also turned down for the Tel Aviv trip, but Boris Johnson's office intervened and she was allowed to join the trade mission. She paid for her own flight, and although the organisers of the trip, London & Partners, booked a hotel for her, she settled the bill.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Johnson denied any wrongdoing, telling the BBC's John Pienaar: \"All I can say is I am very proud of what we did as mayor of London... particularly banging the drum for our city and country around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can tell you that absolutely everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said he would comply with an order from the London Assembly to explain his links to Ms Arcuri.\n\nHowever he added: \"But on this particular matter, I think they are barking up the wrong tree.\"\n\nSeparately, a junior minister, Matt Warman, has said the government has launched a \"review\" of the £100,000 award made in February this year to Ms Arcuri's training company Hacker House.\n\nBut he insisted it had been an \"open, transparent and competitive process\".", "Warning: this article contains details of domestic violence which some people might find upsetting\n\n\"I was banging on windows, screaming. Every time I'd scream, he'd put his fist in my throat - I couldn't breathe.\"\n\nBethany Marchant was subjected to a violent attack by her then-partner Stefan Carr.\n\nOn Monday he was jailed for 11 years and three months for the assault on Bethany and an earlier attack on a previous partner.\n\nBethany, 24, says she is speaking out to encourage others to seek help if they're in a violent relationship.\n\n\"Get out there, have your say, and don't be pushed down by these people. They belong in prison, they don't deserve to be here,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nBethany and Stefan had been together for seven months.\n\nShe says there were \"no warning signs\" that he was a violent man and he was \"charming and so kind\" to her.\n\nIt was the night Stefan, from Castleford, confessed to cheating on Bethany that \"all the torture started\".\n\nA long argument turned into a sustained series of attacks on Bethany - which were caught on the CCTV at his home on 5 May.\n\n\"He locked the door, took my phone off me, he would suffocate me, strangle me,\" Bethany says.\n\n\"This went on for hours until eventually he got a ready-made noose from a chest of drawers and hung me from the door for three minutes.\"\n\nShe says he dropped her to the floor and she \"was vomiting everywhere\".\n\nCarr's house was covered by CCTV cameras he had installed which recorded his assault\n\nBethany says she managed to persuade Carr to take her to the hospital - but instead, on the drive, he told her he was going to drown her \"in a nearby reservoir\".\n\nThe police then arrived - which she says was due to the neighbours.\n\n\"The neighbours had seen Stefan with a knife at my throat through the window and they'd phoned the police.\n\n\"They made another call once they could see Stefan putting me in the van. If they hadn't rung the police, I wouldn't be here today.\"\n\nStefan Carr admitted four counts of assault and one of attempted assault\n\nCarr was jailed for four counts of assault and one of attempted assault - two of the charges related to attacks on his previous partner.\n\nBethany says hearing the prison sentence for Carr \"was hard\".\n\n\"It didn't feel like closure. I thought immediately I would feel better and I didn't.\"\n\nBut she adds \"it was a relief\" and that \"a big weight had been lifted\".\n\n\"I'd been holding it in since May, it was nice to finally have my say.\"\n\nAccording to statistics from the ONS, two million adults - including 1.3 million women - aged 16 to 59 years experienced domestic abuse in the last year up to March - an increase of 23% from the previous year.\n\nMum-of-one Bethany says \"it's been really difficult\" but moving forward she \"can now seek help\".\n\nShe says she wants to get the message out to \"people who are suffering in relationships that there is hope out there\".\n\n\"You just need to be brave and seek help. Get out there, have your say, and don't be pushed down by these people.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article help and advice is available here.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "In a Westminster-clad puff of smoke, any residual \"maybes\" about a new Brexit deal being agreed by mid-October have evaporated in Brussels.\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, is well-known here for having a coffee mug in his office emblazoned with \"Keep Calm and Negotiate\".\n\nBut although EU-UK technical talks have been carrying on at a low level this week, a diplomat from a key EU country described as \"pretty much nil\" the chances of getting a new deal done and dusted by the EU leaders' summit in a couple of weeks' time.\n\nMr Barnier repeated again on Thursday that UK ideas to date on how to replace the Irish border backstop have failed - in his opinion - to meet the EU criteria of safeguarding the Northern Ireland peace process and the single market. He said Boris Johnson's proposals might even require the EU to suspend its own rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile Downing Street insists its Brexit proposals are serious and that the onus is also on the EU to make compromises, Brussels seems demotivated.\n\n\"Even if we manage to reach an agreement with [Boris] Johnson - which is an outside chance anyway,\" a diplomat from a southern European country told me, \"do we really think that the angry, divided House of Commons will approve a Johnson-brokered Brexit deal?\"\n\nThe diplomat clearly didn't. And that's important. It means the EU believes there is no point compromising right now.\n\nBrussels is also unconvinced that the prime minister is willing to make what it views as real compromises. They think he wants to keep his hard Brexiteer credentials intact ahead of a general election.\n\nSo is the EU assuming that a no-deal Brexit is round the corner?\n\nNot really. EU politicians now believe a new three-month Brexit extension is the most likely next step. And Boris Johnson is right. That belief does take the pressure off them somewhat. It's yet another factor deterring Brussels from offering significant compromises in current negotiations.\n\nBut the EU is aware that the route to a new extension is neither straightforward nor guaranteed.\n\nParliament may have passed a law instructing the government to request a new extension if a Brexit deal isn't reached by mid-October. But if Boris Johnson refuses - as he insists would be the case - then EU leaders would normally listen to him, their peer, as head of Her Majesty's government.\n\nEU sources point at Spain (and the Catalan issue) as to why leaders alone - not parliaments - represent member countries at the EU table.\n\nBut as so often when it comes to Brexit, this situation is messy.\n\nEU diplomats suggest Boris Johnson might refuse an extension and resign after 31 October to stay clear of any political fallout\n\nIn fact, EU lawyers won't give a definite answer as to what the EU would definitely do if, with a no deal Brexit looming, parliament demands a new Brexit extension while the prime minister says no.\n\nEU rules on how to deal with a departing country - the so-called Article 50 text - don't specify that an extension request must come from a government but rather from \"the member state concerned\".\n\nThe EU could offer an extension unprompted but the decision to trigger one has to be unanimous amongst EU leaders and the UK.\n\nThis is a real nail-biter for EU leaders. They have so wanted to stay out of UK domestic politics, but if and when it comes to the extension debate, they could find themselves slap bang in the middle of the fight between parliament and the PM.\n\nAlways keen to kick the can down the road when agreement can't yet be reached, EU diplomats muse that, with his options dwindling, Boris Johnson could choose to make a big stand at the October summit, ostentatiously refusing to ask for an extension when he meets with EU leaders (to score points with hard-line Brexiteers at home) and then resign. This would allow him to keep his hands clean of any extension, while a caretaker government requests one.\n\nEU hopefuls cite this hypothetical scenario as a reason not to give up. A three-month extension, they say, could allow time to agree a compromise Brexit deal with the UK by the end of the year.\n\nOr not. Glued as they are to watching the heated House of Commons scenes on their screens, EU insiders readily admit no-one has a clue what might happen in UK politics right now from one day to the next.", "Mr Corbyn made the announcement at a rally in the constituency of Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith, who originally implemented the universal credit scheme\n\nA future Labour government would scrap universal credit - which merges six benefits into one payment, the party's leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced.\n\nHe promised an interim benefit payment after two weeks, across the UK, to replace a five-week waiting period.\n\nThe government said Labour's plans were \"reckless\" and amounted to \"political point-scoring\", but acknowledged there was work to do to improve the system.\n\nUniversal credit is being introduced in stages across the UK.\n\nSupporters of the welfare reform say it helps to simplify a complicated benefits system - and ensures no-one would be better off claiming benefits than working.\n\nBut it has been controversial since its introduction in 2013, with critics saying it has made life harder for those receiving it.\n\nSome women have described being forced into sex work because of the failings of the scheme, while landlords have said some tenants have slipped into rent arrears since being put on universal credit.\n\nA loophole in the online system has been exploited to make fraudulent applications and claim advance loans, with millions of pounds stolen as a result.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jade Thomas was left hundreds of pounds out of pocket by a universal credit fraudster\n\nMr Corbyn said the welfare state ideal had been \"sliced apart, cut apart and destroyed\".\n\nHe promised that a Labour government would introduce \"an emergency package of reforms\" leading up to scrapping universal credit including:\n\nLabour also wants to drop the benefit cap which limits the amount of benefit a person can receive.\n\nShadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne said while the system could not be \"completely replaced overnight\", the announcement was \"more than an aspiration\" and \"the next Labour government will replace universal credit\".\n\nMr Corbyn made his announcement at a rally in Chingford and Woodford Green alongside Faiza Shaheen, Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for the constituency at the next election.\n\nThe London seat is currently held by Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith, who originally implemented the universal credit scheme when he was work and pensions secretary.\n\nAhead of the rally, Labour said Mr Corbyn was critical of the welfare project for being \"over-budget\", calling it \"inhumane\" for the way it would \"punish and police\" applicants, and make them wait five weeks for their first payment.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Corbyn said Labour would bring in 5,000 benefit advisers to help applicants.\n\nOfficials say claimants can receive payment immediately if an emergency arises\n\nLabour also says it would drop the system's \"digital-only\" requirement, arguing that it excludes those who do not have access to the internet.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions argues claimants can get paid urgently if required.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said: \"This is totally irresponsible from Jeremy Corbyn, who now admits he would happily scrap financial support for vulnerable people with no plan as to what Labour would replace it with.\"\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation said it would welcome significant reform \"but any changes need to avoid further upheaval for those who depend on it\".\n\nThe charity's director for policy and partnerships, Helen Barnard, said Labour's proposals appeared to \"get rid of some of the worst bits of universal credit which we know are pulling some people into really difficult poverty and debt\", citing sanctions and the five-week wait for the first payment.\n\nHowever, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there were also aspects of the system, including the way it avoids people moving to a different benefit when they begin work, which should be preserved.\n\nDirector of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson said while Labour was proposing a series of changes to universal credit, the announcement did not appear to be calling for an end to the idea of merging six benefits into one payment, which he said had simplified the system.\n\nFood bank charity the Trussell Trust welcomed the end of the five-week wait - as proposed by Labour - but warned that the party's plans could create further problems.\n\nIt said that \"scrapping universal credit may only result in further upheaval\".", "Police were called to a disturbance outside Jess Phillips' constituency office on Thursday\n\nA 36-year-old man has been charged with a public order offence after a disturbance outside an MP's office.\n\nPolice were called to MP Jess Phillips' constituency office in Acocks Green, Birmingham, at about 14:30 BST on Thursday.\n\nMichael Roby, of Vimy Road, in Birmingham's Hall Green area - outside of Ms Phillips' Yardley constituency - has been released on conditional bail.\n\nHe is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on 10 October.\n\nMr Roby was also arrested on suspicion of possessing cannabis but West Midlands Police said there would be no further action on this.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says it has now flown a total of 61,000 Thomas Cook customers back to the UK, taking the total to 40% of passengers.\n\nOn Thursday it used 69 flights to bring back 15,000 people as part of its repatriation scheme following the collapse of the holiday group.\n\nSome 72 flights are due to operate on Friday to return 16,000 people.\n\nThe CAA says Operation Matterhorn will continue until 6 October with more than 1,000 flights planned in total.\n\nThe authority said 95% of passengers have been flown home on the planned day of their departure.\n\n\"An operation of this scale and complexity will inevitably cause some inconvenience and disruption and I am very grateful to holidaymakers for bearing with us as we work around the clock to bring them home,\" said Richard Moriarty, chief executive of the CAA.\n\nSeparately, Thomas Cook staff are due to meet at Manchester Airport today. They plan to raise the topic of unpaid wages.\n\nThe latest data from the Insolvency Service shows that 6,000 Thomas Cook staff in the UK have been made redundant and just over 3,000 employees are currently retained.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed after it failed to find funding to continue paying its bills. Its appeal to the government for £250m was rebuffed.\n\nCondor, Thomas Cook's German-based airline business, received a €380m (£336m) loan from the German government which will allow it to operate until a buyer is found.\n\nThere had been warning signals that all was not well at Thomas Cook.\n\nIn May, the company reported a £1.5bn loss for the first half of its financial year, with £1.1bn of the loss caused by the decision to revalue My Travel, the business it merged with in 2007.\n\nThomas Cook also came close to collapse in 2011. Trading was weak and, just as now, it had too much debt. The firm owed about £2bn when the pension deficit was included. Its rescue plan involved a £425m fundraising from shareholders to help it cut borrowings.\n\nHowever, all that rescue money was used up, taking its debts back to about £1.7bn by the time the company collapsed.", "A plan to close a Catholic school in August 2020 has been delayed to enable its attempt to transform into an integrated school.\n\nSeaview Primary in Glenarm has now been earmarked for closure in 2021 by the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS).\n\nIf Seaview succeeds in becoming an integrated school, it will be the first Catholic school to change in that way.\n\nPupil numbers have increased by more than 50% since plans were announced.\n\nThe school had 42 pupils in 2018/19 but this jumped to 67 in the current school year.\n\nThe legal process by which a school changes to become integrated is called transformation.\n\nActor Liam Neeson had previously appealed for more parents to consider making the change in their children's schools.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA ballot of parents is required before transformation can begin and at least 50% must take part.\n\nIn a ballot at Seaview in June 2019, 40 out of 42 parents who responded voted in favour of the integrated option.\n\nCCMS has just published a case for change document explaining their decision to close Seaview Primary School.\n\nThe decision is mainly due to concerns over the school's sustainability.\n\nFor instance, enrolment had gradually declined from 68 pupils in 2008/09 to 42 a decade later.\n\n\"There was no evidence that as a Catholic Maintained School there would be a significant increase in demand in the short, medium or long term in the area to impact the enrolment numbers significantly,\" the CCMS case for change said.\n\nThe school's principal Barry Corr and the board of governors \"strongly opposed\" the decision to close Seaview Primary School in August 2020.\n\nHowever they also requested that CCMS delay plans to close the school by a year to enable them to have more time to transform to integrated status.\n\nThere is already an integrated primary school in Carnlough, less than three miles from Seaview Primary School.\n\nAccording to the CCMS case for change, no agreement could be reached on a potential amalgamation of the two schools.\n\nSeaview Primary School must now submit a separate development proposal to the Education Authority (EA) to become integrated.\n\nThe EA will then hold a consultation on the plans.\n\nHowever, it will be up to the Department of Education (DE) to make the final decision on whether the school should become formally integrated and remain open.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe ringleaders of a Vietnamese crime gang have been jailed after police seized 2.5 tonnes of cannabis worth about £6m in raids across south Wales.\n\nA total of 21 people have been sentenced in a case going back to 2017 after dozens of cannabis factories were uncovered across the region and beyond.\n\nOne of the defendants initially claimed to be 14 years old, but police proved he was actually aged 26.\n\nThe gang leaders were sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Friday.\n\nBang Xuan Luong, 44, was sentenced to eight years in prison. His partner, 42-year-old Vu Thi Thu Thuy, was jailed for six years and Tuan Anh Pham, 20, who was described in court as the \"IT Man\", received five years.\n\nAn investigation into a cannabis factory in the Cynon Valley led officers from South Wales Police's Force Intelligence and Organised Crime Unit (FIOCU) to a string of others across south Wales, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys force areas.\n\nThe gang, all from Vietnam, were arrested as part of Operation Violet Panama, which saw the three police forces and the National Crime Agency raid 19 addresses in November 2017.\n\nIn addition to 15 cannabis factories, the investigation led to the detection of more than 30 further factories and storage facilities across Wales and as far afield as Coventry, all linked to the gang.\n\nDuring hearings at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court, 19 of 23 defendants plead guilty to conspiracy to produce a Class B drug, two people were found guilty by a jury and two others were acquitted.\n\nThe court heard that the \"industrial-scale\" operation was expected to have netted the leaders of the gang somewhere in the region of £25m, with much of the proceeds sent back to Vietnam.\n\nDuring initial court proceedings, the court heard the gang's kingpin, Bang Xuan Luong oversaw the operation from his five-bedroom home in Aberdare.\n\nPolice tracked the operation to more than 45 premises across south Wales and as far as Coventry\n\nA total of £23,000 was also seized but police believe the gang made millions from the \"enterprise\"\n\nPots of £50 notes were found when officers raided his address.\n\nHis co-accused, Tuan Anh Pham was said to have been responsible for renting the properties and their upkeep, the court heard.\n\nSuch was the complexity of the network, with the majority of the gang having entered the country illegally and holding false documents, investigating officers gave each defendant an alias - all brands of breakfast cereals - in order to identify them and the role they each played in the conspiracy.\n\nKhanh Van Pham, 26, had tried to claim he was aged 14\n\nFurther adding to the complicated investigation, one of the defendants - Khanh Van Pham, 26 - claimed to be 14 years old and officers had to spend months working to prove this was not the case.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to two separate counts of cannabis production, and perverting the course of justice and was jailed for four years, 10 months in July.\n\nPolice carried out 17 raids as part of the operation in November 2017\n\n\"The convictions conclude a protracted and complex investigation in to what was an extremely organised and lucrative operation,\" said Det Ch Insp Dean Taylor from South Wales Police.\n\nIwan Jenkins, from the CPS, said evidence including notes and text messages were translated into English and confirmed defendants' involvement in the drugs conspiracy.\n\n\"Mobile phones showed the location history of some of their devices which were found to have visited cannabis factories linked to the gang,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ellie Cooper is the daughter of Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, pictured\n\nThe daughter of an MP has said she is \"scared every single day\" for her mother's safety, in an emotional plea to politicians over their language.\n\nEllie Cooper, whose parents are Labour MP Yvette Cooper and ex-MP Ed Balls, said she is terrified \"something awful\" like Jo Cox's murder could be repeated.\n\n\"I am scared when our house gets fitted with panic buttons... and explosive bags to catch the mail,\" she tweeted.\n\nIt comes as the PM was criticised for his words used in Wednesday's debate.\n\nBoth Yvette Cooper and Mr Balls - who was an MP until 2015 - responded to Ellie's tweets, saying they were \"proud\" of their daughter.\n\n\"We get used to handling all the things that get thrown at us, but it's harder to see it through your children's eyes,\" she said.\n\nIn a lengthy Twitter thread posted on Thursday afternoon, Ellie Cooper said the language of Boris Johnson was \"just beyond words\".\n\nShe writes: \"I was 17 when Jo Cox was murdered. I just rang my mum, who is Yvette Cooper, on my way home from school to complain about the usual things and I distinctly remember her interrupting me to say 'an MP's been shot.'\n\n\"I can honestly say my perspective of the world completely changed that day.\n\n\"Before then, my mum's job was something that kept her working later than bedtime when I was a kid, the source of embarrassing conversations at school, the reason we travelled to and fro between Yorkshire and London every week for the first two thirds of my life.\n\n\"It was never something that could get her killed.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I am scared when I scroll through the replies to her tweets calling her a liar and a traitor.\n\n\"I am scared when our house gets fitted with panic buttons, industrial-locking doors and explosive bags to catch the mail.\n\n\"I am scared because on the 16th of June 2016, two children said goodbye to their mother before she left for her constituency to sit in surgeries and help people all day, and never saw her again.\n\n\"I am scared every single day that the same will happen to mine.\"\n\nEd Balls, who was an MP until 2015, and Yvette Cooper when they were both in cabinet in 2010\n\nMs Cooper said \"of course people have strong opinions\" but called on Mr Johnson to \"take a stand\" to call for an end to \"inflammatory and aggressive language\".\n\nShe described the scenes in the House of Commons on Wednesday - which was the first time MPs had returned to Parliament since it was prorogued - as \"chilling\".\n\nThe debate descended into rowdiness on Wednesday evening, with several MPs criticising the prime minister for his language and urging him to refrain from using words like \"surrender\".\n\nMr Johnson had called the legislation which aims to block a no-deal Brexit a \"surrender bill\".\n\nThe prime minister has also been urged to apologise for saying the best way to honour Ms Cox - who was killed in Birstall, West Yorkshire in 2016 - was to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nBrendan Cox, the husband of Ms Cox, also said he had been shocked by the language used and the Brexit debate had become a \"bear pit of polarisation\".\n\nMr Johnson has refused to apologise for his language.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Johnson defended his words and insisted he \"deplores any threats to anybody, particularly female MPs\" and said \"tempers need to come down\" in Parliament.\n\nWhen asked if he was apologising for his language, he said: \"Obviously I'm deeply sorry for the threats that MPs face and I think it's very important we look after them, particularly look after female MPs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson \"deplores threats\" against MPs but doesn't apologise for his use of language\n\nHe added that the death of Jo Cox was an \"absolute tragedy\".\n\n\"But it's also important to protect the right of MPs to speak freely in the House of Commons about important political matters and the fact of the so-called Benn Act is that it surrenders our powers,\" he added.\n\nTory chairman James Cleverly has called criticism of the PM \"deeply unfair\".\n\nHe said the debate over Brexit in the House of Commons had generated \"a huge amount of temper on both sides\", adding: \"The best thing we can do to calm things down is to get it delivered, get it resolved.\"", "Mothers who talk to their teenage children in a \"controlling tone of voice\" are more likely to start an argument than get a positive response, according to researchers.\n\nThe Cardiff University study examined the responses of 14 and 15-year-olds to instructions given to them in different ways of speaking.\n\nIt showed that mothers wanting to persuade teenagers to co-operate got better results when they sounded \"supportive\" rather than when they applied pressure.\n\nThe researchers said that in terms of young people's behaviour there has been little evidence about the impact of \"tone of voice\", rather than the words or actions of parents.\n\nThe study used classic set-piece family arguments - such as trying to get a teenager to do their homework or to get ready for school in the morning.\n\nIn the experiment, more than 1,000 youngsters, aged 14 and 15, were subjected to the same instructions delivered in different styles.\n\nThe research, published in the journal Developmental Psychology, used recordings of mothers but did not examine whether there would be similar reactions to fathers.\n\nIt found that mothers using a \"controlling\" voice that tried to pressurise a teenager had a counter-productive effect, raising the youngsters' hackles and creating a negative response.\n\nA \"neutral\" voice generated a broadly neutral reaction, neither motivating nor making teenagers more defensive.\n\nBut a warmer, more \"supportive\" voice that tried to cajole and encourage rather than confront, was the most successful way of getting teenagers to carry out the request.\n\n\"If parents want conversations with their teens to have the most benefit, it's important to remember to use supportive tones of voice,\" said report author Netta Weinstein.\n\n\"It's easy for parents to forget, especially if they are feeling stressed, tired, or pressured themselves.\"\n\nCo-author Silke Paulmann, from the University of Essex's Department of Psychology, said the results showed \"how powerful our voice is\".\n\n\"Choosing the right tone to communicate is crucial in all of our conversations,\" said Prof Paulmann.", "Cleveland Police has become the first force in England and Wales to be rated inadequate across all areas of performance. The police watchdog went so far as to say it is \"putting the public at risk\" - so what are its key failings?\n\nThe organisation, which has lurched from one crisis to another in recent years, has had five chief constables since 2012 when Sean Price was sacked after lying about his role in the recruitment of the former police authority chairman's daughter.\n\nIt was effectively put in special measures earlier this year, but Chief Constable Richard Lewis, who was appointed in April, has vowed to turn things around. As he admits, he has a difficult job on his hands.\n\nWhen staff were asked to provide feedback about how they saw the force operating, they described it as \"directionless, rudderless and clueless\".\n\nAnd with the publication of the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services report, the force's inadequacies have been laid bare for all to see.\n\nInspectors said they had \"serious concerns the force is leaving vulnerable victims at risk\".\n\nThey noted there were \"too many examples\" of officers not identifying vulnerable people - including children - and either providing a delayed response or failing to respond at all.\n\nSuch failings led to it missing opportunities to safeguard the vulnerable and exposed them to danger and \"high levels of repeat victimisation\".\n\nIn the 12 months to April 2019, the number of domestic abuse repeat victims increased by 21% compared with the previous 12 months, inspectors found. Nearly half of the incidents reported involved people who were repeat victims, but in \"too many cases\" officers were not proactively pursuing offenders.\n\nSome domestic abuse cases were investigated by officers who were not specially trained\n\nAdditionally children in domestic abuse households were not classed as vulnerable and therefore exposed to harm.\n\nWith not enough officers on shift, the force also struggled to respond to missing persons calls quickly. Inspectors found examples of youngsters being reported missing overnight and no-one trying to locate them until the next morning.\n\nYasmin Khan, founder and director of Middlesbrough's Halo Project, which supports victims of honour-based violence, said some victims and survivors had had a \"terrible experience\".\n\nBut Ms Khan, who is also part of the Cleveland Women's Network, said she had hopes the force's new chief constable would make changes.\n\nShe added: \"We know of instances where investigations have not been carried out properly and, as a collective of women's charities on Teesside, we have had serious concerns about how some have been let down.\n\n\"But we have been encouraged by the responses by the new chief constable and hope that a collection of policy changes will make a difference.\n\n\"I believe they want to make positive changes.\"\n\nInspectors found there had been a \"significant deterioration\" in the way Cleveland Police prevents offences.\n\nDespite a 17.6% rise in crime in the past year and 12 killings, the report made the scathing assessment that \"crime prevention isn't a priority for the force and this is a cause of concern\".\n\nA lack of leadership was highlighted alongside issues over the way neighbourhood policing teams are staffed and operated.\n\nThe way investigations are conducted attracted further criticism, with strategies described as \"ad hoc\" and \"not well co-ordinated\".\n\nThose issues mean the force \"doesn't engage well with its communities\" and \"doesn't fully understand local concerns\", the report concluded.\n\nInspectors told the force to improve the quality of investigations, as well as taking immediate steps to ensure more direction is given and resources are properly allocated.\n\nThe behaviour of high-ranking officers and staff set alarm bells ringing, with many \"not taking responsibility\" and concerns some were \"not acting with honesty, integrity and competence\".\n\nThe inspectorate's report stated their behaviour was having a \"profoundly negative effect\".\n\nLeaders \"knew things were happening that put vulnerable victims at risk but were not taking action\" and made changes to processes without considering what impact they could have on victims and other vulnerable people.\n\nWhen inspectors asked for information about actions being taken by the force, senior officers were \"unable to provide evidence to support some of the things they claimed were happening\" with the watchdog finding a number of \"incorrect\" statements. Key information being passed on by officers to the chief constable was deemed not \"trustworthy\".\n\nGlen Teeley, chair of the Cleveland Police Federation, said: \"In the past there has been a lack of leadership and strategic direction, which has meant officers have been forced to deal with difficult circumstances for quite some time.\n\n\"This is on top of trying to manage unprecedented levels of demand with hugely diminished resources.\n\n\"However, we now have a new chief constable and a new senior management team.\n\n\"We will continue to work with him and support our members throughout the changes to ensure their welfare and wellbeing is prioritised so they can serve the public to the very best of their ability.\n\n\"Things can only get better from here.\"\n\nStruggling to deal with all incidents involving vulnerable people, the force leaves over a third of them waiting for a response.\n\nIn order to help the organisation meet its response time targets, officers frequently downgraded the severity of incidents.\n\n\"Priority\" calls requiring a response within 60 minutes were \"inappropriately downgraded\" to a lesser status, meaning victims endured a \"significantly longer wait\".\n\nInspectors said the force was \"intentionally suppressing demand\" by inaccurately recording response figures\n\nWhile data showed the force had a 90% response rate to emergency incidents in April 2019, its actual response rate was 64%.\n\nInspectors had already flagged up the issue to the force in July 2018, but it continued to report inaccurate data until the team visited again in May this year.\n\nAlthough some improvements had been made, the inspection team found the organisation is failing to identify officers and staff \"most at risk\" of corruption.\n\nDespite holding some information, it \"doesn't refer to profiling corrupt employees, identifying locations within the force where corruption is more prevalent, or understanding external corruptors\", inspectors said.\n\nAdditionally, the force's assessment of counter-corruption threats did not match up with national categories.\n\nInspectors reviewed 57 items of corruption intelligence and found 14 required further work.\n\nExamples were also found of staff restricting the parameters of corruption investigations and ignoring the possibility of other risks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The factory which Wrightbus operates from is not owned by a group company\n\nThe family which owned Wrightbus have denied they acted unreasonably during attempts to sell the business.\n\nThe Wrightbus factory is owned by Jeff Wright, separately from the manufacturing company.\n\nIt is understood that potential buyers were being asked for about £1m a year to lease the property.\n\nMeanwhile, a church led by Mr Wright has said it understands \"the hurt, anger and confusion felt by so many\" at the loss of 1,200 jobs in Ballymena.\n\nThe Green Pastures charity received £15m in donations from Wrightbus over six years.\n\nThe Wright Group went into administration on Wednesday.\n\nOn Friday, a Green Pastures Church spokesperson said that many of its congregation \"have been personally affected by these job losses\".\n\n\"We are doing all we can to support them at this time,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As with any donation we receive as a church, we are incredibly grateful for the support the Wright family have offered us.\n\n\"They, along with many others, chose to be generous when their family business enabled them to do so.\"\n\nWrightbus donated £15m to Green Pastures over six years\n\nThe Wrightbus factory is owned separately from the manufacturing company by a firm called Whirlwind Property Two, which is controlled by Jeff Wright.\n\nThis is understood to have been a sticking point during the sales negotiation and was alluded to by the prime minister in a BBC interview on Thursday.\n\nThe Wright family said that one bidder had agreed to rent the factory but later withdrew the offer.\n\nThey said: \"Last week there were two final bidders in discussions regarding acquisition of Wright Group.\n\n\"A rental agreement for the sites was reached with one bidder, who then pulled out of the deal on Friday 20 September.\n\n\"A second bidder discussed purchasing the sites, but no formal letter of offer was made from that bidder.\n\n\"Any reports to the contrary are completely inaccurate.\"\n\nMid and East Antrim Council held a redundancy clinic at The Braid in Ballymena on Friday.\n\nIt said it had identified 250 job vacancies that could be suitable for workers who had been made redundant.", "Former cabinet minister Amber Rudd has accused Downing Street of using language that could \"incite violence\".\n\nThe MP, who quit the Conservative parliamentary party earlier this month, told the Evening Standard No 10's recent words were seen to encourage a \"more aggressive approach\".\n\nIt follows a stormy week, in which several MPs criticised the PM's use of language during Commons debates.\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted he \"deplores any threats to anybody\".\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Prince Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, where he announced £200m extra for NHS cancer-screening equipment, he said any intimidation of MPs was \"appalling\".\n\nOn Thursday, the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings said the anger directed against politicians was \"not surprising\".\n\nThe former Vote Leave campaign director said the only way to end the problem would be for MPs to \"respect\" the result of the EU referendum and implement Brexit.\n\nThe parliamentary tensions have led 120 archbishops and bishops to warn against \"further entrenching our divisions\".\n\nIn her interview with the Evening Standard, Ms Rudd, the former home secretary and work and pensions secretary, said: \"The sort of language I'm afraid we've seen more and more of coming out from Number 10 does incite violence.\n\n\"It's the sort of language people think legitimises a more aggressive approach and sometimes violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour's Paula Sherriff referred to Jo Cox, the MP murdered in 2016, as she pleaded with the prime minister to refrain from using \"dangerous\" words like \"surrender\".\n\nMr Johnson described her intervention as \"humbug\".\n\nThe prime minister was also repeatedly challenged over his use of the words \"surrender bill\" and \"surrender act\" to describe legislation passed earlier this month which aims to block a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nHe went on to say that \"the best way to honour the memory of Jo Cox and indeed the best way to bring this country together would be, I think, to get Brexit done\".\n\nSeveral MPs said the prime minister should apologise for this comment during a further debate on Thursday.\n\nThe Commons also heard of threats faced by politicians, with independent MP Caroline Nokes describing how someone had called her a \"traitor who deserved to be shot\" on a walkabout in her constituency.\n\nMs Rudd told the Evening Standard she had been \"disappointed and stunned\" when Mr Johnson dismissed \"genuine fear that a lot of women have\" following the 2016 murder of Mrs Cox.\n\nShe said that the \"casual approach to safety of MPs and their staff is immoral\".\n\nShe said Mr Johnson's rhetoric was \"reminiscent\" of Donald Trump leading chants of \"lock her up\" in the 2016 presidential race, which referred to rival Hillary Clinton.\n\nIn interviews with the BBC, Mr Johnson acknowledged that \"tempers need to come down\" in Parliament.\n\nBut he added: \"I do think in the House of Commons it is important I should be able to talk about the surrender bill, the surrender act, in the way that I did.\"", "British couple Sue and Roger Clarke were jailed at a court in Lisbon for drug smuggling\n\nA British couple have been jailed for eight years by a Portuguese court for drug smuggling on a cruise ship.\n\nRoger and Sue Clarke, both 72, were caught last year while attempting to smuggle 9kg (20lbs) of cocaine with a street value of £1m.\n\nThe couple, from Bromley in London, were on the Marco Polo which was sailing from the Caribbean to Europe.\n\nA raid on their cabin as the ship entered Lisbon found the Class A drugs in the lining of four suitcases.\n\nCocaine was found in the lining of the Clarke's suitcases\n\nJudge Margarida Alves dismissed the couple's story they were duped into bringing the cases for a friend.\n\nAs she sentenced them to eight years, Mrs Clarke began crying, while her husband turned to her and said \"we will be 80 when we get out\".\n\nThe judge said she was determined not to let Portugal become a gateway to Europe for drugs.\n\nAs the presiding judge delivered her verdict the two British pensioners stood holding hands in the little courtroom in Lisbon's Campus de Justicia.\n\n\"Eight years for drug trafficking\" the judge said. Roger Clarke, visibly shaken, lifted his hands to his head and with tears in his eyes he turned to his wife.\n\nSue Clarke began crying and the judge said the couple's story, that they had been given empty suitcases in St Lucia to bring to the UK for a friend, wasn't credible.\n\nShe said their prior conviction for smuggling cannabis to Norway should have made them suspicious of such a request.\n\n\"You are not drug users,\" Judge Margarida Alves said. \"You clearly did this because of the high profits you could make.\"\n\nAs he left court Roger Clarke turned to me saying \"the truth needs to get out. Come and see me in prison and I will tell you\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nEngland's Sarah Taylor has retired from international cricket because of her ongoing battle with anxiety.\n\nRegarded as one of the world's best wicketkeepers, Taylor, 30, is also second on England women's list of run-scorers with 6,533 international runs.\n\n\"This has been a tough decision but I know it's the right one, for me and for my health moving forward,\" said Taylor.\n\n\"I am extremely proud of my career. I leave with my head held high.\"\n\nTaylor, who took a previous break from the game in 2016, was a part of England's World Cup-winning teams of 2009 and 2017, scoring 396 runs in the latter tournament at an average of 49.50.\n\nShe played in three victorious Ashes series and was named as the best T20 player in the world three times by the International Cricket Council.\n\nNobody in the history of the women's game has effected more dismissals across all three formats than Taylor (232).\n\n\"Playing for England and getting to wear the shirt for so long has been a dream come true and I have been blessed with so many great moments throughout my career,\" said Taylor.\n\n\"From making my debut in 2006, to Ashes wins, and of course the World Cup final at Lord's, to name just a few.\n\n\"To be right in the thick of women's cricket as it's gone from strength to strength - not only in England, but across the world - has been an amazing experience, and I can look back on what women's cricket has achieved with great pride at playing some small part in it.\"\n\nClare Connor, the managing director of women's cricket, said Taylor should be \"immensely proud\" of her achievements.\n\n\"Sarah is someone young people can look up to, for her achievements and talent on the pitch - but also for her bravery and resilience off it,\" said Connor.\n\n\"She has come through significant adversity and performed on the world stage for her country.\n\n\"She has become a powerful voice within women's sport and I'm sure she will make a success of the next stage of her professional life.\"\n\nThe NHS website describes anxiety as a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can be mild or severe.\n\nAlthough most people experience these feelings at some point in their life, some people find it hard to control their worries and those feelings of anxiety can often affect their daily lives.\n\nAnxiety is the main symptom of several conditions, including:\n• None phobias, such as agoraphobia or claustraphobia\n\nGeneralised anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common condition, estimated to affect up to 5% of the UK population.\n\nSlightly more women are affected than men, and the condition is more common in people from the ages of 35 to 59.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.", "Yazidi refugees in Iraq. The US says it will prioritise refugees from persecuted religious minorities\n\nThe US government has said it will cut by almost half the number of refugees allowed into the country.\n\nThe US state department says 18,000 people will be accepted under the government's refugee programme over the next 12 months - a record low.\n\nPlaces will be reserved for Iraqis who helped the US military, as well as members of persecuted religious minorities, it said.\n\nAnd Samantha Power, a former US ambassador to the UN, described it as \"an abomination\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Samantha Power This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has also signed an executive order allowing state and local governments to opt out of resettling refugees in their communities.\n\nThe order would ensure \"that refugees are resettled in communities that are eager and equipped to support their successful integration into American society and the labour force,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump has made reducing immigration a key aim of his administration.\n\nIn 2017 he set the limit for refugees under the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) at 50,000, cutting it the next year to 45,000 and to 30,000 for this year.\n\nThe previous lowest admissions figure was in 2002, after the 9/11 attacks, when about 27,000 refugees were allowed into the US.\n\nIn a statement, officials said the numbers of asylum seekers crossing the southern border from Mexico had posed \"an extraordinary burden\" on the authorities.\n\n\"The current burdens on the US immigration system must be alleviated before it is again possible to resettle large number of refugees,\" the state department said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Africans risking death in the jungle trying to reach the US\n\nAs well as Iraqis who have worked with the US military, 5,000 places will be reserved for persecuted religious minorities and 1,500 for asylum seekers from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador - the so-called Northern Triangle countries where many migrants arriving at the southern border come from.\n\nHumanitarian organisations were quick to criticise the announcement.\n\n\"This is a very sad day for America,\" said David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee non-profit group.\n\n\"This decision represents further damage to America's leadership on protecting the most vulnerable people around the world. It has no basis in logic or need, damages America's interests, and tarnishes her values.\"\n\nOmar Jadwat, director of the Immigrants' Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the government's \"eagerness to unilaterally abandon our national commitment to protect people who are seeking safety from persecution, torture, and genocide is sickening\".\n\nMeanwhile Mark Hetfield, head of Jewish non-profit refugee assistance organisation HIAS, said Mr Trump's executive order was an attempt to \"allow governors and mayors to imitate his own refugee ban, state by state and town by town.\"\n\nBut he said Mr Trump would be unable to prevent refugees moving once they had been resettled.\n\nThe US Refugee Admissions Program was set up in 1980 when Congress passed the Refugee Act.\n• None Trump wall: How much has he actually built?", "Kirsty Gravett and Chris Vickery were together for 11 years before he died suddenly in 2017\n\nA woman whose partner died while she was pregnant has said she suffered \"emotional trauma\" fighting through the courts to put his name on their child's birth certificate.\n\nBecause Kirsty Gravett and Chris Vickery were not married, she had to get a court order proving paternity.\n\n\"Walking into court was just awful, you kind of feel like you're in trouble,\" said Ms Gravett, from north Devon.\n\nThe law states unmarried parents need to register the birth together.\n\nShe has started an online petition calling on the government to make the process easier for people in similar situations.\n\nMs Gravett said it was \"unfair\" her son Oliver, pictured, could not have his father's name on his birth certificate\n\nMr Vickery, Ms Gravett's partner of 11 years, died suddenly of a heart attack in 2017.\n\n\"He was fit and well and it literally happened in seconds overnight. He was 38,\" she said.\n\nThe couple already had two sons and Ms Gravett was nine weeks pregnant with their third child when her partner died.\n\n\"Oliver is 18 months old and it's only now I've had the emotional strength to do this,\" Ms Gravett said.\n\n\"I just don't think it's fair on Oliver to have that empty space on his birth certificate.\n\n\"If we'd been married, it would have been fine.\"\n\nMs Gravett had to present a \"hefty\" witness statement in court before the judge eventually approved the change on her son's birth certificate.\n\n\"I was an absolute nervous wreck, it was very intimidating,\" she said.\n\nKirsty with her three sons Charlie, Harry and Oliver\n\nMs Gravett said she was \"hopeful\" her petition would \"shake things up a little bit\".\n\n\"I appreciate why the laws are in place, but I think the process could be made easier,\" she said.\n\n\"The emotional trauma it adds to an already traumatic experience - I just think something more could be done.\"\n\nWalthamstow MP Stella Creasy has been campaigning on the issue since 2015, arguing it was \"vital the law of the land reflects the society and times we live in\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said it relied on a court to make a declaration of parentage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs who want to stop no deal plan to pass a new law that will force Boris Johnson to seek an extension to the Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation has been presented by Labour MP Hilary Benn, and has been signed by opposition leaders and recently-sacked Conservatives, including Alistair Burt and Philip Hammond.\n\nWell, Mr Johnson will have until 19 October to either pass a deal in Parliament or get MPs to approve a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOnce this deadline has passed, he will have to request an extension to the UK's departure date, taking it from 31 October to 31 January 2020.\n\nUnusually, the bill includes the wording of the letter that the prime minister would have to write to the president of the European Council in his request for that extension.\n\nIf the EU responds by proposing a different date, the PM will have two days to accept that proposal. But during this two-day period, MPs - not the government - will have the opportunity to reject the EU's date.\n\nThe bill also contains a list of provisions that write into law requirements for ministers to report to the House of Commons over the next few months.\n\nNot only would this provide MPs with updates, but could potentially provide more opportunities to take control of the timetable.\n\nBe aware though, this could all change over the next few days because MPs and Lords have the power to pass amendments to any law.\n\nProcedure in the Lords means it could provide the biggest hurdle to the bill's sponsors because it could be possible for those against the legislation to filibuster - talk and talk until there is no time left to get it through.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "Forests face threats from logging and clearance for agriculture\n\nThe conker tree has been put on the official extinction list.\n\nRavaged by moths and disease, the horse chestnut is now classified as vulnerable to extinction.\n\nThe tree is among more than 400 native European tree species assessed for their risk of extinction by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nAbout half face disappearing from the natural landscape.\n\nCraig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List unit, described the findings as \"alarming\".\n\n\"Trees are essential for life on Earth, and European trees in all their diversity are a source of food and shelter for countless animal species such as birds and squirrels, and play a key economic role,\" he said.\n\nConkers have long been used for playground games\n\nThe conservation status of most animals in Europe has already been assessed for the inventory of endangered species known as the Red List.\n\nExperts are now turning their attention to plants, with an assessment of all 454 tree species native to the continent.\n\nSpecies highlighted include the horse chestnut, which is declining across Europe, and most of almost 200 trees in the family that includes the rowan and mountain ash.\n\nThe mountain-ash is in decline\n\nThe report identified a wide range of threats, including pests and diseases, competition from invasive plants, deforestation, unsustainable logging, changes in land use and forest fires.\n\nDr Steven Bachman, conservation scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, who was not part of the report, said trees played a critical role in sustaining and enhancing our lives.\n\n\"This report fills an important knowledge gap on the threat status of European trees, but the results reveal a disturbingly high level of extinction risk that requires urgent and effective conservation action at all levels.\"\n\nA second report found almost half of all Europe's shrub species are threatened with extinction, due to the loss and destruction of Europe's wild areas, as well as agriculture, invasive species and climate change.\n\nLuc Bas, director of IUCN's European regional office, said human activities were causing tree population declines across Europe.\n\n\"This report has shown how dire the situation is for many overlooked, undervalued species that form the backbone of Europe's ecosystems and contribute to a healthy planet.\"\n\nRecommendations included further research into the impact of climate change.\n\nMike Seddon, chief executive of Forestry England said the \"climate crisis\" was a real threat to woodlands, including the nation's forest they manage, increasing the risk from pests and diseases.\n\n\"Our efforts to have resilient forests include planting a greater variety of trees, including native species, only grown in the UK,\" he said.", "A former lover of film director Michael Winner has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years for a violent robbery against his widow.\n\nGeraldine Winner, now 81, was robbed of at least £100,000 worth of jewellery, art and cash during the raid at her Knightsbridge home on 9 October 2015.\n\nMrs Winner suffered head injuries and a broken finger during the attack in which she was bound and blindfolded.\n\nHowever, she said Mrs Winner's injuries were caused in self-defence.\n\nIn July, Gueorguieva, 48, of Holland Park, admitted one count of robbery, but said the injuries suffered by Mrs Winner were accidental and caused while trying to calm her.\n\nShe denied bringing a weapon to intentionally injure her or taking 20,000 euros, prompting a fact-finding hearing at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nBut on Friday Judge Peter Testar ruled Gueorguieva took the money, but could not be sure that she brought the iron bar to the scene.\n\nHe found that she did not \"gratuitously\" cause Mrs Winner pain.\n\nThe court heard Gueorguieva had spent two years preparing for the offence including following Mrs Winner home, researching the building and listening to her conversations.\n\nGueorguieva had been in a relationship with Mr Winner between 1999 and 2002 and admitted she \"disliked\" Mrs Winner who married him in 2011.\n\nGeraldine Winner, a former dancer, married Michael in 2011 but was widowed in January 2013\n\nMrs Winner was taking rubbish out when she was bundled back inside her house by Gueorguieva.\n\nThe widow told the court previously that she was hit between three or four times with her own kettle.\n\nAfter stealing items including framed photos of Mr Winner, Gueorguieva fled without removing cable-tie restraints from Mrs Winner, who managed to free herself using a pair of scissors.\n\nProsecutor Mark Gadsden said: \"The primary motive was to get revenge by taking items of sentimental value, but there was a secondary motive to make money from it.\"\n\nMrs Winner was tied up and struck with a kettle from her kitchen\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sandra covers her head with a cloth to protect herself from the public gaze at Buenos Aires Zoo (file photo)\n\nAn orangutan which spent 20 years in an Argentine zoo is being moved to a US animal sanctuary after being granted the same legal rights as humans.\n\nLawyers won a landmark appeal for Sandra in 2014, arguing she was being detained in Buenos Aires illegally.\n\nThe ruling found her to be Argentina's first \"nonhuman person, with the right to liberty\".\n\nThe 33-year-old arrived in Kansas on Friday and will undergo tests before moving to her new home in Florida.\n\nJudge Elena Liberatori - who has a picture of Sandra in her office - told AP news agency she wanted her ruling to send a message: \"That animals are sentient beings and that the first right they have is our obligation to respect them.\"\n\nSandra was born in an East German zoo and sold to Buenos Aires in 1995.\n\nThe orangutan spent much of her life in a solitary enclosure and regularly tried to avoid the public. She had a daughter in 1999, but the baby was taken away from her and sold to an animal park in China.\n\nHer legal victory brought international fame to the orangutan, and set a precedent for apes to be legally deemed people rather than property.\n\nUntil this week - nearly five years later - Sandra remained at the site of the zoo, which closed in 2016 following reports of animal cruelty. The zoo is now being rebuilt as an \"eco-park\" with improved living standards for animals.\n\nAn Argentine court approved her transfer to Florida's Center for Great Apes in 2017, though her journey was delayed by applications for US permits.\n\nThe 100-acre sanctuary is home to chimpanzees and orangutans which have been freed from circuses, labs, zoos and private collections. Michael Jackson's former pet chimpanzee, Bubbles, is among several famous residents.\n\nSandra will join 21 other orangutans, and will be free to move between 11 outdoor areas where the great apes live.\n\n\"We're eager to meet her, she's a lovely orangutan\" said Patti Ragan, the Center's founder.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Ragan said she was happy that Sandra's story was bringing public attention to orangutans, one of the world's most endangered animals.\n\nBut she added that the sanctuary was working to ensure this heightened publicity wouldn't impact on Sandra's transition into her new home.\n\n\"We don't want any distractions,\" said Ms Ragan. \"We just want her to have peace when she gets here\".", "A no-deal Brexit presents risks to the NHS and care homes despite extensive government planning, a watchdog says.\n\nThe National Audit Office praised the government for the \"enormous amount of work\" that had been done but said there were still \"significant\" gaps.\n\nThe extra shipping capacity government was buying to bring medicines into ports other than Dover may not be completely ready by 31 October.\n\nAnd there was no clear evidence the care sector was ready, the NAO said.\n\nThe report raises concerns the sector has not received enough government support.\n\nThe government has arranged the stockpiling of supplies for the NHS.\n\nBut for the care sector, which is fragmented in that it relies on 24,000 companies to provide services, no central arrangement has been made to stockpile equipment and supplies, such as syringes and needles, most of which come from or via the EU.\n\nWhen it comes to medicines, however, the supply of which has been organised for both the NHS and care sectors, the report acknowledges the work that has been done.\n\nThis includes stockpiling six weeks' supply of drugs and arranging for emergency supplies to be fast-tracked in - some drugs, including cancer treatments, have a short shelf-life and so cannot be stockpiled.\n\nBut the report says it is still not known exactly what level of stockpiling is in place.\n\nMore than 12,000 medicines are used by the NHS, and about 7,000 come from or via the EU.\n\nThe publication of the report comes after MPs attempted to block the government leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement.\n\nLegislation has been passed requiring the government to ask for an extension if a deal cannot be agreed.\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the cross-party Public Accounts Committee, said the report was \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"I've seen countless examples of deadlines missed and government failing,\" she said.\n\n\"If government gets this wrong, it could have the gravest of consequences.\"\n\nDr Layla McCay, of the NHS Confederation, which represents managers, said the planning had been detailed but the situation was still concerning.\n\nShe also warned it was the \"unknowns and unknowables\" that perhaps presented the biggest risk.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"We want to reassure patients we are doing everything we can.\"\n\nHe said the government along with industry had \"mounted an unprecedented response in preparing for Brexit\" with stockpiles \"increasing by the day\".", "The wife of a British-Iranian dual national who has been jailed for 10 years in Iran says allegations he was a spy for Israel are \"bogus\".\n\nAnoosheh Ashoori, a 65-year-old retired civil engineer from London, was convicted in July of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.\n\nHis wife, Sherry Izadi, said the claims were \"preposterous\" and asked the UK government to help free him.\n\nThe British Foreign Office has urged Iran to reunite him with his family.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since his arrest, Ms Izadi told the BBC her husband had been visiting his 86-year-old mother in Iran in August 2017 when he was \"bundled into a car\" by Iranian authorities.\n\nShe said the father of two had been held in solitary confinement on and off for four months.\n\nAnoosheh Ashoori (pictured with his daughter and his wife) is a retired civil engineer from London\n\nMr Ashoori has \"never been involved\" in politics, his wife says\n\nMs Izadi, 56, said her husband was forced to represent himself at his trial and that his appeal has been rejected.\n\nMr Ashoori, a civil engineer, was also handed a two-year term for illicitly acquiring money and fined $36,600 (£29,850). Ms Izadi said it was unclear whether the two sentences were to run concurrently or not.\n\n\"He is 65, he is not young, and being away for 25 months-plus and being stuck in a basement prison in conditions that are far from ideal... it takes its toll on families,\" Ms Izadi said.\n\n\"The thought of him staying there for 10 or 12 years, and he'll come out a 75-year-old man, is just unimaginable and inconceivable,\" she added.\n\nMs Izadi said her husband was \"the most un-political person imaginable\".\n\n\"He has never been privy to any state secrets and we just lived extremely ordinary lives,\" she said.\n\n\"My husband has never worked for any government sectors, he has never been involved in any political dealings, he never had any political affiliation.\"\n\nBoris Johnson called for the release of another British-Iranian detainee during a meeting with Iran's president earlier this week\n\nIran has detained a number of dual citizens and foreign nationals in recent years, many of them on spying charges.\n\nThe Iranian authorities do not recognise dual nationality for Iranian citizens and do not grant consular access for foreign diplomats to visit them in detention.\n\nMs Izadi has launched a petition calling on the UK government to take action to help free her husband.\n\nA spokesperson for the British Foreign office said it strongly urged Iran to reunite British-Iranian dual national Mr Ashoori with his family.\n\n\"Our Embassy in Tehran continues to request consular access and we have been supporting his family since being made aware of his detention,\" a statement read.\n\n\"The treatment of all dual nationals detained in Iran is a priority and we raised this issue in margins of the UN General Assembly yesterday.\"\n\nThe response comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for the release of a detained British-Iranian woman during a meeting with Iran's president.\n\nMr Johnson invited President Hassan Rouhani to London to discuss the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nMrs Zahgari-Ratcliffe - a mother-of-one from Hampstead - is half-way through a five-year jail term after she was convicted of spying in 2016, which she denies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nMs Izadi said her now-retired husband's liberty was being \"sacrificed\" in the ongoing diplomatic spat between the UK and Iran.\n\n\"His crime is that he's a dual national, that he holds a British passport,\" she said. \"That's not right.\"\n\nTensions between the UK and Iran have worsened in recent months following a row over the seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf.\n\nRelations strained further on Monday after the UK, France and Germany agreed that Iran was responsible for the attack on Saudi oil facilities on 14 September.\n\nIran denied responsibility, accusing the three countries of \"parroting absurd US claims\".\n\nMs Izadi has launched a petition to try to help her husband\n\nThis week, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab described Iran's \"arbitrary detention of dual nationals\" as \"unlawful, cruel and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the cases had been raised by himself and the prime minister with Iran's president and foreign minister.\n\nBut Ms Izadi said the government should \"go beyond talks and smiles\" and instead \"take action\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Iranian Embassy in London for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Politicians who \"behave with courtesy\" could win £3,000 for a charity of their choice under a new prize scheme aimed at encouraging better manners.\n\nThe announcement of the Civility in Politics awards comes at the end of a week of heated, sometimes personal, debate at Westminster.\n\nOne of the organisers, Labour's Lord Stewart, said it would \"shine a light\" on more pleasant behaviour.\n\nHe also called for a reduction in \"divisions and bitterness\".\n\nOn Friday, former Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd accused Downing Street of using language that \"does incite violence\".\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he \"deplores\" any threats to politicians\n\nHis adviser, Dominic Cummings, said on Thursday that Parliament's failure to complete Brexit meant it was \"not surprising\" that people were angry with MPs.\n\nAnnouncing the new award, Lord Stewart said: \"Everyone agrees that politics in the UK is facing a crisis of trust and a crisis of civility.\n\n\"As divisions and bitterness mount in the continuing debates around Brexit, we strongly believe that politics has to respond not by mirroring these trends, but by bucking them.\"\n\nHe added: \"These awards are a small attempt by a group of people in public life - of different and no political persuasions - to shine a spotlight on politicians who argue their case with decency and civility, and are able to engage and work with people across the divides that affect us all\".\n\nAwards will go to \"politician of the year\", \"bridge-builder of the year\" and \"campaigner of the year\".\n\nNominations will open on 28 September and a shortlist will be announced in January followed by an award ceremony in March.\n\nJudges of the awards include journalists Michael Crick and Isabel Hardman, SNP MP Stephen Gethins, Lib Dem MP Sir Norman Lamb, Brexit Party communications director Gawain Towler and ex-Conservative minister Lord Willetts.\n\nThe awards are sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust.", "Some captives were as young as five years old, police said\n\nNearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused and tortured, Nigerian police said.\n\nChildren as young as five were among those in chains at what was thought to be an Islamic school, officers said.\n\nKaduna police chief Ali Janga told the BBC the building was raided after a tip-off about suspicious activity.\n\nHe described it as a \"house of torture\" and a place of human slavery.\n\nEight suspects, most of them teachers, were arrested. The police chief said the detainees - some with injuries and starved of food - were overjoyed to be freed.\n\nThe detainees said they had been tortured, sexually abused, starved and prevented from leaving - in some cases for several years.\n\n\"I have spent three months here with chains on my legs,\" Bell Hamza reportedly told Nigerian media.\n\n\"This is supposed to be an Islamic centre, but trying to run away from here attracts severe punishment; they tie people and hang them to the ceiling for that.\"\n\nSome of the detainees had visible injuries\n\nSome of the children told police that their relatives had taken them there, believing the building to be a Koranic school.\n\nTwo of the children freed by police said their parents had sent them from Burkina Faso. Police believe the rest are mostly from northern Nigeria.\n\nIslamic schools are popular in the region but there have long been allegations of abuse in some schools, and of pupils forced to beg for money on the streets.\n\nA sign written in Hausa outside the building calls it the \"Ahmad bin Hambal Centre for Islamic Teachings\"\n\nOne parent told Reuters news agency that they did not know their children would face \"this kind of harsh condition\".\n\nThe captives are sheltering at a camp where their families are arriving to identify them. Hafsat Muhammad Baba of the Kaduna state government told the BBC the government will continue to provide medical care for the men and boys.", "The collapse of Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel agency has left thousands of passengers stranded and put 21,000 jobs at risk, 9,000 of which are in the UK.\n\nWhile people search for answers as to why the company went into liquidation, many businesses in Majorca dependent on Thomas Cook tourists are worried what will happen them.", "Felicite Tomlinson was an aspiring fashion designer who had 1.3 million followers on Instagram\n\nAn aspiring fashion designer died accidentally from a fatal combination of drugs, a coroner has concluded.\n\nFelicite Tomlinson, 18, the sister of One Direction star Louis Tomlinson, was found unresponsive by a friend in her west London flat on 13 March.\n\nInner West London Coroner's Court heard the pair had taken cocaine the night before, while traces of Xanax and OxyContin were also in her system.\n\nCoroner Shirley Radcliffe described the combination as \"the perfect storm\".\n\nMiss Tomlinson, known to her friends as Fizzy, was an aspiring fashion designer who had 1.3 million followers on Instagram.\n\nThe inquest heard she had a history of \"recreational drug use over the years\" but this had been on a more \"consistent basis\" since the death of her mother Johannah in 2016.\n\nThe night before she died, the 18-year-old purchased cocaine with her friend Zainab Mohammed and, along with a male friend, took a number of lines.\n\nRecounting Miss Mohammed's version of events, Dr Radcliffe said Miss Tomlinson was still breathing at 05:00 BST the next morning, but when her friend woke later at about midday she \"couldn't hear breathing\" from the bed next to her.\n\nMiss Tomlinson had posted a photo of her with her brother Louis on her Instagram account\n\nThe inquest was told Miss Tomlinson was persuaded to complete a successful stint at an Egyptian rehab facility in Autumn 2018, but relapsed in 2019.\n\nIn a statement, her GP Dr Paul Eulinger said the 18-year-old \"refused to give up drugs in the knowledge they could kill her\".\n\nConcluding the teenager's death was a result of misadventure and drugs toxicity, Dr Radcliffe described her as \"a bright, much-loved daughter and sister\" whose \"use of drugs was a considerable danger to her\".\n\n\"She was an individual who took drugs deliberately and has succumbed to their... effects accidentally.\"", "Boris Johnson will tell EU leaders there needs to be a new Brexit deal when he makes his first trip abroad as PM later this week.\n\nThe UK will leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, he will insist.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sunday Times has printed leaked government documents warning of food, medicine and fuel shortages in a no-deal scenario.\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC a former minister leaked the dossier to try to influence discussions with EU leaders.\n\nThe documents say the cross-government paper on preparations for a no-deal Brexit, codenamed Operation Yellowhammer, reveals the UK could face months of disruption at its ports.\n\nIt also states plans to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are unlikely to prove sustainable.\n\nThe dossier, reported by the Sunday Times, says leaving the EU without a deal could lead to:\n\nThe Downing Street source told the BBC the leaked document \"is from when ministers were blocking what needed to be done to get ready to leave and the funds were not available\".\n\nMichael Gove, who is responsible for overseeing the devolution consequences of Brexit, said in a tweet that Operation Yellowhammer was \"a worst case scenario\".\n\n\"V significant steps have been taken in the last 3 weeks to accelerate Brexit planning,\" he added.\n\nEnergy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"I think there's a lot of scaremongering around and a lot of people are playing into project fear.\"\n\nBut a former head of the British civil service, Lord Bob Kerslake, who described the document as \"credible\", said the dossier \"lays bare the scale of the risks we are facing with no-deal Brexit in almost every area\".\n\n\"These risks are completely insane for this country to be taking and we have to explore every avenue to avoid them,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.\n\nIrish deputy prime minister Simon Coveney said, in a tweet, that Ireland had \"always been clear\" a hard border in Ireland \"must be avoided\".\n\nThe Irish backstop - the provision in Theresa May's withdrawal agreement that could see Northern Ireland continue to follow some of the same trade rules as the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU, thus preventing a hard border - was an \"insurance policy\" designed to protect the peace process, he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said the leaked documents showed the effects of a no-deal Brexit should be taken more seriously.\n\n\"The government have simply, I think, pretended that this wasn't an issue,\" he said\n\nThe government was in \"a real pickle\", since the \"the US has said that if that border is jeopardised, we're not going to get a trade deal with them\", he said.\n\nSpeaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said, on Wednesday, a US-UK trade deal would not get through Congress if Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe leak comes as the prime minister prepares to travel to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, before going to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to say Parliament cannot and will not change the outcome of the 2016 referendum and insist there must be a new deal to replace Mrs May's withdrawal agreement - defeated three times by MPs - if the UK is to leave the EU with a deal.\n\nHowever, it is thought their discussions will chiefly focus on issues such as foreign policy, security, trade and the environment, ahead of the G7 summit next weekend.\n\nBoris Johnson had been reluctant to fly to meet European leaders until it seemed a breakthrough was likely.\n\nWhen Mr Johnson meets the EU's most powerful leaders - Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron - he will repeat his message that the UK is leaving, no matter what, at the end of October.\n\nHe will tell them face-to-face for the first time that the only way the UK will sign up to a deal is if the EU thinks again, and replaces the agreement brokered by Mrs May.\n\nBut there seems to be little chance of any serious progress in the coming days.\n\nNo 10 does not seem particularly optimistic and says it expects both sides will say their piece, then move on to other issues.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller said the Government had \"unequivocally\" accepted it could not shut down Parliament to clear the way for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: \"What they have said is, unequivocally, they accept that to close down Parliament, to bypass them in terms of Brexit - stopping a no-deal Brexit, in particular - is illegal.\"\n\nBut Ms Miller said she would continue to seek further reassurances that MPs would be able to pass legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMeanwhile, a cross-party group of more than 100 MPs has urged the prime minister to recall Parliament and let it sit permanently until the UK leaves the EU.\n\nIn a letter, MPs say the country is \"on the brink of an economic crisis\".\n\nIt continues: \"Parliament must be recalled now in August and sit permanently until 31 October, so that the voices of the people can be heard, and that there can be proper scrutiny of your government.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reiterated his call for MPs to work together to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSpeaking to the Observer, Mr Corbyn said his plan to be installed as an interim prime minister was the \"simplest and most democratic way to stop no deal\".\n\nThe Labour leader has said, as a caretaker PM, he would delay Brexit, call a snap election, and campaign for another referendum.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said Mr Corbyn was \"divisive\" and instead suggested Conservative MP Ken Clarke or former Labour leader Harriet Harman could head a temporary government.\n\nElsewhere, in a letter seen by the Mail on Sunday, Mr Johnson warned rebel Tory MPs their opposition to a no-deal Brexit was damaging the prospect of getting a new deal.\n\nHe said it was \"plain as a pikestaff\" that the EU will \"not compromise as long as they believe there is the faintest possibility that Parliament can block Brexit on 31 October\".", "Students arriving in Melbourne - ranked this year as one of the world's best student cities\n\nAustralia is overtaking the UK as the world's second biggest destination for international students, says research from University College London.\n\nResearchers at UCL's Centre for Global Higher Education say the UK is being pushed into third place behind the United States and Australia.\n\nAustralia has been rapidly expanding its international student numbers.\n\nThe British Council says it shows the UK needs to \"look again\" at its policies towards overseas students.\n\nAn analysis this year found that overseas students added £20bn to the UK's economy - and universities in the UK have warned that immigration rules after Brexit will need to be more welcoming for students.\n\nThe UCL study has tracked the latest movements in international students and report author Professor Simon Marginson says Australia is moving ahead of the UK.\n\nHe warns that Canada is also catching up in taking a growing slice of the lucrative overseas student market.\n\nOverseas students starting in Melbourne this year were invited to a welcome party and dance\n\nThree years ago the UK was recruiting around 130,000 more overseas students than Australia, says Prof Marginson, who is also co-chair of the Higher Education Commission's current inquiry into international students.\n\nBut he says successive years of Australia having increases of 12% to 14% in overseas students have seen it catch up and overtake the UK, which has been growing much more slowly.\n\nOfficial student figures for 2018 from the UN's education agency, Unesco, will not be published until after the end of this year.\n\nBut the UCL researchers are \"certain\" that Australia is on the verge of moving ahead of the UK in overseas students and this \"may have already happened\".\n\n\"UK higher education is still highly valued internationally, but the government has held down the growth of international student numbers for five years, by limiting new student numbers and post-study work visas,\" says Prof Marginson.\n\n\"Meanwhile, competitor nations are strongly promoting their international education.\"\n\nAustralia has been marketing itself as an English-speaking country with high-performing universities, with an attractive climate and a welcoming culture for overseas students.\n\nThis year's Best Student Cities rankings put Melbourne and Sydney in the top 10 - although London was the highest ranked of all.\n\nAustralia has succeeded in attracting students from outside Europe, particularly from China.\n\nThe research from UCL warns that the UK's future intake of international students will depend on keeping its appeal for European students.\n\nLast week, the government set out post-Brexit plans that would keep open the door to visa-free travel for European Union students coming to UK universities.\n\nBut there was no detail on whether EU students would have to pay full international fees.\n\nUniversities in the UK have been campaigning for overseas students to be taken out of net migration figures.\n\nA spokeswoman for the British Council said that international students are \"an immense source of long-term influence and soft power for the UK\".\n\nShe said the UK was competing with countries with \"welcoming visa policies\" and \"comprehensive international education strategies\".\n\nWith the approach of Brexit, she said \"it has never been more important to reinforce and open up international channels for the UK\".", "Charlotte Church has become a political activist in recent years\n\nSinger Charlotte Church is facing an investigation amid claims she is running a school at her home without permission.\n\nEarlier this week the soprano revealed plans to accommodate up to 20 pupils in an annexe of her home in Dinas Powys.\n\nVale of Glamorgan Council, which is yet to grant planning permission, said people had complained the building was already being used for teaching.\n\nMs Church denied the claims and insisted she was operating legally.\n\nThe council is yet to decide whether or not it will take formal action - but could in theory issue notices telling the singer to either stop or reverse any unauthorised work.\n\nMs Church plans to open a non-fee paying school for 20 local children aged nine to 12 which will be based at her home only for the first year.\n\nThe idea is part of The Awen Project, which she has set up and hopes will grow into a charity to set up other independent schools.\n\nThe Cardiff-born singer said it was aimed at children \"who may have been struggling in mainstream education and providing an alternative that doesn't cost anything\".\n\n\"We're trying to do something which is beneficial to the community,\" she added.\n\nNotices of a bid for planning permission for a school have been put up in Dinas Powys\n\nMs Church said a part-time home school tutoring group was currently using the annexe for less than 12.5 hours per week, which she says is approved by school inspectorate Estyn and the Welsh Government.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned I'm not aware of any breach of planning,\" she told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\n\"If the council want to look at what we're doing we will welcome them with open arms. If there are any problems we will be completely compliant. This is a charity venture.\"\n\nShe said internal works had been done to the annexe but they had \"not changed the character\" of the building.\n\nCharlotte Church was said to have the \"voice of an angel\" when she came to fame as a child star\n\nDinas Powys Community Council and local county councillor Andrew Robertson have objected to the plans, raising fears over traffic and noise.\n\nHowever, Ms Church has said just one vehicle would be needed to take children to and from the school.\n\nA Vale of Glamorgan Council spokesman said: \"The council is currently considering an application for a change of use relating to a building at this address.\n\n\"We have also launched an enforcement investigation after receiving a number of complaints suggesting the use has started prior to planning permission.\n\n\"We will decide whether any formal action is necessary in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the ad, someone is shown receiving a delivery in a field after apparently tunnelling underground to escape from prison\n\nA TV ad for Deliveroo has been banned for suggesting the food delivery firm could deliver anywhere in the UK.\n\nThe ad, shown in March, showed various scenes of people using the Deliveroo app and having food delivered to them, all in unusual places or circumstances.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it was \"likely to mislead\" because it wrongly implied delivery \"was unrestricted throughout the UK\".\n\nDeliveroo said it felt on-screen text had made it clear restrictions applied.\n\nIn the ad someone is shown receiving a delivery in a field after apparently tunnelling underground to escape from prison. An astronaut is also shown receiving a delivery in space.\n\nMeanwhile a voice-over states: \"Order what you want; where you want; when you want it\" while text at the bottom of the screen reads: \"Some restrictions apply, obviously…\"\n\nThere were 22 complaints from people who, knowing that Deliveroo did not deliver to their areas, said that the ad was misleading.\n\nDeliveroo's parent company, Roofoods, said that the exaggerated scenes in the ad showed it was not meant to represent real life - simply that it was possible to order from Deliveroo in different everyday locations.\n\nIt also said customers could check their app to see whether their area was covered without incurring any cost.\n\nBut the ASA said that without any additional explanation, viewers were likely to take the claim \"Order what you want; where you want; when you want it\" literally.\n\nA woman is also shown receiving a delivery during a car chase\n\n\"Because we considered the ad suggested delivery was unrestricted throughout the UK when that was not the case, we concluded that it was likely to mislead,\" it said.\n\nThe ad must not appear again in its current form and Roofoods has been told to ensure that similar claims do not appears in its marketing again.\n\nA Deliveroo spokesman said: \"Deliveroo designed a playful advert to show that, through our service, people are able to order food to a wide range of places, whether home or work, for a range of occasions.\n\n\"We know some will be disappointed that their local area isn't currently served by Deliveroo, but we are expanding rapidly across the UK.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Calais migrants caught on camera trying to reach the UK - This video has no sound\n\nEighty-six people attempted to cross the English Channel in a single day - amid claims that people smugglers were using threats about Brexit to pressure migrants.\n\nBorder Force officials intercepted six small vessels travelling towards the UK on Tuesday.\n\nIt is thought to be the highest number of people found in a single day.\n\nFrench politician Pierre-Henri Dumont said migrants were wrongly being told \"the crossing will close\" after Brexit.\n\nHe blamed \"fake news\" about the UK's departure from the EU and said \"security measures\" alone would not stop the rise in crossings.\n\nThe Home Office said two small boats carrying a total of 23 people were intercepted by Border Force officials on Tuesday morning.\n\nAs the day progressed, four further vessels were intercepted, it said.\n\nMore than 1,100 people have crossed the Channel in small boats this year, with 336 in August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The perils of crossing the Channel in a small boat\n\nMeanwhile, thermal imaging cameras show that attempts by migrants to break into UK-bound lorries in Calais continue in earnest after nightfall.\n\nMr Dumont, Conservative MP for Calais, said: \"Smugglers say to migrants, 'If the UK leaves the EU, you will not ever be able to cross the Channel'.\n\n\"It's a lie, because it won't change anything.\n\n\"Smugglers are giving fake news to migrants, but it's for them to earn money.\"\n\nThe UK's asylum system should be changed to allow migrants to apply at British embassies in Europe, he said.\n\nHe said French police could \"not do more\" to stop boat crossings, adding: \"We need to understand that we cannot monitor 400 or 500km of coast.\"\n\nMr Dumont, said that many migrants had travelled thousands of miles, adding: \"Now everyday they can see the English coast here in Calais. Do you really think controls, police forces, cameras, walls, will stop them from trying to cross? No, never.\"\n\nHe called for a \"new system\", allowing migrants to make asylum applications at British embassies across Europe.\n\n\"Right now if you are a migrant and you want to ask for asylum in Great Britain, you have to be physically present in Great Britain.\n\n\"That is making a big risk for them, because their only chance is to risk their life crossing [the Channel].\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said it was \"working closely at all levels with the French authorities to tackle this dangerous and illegal activity\".\n\n\"Last month the home secretary and her French counterpart agreed to intensify joint action to tackle small boat crossings in the Channel,\" he added.\n\n\"This includes drawing up an enhanced action plan to deploy more resources along the French coast to intercept and stop crossings.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children, MPs say.\n\nThe industry's UK trade body responded it would \"review these recommendations with utmost seriousness\".\n\nBut the committee of MPs had accused some of those who had given evidence of a \"lack of honesty and transparency\".\n\nFree video games often encourage players to buy virtual loot boxes, which contain an unspecified amount of items to improve further game-play.\n\nSome games have associated online marketplaces where players can trade or sell these items.\n\nThe Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee's inquiry into addictive and immersive technologies heard stories of young adults who had built up debts of thousands of pounds through spending in games. Jagex, the company behind online game RuneScape, admitted players could spend up to £1,000 a week or £5,000 a month.\n\nBut the MPs found the industry was reluctant to accept responsibility for intervening when a player was over-spending or even to put a figure on how much was too much.\n\nAnd some had been \"wilfully obtuse\" in answering questions about game-play, which MPs needed to know in order to better understand how players engaged with games.\n\nWithout naming names, they said they had sometimes found it difficult to get full and clear answers from the gaming industry representatives who had appeared before them, in particular when it came to answering questions about what data they collected, how it was used and the psychology underpinning how games were designed.\n\n\"Social media platforms and online games makers are locked in a relentless battle to capture ever more of people's attention, time and money,\" Mr Collins said.\n\n\"Their business models are built on this but it's time for them to be more responsible in dealing with the harms these technologies can cause for some users.\"\n\nIn response Dr Jo Twist, the chief executive of UK Interactive Entertainment, said: \"\"The video games industry has always, and will continue to, put the welfare of players at the heart of what we do.\n\n\"The industry does not dispute that, for a minority, finding balance is a problem.\n\n\"This is why we are vocal in supporting efforts to increase digital literacy and work with schools and carers on education programmes.\"\n\nBut Mr Collins said the games industry should contribute financially towards independent research into the long-term effects of gaming.\n\n\"Gaming disorder based on excessive and addictive game-play has been recognised by the World Health Organization,\" he said.\n\n\"It's time for game companies to use the huge quantities of data they gather about their players to do more to proactively identify vulnerable gamers.\"\n\nThe MPs also called for both social media platforms and game-makers to establish effective age-verification tools.\n\nCurrently both rely on a honesty system and, as a result, there are large numbers of under-age users on social media and playing games.\n\nLoot boxes offer a variety of rewards that can improve game-play\n\nLoot boxes should not be sold to children and should instead be earned as rewards for game-play, the MPs said.\n\n\"Loot boxes are particularly lucrative for games companies but come at a high cost, particularly for problem gamblers, while exposing children to potential harm,\" Mr Collins said.\n\n\"Buying a loot box is playing a game of chance and it is high time the gambling laws caught up.\n\n\"We challenge the government to explain why loot boxes should be exempt from the Gambling Act.\"\n\nThere is growing international disquiet about loot boxes, with a US senator calling for them to be banned and the government of Belgium ruling they were in violation of gambling laws.\n\nChina has restricted the number of loot boxes players can open each day. Sweden is also investigating them.", "The teenager was found fatally injured on Edgware Road near the junction of Church Street\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been stabbed to death on a street in central London.\n\nThe teenager was found with multiple injuries after police were called to Edgware Road near the junction of Church Street just before 14:00 BST.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but died at 19:30. His next of kin have been informed, the Met Police said.\n\nNo arrests have been made and a Section 60 order, giving police additional stop and search powers, was enforced in the area until 05:00 on Wednesday.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Partridge said the victim's family had been \"left heartbroken\" by the boy's death.\n\n\"We are keen to hear from anyone with information that can help us build a clearer picture of what took place,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Going to university in England is still a good investment for young people, says an annual international report, which rejected claims there were too many graduates.\n\nThe study from the OECD economics think tank says despite facing among the highest tuition fees in the world, the increased earning power of graduates would still \"greatly exceed the cost\".\n\n\"Educated people throughout history have always argued there are too many other educated people,\" said the OECD's education director Andreas Schleicher.\n\nBut he argued that universities needed to face much more scrutiny over the quality of courses and qualifications.\n\nMr Schleicher said that at school level, the UK education systems were leading the world in measuring how pupils progressed - but at university level, there was much less information about how students were learning.\n\nHe rejected arguments that too many people were going to university - but said if universities expanded further there needed to be more clarity about standards and what they were offering students in terms of future employment.\n\nThe report showed a narrowing gap in the higher earnings of graduates across the UK.\n\nIn 2013, graduates had average earnings that were 54% higher than non-graduates, which had reduced to a 42% advantage in 2017.\n\nBelow these averages, there were significant differences - such as higher earnings for those who studied maths and sciences and lower earnings for graduates of arts and humanities.\n\nDespite this likely outcome in earnings, the OECD report said universities in the UK had increased places for arts and humanities at a greater rate than in-demand subjects such as engineering.\n\nMr Schleicher said the debate about too many people staying in education had always been there - and there was no real evidence of any reduction in demand for graduates and highly skilled people.\n\n\"If we had this discussion a hundred years ago, there would have been people saying there were too many people going to high school,\" he said, at the launch of the report in London.\n\nThere were no signs of modern economies needing fewer well-qualified people, he said.\n\nThe report showed the strong international growth in higher education - with 44% of people aged 25 to 34 across the OECD now having degrees, compared with 35% a decade ago.\n\nBut that \"doesn't mean everyone has to go to university\", said the OECD education director.\n\nHigh quality vocational education was also needed - and Mr Schleicher said there was a \"disturbing picture\" in which those who already had the worst skills were the least likely to be able to get extra training.\n\nThe annual report also highlighted the ways in which teachers' pay in England was unlike other countries.\n\nIt showed that relative to graduate earnings, head teachers in England were better paid than in any other country in the developed world.\n\nBut classroom teachers, by the same measure, had below-average pay.\n\nThe levels of starting salaries for teachers in England were also below average by these international comparisons.\n\nIn the recent round of spending announcements, the Department for Education said that it would increase starting pay for teachers in England to £30,000.", "A memorial ceremony is being held in New York to mark the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.\n\nThe names of the city's victims are being read out, while events are also being held at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, where other hijacked planes came down.\n\nThis live stream has now ended.", "A British man has died in a skydiving accident in the US, police in the state of Arizona have said.\n\nThe Coconino County Sheriff's Office named the man as Christopher Swales, 55, who had been undertaking a tandem dive near the Grand Canyon on Sunday.\n\nMr Swales' skydiving partner, who worked at a local parachuting centre, survived the fall.\n\nPolice said the pair \"encountered difficulties\" while approaching a landing area at a local airport.\n\n\"These difficulties caused the pair to free fall for an unknown distance and hit the ground in what was described as a 'hard landing',\" a statement from the Coconino County Sheriff's Office said.\n\nEmergency services were called shortly before 10:00 local time but Mr Swales was pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nAn investigation into the accident is continuing, according to police, although there are currently no signs of foul play.\n\nA UK Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that consular staff in the US were supporting Mr Swales' family.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time,\" the spokesman added.", "The new uniform will be rolled out to all years from September 2020\n\nA school criticised for banning skirts on modesty grounds has defended its policy.\n\nStowmarket High School in Suffolk introduced a new uniform policy amid concerns over glass-sided stairwells.\n\nA school newsletter informed parents that, \"with modesty in mind\", skirts were no longer considered appropriate.\n\nHeadteacher Dave Lee-Allan said the reference to modesty was an \"error\" but claimed the new uniform was \"more affordable and smarter\".\n\nHeadteacher Dave Lee-Allan said the reference to \"modesty\" had been a mistake\n\nAccording to the East Anglian Daily Times, some parents accused the school of \"cracking down on girls's behaviour and trying to enforce a \"gender-neutral\" dress code.\n\nThe policy states all year groups must wear the new uniform when the new building opens next September.\n\nThe ban on skirts has been discussed on Facebook with some parents critical of the move and others supporting it.\n\nMr Lee-Allan said he thought the glass-sided stairwells could have been another reason for moving away from skirts, but the contractors had assured him this would not be an issue.\n\nHe said mentioning modesty in the newsletter was \"my error, hands up\".\n\n\"For years a number of schools in the region have had this particular uniform policy. We have consulted and a group of parents came in and we looked at different options and then asked students and then published our proposals.\n\n\"But we can not make all the people happy.\"\n\nThe new uniform includes a blazer, white shirt, clip-on tie, black shoes and black belt\n\nThe new uniform also includes a black blazer with the school's logo on it, a white shirt, a clip-on tie, black shoes, a black belt and black or white shirts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A rise in public disorder, higher food prices and reduced medical supplies are real risks of leaving the EU with no deal, a UK government document says.\n\nMinisters have published details of their Yellowhammer contingency plan, after MPs voted to force its release.\n\nIt outlines a series of \"reasonable worst case assumptions\" for the impact of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the paper confirmed the PM \"is prepared to punish those who can least afford it\".\n\nMichael Gove, one of Boris Johnson's senior cabinet colleagues who has been given responsibility for no-deal planning, said \"revised assumptions\" will be published \"in due course alongside a document outlining the mitigations the government has put in place and intends to put in place\".\n\nHowever, ministers have blocked the release of communications between No 10 aides about Parliament's suspension.\n\nMr Gove said MPs' request to see e-mails, texts and WhatsApp messages from Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's chief aide, and eight other advisers in Downing Street were \"unreasonable and disproportionate\".\n\nPublishing the information, he added, would \"contravene the law\" and \"offend against basic principles of fairness\".\n\nDominic Cummings was one of those named in the request to release communications\n\nThe government sought to resist the publication of the Operation Yellowhammer document, but lost a vote on the issue in the Commons on Monday, prior to the suspension of Parliament, so it was compelled it to do so.\n\nThe six-page document, dated 2 August and leaked to the Sunday Times last month, warns of disruption at Dover and other channel crossings for at least three months, an increased risk of public disorder, and some shortages of fresh food.\n\nOn food, the document says certain types of fresh food supply \"will decrease\" and \"critical dependencies for the food chain\" such as key ingredients \"may be in shorter supply\".\n\nIt says these factors would not lead to overall food shortages \"but will reduce the availability and choice of products and will increase price, which could impact vulnerable groups\".\n\nThe document also says low-income groups \"will be disproportionately affected by any price rises in food and fuel\".\n\nThe flow of cross-Channel goods could face \"significant disruption lasting up to six months\".\n\n\"Unmitigated, this will have an impact on the supply of medicines and medical supplies,\" it says.\n\n\"The reliance of medicines and medical products' supply chains on the short straits crossing make them particularly vulnerable to severe extended delays.\"\n\nAmong its other key points are:\n\nThe document also warns of potential clashes if foreign fishing vessels enter British territorial waters on the day after the UK's departure and says economic difficulties could be \"exacerbated\" by flooding or a flu pandemic this winter.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Mason said some of the scenarios outlined were \"stark\", but ministers were insisting the paper was not a prediction about what will happen.\n\nThe document, which, until now, was categorised as \"official, sensitive\", is not an official cabinet paper. It dates from 10 days after Mr Johnson became prime minister.\n\nRetailers said the document confirmed what they have been saying will happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"Fresh food availability will decrease, consumer choice will decrease, and prices will rise,\" Helen Dickinson of the British Retail Consortium said.\n\nAnd the British Medical Association described the Yellowhammer file as \"alarming\" and that it confirmed its warnings about no-deal, including the threat of medical supply shortages.\n\nLabour's shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer said: \"These documents confirm the severe risks of a no-deal Brexit, which Labour has worked so hard to block.\n\n\"It is completely irresponsible for the government to have tried to ignore these stark warnings and prevent the public from seeing the evidence.\"\n\nMPs voted on Monday to order the release of all internal correspondence and communications, including e-mails, texts and WhatsApp messages, between nine No 10 advisers relating to Parliament's suspension.\n\nBut the government has said it will not comply with the MPs' request, citing potential legal breaches of data protection and employment rights.\n\nThis is not an \"old\" Yellowhammer assessment, as was claimed by the government in August.\n\nIt is from the latest internal no-deal planning, from August, from well within the time of Boris Johnson's administration.\n\nThe government hopes that its recent efforts will change some of the most concerning aspects of what is titled a \"reasonable worst case assumptions\" document, but they are yet to be able to make those changes.\n\nEverything hinges on the core assumption made about disruption to freight traffic across the Channel - that over half would be stuck for up to two and a half days.\n\nThose assumptions on trade flow have improved recently, but are still poor, and enough to have several highly concerning consequences, from fresh food supply, to stability in Northern Ireland, to social care providers and supplies of medicines for people and animals.\n\nI have also been assured that a widely circulated version of this document, from the same day, had the phrase \"base scenario\".\n\nIt is somewhat confusing that there can be a base case of a worst case planning assumption.\n\nIn any event, these are the real, plausible short-term shocks from a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe section on Northern Ireland is particularly concerning. In many respects it is incredible to have such a list of the plausible consequences of what is government policy.\n\nIt is not difficult to see why the government resisted its release. It is unlikely to improve the mood of an already sceptical Commons.\n\nBut it is really the first tangible, quotable, warts and all assessment of what Whitehall fears could be around the corner.\n\nMr Gove said the legal advice received by Mr Johnson before requesting the prorogation of Parliament was in the public domain after being disclosed as part of the ongoing court cases, but there was no justification for the \"far broader\" information being sought.\n\n\"To name individuals without any regard for their rights or the consequences of doing so goes far beyond any reasonable right of Parliament under this procedure.\n\n\"These individuals have no right of reply, and the procedure used fails to afford them any of the protections that would properly be in place.\n\n\"It offends against basic principles of fairness and the Civil Service duty of care towards its employees,\" he said.\n\nHe said it was ministers, not civil servants or special advisers, who were ultimately accountable to Parliament for decisions taken.\n\nThe request, therefore was \"inappropriate in principle and in practice, would on its own terms purport to require the government to contravene the law, and is singularly unfair to the named individuals\".\n\nCorrection 2nd October 2019: An earlier version of this story suggested the Yellowhammer document had referred to the potential risk of rioting; it has been amended to more closely reflect the paper's exact wording, which referred to protests and \"a rise in public disorder and community tensions\".", "Oxford University has been ranked first in an international league table for the fourth year in a row.\n\nThe annual Times Higher Education world rankings put Cambridge in third place and Imperial College London in tenth.\n\nBut there is a warning from the compilers of the rankings that other UK universities are \"struggling to hold their own\" against global rivals.\n\nThey warn Germany is \"poised to overtake\" the UK in having the most top universities in Europe.\n\nThe rankings show Oxford once again named as the best university in the world, ahead of a US university - the California Institute of Technology - in second place.\n\nUS universities continue to dominate the rankings, taking seven of the top 10 places and 60 out of the top 200.\n\nThe Technical University of Munich: German universities have been among the biggest risers in the rankings\n\nAsian university systems are catching up - with China and Japan continuing to perform strongly in the rankings.\n\nIran's universities are among the \"biggest climbers\" in this year's league table.\n\nThe full list is of 1,300 universities in 92 countries, with the rankings taking into account teaching quality, the volume and reputation of research, citations of research, income from industry and international links.\n\nAn analysis accompanying the rankings says that the UK's so-called \"golden triangle\" - Oxford, Cambridge and London universities - continues to be very successful.\n\nBut it warns that this is \"masking\" a relative decline for other UK universities, while German universities are rapidly improving in the league table.\n\nSince 2016, the number of UK universities in the top 200 has fallen from 34 to 28, while the number of German universities has risen by three to 23.\n\nThe analysis from the Times Higher Education says this could reflect higher levels of investment being put into Germany's university system.\n\nCambridge University, part of the \"golden triangle\", was ranked in third place\n\nIt also warns that UK universities could fall further behind Germany in funding if they lose access to EU research partnerships after Brexit.\n\n\"If the UK starts to withdraw from the international stage, its position in the upper echelons of the rankings will suffer,\" says Phil Baty of the Times Higher Education rankings.\n\nThe vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, said: \"Oxford's success is in large part due to our research collaborations with other excellent universities around the world and we remain determined both to deepen and to expand these partnerships, whatever Brexit brings.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinn Féin 'could get more' from £1.5m donor's will. Photo credit: Sunday World.\n\nFriends of a man who left £1.5m to Sinn Féin have said the party could get even more money from his will.\n\nEnglishman Billy Hampton, 82, left the money to hit back at the British establishment, according to his friends.\n\nIt is understood to be the largest ever known donation to a Northern Ireland political party.\n\nThe money was bequeathed by the former market trader, who died in Pembrokeshire, Wales.\n\n\"He got it into his head that the establishment was out to get him,\" said Dave Morton, 71, a friend of Mr Hampton's, from Suffolk.\n\n\"It probably was all in his head, but he left the money to Sinn Féin to basically say 'up you' to the British establishment.\"\n\nSinn Féin vice president Michelle O'Neill has said there is \"nothing to see here\" after the party was given the donation.\n\nThe party said it has complied with all Electoral Commission rules and regulations.\n\nDave Morton said Mr Hampton left the money to say \"up you\" to the British establishment\n\nBilly Hampton's late father, Ted, had extensive business interests in the village of Fenstanton in Cambridgeshire that included property, a transport company and industrial estates, according to Mr Morton.\n\nAfter his father's death in the mid-1980s, Billy inherited some of the money.\n\nBut according to his friends, Mr Hampton blamed the establishment for his inability to access the full inheritance to which he believed he was entitled.\n\n\"He was having problems getting his inheritance, possibly because he had been in a mental hospital, or it could have been for legal reasons we don't know about,\" Mr Morton added.\n\n\"In his mind he had been let down by everyone in this country, apart from one or two people who tried to help him.\"\n\nFriends of Mr Hampton believe Sinn Féin could end up inheriting more than the £1.5m they have already received from his will.\n\n\"From what we could make out in his letters we received, Billy seemed to have the impression that he should have got £7m,\" said Mr Morton.\n\n\"He [Billy] was not stupid. He was well-educated and if he thought that, I would not be surprised if he was not close.\"\n\nMr Morton said Mr Hampton opted to leave the money to Sinn Féin \"to get the last laugh at the establishment\".\n\nMr Hampton's late father had extensive business interests in the village of Fenstanton in Cambridgeshire\n\n\"He is probably laughing in his grave right now. He'll think this is hilarious.\"\n\nIn a letter written from France in 2000, Mr Hampton said: \"Having had mental problems, everyone thinks I am barking mad, a silly Billy goat, and don't believe a word I say or write. Sorry, it was England that kicked me into the hands of Sinn Féin.\"\n\nIn his early life Mr Hampton worked as a market trader in Rainham, Kent, fixing second hand drills at his stall called \"Bill the Drill\". Years ago he developed psychiatric problems.\n\nAfter a time in hospital, he adopted a nomadic life, and spent some time in west Cork. He passed way in Wales in 2018, having written his will in 1997.\n\nAs well as the Sinn Féin donation, Mr Hampton left £8,000 to be divided among four other people, including £1,000 to the veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner.\n\nMr Skinner said he does not recognise Mr Hampton's name, and unlike Sinn Féin, he has said he will not be accepting the money.\n\nMr Hampton also left £1,000 to Dennis Skinner, but the Labour MP has not accepted it\n\nAccording the Probate Registry of Wales, the will was worth £2.5m, suggesting another £1m worth of assets still have to be dispersed.\n\nThe balance could end up going to Sinn Féin because it remains the executors and the trustees of Mr Hampton's will.\n\nIn one letter written in France in 2000, Billy Hampton wrote: \"I am much less paranoid than normal, and do not suffer from a persecution complex at all here in France.\"\n\nAnd in the same letter, written three years after he wrote his will, he said: \"Sinn Fein will not speak to me now for security reasons.\"\n\nSo far, Sinn Féin has declined to comment on this or say what it thinks it may have meant.", "The appeal against the court's original ruling was heard by a panel of three judges last week\n\nScotland's highest civil court is to again rule on whether or not Boris Johnson's suspension of the UK Parliament is legal.\n\nA judge at the Court of Session last week rejected an attempt by a cross-party group of politicians to have the suspension declared unlawful.\n\nThey appealed to the court's Inner House, with a panel of three judges being asked to overturn the decision.\n\nThe panel is expected to deliver its ruling on Wednesday.\n\nParliament was officially suspended for five weeks - a process known as proroguing - in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with MPs not due back until 14 October.\n\nAmid unprecedented scenes in the Commons, some MPs protested against the suspension with signs saying \"silenced\" while shouting: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nThe prime minister's opponents argue that his aim is to avoid parliamentary scrutiny of his Brexit plans before the UK's current departure date of 31 October.\n\nThe UK government insists this is not the case and that the aim of proroguing Parliament is to allow Mr Johnson to set out his legislative plans in the Queen's Speech while still allowing sufficient time for MPs to debate Brexit.\n\nA bill designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit was passed by MPs ahead of the five-week shutdown, but Mr Johnson's bid to hold a general election in October failed twice to get the required majority\n\nIn his ruling last week, judge Lord Doherty said Mr Johnson had not broken the law by proroguing Parliament, and that it was for MPs and the electorate to judge the prime minister's actions rather than the courts.\n\nThe case was brought by a group of about 75 largely pro-Remain MPs and peers, headed by SNP MP Joanna Cherry.\n\nBoris Johnson has described claims that suspending Parliament is undemocratic as a \"load of nonsense\"\n\nIt emerged during last week's hearings that Mr Johnson appeared to have approved a plan to shut down Parliament two weeks before publicly announcing it.\n\nThe court heard the prime minister was sent a note on 15 August asking if he wanted to prorogue parliament from mid-September. A tick and the word \"yes\" were written on the document. He announced the plan on 28 August.\n\nThe court later agreed to release the documents to the media.\n\nIn a separate case brought by anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller, the High Court in London also ruled last week that Mr Johnson had acted lawfully. Ms Miller is appealing that decision in the Supreme Court.\n\nMeanwhile, a hearing at the High Court in Belfast into the implications of a no-deal exit is continuing, with a campaigner for victims of the Troubles arguing that it could jeopardise the Northern Ireland peace process\n• None Why are MPs being sent home again?", "Mark Sim (left) and Peter O'Brien both died in the explosion in November 2015\n\nA steel company has pleaded guilty to failing to make a risk assessment before two men were killed at its plant.\n\nPeter O'Brien, 51, from Llanishen, Cardiff and Mark Sim, 41, of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, died at the Celsa UK site in Cardiff in November 2015.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard a second charge of breaches of health and safety laws will lie on file.\n\nA trial, scheduled to last four to six weeks, will now no longer go ahead.\n\nAnother worker, Darren Wood, was seriously injured in the explosion.\n\nThe prosecution was being brought by the Heath and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nThe explosion took place at Celsa manufacturing in Splott, Cardiff, in 2015\n\nFire crews at Celsa steelworks on the day of the fatal blast\n\nThe judge Neil Bidder described it as a \"very, very serious case\", adding: \"The two men went out to work and never came back\".\n\nHe said the company could expect a substantial financial penalty when it returns for sentencing on 4 October.", "Boris Johnson will not make an election pact with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, Downing Street has said.\n\nMr Farage said his party and the Conservatives should make a deal and \"together we would be unstoppable\".\n\nBut a senior Conservative source said Mr Farage was \"not a fit and proper person\" and \"should never be allowed anywhere near government\".\n\nMr Farage said he was \"disappointed\" with the response as he was offering a \"genuine hand of friendship\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Neil show that he did not want a job in the Conservative government and accused the Tories of \"petty, tribal, party politics\".\n\n\"Can't we see that actually if we get a Labour government we're not going to get a meaningful Brexit of any kind at all? This is big chance to unite the Leave vote,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson argues that an election is now the only way to break the deadlock over Brexit, but MPs have twice rejected his call to hold one.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is \"eager for an election\" but wants to see legislation designed to stop a no-deal Brexit on 31 October implemented first.\n\nParliament is now prorogued for five weeks and is not scheduled to return until 14 October, when there will be a Queen's Speech outlining Mr Johnson's legislative plans.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's highest civil court has ruled that the prime minister's suspension of the UK Parliament was unlawful.\n\nMr Farage has offered a \"non-aggression pact\" between his party and the Conservatives, on the condition that Mr Johnson sign up for \"a clean-break Brexit\" - in other words, no deal.\n\nThe aim is try to see off the threat from a \"Remain alliance\" of opposition parties who oppose Brexit and could depose the Tories.\n\nMr Farage says he will not field candidates in any of the Conservatives' existing seats and targets if, in return, the Tories stand aside in more than 80 Leave-voting constituencies where they are unlikely to win.\n\nHe made the offer in a full-page advert in the Sun and a wraparound advert in the Daily Express on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt the weekend, the Brexit Party leader said the offer was \"100% sincere\" and would help return Mr Johnson to Downing Street.\n\nHe wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"Johnson should cast his mind back to the European elections in May, in which his party came fifth, and ask himself: does he want the Tories to find themselves in a similarly disastrous position when the results of the next general election come in, or does he want to sign a non-aggression pact with me and return to Downing Street?\"\n\nWhen asked about a potential alliance on the Andrew Marr Show, Chancellor Sajid Javid said: \"We don't need an electoral alliance with anyone. We can stand on our own two feet, put our message across.\"", "Fireman Sam was created in the 1980s by a London firefighter\n\nFireman Sam has been axed as a mascot for a fire brigade over fears he could put women off joining.\n\nLincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service said the children's TV character was outdated and did not reflect the message it wanted to achieve.\n\nThe decision follows complaints by staff and members of the public.\n\nChief fire officer Les Britzman said Fireman Sam would be replaced with fire extinguisher-shaped mascots called Freddy, Filbert and Penelope.\n\nMr Britzman said the service already struggled to recruit women firefighters and the character would no longer be used in its promotional material.\n\n\"There's been a lot of research that says that images that young people have about what careers they want to do are formed when they are about four or five.\n\n\"If you are promoting that image we might be stopping people wanting to apply for the fire service 20 years down the line.\"\n\nThe decision has been backed by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), which said it did not reflect attempts to diversify the fire service.\n\nFBU executive council member Ben Selby said: \"We're not bothered about Fireman Sam.\n\n\"We're bothered by the subconscious message the term fireman has created as an issue in our recruitment.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by London Fire Brigade This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade has tweeted in support of the move but many others have criticised it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Olivia j This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 has come under fire in the past for being sexist, with calls for it to be renamed Firefighter Sam.\n\nMr Britzman said he would consider bringing back the character if this was done.\n\n\"The show itself is modern and up to date but the title isn't,\" he said.\n\n\"No-one in the country is called fireman anymore. It's firefighter. That's their rank.\"\n\nThe children's show, set in the fictional Welsh town Pontypandy, has been a mainstay on TV screens since it was created in the 1980s by London firefighter Dave Jones.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Jones said: \"I joined the fire brigade on my 18th birthday [and] if I had said I was a firefighter I would have been slapped down by my colleagues saying 'you are not a superhero, you are just a fireman'.\"\n\n\"We now live in a very PC world,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament means 12 high-profile government bills have been lost, including a law protecting victims of domestic abuse and key pieces of post-Brexit legislation.\n\nWhen Parliament is prorogued all existing bills making their way through the Commons and Lords are dropped, unless the government chooses to carry them over to the next session.\n\nOnly three pieces of legislation were carried over, meaning laws setting up post-Brexit arrangements for immigration, fishing, trade and agriculture as well as bills reforming divorce law, introducing tougher sentencing for animal cruelty and protecting public toilets all fell.\n\nThe bills can be re-introduced after Parliament returns on 14 October if the government chooses to do so but all progress made is lost and MPs and peers must start their scrutiny from scratch.\n\nThere are five Brexit-related bills that have dropped off, some of which were seen as important preparation for Brexit day, particularly in a no-deal scenario.\n\nThey cover trade, immigration, agriculture, financial services and fisheries.\n\nHaving entered Parliament in 2017, the Trade Bill would have given the UK the powers to implement new trade deals and set up a Trades Remedies Authority.\n\nIt had been through months of debate and re-writes in both Houses but stalled at the final hurdle after the House of Lords had approved changes that the government could have been defeated on in the Commons.\n\nBecause this bill was near the end of its parliamentary journey, it couldn't have been carried over, meaning the government either had to pass it or lose it.\n\nNew fishing rules will need to be established after Brexit\n\nShadow fisheries minister Luke Pollard said the Fisheries Bill was a \"day one necessity\" in the event of a no-deal Brexit and that there is no chance of passing the necessary legislation due to prorogation.\n\nHe called the loss of progress \"a betrayal of coastal communities\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Theresa Villiers - who was responsible for the Agriculture and Fisheries bills - told a House of Commons committee on Monday that she was \"enthusiastic about reintroducing them soon\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Luke Pollard MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMaddy Thimont Jack, senior researcher at the Institute for Government, said \"workarounds\" would mean the Brexit bills would not be needed immediately in a no-deal scenario but that these would only \"plug the gaps\" and the legislation would be needed \"pretty soon\".\n\nThe National Farmers' Union called the fall of the Agriculture Bill as \"totally unreasonable\", adding that there is now \"no guarantee at all that the legislation will be in place to enable the government to begin its planned transition to a new farm support system in 2021\".\n\nWith a general election on the horizon, Parliament will be closed again. The Brexit bills will either need to be passed quickly - limiting scrutiny - or face another delay.\n\n\"Totally unreasonable\" - NFU has criticised the fall of the Agriculture Bill\n\nAnother bill lost would have increased the maximum penalty for animal cruelty from six months imprisonment to five years in England and Wales.\n\nBoth Scotland and Northern Ireland already have laws to this effect.\n\nBattersea Dogs & Cats Home said they are \"very disappointed\" the bill has fallen and urge the government to lay it as soon as the Commons returns.\n\nA planned reform to divorce law in England and Wales would allowed couples who have drifted apart to start immediate divorce proceedings.\n\nCurrently, unless allegations of fault are made couples must wait two or five years to officially separate.\n\nFormer Justice Secretary David Gauke said it would end the \"blame game\" and encourage amicable separations that were less disruptive to families.\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 bill with cross-party support would have introduced a definition of domestic abuse to help victims and the public understand what type of behaviour it constitutes, helping more come forward.\n\nBefore it was dropped, multiple charities wrote to the PM urging him to keep the Domestic Abuse Bill as part of his agenda.\n\nIt was at the start of its parliamentary journey, so not much progress has been lost.\n\nBut Women's Aid has now demanded a \"clear, public commitment\" that the legislation will be brought back after prorogation.\n\nCampaigns and public affairs manager Lucy Hadley said: \"Survivors and domestic abuse experts have put years of work into creating this bill - it must be re-introduced in the next Queen's Speech.\"\n\nSir James Munby, the former president of the Family Division, expressed his \"dismay and frustration\", saying: \"This is a vitally important bill tackling what everyone agrees is a very great social evil.\"\n\nHe called for the bill to be reintroduced in Parliament as soon as the next session starts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 stellacreasy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely committed to legislating to support victims of domestic abuse\".\n\nThe now defunct Non-Domestic Rating Public Lavatories Bill would have removed business rates for buildings hosting public toilets effectively making the facilities cheaper to run, stopping future closures and ultimately increasing their numbers.\n\nAhead of the 2021 census, a bill that would add to it two voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender identity in England and Wales has also collapsed.\n\nThe bill itself had won praise from LGBT charity Stonewall.\n\nThe government chose to carry over three bills including preparing for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and a law planning the second stage of the HS2 railway from West Midlands to Crewe.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have all the necessary primary legislation in place for us to leave without a deal on 31 October and in a deal scenario we need to pass the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.\n\n\"The new legislative agenda will be set out in the Queen's Speech in October.\"\n• None Why are MPs being sent home again?", "The Army Foundation College in Harrogate trains recruits between the ages of 16 and 17\n\nSmoking and vaping is to be banned at the UK's only Army training centre for teenage recruits.\n\nHundreds of junior soldiers pass through the Army Foundation College (AFC) in Harrogate each year.\n\nIts commanding officer Lt Col Richard Hall said it was \"unacceptable\" that \"most recruits don't smoke on arrival, yet most do by graduation\".\n\nNew recruits will be barred from smoking next week, with a complete ban on smoking and vaping on site by 2020.\n\nIn a statement, Lt Col Hall said the ban was in order to develop recruits' health and fitness.\n\nHe added: \"I hope that this will discourage smoking amongst new recruits and reverse the recent trend we've seen in recruits taking up the habit.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lt Col Rich Hall MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe decision has met with broad support on Twitter, although one post described it as denying trainees \"the right to choose when in a few years you will be expecting them to defend that right if called upon\".\n\nLt Col Hall said he \"expected critics\", but the decision had been \"discussed at length over many months\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 GrumpyNige This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 college trains recruits between the ages of 16 and 17.\n\nThe Army's website says it \"plays a vital role in providing basic military training and developing future leadership\".\n\nThe military has a higher proportion of smokers than the civilian population.\n\nFigures supplied by the Ministry of Defence in 2013 showed 33% of Army personnel were regular smokers. In comparison, in the same year a NHS report found 19% of adults smoked regularly.\n\nSince then the number of civilian smokers has dropped further, with the latest NHS figures reporting 14.7% of adults smoking.\n\nIt is against the law for under 18s to buy tobacco in England and Wales, although it is not illegal to smoke under the age of 18.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 77-year-old man has been charged with the murders of a mother and her young son more than 40 years ago.\n\nRenee MacRae, 36, from Inverness, and Andrew, three, vanished on 12 November 1976.\n\nWilliam MacDowell, of Penrith, appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court. He also faces two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice.\n\nHe made no plea, was committed for further examination and granted bail by Sheriff Margaret Neilson.\n\nThe search for Mrs Macrae and her son is one of the UK's longest-running missing persons investigations.\n\nShe was last seen dropping her older son Gordon at her husband's house.\n\nThe following day her BMW car was discovered burned out in a lay-by on the A9, 12 miles south of Inverness.\n\nOne of the most intensive searches ever mounted in Scotland failed to find a trace of them and the bodies of the mother and son have not been found.\n\nPolice Scotland said a \"detailed forensic search\" of Leanach Quarry, near Inverness, started earlier this year in connection with the investigation was continuing.", "About 16 shops are closing every day as retailers restructure their businesses and more shopping moves online.\n\nA net 1,234 stores shut on Britain's top 500 high streets in the first half of the year, according to research by PwC and the Local Data Company.\n\nThat is up from 1,123 in the same period last year and the highest since the survey began in 2010.\n\nFashion retailers saw the biggest declines in the period, followed by restaurants, estate agents and pubs.\n\nHowever, there were more openings of takeaways and sport and health clubs.\n\nLisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at PwC, said: \"The decline in store numbers in the first half of 2019 shows that there's been no let-up in the changing ways that people shop and the cost pressures affecting High Street operators.\"\n\nShe said retailers had to invest more in making stores \"relevant to today's consumers\", but added that \"new and different types of operators\" needed encouragement to fill vacant space.\n\nAccording to PwC, 1,634 stores opened in the six months to the end of June - a 4% increase on the same period last year - while 2,868 stores shut. The data looks at retail chains with more than five outlets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can £5 burgers help boost one town's city centre?\n\nHigh Street retailers continue to face growing competition from online operators such as Amazon, making it harder to pay their rents and other overheads, such as a rising minimum wage and business rates.\n\nIt has led to big names such as Toys R Us going into administration, while others such as Topshop-owner Arcadia, Debenhams and New Look have announced large-scale closures.\n\nAccording to PwC, fashion retail continued to be the hardest hit sector in the six months to June, with 10 stores a week closing, mainly as a result of high profile administrations and restructurings\n\nMeanwhile, there were net declines of 103 restaurants, 100 estate agents and 96 pubs.\n\nGreater London saw the largest number of net closures of any region, although when taking into account its higher number of shops, its closure rate was in line with the national average.\n\nThe East Midlands, North East, South East and Yorkshire and the Humber were the only regions to see fewer closures than last year.", "Boris Johnson's suspension of the UK Parliament is unlawful, Scotland's highest civil court has ruled.\n\nA panel of three judges at the Court of Session found in favour of a cross-party group of politicians who were challenging the prime minister's move.\n\nThe decision overturns an earlier ruling from the court, which last week said Mr Johnson had not broken the law.", "Two British-Australian women and an Australian man have been detained in Iran amid growing tensions between London and Tehran.\n\nOne of the women was arrested with her boyfriend 10 weeks ago on unknown charges and another woman was jailed for 10 years, according to the Times.\n\nIran has held several dual nationals in recent years, including the British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nHer husband said: \"This hostage diplomacy cannot go on.\"\n\nRelations between the UK and Iran have been strained in recent months by a row over the seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf.\n\nOn Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab met the Iranian ambassador, after summoning him to discuss Iran's behaviour over a seized tanker's oil.\n\nMr Raab said it was clear the tanker had transferred its cargo to Syria after its release, in breach of EU sanctions.\n\nDuring the meeting, Mr Raab \"raised serious concerns about the number of dual national citizens detained by Iran and their conditions of detention\", the Foreign Office said.\n\nThe two British-Australian women are believed to be the first British passport holders without dual Iranian nationality to be held in the country in recent years.\n\nAustralia's government said it was assisting the detainees' families. The cases are not thought to be linked.\n\nThe BBC understands the two British-Australian women are in Tehran's Evin jail, where Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 41, a mother of one from London, has been held on spying charges since 2016. She denies the allegations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nOne of the women being detained is reportedly a blogger who was travelling through Asia with her Australian boyfriend.\n\nA source told the BBC that she has been told she is being held as part of a plan for a potential prisoner swap with Australia.\n\nThe second woman is said to be an academic who studied at the University of Cambridge and was lecturing at an Australian university.\n\nWhile the charges against the second woman remain unclear, 10-year terms are routinely given in Iran for spying charges, the Times said.\n\nOne of the women is thought to be in the same ward for female political prisoners as Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said: \"Our hearts reach out to the families involved. It is tough being at the wrong end of Iran's hostage-taking.\n\n\"I hope Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab use their upcoming meetings at the UN to make clear to Iran that enough is enough.\n\n\"This hostage diplomacy cannot go on.\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016\n\nThe Foreign Office (FCO) said the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) was leading on the cases. The DFAT told the BBC it would not comment further after confirming it was providing consular assistance.\n\nTulip Siddiq, who is Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, responded to the news, tweeting: \"Iran once again ups the stakes.\n\n\"This is a wake up call for our prime minister, government and ministers that they must act urgently to bring our innocent citizens home.\"\n\nFormer Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Iran does work on a basis of putting the pressure on these countries that it believes are hostile to it.\n\n\"And hostage-taking appears to be part of the practice.\"\n\nHe said the policy of detaining people \"means that it makes it very difficult for those who want a different relationship with Iran to get on the front foot with those who regard it as unremittingly hostile.\"\n\nThe Australian government said its travel advice for some parts of Iran was that it was not safe to travel.\n\nIt warns \"there is a risk that foreigners, including Australians, could be arbitrarily detained, or arrested\".\n\nThe FCO website also warns of the risks from travelling in Iran. \"The security forces may be suspicious of people with British connections,\" it states.\n\nIran's judiciary said last month it had sentenced a British-Iranian dual national to 10 years for allegedly spying for Israel.\n\nAnousheh Ashouri was detained over allegations he was working for the Mossad intelligence agency. He was also given an additional two-year jail term for illicitly acquiring money and fined $36,600 (£29,850).\n\nTensions between Iran and the US have heightened in recent months.\n\nIn July, the UK became involved when British Royal Marines helped detain an Iranian tanker in waters off the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.\n\nThe Adrian Darya One - previously called Grace One - was released after Iran gave written assurances that it was not bound for Syria.\n\nBut Mr Raab said it was clear the ship had transferred its cargo in Syria after being released.\n\nIn a statement, the foreign office said Iran's actions represented an \"unacceptable violation of international norms\" and that the UK would raise the issue at the UN General Assembly later this month.\n\nBut an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman would only say the ship had delivered its cargo after docking \"on the Mediterranean coast\".", "For drivers on the M6 it's been a day to forget from the moment the motorway was shut near Stafford just after midnight.\n\nA lorry had hit the central barrier, overturned and caught fire, although the ambulance service said the driver only suffered minor injuries.\n\nBut, because of the blaze and with debris and fuel spread over both sides of the carriageway, Highways England took several hours to clear the route and make repairs.\n\nHuge queues and stationary traffic were reported not just on the M6 either side of the accident, but on surrounding routes.\n\nSeveral told us they'd been stuck in tailbacks for five hours. Some, including delivery drivers said they'd been forced to turn around unable to complete their jobs, despite spending most of the day in traffic jams.\n\nDrivers spent that time struggling to get more than a few hundred yards in an hour and surrounding routes quickly became jammed with cars and lorries.\n\nThe strongest criticism from drivers throughout the day was regarding warning signs and advice for those heading towards the scene of the cash.\n\nIt was about 12 hours after the crash when the first lanes reopened, on the southbound side, with three reopening on the northbound side before 16:00.", "There are allegations that vulnerable patients were physically and mentally abused at the hospital\n\nA further eight members of staff have been suspended from Muckamore Abbey Hospital.\n\nThey have been placed on precautionary suspension from the hospital while police investigations into abuse allegations continue.\n\nThe move followed viewing of CCTV footage at the facility, the Belfast Health and Social Trust have said.\n\nThe County Antrim hospital caters for vulnerable adults with severe learning disabilities and mental health needs.\n\nIt brings the total number of staff currently suspended from the hospital to 28.\n\nA spokesperson for the trust said: \"Where we have concerns that staff behaviour could be deemed to have caused harm, we are committed to taking appropriate action as necessary.\"\n\nIt apologised to patients and their families affected by staff behaviours, which it said fell significantly below professional standards.\n\nIn August, the police officer leading the investigation into the facility said CCTV footage had revealed 1,500 crimes on one ward of the hospital.\n\nAllegations of ill treatment began to surface at Muckamore in November 2017 when it was revealed four staff members had been suspended.\n\nIn August 2018, BBC News NI reported there had been 53 assaults on patients by staff reported at the hospital - five of those incidents were investigated and substantiated.\n\nIt emerged earlier in September that the Department of Health had ordered a new review into the hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some MPs voiced their objection to the suspension in the Commons\n\nParliament has officially been suspended for five weeks, with MPs not due back until 14 October.\n\nAmid unprecedented scenes in the Commons, some MPs protested against the suspension with signs saying \"silenced\" while shouting: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nIt comes after PM Boris Johnson's bid to call a snap election in October was defeated for a second time.\n\nOpposition MPs refused to back it, insisting a law blocking a no-deal Brexit must be implemented first.\n\nIn all, 293 MPs voted for the prime minister's motion for an early election, far short of the two thirds needed.\n\nMr Johnson held a cabinet meeting earlier to update his ministers on Brexit, but a No 10 spokesman said the \"bulk\" of the meeting was focused on domestic issues.\n\nThe PM will later meet the leader of Northern Ireland's DUP, Arlene Foster, and her deputy, Nigel Dodds, in Downing Street to talk about \"a range of subjects, including Brexit\".\n\nParliament was suspended - or prorogued - at just before 02:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAs Speaker John Bercow - who earlier announced his resignation - was due to lead MPs in a procession to the House of Lords to mark the suspension, a group of angry opposition backbenchers tried to block his way.\n\nLate into the night, MPs also burst into song on the Commons benches, singing traditional Welsh and Scottish songs, Labour anthem Red Flag and hymns like Jerusalem.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said \"the uproar in Parliament wasn't just Pantomime politics - there is genuine fury and incredulity that at such a crucial moment for the nation, the place is being shut down.\"\n\nDuring the five-week suspension, parties will hold their annual conferences but no debates, votes or committee scrutiny sessions will take place.\n\nBoris Johnson will not face Prime Minister's Questions until the period is over and his scheduled questioning by the Commons liaison committee on Wednesday has been cancelled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nParliament's suspension means MPs will not get another chance to vote for an early election until they return, meaning a poll would not be possible until November at the earliest.\n\nIt is normal for new governments to suspend Parliament - it allows them to schedule a Queen's Speech to set out a fresh legislative programme - but the length and timing of the prorogation in this case has sparked controversy.\n\nThe decision to prorogue was entirely in the hands of the government, although there have been failed attempts via the courts to stop it.\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\nElsewhere on Monday, in a hectic day of political developments:\n\nAt present, UK law states that the country will leave the EU on 31 October, regardless of whether a withdrawal deal has been agreed with Brussels or not.\n\nBut new legislation, which was granted royal assent on Monday, changes that, and will force the prime minister to seek a delay until 31 January 2020 unless a deal - or a no-deal exit - is approved by MPs by 19 October.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said although No 10 insisted it was not looking to break the new law, efforts were under way to examine ways of getting around it.\n\nMr Johnson said the government would use the time Parliament was suspended to press on with negotiating a deal with the EU, while still \"preparing to leave without one\".\n\n\"No matter how many devices this Parliament invents to tie my hands, I will strive to get an agreement in the national interest,\" he said.\n\n\"This government will not delay Brexit any further.\"\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nMr Johnson told MPs Mr Corbyn had previously said he would back an election if legislation to prevent the government from forcing through a no-deal Brexit on 31 October became law.\n\n\"By his own logic, he must now back an election.\"\n\nBut Labour, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, the Independent Group for Change and Plaid Cymru have all agreed they will not back an election until the no-deal legislation has been implemented.\n\nMr Corbyn told MPs his party was \"eager for an election - but as keen as we are, we are not prepared to risk inflicting the disaster of no deal on our communities, our jobs, our services or indeed our rights\".\n\nAnd he said the prime minister was suspending Parliament to avoid discussions of his plans.\n\nSir Oliver Letwin, who last week defied Mr Johnson to vote to block a no-deal outcome and subsequently lost the Conservative whip - told BBC Radio 4's Today he believed there was now a majority in the Commons to back another referendum.\n\nAsked whether the prime minister would back a further vote, Mr Letwin replied: \"Boris has often changed his mind about many things and that's one of his advantages, that he's very flexible so maybe he can.\"\n\nMr Johnson is now more than 20 seats short of a majority in Parliament, making effective government extremely difficult.\n\nThe prime minister's self-imposed Halloween Brexit deadline looks further out of reach than a few short days ago.\n\nIs it impossible? Absolutely not.\n\nThere is the possibility, still, of a deal, with Number 10 today stressing it was still their primary aim.\n\nWhispers again about a Northern Ireland only backstop, and a bigger role for the Stormont assembly, if it ever gets up and running, are doing the rounds.\n\nSome MPs and some diplomats are more cheerful about the possibilities of it working out.\n\nIf you squint, you can see the chance of an agreement being wrapped up at pace, although it seems the chances range somewhere between slim and negligible.\n\nFormer Conservative Dominic Grieve, who also lost the whip last week, was behind the move the force the publication of government communications relating to prorogation and no-deal Brexit plans, known as Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nIt was backed by 311 votes to 302, after Mr Grieve told MPs it was \"entirely reasonable\" to ask for the disclosure \"so the House can understand the risks involved and this can be communicated more widely to the public\".\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove, who is in charge of no-deal preparations, argued against the move, suggesting he had already given \"sufficient assurances\" to the EU select committee on Yellowhammer.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox questioned the legal right of the government to require employees - including the PM's top aide Dominic Cummings - to open up their private email accounts and personal mobiles to scrutiny.\n\nAfter the vote, a government spokesman said it would \"consider the implications and respond in due course\".\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Johnson held talks with Leo Varadkar in Dublin, his first meeting with the Irish prime minister since he entered No 10.\n\nThe Irish border has proved a key sticking point in attempts to agree a Brexit deal between the UK and the EU.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Sports Direct shareholders have registered unhappiness with founder Mike Ashley, voting in large numbers against his re-election as director.\n\nMr Ashley owns 62% of the company, so was overwhelmingly backed to continue in the role as expected.\n\nHowever, almost a quarter of independent shareholders voted against his re-election.\n\nSports Direct is under pressure to appoint a new auditor, but shareholders were told no decision had been made.\n\nMr Ashley has been criticised for a spending spree which has seen Sports Direct buy numerous struggling retailers. His retail empire includes large swathes of the High Street.\n\nHe bought House of Fraser for £90m last year saying he wanted to turn it into the \"Harrods of the High Street\".\n\nSports Direct later said it regretted the acquisition, describing problems at House of Fraser as \"nothing short of terminal\".\n\n\"Sports Direct has been through a very turbulent period and made a number of strange missteps,\" Tom Powdrill, of investor advisory group Pirc, said ahead of the meeting.\n\nIn particular he noted the House of Fraser acquisition, a delay in publishing its results, and problems appointing an auditor.\n\nSports Direct's relations with some investors have been turbulent for a number of years. For example, in 2016 shareholders moved to depose the then chairman Keith Hellawell.\n\nIn a statement, Sports Direct said: \"Mike Ashley was re-elected... with over 90% of the vote and the audited accounts for the year ended 28 April 2019 were also approved by over 99% of shareholders.\"\n\nShareholder ISS recommended voting against Mr Ashley's re-election, citing \"material failures of governance and risk oversight, many of which remain unresolved\" over recent years.\n\nMr Ashley, who owns Newcastle United, faced a small protest from football fans ahead of the meeting\n\nFidelity International's Maike Currie told the BBC that shareholders have questions over the firm's performance and Mr Ashley's recent shopping spree. The businessman has bought a number of ailing retailers in the last two years.\n\nAnother issue is the appointment of an auditor, after Grant Thornton resigned in August. But the meeting was told that the company is still in the process of finding a new firm.\n\nMr Powdrill said earlier that if Sports Direct cannot appoint an auditor by the close of the meeting, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has the power to step in if necessary.\n\nShares in Sports Direct are down by about 25% in a year, and suffered a big drop in July after the Belgian government claimed Sports Direct owed it €674m (£605m) in taxes.\n\nMs Currie said there were doubts over Mr Ashley's decision to buy House of Fraser and Jack Wills. There are also reports that Sports Direct is bidding for High Street jeweller Links of London.\n\nMr Ashley's recent purchases include, Evans Cycles, upmarket clothing outlets Flannels and Cruise, and lingerie firm Agent Provocateur. Sports Direct is also in the process of taking control of Game Digital.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Ashley tried to become chief executive of Debenhams, but instead his stake in the chain was wiped out when the retailer was taken over by its lenders.\n\nMr Ashley has also failed in a bid for music retailer HMV and pulled out of bidding for cafe chain Patisserie Valerie.", "A French company has been found liable for the death of an employee who had a cardiac arrest while having sex with a stranger on a business trip.\n\nA Paris court ruled that his death was an industrial accident and that the family was entitled to compensation.\n\nThe firm had argued the man was not carrying out professional duties when he joined a guest in her hotel room.\n\nBut under French law an employer is responsible for any accident occurring during a business trip, judges said.\n\nThe man, named as Xavier X, was working as an engineer for TSO, a railway services company based near Paris.\n\nHe died at a hotel during a trip to central France in 2013, as a result of what the employer called \"an extramarital relationship with a perfect stranger\".\n\nThe company challenged a decision by the state health insurance provider to regard the death as a workplace accident.\n\nThe provider defended its position by insisting that sexual activity was normal, \"like taking a shower or a meal\".\n\nIn its ruling, the Paris appeals court upheld this view.\n\nAn employee on a business trip is entitled to social protection \"over the whole time of his mission\" and regardless of the circumstances, it said.", "Queensland Police Service has released footage of evacuation efforts in a residential neighbourhood engulfed in flames.\n\nWildfires have broken out across the state and neighbouring New South Wales.\n\nThe wildfire season usually runs from October to April but fires have started earlier than expected this year and officials fear it could be the worst season in decades.", "At least 50 people have died as a result of Hurricane Dorian, a number that is expected to rise as search operations continue.\n\nNearly two weeks after the category five storm devastated parts of the island chain, thousands have been left without homes and essentials such as water and electricity.", "In the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAfter losing two male friends to suicide, Rob Moss set up RammyMen in the former mill town of Ramsbottom, Lancashire, to engage local men in activities that would help with depression.\n\nIts aim is to “keep Ramsbottom busy with an eye on mental health and reducing suicide risk in men”.\n\nDan Lilley-Blackman says the group has saved his life.\n\nIf you're affected by emotional distress, you can go to the following link for help and support, or wider information is available via the BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Opposition MPs say their \"resolve remains firm\" to bring back Parliament\n\nOpposition MPs are demanding Parliament be recalled after a court ruling deemed its five-week closure unlawful.\n\nParliament was suspended on Tuesday, something Boris Johnson said was normal practice for a new government.\n\nBut critics claimed his intention was to avoid scrutiny in the run-up to the Brexit deadline on 31 October.\n\nNo 10 said it was \"disappointed\" but Parliament would remain prorogued pending its appeal to the Supreme Court, which will be heard on Tuesday.\n\nDowning Street said it had been \"consistent throughout\" on why the current parliamentary session should be ended, a decision formally taken by the Queen earlier this month on the advice of Mr Johnson.\n\nLabour, the SNP and the Lib Dems are all demanding that MPs be recalled as early as Wednesday afternoon and some have returned to Parliament to protest.\n\nThey are not due to sit again until 14 October when the government had planned to hold a Queen's Speech, setting out its policy agenda.\n\nIn a summary of their findings, the judges, at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, said they were unanimous in their belief that Mr Johnson was motivated in his decision to prorogue by the \"improper purpose of stymieing Parliament\".\n\nThey added: \"The court will accordingly make an order declaring that the prime minister's advice to HM the Queen and the prorogation which followed thereon was unlawful and is thus null and of no effect.\"\n\nThe decision contrasts with a ruling by England's High Court last week, in a case brought by anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller, which determined the government's actions were lawful.\n\nOutlining the reasons for that decision on Wednesday, it said the decision to suspend, or prorogue, Parliament rested with the executive and was outside the purview of the courts, adding \"the refusal of the courts to review political questions is well-established\".\n\nThe Supreme Court's nine justices will now consider the government's appeal of the Scottish ruling at the same time as Mrs Miller's appeal.\n\nIn a BBC interview, business minister Kwasi Kwarteng would not guarantee Parliament would be recalled if the government lost the appeal.\n\nHe told the Andrew Neil show that the \"Supreme Court will have a verdict and they will also have an opinion and it is only when we hear the opinion that we will decide what to do\".\n\n\"If the judgement is upheld, I have no idea where we will be. We will be in a constitutional deadlock because the prorogation has already happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Tory MP Dominic Grieve - who had the Conservative whip removed after voting to block a no-deal Brexit - called for Parliament's immediate recall and said if it was the case the government had misled the Queen, Mr Johnson should resign.\n\nThe judges made it \"quite clear\" the explanation for suspending Parliament was \"simply inaccurate and untrue\", he added.\n\n\"These are interesting times when courts rule in favour of democracy and against a prime minister who wants to shut down democracy,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson - who would have been quizzed by MPs at Prime Minister's Questions and the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday if Parliament had been sitting - instead answered questions submitted by members of the public via Facebook for 15 minutes.\n\nHe said if the UK and EU could not agree a new Brexit deal \"then be in no doubt we will leave on October 31st\".\n\nHe also said there was \"good progress\" in negotiations and \"the mood is changing\".\n\nThere were a number of protests around the country after the government confirmed it was suspending Parliament\n\nThe SNP's leader in Westminster Ian Blackford, who has written to the prime minister to insist Parliament is recalled, said: \"Every day Parliament remains suspended, Boris Johnson and the UK government are shutting down democracy.\"\n\nDuring the suspension, parties are due to hold their annual conferences but no debates, votes or official committee scrutiny sessions will take place.\n\nBut following Wednesday's ruling, some MPs returned to the empty Commons chamber and others held an impromptu news conference outside Parliament insisting they were \"ready to work and represent their constituents\".\n\nLabour's Stephen Doughty said, pending Tuesday's ruling, MPs would find \"other ways\" to hold the government to account - potentially in \"alternative locations\".\n\nAnd Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said the opposition parties would continue to co-operate to \"make sure we do our job\".\n\nGovernment sources said those trying to recall Parliament were seeking to pre-empt the appeal.\n\nNo 10 also denied reports that sources had been critical of the Scottish judges.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland later tweeted he had \"total confidence\" in the court's independence.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robert Buckland QC MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile it awaited the verdict of the Supreme Court, No 10 said it stood by its justification for curtailing the current Parliament session.\n\nIt said it had been the longest in almost 400 years, that Parliament had in recent months become \"one of the least active\" and that the PM wanted to put a \"proper domestic legislative programme\" before MPs.\n\nBut the SNP's Joanna Cherry, who was one of the lawyers involved in the case in Scotland, said Parliament should be recalled \"for the time being\".\n\nShe told the BBC that, even if the Supreme Court were to issue its decision immediately, \"we will have lost about 10 days of Parliamentary time\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, said the law in Scotland was different to that in England and the ruling would put \"massive pressure\" on the Supreme Court over who to side with.\n\nThe response of Team Johnson this morning has been to say \"calm down, we are not recalling Parliament now, just wait and see what the Supreme Court decides.\"\n\nBut any way you look at it, this is bad for the prime minister and has the potential to become a full-blown bombshell moment for him.\n\nBad because he has been judged to have behaved unlawfully and, more than that, the judges clearly believe he misled Parliament.\n\nIf the Supreme Court upholds their view, it seems he will have no option but to recall Parliament which would be a political humiliation for him.\n\nOn top of that, MPs will almost certainly vote to scrap the party conference recess and sit through September right up to the 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nThe bottom line, to put it mildly, is that an awful lot is hanging on what the judges decide on Tuesday.\n\nGuto Bebb, another Conservative rebel stripped of the whip last week, said No 10 must now release all internal communications relating to the decision to suspend Parliament as demanded by MPs in a vote on Monday.\n\n\"We now have a question as to the integrity and honesty of the Downing Street operation,\" he told Radio 4's World at One.\n\nConservative MP Bob Stewart said the decision to suspend Parliament looked \"a bit suspicious\" but, citing the High Court ruling, added \"the fact of the matter is they have acted within the law\".\n\nTory MP Nigel Evans, a former deputy Speaker, said if Parliament was recalled he feared a repeat of the \"disgraceful antics\" which proceeded Tuesday's prorogation - when some MPs tried to stop the Speaker from leaving his chair and sang songs in the chamber.\n\nAnd Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the decision \"smelt\" of judicial interference.\n\n\"How can a Queen's Speech be unlawful?\" he said. \"The establishment will stop at nothing to frustrate the will of the people.\"", "A new strain of group A streptococcus, which is able to produce significantly more toxin, is spreading in England and Wales, scientists say.\n\nStrep A causes a range of infections, from a sore throat to scarlet fever.\n\nThe new strain's emergence, reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, coincides with a rise in rare but potentially deadly invasive infections.\n\nHowever, it does not explain the mysterious surge in scarlet fever cases during the past five years.\n\nAnd there is no direct evidence the new strain causes more serious infection than other strains, experts say.\n\nScarlet fever is a very contagious infection that mostly affects young children.\n\nThe number of children with scarlet fever soared in 2014 and two years later there was an increase in cases of invasive strep A, where the bug penetrates deeper into the body and causes problems such as sepsis (blood poisoning).\n\nThe latest figures showed there were 1,500 invasive cases in England in 2018-19 - 8% higher than the average for the previous five years.\n\nA team from Imperial College London analysed the DNA, or genetic code, of stored strep A samples from patients to see if a change in the bacterium could explain the rise.\n\nStrep A is made up of several \"families\" known as emm-types. Emm1 has been linked to invasive cases in the past and the study showed it had mutated to form the new strain.\n\n\"We found no trace of it in the UK until about 2010,\" one of the researchers Prof Shiranee Sriskandan told BBC News.\n\n\"And it took off between 2011 and 2013, so that by 2016 it represented 80% of emm1 strains - it's taken over its own family.\"\n\nThe mutated strain is able to produce nine times more toxin (streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A) than the previous version.\n\nThis is the toxin that actually causes the symptoms of scarlet fever - flu-like symptoms, sore throat, swollen glands and a rash.\n\nHowever, Prof Sriskandan told BBC News: \"This study doesn't offer any answers to why scarlet fever came back in 2014.\"\n\nThere is also no evidence, she says, that the toxin is causing the invasive cases of the disease.\n\nThe new strain has largely been confined to the UK. There has been one case in Denmark and another in the US.\n\n\"It's important because although invasive disease is very rare due to strep A, it has quite a substantial impact on the people it affects,\" said Prof Sriskandan.\n\n\"Mortality from invasive disease is between 15% and 20% - these are very high mortality rates.\"\n\nScarlet fever - because it is easily noticed and cases have to be reported to Public Health England - is a good indicator of how much strep A is circulating.\n\nIn the past five years, England has seen the biggest surge in scarlet fever since the 1960s.\n\nIn 2013 there were about 4,000 cases, reaching 15,000 in 2014 and 19,000 in 2016. The number of cases is now coming down again but remains relatively high.\n\nProf Mark Walker, from the University of Queensland, in Australia, said: \"An unprecedented global resurgence of scarlet fever and severe invasive group A streptococcal infections has been seen in the past few decades.\"\n\nChina, South Korea and Hong Kong have all recorded similar spikes in cases and Prof Walker said there was an \"essential need\" to monitor group A strep infections around the world.\n\n\"The report sends out an important warning [that] recently emerging scarlet fever group A strep strains have enhanced invasive potential which may have profound implications for the future,\" he said.\n\nProf Jimmy Whitworth from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: \"This important study gives us a plausible clue to the worrying recent increase in cases of scarlet fever in children in England.\"\n\nA spokeswoman from Public Health England said: \"Despite the rise in scarlet fever cases over the last five years, it remains a typically mild illness, readily treatable with antibiotics to reduce the risk of complications and spread to others.\n\n\"We remind parents to be aware of the symptoms of scarlet fever and to contact their GP for assessment if they think their child might have it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes could be stabilising, or even falling, a study suggests.\n\nThe analysis looked at 47 studies from the mid-1960s up to 2014, mainly from the US and Canada and countries across Europe including the UK.\n\nA third of populations studied between 2006 and 2014 saw a fall in new cases and another third were stable.\n\nBut Diabetes UK said the challenges of obesity and unhealthy lifestyles, both linked to the condition, remained.\n\nProf Dianna Magliano, head of diabetes and population health at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, in Melbourne, who led the study, said: \"We are seeing a flattening of incidence and even a fall in many high income countries in the recent years.\"\n\nMeasures such as cycle paths may have encouraged people to live more healthily, thereby preventing diabetes cases\n\nStudies between 1990 and 2005 showed the number of new cases increased in two-thirds (67%) of populations studied, was stable in 31% and decreased in 2%.\n\nBut from 2006 to 2014, increases were seen in only a third, with 30% staying stable and 36% declining.\n\nProf Magliano said: \"The most obvious conclusion to be drawn from falling incidence is that we are succeeding in reducing the risk for developing diabetes in the population.\"\n\nThe studies did not reveal the level of undiagnosed diabetes in populations - and a different test for type 2 diabetes was introduced around 2010.\n\nBut Sarah Wild, professor of epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said the findings echoed what she had seen in Scotland.\n\n\"There does seem to be a flattening of new cases of diabetes,\" she said. \"Why that is seems to be a bit of a puzzle.\n\n\"It's good news. But that doesn't mean we can take our eye off the ball.\"\n\nDr Emily Burns head of research communications at Diabetes UK, said: \"This study looks at type 2 diabetes through a different lens, reporting on the number diagnosed rather than the number living with the condition - which can often be distorted by factors such as how long people live for.\n\n\"With this in mind, it's promising to see that the number of people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes might potentially be plateauing in certain parts of the world.\"\n\nBut she added: \"The challenges posed by obesity and unhealthy lifestyles - the two main drivers for type 2 diabetes - remain significant.\n\n\"That's why, while the findings are interesting, this study doesn't detract from the seriousness of the growing diabetes crisis and the vital prevention efforts under way to help tackle this.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People with a fear of small holes have claimed the design of Apple's iPhone 11 Pro is triggering their phobia.\n\nAt its unveiling on Tuesday, many found their attention drawn to its \"ultra-wide\" rear camera, with three high-powered lenses packed closely together.\n\nThe lenses sit alongside the handset's torch and \"audio zoom\" microphone.\n\nAnd hundreds of smartphone users now claim the new design has triggered their \"trypophobia\", an aversion to the sight of clusters of small holes.\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 term \"trypophobia\" was first coined in 2005 in online forum Reddit and it has since become widely talked about on social media.\n\nAmerican Horror Story actress Sarah Paulson and model Kendall Jenner are among those who say they have the condition.\n\nVision scientist Dr Geoff Cole, at the University of Essex, was part of the first full scientific study of trypophobia, working with his colleague, Prof Arnold Wilkins.\n\nPeople with trypophobia feel a sense of disgust when looking at small holes\n\n\"We have all got it, it's just a matter of degree,\" Dr Cole told BBC News earlier this year.\n\nThe response to seeing small holes can be very extreme, their study suggests.\n\nDr Cole and Prof Wilkins reported testimonies from some people who vomited and others who said they could not go to work for several days.\n\n\"It can be quite disabling,\" Prof Wilkins added.", "The boy was recovered from the river shortly before 16:30 BST\n\nA baby boy pulled out of a river in Greater Manchester has died.\n\nThe child, believed to be almost 12 months old, was pulled from the River Irwell in Radcliffe, Bury, just before 16:30 BST but died a short time later in hospital.\n\nA 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nDet Supt Jamie Daniels said it was an \"incredibly tragic incident\" which \"has led to an innocent baby boy losing his life\".\n\nPolice said they were \"working hard to piece together the circumstances that led to the baby boy ending up in the water\"\n\nOfficers said it was not clear how the boy came to be in the water but unconfirmed reports suggest he was thrown from a bridge.\n\nEnzo Cabuderra, who works at Italia Mia restaurant in neighbouring Stand Lane, said he arrived to find police and ambulance staff at the scene.\n\n\"I've got grandkids myself and to think that someone could do something like this… it's just shocking,\" he said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue service said crews \"rescued one casualty who was then handed over to North West Ambulance Service\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adult football fans cannot buy a ticket for a Scottish Premiership game for less than £20, a BBC Scotland study has found.\n\nThat is just one of the findings from a new survey that collates the price of season tickets, match tickets, programmes, merchandise and food costs across the SPFL divisions this term.\n\nEach of the 42 senior clubs - except Rangers, whose figures came from the club website - were asked to provide prices and among the other key findings, it emerged that:\n• None The most expensive ticket so far is £52 for an Old Firm game at Ibrox\n• None Rangers & Dumbarton charge the most for a pie\n• None Rangers, Motherwell & Queen's Park charge the most for a cup of tea\n\nSPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster insisted that every club in Scotland is \"continuing to make every effort to make football as affordable as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"Our game continues to go from strength to strength. Average attendances have increased across all four divisions, the League Cup and Challenge Cup for the last five years in a row.\n\n\"One in 47 people in Scotland attend an SPFL match each weekend, which means it remains by far the best attended league per head of the population anywhere in Europe.\n\n\"This underlines the value and enjoyment supporters get from Scottish football.\"\n• None How does your club compare? - full results\n• None What is Scotland's cheapest away day?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Scotland's top league leads the way in terms of the most expensive clubs to follow.\n\nA season ticket at champions Celtic will cost you up to £647, while the cheapest adult ticket is £456.\n\nFigures obtained from the Rangers website show fans of the Ibrox club could pay anything from £372 to £724 for a season pass.\n\nThe cheapest season book in the top-flight can be found at St Mirren, with their entry level ticket coming in at £240, with Ross County just £10 more expensive.\n\nIn terms of the most expensive single ticket, that can be found at Ibrox at £52 for a top-category game, with Celtic yet to confirm their price. Motherwell offer the cheapest on-the-day brief at £20.\n\nClubs including St Johnstone, St Mirren and Motherwell offer free season tickets for children when an adult ticket is bought. The cheapest outright kids ticket for the campaign is £5 to watch Ross County.\n\nAway from tickets, fans of top-flight clubs are counting the cost of supporting their sides. The cheapest replica jersey for an adult is Livingston at £39.99, while junior fans of the West Lothian club will pay £29.99 for a top, also the lowest in the division.\n\nThat compares to the £60 for a Rangers top or £58 price tag attached to Celtic, with kids jerseys for both coming in at £45.\n\nLivingston also come in top in terms of match-day programme - which is completely free online. For a paper copy, St Johnstone at £2 is the most affordable.\n\nWhile a tier lower, there is one group of supporters who are still playing Premiership prices - Dundee fans. A season ticket at Dens costs at least £340, with eight top-flight clubs charging less.\n\nIn fact, Dundee also charge more than any Championship rival for a match-day ticket as well as commanding the biggest single ticket price at £26 along with city rivals United.\n\nFour Championship clubs offer free children's' season tickets - Morton, Inverness CT, Partick Thistle and Queen of the South - while Morton also give free admission to under 12s without a season book. Dundee also redeem themselves here, charging just £1 for a kids season ticket and £2 on the gate.\n\nDearest strip? You can find that at Somerset Park, with adult Ayr fans paying £49.99 for a replica jersey. A kids strip across the league is not available for less than £35.\n\nA pie and a cup of tea at Inverness will cost you a hefty £4.60 in total, more than double the £2 you would part with at Queen of the South.\n\nIn League One, the price of a season ticket drops below the £200-mark at three clubs - Forfar Athletic, Stranraer and Peterhead - with the latter the cheapest at just £175 for the full term.\n\nForfar come in cheapest for a single match ticket at £14, while Falkirk, Peterhead, Stranraer and Dumbarton all offer free ticket deals for kids whether on a single match basis or across the season.\n\nHowever, any adult wanting to follow Dumbarton is having to dig deep compared to other fans in the division. They have the dearest cheapest season ticket at £240, the joint third-highest single ticket at £16, joint second most-expensive programme at £2.50 and the joint highest priced pie in Scotland at £2.80.\n\nTo put it differently, it costs only marginally more to buy a slice of pizza and a drink at Serie A giants Juventus at 5.50 euros (£4.92) than a pie and a tea at Dumbarton. Granted, there are different economies of scale at play between the two...\n\nThe most expensive season ticket in the division comes at Falkirk at £320. They also have the dearest on-the-day ticket (£20), programme (£3 along with Clyde), tea (£1.80) and away ticket price (£18).\n\nFashion comes at a high price in Peterhead with £49 needed for a jersey, while Raith Rovers charge £55 for a full kit for children.\n\nIn the bottom tier, seven of the 10 clubs offer some form of free ticket to children, with Cove Rangers' £80 for a season ticket the dearest in League Two.\n\nFor adults, the price of a season ticket does drop from the division above, with Elgin City's £150 the cheapest in the division for a season ticket. However, while perhaps not a fair comparison given the focus on fans in German football, that is still £20 more than what it could cost you to watch Bayern Munich for a campaign.\n\nQueen's Park have the dearest tickets across the board at £200 for a season ticket and single day ticket at £15 along with Brechin City.\n\nWhile a programme at Hampden may be free, you can pay £3 for one at Edinburgh City.\n\nAnd a Stirling Albion fan looking to buy their child a top? It will cost you £40.\n\nAccording to Neil Doncaster, the chief executive of the SPFL, attendances at club matches across Scotland are in decent health. He talks about the average attendances increasing across all divisions over the last five seasons. He says that the SPFL, per head of population, remains the best attended league in Europe.\n\nThere is no doubting the love of the game in Scotland. It endures through all sorts of nonsense. Accelerating ticket prices and anti-social kick-off times are accepted. It would be fascinating to see an overall satisfaction rating among football fans for their match-day experience but the fact remains that they still turn out in numbers even when barriers are put in their way.\n\nA number of issues jump out of this survey. Dundee charge more for a season ticket than eight Premiership clubs. Do they not know what division they're playing in? Are they in denial about relegation? Ayr United charge £49.99 for a men's replica jersey? Do the smelling salts cost extra? No strip from a Championship club is available for less than £35. That's fine if you belong to Morton, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Partick Thistle or Queen of the South where kids get free season tickets. Brilliant. Good on them. But the rest?\n\nAt £240, St Mirren offer the cheapest season ticket in the Premiership. Fair value, you might say. But here's the thing. Attendances at professional rugby matches have now surpassed most football club attendances in Scotland. Last Friday, the international rugby team drew more than 50,000 to Murrayfield for a friendly with Georgia while the Scottish FA struggled to half-fill Hampden for the visit of Russia before recording a crowd of just 25,000 for Belgium on Monday night.\n\nIn Glasgow, the Warriors charge £215 for their cheapest season ticket and their crowds have risen to such an extent in recent seasons that their 7,500-capacity stadium is now regularly sold out. There is talk of them adding extra temporary stands to meet demand. Too often the place is too small. This from a club that six or seven years ago was bringing in 2,000 fans per game if they were lucky.\n\nFootball will always be the national obsession - and plenty of clubs are busting every sinew to do the right thing by their supporters - but if you polled a thousand football fans from around the country and asked them if they felt they were getting value for money the answers would be interesting. They love their team, but their support should never be taken for granted.", "This refill shop is bringing shoppers to Barry's town centre, which has suffered from large retailers closing down in quick succession\n\nShop closures of large retailers in Wales far outweighed all new chain store openings in the first half of 2019, research has indicated.\n\nThere was a net loss of 37 chain shops in the 11 towns surveyed, suggesting Wales was proportionally the worst-affected part of the UK.\n\nPubs, bookmakers, and men's clothes shops saw the highest fall in Wales.\n\nHowever, there was some growth in opticians, chocolatiers, sports good shops and beauty salons.\n\nResearchers studied town centres deemed to be in Great Britain's top 500 high streets, including Abergavenny, Barry, Newport, Swansea, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath, Pontypridd, Bridgend and Cwmbran.\n\nThe analysis by Local Data Company and PwC showed the shortfall between chains opening and closing was at the highest level since the analysis began in 2014.\n\nBarry in the Vale of Glamorgan was the only town surveyed in Wales not to see a net decline.\n\nThe town's centre saw one chain shop closing and one opening in the first half of this year. Fifty-five per cent of its shops are independent, meaning the chain retailers make up a significant proportion of the occupants.\n\nRachael Williams thinks chain closures can create a negative perception of an area\n\nRachael Williams, who is involved with the Holton Road Traders' Association, said the departure of chains such as Dorothy Perkins, Burton and New Look had affected footfall and created a negative perception of the area.\n\n\"You've either got to make the units bigger to attract the bigger shops, or you've got to make the rates lower to attract the independents,\" she added.\n\nHer husband Ceri Williams, who co-owns Marshalls Butchers on the main street Holton Road, said a reduction in chain shops was \"another nail in the coffin\" for the high street.\n\nIn July, locals Stuart Burnell and his fiancée opened the Awesome Wales zero waste refill shop, next to Marshalls, and said they had been well-supported by residents.\n\n\"It's vitally important we have different types of shop that will bring people back into the town centre,\" he said.\n\nHis neighbour Mr Williams added: \"Getting people in the town is the biggest challenge because it's so hard to draw people in, but the [refill] shop next door, he has brought a lot of people in, and nice people who care about the environment and we're getting a bit of spin off from that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe analysis looked at the top 500 high streets with the largest number of chain stores, which is why there were no towns in north Wales on the list.\n\nBen Cottam, from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Wales, described the analysis as \"sobering\".\n\n\"We now see that some of the pressures of consumer behaviour, business rates burdens and other issues are hitting even the biggest names,\" he added.\n\nFSB Wales called on the Welsh Government to allocate some of the £600m announced for Wales in the chancellor's recent spending review towards a future of Welsh towns fund to develop new thinking on boosting regional towns.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the money did \"not make up for nearly a decade of cuts\" and it was considering how best to use the money and would bring forward a budget for 2020-21 \"as early as possible\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTwo former Chelsea youth players have told BBC News they were regularly subjected to racist abuse by a former assistant manager.\n\nOne said that at the age of 12 - on his first encounter with Gwyn Williams - the coach made racial remarks about his facial features.\n\nWilliams had called him racist names, asked him if he had been \"robbing old grannies\", and said it was a \"rarity\" that he went to school.\n\nThe two former youth-team players were speaking out for the first time since Chelsea published a report into the scandal in August.\n\nNeither of them gave evidence to the inquiry, which found that young black players had been subjected to \"a daily tirade of racial abuse\" in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nWilliams, the former academy director, was described as the \"instigator\" of racial abuse at the club.\n\nAnthony - not his real name - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he had been subjected to racist abuse during training sessions.\n\n\"I remember the first time I met [Gwyn Williams] he said how big my lips were, how big my nose was.\"\n\nHe said Williams had also made a racially charged comment about the size of his penis.\n\n\"And that was my first encounter. I was 12 years old.\"\n\nA second player, Kieran - also not his real name - said Williams regularly referred to him using racist language.\n\n\"I was coming in [to training] scared to make a mistake,\" he said.\n\n\"Even on the pitch it affected me because I couldn't relax. I was thinking if I have a bad game everyone is going to say 'you black this' or 'you black that'.\"\n\nWilliams joined Chelsea in 1979 as a youth development officer and rose to assistant manager, leaving the club in 2006.\n\nHis lawyer wrote to Chelsea denying \"any and all\" allegations of racism.\n\nHe claimed the extracts of the report shown to him were \"biased, untrue, unfair and artificial\".\n\nThe report, commissioned by Chelsea and written by the charity Barnardo's, heard evidence of a toxic, racist environment.\n\nThe report also looked into allegations against another Chelsea coach - former England international Graham Rix.\n\nIt found while he \"could be aggressive and bullying\", on the evidence presented to them he was not racially abusive.\n\nAnthony and Kieran said they did not give evidence to the inquiry because it had been paid for by Chelsea and they had worries about its independence.\n\nBut they both told BBC News they had heard Rix use racist language.\n\nAnthony said Rix asked him if he had gone out and had sex with \"any of our white girls\" at the weekend.\n\n\"I thought, 'I've had enough of this', and I said, 'Yeah, I did',\" Anthony told the BBC.\n\n\"And he said, 'If that was my daughter I would lynch you'.\"\n\nRix was jailed in 1999 for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, serving six months and being reinstated as a coach by Chelsea on his release.\n\nHe went on to manage clubs including Portsmouth and Heart of Midlothian.\n\nRix's lawyer gave a statement to the Barnardo's review, denying he was a bully, aggressive or racist.\n\nHe added both the FA and the Disclosure and Barring Service [DBS] had investigated and not placed any restrictions on Rix.\n\nChelsea have apologised for the \"deeply shocking behaviour\" described in the Barnardo's report.\n\nIt said: \"Barnardo's reviewers concluded that the numerous accounts given of severe racially abusive behaviour towards young players historically were credible.\n\n\"As a club we want to apologise to all players who experienced this deeply shocking behaviour.\n\n\"We are doing, and will continue to do, everything we can to ensure that those boys, girls, men and women who play for this club - and indeed anyone who works for or with the club - will never have to endure the terrible experiences which these young players suffered.\"\n\nBoth ex-players said it had felt impossible to report their allegations at the time.\n\nThey said Chelsea had no safeguarding policy in place at the time, and there had been no other official to turn to with a complaint.\n\n\"I didn't want to make trouble for my parents in any way, shape or form,\" Anthony added.\n\nAnthony and Kieran accuse the club of trying to minimise publicity around the scandal by publishing the findings on the same day as a separate 250-page investigation into sexual abuse by a different coach decades earlier.\n\nThey said they now wanted a full face-to-face apology from the club but had not been contacted directly by Chelsea since the publication of the report.\n\n\"I haven't heard anything from anybody [at Chelsea],\" said Anthony.\n\n\"So, is this just a PR exercise? Are they sincerely sorry and really going to acknowledge what happened?\n\n\"They need to talk to people, not just put out a generic statement.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "A schoolgirl in Kenya has taken her own life after allegedly being shamed in class for having her period and staining her uniform.\n\nThe 14-year-old's mother said her daughter hanged herself after being humiliated by a teacher, Kenyan media reported.\n\nPolice used tear gas to disperse a crowd of about 200 parents protesting outside the school, reports said.\n\nKenya passed a law in 2017 to provide free sanitary towels for schoolgirls.\n\nHowever, a parliamentary committee is currently investigating why the programme is yet to be rolled out across all schools.\n\nThe girl's mother said a teacher had called her \"dirty\" for soiling her uniform and ordered her to leave the class in Kabiangek, west of the capital Nairobi, last Friday.\n\n\"She had nothing to use as a pad. When the blood stained her clothes, she was told to leave the classroom and stand outside,\" the mother was quoted as saying in Kenyan media.\n\nShe said her daughter came home and told her mother what had happened, but then when she went to fetch water she took her own life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A donated menstrual cup could last a woman in poverty ten years - so why is Ebby Weyime facing some resistance?\n\nHer parents reported the matter to the police but became frustrated by an apparent lack of action, the Daily Nation reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTogether with other parents they staged a protest outside the school on Tuesday. Police moved in and made five arrests when the demonstrators blocked a road and pulled down the school gate, reports said. The school has since been closed.\n\nRegional police chief Alex Shikondi said the circumstances of the girl's death were being investigated.\n\nThe school's headteacher has declined to comment.\n\nIn Kenya, as in other countries, many girls cannot afford sanitary products such as pads and tampons.\n\nA UN report in 2014 said that one in 10 girls in sub-Saharan Africa missed school during their period.\n\nSome girls reportedly lose 20% of their education for this reason, making them more likely to drop out of school altogether, the report said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: Government doing what the people want\n\nBoris Johnson has said \"there is a way\" of getting a new Brexit deal, as he defended the decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks.\n\nThe PM said \"loads of people\" wanted an agreement, but he was prepared to leave without one if \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nParliament will not resume sitting until 14 October, three days before a crucial Brexit summit of EU leaders.\n\nThe PM, who has met the leadership of Northern Ireland's DUP, said claims this was undemocratic were \"nonsense\".\n\nAmid unprecedented scenes in the Commons early on Tuesday, some MPs protested against the suspension with signs saying \"silenced\" while shouting: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nBut Mr Johnson rejected claims this was an affront to democracy, saying the opposition parties were given the chance of an election before the Brexit deadline on 31 October but had spurned it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some MPs voiced their objection to the suspension in the Commons\n\nOpposition MPs said a law blocking a no-deal Brexit must be implemented before there could be any election.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has promised a further referendum on Brexit with a \"credible Leave option\" versus Remain if he wins the next general election - but the party is unlikely to commit to either option in its manifesto.\n\nThe prime minister held an hour of talks with Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster and her deputy Nigel Dodds in Downing Street.\n\nMrs Foster, whose party has propped up the Conservative government since the 2017 election, issued a statement later indicating it would not support any revised version of Theresa May's Brexit agreement which separated Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.\n\nShe said renewed talk of a so-called Northern Ireland-only backstop, which would see it remain in the customs union and be bound by EU rules for goods and animal products while the rest of the UK was not, would be \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"A sensible deal, between the United Kingdom and European Union which respects the economic and constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom, is the best way forward for everyone,\" she said.\n\n\"History teaches us that any deal relating to Northern Ireland which cannot command cross community support is doomed to failure. That is why the Northern Ireland backstop is flawed.\n\n\"During today's meeting, the prime minister confirmed his rejection of the Northern Ireland only backstop and his commitment to securing a deal which works for the entire United Kingdom as well as our neighbours in the Republic of Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Irish border has proved a key sticking point in attempts to agree a Brexit deal between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe government has indicated it could support harmonised rules for the agriculture and food sector to prevent the need for any sanitary and other health checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nBut it has distanced itself from reports that plans for a single EU-UK customs territory in the current withdrawal agreement - rejected three times by MPs - could be replaced with a specific Northern Ireland only \"backstop\" arrangement.\n\nAlthough official negotiations with the EU have yet to restart, the bloc's new trade commissioner said it was positive the UK seemed prepared to \"accept some level of divergence between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK\".\n\n\"I remain hopeful that the penny is finally dropping with the UK that there are pragmatic and practical solutions that can actually be introduced into the debate at this stage - albeit at the 11th hour - that may find some common ground between the EU and the UK,\" Ireland's Phil Hogan told the Irish Times\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister urges a group of primary school pupils \"not to get drunk\" at university\n\nParliament was suspended - or prorogued - at just before 02:00 BST on Tuesday amid noisy protests from opposition MPs.\n\nDuring the five-week suspension, parties will hold their annual conferences but no debates, votes or committee scrutiny sessions will take place.\n\nBoris Johnson will not face Prime Minister's Questions until the period is over and his scheduled questioning by the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday has been cancelled.\n\nSarah Wollaston, the Lib Dem chair of the committee, said the PM had gone back on earlier \"reassurances\" that he would appear, telling BBC's Newsnight she was \"appalled\" that he was \"running away from scrutiny\".\n\nParliament's suspension means MPs will not get a third chance to vote for an early election until they return, meaning a poll would not be possible until November at the earliest.\n\nIn Monday's latest vote, 293 MPs backed the prime minister's motion for an early election, far short of the two thirds needed.\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\nNew legislation, which was granted royal assent on Monday, will force the prime minister to seek a delay until 31 January 2020 unless a deal - or a no-deal exit - is approved by MPs by 19 October.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a primary school in London, Mr Johnson said getting ready to leave the EU on Halloween was among the \"priorities of the people\".\n\nHe said there \"were loads of people around the place\", including in Brussels, who wanted to nail down an agreement but he was willing to leave without a deal \"if absolutely necessary\".\n\n\"There is a way of getting a deal but it will take a lot of hard work - but we must be prepared to come out without a deal.\"\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did your MP vote in favour of allowing the government to suspend Parliament in order to secure Brexit on 30 October? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nLabour, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, the Independent Group for Change and Plaid Cymru have refused to agree to an election on what they say are \"Boris Johnson's terms\".\n\nSpeaking at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn said \"our priority is to stop no deal - and then have a general election\".\n\nThe Lib Dems, meanwhile, are seeking to put distance between themselves and Labour by saying that if they win power at the next election they will have an \"unequivocal\" mandate to cancel Brexit entirely.\n\nAt their conference on Sunday, members will debate a motion reaffirming their support for a referendum, but also urging the revocation of Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the EU - a week before the Brexit deadline if no deal has been agreed.\n\nThe prime minister's self-imposed Halloween Brexit deadline looks further out of reach than a few short days ago.\n\nIs it impossible? Absolutely not.\n\nThere is the possibility, still, of a deal, with Number 10 today stressing it is still their primary aim.\n\nWhispers again about a Northern Ireland-only backstop, and a bigger role for the Stormont assembly, if it ever gets up and running, are doing the rounds.\n\nSome MPs and some diplomats are more cheerful about the possibilities of it working out.\n\nIf you squint, you can see the chance of an agreement being wrapped up at pace, although it seems the chances range somewhere between slim and negligible.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The prime minister answered a number of questions from the public during a livestream on social media\n\nThe prime minister has ruled out a Northern Ireland-only backstop.\n\nDuring a Facebook live on Wednesday afternoon Boris Johnson said the UK \"will not accept\" it.\n\nEarlier, DUP leader Arlene Foster said a Northern Ireland-only backstop was anti-democratic, but believed the prime minister \"is in the space of trying to find a deal\".\n\nSinn Féin has warned that unionist parties cannot not be given a veto over any Brexit deal.\n\nThere had been speculation the government is re-considering the idea of a so-called Stormont lock to break the impasse.\n\nIt would create a formal mechanism for consulting and seeking the approval of Northern Ireland's devolved administration in the backstop, allowing the Stormont parties a say before any divergence between NI and GB would happen, after Brexit.\n\nHowever the Stormont institutions collapsed in 2017, after a row between the power-sharing parties.\n\nParliament is currently suspended for five weeks. When sitting, the prime minister answers questions from other MPs on Wednesdays.\n\nDuring the live stream on Wednesday Mr Johnson said: \"The backstop is going to be removed, I very much hope. I insist, it's the only way to get a deal.\n\n\"We will not accept either a Northern Ireland only backstop, that simply doesn't work for the UK.\n\n\"We've got to come out whole and entire and solve the problems of the Northern Irish border and I'm certain that we can do that. And we're working flat out to do that\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does the UK make of the Brexit drama?\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said the current backstop negotiated by the UK and EU remained the only solution.\n\nHowever, speaking earlier on BBC Radio Ulster, Mrs Foster said: \"It's not just the DUP that rejects the backstop, it's a much wider coalition that rejects the backstop.\n\n\"What we need to do now is reject the backstop, move on and find a deal that works.\n\n\"That's what I'm focused on and I think it's what the prime minister is focused on as well.\"\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy to maintain an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit, until a wider solution is found.\n\nMrs Foster, who met the prime minister on Tuesday, said the government was \"exploring\" an all-island food standards zone as part of a solution to replace the backstop.\n\nShe denied the DUP's influence with the prime minister had waned after he lost his parliamentary majority.\n\nThe DUP had been propping up the Conservatives in a confidence-and-supply pact since June 2017, with the votes of its 10 MPs giving the government a majority to get legislation passed in Parliament.\n\nHowever, last week Mr Johnson lost his majority after 21 Conservative rebels had the whip removed for voting against the party on Brexit legislation.\n\nLeo Varadkar and Boris Johnson met outside Government Buildings in Dublin on Monday\n\nIt means he no longer requires the DUP's votes, but Mrs Foster said her party had a \"much wider bond\" with Mr Johnson than just the political arrangement.\n\nShe said she believed the prime minister was true to his word in ruling out a Northern Ireland-only backstop.\n\nThere are suggestions that the government is contemplating such a proposal in order to ensure the UK leaves the EU with a deal by 31 October, but Mrs Foster said that was not true.\n\nShe also dismissed suggestions that a solution could end up being the backstop by another name, adding: \"It's not just a case of tampering with words.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the former Taoiseach (Irish PM) Bertie Ahern said consent from Northern Ireland's unionist parties was \"essential\" if a deal was to be reached.\n\nBut Sinn Féin's Ms McDonald said: \"It's a dangerous idea that veto would be afforded to the DUP on this matter.\"\n\nHer party had engaged in talks with the DUP for many years and this would continue, she added.\n\nBut she warned: \"There is simply no meeting of minds on the matter of Brexit.\"\n\nThe prime minister has insisted he will not seek an extension to the Brexit deadline if there is no agreement with the EU.\n\nIn Dublin on Monday, Mr Johnson said he had an \"abundance of proposals\" to replace the backstop.\n\nThe idea of a NI-only backstop was first suggested early in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nFormer PM Theresa May rejected it in 2018 because she relied on the votes of the 10 DUP MPs in Parliament.\n\nThe Irish government has said it is willing to look at a \"Northern-Ireland specific solution\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Ireland's EU Commissioner Phil Hogan told RTÉ that there was \"movement\" on both sides of the Brexit negotiations.", "British Airways says about 90% of services will run as normal on Wednesday as the airline recovers from a two-day strike by pilots.\n\nHowever, BA said its full schedule would not be in place for \"some time\" as 150 aircraft and 700 pilots started the day \"in the wrong place\".\n\nBA cancelled almost all its flights on Monday and Tuesday in a dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nAnother strike by pilots is planned for later this month.\n\nBA said on Wednesday: \"The nature of our highly complex, global operation means that it will take some time to get back to a completely normal flight schedule however, we plan to fly more than 90% of our flights today.\"\n\nAbout half of the airline's 300 aircraft are out of position. And in addition to pilots being in the wrong place, BA said there was severe disruption to rosters for its 4,000 cabin crew.\n\nThe airline is offering affected customers refunds or the option to re-book to another date of travel or an alternative airline.\n\nBalpa said that the strikes had been a \"powerful demonstration of the strength of feeling of BA pilots\".\n\nTens of thousands of flights had to be cancelled, costing BA an estimated £40m a day.\n\nIt called on the airline to come \"back to the negotiating table with some meaningful proposals\" to try to avert the next scheduled strike, on 27 September.\n\nBalpa general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Surely any reasonable employer would listen to such a clear message, stop threatening and bullying, and start working towards finding a solution.\"\n\nPilots had previously rejected an 11.5% pay increase over three years proposed by BA in July.\n\nBalpa says its members have taken lower pay rises and made sacrifices during more stringent times for the airline in recent years.\n\nBut it says that now BA's financial performance has improved - its parent company IAG reported a 9% rise in profits last year - they should see a greater share of the profits.\n\nBA has said its pilots are already paid \"world-class\" salaries, and has described the pay offer as \"fair and generous\".\n\nAfter three years of the proposed pay deal, some captains could be taking home more than £200,000 per year, including allowances, it said.", "Freddie Flintoff pictured on the trike involved in Tuesday's incident\n\nTop Gear presenter Andrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff has said he is \"absolutely fine\" after an incident involving a three-wheeled motorcycle.\n\nThe ex-England cricketer, 41, is understood to have \"run out of runway\" at Elvington Airfield near York while filming a race for the motoring show.\n\nHe was unhurt and did not need medical attention, the BBC understands.\n\nFlintoff said: \"I'm absolutely fine and was back filming today.\"\n\nHe added: \"I go to great lengths to make sure I do well in Top Gear drag races but on this occasion I went a few lengths too far! It will look more ridiculous than dangerous when you see it on TV.\"\n\nTuesday's incident happened as Flintoff took part in a drag race with fellow presenters Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris.\n\nIt took place at the same airfield where former Top Gear host Richard Hammond was seriously injured during filming in 2006.\n\nFlintoff was believed to have been driving a motorised trike known as a Time Bandit and was dressed in full motorcycle protective clothing and crash helmet.\n\nA BBC Studios spokesperson said: \"The health and safety of our presenters and crew on Top Gear is paramount.\n\n\"As viewers of the recent series will have seen, Freddie is often keen to get 'off the beaten track'.\n\n\"Tuesday's filming at Elvington Airfield was no exception - but he suffered no injuries as a result of his spontaneous detour, as fans will see for themselves when we show the sequence in full in the next series.\"", "International students are \"paying through the nose for a woefully inadequate document-checking service\" for UK study visas, say universities.\n\nSome students are waiting 30 days for checks on the documents and biometric information they need, according to Universities UK.\n\nThe problems started when outsourcing company Sopra Steria took over the service in November, says UUK.\n\nSopra Steria has rejected suggestions its charges are excessive.\n\nUUK, which represents all 136 UK universities, says it is concerned that if Sopra Steria is struggling now, it will be completely overwhelmed by the more than 40,000 overseas students arriving ahead of the autumn term.\n\nUntil last November, students were able to arrange document checks through their local post offices.\n\nNow, universities say applicants too often face:\n\nElisa Calcagni, who is studying for a doctorate at Cambridge and comes from Chile, said she struggled for weeks to get an appointment and eventually decided to pay for a \"fast-track\" appointment in Croydon, two hours away.\n\n\"Despite booking a timed appointment, there was a waiting time of an hour and then the system wasn't working properly leading to further delays,\" she says.\n\nIn addition, the website is not geared up for use by students with visual impairments, says UUK.\n\nSouthampton student Khalid Elkhereiji found the website would not allow him to log on as it was incompatible with his screen reader.\n\n\"This is not a problem I face with other websites.\"\n\nWhen he finally logged on with the help of a sighted person, he found no appointments available in Southampton and the university had to intervene.\n\nComplaints have resulted in Sopra Steria offering pop-up services on some campuses but these 15-minute appointments cost £50, payable by the student or university.\n\nThis does not account for the space and extra staff that universities will need to provide to allow these appointments to go ahead, says UUK.\n\nEarlier this month, Cardiff University said the pop-up service there would cost them £200,000, though Sopra Steria says the real amount is far lower.\n\nUUK chief executive Alistair Jarvis urged the company to mend its \"broken system\" before the September surge.\n\n\"International students make a huge cultural and economic contribution to the UK. Sopra Steria should be helping to send a more welcoming message to international students, signalling that the UK is open to talented individuals from around the world, as is the case at our universities,\" said Mr Jarvis.\n\nSopra Steria said it is working closely with the Home Office, universities and higher education institutions across the UK to \"increase capacity where needed\".\n\nThe Home Office said six new locations were opened in May and June across the UK to ensure extra document checking appointments were available.", "Commemorations have been held across America to mark 18 years since the 9/11 attack.\n\nA moment silence took place at various locations, including the site of the attack, 'Ground Zero', in New York and at the Pentagon, Virginia.\n\nNearly 3,000 people were killed that day and thousands more were injured.", "In the last six days you might have been enraged, you might have been shocked, you might have been excited, or you might have just shrugged your shoulders.\n\nBut we are watching a conflict over an issue that is based on what one cabinet minister described as \"love and passion\" - politically, at least.\n\nThe grinding three years of the previous period of Brexit conflict has been superseded in the last week by a hyper-speed helter-skelter, with a new administration, long aware their stance could end up in a battle in the courts.\n\nAs MPs reluctantly pack up for a break of five weeks after the prime minister sent them packing, can we conclude anything lasting from this bout?\n\nBoris Johnson has undeniably had a rude awakening of how Parliament will respond to him.\n\nIt's been a shocker in terms of early defeats for the new prime minister, an unsurprising but dramatic series of clashes between a leader who wants to keep the option of leaving the EU without a deal on the table, and most MPs who don't want to allow him to open that Pandora's box.\n\nNumber 10 has also indulged in tactics that have alarmed many Conservatives, including some of Boris Johnson's team who sit around his cabinet table.\n\nIf you had followed the way that Vote Leave ran its campaign, the subsequent appointment of Dominic Cummings and some of its former staffers, again, that shouldn't surprise you.\n\nBut there are unquestionably plenty of Conservative MPs who have been horrified that it's this version of Boris Johnson, a politician with many guises, that's in charge at Number 10.\n\nAnd some of those tactics have been, at least temporarily, destructive, with a voluntary surrender of his own majority. (Interestingly, there's a whisper that a way back could soon emerge for some of the 21 MPs who were booted out.)\n\nThat \"long shopping list\" of errors, according to one member of the cabinet, means the prime minister's self-imposed Halloween Brexit deadline looks further out of reach than a few short days ago.\n\nIs it impossible? Absolutely not.\n\nThere is the possibility, still, of a deal, with Number 10 today stressing it was still their primary aim.\n\nWhispers again about a Northern Ireland only backstop, and a bigger role for the Stormont assembly, if it ever gets up and running, are doing the rounds.\n\nSome MPs, and some diplomats are more cheerful now about the possibilities of it working out.\n\nIf you squint you can see the chance of an agreement being wrapped up at pace, although it seems the chances range somewhere between slim and negligible.\n\nIt is still possible too, as Number 10 bombastically suggests, that they could just ignore the demand from Parliament that he seeks a delay if there is no-deal.\n\nThis is not as straightforward as ignoring a parking ticket, of course.\n\nBut if the prime minister asks formally, but politically makes it clear he doesn't want it and would do nothing with it, would the EU really force such a policy on an unwilling government with no political reason given? What if the EU was to offer only an extension of several years?\n\nThese are not predictions, but they are imponderables, talking about a political landscape that is some weeks off, and there are all sorts of political gymnastics to come before then that could again turn the situation on its head.\n\nAnd for all that Parliament protests, some Brexiteers, including in Number 10, glory in 'evidence' they could use in an eventual election campaign that tries to pit MPs against the people.\n\nNo question, however, it's been a bruising period for the prime minister, which could be the beginning of a very rapid downfall.\n\nBut just as so many things in politics have changed in the last few years, some of the old truths remain.\n\nA week is still a long time in politics - the seven weeks before Halloween another age.", "An artist's impression of how the new hospital would look\n\nThe new children's hospital in Edinburgh won't be fully operational for at least another year, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has revealed.\n\nThe Sick Kids facility was due to open in July, but last-minute inspections found safety concerns over its ventilation systems.\n\nNow a new report has found at least £16m worth of work is needed.\n\nNHS Lothian is paying about £1.4m in monthly repayments to the private consortium which built the facility.\n\nAn independent review of the governance arrangements for the new hospital found that the main issue with ventilation in critical care stemmed from an error in a document produced by NHS Lothian at the tender stage in 2012.\n\nIt found that this was human error relating to confusion over interpretation of building standards and guidance, and that opportunities to spot and rectify the error were missed.\n\nMs Freeman said it was \"unacceptable\" that the hospital could not be delivered on time and revealed a troubleshooter would be brought in to help manage the project.\n\nShe added: \"The safest possible care of their children is my overriding priority and I am sorry for any impact the current situation has had on them.\n\n\"I am of course bitterly disappointed that a mistake made in 2012 was not picked up earlier.\n\n\"This is a publicly funded project of strategic importance, which has not been delivered by NHS Lothian in compliance with the standards and guidance.\n\n\"The delay we now face will be borne by NHS Lothian staff, by patients and their families and the additional cost will be to the public purse.\"\n\nThe new hospital has faced a number of delays and disagreements between the contractors and NHS Lothian\n\nThe Scottish government revealed that at least £16m was needed to rectify the problems, such as ventilation, at the new building.\n\nThe ventilation issue affects the critical care unit, as previously revealed, but also the oncology and haematology departments.\n\nSome remedial and precautionary action is recommended for water systems, though no widespread contamination was found.\n\nIn addition, \"active monitoring\" of the building's drainage and plumbing has been recommended but the prospect of problems in this area was graded as \"low risk\".\n\nAsked about the cost of keeping the existing Sick Kids hospital open until the new facility is ready, Ms Freeman said this would be between £6m and £7m.\n\nThe existing site has been sold to a student housing developer which had expected to have taken possession of the site by now.\n\nTwo reviews into the Sick Kids delay were ordered by Ms Freeman, one by accountancy giant KPMG and another by the National Services Scotland (NSS) division of the NHS. The findings include:\n\nMs Freeman said that \"due to the scale of the challenge\" a senior programme director will take over responsibility from NHS Lothian to deliver the project.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Miles Briggs said: \"The taxpayer will have to fork out more than £30m between now and next autumn to compensate for these catastrophic failings.\n\n\"Staff and families alike will also be sceptical about whether this hospital will be open by next autumn.\n\n\"They've been promised - year after year - that new timescales will be adhered to, and they've been repeatedly let down.\"\n\nStaff were ready to leave the old Sick Kids hospital in July\n\nThe new Sick Children's Hospital cost about £150m to build, but its full price tag over the next 25 years, including maintenance and facilities management fees, will be £432m.\n\nUnder the terms of the contract, repayments - which would average about £1.4m a month - began in February when NHS Lothian took possession of the site from private consortium IHSL.\n\nScottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone said: \"Someone signed off this new hospital when it was clearly not safe or in a fit state for use by our children. That raises the question for who is responsible and liable for this mess.\"", "Craig Small died in hospital shortly after he was shot outside a shop in Wembley\n\nFour men have been arrested over the fatal shooting of a man outside a London shop.\n\nCraig Small died in hospital shortly after he was shot in Harrow Road, Wembley, on 5 July.\n\nFour suspects, aged between 28 and 34, were detained in the early hours, in what the Met Police has described as a \"significant development\".\n\nMr Small's mother Carol said her son had been \"a loving a father and uncle who lit up the room\".\n\nAfter his death, she described him as a \"peacemaker\" who \"had changed his life for the better\".\n\n\"Craig had a past but he had changed his life for the better, he was moving in the right direction,\" she said.\n\nPolice were called to a shooting outside a shop on Harrow Road in Monks Park at 20:10 BST on 5 July\n\nDet Ch Insp Helen Rance said: \"We have tonight executed a number of warrants and arrested four men in connection with Craig's murder.\n\n\"This is a significant development but I would continue to urge anyone with information that may assist our inquiry to make contact with us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "California lawmakers have passed a bill that paves the way for gig economy workers to get holiday and sick pay.\n\nAssembly Bill 5, as its known, will affect firms like Uber and Lyft, which are based in California and depend on those working in the gig economy.\n\nSome estimates suggest costs for those firms would increase by 30% if they have to treat workers as employees.\n\nBut opponents of the bill say it will hurt those people who want to work flexible hours.\n\nThe rise of the gig economy, where people accept work on a per job basis, has spawned a swathe of mobile apps, normally putting people in touch directly with drivers or riders.\n\nBut fears that tech firms like Uber or DoorDash, a food delivery company, are exploiting their scale to erode workers' rights have caused lawmakers to look at how to protect those workers.\n\nIn California, Assembly Bill 5 would put into law a judgement from the state's supreme court last year that created a new test for whether a worker should be considered an employee.\n\nEmployee status can entitle them to benefits like health care, minimum wage and paid time off. That would change the nature of the gig-economy, which has been a cornerstone of the model adopted by a raft of valuable new companies.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dustin Gardiner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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's not just tech firms in California that are worried about the proposed change in law.\n\nContracting work has taken hold in many industries and California has often led the way in introducing legislation that is adopted elsewhere in the US.\n\n\"People ought to be very concerned because what happens here does tend to get copied in other states,\" Joseph Rajkovacz, director of governmental affairs for the Western States Trucking Association, which represents truck drivers, many of whom are temporary and freelance workers, told Reuters.\n\nIt's still not clear how the bill will be implemented.\n\nUS Democratic presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris have all come out in support of the bill, which is backed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, whose signature is required to turn it into law.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr Newsom told the Wall Street Journal that he planned to continue negotiating with companies hoping to be exempted from the bill.\n\nUber and Lyft have both proposed a referendum on the decision and put $90m aside to lobby for that.\n\nIn a statement after the bill was passed, Lyft said: \"We are fully prepared to take this issue to the voters of California to preserve the freedom and access drivers and riders want and need.\"\n\nThe bill will be passed to California governor Gavin Newsom to sign into law\n\nIn the UK, Uber lost its bid to convince the Court of Appeal that its workers weren't staff. It asked the court to overturn an employment tribunal decision that Uber drivers be treated as workers rather than self-employed.\n\nThe tribunal ruled that two drivers were staff and entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage.\n\nThe business models of gig economy companies are already under strain - Uber lost more than $5bn in the last quarter alone.\n\nSome estimates suggest that having to treat workers as employees, rather than independent contractors, could increase costs by as much as 30%.\n\nUber and rival ridesharing service Lyft joined forces to push back again the bill.\n\nThey suggested a guaranteed minimum wage of $21 per hour instead of the sweeping changes the bill would bring.\n\nBut that pledge wasn't enough to sway California's Senate, and the state's governor Gavin Newsom is expected to soon sign the bill into law.\n\nThat paves the way for California's 1 million gig workers to gain added rights next year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I felt helpless to stop my son's addiction': Kristen wants vaping companies held accountable\n\nUS President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will ban flavoured e-cigarettes, after a spate of vaping-related deaths.\n\nMr Trump told reporters vaping was a \"new problem\", especially for children.\n\nUS Health Secretary Alex Azar said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would finalise a plan to take all non-tobacco flavours off the market.\n\nThere have been six deaths and 450 reported cases of lung illness tied to vaping across 33 states.\n\nMany of the 450 reported cases are young people, with an average age of 19.\n\nMichigan this month became the first US state to ban flavoured e-cigarettes.\n\nJoining Mr Trump at the White House on Wednesday, Mr Azar said it would take the FDA several weeks to distribute the new guidance on e-cigarettes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also said the agency would take enforcement action if it determined children were being intentionally attracted to e-cigarettes.\n\nUS First Lady Melania Trump this week tweeted that she was \"deeply concerned about the growing epidemic of e-cigarette use in our children\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Melania 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\nShe was present at Wednesday's announcement.\n\nMr Trump told reporters his administration would implement strong rules to protect \"innocent children\", including his 13-year-old son Barron.\n\n\"We can't allow people to get sick and we can't have our youth be so affected,\" he said.\n\n\"That's how the first lady got involved. She's got a son, together, that is a beautiful young man and she feels very, very strongly about it.\n\n\"She's seen it. We're both reading it, a lot of people are reading it. But people are dying with vaping so we're looking at it very, very closely.\"\n\nHe added that he hoped the announcement would make parents become \"tougher\".\n\n\"People are going to watch what we're saying and parents are going be a lot tougher with respect to their children,\" said the president.\n\n\"A lot of people think vaping is wonderful, it's great. It's really not wonderful.\"\n\nIn a press release shortly after Mr Trump's announcement, the health secretary said officials \"will not stand idly by\" as a generation becomes addicted to nicotine.\n\nActing FDA Commissioner Dr Ned Sharpless said \"if we see a migration to tobacco-flavored products by kids, we will take additional steps to address youth use of these products\".\n\nE-cigarette manufacturers such as Juul have been blamed for fuelling childhood addiction through flavoured products such as mango, cream or cinnamon roll.\n\nJuul, which dominates the market, last year stopped selling most of its flavoured devices in order to defuse mounting criticism.\n\nHealth officials are still investigating whether a particular toxin or substance is causing the vaping-related illnesses, or whether it's the result of heavy usage.\n\nThe first death occurred in Illinois in late August. Since then, five more have died and hundreds have been sickened across 33 states.\n\nThe cause of the vaping illness has not yet been pinpointed by health officials.\n\nTHC, the psychoactive chemical in cannabis, was present in some, but not all of the devices used by those who fell ill, say authorities.\n\nThe FDA has said many of the products were found to contain significant amounts of vitamin E acetate, an oil used to thicken the vaping liquid.\n\nSeveral patients have been found with lipoid pneumonia, which occurs when someone inhales fats or oils.\n• None What's behind a vaping illness outbreak in the US?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland's relentless march towards Euro 2020 continued with a thrilling victory over Kosovo, who scored after just 34 seconds.\n\nHowever, a shoddy defensive display and the fearless approach of their opponents meant this turned into a night of concern for manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThe result leaves England top of Group A with a 100% winning record after four games, while the Czech Republic moved into second place with a 3-0 win over Montenegro.\n\nKosovo arrived in Southampton on a 15-match unbeaten run and with confidence lifted by victory over the Czechs on Saturday - and when Michael Keane's error gifted Valon Berisha a goal inside the first minute they briefly contemplated a huge upset.\n\nIt did not last long as rampant England, inspired by the magnificent Raheem Sterling, responded ruthlessly with five goals inside the first 45 minutes.\n\nKeane swiftly made amends to set up Sterling to head home after a corner then Manchester City's unstoppable attacker set up captain Harry Kane for his 26th goal in 41 England appearances.\n\nEngland extended their lead when Mergim Vojvoda turned Jadon Sancho's cross into his own net before Borussia Dortmund's 19-year-old got his first two goals for England, both expertly provided by Sterling.\n\nAs an occasionally chaotic encounter swung from end to end, Berisha's fine finish reignited Kosovo's hopes early in the second half before more awful defending from Manchester United's Harry Maguire ended with him conceding a penalty, which Vedat Muriqi scored after he was brought down.\n• None 'Sterling's brilliance will not be enough to overcome dire defence against big guns'\n• None Player Rater - who came out on top for England and Kosovo?\n\nEngland manager Southgate will have revelled in his side's attacking variety and intent as they ripped Kosovo apart with those five goals in the first 45 minutes - but this was nothing like plain sailing.\n\nSterling's ascent into world-class for club and country needs no confirmation and it was all on show as he tormented the Kosovo defence, scoring one goal and creating three as a wounded England hit back after that early shock.\n\nKane once again demonstrated his expertise in front of goal while Sancho repaid Southgate's faith with two goals and a fine performance that earned him a standing ovation when he was substituted.\n\nSo far so good. And then came England's defending.\n\nEverton defender Keane had an inexcusable lapse to pass the ball straight to Berisha in a dangerous position to score the first in the opening minute and the sense of threat every time Kosovo got near England's goal was an illustration of their defensive unease.\n\nAnd defensive partner Maguire was no better, clumsily failing to clear before hauling down Muriqi for the penalty.\n\nIn the end there was no long-term harm done thanks to England's potency up front but it is impossible to escape the belief that this defence, and the ability with which Kosovo could get at it, would be relished by better opposition.\n\nEngland can celebrate the win and taking a giant stride towards Euro 2020 - but there are still problems for Southgate to ponder.\n\nKosovo were not going to wait and wonder what fate held for them as they fulfilled colourful coach Bernard Challandes' boast that they would come at England with positive intent.\n\nBacked by a magnificent, noisy support, they had the boost of that early goal and in some ways their front foot approach cost them as England cut them apart when they poured forward.\n\nIt would have been easy to give up or go into their shell at 5-1, but they came out for the second half to a huge ovation from their fans.\n\nAnd how they responded, to occasionally have England living on their nerves.\n\nThey could not complete the miracle turnaround but they fully deserved the standing ovation from their fans at the final whistle and they will still harbour hopes of being at Euro 2020 next summer.\n• None England have netted 14 goals in their three home European Championship qualifiers, scoring more home goals than any other European nation in qualifying so far.\n• None Kosovo became the first team to score three away goals in a competitive international against England since Croatia in November 2007.\n• None England have scored five goals in three different matches in 2019 - the first time they have done so that many times in a calendar year since 1960.\n• None Valon Berisha's goal after 34 seconds was the first goal scored inside the first minute of an England international since Gareth Southgate scored against South Africa in May 2003.\n• None England conceded a goal inside the opening minute of an international match for the first time since November 1993, when San Marino's Davide Gualtieri scored.\n• None Raheem Sterling has been involved in 12 goals in his last eight England international appearances (8 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Harry Kane and Sterling have combined for six goals under Gareth Southgate for England - at least three times as many as any other duo.\n• None Jadon Sancho (19 years, 169 days) became the youngest player to score more than once in a game for England since Wayne Rooney in June 2004 against Croatia (18 years, 241 days).\n• None This was the first time both teams had scored three times in an England match since June 1995, when they drew 3-3 with Sweden at Elland Road.\n• None Kane's missed penalty ended a run of 23 consecutive penalties scored in competitive internationals by England players - David Beckham's at Euro 2004 against France was the previous miss.\n\nThe next international period takes place in October, with England travelling to the Czech Republic on Friday 11th, followed by an away game in Bulgaria three days later.\n• None Attempt missed. Bersant Celina (Kosovo) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Leart Paqarada.\n• None Anel Rashkaj (Kosovo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, England. Marcus Rashford tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mason Mount.\n• None Raheem Sterling (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Michael Keane (England) header from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Apple has unveiled its iPhone 11 range of handsets, which feature more cameras than before and a processor that has been updated to be faster while consuming less power.\n\nBut it did not launch a 5G model, and some rumoured features were missing.\n\nThe BBC's Dave Lee went hands-on with the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, to share his first impressions.", "JK Rowling has donated £15.3m to support research into neurological conditions at a centre named after her mother.\n\nThe Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at the University of Edinburgh was established with a £10m donation from the Harry Potter author in 2010.\n\nHer latest gift will help create new facilities and support research.\n\nThe centre is an integrated care and research facility focusing on MS and neurological conditions with the aim of bringing more clinical studies and trials to patients.\n\nNeurological conditions studied at the clinic include motor neurone disease (MND), Parkinson's and dementias.\n\nThe university hopes the donation, which includes Gift Aid, will create a global legacy that will have a lasting effect on patients and their families.\n\nMs Rowling said: \"When the Anne Rowling Clinic was first founded, none of us could have predicted the incredible progress that would be made in the field of regenerative neurology, with the clinic leading the charge.\n\n\"It's a matter of great pride for me that the clinic has combined these lofty ambitions with practical, on the ground support and care for people with MS, regardless of stage and type; I've heard at first-hand what a difference this support can make.\n\n\"I am confident that the combination of clinical research and practical support delivered by Professor Siddharthan Chandran and his exemplary team will create a definitive step-change for people with MS and associated conditions.\"\n\nProf Chandran, director of the clinic, said: \"Our research is shaped by listening to, and involving, individuals who are living with these tough conditions.\n\n\"The Anne Rowling Clinic's vision is to offer everyone with MS or other neurodegenerative diseases, such as MND, the opportunity to participate in a suite of clinical studies and trials.\n\n\"This incredibly far-sighted and generous donation will unlock the potential of personalised medicine for people with MS in Scotland and further afield.\"\n\nUniversity vice chancellor Prof Peter Mathieson said they were \"immensely honoured\".\n\n\"This inspiring donation will fund a whole new generation of researchers who are focused on discovering and delivering better treatments and therapies for patients,\" he added.\n\nThe university set up a Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research in 2007, which has also received support from Rowling.\n\nMs Rowling's story of the boy wizard Harry Potter began as a story written in Edinburgh cafes while she was living on benefits.\n\nIt became a multi-billion pound worldwide franchise based on seven novels describing Harry's adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times Rich List, Ms Rowling has an estimated fortune of £750m. She has already given away many millions of pounds to various charities.", "Gerald Matovu pleaded guilty to a string of offences following a trial\n\nA drug dealer who supplied serial killer Stephen Port has been jailed for at least 31 years for the murder of a businessman.\n\nGerald Matovu, 26, killed Eric Michels, 54, with a fatal overdose of GHB - the same drug his former customer used to kill four men.\n\nMatovu and lover Brandon Dunbar, 24, stole from other victims targeted via gay dating apps, The Old Bailey heard.\n\nSentencing, Judge Anne Molyneux said Matovu was an \"experienced poisoner\".\n\nHe had previously admitted selling GHB to Port, but had denied killing Mr Michel, who was found dead in bed by his 14-year-old daughter.\n\nThe pair met through the Grindr app and took a cab back to Mr Michels' flat on 18 August 2018.\n\nPassing sentence, the judge said Matovu, who now identifies as female, was a \"highly dangerous predator\".\n\nHe was jailed for a total of 39 offences relating to 14 victims.\n\nEric Michels was found dead at his home in Chessington in August 2018\n\nMr Michel's ex-wife, Diane Michels, said the two men had a \"callous disregard\" for his life.\n\n\"We have to live with the knowledge the last person Eric saw was the person who took his life\", she said.\n\nMatovu and his partner Dunbar drugged some victims, calculating they would be \"too embarrassed to report what happened\", said the judge.\n\nBrandon Dunbar admitted using Mr Michels' card and taking £300 from his account\n\nCo-defendant Dunbar, of Forest Gate, east London, was jailed for 18 years and told he must serve at least two-thirds in prison.\n\nThe judge also imposed an extended sentence of five years, to be served on licence.\n\nJurors were not told about Matovu supplying drugs to Port, who was given a whole-life term for the murders of four young men he poisoned with GHB.\n\nMatovu and Dunbar were filmed on CCTV using their victim's bank card\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. House collapses in Rugby in middle of night\n\nA house collapsed overnight, leaving rooms exposed and debris and possessions strewn across a street.\n\nThe gable end of the property in Claremont Road, Rugby, Warwickshire fell down at about 02:00 BST.\n\nThe family who lives there were away at the time and were placed in a hotel after the collapse, but have now been found council accommodation.\n\nOne man, who lives opposite the property, said it was \"lucky\" no one was in the house at the time.\n\nMartin Flowers was leaving his home at about 16:00 BST on Tuesday when he said he saw an initial collapse at the house which sent \"dust up and down\" the street.\n\nWhen he returned at 19:00, he said, the road was closed.\n\n\"Now half the house is down,\" he said. \"You can see the furniture and everything in their bedroom.\"\n\nMartin Flowers said he can see the damage from his front door\n\nLisa Anslow, who lives nearby added: \"It wasn't too obvious from the front exterior of the property, obviously there were police and the area was cordoned off so I knew something had happened and I'd noticed pictures on Facebook.\n\n\"You can now see into the actual property from the inside which is quite devastating for the family that live there.\"\n\nMartin Pitcher, from Life Investments Estate Agency which manages the property, said it had arranged for the family to stay in a hotel and, because they are unable to get into their home, steps are being taken to help them.\n\n\"They are not able to access the site, so we are making sure they have all the basic amenities they need to try and take away some of the pain,\" he said.\n\nThe family has been moved to temporary accommodation\n\nMr Pitcher said construction work had been taking place on the site next to the house, but the cause of the collapse is not yet known.\n\nRugby Borough Council said an investigation has been launched, with a structural engineer sent to assess the property.\n\nIt added its community advice and support team has spoken to the tenants who have now accepted an offer of accommodation.\n\nAn online fundraising page has been set up to help the family.\n\nWarwickshire Police confirmed it was also called to the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour should \"unequivocally back Remain\" in a fresh Brexit referendum and only then pursue power in a general election, its deputy has said.\n\nTom Watson said there was \"no such thing as a good Brexit deal\" and the 2016 Leave vote had been \"invalidated\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he did \"not accept or agree with\" his deputy's view.\n\n\"Our priority is to get a general election in order to give the people a chance to elect a government that cares for them,\" he said.\n\nThe Labour leader wants to hold another referendum once Labour has won power, in which voters would have the choice to remain in the EU alongside a \"credible\" Leave proposal.\n\nHowever, he has said he would only choose a side once the shape of any revised Brexit deal negotiated by a Labour government became clear.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent, Chris Mason, said Mr Watson was directly elected as deputy leader by party members, not appointed by Mr Corbyn, and so has a right to roam on policy other shadow cabinet ministers might not get away with it.\n\nIn a speech in London, Mr Watson said while an autumn general election seemed inevitable \"that does not make it desirable\".\n\n\"Elections should never be single issue campaigns,\" he argued, suggesting vital issues such as the future of the NHS, economic inequality and crime would be \"drowned out\" by the prime minister's \"do or die\" Brexit message.\n\n\"The only way to break the Brexit deadlock once and for all is a public vote in a referendum,\" he said. \"A general election might well fail to solve this Brexit chaos.\"\n\nIn the event of another general election in the coming months, Mr Watson said Labour must be \"crystal clear\" about where it stands on Brexit if it wants to get a hearing for the rest of its domestic policy agenda.\n\n\"There is no such thing as a good Brexit deal, which is why I believe we should advocate for Remain. That is what the overwhelming majority of Labour Party members, MPs and trade unions believe.\"\n\nMr Watson will said that, though \"very difficult\", he and many others \"respected the result of the 2016 referendum for a long time\".\n\nBut, he added: \"There eventually comes a point when circumstances are so changed, when so much new information has emerged that we didn't have in 2016, when so many people feel differently to how they felt then, that you have to say, no... the only proper way to proceed in such circumstances is to consult the people again.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who pushed Labour into third place in May's European elections with a strident anti-Brexit message, are pushing for Brexit to be stopped in its tracks by revoking Article 50 - the legal process for the UK's departure.\n\nWhile stopping short of calling for that himself, Mr Watson said it was not too late for Labour to \"win back\" Remain voters.\n\n\"My experience on the doorstep tells me most of those who've deserted us over our Brexit policy did so with deep regret and would greatly prefer to come back,\" he added.\n\n\"They just want us to take an unequivocal position that whatever happens we'll fight to remain, and to sound like we mean it.\"\n\nFormer Labour leadership contender Owen Smith said Mr Watson was speaking for \"the majority of Labour members and Labour voters\", and that the party \"should be clearing the Brexit issue off the table before we get to an election\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn committed to a referendum with a \"credible Leave option\" on Tuesday\n\nBut another Labour MP, Gareth Snell - one of a group of MPs in the party wanting to bring back an amended version of Theresa May's original withdrawal agreement - said the \"numbers simply don't exist\" in Parliament to approve a further referendum.\n\nHe told Today: \"The public have no appetite for a second referendum. The doors I knock every week… [voters] are not telling me they want to go back to the divisive referendum [but] they want a decision on this process to be taken as soon as possible.\"\n\nJust 24 hours after Jeremy Corbyn hammered out a deal with the Labour-supporting unions, his deputy, Tom Watson, shattered any fragile unity.\n\nMr Watson and many Labour activists want a clearer commitment to campaign on a Remain platform - especially during a snap election.\n\nSo, apart from his own scepticism towards an EU that he believes needs reform, what is the thinking behind Jeremy Corbyn's position?\n\nWell, it comes down to four things - psephology, party unity, politics and personal authority.\n\nUnite's Len McCluskey dismissed Mr Watson's intervention, accusing him of \"undermining\" the leadership and suggesting his views \"don't really matter\".\n\nThe two men, who used to be close friends, fell out spectacularly in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum during an uprising by Labour MPs against Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nThe union leader suggested Mr Watson was \"languishing on the fringes\" of the party, adding: \"It's sad. Now and again Tom pops up from where he has been hiding and comes up with something… which is normally to try and undermine his leader.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said Mr Watson had made it clear he wanted to \"cancel\" the 2016 Brexit referendum result.\n\nLabour has voted twice against Boris Johnson's plans for a poll on 15 October.\n\nThe party's leadership has insisted it is eager for an election after the risk of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October has been ruled out.", "The government has released an assessment of the possible effects of a no-deal Brexit on the UK, after MPs demanded that it be made public.\n\nThe document, marked as \"Official Sensitive\" and dated 2 August 2019, outlines a series of \"reasonable worst-case planning assumptions\".\n\nIt was drawn up as part of \"Operation Yellowhammer\" - the name for the government's contingency plan to prepare for leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal.\n\nThe government says it is spending an extra £2.1bn on no-deal planning and is updating these planning assumptions.\n\nSo, what does the document say and what is being done - as far as we know - to prepare for no-deal?\n\nTo ensure more lorries are ready for customs, the government announced last month that 88,000 companies would be automatically enrolled in a new customs system.\n\nThe Port of Dover in Kent handles approximately 10,500 lorries a day. To prevent nearby roads from clogging up, the government has a traffic management plan codenamed Operation Brock.\n\nIf the plan is activated, up to 2,000 lorries will be held in a queue leading to the port. Other traffic will be kept flowing around the queued-up lorries, in what is known as a contraflow system.\n\nA fallback option would be to divert lorries to the disused Manston airfield, near Ramsgate - and use it to hold up to 6,000 lorries on the runway at any one time.\n\nIf further capacity was still required, a \"last resort\" would be to turn the 10-mile M26 motorway into a temporary lorry park.\n\nBut there is a still a lot of confusion, according to Rona Hunnisett, from the Freight Transport Association.\n\n\"The report shows there's still significant detail to be clarified if Britain is to keep trading efficiently,\" she says. \"Businesses can only prepare for, and implement, new processes once, and still need confirmation of what they are to adopt in the way of new practices.\"\n\nThe government has said that it will continue to recognise EU standards for food being imported into the UK, to minimise disruption.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said retailers are doing all they can to prepare for no-deal, but will not be able to prevent all negative effects. It stresses that many fresh fruits and vegetables will be out of season in the UK and that there will be a shortage of warehouse space ahead of Christmas.\n\n\"No deal Brexit would be extremely disruptive to the supply chains that we operate, particularly the fresh food supply chains,\" Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's told BBC News.\n\n\"There will inevitably be disruption simply because we've never done this before,\" he added, although he also said that previous delays to the Brexit date mean \"there's probably more understanding of what could go wrong and therefore more contingency planning\".\n\nAnother factor is what tariffs (the taxes on imports) will be charged on food coming into the UK.\n\nThe government published a \"tariff schedule\" in March, which removed most tariffs on imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThat means some food from outside the EU that currently attract a tariff could be cheaper, but some goods from the EU that are currently imported with 0% tariffs, like beef and dairy, will now carry tariffs, and so could become more expensive.\n\nAt the end of June, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) started putting out contracts for freight, warehouse space and fridges. These will be used to stockpile medicines and fly in those which cannot be stored, like radioisotopes for cancer treatment.\n\nOf the £2.1bn pledged for no-deal preparations, £434m has been set aside for this.\n\nThat includes a £25m contract for planes to bring in emergency medical supplies within 24 hours.\n\nAhead of the UK's original departure date of 29 March - then extended to 12 April - the DHSC said thousands of medicines had been analysed to work out what might be affected by supply disruption from the EU.\n\nSuppliers stockpiled an additional six weeks' worth of these drugs over and above the usual \"buffer\" stock.\n\nThis exercise is being repeated to ensure the department is \"as prepared for leaving the EU without a deal in October as it was on 29 March and 12 April\".\n\nSpecific ferry routes were made available for suppliers to book onto 11 weeks before the no-deal deadline in March.\n\nSix weeks before the 31 October deadline, the government had only just opened the bidding process to freight firms competing to transport medicines. So the pharmaceutical industry doesn't currently know which ports and ferry routes will be made available.\n\nSteve Bates, an industry official working with government on no-deal planning, said the time frame to make sure everything was in place for the October deadline was \"significantly compressed\".\n\nHe said the difference for drug suppliers between three months and potentially three weeks to put plans into action was \"material\".\n\nOn social care, the government website advises providers to draw up contingency plans and support EU staff who may be working for them.\n\nPlans are in place to ensure there are enough essential medicines like insulin\n\nIn the event of no-deal, the UK has said it will not impose tariffs on electricity and gas coming into the country.\n\nHowever, if the value of the pound falls in response to a no-deal Brexit, it will become more expensive to import energy from abroad.\n\nThe government intends to remain part of the single energy market, in order for the UK's energy laws to continue to work after Brexit and that supplies are not disrupted.\n\nWater is unlikely to be affected, although there is still a low risk in the event of a chemical supply problem. The Yellowhammer report says water companies are well-prepared and have significant stockpiles of critical chemicals.\n\nThe UK government has said it is committed not to have any physical infrastructure at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn 13 March it published its contingency plan to avoid a hard border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It said it would not bring in new checks or controls, or require customs declarations for any goods moving from Ireland to Northern Ireland, in the event of no-deal.\n\nBut this will only be a temporary measure while negotiations take place to find longer-term solutions.\n\nTo protect people's health, some plant and animal products that come into Northern Ireland from outside the EU, via Ireland, will still need to be checked. The UK government has said these checks will not happen at the border itself, but it has not specified exactly where they will take place.\n\nIt remains unclear what will happen to goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Ireland. Under EU rules, checks would normally be required at the point certain goods enter the EU single market.\n\nThe Irish government says it is securing additional space, and has recruited more customs and agriculture staff to allow for a \"significant increase in checks and procedures\".\n\nThe National Police Coordination Centre will plan the allocation of officers across the country although it has said there has been no intelligence to suggest that any protests will not be peaceful.\n\nThe government has also established the International Crime and Coordination Centre, which is supposed to help the police cope with the change to the UK's relationship with law enforcement agencies in the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The RNLI carried 12 migrants to Ramsgate - This video has no sound\n\nTwo boats carrying 21 migrants have been intercepted off the Kent coast after a record 86 made the crossing in one day.\n\nOne man was airlifted to hospital from a dinghy which was carrying 13 people, including three children.\n\nA second vessel carrying eight men was intercepted and taken to Dover.\n\nEighty-six people were detained by Border Force on Tuesday. It is thought to be the highest number of migrants to make the crossing in one day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dangers faced by migrants who cross the Channel\n\nInflatable dinghies depart from beaches that stretch from Dunkirk in the east to Boulogne in the west, with some going further afield to avoid detection.\n\nA stretch of coast spanning 60km, its wide, lengthy sandy beaches conceal small coves and bays. Most have discreet access from quiet roads, providing the perfect launching sites for small boats.\n\nVessels are launched late at night and in the early hours, with migrants saying the people-smugglers charge £3,000 to £5,000 per person.\n\nSometimes migrants walk to Calais beaches from migrant camps where they sleep in tents. On occasion smugglers take them in cars to departure points.\n\nOne Iranian man said he'd been in a small boat on six occasions but failed to get to the UK, thwarted by the likes of engine failure, rough seas and police interventions. He said you pay once until you succeed.\n\nPolice patrol the beaches and the French insist they are doing all they can, but there are limited resources.\n\nThe key for the smugglers is favourable weather conditions - calm seas and a wind that blows towards the UK.\n\nMore than 1,200 people have crossed the Channel in small boats this year, with 336 in August.\n\nAs numbers peaked on Tuesday, Kent Police confirmed a body found in Dutch waters was that of a female migrant who fell from a boat off the coast of Ramsgate, on 9 August.\n\nA migrant was seen on board a kayak\n\nFrench rescue teams also spotted a migrant on board a kayak in the sea off Calais - the man was brought to shore with mild hypothermia on Tuesday evening and dealt with by police, the Prefecture Maritime de la Manche said.\n\nOvernight, 51 migrants who were seeking to cross the Channel were detained on beaches in Calais, according to French police. A local gendarmerie spokesman said the figure did not include any migrants who had been rescued at sea.\n\nMeanwhile, thermal-imaging cameras show attempts by migrants to break into UK-bound lorries in Calais continue in earnest after nightfall.\n\nCharities believe that the threatened closure of a disused Dunkirk gym will lead to a further rise in crossings.\n\nEstimates put the number of people sheltering there at between 600 and 1,000.\n\nCare4Calais founder Clare Moseley said she had been told police would clear the camp tomorrow, adding: \"It's not that they are not trying to cross now, because they are, but it can only make it worse.\"\n\nCalais MP Pierre-Henri Dumont said migrants were being pressured into using small boats by smugglers, who were spreading \"fake news\" about crossings becoming more difficult after Brexit.\n\nThe UK's asylum system should be changed to allow migrants to apply at British embassies in Europe, he said.\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 countries affected by war, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "The evidence comes from dental plaque from Neolithic remains\n\nScientists have discovered the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption by humans.\n\nThe team identified milk protein entombed in calcified dental plaque (calculus) on the teeth of prehistoric farmers from Britain.\n\nIt shows that humans were consuming dairy products as early as 6,000 years ago - despite being lactose intolerant.\n\nThis could suggest they processed the raw milk into cheese, yoghurt or some other fermented product.\n\nThis would have reduced its lactose content, making it more palatable.\n\nThe team members scraped samples of plaque off the teeth, separated the different components within it and analysed them using mass spectrometry.\n\nThey detected a milk protein called beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) in the tartar of seven individuals spanning early to middle Neolithic times.\n\n\"Proteomic analysis of calculus is a fairly recent technique. There have been a few studies before, but they have generally been on historical archaeological material rather than prehistoric material,\" co-author Dr Sophy Charlton, from the department of archaeology at the University of York, told BBC News.\n\nDr Charlton, shown here sampling the plaque from ancient teeth, says raw milk might have been processed into cheese or some other dairy product\n\nLactose intolerance arises from the inability to digest the lactose sugar contained in milk beyond infancy. This means that consuming milk-based foods can cause uncomfortable symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhoea and nausea. However, many modern Europeans possess a genetic mutation which allows for the continued consumption of milk into adulthood.\n\nThis mutation affects a section of DNA controlling the activity of the gene for lactase - an enzyme that breaks down lactose sugar. However, previous studies of the genetics of Neolithic Europeans show that they lacked this mutation.\n\nDr Charlton said it was possible these Stone Age people were limiting themselves to small amounts of milk. \"If you are lactose intolerant and you consume very, very small amounts of milk, then it doesn't make you too ill. You can just about cope with that,\" she explained.\n\nBut Dr Charlton added: \"The alternative option, which I think is perhaps slightly more plausible, is that they were processing the milk in such a way that it's removing a degree of the lactose. So if you process it into a cheese, or a fermented milk product, or a yoghurt, then it does decrease the lactose content so you could more easily digest it.\n\n\"That idea fits quite well with other archaeological evidence for the period in which we find dairy fats inside lots of Neolithic pottery, both in the UK and the rest of Europe.\"\n\nThe Neolithic saw the introduction of domesticated animals, such as sheep, cows and goats\n\nIn addition, some of the milk residues found in these pots appear to have been heated, which would be required for processing raw milk into cheese or some other product.\n\nThe human remains tested in the study come from three Neolithic sites: Hambledon Hill in Dorset, Hazleton North in Gloucestershire, and Banbury Lane in Northamptonshire.\n\nMore than one quarter of the pottery fragments at Hambledon Hill had milk lipids on them, suggesting that dairy foods were very important to the people living at that site. Other Neolithic sites show evidence of animal herds that are consistent with those used for dairying.\n\nGenetic studies of ancient populations from across Eurasia show that lactase persistence only became common very recently, despite the consumption of milk products in the Neolithic. The mutation had started to appear by the Bronze Age, but even at this time, it was only present in 5-10% of Europeans.\n\nThe Neolithic age in Britain lasted from about 6,000 to 4,400 years ago and saw the introduction of farming, including the use of domesticated animals such as cows, sheep, pigs and goats.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Gyimah is introduced as a Lib Dem MP at their party conference\n\nFormer Conservative MP Sam Gyimah has joined the Liberal Democrats.\n\nSix MPs have defected to the party in recent weeks, including former Tory MP Philip Lee, and ex-Labour MPs Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna.\n\nMr Gyimah was one of the 21 Tories who had the Conservative whip removed after rebelling against Boris Johnson in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLast December, the East Surrey MP quit as science and universities minister in a row over Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nThe 43-year-old briefly stood in the race to become Conservative Party leader after Mrs May quit.\n\nThe Lib Dems currently have 18 MPs, having been boosted by a victory in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and the defections.\n\nMr Gyimah told BBC News that \"the hard Brexiteers have won in the Conservative party - it is a hard Brexit party\".\n\n\"There just aren't enough Conservatives like me,\" he said, explaining his decision to join the Liberal Democrats.\n\n\"If I want to fight for the values for which I came into politics.. the values of tolerance, the values of being sensible and pragmatic and acting in the interest of the country, then the Liberal Democrats is where I can do that from.\"\n\nNot long ago at Westminster, if you were on the hunt for a smile, you wouldn't bother with the Lib Dems.\n\nThere weren't many of them, for a start, and those left were the last survivors of a near apocalypse for the party; shrivelled, ignored and drowned out.\n\nThey are bouncy, tiggerish and expanding.\n\nThey hope their clarity on Brexit - win an election and scrap it - will win favour with Remain inclined voters who may find Labour's pitch rather more ambiguous.\n\nBut their newbies face a big challenge: can they, realistically, win the seats they currently hold as Liberal Democrats?\n\nOr will they go hunting for more fertile Lib Dem territory elsewhere - potentially dislodging long standing local party stalwarts?\n\nAddressing the Liberal Democrats conference in Bournemouth, Mr Gyimah said: \"There is now no orderly way for the UK to leave the EU on October 31.\n\n\"If the prime minister got a deal at the European Council on October 17 and 18, it would not be possible for us to leave on October 31 in an orderly way.\"\n\nHe added that the government has been left in a position where \"no-deal\" is the only outcome that can be delivered.\n\nHe said he had been \"disheartened\" by the way the whipping process \"had been framed... for us MPs to choose our careers, in other words our own salaries, over putting the country first.\"\n\nMr Gyimah, who has been sitting as an Independent after losing the Conservative whip, has been a prominent advocate for a second referendum.\n\nHe previously signalled his intention to stand as an independent candidate in East Surrey in the event of a snap general election.\n\nMr Gyimah was born in Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire.\n\nWhen he was six years old, his parents split up and he moved with his mother to her native Ghana, while his father remained in the UK.\n\nHe attended Achimota school, a state school in the capital of Accra, before returning to the UK to complete his GCSEs and A-levels at Freman College, a comprehensive in Hertfordshire.\n\nMr Gyimah went on to win a place at Somerville College, Oxford, to read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), and served as president of the Oxford Union in 1997.\n\nAn Arsenal fan, he worked for Goldman Sachs for five years as an investment banker before moving into politics, standing unsuccessfully for Camden council elections in 2006.\n\nIn 2010 he became the MP for East Surrey and had been in Westminster for two years when he was made parliamentary private secretary to the then PM David Cameron.\n\nHe went on to become a government whip in 2013 and childcare and education minister a year later, before becoming prisons minister in 2016 and universities minister after that.\n\nThe married father-of-two quit as universities minister in December last year over Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nHe was introduced to delegates at the conference by the party's leader Jo Swinson as the \"newest Liberal Democrat MP\".\n\nSpeaking to the conference, Mr Gyimah said he did not take the decision to join the Lib Dems lightly and had started reconsidering his position in the Tories while Mrs May negotiated her deal with the EU.\n\nBut he said his concerns with the Conservative party now \"go beyond Brexit\".\n\n\"The values we have taken for granted for so long in our country... are under threat,\" Mr Gyimah said. \"What Jo and I discussed are the Liberal Democrats have a unique opportunity to fight to defend those values and create a new force in British politics. That is why I find myself here today.\"\n\nHe said \"the problem is not just on the Conservative side. When I look across the aisle, I also see on the Labour benches the same issue I have seen on the Conservative side, a doctrinaire, intolerant approach which means centrists are being squeezed out\".\n\nMr Umunna tweeted he was \"absolutely delighted\" and Layla Moran said: \"Welcome... So delighted to have you on the team\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chuka Umunna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChris White, a former government adviser, told the BBC it was \"extremely disappointing\" to see Mr Gyimah join the Lib Dems because he \"stood on a manifesto pledge to deliver the referendum and here he is switching to a party which is manifestly not going to do that\".\n\nA bid by Mr Johnson for an autumn general election has so far been rejected by MPs who wanted to first make sure a bill designed to avoid a no-deal Brexit became law.\n\nBut since the bill, which seeks to force Mr Johnson to ask for a extension to the deadline, has been given Royal Assent, opposition MPs are preparing to start their general election campaigns.\n\nAs the Lib Dem conference opened, Ms Swinson said the party's anti-Brexit message should be \"unequivocal\" in a general election campaign.\n\nShe expressed her hopes that members would back her policy proposal of scrapping Brexit without another referendum.", "Creggan is largely a republican community not far from the centre of Londonderry\n\nCreggan in Derry is seen as a dissident republican stronghold.\n\nIt's where journalist Lyra McKee was murdered earlier this year, a bomb was found in a car last week and police officers have been attacked.\n\nWhat do local people think about their neighbourhood being in the headlines?\n\nJames is working in his garden.\n\nAcross the street is graffiti on the wall that reads: \"New IRA here to stay\".\n\nHe says he had to leave his home on Monday night as streets were cordoned off.\n\n\"Young people then started to throw petrol bombs at police Land Rovers,\" he says.\n\nPolice officers found a bomb on Monday during a security search targeting the New IRA.\n\nPolice said a crowd of between 60 and 100 young people also gathered in Creggan that evening.\n\nSome of them attacked the police with petrol bombs and stones. Others stood by watching.\n\nAt least two of the young people suffered burn injuries.\n\n\"At midday I was planting flowers in my garden. At midnight, I was running away to a community centre from a bomb,\" says James, who did not want his full name being used.\n\n\"I am sick to the back teeth with this carry on. I'm elderly now and I've seen a lot through the Troubles. The vast majority of people in Creggan do not want this thuggery.\n\n\"A friend from England called me to ask how I was. All I could say was: 'Planting flowers and avoiding bombs'.\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said, on a number of occasions, that it believes most of the violence in Creggan is orchestrated and that some of the young people are being exploited by paramilitaries.\n\nA bomb, containing commercial explosives, was found in a car on Monday\n\nAt the heart of Creggan there's a school. Not too far from the school gates is a sign saying \"informants will be shot\".\n\nSome community workers act as mediators with dissident republicans on a regular basis in order to prevent further violence.\n\nThe anti-British and anti-police messages are clearly visible when you arrive in the area.\n\nMany families were also directly affected during Northern Ireland's conflict - known as The Troubles.\n\nOne community worker told BBC News NI that dissident republicans - who are prepared to use violence to achieve their aim of a united Ireland - \"like to think they are recruiting young people to push their message forward\".\n\nThe New IRA admitted carrying out the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in April in Creggan.\n\nOne 24-year-old woman says she was standing \"a couple of hundred yards\" from where Ms McKee was shot.\n\nThe woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, told BBC News NI she was by no means happy with the fact that Ms McKee was killed, but that she did support the PSNI being attacked with petrol bombs.\n\n\"A lot of people don't realise what we go through here. I have no job. My family went through a lot during the Troubles. I feel strongly about them leaving us alone in Creggan.\"\n\nLyra McKee wanted to write about the affects of violence on young people in Derry\n\nThe woman was able to show BBC News NI footage on her phone of the police being targeted in recent months and years.\n\n\"We share it in group chats. We don't appreciate their attendance here during the day or at night. I know I don't speak for every young person.\"\n\nA PSNI spokesperson said: \"We are there for the safety of all communities.\"\n\nA 25-year-old man walks past Creggan shops listening to music. He is on his way to a body combat class in the local community centre.\n\n\"I struggle to understand why some of the young people want to cause bother,\" he says.\n\n\"I've lived here all my life, too. I went into the town on Monday night to get away from it all. All I can say to them is: 'Move on'. There are better things to be doing in Creggan and across the city.\"\n\nGraffiti features on a number of walls throughout Creggan and across the city\n\nOutside the community centre, known locally as the corn beef tin, are five women having a cigarette. They are waiting for one of their weekly classes to start.\n\n\"I've lived here since I was born and there are many, many positive people here in Creggan,\" Karen Doherty says.\n\n\"Negative headlines are broadcast about us around the world and it makes me feel sick to the stomach. The good things never get discussed. There are many wonderful people here and things to do.\n\n\"Yes, there are big issues, but it involves a small minority. We are a close community.\n\n\"During the Troubles there were soldiers here, bombs and tanks, but we were almost safer then than we are now. I'm not sure if it's because we were immune to it back then, but the young people now are uncontrollable.\"\n\nKathleen Dalzell (left) and Karen Doherty have lived in Creggan all of their lives\n\nKathleen Dalzell says some of the young people in Creggan are being exploited.\n\n\"There's a bigger picture here,\" she adds.\n\n\"Those dissidents need to back off. No one in Derry wants to see this. I had a great upbringing here.\n\n\"We all help each other out in the hour of need. That's the real Creggan.\"\n\nFr Joseph Gormley is based at St Mary's in Creggan\n\nFr Joseph Gormley, who was called to the scene of Lyra McKee's shooting, says had the bomb on Monday not been found and diffused, \"we could have had another loss of life\".\n\n\"This community has been through a lot,\" Fr Gormley adds.\n\n\"Many people are knackered and fed up with the constant negative headlines but we can't shy away from the fact these things are happening.\n\n\"Those responsible should be able to see that Creggan does not want to go backwards. Let Creggan flourish the way it deserves to.\"", "Heavy machinery was used to uncover the bodies earlier in September\n\nForensic scientists in Mexico have managed to piece together 44 bodies buried in a well in Jalisco state.\n\nDiscovered just outside the city of Guadalajara, the human remains were hidden in 119 black bags.\n\nThe remains were discovered earlier in September when local residents began complaining about the smell.\n\nJalisco is the heartland of one of Mexico's most violent drug gangs and this is the second major find of bodies in the state this year.\n\nThe vast majority of the bodies were cut up. A local organisation which searches for missing people has appealed to the government to send more specialists to assist with identification.\n\nThey say the local forensic department is overwhelmed and does not have the necessary skills to complete the operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Mexican self-defence groups are mobilising against criminal gangs", "The Liberal Democrats gather for their annual conference in Bournemouth on Saturday with a real spring in their step.\n\nThe venue may be familiar - it's their third visit to the south coast in the past five years - but in every other respect things look rather different.\n\nThe resurgent party has a new leader, quite a few more MPs, growing political momentum and a new-found hope of playing a pivotal role in the unfolding Brexit drama.\n\nSo what can we expect over the four days?\n\nJo Swinson will be in the spotlight on Tuesday\n\nWhatever else happens, the event will ultimately be defined - in terms of press coverage anyway - by Jo Swinson's leader's speech on Tuesday.\n\nHer predecessors - Tim Farron and Vince Cable - struggled to achieve a real breakthrough beyond the conference hall, as the party languished in the doldrums.\n\nThis is unlikely to be the case this time, when Ms Swinson takes the stage at about 14.30 BST.\n\nThe 39-year old is a fresh face - despite being a relative veteran in Westminster. She is the party's first female leader, as well as its youngest.\n\nThere will be a lot of interest beyond Lib Dem circles as to how she performs, the degree to which she reaches out to other parties on Brexit and her positioning on key issues.\n\nAfter all, many people think a general election is inevitable before the end of the year - an election which could offer the party the best chance of progress in nearly a decade.\n\nWill there be a surprise defection?\n\nFollowing the 2015 election, the jibe that you could fit all the Lib Dem MPs into the back of a taxi was heard for the first time in a generation.\n\nAfter five years of governing in coalition with the Conservatives, the party had been reduced to a rump of eight MPs in Parliament.\n\nBut now things are moving in the opposite direction, with the party's ranks swelling to 17 (or 18 if you include one MP who has lost the whip).\n\nSince June, two former Labour MPs, one former Conservative and a serving Conservative, Phillip Lee, have joined the party. Mr Lee's defection, which came as Boris Johnson was addressing MPs in Parliament, was particularly dramatic.\n\nCould we see others join them this week? There's a reasonable chance, as parties love to unveil high-profile converts with a flourish in the glare of the TV cameras.\n\nThere are more than 20 ex-Conservative MPs sitting as independents in the Commons who are opposed to a no-deal Brexit and, in some cases, opposed to any kind of Brexit.\n\nAs it stands, they have been told they cannot represent their old party at the next election. Will some be tempted to throw their lot in with the Lib Dems?\n\nStop Brexit is set to become the party's election slogan\n\nThe party's strong opposition to Brexit - it has supported another referendum for the past two years - has hardened in recent weeks.\n\nMs Swinson now says that if the Lib Dems win power after the next election - a long shot admittedly - they would revoke Article 50. This would halt the legal process underpinning the UK's departure, and nullify the 2016 Brexit referendum vote.\n\nThe leadership will ask party members to endorse this position in a debate on Sunday.\n\nIt will also seek a mandate to campaign on a Stop Brexit ticket at the next election and for the party's backing for giving all EU nationals in the UK settled status automatically.\n\nExpect the motion, which states there is \"no negotiated deal that could be more beneficial than continued membership\", to receive overwhelming backing.\n\nBut it will be interesting to see how many dissenting voices there are, perhaps worried about the message it sends to Leave voters.\n\nAmong them could be Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd, who lost the whip after backing Theresa May's Brexit agreement, and ex-minister Norman Lamb, who is standing down at the next election but who has joined the cross-party \"MPs-for-a-deal\" group.\n\nChuka Umunna will make his conference debut for his new party\n\nThis is a party in transition and this year's event will reflect that.\n\nThis is likely to be Vince Cable's last conference as a Lib Dem MP, the former leader having said he won't contest his Twickenham seat at the election.\n\nIt will also be Chuka Umunna's first as a Lib Dem. The former Labour politician has been given the plum Monday morning speech slot - second only in prestige to the leader's closing address - and he is likely to command plenty of attention.\n\nThere are also speaking slots for Jane Dodds, the newly elected Brecon and Radnorshire MP and Welsh party leader, and Siobhan Benita, the party's London mayoral candidate.\n\nThere are likely to be a few tears and quite a few cheers during the party's tribute to its beloved former leader Paddy Ashdown, who died last December.\n\nExpect some big names on the fringe, although it is not clear whether ex-deputy PM and now Facebook exec Nick Clegg - normally one of the week's biggest draws - will be among them.\n\nThe party will debate a ban on single-use plastic\n\nUnlike other parties, Lib Dem members have a say in policy-making, which makes debates - even on obscure subjects - worth keeping an eye on.\n\nActivists will debate motions calling on the government to pass a law to scrap the \"gender price gap\" on all consumer items and extend equal marriage to Northern Ireland.\n\nFar-reaching reform of the tax system will also be on the agenda, with a proposal to scrap corporation tax in favour of a new British business tax, while measures to tackle poverty and job insecurity include a 20% minimum wage for workers on zero-hours contracts.\n\nIncreased focus on prisoner rehabilitation would see only women convicted of the most serious and violent crimes sent to prison, and an end to custodial sentences for personal drug use. There would also be tax discounts to encourage firms to employ ex-offenders.\n\nOn education, the party wants to extend the pupil premium to 16 to 19-year-olds and - on the environment - to ban all non-recyclable single-use plastic within three years.", "The Liberal Democrats will be the \"stop Brexit\" party at the next election.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says her party's manifesto will pledge to revoke Article 50 - the law that ensures the UK leaves the EU.\n\nPreviously, the party has backed another referendum or \"People's Vote\", saying they would campaign to Remain.", "A revised Brexit deal, acceptable to both UK and EU negotiators, remains elusive.\n\nOnly a few people know exactly what has been discussed behind closed doors, and the legal text of any proposed agreement has not been made public.\n\nBut it's worth bearing in mind that most of the deal hammered out by Theresa May's government - the withdrawal agreement and the accompanying political declaration - would remain in place.\n\nThe main changes Boris Johnson's government wants to see concern the Irish border, and the type of relationship it wishes the UK to have with the EU in the future.\n\nAll sides have ruled out customs checks at the land border in Ireland (between Northern Ireland and the Republic), and Mr Johnson's suggestion that checks could take place at \"designated locations\" away from the border was rejected by the EU.\n\nThat means there would have to be some customs checks within the UK instead, at ports along the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That's a big UK concession.\n\nBut Mr Johnson also insists that Northern Ireland has to leave the EU customs union, along with the rest of the UK, to allow it to take advantage of any future trade deals the government manages to negotiate.\n\nThe suggested compromise is that the legal customs border between the UK and the EU would be at the land border in Ireland. But the practical border, where checks would actually take place, would be in the Irish Sea.\n\nDiplomats say that means Northern Ireland would remain legally in the UK customs territory but it would apply EU customs processes on goods arriving from Great Britain. There would be exemptions, including on personal items and other goods, to be agreed at a later date by the UK and the EU.\n\nSo it's a dual customs system, which has no obvious parallel anywhere else in the world, and it raises plenty of technical and legal issues which will take some time to pin down.\n\nThere's also the issue of political consent in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoth sides agree that any new economic status for Northern Ireland, which sets it apart from the rest of the country, needs to win democratic approval.\n\nBut the EU won't accept anything that appears to give a veto to one party in Northern Ireland, in this case the government's allies in the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). That, in the EU's view, would mean the entire proposed settlement on the Irish border could be unexpectedly torn up with nothing to replace it.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not been sitting for more than 1,000 days\n\nFor its part, the DUP has been arguing that the Good Friday agreement, which forms the basis of the Northern Ireland peace process, provides for a dual majority (in other words a majority among both unionist and nationalist representatives) on controversial issues in the Northern Ireland assembly.\n\nOthers in Northern Ireland argue that if a dual majority is needed, then the prospect of Northern Ireland leaving the EU should also be subject to similar dual consent.\n\nDiplomats say the latest draft agreement outlines a plan which would give the Northern Ireland Assembly a consent vote four years after the Brexit transition period ends in 2020.\n\nIf it voted to continue the new arrangements by a simple majority, another vote would be held four years later. If the vote was carried with a dual majority it would be held again eight years later.\n\nDiplomats say that if the Assembly voted to end the arrangements, the UK and the EU would have two years to negotiate a new method to avoid a hard border.\n\nAll of this would replace the so-called backstop - the proposed guarantee to avoid a hard border in Ireland under all circumstances.\n\nBut so far, the DUP has made it pretty clear that it cannot accept the proposals as they stand.\n\nThe UK has submitted a new draft of the political declaration on the future relationship. Again, the text has not been made public, but Mr Johnson has made it clear that he wants a looser economic relationship with the EU in the future than Mrs May was seeking.\n\nDiplomats say the political declaration will point towards a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU with zero tariffs or quotas, but one which is embedded in a framework for economic competition that is \"fair\".\n\nOne of the key phrases to watch out for here is the \"level playing field\" - the degree to which the UK will agree to stick closely to EU regulations on things like social and environmental policies.\n\nMr Johnson wants to make fewer level playing field guarantees, and the EU fears that could mean he will seek to undercut EU regulation in the future to gain a competitive advantage.\n\nAnd that in turn has made a number of EU countries even more determined that any solution for the Irish border is legally watertight and fully thought through, before they sign up to any amended Brexit deal.\n\nIn any complex negotiation, there is nearly always an issue bubbling under the surface which emerges as a last-minute hitch.\n\nThis time it is VAT, and how to prevent fraud involving goods crossing any new border arrangement.\n\nOn all of these issues, time is against the negotiators and their political masters. Mr Johnson still says he is determined to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nBut if the House of Commons has not voted in favour either of a deal or of leaving with no deal by 19 October, then UK law says he must seek an extension to the Brexit process.\n\nThe EU has said it will not negotiate directly with Mr Johnson during the summit, which begins on Thursday.\n\nBut the next few days are obviously crucial.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.", "The government is planning changes to the law aimed at bringing in longer sentences for some of England and Wales' worst criminal offenders.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says the measures could affect the sentencing of murderers of pre-school age children.\n\nThe government also wants violent and sexual offenders to serve at least two thirds of their terms, the paper said.\n\nThe prime minister plans to use next month's Queen's Speech to introduce the changes, according to the Telegraph.\n\nThese could be contained in a Sentencing Bill or a statutory instrument, a form of secondary legislation which can be brought in without Parliament having to pass a new Act.\n\nThe government would not give any detail of the planned law changes.\n\nBut a Ministry of Justice spokesperson did say Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered an urgent review into sentencing policy last month and would bring forward proposals \"shortly\".\n\nRosemary West and her husband, Fred, were arrested in 1994 accused of murdering 12 people over 20 years. Fred West killed himself in jail a year later\n\nCurrently, judges sentencing murderers of children in cases which involve abduction or a sexual or sadistic motivation can consider a whole-life order - or \"life means life\" order, which means the offender will never be released from prison.\n\nRosemary West, who was convicted in 1995 of murdering 10 young women and girls after first subjecting them to horrific sexual violence, is in prison on a whole life order.\n\nIt is possible the government might try to broaden part of Schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 which provides a \"starting point\" for judges considering whole-life orders for murderers in exceptionally grave cases.\n\nWhere there is no evidence of abduction or a sexual or sadistic motivation in a child murder case, the offender must still be given a life sentence.\n\nA life sentence differs from a whole-life order in that a judge can specify the minimum term they must spend in prison before becoming eligible to apply for parole.\n\nOnce released, an offender remains on licence for the rest of their life and can be recalled to prison at any time.\n\nOther measures from Mr Johnson, outlined in the Telegraph, include:\n\nThe exact nature of the changes to sentencing are not yet clear, but this is a further attempt from the Boris Johnson government to appeal to voters' concerns over crime.\n\nDowning Street has a three-pronged strategy - deliver Brexit, defend the NHS and get tough on crime.\n\nThe plans for stronger sentencing guidelines follow announcements on extra police officers and an extension of stop and search powers.\n\nIt's a message that is likely to appeal to traditional Conservative voters but also Labour voters worried about rising crime levels.\n\nBoris Johnson is yet to secure the general election he craves, but the campaign has been under way for some time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe \"entire machinery of government\" is focused on getting a Brexit deal with the EU, says Priti Patel.\n\nThe home secretary said Boris Johnson was \"fully committed\" to negotiating an agreement by the 31 October deadline.\n\nBut when pressed by the BBC's Andrew Marr to reveal details, she said it wasn't \"a public negotiation\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Johnson said the UK would break out of its \"manacles\" like cartoon character The Incredible Hulk, in order to leave the EU.\n\nHe told the Mail on Sunday: \"Hulk always escaped, no matter how tightly bound in he seemed to be - and that is the case for this country.\n\n\"We will come out on 31 October and we will get it done.\"\n\nThe prime minister said on Friday that he was \"cautiously optimistic\" of getting a Brexit deal, but the UK would leave by the deadline \"whatever happens\".\n\nThis is despite MPs passing a new law that would force the prime minister to ask the EU for an extension to that deadline if a deal wasn't agreed by 19 October - two days after a key EU summit.\n\nMr Johnson is due to meet European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in Luxembourg this week as negotiations continue.\n\nBrexit Secretary Steve Barclay said a \"landing zone\" was in sight for an agreement with the EU, and a \"huge amount has been happening behind the scenes\".\n\nBut he told Sky News' Sophy Ridge programme said there was still \"significant work\" to do.\n\nMs Patel told Andrew Marr: \"The prime minister is fully committed to getting a deal.\n\n\"I hope the country has heard [Mr Johnson's] sheer commitment and determination to ensure that we leave on 31 October, and also that the entire machinery of government now is focused on getting that deal and is planning and preparing to leave with a deal.\"\n\nShe added: \"My instinct is we have to leave, and we have to leave with a deal on 31 October.\"\n\nBut there are still questions as to what that deal will be, after the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said he did not have \"reasons to be optimistic\" over coming to an agreement with the UK.\n\nReports suggested Mr Johnson and his team were considering a plan to keep Northern Ireland more closely aligned to the EU after Brexit, which they hoped would remove the need for the Irish backstop - the policy in the existing withdrawal agreement to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nBut the Democratic Unionist Party - which supports the Conservatives in Parliament - rejected any plan that would see Northern Ireland treated differently to the rest of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Patel was a vociferous opponent of the backstop when Theresa May was prime minister - voting against her deal three times - and took the same line as the DUP.\n\nBut pushed on the reported alternative, she said: \"We are working through that right now.\n\n\"I am not going to pre-empt any of the discussions right now in terms of acceptability [of that plan].\"\n\nThe home secretary added: \"We are in different territory right now. There's no point arguing about the past.\n\n\"We are moving forward now... as a government, collectively focussed on leaving but leaving with a deal.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: England v Australia, fifth Specsavers Test (day three of five)\n\nJoe Denly narrowly missed out on a maiden century but still helped England into a match-winning position on the third day of the final Ashes Test against Australia at The Oval.\n\nTwo days after his wife gave birth to their second child, opener Denly made 94 to all but secure his place on England's winter tours.\n\nAfter being dropped on nought on the second evening, the Kent man also should have been given lbw on 54 to Mitchell Marsh, only for Australia to opt against a review.\n\nHe was eventually caught at slip off Peter Siddle after sharing a third-wicket stand of 127 with Ben Stokes, who oozed class for his 67.\n\nJos Buttler sparkled in his 47 before a late Australia improvement left England 313-8, 382 ahead.\n• None A new baby and 94 in the Ashes - Denly's special 48 hours\n\nWith two days remaining and the pitch beginning to show signs of turn, England are primed to level the series at 2-2.\n\nThough Australia have already retained the Ashes, defeat here would deny them a first series win in England since 2001.\n\nEngland are also looking to avoid a first home series loss to anyone in five years.\n\nOn a glorious day in south London, England took advantage of the benign conditions to put together one of their best batting displays of the Test summer.\n\nThey have, though, been helped by some uncharacteristic Australian generosity.\n\nTim Paine's decision to field first is looking increasingly baffling, so too the selection of Siddle over Mitchell Starc. The tourists have dropped five catches and continually failed in their use of the review system.\n\nBut that is to take nothing away from Denly, who had already batted at number three and four this summer before being asked to open.\n\nBy making his third half-century in as many matches, he has suggested he has a future at this level.\n\nThere were fractious moments throughout the day. Matthew Wade and Joe Root exchanged words, as did David Warner and Stokes, who was goaded by the close fielders. Nathan Lyon chatted constantly.\n\nThe home supporters responded on their team's behalf, especially to any Australian fielder who ventured towards the boundary.\n\nThe England batting, Aussie baiting and late arrival of cult hero Jack Leach gave the crowd one more enjoyable day in a memorable summer that is almost at an end.\n• None Relive England's dominant display on third day of final Ashes Test - highlights & analysis\n\nDenly's wife Stacy was in the early stages of labour as he was making 14 on the first morning. He left the ground that night and returned just after lunch on Friday as the father to a second child, a baby girl.\n\nAustralia helped him celebrate with a pair of let-offs, which Denly accepted by playing sweet strokes down the ground and square of the wicket on the off side.\n\nHe nimbly used his feet against off-spinner Lyon, including lofting a straight six, and was dogged enough to survive some painful blows from the fast bowlers.\n\nDenly set the tone for Rory Burns and Joe Root to play freely in the morning, but after both fell to Lyon, Stokes arrived to continue his fine form.\n\nThe Durham all-rounder also benefited from being dropped - by slip Steve Smith off Lyon on seven - and went on to sweep the same bowler for six and swat another savage maximum off Marnus Labuschagne's leg-spin.\n\nStokes was bowled by a beauty from Lyon that turned sharply, while Denly got an equally good one from Siddle that nipped away and resulted in an edge to Smith.\n\nHe departed with his head bowed, eventually bringing himself to raise his bat in acknowledgement of the standing ovation.\n\nAustralia will leave the UK with the urn for the first time in 18 years, but skipper Paine said the series win meant so much to them that this match was a \"grand final\". This was the day it slipped away.\n\nOn top of the toss, selection, drops and failed reviews, their superb new-ball pairing of Hazlewood and Pat Cummins had a rare ineffective day.\n\nLyon is struggling with damage to his spinning finger - not that he will get sympathy from England supporters. He did have Burns caught behind, Root held at slip and, later, produced the ripper to account for Stokes.\n\nHe was also the bowler when the tourists missed another opportunity to use the review system. Buttler could have been lbw on 19.\n\nIt took until the dying embers of the day for Australia to sparkle. First Smith leapt full length to take Chris Woakes one-handed at second slip then, next ball, deep square leg Labuschagne ran and dived forward to hold a pulling Buttler millimetres above the turf.\n\n'Denly has proven a lot of people wrong' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"I wrote Joe Denly off, many did. But I like players that have that inner strength to prove people wrong. He got dropped on nought last night and he must've been thinking he had to make it count.\n\n\"He played so well. He kept his hands a bit closer to him and when there are quality bowlers and a bit of movement, if you play with hands away from your body, you're going to get found out.\n\n\"He played with more control and had a forward defence.\n\n\"Australia have looked tired and sloppy. England have capitalised on Tim Paine's decision at the toss and played a very good game of cricket so far.\"\n\nEngland batsman Joe Denly, speaking to TMS: \"It was good, nice to get that score and disappointing not to get to the milestone.\n\n\"But we're in a great position going into day four and that's the main thing.\n\n\"I wasn't thinking about my place on the winter tours, I was just trying to occupy the crease and if I did that scoring opportunities would come.\"", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says she hopes to convince members to back a policy of scrapping Brexit without another referendum, as the party's conference begins in Bournemouth.\n\nMs Swinson says holding the referendum got the UK \"into a mess\".\n\nAnd she believes revoking Article 50 - the formal process to leave the EU - is the only satisfactory way out.\n\nMs Swinson said the party's anti-Brexit message should be \"unequivocal\" in a general election campaign.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The Liberal Democrats are crystal clear. We want to stop Brexit... If a Liberal Democrat majority government is elected, then we should revoke Article 50 and I think it's about being straightforward and honest with the British public about that.\"\n\nUp until now, the party's policy on Brexit has been to campaign for another referendum - in which it would again call for the UK to stay in the EU.\n\nBut if Lib Dem members vote to back their leader's policy proposal on Sunday, revoking Article 50 would be written into the next election manifesto.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Lib Dem deputy leader Ed Davey said a referendum would have been the best way to solve the problem, but \"people want an end to this, and the only way you can stop Brexit in a democratic exercise like a general election is to say you would revoke\".\n\nMeanwhile, amid reports that a new version of Theresa May's Brexit deal could be supported by MPs, former Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said the party would insist that it be put to a referendum, with an option to remain in the EU.\n\nMs Swinson visited the Bournemouth branch of cosmetics chain Lush to see its efforts against single use plastic packaging\n\nIn an interview with the Guardian, Ms Swinson ruled out any kind of coalition with the Conservatives or Labour.\n\nShe said neither Conservative leader Boris Johnson nor Labour's Jeremy Corbyn were fit to be prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson did not care about anyone but himself, she said, and she criticised Mr Corbyn's failure to tackle anti-Semitism in his own party.\n\nParliament has so far denied Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request for an autumn election, because opposition parties wanted to first make sure a bill designed to avoid a no-deal Brexit became law.\n\nBut since the bill, which seeks to force Mr Johnson to ask for an extension to the deadline, has been given Royal Assent, opposition MPs are preparing to start their general election campaigns.\n\nRevoking Article 50 would effectively undo the legal mechanism under the EU's Lisbon Treaty that was triggered to start Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. Lord John Kerr, the British diplomat who was involved in drafting Article 50, has publicly said the clause is reversible.\n\nLib Dem environment spokeswoman Wera Hobhouse, who was one of the first delegates to address delegates at the Bournemouth International Centre, criticised the government's record on the climate.\n\nShe said while the Tories had committed the UK to net-zero emissions by 2050, its policy on fracking was \"madness\" and they were action like \"climate change deniers\" with a reported plan to cut fuel duty.\n\nMs Swinson is expected to take questions from delegates on Sunday, following a speech by her predecessor Sir Vince Cable. It is likely to be Mr Cable's last conference as a Lib Dem MP as he has said he will not contest his Twickenham seat at the next election.\n\nMs Swinson's main speech will be held on Tuesday, the last day of the conference, after a tribute to the party's former leader, Paddy Ashdown, who died in December.\n\nPaddy Ashdown, the party's longest serving leader, will be remembered at the conference\n\nChuka Umunna, the former Labour MP who joined the Lib Dems three months ago, will speak on Monday in his role as foreign affairs spokesman.\n\nThe Lib Dems are enjoying a resurgence on the back of its anti-Brexit stance. The party currently has 17 MPs, having been boosted by a victory in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and defections from both Labour and the Conservatives over the summer.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Boris Johnson and David Cameron campaigned together ahead of the 2015 general election\n\nBoris Johnson did not believe in Brexit during the referendum campaign and backed Leave \"because it would help his political career\", says David Cameron.\n\nIn an extract from his memoir published in the Sunday Times, the former PM also refers to cabinet minister Michael Gove as \"a foam-flecked Faragist\".\n\nThe pair were \"ambassadors for the expert-trashing, truth-twisting age of populism\", Mr Cameron writes.\n\nAnd he also accuses Mr Gove of being disloyal to himself and Mr Johnson.\n\nOf his former colleague, Mr Cameron writes: \"One quality shone through: disloyalty. Disloyalty to me - and, later, disloyalty to Boris.\"\n\nThe latest revelations come after another extract published on Saturday accused the pair of behaving \"appallingly\" during the 2016 referendum campaign.\n\nMr Cameron called the poll after promising it in the Conservative Party's election manifesto.\n\nHe campaigned for Remain, but lost the vote by 52% to 48%, and resigned as prime minister shortly after.\n\nMr Cameron writes that when deciding whether to back Leave or Remain in the campaign, Mr Johnson was concerned what the \"best outcome\" would be for him.\n\n\"Whichever senior Tory politician took the lead on the Brexit side - so loaded with images of patriotism, independence and romance - would become the darling of the party,\" he says.\n\n\"He [Mr Johnson] didn't want to risk allowing someone else with a high profile - Michael Gove in particular - to win that crown.\"\n\nThe former Tory leader adds: \"The conclusion I am left with is that he [Boris Johnson] risked an outcome he didn't believe in because it would help his political career.\"\n\nHe also says during the Leave campaign Mr Johnson, who has repeatedly said the UK must exit the EU on 31 October, privately raised the possibility of holding another referendum after fresh negotiations with the EU.\n\nHe criticises Mr Johnson's use of the Vote Leave campaign bus emblazoned by the much-criticised claim that leaving would mean £350m a week extra for the NHS.\n\n\"Boris rode the bus round the country, he left the truth at home,\" writes the former prime minister.\n\nLeave-supporting politicians and footballer Sol Campbell with a Vote Leave poster in 2016\n\nAnd of Mr Gove - a cabinet minister both now and then - he said: \"I couldn't believe what I was seeing.\n\n\"Gove, the liberal-minded, carefully-considered Conservative intellectual, had become a foam-flecked Faragist warning that the entire Turkish population was about to come to Britain.\"\n\nDuring the run-up to the EU referendum, Mr Gove claimed Turkey and four other countries could join the EU by 2020, increasing the UK's population by up to 5.23 million by 2030.\n\nHowever, it was the behaviour of his then employment minister and current Home Secretary Priti Patel that \"shocked\" him the most, he says.\n\n\"She used every announcement, interview and speech to hammer the government on immigration, even though she was part of that government,\" he writes.\n\n\"I was stuck though: unable to fire her, because that would make her a Brexit martyr.\"\n\nMr Cameron said the behaviour of Priti Patel, his former education minister, shocked him the most\n\nAsked about Mr Cameron's comments, Ms Patel told the BBC's Andrew Marr that it had been \"a privilege to serve\" as a minister in David Cameron's government and that she \"enjoyed working with him\".\n\nBut she added: \"Obviously the referendum has happened, we've all moved on, and the fact of the matter is, we are now working to deliver that referendum mandate.\n\n\"There is no point in going over the past.\"\n\nThe former PM famously wrote his memoirs in a shed - which allegedly cost £25,000\n\nThe prime minister and Mr Gove are yet to respond to the criticisms of them contained in Mr Cameron's book.\n\nIn an interview with the Times published on Saturday, Mr Cameron said he was \"hugely depressed\" about the 2016 referendum result and he knew \"some people will never forgive me\".\n\nBut he defended his decision to call the poll, arguing the issue of the EU \"needed to be addressed\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said she did not forgive the former PM for calling the referendum.\n\nSpeaking at her party conference, she said it was a \"shocking misjudgement\" by Mr Cameron, which saw him \"put the interests of the Conservative Party ahead of the national interest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister is due to meet European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in Luxembourg this week as negotiations aimed at securing a deal continue.\n\nIn an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Mr Johnson said he was still hopeful a new deal with the EU could be reached in time for the crucial EU summit on 17 October.\n\nIt would take a lot of work, he said, adding: \"I think that we will get there.\"\n\nHe said there was a \"real sign of movement\" in Berlin, Paris and \"most interestingly\" in Dublin.\n\nHowever, if he cannot negotiate a deal, the UK would break out of its \"manacles\" like cartoon character The Incredible Hulk on Halloween, he said.\n\n\"Hulk always escaped, no matter how tightly bound in he seemed to be - and that is the case for this country,\" he said. \"We will come out on 31 October and we will get it done.\"\n\nHowever, the actor Mark Ruffalo, who first played the superhero in the 2012 Avengers Assemble film, said on Twitter Mr Johnson had missed the Hulk's key motivations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nIn the interview, Mr Johnson also repeated his opposition to an election pact with Nigel Farage's Brexit Party, saying the Conservative party was a \"great\" and \"old\" party that did not form electoral pacts with other parties.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Johnson expelled 21 MPs from the party after they rebelled against him in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAsked if any would be allowed to stand as a Conservative at the next election, he did not rule it out but urged people not to underestimate the gravity of what they had done.\n\n\"They were effectively handing the initiative to our opponents,\" he said. \"I just want people to understand why it was necessary to be so strict.\"\n\nMr Cameron became the Conservative Party leader in 2005. Five years later he was voted into Downing Street as the UK's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years - aged 43.\n\nHis six-year tenure - firstly in coalition with the Liberal Democrats and latterly with a majority government - was dominated by his desire to reduce the deficit, and the introduction of austerity measures with his Chancellor George Osborne.\n\nBut when he pledged in his party's 2015 manifesto to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, the focus shifted.\n\nMr Cameron backed Remain during the 2016 campaign and, on the morning of the result after discovering he had lost, he announced he would be stepping down, saying: \"I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.\"\n\nThe former PM had remained silent until this weekend about both of his successors at the helm of the Tory Party - Theresa May and Boris Johnson.\n\nBut his allegedly fractious relationship with Mr Johnson has been well documented since their days together at Oxford University - most notably as members of the infamous Bullingdon Club.", "The clown made animal balloons during the meeting\n\nWhen copy writer Josh Thompson received an ominous email from his bosses asking to discuss his role at the company, he knew he was facing redundancy.\n\nThe human resources department at FCB New Zealand encouraged him to bring a \"support person\" to help cushion the blow, an option that is legally required in New Zealand.\n\nBut rather than bring a family member, a friend or even a pet, the part-time stand-up comedian decided to splash out NZ$200 (£100) on a clown called \"Joe\".\n\n\"I was working - because I had a job back then - and I got an email and the email said: 'Hi Josh we'd like to meet with you to discuss some matters in regards to your role,'\" he told the BBC from Australia, where he has been \"making the most of not having a job\".\n\n\"Basically I sensed that this was going to be a redundancy ... so I thought I might as well try to make the best out of this situation,\" he added.\n\n\"Joe\" accompanied Josh for the redundancy meeting, where the clown made balloon animals, although he had to be told to stop a few times as it was difficult to hear above the screeching of plastic.\n\n\"Boy, oh, boy, are they noisy,\" Josh said.\n\nWhen Josh was finally delivered the hammer blow that he was to lose his job, the clown reacted accordingly.\n\n\"He nodded his head along when I received the bad news as if he was also receiving the bad news,\" Josh said.\n\n\"Professionalism at its finest, really.\"\n\nJosh said he'd highly recommend hiring a clown as support for any suspected redundancy meeting.\n\n\"If you've got family, friends, step mums, step dads, step kids, bring them by all means,\" he said.\n\n\"But if there's a clown available, especially Joe, I'd definitely recommend it.\"\n• None Is it all over for non-creepy clowns?", "Almost £2m was raised to give the items a permanent home in Edinburgh - but the Church of Scotland wants a share\n\nThe Church of Scotland is suing for a share of a £2m Viking treasure trove which was unearthed on land it owns in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nLegal action has been filed at the Court of Session in Edinburgh against metal detectorist Derek McLennan, who found the hoard in 2014.\n\nThe National Museum of Scotland paid almost £2m for the items, which are due to tour Scotland in the next two years.\n\nThe Kirk said it was entitled to an equitable share of the find.\n\nThe hoard, consisting of gold and silver objects, was discovered in 2014 in Galloway by Mr McLennan from Ayrshire.\n\nDerek McLennan made the find in Dumfriesshire in 2014\n\nA retired businessman and amateur detectorist, Mr McLennan had been given permission by the church to search the area.\n\nAt the time he said: \"I unearthed the first piece, initially I didn't understand what I had found because I thought it was a silver spoon and then I turned it over and wiped my thumb across it and I saw the Saltire-type of design and knew instantly it was Viking.\n\n\"Then my senses exploded, I went into shock, endorphins flooded my system and away I went stumbling towards my colleagues waving it in the air.\"\n\nA Church of Scotland spokesperson said: \"We can confirm that The General Trustees of the Church of Scotland have raised an action against Derek McLennan.\n\n\"As that is now a matter before the court it would be inappropriate for us to provide any further commentary at this time.\"\n\nThe items were unearthed in Galloway five years ago\n\nEarlier this year funding was secured to put the items found on show in Edinburgh before they go on tour to Kirkcudbright, Aberdeen and Dundee in 2020.\n\nOnce the tour is completed the items will go on long-term display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.\n\nA \"significant and representative portion\" will also be shared with the new Kirkcudbright Galleries.\n• None Viking treasure hoard to go on tour", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas has revealed he is HIV positive, saying he wants to \"break the stigma\" around the condition.\n\nHe said he wants to show how people with HIV are misrepresented as \"walking around with walking sticks who are close to dying\".\n\nHe has also spoken about \"shame\" and \"fear\" of keeping his condition secret.\n\nHe completed the Ironman triathlon in Pembrokeshire after making the announcement - cheered on by crowds.\n\nHe finished the gruelling challenge in 12 hours and 18 minutes with high emotion at times.\n\nThere was a warm embrace for the former Wales rugby captain before he continued his race\n\nIn a Twitter video posted on Saturday night, Thomas said he was compelled to make the announcement after threats were made to to him by \"evils\" to reveal his HIV status.\n\nSince making the announcement, support for the 45-year-old ex-British and Irish Lions skipper flooded in.\n\nIt included a message from the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, on the social platform Instagram where he said: \"Gareth, you are an absolute legend! In sharing your story of being HIV+, you are saving lives and shattering stigma, by showing you can be strong and resilient while living with HIV.\n\n\"We should all be appalled by the way you were forced to speak your truth, it is yours and yours alone to share on your terms and I and millions stand with you. H\"\n\nThe former Wales captain, who won 100 caps for his country, is due to talk about his diagnosis in a BBC Wales documentary on Wednesday.\n\nIn it, he says at his lowest point in 2018 he felt like dying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince William was among the thousands of messages supporting Thomas after his emotional revelation.\n\n\"Courageous as ever - legend on the pitch and legend off it,\" said a tweet from Kensington Palace.\n\n\"You have our support Gareth. W.\"\n\nSupport for Thomas around the epic Ironman challenge has been immense\n\nThe sporting legend was able to roar back his own cheer in thanks\n\nBrothers in arms - ex-Wales rugby mate Shane Williams greets Thomas at the Ironman finish\n\nPublic information campaigns in the 1980s, warning people to take precautions against Aids, have left a legacy of misunderstanding, he says.\n\nAdvances in medicine now allow people who are HIV positive to live long healthy lives. With effective treatment, the virus cannot be passed on.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gareth Thomas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 than waking at 06:00 to take a single pill every day and visiting the hospital for blood tests every six months, the condition has little impact on day-to-day life for Thomas.\n\nOn the contrary, he is taking part in an Ironman challenge on Sunday, which has involved him learning to swim, which to Thomas was a way of demonstrating his physical and mental strength.\n\n\"When I first found out that I was going to have to live with HIV, the first thing I thought was straight away: I was going to die,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not like I blame people for not knowing this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Shane Williams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Huw Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 British & Irish Lions This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"This is a subject that because of the 80s scenarios people don't talk about it because that's the only information they have.\"\n\nHe added: \"The overriding question that everybody said to me - the first question everyone says to me when I tell them I'm living with HIV - is 'Are you going to be OK?'\n\n\"And it's a really compassionate question to ask. But, this is meant the nicest way possible, it's a really uneducated question.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThomas said revealing that he is living with HIV was similar to coming out as gay in 2009 because of \"the fear, the hiding, the secrecy, the not knowing how people are going to react\".\n\n\"But I think when it was all about my sexuality it just seemed like there was more empathy and more understanding because you had more knowledge, because you could turn on the telly and you could see that there was LGBT representation on most platforms.\"\n\nPresenting a shirt to then Prime Minister David Cameron in 2011 at a meeting of sports figures to discuss homophobia and transphobia in sport\n\n1994: Makes debut for home town club Bridgend and goes on to play for Cardiff Blues (twice), Celtic Warriors and Toulouse\n\n1995: Makes his Wales debut and goes on to win 100 caps, scoring 40 tries and also appearing in three British Lions Tests\n\n2005: Wins the 2005 Heineken Cup with Toulouse and captains Wales to their first grand slam in 27 years\n\n2007: Wins his final cap for Wales in the World Cup\n\n2009: Reveals he is gay, saying \"what I choose to do when I close the door at home has nothing to do with what I have achieved in rugby\"\n\n2011: Announces his retirement, last appearing for Crusaders in Wrexham in July\n\n2012: His post-rugby career includes Celebrity Big Brother, roles in pantomime, regular work as a rugby pundit and campaigning against homophobia in sport. Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke is involved in talks to play him in a film\n\n2014: Publishes his autobiography, Proud, which wins sports book of the year\n\n2015: His life story is told in a stage play, Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage\n\n2018: He posts a video on Twitter after being assaulted and becoming victim of a hate crime in Cardiff. Took part in Sport Relief, when he conquered his fear of heights with the fire service\n\nThomas, who finished third in Celebrity Big Brother in 2012 and reached the semi-final of Dancing on Ice the following year, lives near Bridgend with his husband Stephen, 56. They married in 2016.\n\nIn the documentary, Stephen talks about how the public will react to Gareth's announcement and how the couple will be treated.\n\n\"I'm going to have to take it on board and deal with it,\" he says.\n\n\"I'm going to cross it when I come to it.\"\n\nStephen, who does not have HIV, added: \"I think it's going to teach so many people what is HIV. I was one of the ignorant ones, I will be honest, like so many people.\"\n\n\"I think it's a fantastic thing he's doing. He's showing that you can have HIV but you can still do the sport and the Ironman, for goodness sake.\"\n\nWhen you have a secret that other people know about it makes you really vulnerable towards them. And I just I felt like I had no control over my own life\n\nThe documentary shows Thomas's anxiety and having to consult legal representatives after a tabloid newspaper found out about his HIV status. It led to journalists going to his parents' home.\n\n\"I needed to take control of my life\" he said.\n\n\"When you have a secret that other people know about it makes you really vulnerable towards them. And I just I felt like I had no control over my own life.\"\n\nThomas said he currently felt the strongest he had ever been in his life.\n\n\"I've had a shitty rollercoaster of a ride. My parents say to me 'Jesus Christ. What's coming next with you?'.\n\n\"I had the whole emotional challenge of revealing my sexuality and confronting the sporting stereotype within that.\n\n\"And then I felt 'I'm confronting this', which has so many similarities.\"\n\nIn the film he confides in Shane Williams, another former Wales international turned amateur triathlete and actress Samantha Womack.\n\nIn a BBC Wales interview, he explained: \"I'm trying to take control of my life, but I'm not trying to break the stigma and educate for me. Because that's really selfish.\n\n\"I'm trying to educate and break the stigma for everybody, which includes me in that everybody.\"\n\nThe drug PrEP is being used as part of HIV prevention\n\nIan Green, chief executive at Terrence Higgins Trust, said: 'I'm very proud to call Gareth Thomas a friend. Gareth is proof that a HIV diagnosis shouldn't stop you from doing anything you want to do - whatever that is.\n\n\"I hope that by speaking publicly about this, Gareth will transform attitudes towards HIV that are all too often stuck in the 1980s.\n\n\"We've made huge medical advances in the fight against HIV that means that people living with HIV like Gareth now live long healthy lives.\n\n\"We can also say without doubt that those on effective HIV treatment can't pass on the virus. This is exactly the kind of information Gareth wants to get out there to challenge the stigma that still surrounds this virus.\"\n\nGareth Thomas: HIV and Me will be shown on BBC One Wales on Wednesday 18 September, 21:00 BST\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by state-owned Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.\n\nOne was at Abqaiq, which has the world's largest oil processing plant.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 18-carat golden toilet was previously displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York\n\nBlenheim Palace's security measures \"need to be challenged\" after an 18-carat gold toilet was stolen from the stately home, its chief executive said.\n\nDominic Hare said a gang \"mounted a very fast smash-and-grab raid\" at the Oxfordshire palace early on Saturday.\n\nThe artwork - which Mr Hare said was worth $5m to $6m - has not been found.\n\nIts creator, conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, once the subject of a BBC documentary called the Art World's Prankster, insisted it was not a stunt.\n\nIn an email to The New York Times he wrote: \"I wish it was a prank.\"\n\nHe added: \"At first, when they woke me up this morning with the news, I thought it was a prank: Who's so stupid to steal a toilet?\n\n\"I had forgotten for a second that it was made out of gold.\"\n\nThe fully-working toilet - entitled America - went on show at the 18th Century palace on Thursday as part of an exhibition by the Italian artist.\n\nVisitors had been invited to book three-minute slots to use the throne for its intended purpose.\n\nBlenheim Palace has now reopened to the public after being shut on Saturday\n\n\"'America' was the 1% for the 99%, and I hope it still is,\" Mr Cattelan said.\n\n\"I want to be positive and think the robbery is a kind of Robin Hood-inspired action.\"\n\nLast month Edward Spencer-Churchill - half-brother of the current Duke of Marlborough - said the toilet would not \"be the easiest thing to nick\".\n\nA 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the theft, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nHe remains in police custody in the West Mercia area.\n\nThe burglary caused \"significant damage and flooding\" because the toilet was plumbed into the building, police said.\n\nMr Hare told BBC 5 live it was the \"first theft of this type in living memory\" from the stately home - the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill - adding it had \"a sophisticated security system\".\n\n\"But what has happened has happened,\" he said.\n\n\"So clearly we need to challenge ourselves on that.\"\n\nBlenheim Palace, a World Heritage Site, was shut on Saturday after the burglary but reopened on Sunday.\n\nMr Hare said the artwork - famously offered to US President Donald Trump in 2017 - was a \"comment on the American dream\".\n\n\"[It's] the idea of something that's incredibly precious and elite being made accessible, potentially to everybody, as we all need to go when we need to go,\" he said.\n\n\"And it's ironic really that two days after this was made accessible, it was snatched away.\"\n\nMr Hare said it was \"not out of the question [the toilet] would be melted down\" by the thieves.\n\nPolice said thieves used at least two vehicles in the raid and urged anyone with information to contact them.\n\nDet Insp Jess Milne said: \"We are following a number of lines of inquiry and there will continue to be a police presence in and around the area of Blenheim Palace while our investigations continue.\n\n\"We are making every effort to locate the offenders and the toilet that was stolen.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Cameron has accused the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, and Michael Gove of behaving \"appallingly\" during the EU referendum campaign.\n\nSpeaking to the Times ahead of the launch of his memoir, the former Tory PM attacked some colleagues who backed Leave for \"trashing the government\".\n\nMr Cameron said the result in 2016 had left him \"hugely depressed\" and he knew \"some people will never forgive me\".\n\nHe also said another referendum cannot be ruled out \"because we're stuck\".\n\nMr Cameron criticised Mr Johnson's strategy for dealing with Brexit, including his decision to suspend Parliament ahead of the 31 October deadline and removing the whip from 21 Tory MPs who voted to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has said the suspension - or prorogation - is a normal action of a new government to let it lay out its new policies in a Queen's Speech, and blocking no-deal would \"scupper\" his negotiations with the EU.\n\nMr Cameron called the referendum in 2016 after promising it in the Conservative Party's election manifesto the year before.\n\nHe campaigned for Remain, but lost the vote by 52% to 48%, and announced within hours he would be stepping down as PM.\n\nThe former Tory leader said the Leave side had a \"very powerful emotional argument\", while Remain had the \"very strong technical and economic arguments\", and the former - plus the issue of immigration - was a \"winning combination\" for his rivals.\n\n\"It turned into this terrible Tory psychodrama and I couldn't seem to get through,\" he said.\n\nBut leading Brexiteer and former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Lilley said the 17.4 million people who voted to leave the EU \"didn't care a fig about Tory psychodramas or anything else\", accusing Mr Cameron of using \"an extraordinary Westminster bubble phrase\".\n\n\"Most [Leave voters] put aside party loyalties and voted on the issue,\" he told BBC Two's Newsnight programme.\n\n\"When the British people speak, their voice will be respected, not ignored.\"\n\nLord Lilley said Mr Cameron had vowed before the 2016 referendum the public would decide whether the UK left the EU, but \"now he's saying different things\".\n\nThe former PM famously wrote his memoirs in a shed - which allegedly cost £25,000\n\nIn his interview with the Times, Mr Cameron - who was prime minister between 2010 and 2016 - said his Conservative colleagues Mr Johnson, Mr Gove, Penny Mordaunt and Priti Patel had \"left the truth at home\" on the referendum campaign trail, especially when it came to immigration.\n\nHe said: \"Boris had never argued for leaving the EU, right?\n\n\"Michael was a very strong Eurosceptic, but someone whom I'd known as this liberal, compassionate, rational Conservative ended up making arguments about Turkey [joining the EU] and [the UK] being swamped and what have you.\"\n\nMr Cameron called it \"ridiculous\" and \"just not true\" when Ms Mordaunt made a similar argument about Turkey, followed by claims by the now-Home Secretary Ms Patel that \"wealthy people didn't understand the problems of immigration\".\n\nHe added: \"I suppose some people would say all is fair in love and war and political campaigns. I thought there were places Conservatives wouldn't go against each other. And they did.\"\n\nDespite his criticism of his former colleagues' conduct during the referendum campaign, Mr Cameron defended his decision to call the vote, saying the issue of the EU \"needed to be addressed\".\n\n\"Every single day I think about it, the referendum and the fact that we lost and the consequences and the things that could have been done differently, and I worry desperately about what is going to happen next,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we can get to a situation where we leave but we are friends, neighbours and partners. We can get there, but I would love to fast-forward to that moment because it's painful for the country and it's painful to watch.\"\n\nDavid Cameron and his wife Samantha after he became PM in 2010\n\nSpeaking about the current prime minister's strategy, Mr Cameron said he \"wants him to succeed\", but his plan has \"morphed into something quite different\".\n\nHe said: \"Taking the whip from hard-working Conservative MPs and sharp practices using prorogation of Parliament have rebounded.\n\n\"I didn't support either of those things. Neither do I think a no-deal Brexit is a good idea.\"\n\nDavid Cameron has been very quiet since he walked out of Downing Street for the last time in 2016.\n\nSo his decision to use this interview to come out fighting for why he called the referendum is significant.\n\nDespite admitting that he worries about the consequences and accepting he may be blamed for them by some, he doesn't believe he was wrong to call it.\n\nInstead, he maintains that holding the vote was \"inevitable\".\n\nAfter years of silence, the timing of Mr Cameron's return to the front pages may play badly for Boris Johnson.\n\nHe's highly critical of Mr Johnson's role in the Leave campaign, writing in his book that he and his fellow Leave campaigner Michael Gove behaved \"appallingly\".\n\nAnd although he seemed to be giving Mr Johnson breathing space as the new prime minister, the decision to suspend Parliament and expel 21 Conservative rebels seems to have hardened his tone.\n\nMr Cameron also spoke of the damage to his friendships - including the one between him and Mr Gove, who had been close friends since university.\n\n\"We've spoken,\" he said. \"Not a huge amount. I've sort of had a conversation with him.\n\n\"I've spoken to the prime minister a little bit, mainly through texts, but Michael was a very good friend. So that has been more difficult.\"\n\nBut he did praise his immediate successor, Theresa May, who had been his home secretary throughout his time at No 10, for her \"phenomenal\" work rate and her \"ethos of public service\", even if he was not unquestioning of her strategy.\n\nDavid Cameron with Theresa May, when she was his home secretary\n\n\"I remember frequently texting [Mrs May] about the frustration of getting a Brexit deal and then seeing Brexiteers vote it down, possibly at the risk of the whole project they had devoted themselves to,\" said Mr Cameron. \"Maddening and infuriating.\"\n\nHe continued: \"There's an argument that Brexit is just impossible to deliver and no one could have done, and there's an argument that, well, wrong choices were made. This is somewhere in between.\"\n\nAsked what happens next, Mr Cameron said he did not think a no-deal Brexit \"should be pursued\".\n\nHe also did not reject a further referendum.\n\n\"I don't think you can rule it out because we're stuck,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not saying one will happen or should happen. I'm just saying that you can't rule things out right now because you've got to find some way of unblocking the blockage.\"\n\nMr Cameron became the Conservative Party leader in 2005. Five years later he was voted into Downing Street as the UK's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years - aged 43.\n\nHis six-year tenure - firstly in coalition with the Liberal Democrats and latterly with a majority government - was dominated by his desire to reduce the deficit, and the introduction of austerity measures with his Chancellor George Osborne.\n\nBut when he pledged in his party's 2015 manifesto to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, the focus shifted.\n\nMr Cameron backed Remain during the 2016 campaign and, on the morning of the result after discovering he had lost, he announced he would be stepping down, saying: \"I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.\"\n\nThe former PM has remained silent until now about both of his successors at the helm of the Tory Party - Theresa May and Boris Johnson.\n\nBut his allegedly fractious relationship with Mr Johnson has been well documented since their days together at Oxford University - most notably as members of the infamous Bullingdon Club.", "Four million people have fled Venezuela, as the country continues to face economic and political crisis.\n\n40,000 have gone to the small Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, just seven miles off the coast.\n\nBut life isn’t easy for those who arrive, and some locals have made it clear they’re not welcome. The BBC’s Ashley John-Baptiste went to find out more.\n\nIn 2018 - more than 35,000 people were forced to flee their homes every day - that's one every two seconds.\n\nThis story is part of a BBC News series, called \"The Displaced\" - a selection of stories exploring the human impact of this movement, and how it is changing our world.\n\nCheck back next week, Monday 23rd September, for our next episode in Uganda #TheDisplaced\n\nIf you have been affected by these issues in Trinidad or anywhere else in the world and would like to speak to the BBC, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk", "Several people were hurt in the 1972 blast at the university's sports hall\n\nRare footage of IRA members planning and carrying out a bomb attack on Queen's University Belfast is to be broadcast in a BBC documentary.\n\nSeveral people were hurt in the 1972 blast at the university's sports hall on the Upper Malone Road.\n\nThe footage, from a lost American documentary, will be revealed in Tuesday's episode of Spotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History.\n\nThe rediscovered film also shows weapons classes for IRA recruits.\n\nIn the programme, which covers the most violent period of the seventies, reporter Darragh MacIntyre also makes new revelations about the 1975 IRA ceasefire and the changes in the IRA leadership that followed.\n\nLast week, the Troubles series showed previously unseen footage of Martin McGuinness carrying weapons and taking part in a car bomb attack in Londonderry in 1972.\n\nIRA members allowed a secret crew to film a number of attacks that were carried out without masks\n\nThe pictures were filmed for an American documentary called The Secret Army. It was based on a book by the same name written by New York academic J Bowyer Bell.\n\nThe documentary was filmed in 1972, but disappeared after a few screenings in America.\n\nThe BBC Spotlight team tracked down some of the programme makers and made discoveries about the film's disappearance, which will be revealed later in the series.\n\nIRA members allowed a \"secret army crew\" to film a number of attacks that were carried out without masks.\n\nTwo men carrying the bomb used in the attack on the Queen's University sports hall\n\nThe documentary also captured IRA attempts to shoot down helicopters in Derry, a Belfast IRA meeting led by Seamus Twomey, who later became the organisation's chief of staff, and the funeral of member Colm Keenan.\n\nThe IRA killed more than 800 people during the period covered by this week's episode (1972-78) in which the overall death toll climbed tenfold, from just over 200 dead to more than 2,000.\n\nEpisode Two of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History will be shown Tuesday, 17 September at 21:00 BST on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Four. Episode One can be viewed now on the BBC iPlayer.", "The victim died at the scene of the stabbing in Houndsfield Road, Edmonton\n\nA man has been stabbed to death in an attack on a street in north London.\n\nThe 29-year-old was found with serious injuries near a party at the Old Edmontonians FC clubhouse, Enfield, shortly after 20:10 BST on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA 40-year-old man has been arrested. He is currently in hospital, police said.\n\nPolice said the victim's family has yet to be informed and efforts are continuing to formally identify the dead man.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An inquest into student Ceara Thacker's death opens on Monday\n\nUniversities should be bound by law to meet the mental health needs of their students, an ex-health minister says.\n\nInformation gathered by Sir Norman Lamb's office reveals a \"complex and fragmented\" picture of mental health provision across UK universities.\n\nMany of the 110 universities which responded said they did not record all relevant key statistics, such as their budgets or waiting times.\n\nUniversities said they could not deal with the issue of mental health alone.\n\nThey added that they were already working on a voluntary mental health charter.\n\nIt comes as an inquest into the death of a 19-year-old student opened on Monday.\n\nCeara Thacker, originally from Bradford, took her own life in May 2018 while studying at Liverpool University after her mental health deteriorated.\n\nShe had struggled with it earlier in her teenage years, and attempted suicide in the February before her death.\n\nMental health campaigner Sir Norman obtained information from 110 universities, under freedom of information laws, on the demand for, and investment in, mental health support for their students.\n\nThe responses revealed that many universities did not monitor how well services were used, or whether they were meeting the needs of students.\n\nAnd while some, such as Bristol, Kingston and Sussex, are spending more than £1m a year on well-being services, including counselling, others have a budget of less than half that.\n\nMany did not even know how much they spent on mental health, and only a handful of universities could supply information on how long students were waiting for counselling.\n\nFor the few that did, the longest wait was, on average, 43 days - more than half the length of a standard university term.\n\nSir Norman praised some universities, including Cambridge and Northumbria, for taking their responsibilities seriously, but said many others were not doing enough to measure the scale of the problem.\n\n\"If we are operating in a fog, if we have no idea how long students are waiting... this is putting students at risk,\" he added.\n\n\"We know from the data that the longest waiting times could be over half a term for some students.\n\n\"We know also that there have been some tragedies among some student populations - students who have taken their own lives.\n\n\"If that happens while they are waiting for support, that's utterly intolerable.\"\n\nHe added: \"These are young people at a vulnerable age, many living away from home for the first time. There is a risk of some students self-harming, or some students finding themselves in a desperate situation and taking their own lives.\"\n\nHe pointed out that students paying high fees had every reason to expect a duty of care from their universities.\n\nHe is calling for a legally binding charter with minimum standards that universities are required to meet, so parents know their adult children will be safe.\n\nA spokesman for Universities UK said: \"Funding to support mental health services at universities will vary depending on the needs of each student population.\n\n\"Universities cannot address these challenges alone.\n\n\"The NHS must provide effective mental health care to students, and Universities UK is working closely with NHS England to ensure that commitments in the NHS long-term plan are implemented.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hamza Bin Laden was widely seen as a potential successor to his father\n\nUS President Donald Trump has confirmed that Hamza Bin Laden, the son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, was killed in a US operation.\n\nLast month, US media - citing intelligence officials - reported he had died in an air strike.\n\nHe was officially designated by the US as a global terrorist two years ago.\n\nHe was widely seen as a potential successor to his father. Thought to be about 30, he had sent out calls for attacks on the US and other countries.\n\n\"Hamza Bin Laden, the high-ranking al-Qaeda member and son of Osama Bin Laden, was killed in a United States counter-terrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region,\" Mr Trump said in a brief statement issued by the White House.\n\n\"The loss of Hamza Bin Laden not only deprives al-Qaeda of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father, but undermines important operational activities of the group.\"\n\nThe statement did not specify the timing of the operation.\n\nAs recently as February, the US government had offered $1m (£825,000) for information leading to his capture.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHamza Bin Laden was seen as an emerging leader of al-Qaeda. It was reported in August that he had been killed in a military operation in the last two years and the US government was involved, but the exact date and time were unclear.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 18-carat golden toilet was previously displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York\n\nAn 18-carat solid gold toilet has been stolen in a burglary overnight at Blenheim Palace.\n\nA gang broke into the Oxfordshire palace at about 04:50 BST and stole the artwork, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nThe working toilet - entitled America, which visitors had been invited to use - has not been found but a 66-year-old man has been arrested.\n\nThe burglary caused \"significant damage and flooding\" because the toilet was plumbed into the building, police said.\n\nIt was part of an exhibition by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan that opened on Thursday.\n\nThe 18th Century stately home is a World Heritage Site and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. It is currently closed while investigations continue.\n\nSpeaking last month, Edward Spencer-Churchill - half-brother of the current Duke of Marlborough - said he was relaxed about security for the artwork.\n\n\"It's not going to be the easiest thing to nick,\" he said.\n\nBlenheim Palace is currently closed to the public while police investigate\n\nVisitors to the exhibition were free to use the palace's throne for its intended purpose, with a three-minute time limit to avoid queues.\n\nDet Insp Jess Milne, said: \"The piece of art that has been stolen is a high-value toilet made out of gold that was on display at the palace.\n\n\"We believe a group of offenders used at least two vehicles during the offence.\n\n\"The artwork has not been recovered at this time but we are conducting a thorough investigation to find it and bring those responsible to justice.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Blenheim Palace said it would remain shut for the rest of the day, but would reopen on Sunday.\n\nPalace chief executive Dominic Hare said they were \"saddened by this extraordinary event, but also relieved no-one was hurt\".\n\n\"We hope that the wonderful work of our dear friend Maurizio Cattelan becomes immortalised by this stupid and pointless act,\" he added.\n\nThe gold toilet was famously offered to US President Donald Trump in 2017.\n\nThe arrested man is in police custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We are now in the stage where we have to start really accelerating the work\"\n\nThe Brexit process has turned into a \"nightmare\", the prime minister of Luxembourg has said after holding talks with UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nXavier Bettel said Mr Johnson had failed to put forward any serious plans to allow a deal by 31 October.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who cancelled his press conference because of the noise from protesters, said \"there's been a lot of work\" and \"papers have been shared\".\n\nHe urged the EU to make \"movement\" in its opposition to scrap the backstop.\n\nMr Johnson said his joint press conference was cancelled over fears the two leaders would have been \"drowned out\" by pro-EU protesters.\n\n\"I don't think it would have been fair to the prime minister of Luxembourg,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there was clearly going to be a lot of noise and I think our points might have been drowned out.\"\n\nPolitical editor Laura Kuenssberg said that Number 10 had asked for the press conference to be held inside, according to sources.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Bettel, who conducted the planned press conference alone, said the \"only solution\" was the existing withdrawal agreement.\n\nHe said there were \"no concrete proposals at the moment on the table\" from the UK and said the EU \"needs more than just words\".\n\n\"We need written proposals and the time is ticking so stop speaking and act,\" he said.\n\n\"But we won't accept any agreement that goes against a single market, who will be against the Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nAway from the crowds, Mr Johnson said the EU must make \"movement\" in its opposition to scrap the Irish backstop, but insisted there was \"just the right amount of time\" to get a deal done.\n\nWhen asked what concrete proposals he had made, Mr Johnson said \"there's been a lot of work\" and \"papers have been shared\".\n\n\"We've got to manage this carefully. Yes, we've got a good chance of a deal. Yes, I can see the shape of it. Everybody could see roughly what could be done,\" he said.\n\nHe reiterated that the UK will come out of the EU on 31 October \"deal or no deal\".\n\nAs soon as we arrived at the office of the prime minister of Luxembourg it became obvious a planned outdoor news conference could not go ahead.\n\nThe anti-Brexit protesters in the square numbered fewer than a hundred but their music and megaphones made it sound like a lot more and they occasionally used language you wouldn't want to hear on the news.\n\nBehind the scenes the British and Luxembourgish delegations grappled with a diplomatic dilemma - move the event inside but exclude the majority of the journalists? Gamble that the demonstrators could pipe down for a bit? Silence the host to save the guest's blushes?\n\nThe end result saw Mr Johnson do a short interview at the ambassador's residence to be shared with everyone while Mr Bettel took to the stage next to an empty podium.\n\nHe used the moment in the spotlight to deliver an impassioned speech, made all the more dramatic by the fact he's famed as one of the EU's most smiley, mild-mannered leaders.\n\nEarlier, both Mr Johnson and Mr Juncker - who met for the first time since the PM took office in July - agreed the discussions between the UK and EU \"needed to intensify\" and meetings \"would soon take place on a daily basis\".\n\nBut regardless of the outcome, No 10 said the PM would take the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nDowning Street also said Mr Johnson confirmed his commitment to the Good Friday Agreement - the peace deal brokered in Northern Ireland - and still had a \"determination to reach a deal with the backstop removed, that UK parliamentarians could support\".\n\nThis is the first official meeting between the two men since Mr Johnson took office\n\nMr Johnson has called the Irish backstop \"undemocratic\" and said it needed to be removed from any deal with the EU.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said Mr Johnson also reiterated he would not request an extension and would take the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nThe EU has said it is willing to look at alternatives, but that an insurance policy like the backstop must be in place.\n\nThe backstop is the controversial policy in the existing withdrawal agreement, rejected three times by MPs, which would require the UK to follow the EU's customs rules to ensure there are no physical checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nLast week MPs passed a law that would force the prime minister to ask the EU for an extension to the 31 October deadline if a deal was not agreed by 19 October.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The position of the PM is that we comply with the law, but that we are leaving on 31 October whatever the outcome.\"\n\nThey also confirmed that the current date set for a transition period - the time for the UK and EU to negotiate their future relationship after officially leaving - of December 2020 would not be extended.\n\nThe two men dined at restaurant Le Bouquet Garni\n\nOver the weekend Mr Johnson told a newspaper that the UK would break out of its \"manacles\" like cartoon character The Incredible Hulk - with or without a deal.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the issue of whether the UK had the legal right to leave on 31 October - come what may - could end up in court.\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is considering a plan to keep Northern Ireland more closely aligned to the EU after Brexit, as an alternative to the current Irish backstop.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party - which supports the Conservatives in Parliament - has rejected any plan that would see Northern Ireland treated differently to the rest of the UK.\n\nThe PM's spokesman would not give details, but said the government had \"put forward workable solutions in a number of areas\".\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier also attended the meeting\n\nWriting in Monday's Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson said he believed he could strike a deal with the EU within weeks and was working \"flat out to achieve one\".\n\n\"If we can make enough progress in the next few days, I intend to go to that crucial summit... and finalise an agreement that will protect the interests of business and citizens on both sides of the channel, and on both sides of the border in Ireland,\" he wrote.\n\nMany MPs have also questioned how serious the government is about getting a deal, such as former justice secretary David Gauke who said \"detailed proposals\" had yet to be put forward.\n\n\"It still remains the case the UK government has not produced detailed proposals as to how it wants to replace the Irish backstop,\" he told Radio 4's Today.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the PM would stress he wanted a deal, but there had to be \"some finality\" to it.\n\nHe said claims from the EU side that the UK was dragging its feet were part of the \"tactical posturing that goes on in any negotiation\".\n\nHe told Today the UK had been clear the \"anti-democratic backstop\" had to be removed from the current withdrawal agreement, and the outline of future trading relationship set out in the political declaration had to be much more ambitious.\n\n\"The EU knows our position. Lots of the detail has been talked through at technical and political level,\" he said. \"The framework is very clear.\n\n\"But of course the nature of these negotiations is that there will be a tendency to rubbish things we put forward in order to exact further demands. We are not going to get involved in that.\"\n\nTuesday: The Supreme Court begins to consider the legality of Mr Johnson's decision to suspend parliament until 14 October\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Former attorney general Dominic Grieve said there was nothing undemocratic about a second vote\n\nFormer attorney general Dominic Grieve has urged the DUP to \"think very carefully\" about supporting a second referendum and warned against \"hanging on to the prime minister's coat tails\".\n\nMr Grieve was addressing a People's Vote rally in Belfast's Ulster Hall in support of another vote on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.\n\n\"What are the leavers frightened of?\" asked Mr Grieve.\n\n\"I've often wondered at what point the DUP will find that their vision of the future does not accord with some members of the Conservatives, even for the post-Brexit world?\n\n\"My recommendation to the DUP would be to think very carefully about the desirability of embracing a democratic solution and supporting a second referendum, even though they may wish to continue to push the line they took in the first one.\"\n\nMr Grieve is one of the 21 Conservative MPs ejected from his party for voting against Boris Johnson's government.\n\nOther speakers at the rally included Tony Blair's former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell.\n\nMLA's Claire Bailey from the Green Party and Claire Hanna from the SDLP also spoke, along with Alliance leader and MEP Naomi Long.\n\nNorthern Ireland voted to remain in the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK will leave by the 31 October deadline \"whatever happens\".\n\nMr Grieve insisted there was nothing undemocratic about a second vote.\n\n\"It offers the only sane, sensible way out of the hole we are in, and we need to go out constantly and make the case for it,\" he said.\n\nMrs Long told an audience of several hundred the Good Friday Agreement was under threat.\n\n\"We stand here after three years with no assembly. If you don't think the Good Friday Agreement is under threat, you're living in denial,\" she said.\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long MEP said the Good Friday Agreement was under threat\n\nMs Bailey warned Northern Ireland stands to lose the most from Brexit.\n\n\"Our peace process is a fragile one. We've had no government, no Stormont, no assembly for over two and half years now. We have chaos at Westminster,\" she said.\n\n\"We have elected MPs who either abstain from taking their seats, or the DUP who are in the confidence and supply arrangement.\"\n\nMs Hanna said Brexit \"rips through the complexity of this place\" and \"our shared European membership\".\n\n\"This is about protecting the welfare of everybody here, including those who voted to leave and those who were too young to vote,\" she added.\n\nThe SDLP's Claire Hanna said Brexit \"rips through\" our shared European membership\n\n\"We need to say to those who voted to leave that we understand that you wanted things to change, we understand your concerns about public services, and we need to say we can end austerity or we can do Brexit, but we definitely cannot do both.\"", "A Border Force cutter sailed out of Dover early on Sunday\n\nFour small boats carrying 41 migrants have been intercepted in the Channel.\n\nThe vessels, which included a kayak carrying two men, were heading for UK shores before being stopped by Border Force, the Home Office said.\n\nA boat carrying 24 migrants - including two children - was intercepted, along with one with five men and one woman onboard.\n\nNine other people - seven men and two women - were in another boat stopped off the Kent coast.\n\nThe migrants were said to be variously Iranian, Afghan, Turkish and Malian.\n\nMigrants intercepted in the Channel were taken to the port of Dover\n\nAll have been medically checked and taken to immigration officials for questioning, the Home Office said.\n\nIt comes five days after Border Force intercepted what is thought to be the highest number of migrants in a single day amid warnings the closure of a French camp could prompt a spike in Channel crossings.\n\nImmigration officials took charge once on land\n\nOn Tuesday, 86 men, women and children attempted the journey in small boats, with some managing to land on beaches before being detained.\n\nRefugee charity Care4Calais warned the imminent closure of a gym in Dunkirk, where up to 1,000 migrants are living, is likely to prompt a spike in crossing attempts.\n\nDespite the calm waters and sunny weather on Sunday, the crossing is still fraught with risk\n\nOn Friday morning, French police officers cordoned off an area of wasteland and woodland on the outskirts of Calais, telling those camping there to leave and move their tents.\n\nThe wave of migrant camp evictions and the looming clearance of a Dunkirk gym - currently thought to be housing more than 70 families - came after a French court order was issued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dangers faced by migrants who cross the Channel\n\nAt least 1,499 people, including more than 100 children, have crossed the Channel in small boats since 3 November 2018.\n\nOf those, 1,253 have successfully crossed the Channel this year.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nEurope won the last three singles matches to seal a sensational 14½-13½ Solheim Cup victory over the United States at Gleneagles.\n\nBronte Law, who moments earlier won her match on the 17th, sprinted up the 18th fairway to join the celebrations after wildcard pick Suzann Pettersen holed an eight-foot putt on the last to win the trophy.\n\n\"She got a bit of stick for getting that pick, but it shows she was the right one,\" said Europe captain Catriona Matthew.\n\n\"For it to come down to the last game was amazing. I could barely watch, it's far worse watching.\n\n\"Everyone will remember that final putt but we had to get there. It's been a great week, with great performances throughout the team.\"\n\nPettersen later confirmed her retirement from the game, adding: \"This is the perfect end to my career.\"\n• None Watch full highlights of the final day on BBC iPlayer\n\nNorwegian Pettersen was originally selected as a vice-captain after taking time out of the game in November 2017 to have a baby.\n\nBut after returning to play earlier this year, Matthew gave the 38-year-old world number 665 a surprise ninth Solheim Cup appearance.\n\nAnd she repaid her captain's faith with a nerve-shredding victory on the final green.\n\nAmerican Marina Alex missed a 10-foot putt to halve her match with Pettersen to earn a 14th point that would have seen the US retain the trophy.\n\nWhile Pettersen sized up what she thought would be a putt to win her match to put Europe on 13½ points, Law was sealing that point back on the 17th.\n\nThat suddenly meant a Pettersen birdie would seal the win, while a miss would have seen the US reach 14 points and retain the cup, but the Norwegian held her nerve to spark wild celebrations on the green.\n\nPettersen - at the centre of controversy over the concession of a putt in the 2015 match - later admitted she did not know her putt was to win the trophy.\n\n\"It really was a big blur,\" she said. \"I didn't know. I was just trying to make a birdie.\"\n\nThis is a third home victory from three matches played in Scotland and is Europe's sixth out of 16 editions of the Solheim Cup.\n\nThey led 4½-3½ after day one's alternate shot foursomes and fourballs but the US won Saturday's matches by the same margin to leave the Solheim Cup evenly poised at 8-8 going into Sunday's 12 singles matches.\n\nAnd the trophy looked set to be heading back to the US after both Korda sisters won matches from behind.\n\nNelly Korda was three down after nine holes but four birdies on the back nine saw her beat Caroline Hedwall two up.\n\nJessica Korda also trailed early on but three birdies in five holes from the 12th saw her complete a 3&2 victory over Germany's Caroline Masson and put the US 12-11 ahead.\n\nEngland's Charley Hull, who was one up playing the last, hit a poor chip that cost her the win over Megan Khang and when Dutchwoman Anne van Dam missed a putt on the last to hand Lizette Salas another point, the US were 13½-11½ ahead.\n\nHowever, Sweden's Anna Nordqvist was four up against Morgan Pressel and she halved the 15th to draw Europe to within a point.\n\nLaw then won the par-five 16th with a birdie and when Ally McDonald, a late replacement for the injured Stacey Lewis, bogeyed the next, Europe had a levelling point.\n\nSpain's Carlota Ciganda picked up the first European point when she birdied the last to beat Danielle Kang.\n\nThat point was quickly followed by two more. England's Georgia Hall and France's Celine Boutier, who combined to win three points on the opening two days, made it four wins from four this week with 2&1 victories.\n\nHall beat world number three Lexi Thompson and was immediately embraced by Matthew and Europe vice-captain Laura Davies.\n\nThey all then waited for Boutier, who was playing in the match behind, and there were more joyous hugs as thousands of fans celebrated round the green.\n\nHowever, Angel Yin was never behind in her 2&1 victory over Azahara Munoz, while Brittany Altomare crushed Jodi Ewart Shadoff 5&4 to pick up another American point.\n\nJessica Korda, who was unbeaten in the competition, said: \"Unfortunately we didn't get the win but what a day for women's golf.\"\n\nUS captain Juli Inkster said: \"Europe played great and we tip our hat to them but now we move on to Toledo for the 2021 Solheim Cup.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNorwich City produced a magnificent all-round display to inflict Manchester City's first Premier League defeat since January at an ecstatic Carrow Road.\n\nThe Canaries were missing eight players but made light of those injuries and took full advantage of a performance from the reigning champions that was careless in the extreme and characterised by chaotic defending.\n\nNorwich were 2-0 ahead within 30 minutes after Kenny McLean rose unmarked to meet Emiliano Buendia's corner and then Todd Cantwell finished a flowing move involving Marco Stiepermann and Teemu Pukki.\n\nSergio Aguero's header just before the break hinted at a Manchester City comeback but a misunderstanding between John Stones and Nicolas Otamendi saw Buendia rob the Argentina centre-back and set up Pukki to score.\n\nRodri scored his first goal for Manchester City with two minutes left before referee Kevin Friend's final whistle was the cue for wild celebrations for the home side.\n\nThe rare defeat, meanwhile, leaves Pep Guardiola's side five points behind Liverpool.\n\nIt was inevitable City would miss the class and composure of Aymeric Laporte - set to be out for six months with a knee injury - but this display suggests the gap he leaves is even bigger than Manchester City may have feared.\n\nGuardiola has lost quality and influence with Laporte's injury, as well as Vincent Kompany's departure, and his nightmare scenario unfolded at Carrow Road.\n\nStones and Otamendi had a harrowing time and City's manager will know he must now rely on the pair at least until January.\n\nGuardiola himself should not escape criticism for the defeat though after he left Kevin de Bruyne out of his starting team then delayed his arrival until after Norwich had re-established their two-goal lead.\n\nThey were mystifying decisions and a heavy price was paid.\n\nGuardiola will also be concerned by the manner of Norwich's goals, which ranged from poor marking at set pieces - a recurring theme - to catastrophic attempts to play out from the back.\n\nStones and Otamendi were nervous throughout and their lack of understanding reflected the fact they had only played together at centre-back six times in the past 20 months.\n\nIt would be ludicrous to start writing off the title hopes of a team so rich in quality but that five-point gap to Liverpool looks large when you consider Jurgen Klopp's team only lost once in the league last season, to City, and have won their opening five games this term.\n\nNorwich City's resources were so thin that manager Farke made up the numbers by naming two goalkeepers on the bench as eight players were removed from his squad by injury.\n\nHe said he could not \"park the bus\" because he did not have enough defenders and instead the German relied on his customary intense approach - and what an occasion it gave the Canaries fans inside a bouncing Carrow Road.\n\nNorwich were fiercely disciplined in defence but also ambitious and confident when they had the ball, not afraid to play out from the back.\n\nThey had 11 high-class performers but special mention should go to Ibrahim Amadou at the back and the creative brilliance of Buendia, who pressed City into submission as he proved with the third goal.\n\nAt the head of it all was Pukki, on the mark once more with a poacher's strike but also unselfish when he passed across the face of goal for Cantwell.\n\nWhen City's inevitable charge came, Norwich were almost out on their feet but hurled their bodies around the penalty area to block shots while goalkeeper Tim Krul performed heroics when called upon.\n\nThis was a complete performance that will send self-belief surging through Farke's side and indeed the supporters who kept up relentless noise throughout an occasion they will remember for a very long time.\n\n'A special day for us' - what they said\n\nNorwich City manager Daniel Farke, speaking to BBC Sport: \"Of course it is a special day for us and for the club, against one of the best teams in the world and when we have so many injuries.\n\n\"We had to be special in our plan for City because they are the best team in the world but we had setbacks too with our injuries. We deserve the win, we were exceptional.\n\n\"[Ibrahim] Amadou was beautiful today, playing in an unusual position, and a debut for Alex Tettey and Sam Byram too. I can't praise the lads enough. We had so many things to overcome.\n\n\"Teemu [Pukki] was brilliant, not only because of his goals but for his work rate too. Teemu always thinks about the team first, which is why he deserves all of the praise.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola on BBC Sport: \"Congrats to Norwich. The first goal was from a set-piece and the second on the counter, so credit to them. It is what it is. We have to learn from this and carry on.\n\n\"Our passing was not bad. We created chances but we could not score them. They are a really good team with good players with quality, we saw that in the Championship last year. They were clinical today.\n\n\"We did not have the urgency in the final third we normally have. In football you can't always avoid mistakes. I don't know how many shots we had or how many they had, but football is about goals and about what you do in the boxes.\"\n• None Norwich registered only their second win in their last 15 Premier League meetings with the reigning champions (W2 D1 L12) - their other win was also against Man City in May 2013.\n• None Manchester City suffered a Premier League defeat against a newly-promoted opponent for the first time since March 2015 against Burnley - they had been unbeaten in 25 such matches before today, including all 18 under Pep Guardiola.\n• None Norwich's Teemu Pukki has been involved in eight goals (six goals, two assists) in his first five Premier League appearances - only Sergio Aguero has been involved in more goals in a player's first five appearances in the competition's history (nine).\n• None Man City striker Aguero became the third player to score in a team's first five Premier League matches of a season, after José Antonio Reyes for Arsenal in 2004-05 and Wayne Rooney for Manchester United in 2011-12.\n• None Manchester City conceded three goals in a league match against a newly-promoted team for the first time since August 2013, when they lost 3-2 away at Cardiff City.\n• None Norwich's Emiliano Buendía is the first midfielder to assist as many as four goals in his first five Premier League appearances since Eden Hazard in 2012.\n• None Manchester City conceded twice in the opening half-hour of a Premier League game for only the second time under Pep Guardiola, also doing so in December 2016 against Leicester City, when they conceded three times.\n• None Norwich striker Pukki is the first player to score in his first three home Premier League appearances since Alexandre Lacazette in 2017, and the first Finnish player to do so since Jonatan Johansson in 2000.\n\nMan City open their Champions League campaign away to Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday, 18 September at 20:00 BST, before facing Watford at home in the Premier League on Saturday, 21 Septembr at 15:00.\n\nNorwich are back in action at the same time next Saturday when they travel to Turf Moor to play Burnley.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Rodrigo.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Goal! Norwich City 3, Manchester City 2. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Attempt blocked. Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a cross.\n• None Todd Cantwell (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The ad carried a BBC logo and headline saying \"£14 billion pound cash boost for schools\" - despite the story it linked to putting the figure at £7.1bn.\n\nThe social media giant say the Tories had \"misused\" its advertising platform and it was working to stop headlines being changed in this way.\n\nThe party has said it is reviewing the way its Facebook adverts are produced.\n\nThe advert started running on 2 September following a government announcement on new funding for primary and secondary schools in England.\n\nClicking on the ad took readers to a story on the BBC News website by Sean Coughlan, with the headline \"Multi-billion pound cash boost for schools\".\n\nAnalysis in the story queried the government's claims about its additional funding, with the BBC's head of statistics, Robert Cuffe, explaining the government was not calculating the spending increase in the usual way.\n\nThe spending announcement provided an extra £2.6bn next year, £4.8bn the year after that and £7.1bn in 2022-23.\n\nAdded together that makes £14bn, but it is not how spending increases are normally worked out, Mr Cuffe said.\n\nBecause budgets are normally discussed for individual years, he said the usual practice is to measure the spending increase for one year - usually the last where the increase is the largest.\n\nThe BBC posted the story on Facebook with its own headline\n\nFact-checking charity Full Fact said various versions of the advert with the altered headline had received between 222,000 and 510,000 impressions - although these can include multiple viewings by the same person.\n\nIt was already known that the adverts were no longer being run but Facebook has confirmed this was because it had taken the decision to deactivate them.\n\nHowever, it said they will be kept on show in their ads library \"so people can see how our tools were misused\".\n\nA Facebook spokesperson added: \"We are working to put safeguards in place to ensure publishers have control over the way their headlines appear in advertisements.\"\n\nAn earlier statement from the Conservative Party said: \"It was not our intention to misrepresent by using this headline copy with the news link, where the BBC's £7bn figure is clearly displayed, but we are reviewing how our advert headlines match accompanying links.\"", "Activists planned to fly drones within the exclusion zone at Heathrow Airport\n\nPolice have arrested 19 people believed to be involved in a climate change protest at Heathrow Airport.\n\nHeathrow Pause activists threatened to fly drones in the exclusion zone, but no flight disruption has been reported.\n\nThe arrested people have all been held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance.\n\nHeathrow Pause said one of the arrested - Roger Hallam, an Extinction Rebellion co-founder - was still planning to fly a drone on Saturday.\n\nThe group said Mr Hallam was released from custody at about 22:00 BST on Friday and that he would be flying the drone \"near Heathrow\" with the location \"to be announced nearer the time\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said that, out of those arrested, four remained in custody on Friday night. The others have been bailed.\n\nPolice say those arrested range in age from 19 to 69.\n\nA 53-year-old man who was arrested on Friday was re-arrested on Saturday. He remains in police custody.\n\nHeathrow Pause had previously said it intended to fly drones within the 5km exclusion zone around the airport on Friday morning, but the group claimed the airport was using \"signal jamming to frustrate\" their efforts.\n\nBoth the airport and police refused to comment on \"security matters\".\n\nThe Met Police said a dispersal order at the airport would be effective until early on Sunday morning.\n\nA 5km dispersal zone order has been placed around Heathrow\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said: \"We are really clear that [flying drones] is unlawful, it is a criminal offence, and anybody who turns up expecting to fly drones in that exclusion zone will be arrested.\"\n\nThe force made seven pre-emptive arrests on Thursday, including that of Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam.\n\nHeathrow Airport said it was committed to addressing climate change, but this was best tackled through \"constructive engagement and working together to address the issue\".\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. Van Rompuy: Europe 'looking at what Scotland is in favour of'\n\nA former president of the European Council has said he believes Brexit has changed EU attitudes to Scottish independence.\n\nIn a BBC interview, Herman Van Rompuy said there was now \"much more sympathy\" for European regions seeking EU membership.\n\nMr Van Rompuy said the process of joining the EU was \"complicated\".\n\nBut he said an application from Scotland would have to be \"very seriously\" considered.\n\nThe UK government does not support Scottish government calls for another independence referendum.\n\nOn 18 September, it will be five years since Scotland voted 55% to 45% against becoming an independent country.\n\nAt that time, SNP leaders said it was a \"once in a generation\" referendum but they have since argued that Brexit fundamentally changes the circumstances.\n\nThis is because the 2016 EU referendum saw the UK as a whole vote to leave, while Scottish voters backed remain by 62% to 38%.\n\nScotland voted 55% to 45% against becoming an independent country in September 2014\n\nMr Van Rompuy said that the UK's decision to leave the EU had certainly altered European attitudes to Scottish independence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there is a change, yes, because for a lot of people they are looking at what Scottish people are in favour of.\n\n\"They want to stay in the European Union and at the same time they are prevented to stay in the European Union.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's Brexit Secretary, Mike Russell, said the comments were \"welcome\" and that an independent Scotland had a \"strong contribution\" to make to the EU.\n\nHowever, The Scottish Secretary in the UK government, Alister Jack, said Scotland was \"better served\" in the UK, rather than joining the EU and \"giving away\" democratic and fishing rights.\n\nMr Van Rompuy said there was more sympathy for regions of a country that wanted to join the EU\n\nMr Van Rompuy said there was not much sympathy for Brexit in the EU among political leaders or the man or woman in the street.\n\nHe added: \"There is much more sympathy for regions - parts of a country - that want to join the European Union.\"\n\nMr Van Rompuy - who chaired EU summits between 2009 and 2014 before handing over to Donald Tusk - said any indyref2 must be agreed with the UK.\n\nIf there was a Yes vote in a referendum that was \"constitutional\" he said Scotland would have a \"legal case\".\n\n\"Then, of course the outcome has to be considered by the European Union very seriously,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Van Rompuy pointed out there was also a political dimension - and that all 27 EU countries would have to consent.\n\nHe said: \"There is no automaticity, there are rules to be respected and we have all to agree on a new candidate.\"\n\nMr Van Rompuy said there were still \"hesitations\" about Scottish independence in Spain, which is concerned about Catalonia breaking away.\n\nHe added: \"It is a complicated process. Even leaving the UK is a complicated process - as complicated as Britain leaving the European Union.\"\n\nMr Van Rompuy said the situation in Scotland was very different to the one in Catalonia\n\nAs a former prime minister of Belgium, which has a Flemish nationalist movement, he is not personally enthusiastic about the UK breaking up.\n\n\"I fought all my life against separatism in my own country, so don't ask me to applaud when this would happen,\" he said.\n\nMr Van Rompuy has previously warned that leaving the EU without a deal would pose an \"existential threat\" to the UK.\n\nIn his BBC Scotland interview, he said UK politicians \"take risks not only for the prosperity of the British people but also for the unity of the United Kingdom\".\n\nAlister Jack, the Scottish Secretary, said: \"I would say Scotland's place is better served staying in the United Kingdom rather than leaving the UK, joining the EU and giving away both democratic rights and also our coastal fisheries which will be of great value to us\".\n\nHowever, the Scottish government's Brexit Secretary Mike Russell said: \"There is clearly real sympathy and understanding for Scotland's position in Europe, particularly given the hard-line anti-EU position of the UK government.\"\n\nThe European Policy Centre think-tank, of which Mr Van Rompuy is president, recently published an analysis on independent Scottish membership of the EU.\n\nIt concluded that the EU should \"engage positively\" with Scotland in the event of independence, if there had been a properly constituted referendum.\n\nBut it said Scotland could not expect \"special treatment\" and that the Scottish government would have to accept all the obligations of membership, including agreeing in principle to join the euro.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe paper was produced by the centre's chief executive, Fabian Zuleeg, who also serves as an adviser to the Scottish government on Europe.\n\nHe notes that the EU institutions were \"rather negative\" towards Scottish independence in 2014, partly due to concerns about encouraging secessionist movements in other EU countries.\n\nAt that time, the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barosso, said it would be \"extremely difficult, if not impossible\" for Scotland to secure EU membership.\n\nMr Van Rompuy was also perceived to cast doubt on independent Scottish membership of the EU when he made comments about Catalonia.\n\nBut the former EU Council chief is clear that there is a \"big difference\" between the cases of Catalonia and Scotland.\n\nIn his view, it would be \"unthinkable\" for Catalonia to be considered for EU membership because its referendum is regarded as illegal by Spain.\n\nScotland, he said, would be treated \"otherwise\" if it had a legally-agreed referendum.\n\nHe also warned the UK that it would not enjoy the same solidarity the EU had afforded it in 2014 in the event of another Scottish referendum.\n\n\"If the UK is not a member of the European Union anymore, what kind of solidarity are you speaking about?\" Mr Van Rompuy said.\n\nAsked if solidarity with the UK would no longer exist, he said: \"no, it's a third country\".", "Rescuers said the dog was cold, wet and tired\n\nMountain rescuers were called to the Lake District fells after a dog-tired terrier refused to walk any further with its owner.\n\nThe walker was on a stretch of the Cumbria Way from Keswick to Caldbeck with his nine year old dog on Thursday when the animal refused to go on.\n\nThe un-named man tried to carry the dog, but he too became too tired.\n\nVolunteers from Keswick Mountain Rescue Team responded to a call for help and escorted them to safety.\n\nThe man and dog had taken refuge in a wooden shelter called Lingy Hut, which is used by walkers in bad weather.\n\nLingy Hut is used by walkers in bad weather\n\nA team spokesman said: \"It had been a long wet day for them and the dog just refused to carry on.\n\n\"They had just gone past Lingy Hut en route towards High Pike in the Caldbeck Fells.\n\n\"The man attempted to carry to dog, but it was too tiring and they were both getting cold so he returned to Lingy Hut after calling 999 and asking for mountain rescue help.\n\n\"A small team climbed up to the hut where they found the man and his dog.\n\n\"With visions of Great Danes and Rottweilers and the possibility of having to call more team members to stretcher the dog off, the team were pleased to find a small and easily portable, cold, shivering terrier.\n\n\"The pair were escorted down to where one of the team was able to drive them to their accommodation in Caldbeck.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The firm has breached guidelines over the amount of waste stored\n\nA waste company close to fly-infested homes has breached environmental rules more than a dozen times in a year.\n\nPeople living in Avonmouth in Bristol have complained for more than a decade over the number of flies and have linked them to nearby waste firms.\n\nOne company, New Earth Solutions, stored \"excessive\" waste outside, where inspectors saw a number of flies.\n\nThe company has not commented but the Environment Agency said breaches were not linked to the rise in flies.\n\nBut residents living nearby said the problem was so bad \"they might as well live under mosquito nets\".\n\nBBC Inside Out West discovered the rule breaches over the 12 months from July 2018.\n\nEnvironment Agency (EA) inspectors found 5,000 bales of waste were being stored there at the end of June and told the firm it was \"considered to be storing waste in excess of the set limits\".\n\nResidents say they are plagued by flies\n\nThey also said \"flies are noticeable outside of the processing halls, basking on the bales stored immediately outside the building and residual wastes spilt on the aprons, caused by vehicle movements\".\n\nThe EA reports also said the management \"accepted [it] has exceeded the quantity that can be processed and removed without causing a build-up of onsite materials\".\n\nDespite inspectors noticing more flies at the plant, a statement from the EA insisted there was no link.\n\n\"Monitoring of fly numbers does not appear to show a link between reports of flies in Avonmouth and the increase in bales stored outside New Earth Solutions,\" a statement said.\n\nThe organisation said New Earth Solutions was \"making progress in clearing the backlog\".\n\nIan Robinson has been campaigning over the fly plague\n\nCampaigner and resident Ian Robinson said he did not agree with that view and said the EA had \"fingers in their ears\" over the complaints.\n\n\"Of course it's contributing,\" he said.\n\n\"Seeing as those bales are getting ripped by seagulls, by rats, they're being damaged by being moved, they're falling over [and] they're not being stacked correctly.\"\n\nHe has called on the Environment Agency to take enforcement action against the firm.\n\nThe city council has previously said it took concerns \"seriously\" but had \"found no issues\".\n\nLocal MP Darren Jones has written to the Environment Secretary to ask for more powers for the EA to deal with organisations that breach their environmental permits.\n\nMore on this story can be seen on Inside Out on BBC1 in the West at 19:30 BST on Monday 16 September and afterwards on iPlayer.", "The Houthis say they did it; the United States insists that it was Iran; the Iranians deny any involvement.\n\nA predictable war of words has followed the dramatic attack on Saudi Arabia's most important oil installations. The strikes have shown the remarkable vulnerability of oil facilities of central importance to the global economy.\n\nThe Saudis - whose air campaign in Yemen is backed by the Americans and whose warplanes are only kept in the sky by a variety of western contractors - have been conducting a long-running air campaign against the Houthi rebels. But their opponents have now demonstrated the ability to deliver a strategic riposte of their own.\n\nThe whole episode has inevitably revived the debate about the extent to which Iran is providing technology and assistance to the Houthis. Given the already highly charged atmosphere in the Gulf, it has served to ratchet up regional tensions.\n\nBut equally it has also revealed some of the failings in the Trump administration's declared policy of exerting \"maximum pressure\" against Tehran.\n\nAmidst the claims and counter-claims, there is still a good deal that we do not know. The Houthis have used both drones and missiles to hit Saudi targets before.\n\nBut the drone attacks have generally had only limited success. Both the range over which this most recent operation was conducted and the accuracy and scale of the strikes make this a different order of magnitude altogether.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abqaiq is the site of Aramco's largest oil processing plant\n\nSo was it really armed drones (UAVs) that conducted these attacks, or was it some kind of missile strike? And if the latter, why were Saudi air defences not alerted? Were the attacks launched from Houthi-controlled territory or from somewhere else? Might pro-Iranian groups in Iraq have been involved or maybe the Iranians themselves?\n\nThe US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quick to point the finger of blame at Tehran, but he did so seemingly before any clear intelligence was available; certainly he did not offer any of it up for immediate public scrutiny.\n\nMike Pompeo (L) said the US and its allies would ensure \"Iran is held accountable\"\n\nSeveral hours later, US sources indicate that there were some 17 points of impact from the attack, all suggesting that they came from the north or north-west - that is to say, more likely from Iran or Iraq, rather than from Yemen to the south.\n\nThe US is promising more details in due course and some of the drones or missiles that failed to reach their targets are now being analysed.\n\nIran has well-developed ties with the Houthis and there is little doubt it has been the key player in enabling them to develop their long-range strike capability, whether through armed UAVs or missiles.\n\nIn 2018, a report from a UN expert panel pointed to the remarkable similarity between the Houthi Qasef-1 UAV and the Iranian Ababil-T. In a wide-ranging study, it asserted that Iran had broken the arms embargo against Yemen and supplied the Houthis with a variety of weapons systems.\n\nMuch the same conclusion was reached by a March 2017 study from the independent Conflict Armament Research organisation, which focused on Iranian UAV assistance.\n\nHowever, the Qasef-1/Ababil-T only has a range of about 100-150km. The distance from the Yemeni border to the closest target - the Khurais oil field - is about 770km. So if these recent attacks were carried out by a UAV it would have to have been of an altogether different design, with hugely increased range and a significantly greater level of reliability.\n\nIran and thus possibly the Houthis do indeed have longer-range systems, but so far there has been little evidence of their deployment in the Yemen conflict. Some kind of cruise missile might also be a possibility, perhaps fired from either Iraq or Iran, but clarity on these questions will require access to reliable intelligence information.\n\nIn some ways, though, the precise details don't matter. The diplomatic damage has already been done. The US and the Saudis are implacable enemies of Iran. The Trump administration has already made its mind up, blaming Tehran for the mining of ships in the Gulf. Iran has openly seized a British-flagged tanker, albeit after the arrest of a ship carrying Iranian oil off Gibraltar.\n\nSo as far as team Trump is concerned, the Iranians' fingerprints are all over the Houthis' escalating strategic campaign against Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure.\n\nSaudi Arabia raced to restart its oil production following the attacks\n\nThe question now is what are they going to do about it, or perhaps what can they do about it? And the answer may be: not very much. The US is already firmly in the Saudi corner, despite the growing unpopularity of the Yemen war on Capitol Hill, where there is a growing sense that the Saudi air campaign is pointless, serving only to turn an already impoverished country into a humanitarian disaster zone.\n\nBut there is a curious aspect revealed by these infrastructure attacks. For all the Trump administration's support for the Saudis and for all its stress on \"maximum pressure\", in reality, Washington is sending very mixed signals to Tehran.\n\nA Nasa satellite image shows smoke from fires following the drone attacks\n\nMr Trump, after all seems, willing to countenance a face-to-face meeting with the Iranians on the margins of the upcoming UN General Assembly and he has just fired his National Security Adviser, John Bolton, the man most associated with the idea of regime change in Tehran.\n\nIran, along with its Houthi allies, is conducting a classic war of the weak against the strong; a \"hybrid conflict\" as it is known in the strategic textbooks. It is borrowing many of the tactics from the Russian play-book - the use of deniability; proxies; cyber-operations and information warfare.\n\nTehran knows that Mr Trump, for all his bluster and unpredictability, wants to get the US out of military entanglements and not into new ones. That gives the Iranians the ability to apply some \"maximum pressure\" of their own.\n\nThe danger remains that miscalculation could lead to an all-out conflict, which nobody really wants.", "A British-Australian woman detained in Iran has been identified as Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East politics specialist at Melbourne University.\n\nShe has been held for a \"number of months\" already, on charges that remain unclear, the Australian government says.\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert is the third foreign national revealed this week to have been arrested in the country.\n\nMedia reports say she has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.\n\n\"We believe that the best chance of securing Kylie's safe return is through diplomatic channels,\" her family said in a statement issued through the Australian government.\n\nOn Tuesday the Australian government identified two other Australians - Mark Firkin and Jolie King, who also holds a UK passport - who are also being detained in Iran.\n\nThey were blogging their travels in Asia and the Middle East and were reportedly arrested 10 weeks ago near Tehran. Their arrest is not believed to be related to that of Dr Moore-Gilbert.\n\nAll three are reportedly being held in Tehran's Evin prison, where British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been jailed since 2016 on spying charges.\n\nOn Thursday Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the government had been working on securing their release for more than a week.\n\n\"The government have been making efforts to ensure they are being treated fairly, humanely and in custom to international norms,\" she said.\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert's profile on the University of Melbourne website says she is a lecturer in Islamic Studies who focuses on Arab Gulf states.\n\nWhile the charges against her have not been disclosed, 10-year terms are routinely given in Iran for spying charges, the UK's Times newspaper said.\n\nThe situation comes amid a growing stand-off between the West and Iran - although Ms Payne said the cases of those detained were not related to diplomatic tensions.\n\nSeveral people with dual Iranian and foreign nationality have been detained in Iran in recent years.\n\nRelations between the UK and Iran have also been strained in recent months by a row over the seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf.\n\nAustralia also announced in July that it would join the US and the UK in policing the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian threats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)", "A family in southeast Spain were forced to take refuge in their attic when their house was overcome by a flash flood.\n\nRead more: Flash floods in south-eastern Spain kill at least five", "Tyson Fury battled to a rugged points win over Otto Wallin as he fought for over nine rounds with heavy cuts to maintain his unbeaten record in a dramatic bout in Las Vegas.\n\nThe 31-year-old Briton, a 1-25 favourite with bookmakers, was expected to walk through Sweden's Wallin but a deep wound above his right eye was repeatedly checked by the ringside doctor, prompting moments of stunned silence at the T-Mobile Arena.\n\nIt was a punch in the third round that drew blood above the eye and Fury displayed greater urgency when officials began to show concern, switching from patient boxing to planting his feet in a bid to land heavy, destructive shots.\n\nA barrage in the ninth forced Wallin to sway, before a hard right hand piled him into the ropes in the 11th as Fury came through the type of examination few expected with a unanimous 116-112 117-111 118-110 points win.\n\nFury was taken to hospital after the fight, with promoter Frank Warren confirming he was set to have micro-surgery on the cuts - one above the eye and one on the eye-lid.\n\n\"It was a great fight,\" said Fury afterwards. \"I got caught on the eye and that changed the fight. For the majority, I could not see out of the eye, then there was a clash of heads and I got cut again.\n\n\"It was a good 12 rounds, he was tough. It's all heart and determination - if I can keep going I will do. He was 20-0 and didn't know how to lose, but I was the better man.\"\n\nWallin said: \"I did everything I could, I tried my best and Tyson is a great champion. Nobody can question my heart or question that I'm a good fighter.\"\n• None 5 Live Boxing with Costello and Bunce: Fury battles through cut to beat Wallin\n\nA heavy shot from Wallin in the 12th offered one more threat at the end of a tussle which thrilled those in the arena. With Fury bloodied and grinding out shots, cries of \"Tyson, Tyson, Tyson\" poured down to ringside, dragging more from him.\n\nWallin, who lost for the first time in 21 outings, was seen as an easy night's work on Fury's route to a rematch with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, but the Swede's come-forward tactics delivered a true scrap.\n\nHad the bout been stopped because of the cuts, Wallin would have won by technical knockout, and with ringside medics checking the gash during the sixth and before the seventh round, Fury was nearing a crisis scenario.\n\nJust as he did when he climbed from the canvas to force Wilder backwards in the final round of their December thriller, the Briton fought fire with fire. His punches became menacing, his face filled with anger rather than poise and two huge right hands sent Wallin backwards in the seventh.\n\nA hard hook on the ropes in the ninth began another onslaught, with Fury glaring into the eyes of his resilient rival on the bell like a man possessed.\n\nWallin's trainer, Joey Gamache, clutched his towel in the 10th and the concern on his face made it appear he may draw an end to proceedings. His charge deserves immense credit after what was his first bout since the death of his father.\n\nAnd Fury, too, deserves plaudits as he showed an orthodox stance, southpaw stance, hit and move tactics, and, ultimately, immense grit in his fifth bout since a 30-month spell out of the sport. Not for the first time in recent memory, he served up a compelling watch in testing circumstances.\n• None The art of being a boxing cuts man\n\nThe downside for Fury is he will inevitably attract criticism over the fact only 8,249 of the 20,000 seats at the arena were filled.\n\nConcerts featuring the likes of Calvin Harris and Drake on the strip may have played a role, but Fury will probably care little as this was in many ways a bucket-list event for him on Mexican Independence Day weekend.\n\nMexico's Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez has taken this Las Vegas fight night in the past two years, while the likes of Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather have filled the coveted fixture in the past.\n\nAnd Fury entered the ring in a style befitting an occasion, sporting a poncho featuring the Mexican flag and a sombrero, and then boarding a parade float for his journey to ringside.\n\nThose here could have been forgiven for thinking such an entrance may have fallen flat with a routine win, and early on it felt like Fury was toying with his opponent - before he found his range with a three-shot combination in the second round.\n\nIt looked like he was slipping into gear, only for Wallin to turn what could have been a boxing exhibition into an up-close, blood-filled tussle.\n\nSome may ask what Fury gets out of beating the likes of Wallin. The answer is money, further profile in the US and, crucially, the type of in-ring activity he simply did not have when, just six-months into his comeback, he faced Wilder last year.\n\nWhen the cuts heal, this will have further developed his engine and ring craft - and ultimately done him no harm at all.\n\nWhat now for Fury?\n\nBefore Fury left the ring, his white shorts now a light shade of red, he had already mentioned American Wilder as his next opponent.\n\nBoth have repeatedly spoken of a rematch, which, if you listen to the Briton, is slated for 22 February.\n\nThat date looks a tall order given Wilder should have a fixture with Luis Ortiz in November and, as is the way in boxing, the rumour mill says he may have plans that do not include Fury.\n\nFury has said he would explore legal options if the 33-year-old goes elsewhere and he has even spoken of fighting in December to keep sharpening his skills in readiness.\n\nPromoter Bob Arum this week barked that \"he's not fighting in December\" because he wants to take any risk of a slip-up out of the equation. After Saturday's cuts, fighting again this year is now an impossibility.\n\nWilder may feel Fury's scare in Las Vegas shows he can get at his rival if they meet again. Team Fury will undoubtedly think their man is in far better shape now than he was in their Los Angeles thriller.\n\nThis hard-earned win was a case of job done. As those in attendance spilled out of the arena and back on to the famous Vegas strip in search of good times, fans around the world will now hope all roads lead to an adventure with Wilder.\n\nTyson's father, John Fury, said he was \"proud\" of his son for \"how he mauled his way through\", but also claimed changes needed to be made to the fighter's preparation and team.\n\n\"It's the worst I've seen from Tyson,\" he told BT Sport Box Office. \"He has to be honest and say things are not right. For a man to be in that condition after eight weeks camp, it looked like he had nothing after round two.\n\n\"His strength and power went tonight. He was as weak as a kitten from the first round. At 18st 1lb, I've warned him and warned him. He is a 19st fighter.\n\n\"If I had my way, the lot [Tyson's team] would be gone. If they keep that team that will be his career [gone].\"\n\nOn the two cuts around the right eye, John Fury said: \"An injury like that could finish a career.\"\n\nFury's trainer Ben Davison defended himself and said he was \"happy\" with his fighter at the end of a test few saw coming.", "Self-professed \"queer girl with a nose ring\" Jamie Barton was the undisputed star of the Last Night of the Proms.\n\nThe US mezzo-soprano, who took to the stage waving a Pride flag, said her mission was to \"unify the audience\".\n\nAnd, with a sensuous reading of Bizet's Habañera and a wistful Over The Rainbow, she achieved her goal.\n\n\"We are witnessing something rather remarkable,\" said Radio 3's Petroc Trelawney. \"That moment an audience falls in love with a singer.\"\n\nHis co-presenter Georgia Mann praised Barton's \"heavenly warmth\" and said her voice was \"so rich, it's like bathing in a really beautiful bubble bath\".\n\n\"There was a wave of love and acceptance and appreciation,\" observed conductor Sakari Oramo, following her performance at London's Royal Albert Hall.\n\nViewers at home seemed to agree.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in the small rural town of Rome, Georgia, Barton was raised on Bluegrass, The Grateful Dead and the Beatles.\n\nShe jokingly describes her operatic career as \"an act of musical rebellion\" against her parents, triggered by a performance of Aida at Atlanta Opera.\n\nAfter studying vocals at St Louis and Houston, her big breakthrough came at the 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Barton won both the main and the subsidiary song prize - foreshadowing the versatility she displayed at the Proms, where she was equally at home with opera, Gershwin and, of course, Rule Britannia.\n\nThe 37-year-old, who revealed her bisexuality on Twitter on National Coming Out Day 2014, said she wanted to use the Proms to make \"a very clear statement of Pride\".\n\nBarton's gown highlighted the colours of the bisexual Pride flag\n\nThe dress was designed by Jessica Jahn and built by Donna Langman\n\n\"It's not only a very important thing to me personally, but it's also something I think unifies the audience,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not just queer pride, it's a connective celebration of people being exactly who they are and loving who they are. And I'm honoured to get to lead that.\"\n\nAs well as singing Judy Garland's gay anthem (\"it felt a little too on-brand not to do\"), Barton wore a gown featuring the colours of the bisexual flag - lavender, pink and blue - as \"a statement of the pride in my community\".\n\nHer messages of tolerance and inclusivity lent a modern touch to the flag-waving frolics of the Proms, but the touchstones of the Last Night remained as stoically immutable as ever.\n\nThe audience bobbed to the Hornpipe, they linked arms to Auld Lang Syne, and they set off party poppers at comically inappropriate moments.\n\nThe programme also included nods to the main themes of this year's Proms: Laura Mvula's Sing To The Moon marked the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings; and a delicately beautiful version of Elgar's Sospiri marked the 150th anniversary of Proms co-founder Sir Henry Wood, who premiered the piece in 1914, just nine days after Britain declared war.\n\nAcross the UK, Proms In The Park events allowed fans to follow the action on big screens, as well as enjoying live performances from the likes of Barry Manilow, Barbara Dickson, Jack Savoretti and Susan Boyle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The best bits of the 2019 Proms in four minutes\n\nAs the concert ended, Oramo, who was conducting the Last Night for his fourth time, paid tribute to live music audiences.\n\n\"The explosion of social media in our lives has caused our attention span to decrease,\" he said from a podium decked in streamers.\n\n\"So why have you lovely people, here tonight, chosen to come and hear live music? Why do you, our radio and TV audiences, switch on?\n\n\"I hope it's because it's a wonderful experience to come to a concert and listen with complete concentration to an orchestra and chorus perform live.\"\n\nHis comments came at the close of a Proms season that encompassed 85 concerts in just 58 days.\n\nHighlights included a soul-stirring tribute to Nina Simone, a musical recreation of the moon landings, and a performance of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, played on Queen Victoria's own piano.\n\nMore than 300,000 concert-goers attended the festival, with one in five purchasing on-the-day tickets for £6.\n\nThe Proms will return for their 126th season on 17 July, 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: England v Australia, fifth Specsavers Test (day four of five)\n\nEngland ended their memorable summer by earning a 2-2 draw in the Ashes with a 135-run defeat of Australia in the fifth Test.\n\nOn a beautifully sunny day at The Oval, England set Australia 399 to win and bowled them out for 263 to square the contest with their oldest enemies in a year when they lifted the World Cup for the first time.\n\nAustralia retain the urn they won in 2017-18 but miss out on a first series win in England since 2001, while an Ashes series is drawn for the first time in 47 years.\n\nFrom 313-8 overnight, England added 16 to be all out for 329 and leave Australia in need of pulling off the highest run-chase in an Ashes Test since 1948.\n\nIn conditions that remained relatively good for batting, there was the slightest chance that Steve Smith could end his prolific summer with one more stroke of genius.\n\nThere was disbelief, then delight, when Smith turned Stuart Broad to a diving Ben Stokes at leg slip for 23 - his lowest score of the series by 57 runs.\n\nEngland were still held up by Mathew Wade's combative century, but after he was stumped off Joe Root, the last three wickets fell for four runs, with victory completed by Root's stunning grab of Josh Hazlewood.\n\nIt means they end coach Trevor Bayliss' reign with a win, while both sides have 56 points and sit joint-fourth in the World Test Championship.\n\nEven though the Ashes were already gone, captain Root challenged England to begin their preparations for the tour down under in 2021-22 in this match.\n\nThey were helped by Australia's decision to field first, strange team selection and dropped catches, but also earned this win through the batting of Joe Denly and Jos Buttler, and a collectively incisive bowling attack.\n\nIf Broad removing David Warner for the seventh time in the series was expected, the scale of the celebration inside The Oval was only surpassed when Smith fell.\n\nThere was the theatre of Jofra Archer's duel with Wade, complete with crossed words and long stares, and one more magical moment when Root took his wonderful grab as the shadows lengthened.\n\nNo doubt it was the dream for England to lift both the World Cup and the Ashes, but being crowned world champions for the first time and drawing with Australia will be regarded as a success.\n\nStill, Bayliss' successor has immediate work to do - finally nailing down a top order, getting the best from Root as batsman and captain, deciding the best make-up of the attack - starting with the tour to New Zealand in November.\n\nBroad has been reborn this summer, leading the attack in the absence of James Anderson and ending the series with 23 wickets - the first England bowler to take more than 20 in four separate contests against Australia.\n\nHe had already removed Marcus Harris' off stump with a wonderful delivery before he turned his attention to Warner, the man he has tortured all summer.\n\nAn edge ended in the hands of third slip Rory Burns and left Warner with 95 runs in 10 innings, the lowest aggregate for any opener playing every one of a five-match series in the history of Test cricket.\n\nThe crucial moment, though, was the removal of Smith. After a summer when he has racked up 774 runs and England exhausted every conceivable plan, one finally worked.\n\nBroad's delivery into the hips was turned around the corner, where the lurking Stokes grasped the ball just above the turf.\n\nWhen Pat Cummins joined Wade to eat up 15 overs, the prospect of a Monday finish was growing, only for Broad to return and find Cummins' edge, signalling the beginning of the end.\n\nSmith had gone through the World Cup and the beginning of this series being booed by the English crowds for his part in the sandpaper scandal.\n\nWhen he left the crease for the final time, it was to a standing ovation, The Oval recognising that Smith's brilliance has been the deciding factor in the final destination of the urn.\n\nBy that time, Wade was already into his stride, arriving with the intent to use his feet and get after left-arm spinner Jack Leach in particular.\n\nWade and Archer are team-mates with Australia side Hobart Hurricanes, but the bad blood seems to go back to an on-field exchange during the fourth Test.\n\nEven as he was approaching the century, Wade was discomforted in a thrilling spell where Archer touched 95mph and, after he passed three figures, the left-hander threw caution to the wind.\n\nHe survived a missed stumping, a dropped catch at slip and successfully overturned being given caught at slip, all off Root, before he finally ran past one and was stumped by Jonny Bairstow for 117.\n\nIn the next over, Nathan Lyon turned Leach to square leg and, from the next ball, Root's catch at mid-wicket gave Leach 4-49 to go with Broad's 4-62.\n\n'Australia deserved to retain Ashes' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Australia deserved to retain the Ashes.\n\n\"England have got to celebrate the fact that a few days ago Australia retained the Ashes and we all expected Australia to blow them away this week.\n\n\"With the ball in particular they have been exceptional.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root, speaking to TMS: \"I thought we were brilliant. To bounce back from a very difficult and emotional week, to come and play in the manner we have, the team has character in abundance.\n\n\"This was more of a template of how to play moving forward. It is a step in the right direction. I am very proud of everyone's effort throughout the summer.\"\n\nEngland man of the series Ben Stokes: \"It was disappointing to know we couldn't get the Ashes back but we came here with a lot of pride and looking to draw the series.\n\n\"I'll look back on winning at Headingley in a few years' time with fond memories probably, but I'd swap it for winning the Ashes still.\"\n\nAustralia captain Tim Paine on TMS: \"The urn is what we came to get. We knew the rules around the Ashes and a draw is good enough. It's mission accomplished, which is fantastic.\n\n\"I don't think we ran out of gas. We were outplayed and dropped catches.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Modi to Trump: \"My honour to introduce you to my family\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanged warm words of friendship in Texas at a rare mass rally for a foreign leader.\n\nAround 50,000 people gathered for what Mr Trump called a \"profoundly historic event\" on Sunday in Houston.\n\nThe \"Howdy, Modi!\" event was billed as one of the largest ever receptions of a foreign leader in the US.\n\nMr Modi, however, may face a frostier reception at the UN General Assembly.\n\nHe is likely to face criticism over tensions in Indian-administered Kashmir, which he stripped of its special status last month, promising to restore the region to its \"past glory\".\n\nThe region has been in lockdown for more than a month with thousands of activists, politicians and business leaders detained.\n\nTrade talks and the UN General Assembly are on the Indian prime minister's agenda during his week-long visit to the United States.\n\nPakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been the most vocal international leader to oppose India's Kashmir move, is also in the US for the UN conference. Like Mr Modi, he will have a one-on-one meeting with Mr Trump on the sidelines of the summit.\n\nA 90-minute show, featuring 400 performers, warmed up the crowd before Mr Modi and Mr Trump shared the stage.\n\n\"I'm so thrilled to be here in Texas with one of America's greatest, most devoted and most loyal friends, Prime Minister Modi of India,\" Mr Trump told the crowd.\n\nNarendra Modi and Donald Trump leave the stage holding hands at Houston's NRG Stadium\n\nIn his speech, Mr Modi said India has a \"true friend\" in the White House, describing Mr Trump as \"warm, friendly, accessible, energetic and full of wit\".\n\n\"From CEO to commander-in-chief, from boardrooms to the Oval Office, from studios to the global stage… he has left a lasting impact everywhere,\" Mr Modi said.\n\nThis was exactly the kind of crowd size and energy President Trump loves at his rallies.\n\nOnly here the chants were for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mr Trump was the superstar invited to the party. But the crowd did not disappoint him either and greeted him with chants of \"USA!\", most heard at Trump rallies.\n\nThe personal-touch diplomacy with Mr Modi's trademark bear hugs was played to perfection.\n\nThis rally has been called a win-win for both the leaders. For President Trump, it was a chance to court Indian-Americans for the 2020 presidential election race where Texas could emerge as a battleground state. For Mr Modi, a PR triumph and picture with the president of the United States may help him shrug off the criticism over his recent strong-arm polices at home.\n\nHouston's NRG Stadium, where the event was hosted, was the first stop for Mr Modi, whose Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a landslide victory in this year's Indian elections.\n\nGreeted by a standing ovation, Mr Trump used his speech to heap praise on Mr Modi, who he said was doing a \"truly exceptional job for India\" and its people.\n\nMr Trump also paid tribute to the Indian-American community, telling them \"we are truly proud to have you as Americans\".\n\nThe US has a population of about 4 million Indians who are seen as an increasingly important vote bank in the country.\n\nApart from Mr Trump, organisers also invited Democrats to the event - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was among those who spoke.\n\nThe 2010 US census shows that Texas is home to the fourth-largest Indian-American population in the country after California, New York and New Jersey.\n\nAnalysis of voting patterns shows the community tends overwhelmingly to support the Democrat party.\n\nThe event, dubbed \"Howdy, Modi!\", was attended by an estimated 50,000 people\n\nNo stranger to nationalist rhetoric himself, Mr Trump compared security at the US-Mexico border to the tensions between India and Pakistan in the tinderbox Kashmir region.\n\n\"Both India and US also understand that to keep our communities safe, we must protect our borders,\" Trump said.\n\nIn India, the rally was closely watched, with most mainstream media outlets running live news updates of what was transpiring on stage.\n\nThe event had been making headlines for days before as well.\n\nOn Twitter, many people shared instant analysis and opinions of what was taking place on the stage with the sentiment being overwhelmingly positive. 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Watch as rescuers rush to clear debris from the site\n\nAt least seven children have died after a classroom collapsed at a primary school in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials say.\n\nThe wooden structure at Precious Talent Top School collapsed just minutes after the start of the school day on Monday.\n\nDozens of people were injured and have been taken to hospital in the city. Emergency services are at the scene.\n\nRescuers have reportedly had difficulty getting to the school because of the large crowds that have gathered nearby.\n\n\"We have regrettably lost seven lives to this morning's incident,\" Education Secretary George Magoha told reporters outside the school in Dagoretti. He added that 64 people had been injured.\n\nThe school's director, Moses Ndirangu, blamed the collapse on the construction of a nearby sewer, which he said may have weakened the foundations of the building.\n\nResidents gathered around the site as rescuers searched through the rubble\n\nThe collapse happened shortly before 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT) and dozens of children were rushed away from the scene.\n\nThe Kenyan Red Cross transferred some children to the Kenyatta National Hospital. Two of the injured were reported to be in a critical condition.\n\nThe first floor of the building collapsed and trapped the children below, local politician John Kiarie told the NTV Kenya television channel.\n\nAngry locals complained about the slow emergency response. The government said it had opened an investigation into the cause of the accident.\n\nPeople watch as rescue teams and police officers search the debris\n\nImages on social media showed hundreds of residents gathered around the site as rescuers search through the rubble. Books, desks and chairs could be seen amongst the debris.\n\n\"I had just dropped my son to school and heard screams on my way back,\" Margaret Muthoni, whose four-year-old son was injured, told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"I am just lucky my son survived,\" she said..\n\nThe private school is located near Nairobi's well-known Ngong Racecourse and more than 800 pupils are thought to attend.\n\nThe BBC's Ashley Lime in Nairobi says that many Kenyans prefer private schools are preferred to state schools, considering them superior.\n\nFree primary school education, introduced by the Kenyan government in 2003, has led to overcrowding.\n\nOur reporter says it is common to see three pupils sharing a single desk in public schools, while morale among teachers is often poor.\n\nAs a result, the number of private schools has increased markedly, from 7,742 in 2014 to 16,594 this year, official figures show.\n\nThis was the aftermath of a school tragedy that left at least seven dead. A first aider at the scene described a very disheartening picture; bodies crushed beneath a heap of concrete, wood and iron sheets, with crying children waiting to be rescued from the dust-coated rubble.\n\nAnd then the questions. Was this school meant to be here in the first place? Professor Alfred Omenya, a Nairobi-based architect, said it was not. He described the building as a \"disaster waiting to happen\" - weak foundation, weaker walls, and a concrete slab placed on top to add an extra storey.\n\nEducation minister George Magoha said he was sorry for what happened and promised action after investigations were completed. He also said he took responsibility for what had happened.\n\nBut many Kenyans do not want to see someone simply take responsibility; they want resignations, arrests and criminal charges.\n• None Six reasons why so many buildings collapse", "Sherry Bray and Christopher Ashford both admitted three counts of computer misuse\n\nTwo people \"driven by morbid curiosity\" who accessed CCTV footage of footballer Emiliano Sala's post-mortem test have been jailed.\n\nCCTV firm manager Sherry Bray, 49, and her employee Christopher Ashford, 62, admitted illegally accessing mortuary footage of the striker's body.\n\nSala had been flying from Nantes after just signing for Cardiff City when the plane he was on crashed into the sea.\n\nJudge Peter Crabtree jailed Bray for 14 months and Ashford for five months.\n\nAt Swindon Crown Court the judge said the offences were \"driven by morbid curiosity\" and in Ashford's case, \"forensic science\".\n\nThe judge said they had taken place within \"a culture\" at the company where staff watched post-mortem examinations even though they \"had no justification to do so\".\n\nWiltshire Police started investigating when an image appearing to show Sala's body appeared on social media.\n\nOn 18 February, officers investigated Camera Security Services (CSS) in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and found the post-mortem test in Bournemouth had been viewed live on 7 February and then played back twice on 8 February.\n\nEmiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City before the plane he was travelling in crashed into the English Channel on 21 January\n\nBray's phone was seized and two images of the Argentine player's body were discovered, which the court heard had been taken from the screen of the mortuary CCTV.\n\nHowever, the judge said there was no suggestion the pair had taken the actual photograph that appeared on social media or posted it.\n\nBray, of Corsham, and Ashford, of Calne, each admitted three counts of computer misuse in August.\n\nSpeaking at the start of the sentencing hearing at court on Friday, Rob Welling, prosecuting said Bray had \"allowed a culture to develop\" where she and other staff watched footage of post-mortem examinations.\n\nBray told police she had the authority to view all videos but said she \"didn't sit here watching autopsies all day as I'm not sick\".\n\nShe admitted taking one photo and later admitted the second photo was also taken by her.\n\nThe court heard Bray sent a screenshot to her youngest daughter, while Ashford let a friend photograph the screenshot he had taken.\n\nIn a police interview, Ashford admitted watching post-mortem examinations, admitting he had a \"morbid fascination\" with them.\n\nOne message sent from Bray to Christopher Ashford read: \"Nice one on the table for you to see when you get in\".\n\nAshford replied that due to press coverage he assumed it was Sala.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read to the court on Friday, Emiliano Sala's sister Romina said: \"I couldn't believe there were people so evil and wicked who would do that.\"\n\nBray also took a photo of Andrew Latcham's body which was in the same mortuary - he is pictured here (centre) with his son and grandson\n\nBray's phone also revealed she had taken a picture of another body in the same mortuary - a man called Andrew Latcham who had died in non-suspicious circumstances in Dorset.\n\nDet Insp Gemma Vinton, from Wiltshire Police, said: \"While both Bray and Ashford did plead guilty at the first crown court hearing, this case clearly shows that those in a position of responsibility need to ensure they act to the highest moral standards, as well as having a thorough understanding of the law.\n\n\"No sentence will undo the additional unnecessary distress and heartache caused to the Sala and Latcham families, who have remained at the forefront of our thoughts throughout the investigation.\n\n\"I hope that the families will now be able to focus on grieving for Emiliano and Andrew.\"\n\nAnthony Johns, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Bray and Ashford had caused \"immense suffering\" to grieving relatives.\n\nHe added: \"It is impossible to imagine why anyone would wish to record or view these sorts of images in such a flagrant breach of confidentiality and human decency.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last May Scotland became the first country in the world to implement alcohol minimum unit pricing.\n\nGlasgow Caledonian University is to lead a study looking at the impact of alcohol minimum pricing on the homeless.\n\nResearchers will explore how the legislation has affected drinkers since it came into force.\n\nExperts from three universities, including the University of Victoria in Canada, will also take part.\n\nLast May Scotland became the first country in the world to implement alcohol minimum unit pricing.\n\nProf Carol Emslie, co-leader of the project, said: \"We need to explore the potential benefits of this policy for homeless people but we also need to understand any potential negative consequences.\n\n\"We do not know how vulnerable groups such as people experiencing homeless have adapted to the higher price of alcohol such as vodka and strong white cider.\n\n\"Our study will inform decisions about minimum unit pricing in Scotland and provide guidance for other countries planning to introduce the policy.\"\n\nProf Carol Emslie hopes to shed light on how homeless people have adapted to the higher price of alcohol, such as vodka and strong white cider\n\nThe scientists will also work with colleagues at Stirling University and Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.\n\nIt will also be supported by experts from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) and The Homeless Network.\n\nThe findings of what will be the first study of its kind will help to inform the Scottish Parliament's consideration of the policy's impacts.\n\nProject co-leader Prof Lawrie Elliott said: \"You might think MUP would affect homeless people and street drinkers the most, given they represent the poorest groups in society and tend to consume cheap alcohol.\n\n\"However, we don't know this, nor do we know about any unintended consequences of the legislation for example switching to illicit alcohol or drugs.\"", "\"Don't just book it - Thomas Cook it!\" is a phrase etched in the British memory.\n\nOver the years one of the world's best known holiday brands has taken millions of holidaymakers around the world, responding to technological advances in transport and social trends.\n\nIts history is also the history of how we have spent our holidays and explored an increasingly accessible world.\n\n\"There's an incredible fondness\" for the brand, says travel commentator Emma Coulthurst. \"We have grown up with it.\n\n\"You would go into your local travel agent, get your brochures, look at your brochures and go back again as a family. It was an event, booking was part of the whole experience.\"\n\nAlthough it is now best known for its trips abroad, when cabinet-maker Thomas Cook founded the business in Leicestershire in 1841 it was for more local excursions.\n\nA former Baptist preacher, he wanted to offer working class people a form of educational entertainment to divert them from drinking which he saw as at the root of Victorian social ills.\n\nThomas Cook thought railway trips could be used for social reform; an advert for an early excursion, right\n\nHe harnessed the UK's newly built railways to offer his first 12 mile trip from Leicester to Loughborough, at the cost of a shilling per head (around £3 in today's money).\n\nThose travelling were so-called \"temperance supporters\" - supporting the prohibition of alcohol.\n\nThe visit was such a success that Thomas Cook repeated it over several summers on behalf of Sunday schools which laid the foundations for the business.\n\nBy 1855, after having pioneered trips around the British Isles and to London's Great Exhibition, Thomas Cook set his sights across the Channel to Paris where the International Exhibition was being held.\n\nHis commercial tour there, linked to other European destinations, was a huge success.\n\nMore European trips followed, and before long Thomas Cook was taking travellers to America, Asia and the Middle East.\n\nEarly adverts for trips, including Liverpool to New York in 1866 for 25 guineas, about £1,552 in today's money\n\nThe company flourished, fuelled by the growing middle classes and their desire to travel.\n\nThomas' son, John Mason Cook, eventually took over running the company from his father, who died in 1892.\n\nIt stayed in family hands and, in the first quarter of the 20th Century, Thomas Cook's grandsons added winter sports, motor car tours and commercial air travel to its offerings.\n\nAt the end of the 1920s it changed hands for the first of many times when the grandsons unexpectedly sold the business to the Belgian owner of the Orient Express.\n\nBut as World War Two broke out, it was nationalised by the British government as part of British Railways, to save it from the Nazi occupation.\n\nThe post-war years were characterised by a holiday boom in the UK. For Thomas Cook, this meant taking holidaymakers on package holidays abroad but also to its Welsh holiday camp in Prestatyn.\n\n\"I see them as a pioneer in organised travel,\" says Ms Coulthurst, from holiday price comparison website TravelSupermarket, describing how people went on package holidays as children and later as adults with their own families.\n\n\"They were in all of the main package holiday destinations.\"\n\nThe Going Places travel brand was merged into Thomas Cook in 2007 before being killed off\n\nBut competition from other businesses also grew.\n\nThomas Cook was taken private in the 1970s and expanded its network of High Street travel shops through a string of acquisitions.\n\nThen in 1992 it was bought by Germany's third largest bank, the Westdeutsche Landesbank.\n\nIts next owner in 2001 was another German company, C&N Touristic AG, which quickly rebranded the whole business as Thomas Cook. And in 2007 the company merged with MyTravel - owner of the Airtours and Going Places brands - and became known as the Thomas Cook Group.\n\nMore acquisitions of shops and travel businesses, including websites, continued across the world.\n\nThomas Cook's Indian, Chinese, German and Nordic subsidiaries continued to trade as normal in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of their parent company.\n\nThrough its long history, it is the 21st Century that the company has found hardest to adapt to.\n\nThe digital age has seen a revolution in travel. The internet and the rise of budget airlines have made holidays cheaper and more accessible than ever before.\n\nThe package holiday remained popular, but customers are extremely price sensitive - and Thomas Cook's profit margins were slim.\n\nThe Thomas Cook brand expanded all over the world, including in India\n\nIts history left it with expensive overheads - hundreds of shops and thousands of staff.\n\nAcquisitions left it with high debt levels, and little ability to respond to the headwinds of the travel market. Hurricanes, heatwaves and currency fluctuations have hit the company hard over the last few years.\n\n\"I think the reasons are very complex,\" says Amie Keeley, the head of news at Travel Weekly.\n\nShe cites some \"questionable decisions\" years ago, when the company was under a different management and decided to expand its shop network at a time when more people were going online.\n\n\"In the short term, last summer's extended heatwave was a big reason. And they have also cited Brexit saying consumers are less confident,\" she said.\n\nThomas Cook offered a complete holiday \"package\" of travel, accommodation and food in 1855\n\nMs Coulthurst says UK travellers are still booking package holidays, which gives them financial protection through the government-run Atol scheme.\n\n\"However a lot of them are booking them in different ways now,\" she adds.\n\n\"Thomas Cook has 560 travel agents on the high street, it used to have more. That's bricks and mortar, they have overheads.\"\n\nShe says Thomas Cook was left competing with low-cost airlines as well as rivals with a big online presence, and says: \"But [Thomas Cook's] online presence isn't as strong. They are seen as a predominantly high street shop business.\"\n\nShe also says in North Africa - where Thomas Cook has an \"extremely strong package holiday presence\" - there has been political unrest, such as the ban on flights to Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh, which has affected the tour operator.\n\nBut Thomas Cook has retained a dedicated following, taking 19 million people from the UK and other countries on holiday each year.\n\n\"It's an iconic travel brand that has been in existence for 178 years,\" says Ms Keeley from Travel Weekly, adding it is \"much-loved\" both by consumers and those in the travel industry.\n\nEven the company's competitors did not want to see Thomas Cook collapse, she adds, not just because of the wider impact on the industry but also from an \"emotional and heritage point of view\".\n\n\"A lot of people have worked for Thomas Cook or work with them, so everyone is rooting for them.\"\n\nFor its loyal customers and for its 22,000 staff members, the company has stayed true to its roots - democratising travel and in the words of Thomas Cook himself making it \"a social idea\".\n\nAre you a Thomas Cook customer or member of staff? If you've been affected by the company's collapse, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is asked if he will serve five years if elected PM\n\nJeremy Corbyn has sought to play down divisions within his top team after one of his closest aides said he would quit and criticised the party's leadership.\n\nAndrew Fisher's exit comes after a failed bid to oust deputy leader Tom Watson, as Labour conference begins.\n\nMr Corbyn said he got on well with both men and Mr Fisher was \"extremely distressed\" when he wrote a memo saying the leader's office was \"incompetent\".\n\nHe said he would serve five years if elected PM, adding: \"Why wouldn't I?\"\n\nOn the second day of its conference, Labour is unveiling plans to scrap Ofsted and replace it with a new school inspection system.\n\nMr Corbyn said the regulator was too \"assertive\" and its system of oversight needed to be more \"supportive\" of schools and pupils.\n\nLabour is also promising to axe prescription charges in England if the party wins power, taking it in line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where they are already free.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, its leader dismissed talk he could stand down as Labour leader in the next year or so as \"wishful thinking\".\n\nHe also defended the party's Brexit policy - to be debated later - amid calls for him to come out unambiguously to remain in the EU rather than sit on the fence.\n\nWhile most Labour supporters wanted to remain in the EU, he said the party must respect the result of the Brexit referendum and do more to understand why people voted to leave.\n\nIf it wins power, Labour would negotiate a new Brexit deal in three months, which would then be put to the people in a referendum within six months, with the option to leave or remain.\n\nMr Corbyn would not be drawn on which side he would back, saying \"let's see\" what kind of new deal he was able to negotiate with the EU.\n\nHowever, he suggested he would ultimately go along with whatever party members decided at a special conference which could be held to settle the issue.\n\nAt a fringe event at the party's conference, deputy leader Tom Watson said Labour was a \"remain party\" and should lead the campaign to remain in the EU in a second referendum.\n\n\"By backing a people's vote, by backing remain, I am sure we can deliver the Labour government the people of this country so badly need,\" he said.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson says the NEC, Labour's governing body, agreed Brexit proposals 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 by iain 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\nLabour conference will be voting on that motion and a Brexit motion on an issue put forward by members on Monday.\n\nFormer Labour, now Independent MP, Ian Austin launched a campaign attacking Jeremy Corbyn's leadership\n\nAhead of next week's Supreme Court's ruling on whether the suspension of Parliament is lawful or not, Mr Corbyn said if the judges found against Boris Johnson, MPs must be recalled.\n\nIf that happened, he said he would \"take immediate action\" in Parliament along with other opposition parties to put pressure on the prime minister.\n\nBut Conservative chairman James Cleverly said Mr Corbyn could not say whether he would back Brexit even if the party negotiated its own deal.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn can't even make up his mind on the most important issue facing the country. He would delay Brexit until at least 2020 and even longer if the EU demand it.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was dealt a blow on Saturday when it emerged one of his aides, head of policy Andrew Fisher, revealed he will quit his post by the end of the year.\n\nHe said he wanted \"to spend more time with his young family\", but the Sunday Times claims he warned Mr Corbyn would not win the next general election and criticised the leader's office \"lack of professionalism, competence and human decency\".\n\nMr Corbyn acknowledged Mr Fisher, who helped write the 2017 manifesto, had expressed concerns about the party's direction and he had spoken to him \"at length\" about it.\n\nHe said Mr Fisher was \"extremely distressed\" when he made the comments, suggesting it was the sort of disagreement which happened in many workplaces.\n\n\"He is a great colleague, he is a great friend. We get along absolutely very well. He has promised whatever happens in the future, we will work together on policy issues.\"\n\nAmid continuing fallout from the bid to oust Mr Watson, Mr Corbyn also said he was not told beforehand of Friday's move by left-wingers on Labour's ruling body to abolish the role.\n\nThe party will now consult on replacing the single role with two deputies - one of whom will be a woman.\n\nMr Corbyn, who has been at odds with his deputy over Brexit, said he got on \"absolutely fine\" with him and suggested his intervention had \"put the issue to bed\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Tunnel: Scotland's secret fuel depot used during World War Two\n\nBeneath the hills of the Scottish Highlands lies one of the largest underground structures ever built by man.\n\nAcross Easter Ross it is known simply as The Tunnel.\n\nBuilt between 1938 and 1941 for use during World War Two, the Inchindown oil storage facility is comprised of six monstrous tanks - 778ft (237m) long, 30ft (9m) wide and 44ft (13m) high.\n\nThe now-empty tanks are accessible by two tunnels - providing you can stomach the stench of oil vapour while navigating your way through complete darkness.\n\nPhotographers Simon Riddell and David Allen were thrilled at the prospect.\n\nSimon, left, and Dave, right, camped overnight in the Inchindown tunnel to capture one perfect photograph\n\nThe two friends decided to explore The Tunnel as part of a project which would both stretch their physical limits and capture a piece of Scotland's often-forgotten history.\n\nThe challenge: To take a single useable shot of tank one without digital technology, process and print the film negative on location - all while recording the experience for a documentary.\n\nIt not only meant they had to slide through a narrow pipe to get access to the tank - they also had to spend one eerie night camped underground.\n\nSimon, 38, said: \"I've been a firefighter so I'm no stranger to uncomfortable places. But there was one time where I wasn't very comfortable.\n\n\"I had to take down all the gear before Dave arrived. I was using skateboards to transport things down, something made a noise and I just got a little bit worried.\n\n\"Even though you know you're the only person there - you've locked yourself in - but you're still in this dark, black place. It was a massive challenge.\"\n\nThe two had to slide through a narrow access pipe to get into the tank itself\n\nThe idea for the project came from Simon, who moved from Warwickshire to Nigg in the Highlands with his family at age 18.\n\nHe soon discovered the numerous World War Two military installations scattered around the Cromarty Firth. Underground bunkers, tunnels, searchlight positions and gun emplacements all protected the British fleet from enemy attack.\n\nThe history on his doorstep captured his imagination - but Simon credits his late father Keith for nurturing his sense of adventure.\n\nSimon said \"My dad was the inspiration for the idea. One of his pastimes was photography - we'd go out on adventures and I'd start shooting too.\n\n\"He was a thrillseeker like me and we were very close. When he died I found that photography helped in taking me away from things.\n\n\"We're dedicating the film to dad.\"\n\nThrillseeker Keith Riddell who passed away following a heart attack in 2016\n\nAs well as impaired vision, the structure of The Tunnel posed further problems for the two photographers.\n\nThe tanks, capable of holding 32 million gallons of fuel, were reported at full capacity during the Falklands - but are now empty. However, there are still signs warning any visitors to avoid all sources of ignition near the tanks in case of potential explosions.\n\nExcavated below private land at Inchindown hill, the facility also had to be partly rebuilt following a number of rock falls. The terrain combined with oil residue resulted in some precarious navigation over slippery surfaces.\n\nIt was named among the acoustic wonders of the world by Smithsonian Magazine as it holds the record for the longest reverberation in any man-made structure - a factor that made communication incredibly difficult.\n\nBeware of the 'warewolf' - an ominous note etched into the wall of one tunnel\n\nSimon said: \"If you were talking to someone four metres away you struggled to understand them. Then when came out of tank we were both very cold - the shot itself took an hour to do.\n\n\"We were mentally exhausted after that and when came back to set up, we found we were talking a load of rubbish.\n\n\"Stuff that would sound easy to do we were struggling with - I'm not sure if it was sensory deprivation.\"\n\nAfter serving its purpose The Tunnel was sold off in 1982. Plans to upgrade the depot for use by Nato were later abandoned and the site was closed by 2002.\n\nAlmost a decade later, guided tours of the facility were offered to the public and booked out within 90 minutes - they are no longer in operation and access is now controlled by a single keyholder.\n\nThe documentary One Shot: Inchindown chronicles Simon and Dave's journey down into the darkness as they successfully develop their print from an 1860s-style camera.\n\nSimon and Dave set up an improvised dark room in one of the access tunnels\n\nFunded by the Port of Cromarty Firth's community sponsorship programme, the film won 'best documentary' at the recent UK Monthly Film Festival.\n\nThe two friends hope their work might awaken interest in the secret depot once more.\n\nDavid, 36, added: \"Inchindown's historical significance cannot be underestimated - the facility was absolutely crucial in the UK defences in World War Two.\n\n\"Many residents will know something of the above ground banks and some may know about Inchindown, perhaps with some having older relatives that may have worked on the project.\n\n\"But there really isn't a lot of information available as regards a comprehensive tour that details both the raw infrastructure involved, and its purpose.\"\n\nThe film will be screened in Inverness in November.", "Mediator was banned after three decades of use\n\nA landmark French trial is due to begin to decide whether a diabetes pill prescribed for weight loss was behind the deaths of up to 2,000 people.\n\nServier, the drug's manufacturer, is accused of deceiving users over the killer side effects of a drug later used to treat overweight diabetics.\n\nBelieved to be one of France's biggest healthcare scandals, the firm is on trial for manslaughter and deceit.\n\nServier has denied the charges, saying it did not lie about the side effects.\n\nFrench health experts believe the drug known as Mediator could have killed anywhere between 500 and 2,000 people before it was finally taken off the market in 2009.\n\nThe country's state drug regulator, accused of not acting to prevent deaths and injuries, is also on trial.\n\nThe trial will involve more than 2,600 plaintiffs and 21 defendants, and is expected to run over the course of six months.\n\nIt will also look into why the drug, which was introduced in 1976, was allowed to sell for so long despite various warnings.\n\nLawyers representing the plaintiffs argue that the drug manufacturer purposely misled patients for decades, and that this was bolstered by lenient authorities.\n\nServier has been accused of profiting at least €1bn ($1.1bn, £880m) from the drug's sales.\n\n\"The trial comes as huge relief. Finally, we are to see the end of an intolerable scandal,\" Dr Irene Frachon, a pulmonologist credited with lifting the lid on the side effects, told Reuters news agency.\n\nDr Frachon's research drew on medical records across France and concluded that there was a clear pattern of heart valve problems among Mediator users. This prompted many more studies which ultimately led to the drug's ban.\n\nOne study concluded that 500 deaths could be linked to Mediator between 1976 and 2009. A second one put the figure at 2,000.\n\nThose numbers have been disputed by Servier, which has said that there are only three documented cases where death can be clearly attributed to the use of Mediator. In other cases, it says, aggravating factors were at work.\n\nServier has said it will continue to compensate victims and has paid almost €132m to patients.\n\n\"There is a series of circumstances highlighting how all this took place,\" a lawyer for the drug company told Reuters.\n\nSeveral European countries, like Spain and Italy, banned the drug in the early 2000s.\n\nBased on a molecule called benfluorex, Mediator was first developed in 1976 as a lipopenic - a drug to lower fat levels in the blood.\n\nLater, it was prescribed to diabetics to help them lose weight.\n\nBut as its appetite-suppressant properties were recognised, family doctors began offering Mediator as a general treatment. Anyone worried about putting on the pounds could be offered a course of the drug - even though legally it was authorised for diabetics alone.\n\nBy the time it was taken off the market, it is believed that some five million people had taken Mediator, making it among the 50 most-prescribed drugs in France.", "Aaron Thomson (left) and Dillin Armstrong were each jailed for 10 years\n\nAn armed gang who hunted a man down in an East Lothian street last Hogmanay have been jailed for up to 10 years each for attempted murder.\n\nRhys Reynolds, 26, was chased and attacked with knives, a metal pole and a rock in Delta Drive, Musselburgh.\n\nDillin Armstrong and Aaron Thomson were each jailed for 10 years. Dean Riding and Kane Reilly were each given an eight-year sentence.\n\nA 16-year-old, who cannot be named, was sentenced to seven years' detention.\n\nA sixth accused, Jayson Dodds, 19, was acquitted of attempted murder but found guilty of assault to injury. He was jailed for four years.\n\nMr Reynolds suffered 36 injuries including multiple wounds and facial fractures as well as bleeding to the brain.\n\nHe was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped on in addition to being assaulted with weapons during the murder bid on 31 December 2018.\n\nThomson, 20, Armstrong, 24, Reilly, 18, and the 16-year-old were all found guilty of attempted murder following a trial last month.\n\nRiding, 22, had earlier pleaded guilty to the murder bid and was the only one convicted of striking the victim with the rock or paving slab.\n\nAll of the gang were given a further three-year period of supervision after their custodial terms.\n\nJudge Gordon Liddle told them: \"The only difference between murder and attempted murder is that death did not result. What you have done is an outrage.\"\n\nJudge Liddle pointed out that the jury was repeatedly shown graphic footage of the crime which he condemned as \"a cowardly and vicious assault\".\n\nHe said five of them had pursued Mr Reynolds - with Dodds arriving later armed with a metal pole - before he fell and was subjected to a savage attack.\n\nThe judge said the attack ended with Riding picking up the rock or slab and throwing it down on the victim \"in what appears to be an attempt to finish him off\".\n\n\"Eyewitnesses repeatedly said they thought Rhys Reynolds was going to die. He is fortunate to be alive,\" he added.\n\nThe judge told the gang, during a heavily policed sentencing hearing, that background reports prepared on them repeated a story of troubled backgrounds and difficult upbringings.\n\nBut he added: \"Well, let me tell you not everyone who has a troubled background or difficult upbringing ends up being the sort of thugs you are.\"\n\nThe judge told the 16-year-old he was imposing an extended sentence of detention and further supervision on him as the public required to be protected from the \"callous disregard\" he had for the welfare of others.\n\nHe told Thomson, who has previous convictions for assault and public disorder, that he was clearly \"a violent individual\".\n\nAnd he told Armstrong, from Haddington, that he had \"an appalling record\", involving 18 offences over seven years.\n\nThe attack happened after a disturbance at a flat in Musselburgh.\n\nPart of the chase and attack was caught on CCTV which was shown during the earlier trial.\n\nDet Con Ryan Gilhooly, of Police Scotland, said: \"This was a horrifically violent attack by the men who showed complete disregard for the victim's life.\n\n\"Their brutal actions could have cost the man his life and this has been a complex inquiry to ensure those responsible have been brought to account for their actions.\n\n\"I'd like to thank the victim for his assistance throughout our inquiries and hope that the sentencing today will offer some comfort as he moves forward from his ordeal.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ayesha Tan-Jones protested against the designs with a message written on their hands\n\nA model staged a silent protest while walking in the Gucci show at Milan Fashion Week on Sunday.\n\nAyesha Tan-Jones and other models were dressed in white jumpsuits for the show, some resembling strait jackets.\n\nTan-Jones, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, wrote \"Mental health is not fashion\" on their hands.\n\nGucci said the designs were meant to represent \"how through fashion, power is exercised over life, to eliminate self-expression\".\n\nPosting on Instagram after the show, Tan-Jones wrote: \"Straitjackets are a symbol of a cruel time in medicine when mental illness was not understood, and people's rights and liberties were taken away from them, while they were abused and tortured in the institution.\n\n\"It is in bad taste for Gucci to use the imagery of straitjackets and outfits alluding to mental patients, while being rolled out on a conveyor belt as if a piece of factory meat.\"\n\nThe jumpsuits were designed to mimic straitjackets\n\nIn another post on Monday, Tan-Jones added that they, along with some of the other models in the show, were donating a portion of the fees they were paid by Gucci to mental health charities.\n\n\"Many of the other Gucci models who were in the show felt just as strongly as I did about this depiction of straitjackets, and without their support I would not have had the courage to walk out and peacefully protest,\" they said.\n\nIn response, Gucci said the jackets were meant to be an antidote to the colourful designs in the rest of the Spring/Summer 2020 show.\n\n\"These clothes were a statement for the fashion show and will not be sold,\" Gucci said.\n\nTan-Jones's protest comes just months after Gucci appointed a diversity chief, Renée Tirado, prompted by two incidents earlier in the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In February we asked, are controversial ads for fashion brands accident or design?\n\nIn February, Gucci was forced to withdraw a jumper after critics said it resembled a blackface minstrel. The black balaclava jumper, which was being sold for n $890 (£715), covered half of the model's face and had large red lips knitted onto it.\n\nThen in May, the fashion house was accused of cultural appropriation for a $790 headpiece that looked like a Sikh turban. It attracted criticism from the US-based Sikh Coalition, which tweeted: \"The Sikh turban is not just a fashion accessory, but it's also a sacred religious article of faith.\"", "Keeley Bunker, of Tamworth, was reported missing earlier in the evening of 19 September\n\nA 19-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found in Staffordshire woodland.\n\nPolice say a body found near the Roman Way area of Tamworth on Thursday night is that of 20-year-old Keeley Bunker, although formal identification has yet to take place.\n\nWesley Streete, of Tamworth, will appear before North Staffordshire Justice Centre on Monday.\n\nMs Bunker's family are being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\nOn Saturday, police investigating the cause of Ms Bunker's death described it as \"unexplained.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination was due to be carried out over the weekend.\n\nMs Bunker, of Tamworth, was reported missing earlier in the evening of 19 September.\n\nStaffordshire Police said any information or footage that could help them with the case can be uploaded to their website, anonymously if required.\n\nFloral tributes have been left near to where the body was found.\n\nFloral tributes have been left near to where Ms Bunker's body was found\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sally Challen killed her husband Richard in 2010 after 31 years of living in an abusive marriage.\n\nFollowing a successful appeal her murder charge was reduced to manslaughter with diminished responsibility in June.\n\nHaving already served nearly nine years in prison, she was able to walk free.\n\nShe told Victoria Derbyshire what happened the day she struck her husband with a hammer and of her regret at killing the man she loved.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "What do we know about Emily Doe? We know she was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner outside a frat party at Stanford University, California, one night in January 2015. She was found unconscious and partly-clothed, near a dumpster.\n\nHe would get a six-month term, for sexually assaulting an intoxicated victim, sexually assaulting an unconscious victim and attempting to rape her.\n\nHe would serve three months and be put on probation for three years, ending this month. Judge Aaron Persky, who was later removed from his post, cited Turner's good character and the fact he had been drinking.\n\nMuch of the coverage at the time also focused on the fact Turner was a star swimmer.\n\nWhat do we know about Chanel Miller? Maybe you don't know a lot, yet. If you've read the victim impact statement she addressed to Turner, which went viral when she was still known as Emily Doe to protect her anonymity, you'll know she is brave and articulate.\n\nHere is what you should know about Chanel.\n\nShe is a literature graduate, who has now written a book, Know My Name. She is a talented artist and would love to illustrate children's books, her drawings being a little surreal and - by her own description - sinister. She has also studied ceramics and comic books, and done stand-up comedy.\n\nShe loves dogs. She describes herself as shy. She is half-Chinese, her Chinese name being Zhang Xiao Xia (with Xia sounding like \"sha\", the first syllable of Chanel). She smiles easily, is thoughtful and funny. She is someone's daughter, sister, girlfriend. She could be someone you know.\n\nWarning: This story contains content that readers may find distressing\n\nChanel's memoir brims with the rage of her ordeal. But why write it, when it meant reliving her pain, reading the court documents and witness statements that had been - until then - kept from her?\n\nShe says she felt a duty to shine a light on the darkness so many young women have to go through.\n\n\"I've had days where it's extremely difficult to get up in the morning,\" says Chanel, 27, speaking in her home city of San Francisco. \"I've had days where I really could not imagine a single pathway forward. And those were such weighing times.\n\n\"And it was terrible. I wouldn't draw anything, I wouldn't write anything. All I wanted to do is sleep so that I wouldn't have to be conscious. That's no way to live.\n\n\"I think of other young women who have to go through this and you see them withdraw and crumble and fall away from the things that they love. And I just think - how, how do we let that happen?\"\n\nHer voice is articulate and clear but it vibrates with emotion, and quiet fury, at the injustice of this happening to other women around the world. An endless parade of other people who know what it is to be Emily Doe.\n\n\"Here are these young, talented women excited for their futures, who have so many things to give and offer. And something like this happens,\" says Chanel. \"And they go home, and they carry the shame, and they swallow it up and it eats them from the inside out.\n\n\"And they think 'everything would be better off if I was just holed up in my room', 'maybe things would be better if I didn't speak at all'. 'Maybe I don't deserve to be loved or caressed gently'.\n\n\"It's so sick, that we let this happen. That we let them digest these negative ideas of themselves. And let them be isolated. Instead of coaxing them back out here and saying, no, you deserve a full life. You deserve an amazing future.\"\n\nChanel wasn't a university student at the time - she had already graduated. Her younger sister Tiffany was back home for the weekend and had asked if she wanted to go along to a party with her.\n\nBut her story expanded the conversation about campus rape and she wants to see changes at Stanford University specifically, like the fact forensic exams can't be given at Stanford hospital, with victims having to travel 40 miles.\n\n\"Do you get an Uber for 40 minutes with a stranger while you're still in the clothes you were just attacked in? Do you text your one friend who has a car and disclose that information?\"\n\nMany women came forward after reading Chanel's victim impact statement, emboldened to tell their own stories - in some cases for the first time.\n\nRAINN - the rape, abuse and incest national network, the largest anti-sexual violence organisation in the US - puts the figure at one in six US women being the victim of an attempted, or completed, rape. Every 92 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Out of every 1,000 sexual assaults, 995 perpetrators will walk free.\n\nThink of how many women you walk past each day. Think of one in every six.\n\n\"We always say like, oh, why didn't she come forward? Why didn't she report?\" says Chanel.\n\n\"Because there's no system for her to report to. Why should she have faith in us to take care of her if she comes forward? We need to be doing more to help survivors after this happens.\"\n\nWhen Turner was sentenced, the crime was not described as rape - but the law in California has since changed, as a result of Chanel's case.\n\nThere is now a mandatory three year minimum prison sentence for penetrating an unconscious person or an intoxicated person, Chanel's attorney Alaleh Kianerci explains. Another piece of legislation was written to expand the definition of rape to include any kind of penetration (\"The trauma experienced by survivors cannot be measured by what exactly was put inside them without their consent,\" she argued, in her support of the bill).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe had felt so beaten down by the court case (\"I just felt degraded and empty all the time,\" she says) and the shock of Turner's sentence that when her lawyer asked her permission to release her victim impact statement, she just said \"sure, if you think it'd be helpful\". She thought it would end up on a community forum or local newspaper website - never imagining the impact it would have.\n\nWhen her statement came out, originally published in full on Buzzfeed, it received 11 million views in four days and Chanel was sent hundreds and hundreds of letters and gifts from around the world.\n\nShe read them all, saying they \"taught me to be gentler to myself, taught me who I was to them\", adding: \"I was learning to see myself through them.\"\n\nShe even got a letter from the White House - Joe Biden, then vice-president, telling her: \"You have given them the strength they need to fight. And so, I believe, you will save lives.\"\n\nAs she was anonymous, it was common for friends to forward the statement to her, unaware she had written it. Chanel's therapist knew she had been sexually assaulted but did not know her identity as Emily Doe for months, asking her: \"Have you read the Stanford victim statement?\"\n\nCourts hear from cases like Chanel's all the time - it's just the names, the places, the details change. So what made her story, her pain, resonate so widely?\n\n\"Maybe not shying away from the darkest parts,\" Chanel says. \"I think it feels almost like a relief when someone acknowledges your darkness because you feel like it's this ugly, dirty thing you need to be concealing.\n\n\"If you show it, people are going to cringe and back away. I could communicate all of these difficult feelings and be open about them and just lay them out and not feel shame for experiencing them.\"\n\nHaving been through the court system, Chanel said she felt she had a responsibility to report back, to show others what it is like.\n\n\"I know that for me, I had so many, quote unquote, advantages,\" she says. \"I had my rape kit done [a sexual assault forensic evidence kit]. I had the assistance of policemen and nurses. I had an advocate that was assigned to me, I had a prosecutor, I had all the things you're supposed to have.\n\n\"And I still found it so excruciatingly difficult and emotionally damaging and going through it. I thought, 'if this is what it looks like, to be well equipped going into this, how the hell is anyone else supposed to survive this process?'.\n\n\"I felt that I had a duty to write about what it's like inside the windowless walls of a courtroom, what the internal landscape is like, what it's like to sit on that stand and be attacked with this meaningless interrogation.\"\n\nWriting the book also allowed her access to the court documents and thousands of pages of transcripts she had not been present for.\n\nWhile elucidating, it was also deeply painful, knowing what not just the court - but her family and friends had heard and seen.\n\n\"It was extremely difficult. I put it off for a really long time. Finally, I thought well, I have to look into them.\n\n\"I would read about Brock and the defence talking about, play by play, taking off my underwear, putting his fingers inside…,\" she stops, before adding: \"It was so graphic and suffocating, to read about myself being verbally undressed again.\n\n\"And to imagine it all happening in a courtroom where everyone's just listening and nobody's doing anything. I could not stomach it.\"\n\n\"There's a lot of power in being able to craft the narrative again\"\n\nIt caused her anger and \"self-induced depression\" but says there was \"this wonderful moment where I'm like, all of these voices in these transcripts are literally in my hands, I can pick them up and put them down. But I own all of them. I get to pick out whichever words I want and assemble them how I want\".\n\n\"There is a lot of power in being able to craft the narrative again,\" she adds.\n\nKnow My Name brims with the trauma Chanel experienced - from waking up not knowing what had happened, to learning details of the assault from news reports, to finally telling her parents, to breaking down in court. As she says, \"writing is the way I process the world\".\n\nChanel only chose to reveal her name six months ago, having started writing the book in 2017.\n\nShe says the burden of secrecy had become too much for her - 90% of people who knew her didn't know her other identity.\n\nChanel, drawing at her home in San Francisco\n\nFriends thought she was still doing her 9-5 office job. So she had former colleagues (\"my suppliers\", she smiles) feed her snippets of information. \"In the beginning that was so important for self-preservation and processing and privacy,\" she says. \"But over time, you feel really diminished. And I think it's important to be able to live my full truth.\"\n\nShe expected the day, earlier this month, when she came out as Chanel to be \"stormy\". But it was, in the end, a moment of deep calm and strength.\n\n\"It turned out to be the most peaceful day I've had in the last four-and-a-half years,\" says Chanel. \"I suddenly realised, I've come out on the other side of this.\"\n\nShe doesn't feel Turner - who denied all of the charges - has acknowledged what he did.\n\n\"You know, at the sentencing, he read 10 sentences of apology,\" she says. \"It sounded generic to me.\n\n\"And it really made me question what we're doing in the criminal justice system, because if he's not even learning, then really what is the point? If he had transformed himself, then I think I would have been much more forgiving of the sentence.\n\n\"I am really interested in self-growth and understanding that the fact that he deviated so far from that, and was never forced to do any kind of introspection, or to really look at the way he affected me, that really hurt.\"\n\nWe applaud Chanel Miller's bravery in telling her story publicly, and we deeply regret that she was sexually assaulted on the Stanford campus. As a university, we are continuing and strengthening our efforts to prevent and respond effectively to sexual violence, with the ultimate goal of eradicating it from our community.\n\nThe closest location for a SART [sexual assault response team] exam is at Valley Medical Center in San Jose. We have long agreed on the need for a closer location and have committed to provide space at Stanford Hospital for SART exams. Santa Clara County, which runs the SART program, is working to train sufficient nurses to staff it.\n\nMuch of the criticism towards Judge Aaron Persky was about the relatively lenient sentence given to Turner - sparking a national debate about whether white men from wealthy backgrounds were treated more favourably by the US justice system.\n\n\"Privilege is not having to reckon with his own actions to examine his effects on someone who is not him,\" says Chanel.\n\n\"You know, we have young men of colour serving far longer sentences for nonviolent crimes for having marijuana possession. It's ridiculous.\n\n\"I just kept thinking, where does the punishment come in? When are you forced to be held accountable for what you do in life and not just float through, as if anything you do can never hurt anybody, and you will not be affected by it.\n\n\"I think what bothers me the most is that there's never the suggestion that the victim was also busy having a life before this happened.\n\n\"We have our own agendas and goals, and don't appreciate being completely thrown off the rails when this happens. And when people say, why didn't she report? It's like, casually asking, why didn't she stop everything she was doing to attend to something that she never wanted to attend to in the first place?\"\n\nTurner attempted to have his convictions overturned last year, but his appeal was rejected. He remains on the sex offenders register. Turner was banned from the university and is now living with his parents in Ohio.\n\nAsked whether she would like Turner and his family to read the book, she says: \"If they choose to read it, and really hear it, I will always encourage that. I will always encourage learning and deeper understanding.\n\n\"But I've also accepted that what they do is out of my control, that I can only focus on my own trajectory and how I wish to keep moving forward. Mainly, I want the book to exist as a companion.\n\n\"I think of it as something you can carry with you and you go through difficult things, something you can physically hold or read in bed late at night, when you feel isolated. I always thought like, what would I have needed to hear when I was going through this?\"\n\nA letter from Chanel explaining that drawing kept her afloat in her dark times - and an illustration she drew over the top of a photograph she took in Vietnam\n\nShe holds a space in her heart for the two Swedish students - Peter Jonsson and Carl-Fredrik Arndt - who stopped the assault, having seen what was happening as they cycled past.\n\nChanel drew a picture of two bikes and slept with it above her bed after the assault, a talisman to remind her there was hope out there.\n\nShe's since met the pair for dinner. \"I always like to say 'be the Swede'. Show up for the vulnerable, do your part, help each other and face the darkest parts alongside survivors.\n\n\"I think the response I've been getting makes it sound like people are willing to step up now and really fight for what's right. And that's extremely encouraging.\"\n\nNow the book is out in the world, Chanel plans to decide what to do with the next phase of her life. But she does so with the hope and belief that the good in the world outweighs the bad.\n\n\"On the same night I was assaulted, I was also saved,\" she muses. \"There was a really terrible thing that happened - and also a really wonderful thing. They say you shouldn't meet your heroes - but in this case you definitely should.\"\n\nAsked what she plans to do now, Chanel says: \"I want to write books for kids, for their ripe brains and juicy hearts, which have not yet learned to be dark and serious and drab. I've had a bumpy few years, but I have lots of hope. I feel like my life is always beginning.\"\n\nIn the UK, the rape crisis national freephone helpline is 0808 802 9999. In the US, the national sexual assault hotline is 1-800-656-4673. Further information and support for anyone affected by sexual assault can be found through BBC Action Line\n\nKnow My Name is published in the US and the UK on 24 September", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has told teenage girls in a deprived part of South Africa she is with them \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".\n\nMeghan was visiting a women and children's centre in Nyanga township alongside her husband, Prince Harry.\n\nIt's the pair's first official overseas tour with four-month-old son, Archie.\n\nSpeaking at the centre, which is in an area with a high crime rate, the duchess praised its work to counter violence against women and children.\n\nAnd she added: \"And just on one personal note, may I just say that while I'm here with my husband as a member of the Royal Family... I am here with you as a mother, as a wife, as a woman, as a woman of colour and as your sister.\"\n\nHer comments come amid a recent spike in violence against women which has ignited protests in many areas of South Africa.\n\nApproximately 2,700 women and 1,000 children were murdered by men in the country last year. At least 100 rapes were also reported daily.\n\nDuring the visit to the Justice Desk in Nyanga Prince Harry told the crowds that \"no man is born to cause harm to women\" and this was \"a cycle that needs to be broken\".\n\n\"It's about redefining masculinity,\" he said. \"It's about creating your own footprints for your children to follow in, so that you can make a positive change for the future.\"\n\nMeghan said the work of the centre, which includes teaching children about their rights and how to deal with trauma, was needed \"more than ever\".\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa has called for urgent action to counter violence and pledged £60m for measures including public education, strengthening the criminal justice system, increasing sentences for perpetrators of sexual offences and providing better care for victims.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited a project which supports women and children in a Cape Town township\n\nThe couple learned about the work of the Justice Desk, a human rights organisation which supports children in the Nyanga township\n\nDuring the visit, Meghan danced with performers after one woman, Lilitha Mazana, took her hand.\n\nThe 23-year-old dancer from the Nyanga arts centre said Meghan was \"a good dancer\" and \"very nice\".\n\n\"Her dancing is fantastic - I've been dancing 10 years,\" she added.\n\nThe NGO visited by the couple is supported by the Queen's Commonwealth Trust\n\nLater the couple visited a museum dedicated to Cape Town's District Six - once a multi-ethnic neighbourhood that was bulldozed by the apartheid authorities in the 1960s to create racial segregation.\n\nBaby Archie did not accompany his parents on either of the opening two trips, but he was pictured wearing a bobble hat as the family arrived at Cape Town airport.\n\nIn May, the Justice Desk charity, which the royal couple visited on Monday, welcomed the birth of baby Archie with a video message on Twitter.\n\n\"As a proudly South African gift to baby Archie we want to give him the name 'Ntsika',\" the message said.\n\nThe charity said the South African name means \"bold and brave\" - the same meaning as Archie.\n\nThe royal couple's arrival was marked with cheers, song and dance, but this visit is a serious one.\n\nSexual violence and violent crimes are the norm here in Nyanga township, with children and women often the most exposed in what is considered the murder capital of South Africa.\n\nThe duke and duchess were taken on a tour of a the NGO Justice Desk centre and talked in private to young women who've survived violence to learn more about what can be done to bring about change.\n\nIn impoverished communities such as this one across the country, local projects are often the only help people have to access justice and educational opportunities.\n\nThe couple wanted to visit Nyanga to learn more about the work the young people of this community are doing to try and better their lives, against such incredible and difficult odds.\n\nLoud cheers and well-wishers greeted the couple outside the museum\n\nThe couple delved into the history of apartheid, which divided people by their skin colour\n\nThe duke is set to visit Angola later in the tour, where he will mark the legacy of his mother\n\nIn a post on the Sussex Royal Instagram account ahead of the tour, the duke said he could not wait to introduce his wife and son to South Africa.\n\nThe family arrived in Cape Town on a BA commercial flight to begin the 10-day tour of southern Africa.\n\nWhile the duchess and Archie will spend the duration in South Africa, Prince Harry will also tour Angola, Malawi and Botswana before being reunited with his family in Johannesburg.\n\nIn Angola, he will mark the legacy of his mother, the Princess of Wales, paying homage to her 1997 campaign to outlaw landmines.\n\nIn Malawi he will pay tribute to a British soldier killed by an elephant during anti-poaching operations.\n\nHis visit will also focus on efforts to protect endangered animals.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"The Duke of Sussex's love for Africa is well known; he first visited the continent at the age of 13, and more than two decades later the people, culture, wildlife and resilient communities continue to inspire and motivate him every day.\"\n\nPrince Harry's first trip to Africa came in the months after his mother's death in 1997, when the Prince of Wales took him to the continent \"to get away from it all\", he has said.\n\nIt is the duchess's first visit to South Africa.", "An estimated 8.4 million people in England are living in an unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable home, according to the National Housing Federation.\n\nThe federation said analysis suggests the housing crisis was impacting all ages across every part of the country.\n\nIt includes people facing issues such as overcrowded housing or being unable to afford their rent or mortgage.\n\nThe government said housing was \"a priority\" and it had delivered 430,000 affordable homes since 2010.\n\nThe research, carried out by Heriot-Watt University on behalf of the federation, used data from the annual Understanding Society survey of 40,000 people by the University of Essex.\n\nThe figures were scaled up to reflect England's total population of nearly 56 million.\n\nSome people may have more than one of these housing problems, the federation said.\n\nPeople were considered to be living in overcrowded homes if a child had to share their bedroom with two or more children, sleep in the same room as their parents, or share with a teenager who was not the same sex as them.\n\nHomes where an adult had to share their bedroom with someone other than a partner were also considered overcrowded.\n\nAfter her relationship with her husband broke down, Anna spent five months trying to find somewhere to live with her four-year-old daughter in south-east London.\n\nAlthough she was working full-time in social care, she was shocked at how difficult it was to find someone who would rent to a single parent.\n\nEven when Anna found somewhere she felt she could afford, landlords would not consider her because her income was less than three-and-a-half times the monthly rent, while others refused to let to someone with a child.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible,\" the 36-year-old told the BBC.\n\n\"I remember seeing one house for £1,400 a month which was literally a corridor in a basement - it was so mouldy and humid.\n\n\"But they still said I didn't earn enough to be able to afford it.\"\n\n\"It made me feel really powerless and frustrated,\" she added.\n\nAnna said she was \"losing all hope\" when a friend offered to rent a house to her below market rate.\n\n\"I don't know what I would have done if a friend hadn't been able to help me out when I needed it,\" she said, adding that she still doesn't feel completely secure.\n\n\"I just have no idea what I'll do if my friend needs to rent her house out at full price in the future.\"\n\nThe report also estimated that around 3.6 million people could only afford to live decently if they were in social housing - almost double the number on the government's official social housing waiting list.\n\nSocial housing rents are on average 50% cheaper than from private landlords, contracts are more secure and many properties are designed specifically for older people with mobility issues, the federation said.\n\nIt said the country needed 340,000 new homes every year, including 145,000 social homes, to meet the housing demand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is social housing and why do we have it?\n\nKate Henderson, Chief Executive at the National Housing Federation, called for \"a return to proper funding for social housing\".\n\n\"From Cornwall to Cumbria, millions of people are being pushed into debt and poverty because rent is too expensive, children can't study because they have no space in their overcrowded homes, and many older or disabled people are struggling to move around their own home because it's unsuitable,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said in 2018 the government built more homes than in all but one of the last 31 years.\n\nIt has also cracked down on rogue landlords, banned unfair letting fees and capped deposits - saving renters at least £240m a year, he added.", "The awards will be under review\n\nThe Brit Awards say they will review the way they distribute prizes, with one option being the abolition of separate male and female categories.\n\nBut reports that gendered awards have already been axed are \"based on rumour and speculation\", organisers said.\n\n\"We can 100% confirm that there will be male and female awards in the UK and international categories in February 2020,\" they told the BBC.\n\nThe statement was issued after a story in The Sunday Times at the weekend.\n\nThe paper said organisers wanted to accommodate non-binary artists - who identify as neither male nor female - and that scrapping gender-specific categories was a likely outcome.\n\nThe report came a week after pop star Sam Smith asked fans to call them by the pronouns \"they/them\", not \"he/him\".\n\n\"After a lifetime of being at war with my gender I've decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out,\" they wrote on Instagram.\n\nSam Smith has won three Brit Awards - although none of them were in the best male category\n\nMany other artists have rejected the traditional constraints of gender, including Christine + The Queens, King Princess, Kim Petras, Sophie and Anohni (formerly Antony and the Johnsons).\n\nBut the Brit Awards would not be the first ceremony to scrap separate male and female prizes.\n\nThe National Television Awards (NTAs) first changed its best actor and actress categories to best drama performance and best serial drama performance in 2008; and the Grammys scrapped male and female awards in 2012.\n\nIn 2017, the MTV Movie Awards also went gender neutral, with Emma Watson becoming the first recipient of its \"best movie performance\" prize.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, the Harry Potter star praised the decision to merge the categories.\n\n\"With acting, you put yourself in someone else's shoes,\" she said. \"The only distinction should be between each outstanding performance.\"\n\nBut rumours of the Brit Awards shake-up prompted an outburst from Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan, who accused organisers of \"wrecking\" their reputation.\n\n\"I suspect what will happen is male performers will end up winning all of the awards than the women. The whole point of having the gender categories is to make it fair and equal, now we're going the other way and that apparently is progress. I think it's a load of nonsense.\"\n\nHowever, the history of the MTV Music Awards suggests otherwise.\n\nSince they replaced separate best male and best female prizes with an overall best artist award in 2017, the winners have been Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello and Ariana Grande.\n\nAt the National TV Awards, the best drama performance prize has been shared equally between men and women, with recipients including David Tennant, Richard Madden, Suranne Jones and Sheridan Smith.\n\nOrganised by trade body the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the Brits have awarded prizes along gender lines since their inception in 1977.\n\nAlthough that will not change next year, Award organisers did concede there would be \"significant changes\" that would \"involve more music and some category changes\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Richard Leonard was speaking to the Sunday Politics Scotland programme\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has said his party should have a clear policy to remain in the EU.\n\nSpeaking on the Sunday Politics Scotland programme, he said \"clarity\" was need before Labour put its case to voters.\n\nThe Scottish government has, meanwhile, asked for further funding to cope with a possible no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe UK government said money would be available where Scotland faces disproportionate costs.\n\nIn his television interview, Mr Leonard called for Labour to say its preference was to remain in the European Union.\n\n\"We recognise there are parts of the UK - and the overall result was to leave,\" he said.\n\n\"But I do think that we need clarity in our position.\n\n\"So you would expect me to be arguing, as I am, that means we need to be clearer in our position going into any public vote.\"\n\nMr Leonard added: \"The Scottish Labour party took a decision frankly in the wake of the European party election results that we needed to be much clearer, that we needed much greater clarity about the position that we were taking.\n\n\"For that reason the Scottish executive of the Labour party backed my proposal that we call for an affirmative vote that any deal should go back to the public; secondly, that on that vote there should be a remain option; and thirdly, that we would campaign unambiguously for remain.\"\n\nHis comments came as the Scottish government said more money would be needed if the UK crashed out of the EU without a deal.\n\nIt has requested £52m from a contingency fund to prepare for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMoney from the EU Exit Operational Contingency Fund has been made available ahead of Britain's departure from the European Union on 31 October.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay reiterated the Scottish government's opposition to any form of Brexit.\n\nHe also asked that additional costs associated with it are met including those beyond the end of next month.\n\nMr Mackay said: \"The UK government now seems to be actively pursuing a 'no-deal' outcome which is utterly unacceptable and must be avoided at all costs.\n\n\"We have requested £52m from the UK government's fund to help us prepare for a 'no-deal' outcome.\n\n\"This is the minimum requirement for operational activity but the real costs of a 'no-deal' Brexit will massively outweigh these and further funding will be required.\"\n\nHe also said leaving the EU was not Scotland's choice and called for any related costs to be covered by the UK government.\n\nMr Mackay added: \"The Scottish government should not have to cut spending on public services to fund Brexit preparations.\n\n\"As a responsible government, we are already taking steps to protect jobs and our economy from a 'no-deal' Brexit and we will set out those plans to parliament shortly but we are facing additional and disproportionate costs to mitigate the impact of such an outcome.\n\n\"We will continue make the case for staying in the EU and will stand firm against efforts to take us out against our will.\"\n\nThe request includes funding to support the effect of no-deal on rural communities, increased demand on Marine Scotland and Police Scotland activities, additional communication to EU citizens in the country, and poverty mitigation measures.\n\nA Scottish Conservatives spokesman said: \"In 2016, the UK electorate voted to leave the EU.\n\n\"Only the Scottish Conservatives have worked to prevent no-deal by supporting a deal.\n\n\"The SNP were given £92m for our councils to prepare for Brexit.\n\n\"Yet there is no evidence Scottish local authorities have received anything at all.\"\n\nIt comes after Scotland's chief economist on Friday predicted a potential £2bn loss of investment because of Brexit.\n\nForecasts up to April 2020 in the Scottish government's quarterly State of the Economy Report show £500m of investment could be wiped out if uncertainty continues with the figure rising by the end of the year.\n\nA spokeswoman for the UK government said: \"We have allocated the Scottish government nearly £140m in funding for EU exit preparation.\n\n\"We will consider the Scottish government's further bid under the £1bn Operational Contingency Fund in the usual way.\"", "Columba McVeigh, 19, from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, was kidnapped in November 1975\n\nThe sister of a man who was murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in 1975 has said her family is in \"torment\" after another search for his body has ended without success.\n\nColumba McVeigh, 19, from Donaghmore in County Tyrone, was one of 16 murder victims known as the Disappeared, who were killed and secretly buried.\n\nA new search for his body in Bragan Bog in County Monaghan ended on Sunday.\n\n\"Someone knows where he is,\" his sister Dympna Kerr said.\n\nShe said: \"It's impossible to describe the continuing pain and torment of another year passing and another search ending with Columba still lying in some desolate unmarked hole in the ground where he was left by his murderers.\n\n\"What cause is served by denying an ordinary Catholic family a funeral Mass for over 40 years?\" she added\n\nDespite numerous searches, three of the Disappeared have never been found.\n\nThe search was being undertaken by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR).\n\nOn Monday, Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin said that he was \"saddened and disappointed\" that the latest search for Columba's body had been unsuccessful.\n\nIn a statement, he added: \"Columba's family have suffered too much pain, distress and anxiety over the years.\"\n\n\"I appeal to those carrying long-held secrets, from what were awful, terrible times, to share what information they have.\"\n\nThe most recent search took place for the teenager's remains at a section of Bragan Bog last September and was temporarily stopped in November. It recommenced in June.\n\nSeveral previous searches in the bog have failed to uncover his remains.\n\nJon Hill is a senior investigator with the ICLVR\n\nSenior investigator with the ICLVR, Jon Hill, said it was a \"bitter blow to the family\".\n\nHe said that they had done \"absolutely everything (they) could in often difficult circumstances\".\n\n\"If Columba had been here we would have found him,\" he added.\n\nLead forensic scientist, Geoff Knupfer, said everyone in the republican movement the ICLVR had spoken to had been \"adamant that Columba was buried where they told us he was\".\n\n\"We have no reason to believe that we have been deliberately mislead,\" he added.\n\nHe said there was the \"possibility\" that at some point Mr Veigh's remains had been removed from their original site and buried somewhere else.\n\nThe search took place at Bragan Bog in County Monaghan\n\n\"If he was moved than we need someone who has knowledge of that to come forward,\" he added.\n\nIn May, it emerged a reward of almost £50,000 is being offered for new information that results in finding the bodies of the Disappeared.\n\nThe anonymous donation of $60,000 (£47,191) was given to the independent UK charity Crimestoppers.\n\nThe ICLVR was set up to obtain information that may lead to where the bodies of the Disappeared are buried.\n\nInformation it receives is strictly confidential and is not passed to other agencies or used in prosecutions.\n\nMr McVeigh's brother Oliver said he was \"devastated\" and \"angry\".\n\n\"Angry that people who have information are watching us suffer and are doing nothing,\" he added.", "Angela Rayner said Labour would take action in its first budget\n\nLabour party members have voted to commit the party to integrate private schools into the state sector.\n\nThe motion calls for funds and properties held by private schools to be \"redistributed democratically and fairly\" to other schools.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said it would help build \"a more cohesive and equal society\".\n\nBut Boris Johnson called it a \"pointless attack\" on education, based on a \"long-buried socialist ideology\".\n\nThe vote by members signals a desire for the policy to be included in the next Labour Party general election manifesto.\n\nSpeaking at the party's conference in Brighton, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said \"tax loopholes\" that benefit private schools would be scrapped by a Labour government in its first Budget.\n\nThat includes the withdrawal of charitable status, other public subsidies and tax privileges.\n\nShe said the money saved would \"improve the lives of all children\".\n\nUniversities would also have to admit the same proportion of private school students as in the wider population.\n\nMs Rayner said she would task the Social Mobility Commission - which the party would rename the Social Justice Commission - with \"integrating private schools\".\n\nMr McDonnell said every part of the policy would be carried out on a \"consultation basis\", and that he could not see the use of \"draconian measures\" to enforce it.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It will enable us to not only provide every child with the best opportunities in life, but also to build a more cohesive and equal society in which we live together much more productively.\"\n\nIndependent schools said the idea they were elitist was a myth\n\nProposing the motion at the party's conference, Ryan Quick said the education system must offer fair opportunities for all and not reward a privileged few based on their parents' wealth.\n\nThe \"old boys' network\" originating in private schools was holding the country back, he argued, and the media was failing to challenge the \"false consensus\" on the issue.\n\nHe called for the \"wonderful resources\" that private schools had at their disposal - including historic endowments originally intended to help the poor - to be made available to all.\n\nEx-teacher John Wiseman, a member of the Unite union, said the number of privately educated MPs in the cabinet showed the extent of the problem facing the country.\n\n\"How can it be right in 21st Century Britain to still have a feudal education system where a privileged few receive tax-subsidised education on the back of ordinary working people?\n\n\"But rather than abolish these aberrations, this government continues to push further privatisation through the academy and free schools network.\"\n\nCalling for an end to private schools and all their privileges might get a big cheer at the Labour conference.\n\nBut the others who might be cheering even more loudly are those in the legal profession.\n\nBecause threatening independent schools with the \"redistribution\" of their assets will mean complex legal battles about ownership and rights.\n\nThe Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, representing a group of independent schools, has already promised that Labour's plans would be \"tested in the courts for years to come\".\n\nPrivate schools and their charitable trusts would challenge why they were being singled out for such confiscations.\n\nWhy not other forms of non-state education - whether it's nurseries, private tutors, professional training, universities or driving schools for that matter?\n\nApart from property rights, there would be questions about human rights.\n\nHow can you stop a parent choosing to pay someone to teach their child?\n\nImposing a 7% cap on private school pupil entry to universities would put a serious squeeze on the appeal of independent schools.\n\nBut it would also mean taking a crowbar to the principle of university autonomy.\n\nSo perhaps the least dramatic part of the plan - cutting charitable status and tax benefits - would be the most likely to go ahead.\n\nThere are other practical considerations. How would the state sector absorb another almost 600,000 pupils?\n\nIt would be like adding the school population of Wales - with estimates of an extra £3.5bn per year on state school budgets.\n\nBut the fact that this motion has gone ahead shows the underlying disquiet about the lack of social mobility and widening inequalities.\n\nAnd private schools have become the symbolic battleground.\n\nThe Independent Schools Council said parents would be \"rightly worried\" at what Labour was proposing, saying it \"put politics before the interests of children\" and was potentially a breach of the European Convention of Human Rights.\n\n\"The move is an attack on the rights and freedoms of parents to make choices over the education of their children,\" said its chief executive Julie Robinson.\n\n\"This decision is an ideological distraction from dealing with the real problems in education.\n\n\"We all want to see more funding for state schools and greater support for underperforming pupils, which is precisely why we encourage all schools to work together in the interests of every child.\"\n\nThe Independent Schools Association said some private schools undoubtedly needed to do more to justify their charitable status.\n\nBut it said absorbing private schools into the state sector would push up class sizes and potentially leave a \"devastating\" hole in special needs provision currently not paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"If integration occurred, teachers in the private sector wouldn't choose to transfer into the state sector, even when pay and pensions are higher in state schools, as if often the case,\" said its chief executive Neil Roskilly.\n\n\"There's already a major teacher shortage that can't be addressed.\"\n\nOn the second day of its conference, Labour also unveiled a plan to scrap Ofsted and replace it with a new school inspection system.", "Thomas Cook passenger Mary Nicholls (right), on holiday with her grandson Matt Walker, fears running out of her heart condition medication if she is stranded in Cyprus.\n\nThomas Cook customers have told the BBC of their fears over unpaid hotel bills, cancelled trips and being stranded abroad following the collapse of the tour operator in the early hours of Monday morning.\n\nFor one British family on holiday in Cyprus, the firm's failure means a wedding marred by uncertainty, and worries over vital medication.\n\nGrandmother Mary Nichols, 87, has a heart condition and only enough medication to last until Wednesday - the day her prescription runs out.\n\nGrandson Matt Walker, 23, paid Thomas Cook about £1,100 by debit card for flights and hotel accommodation for Ms Nichols and his mother Sarah, 53, so they could attend his brother's wedding in Paphos on Tuesday.\n\nBut the family's excitement has turned to fears they could be stranded, after staff at the Kefalonitis hotel apartments said Thomas Cook had not yet paid for their stay.\n\nMr Walker, from Poynton, in Cheshire, said: \"We are unsure what to expect from the hotel. They've got our passports and told us they have not been paid by Thomas Cook.\n\n\"We're the only Thomas Cook passengers here, and they're not taking any more. We're not sure if they [the hotel] wants extra money.\n\n\"My nan fears if she's stranded in Cyprus she will run out of the medication she must take daily. She has her medication until Wednesday - even a delay of one day is trouble.\"\n\nThe family have been given no information about whether flights home will go ahead.\n\nMr Walker said he fears he will not be able to enjoy his brother's wedding because of the uncertainty.\n\nHe said: \"We feel left in the dark - the hotel doesn't know what's going on, there's no Thomas Cook rep and Thomas Cook haven't contacted us.\n\n\"I am going to have to make phone calls on my brother's wedding day tomorrow and get it sorted out. It's going to ruin the day because I'm going to be on the phone when I should be enjoying myself.\"\n\nLeanne Jones, with her partner, Andy and young sons, Harrington (bottom left) and Hudson (top left), fears £800 worth of Thomas Cook vouchers are now worthless\n\nBack in the UK, mum Leanne Jones has been forced to tell her children that their planned trip to Disneyland Paris in June has been cancelled.\n\nMs Jones, from Milton Keynes, said she feels \"rubbish\" after learning £800 worth of Thomas Cook gift vouchers saved for her two young sons' first foreign holiday are worthless.\n\nMs Jones said the family were £150 off meeting the £2,300 cost of the trip after separately putting money into a holiday fund.\n\nShe said she and her partner, Andy, held off booking the holiday until they had the necessary funds.\n\nShe said: \"Every birthday and Christmas over the last two years I've been saving to take my two young children [Harrington and Hudson] on their first holiday abroad - Disneyland Paris was the plan.\n\n\"We just thought it would be magical for them.\n\n\"I stand to lose all the money from the vouchers and my children will no longer get their holiday. After speaking with Atol [A scheme that protects most air package holidays sold by businesses based in the UK] I've learned my vouchers are not covered and there is nothing anyone can do to help.\n\n\"I'm going to have to start saving again - I have no other option. We'll have to wait another two years.\"\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority, which runs the Atol scheme, has been contacted for comment about the status of gift vouchers.\n\nZoe Sheehan and husband Stefan fear missing her father's memorial service after their Thomas Cook flights were cancelled\n\nFor Zoe Sheehan, 36, from Wales, the travel giant's collapse means she and her husband may miss a family memorial service in Gran Canaria.\n\nMrs Sheehan and Stefan, 28, spent months planning the trip to scatter her father's ashes.\n\nThey are now searching for new flights but do not know when they will be reimbursed for the old ones as there is no word from their travel insurer.\n\nThe couple drove to Gatwick in the early hours of Monday in the hope they could book alternative flights.\n\nMrs Sheehan said: \"I won't stop trying until my last breath. We're shopping around now for flights, but they're so expensive.\n\n\"We had planned this [trip] for months. We have insurance and we have paperwork for his ashes.\n\nShe added: \"It's really important not just for us two, but our two children and my mother.\n\n\"The kids are coming down with their Nan and they're just crying. I was crying earlier.\"\n\nElla Waine said passengers told her she had lost her cabin crew job when they received news alerts to their phones\n\nElla Waine said passengers told her she had lost her \"dream job\" when they saw the news of Thomas Cook's collapse on their mobile phones after their plane landed.\n\nMiss Waine, a seasonal member of Thomas Cook's cabin crew, had flown to Hurgada, in Egypt, while discussions to save the company were on-going.\n\nBut when their plane arrived back at Birmingham airport, passengers received news alerts of the company's collapse and told her and other staff.\n\nMiss Waine, from Broughton Astley, in Leicestershire, told the BBC: \"It was a complete heart-to-the-stomach moment.\n\n\"We found out at exactly the same time as the passengers.\n\n\"An email was sent out to our company emails but we can't go on our phones whilst we were on the flight.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old said she was \"devastated\" to lose her \"dream job\", and that staff did not know whether they would be paid at the end of this month.\n\nMiss Waine said she had work lined up for when her contract ended in November, but now needs to find a job urgently until then.\n\nOn arriving in Fuerteventura, Sam Emerton and partner Shaylee were told they must pay €1,211 (£1,071) to stay in their hotel\n\nHours after landing in Fuerteventura, Sam Emerton and partner, Shaylee, were told they must pay €1,211 (£1,071) to stay in their hotel after their booking was cancelled in the collapse.\n\nStaff at H-10 Ocean Suites, initially told the couple they would only have to pay €173 (£153) for one night's stay while the CAA resolved the situation.\n\nBut the pair from Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire, say the CAA has now told them they must pay the full hotel bill of €1,211 (£1,071) because their flight departed from Gatwick at 05.45 GMT - hours after Thomas Cook announced it had gone into administration shortly after 02.00 GMT.\n\nBut Mr Emerton, 24, insists they received no communication from Thomas Cook to tell them the company had gone bust- and they first learnt of it on landing in the Canary Islands.\n\nThe couple had been paying Thomas Cook £330 a month since March for the all-inclusive package holiday - which included Easyjet flights.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"We drove to Gatwick at 1:30 in the morning, unbeknown to us that Thomas Cook has collapsed.\n\n\"No-one told us. We received no email or text message from Thomas Cook.\n\n\"Our flight landed [in Fuerteventura] and we got our bags, only to be greeted by no-one. The Thomas Cook stand was empty.\n\n\"About half an hour later a woman showed up to tell us Thomas Cook had gone bust, there were no transfers to the hotel and the hotel would not accept us unless we paid 1,211 Euros.\"\n\nMr Emerton says the couple borrowed the money for one night's stay from Shaylee's dad, but do not have the money to pay the full bill.\n\nThe CAA has been contacted for comment in relation to the couple's case, and says it will investigate.", "The prime minister was speaking on board the RAF Voyager jet, heading for the UN General Assembly\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has blamed Iran for attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities ahead of a meeting with the country's president, Hassan Rouhani.\n\nMr Johnson said there was a \"very high degree of probability\" Iran was behind the drone and missile attacks on two oil facilities, which Tehran denies.\n\nThe prime minister declined to rule out military intervention and said sanctions were also a possibility.\n\nBut an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman rejected the PM's comments.\n\nAbbas Mousavi said they amounted to \"fruitless efforts against the Islamic Republic of Iran\", and attacked the British government for \"selling lethal weapons to Saudi Arabia\".\n\nThe US, which also blames Iran for the oil attacks, is sending more troops to Saudi Arabia.\n\nSaudi Arabia has also accused Iran of carrying out the 14 September attacks, in which 18 drones and seven cruise missiles hit an oil field and processing facility.\n\nSpeaking on board an RAF Voyager jet on the way to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Mr Johnson gave the UK's first attribution of blame.\n\nHe said: \"I can tell you that the UK is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to Iran for the Aramco attacks.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he would be working with the US and other European countries \"to construct a response that tries to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf region\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frank Gardner has a look at the damage, in an area normally closed off from journalists.\n\nYemen's Iran-aligned Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility, while Iran itself has denied any involvement. It warned it would retaliate against any attacks after the US announced it was sending troops to Saudi Arabia.\n\n\"Clearly if we are asked either by the Saudis or the Americans to have a role then we would consider in what way we could be useful,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nAsked if military action was possible, he said: \"We will consider in what way we could be useful if asked and depending on what the exact plan is.\"\n\nSanctions also remained on the table, he said.\n\nA Whitehall source said the Houthi rebels' claim of responsibility was \"implausible\" as the \"scale, sophistication and range\" of the attack was beyond their capabilities.\n\nThe prime minister attended a joint meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the UN to discuss the attacks, along with Brexit.\n\nLater the three leaders issued a joint statement saying it was \"clear\" that Iran bore responsibility for the attacks.\n\n\"There is no other plausible explanation,\" they said.\n\nThey added that the attacks underlined \"the importance of making collective efforts towards regional stability and security\" and \"the necessity of de-escalation in the region through sustained diplomatic efforts and engagement with all parties\".\n\nThe prime minister said he also promised to bring up the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual British-Iranian nationals held in Tehran during his meeting with Mr Rouhani.\n\nMr Johnson came under severe criticism as foreign secretary after appearing to contradict Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who says she was in Iran visiting family.\n\nShe is serving a five-year sentence on spying charges, which she has always denied.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McDonnell: 'We should work to live, not live to work'\n\nThe average working week in the UK would be cut to 32 hours within 10 years under a Labour government, John McDonnell has announced.\n\nThis would reduce it to the equivalent of four days - although it would not necessarily mean a day off as other methods could be used to cut hours.\n\nThe shadow chancellor said the cut could be done with \"no loss of pay\".\n\nThe average UK full-time working week is 42.5 hours versus an EU average of 41.2, statistics body Eurostat says.\n\n\"We should work to live, not live to work. As society got richer, we could spend fewer hours at work,\" Mr McDonnell told Labour's annual conference in Brighton.\n\n\"But in recent decades progress has stalled, and since the 1980s the link between increasing productivity and expanding free time has been broken. It's time to put that right.\"\n\nLabour pledged to introduce four new public holidays in their 2017 general election manifesto but did not mention working hours.\n\nIn a wide-ranging speech, Mr McDonnell also vowed to:\n\nMr McDonnell said negotiations over working hours would be carried out as part of plans to roll out collective bargaining across different industries.\n\nCollective bargaining is where wage rates and conditions are agreed between employees and trade unions, a practice that used to be commonplace in British industry.\n\n\"We'll require working hours to be included in the legally binding sectoral agreements between employers and trade unions,\" said Mr McDonnell.\n\n\"This will allow unions and employers to decide together how best to reduce hours for their sector.\n\n\"And we'll set up a Working Time Commission with the power to recommend to government on increasing statutory leave entitlements as quickly as possible without increasing unemployment.\"\n\nThe Working Time Commission would also have the power to increase statutory holiday entitlement, which is currently 28 days.\n\nIn his speech, Mr McDonnell also defended the Labour leadership's Brexit stance, which would see Jeremy Corbyn promise to negotiate a new deal with Brussels and then put it to a referendum, with the party to decide whether it backs Remain or Leave at a special one-day conference nearer the time.\n\nHe said cancelling Brexit, by revoking Article 50, would send out the wrong message.\n\n\"We can't say to people 'Labour wants you to share in the running of your workplace, your community and your environment, but we don't trust you to have the final say over Brexit.'\"\n\nThe shadow chancellor's proposals for a shorter working week were welcomed by the trade unions.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"It's time for working people to share in the benefits of new technology.\"\n\nAnd the national co-ordinator for Labour campaign group Momentum, Laura Parker, said its members were \"delighted\" that a policy they had campaigned for was being adopted.\n\n\"This is what a democratic party looks like,\" she said. \"Policy is being written by the movement, with members and the leadership working hand in hand to write the next manifesto and deliver the ambitious, radical policies we need to win the next election.\"\n\nBut CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn, who represents business, said: \"Who would turn down a four day week on the same pay? But without productivity gains it would push many businesses into loss.\"\n\nIn an average week, the total of all hours worked by the entire workforce is 1.05 billion. If you assumed the workforce remained the same, then this policy would see total hours worked cut by around 100 million hours.\n\nIn and of itself, it would have a significant effect on the economy. But the opposition argue not just that the policy will not cost the economy, but that individual workers will not get a pay cut. How is such a free lunch, indeed tens of millions of such lunches, possible?\n\nIt requires an epic increase in productivity, how much each worker actually produces, something that has eluded the UK economy.\n\nBusiness organisations fear that this is the cart before the horse, requiring huge capital investment.\n\nThe opposition are essentially trying to grab the benefits of a future decade of technological advancements towards workers, rather than business owners.\n\nA report by cross-bench peer Lord Skidelsky - commissioned by Labour and published earlier this month - recommended that people should work fewer hours to earn a living.\n\nThe report said capping workers' hours to a four-day week would not be \"realistic or even desirable\", citing France's introduction of a 35-hour working week in 1998.\n\n\"The evidence is that, after a brief impact effect, France's legislation was rendered broadly ineffective by an accumulation of exceptions and loopholes,\" it said.\n\nLabour said its policy would not be a French-style \"cap\" on hours because it would rely on sector-wide agreements rather than enforcement action against individual companies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour is pledging to invest billions of pounds in electric car production and offshore wind farms to accelerate the \"green industrial revolution\".\n\nA future Labour government would take equity stakes in car producers in return for a £3bn capital investment in new electric models and machinery.\n\nThirty-seven publicly-owned wind farms will be built, with the profits used to regenerate deprived coastal areas.\n\nDelegates have been debating the pace of decarbonisation at the conference.\n\nEarlier this year, Parliament approved a law requiring the UK to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, a stricter target compared with the previous one of at least an 80% reduction from 1990 levels.\n\nLabour delegates, many of whom want a more ambitious strategy, approved a motion calling for a 2030 zero net emissions target as part of a green new deal.\n\nThis does not automatically become part of Labour's manifesto, however, as the party's policy will be determined during the drafting process.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said she would be willing to support the more ambitious target if there was a \"credible plan with trade unions and industry\", and a \"just transition\" that did not adversely affect workers.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Provided we have a plan, I am happy to work as quickly as possible. I know we have got to act faster and we've got to push people to do that.\"\n\nSome unions, including the GMB, are concerned this is too ambitious and want guarantees that it will not lead to massive job losses in the automotive, energy and industrial sectors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by iain 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\nFirms will be able to bid for funding over two years to bring new electric car models to market, in return for the government taking an equity stake in their business.\n\nA further £2.3bn will be set aside to build three battery plants to supply electric cars. The plants are earmarked for South Wales, Stoke and Swindon - the latter potentially on the site of the Honda factory due to close in 2021.\n\nLabour has already signalled this week it would spend £3.6bn on new electric charging infrastructure and introduce 2.5 million interest free loans to spur the take-up of electric models.\n\nAnnouncing the new plans, Ms Long Bailey said the state should \"not be afraid to intervene\" to ensure the success of the automotive sector in light of the huge technological and economic challenges it faced.\n\n\"The sector is under siege from Brexit uncertainty and the government's lack of ambition on electrification,\" she said.\n\n\"At the same time, we need to accelerate the shift away from fossil-powered cars if we are to tackle the climate emergency.\n\n\"Labour's support package will offer a lifeline for a new clean era of manufacturing.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said 2050 is too late to decarbonise the economy, although he hasn't offered an alternative date. The question is: could the UK achieve Momentum's preferred goal of 2030?\n\nMost energy economists say it's impossible without massive social upheaval. Just imagine - no petrol or diesel cars, and no gas central heating.\n\nBut an increasing number of people are warning that with climate change accelerating faster than expected, society will need to accept major disruption to protect the planet for future generations.\n\nLabour's plans to support wind energy and battery cars build on Conservative policies which have caused the cost of renewables to plummet.\n\nBut will Labour plan cut out the free market competition that's created the fall in energy prices?\n\nEnvironmentalists will also demand a broader vision of what's known as the \"just transition\" to a clean economy. They want to see a masterplan for retraining workers from dirty industries and supporting them to move to new areas with clean jobs. They want support for workers too old to retrain.\n\nIn a series of green energy announcements on Tuesday, Labour will commit to using billions in public money to accelerate the transition to carbon-free transport and power systems.\n\nLabour is also planning an unprecedented intervention in the renewables industry, modelled on countries including Norway, Sweden and Denmark.\n\nTo counter what it says is the domination of foreign firms in the UK's offshore market, it is proposing to take a 51% stake in a new public-private venture, which would build 37 new offshore wind farms capable of supplying the energy needs of 57 million households.\n\nProfits from the scheme would be reinvested in the wider energy network as well as a \"People's Power Fund\" - which would see up to £1bn each year for recreational and leisure facilities in struggling coastal communities.\n\nThis, Labour says, will create 67,000 high-skilled jobs in Scotland, East Anglia, Yorkshire and North-East England.\n\nThe CBI said it wanted to work with Labour and other parties to make a success of the transition to a zero-net carbon economy.\n\nLabour says the offshore wind sector is too dominated by foreign firms\n\nBut the employers' group said \"in the push to reach net-zero as fast and as cost-effectively as possible, renationalisation will hugely disrupt the investment needed in the energy sector to decarbonise\".\n\nThe Conservatives said the wind farms plan could cost up to £80bn and that \"nationalising huge swathes of the energy network\" would set back efforts to tackle climate change.\n\n\"It is by working with business that we've ensured offshore wind will provide more than a third of our electricity by 2030, tripling the number jobs in the industry and keeping bills low for consumers,\" said Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom.\n\nLabour has made a raft of policy pledges during its conference, including plans to abolish prescription charges in England, push for a 32-hour working week and integrate private schools into the state system.\n\nThe first three days in Brighton, though, have been dominated by Brexit divisions and internal wrangling.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn received a major boost to his authority on Monday when delegates backed his \"wait and see\" policy of leaving a decision about which side the party would back in another Brexit referendum until after the next general election.\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson, who has led calls for a more assertive pro-EU position and who survived efforts to oust him on Friday, will address the conference on Tuesday.", "A \"revolutionary\" new class of cancer drug that can treat a wide range of tumours has been approved for use in Europe for the first time.\n\nTumour-agnostic drugs do not care where the cancer is growing in the body as long as it has a specific genetic abnormality inside.\n\nUK doctors testing the drugs said they were \"a really exciting thing\".\n\nThey said the approach had the potential to cure more patients and cut side-effects.\n\nThe drug that has been approved is called larotrectinib.\n\nCharlotte Stevenson, a two-year-old from Belfast, was one of the first patients to benefit.\n\nShe was diagnosed with infantile fibrosarcoma, a cancer of the body's connective tissue.\n\nShe has been treated with larotrectinib as part of a clinical trial at the Royal Marsden Sutton, in London, for the past year.\n\nHer mum, Esther, said: \"We knew that our options were limited [so] we decided to give it a try and are so glad that we did.\n\n\"We have been able to watch Charlotte develop and grow at a rapid rate, making up for lost time in so many ways and amazing us all with her energy and enthusiasm for life.\n\n\"She can now have a relatively normal life and, best of all, the drug has had an incredible impact on the tumour.\"\n\nCharlotte's tumour was caused by a genetic abnormality known as an NTRK gene fusion.\n\nOne part of her DNA accidentally merged with another and the alteration in the blueprint for her body led to the growth of her cancer.\n\nBut NTRK gene fusions are not unique to sarcomas - they also appear in some brain, kidney, thyroid and other cancers.\n\n\"It is a really exciting thing, as is it works across a range of cancers. It's not confined to one,\" Dr Julia Chisholm, a children's cancer consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital, told the BBC.\n\nNTRK mutations are relatively rare, but other targeted therapies are in development.\n\nIt marks a move away from treating a \"breast cancer\" or \"bowel cancer\" or a \"lung cancer\" and towards precision medicine that takes advantage of the genetic make-up of each patient's tumour.\n\nDr Chisholm told the BBC: \"The beauty is it targets the abnormality.\n\n\"There are a number of biochemical pathways that are common in many different tumour types.\n\n\"I think this is the way things are going and this is about better outcomes, curing more patients and producing kinder treatments with reduced side-effects.\"\n\nThe decision by European regulators does not mean it will be instantly available for patients in the UK.\n\nBut earlier this year, NHS England described tumour-agnostic drugs as a \"revolutionary\" and \"exciting new breakthrough\" in cancer and said preparations were under way to ensure patients were given access to them.\n\n\"The benefits for patients - in particular children - of being able to treat many different types of cancers with one drug is potentially huge, helping them to lead longer, healthier lives,\" NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said at the time.\n\nProf Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, said the drugs were \"exciting\".\n\nHe added: \"The NHS will need to ensure the right genomic testing is available across the country to identify patients who could benefit so it's good that the NHS is already thinking about how to get this to patients with cancer as soon as possible.\"\n\nDr Brendon Gray, from Bayer, the drug company that developed larotrectinib, said: \"As the first tumour-agnostic medicine approved in Europe, larotrectinib represents a real shift in cancer treatment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the new term begins, students are being told to recognise the seriousness of the risks of drinking\n\nStudents starting university are being warned about the dangers of initiation events which involve drinking excessive amounts of alcohol.\n\nThe Universities UK project wants students to learn from the death of a Newcastle University student in 2016.\n\nEd Farmer died after consuming a large amount of alcohol at an initiation event for first-year students.\n\nHis father Jeremy Farmer said he wanted to \"reduce the risks of something similar happening again\".\n\nMr Farmer said his son had died \"needlessly\", making the loss \"all the more devastating\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of young people will be starting at university for the first time this term.\n\nThe project wants to raise awareness about the danger of taking part in events for new students, which involve too much drinking or other risky behaviour.\n\nEd Farmer, a student at Newcastle University, died in 2016 after excessive consumption of alcohol\n\nAs well as warning about excessive amounts of alcohol, students are being told about other danger signs - such as events which involve bullying, coercion, manipulation or \"sexual behaviour\".\n\nThe Universities UK project is in collaboration with Newcastle University, in response to Ed Farmer's death.\n\nAt the inquest into the student's death, the coroner warned that young people could be \"unaware of the risks of consuming large quantities of alcohol over a short period of time\".\n\nThe coroner called for first-year students to be told about the dangers of excessive alcohol and given \"guidance on caring for those who are drunk\".\n\nA letter from Ed Farmer's parents, published as part of the campaign, said they wanted other young people to understand the seriousness of the risks.\n\nThey said that \"possibly just one student might be luckier on a night out than Ed\" if they knew about the \"dangers of drinking large volumes of spirits in short periods of time\", and if they knew when someone was \"no longer just drunk but in a life-limiting state\".\n\nChris Day, vice chancellor of Newcastle University, said: \"We all wish we could rewind three years and change what happened that night.\n\n\"But we can't go back, and so instead we are looking forward and doing everything we can to minimise the chances of anything like this happening again.\"\n\nProf Day says there needs to be a \"long-term culture change\" towards alcohol, bullying and harassment.\n\nUniversities UK says it is difficult to know how many initiation events take place, rather than more general gatherings for freshers, because some initiation events are likely to be against university rules and so might be \"covert\".\n\nThis can include \"team bonding\" events for sports clubs, with excessive drinking often a key feature.\n\nGuidance for universities is calling for more clarity for students about what should be prevented or prohibited at such events.\n\nBut it says it would be \"unhelpful\" to try a complete ban or \"zero-tolerance approach\" as they are still likely to take place.\n\nThere are also calls for places which serve alcohol, on or off campus, to promote \"responsible behaviours towards drinking\".", "It's been a long journey for travel firm Thomas Cook since its formation in rural Leicestershire during the early Victorian era.\n\nFounded in Market Harborough in 1841 by businessman Thomas Cook, the fledgling company organised railway outings for members of the local temperance movement.\n\nSome 178 years later, it had grown to a huge global travel group, with annual sales of £9bn, 19 million customers a year and 22,000 staff operating in 16 countries.\n\nThomas Cook had a chequered history, including being nationalised in 1948 - when it became part of the state-owned British Railways - and owning the raucous Club 18-30 youth brand, which it recently closed after failing to find a buyer.\n\nHowever, just as the travel world had progressed from temperance day trips, so the modern business and leisure market was also changing, and at a far faster pace than in previous decades.\n\nThe firm's fate was sealed by a number of factors: financial, social and even meteorological.\n\nAs well as weather issues, and stiff competition from online travel agents and low-cost airlines, there were other disruptive factors, including political unrest around the world.\n\nIn addition, many holidaymakers had become used to putting together their own holidays and not using travel agents.\n\n\"The company has had troubled for a long time,\" said John Strickland, an aviation analyst who provided evidence to a government inquiry into the 2017 collapse of low-cost airline Monarch.\n\nAs for Thomas Cook's recent attempts to restructure itself, \"it looked to me very much like too little too late,\" he said, adding that a move into the package holiday market by low-cost carriers EasyJet and Jet2 piled on the pressure.\n\nTim Jeans, a former managing director of Monarch who left long before its collapse, told BBC 5 live Thomas Cook had \"an analogue business model in a digital world\".\n\nNow chairman of Newquay Airport, in Cornwall, Mr Jeans was an executive at MyTravel, which owned AirTours and was bought by Thomas Cook in 2008, an investment that was recently written off.\n\nMuch of the value of the business was perceived to be in its brand and the loyalty of its customers, accounted for in its books as goodwill.\n\nThe firm had very little in the way of tangible assets, such as planes or hotels. So, when customers left for online competitors or to book their own flights and hotels, the value of the firm plummeted, said Mr Jeans.\n\nLast summer, shares in Thomas Cook were trading at just below 150p. But after a series of profit warnings, the price had fallen to just a fraction of that. Earlier this year, analysts at Citigroup bank described the travel firm's shares as \"worthless\".\n\nIn May, Thomas Cook reported a £1.5bn loss for the first half of its financial year, with £1.1bn of the loss caused by the decision to write down the value of My Travel, the business it merged with in 2007.\n\nHowever, it warned of \"further headwinds\" for the rest of the year and said there was \"now little doubt\" that Brexit had caused customers to delay their summer holiday plans.\n\nThe company then put its airline up for sale in an attempt to raise badly-needed funds.\n\nThomas Cook later announced it was in advanced talks with its banks and largest shareholder, China's Fosun.\n\nThe troubled operator hoped to seal a rescue led by Fosun, but the creditor banks issued a last-minute demand that the travel company find an extra £200m, which it was unable to do.\n\n2018's summer heatwave in the UK was blamed for falling bookings\n\nThe company's boss, Peter Fankhauser, said the firm had \"worked exhaustively\" to salvage the rescue package and it was \"deeply distressing\" that it could not be saved.\n\nHe and other executives received millions of pounds in bonuses, salary and other perks to retain their talents.\n\nInvestors, lenders and staff may be wondering precisely how wisely this largesse was calculated.\n\nFor Thomas Cook's unfortunate staff, customers and shareholders, history has come full circle.\n\nEight years ago, the company lurched perilously close to the edge of insolvency after trading turned sour. It was pulled back from the brink by an emergency loan from a group of banks, led by Royal Bank of Scotland - ironically the same bank whose demand for extra money appears to have sunk the company this time.\n\nAs well as weak trading, the company's big problem in 2011 was too much debt - about £2bn when the pension deficit was included. It tried to put its borrowing problem behind it in 2013, with a £425m fundraising from shareholders.\n\nFast forward six years and Thomas Cook is back where it was. All the rescue money is gone and the debt pile is back to £1.6bn. Again it has been thumped by poor trading and a series of one-offs, notably weak sterling and a summer heatwave that led to a downturn in demand.\n\nBut there is evidence of deeper problems, as well as a lack of management control. The company stopped paying dividends to shareholders in 2011 as the previous crisis hit, but resumed them in 2017 and again last year - an odd thing to do if trading, and solvency, was tight.\n\nThe company's results were marked by exceptional, one-off items, always a red flag for analysts, while the negotiations over the restructuring plan have been chaotic.\n\nAfter the immediate repatriation and staff problems have been resolved, one question remains: will Thomas Cook live on in some form?\n\nThe obvious buyer would be Fosun, the Chinese conglomerate that was the British company's largest shareholder. But they, and other buyers, may conclude the messy nature of the weekend's collapse may have blighted the brand irretrievably.\n\nThe package holiday share of the market has remained broadly unchanged.\n\nOne reason for this is that most air package holidays sold by travel companies based in the UK have ATOL protection.\n\nThis protection means that if the business collapses while travellers are away on holiday, they will be able to finish their trip and then travel home.\n\nIf a business folds before someone's trip, the scheme will provide a refund or replacement holiday.\n\nMr Strickland, the analyst, said a tax was suggested by his panel to fund repatriation of customers of failed travel companies, reducing the risks to the taxpayer.\n\nHowever, airlines argued that more successful airlines should not be punished for the failure of competitors, he said.\n\nMr Jeans, the former Monarch executive, said aircraft flights will have been managed to bring them back to the UK and avoid them being seized by creditors.\n\n\"It's very important they get back to their home base, in this case the UK, so that things can be sorted out more simply.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There was confusion over the show of hands vote\n\nJeremy Corbyn's policy on Brexit has triumphed at Labour conference, as members endorsed his stance to stay neutral while negotiating a new deal.\n\nThe party voted against a motion which would have seen Labour backing Remain in any future referendum.\n\nBut there was confusion as the votes were called, as the chair of the proceedings faced calls for a recount.\n\nLabour's position on Brexit has dominated the conference agenda, with huge disagreements over the issue.\n\nThe party's draft plan for its Brexit policy, put forward by Mr Corbyn, suggests that, if Labour wins power in a general election, it would remain neutral while negotiating a new deal with the EU within three months.\n\nIt would then hold a referendum within six months, and the party would decide which side to back ahead of that at a special conference.\n\nGrassroots activists at the conference have been pushing for an unambiguous stance, tabling a motion calling for Labour to campaign \"energetically\" to Remain.\n\nBut this motion was rejected in a show of hands while a motion setting out the leadership's official position and another endorsing its handling of Brexit were overwhelmingly passed.\n\nLen McCluskey said the Labour party trusted their leader\n\nAfter the results were announced by trade union official Wendy Nichols, there were charged scenes in the conference hall.\n\nSeveral delegates called for the votes to be counted individually, suggesting the outcome of the Remain motion was much closer than officials had suggested.\n\nOne delegate said there had to be an official card vote as \"this is one of the most important decisions Labour is going to take in the next decade\".\n\nThe result is a major boost for Jeremy Corbyn, who was backed by the majority of Labour's 12 affiliated unions, including Unite and the GMB.\n\nUnison had broken ranks with other unions to back the Remain motion.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said he was disappointed by the result of the vote, and that he would campaign for Remain.\n\n\"Would I have liked us to have gone a bit further and won that vote? Of course I would - but I don't want to take away from the fact that is quite considerable movement,\" he said.\n\nThe leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, said the vote showed ordinary members coming behind the Labour leader's stance in a show of loyalty.\n\n\"What you've seen here is a massive show of support for Jeremy Corbyn,\" he said, adding that it was \"time to unite\".\n\nThe vote was decisive - the Labour leadership position on Brexit triumphed.\n\nThose calling for a more robust Remain stance at the likely snap election were defeated.\n\nBut the manner of the triumph was immediately called in to question.\n\nThe vote wasn't a secret ballot, it was a show of hands.\n\nCalls for a card vote - where the vote of each delegate is individually counted in secret - were dismissed by the chair.\n\nThat's not to say there wasn't clear show of support for the leadership.\n\nBut some remainers maintain that the vote would at least have been closer if it wasn't conducted in public.\n\nThat's because the debate became - for some delegates - a demonstration of support for the leadership, close to an election, rather than a pure test of opinion on Brexit.\n\nThe conventional wisdom was that Jeremy Corbyn might have to rely on the big unions - with 50% of conference votes - to win.\n\nBut some unions chose to defy him, making a defeat possible.\n\nIn the end a section of the grassroots - the ordinary members - did not prioritise their own pro-Remain position and rallied round Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nRemainers are now accentuating, for them, the positive - that the party is now unambiguously backing a new referendum, with Remain as an option.\n\nNonetheless, Labour will go in to the election unable to say whether it will officially back leave or remain in a subsequent referendum.\n\nBut after a difficult few days, most of those close to Jeremy Corbyn are relieved tonight, and some are jubilant.\n\nAndrew Lewin, the founder of Remain Labour, said the vote represented the \"grassroots against the party machine - and the machine won\".\n\n\"If this fudge is the Labour policy at the next general election, we will drive Remain voters away.\"\n\nAnother campaigner, Michael Chessum, from Another Europe is Possible, said: \"Labour members, 90% of whom want to stay in the EU, will be deeply disappointed with this decision.\"\n\nLabour's stance on Brexit has dominated the conference\n\nBut Labour MPs remain divided over the issue.\n\nSpeaking before the vote, shadow Treasury minister Annaliese Dodds said the economic consequences of Brexit were \"so severe\" that she believed Labour must back remain in another referendum.\n\n\"Is it going to be easy?\" she told the BBC's Carolyn Quinn. \"No it is not, because people are passionate in both directions.\"\n\nBut Stephen Kinnock, the MP for Aberavon, told a fringe meeting organised by the Social Market Foundation that Labour had had \"more Brexit positions than the Karma Sutra\".\n\nDescribing the first two days of conference as an \"utter shambles\", he said Labour should have stuck with its 2017 manifesto pledge to honour the referendum result and moving away from this this would not go down well in Leave constituencies.\n\n\"Our position on Brexit is being treated with ridicule on the doorsteps in my constituency,\" he said.\n\nAway from Brexit, Labour has announced a pledge to introduce free personal care in England for over-65s, so they will not have to pay for help with dressing, washing and meals.\n\nIn his speech, Mr McDonnell also pledged to end in-work poverty within five years and to move to a four day, or 32-hour, working week within a decade without any cut to pay.\n\nThese are the latest of several new policies likely to feature in the party's next election manifesto, including pledges to:", "The brightest stars in television gathered in Los Angeles on Sunday night for the 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards.\n\nBut before the ceremony had even kicked off, there had already been enough glitz, glamour and glitter on the red carpet to power an episode of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHere's a round-up of some of the most eye-catching suits and dresses.\n\nShe had faced competition in the category from her own co-star Sandra Oh\n\nLeading drama actor nominee Sterling K Brown brought the red to the red carpet\n\nBetter Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk was also nominated for leading drama actor\n\nGlow's Betty Gilpin was nominated for best supporting comedy actress\n\nOrange is the New Black star Laverne Cox waved to fans\n\nThis Is Us star Mandy Moore was nominated for leading drama actress\n\nGame of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie was nominated for best supporting drama actress\n\nShe faced competition from her co-stars Lena Headey, Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner (but Julia Garner ended up winning for Ozark)\n\nBrit actor Alfie Allen, was among the nominees for supporting drama actor for Game of Thrones\n\nThe Good Place star Jameela Jamil was among the other British stars who walked the red carpet\n\nThe Emmy Awards took place Sunday night at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.", "Labour is promising free personal care in England for over-65s most in need of it, so they will not have to pay for help with dressing, washing and meals.\n\nCurrently, state help with the cost of home or residential help is available for those with assets below £23,250.\n\nLabour says the pledge, costing an estimated £6bn a year, will double the number of those not having to pay.\n\nIt would bring England into line with Scotland, where personal care is free for those with the most severe needs.\n\nIn his keynote speech to the Labour conference on Monday, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the move would be funded out of general taxation.\n\nA future Labour government would pass legislation to enshrine a right to free personal care for those most in need, consulting on \"eligibility criteria to ensure this system works for all\".\n\nLabour said it would give more details of how it would be paid for in its election manifesto but the Conservatives said the opposition's already extensive spending commitments meant \"there simply won't be enough money to pay for it\".\n\nIn anticipation of a general election this autumn, Labour has already pledged this week to axe prescription charges in England and remove the charitable status of private schools as a first step to \"integrating\" them into the state sector.\n\nBut the leadership remains under pressure over Brexit, with delegates set to vote on a motion pushing for a clearer Remain stance in a future EU referendum if Labour wins power.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to solve the crisis in social care, which has bedevilled previous Tory and Labour governments due to its cost and complexity.\n\nMr McDonnell said cuts to care funding since 2010 had left a million people not getting the care they need and \"87 people dying a day waiting for care\".\n\nSubsidising the cost of basic tasks such as getting in and out of bed and going to the toilet will enable more people to continue to live independently in their homes, he said.\n\nFree personal care is something campaigners have long been calling for in England.\n\nScotland has already introduced it and Wales and Northern Ireland each provide some level of universal entitlement. In Wales the cost of home care is capped, while in Northern Ireland the over-75s get it for free.\n\nBoth the Tories and Labour have been talking about reforming the system for over two decades - Tony Blair came to power in 1997 promising to look at it.\n\nBut neither has managed it. Why? The cost and complexity have proved to be insurmountable barriers.\n\nWhat is more, how much impact the policy has depends on the threshold that is set for accessing it. Even in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the bar for getting help is set very high. Only those with the most severe needs get it.\n\nThe devil, as always, will be in the detail.\n\nBased on Scottish figures, Labour said the move could save those currently self-funding their care almost £10,000 a year while 70,000 fewer families would be liable for \"catastrophic\" lifetime care costs in excess of £100,000.\n\nRemoving the distinction between health and care needs, Mr McDonnell argued, will most help families of dementia sufferers, who face the highest costs and, in many cases, have been forced sell their homes to pay for care.\n\n\"I believe the right to dignity in retirement is a part of that right to health at any stage of life,\" he said. \"The truth is our social care sector is a national scandal.\n\nThe shadow chancellor claimed people were dying due to lack of funds\n\n\"The next Labour government will introduce personal care free at the point of use in England\n\n\"Funded not through the Conservatives' gimmicky insurance schemes But, like the NHS and our other essentials, through general taxation.\"\n\nThe pledge goes beyond what Labour promised in its 2017 election manifesto - in which it vowed to raise the minimum asset threshold for free care, cap the amount anyone has to pay during their lifetime and support free end of life care.\n\nUnder the current means-tested system, if an individual has assets worth more than £23,250, including property, they must pay the full cost of residential care without help from the council.\n\nThose with assets above £14,250 have to contribute, but may get some help from state.\n\nLabour, whose long-term aim is to provide free personal care to all working age adults, says support for over-65s will alleviate the pressure on the NHS by reducing delayed transfers of care from hospital and admissions to care homes and hospitals.\n\nMr McDonnell also pledged to close the gap in social care funding - Labour has already pledged to spend an extra £8bn a year over five years - and give local authorities extra support to provide care so services are not outsourced to private firms.\n\nThe King's Fund think tank has estimated that free personal care could cost £6bn a year in 2020-21, rising to £8bn by 2030.\n\nThe organisation said Labour's announcement was a welcome step but \"it is not the same thing as free social care, and some people would still be left facing catastrophic costs.\"\n\nIn its Spending Round earlier this month, the government announced a further £1.5bn in extra funding for social care and promised to look at giving councils more leeway to raise extra funds via council tax bills.", "Deji Olatunji admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control\n\nA YouTube star and his mother have admitted dangerous dog offences after their German shepherd bit and seriously injured an elderly woman.\n\nDeji Olatunji, who has more than 9.8 million subscribers, tried to restrain the dog, Tank, when his mother let it out of a house in Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe 22-year-old admitted at Cambridge Crown Court to being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nHis mother, Olayinka Olatunji, 53, had already pleaded guilty to her role.\n\nAt an earlier hearing, she admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control that injured a person.\n\nThe pair, from Holme, near Peterborough, will be sentenced on 25 October.\n\nDeji posted a video in which he told his followers that Tank the dog had been seized by police in September last year\n\nDeji Olatunji, who has used the pseudonym ComedyShortsGamer and posts videos of pranks and gaming, has 2.5 million followers on Instagram and is the younger brother of fellow YouTuber KSI.\n\nHe has previously spoken of his dog being seized, and uploaded a video last week in which he said he was going to court to try to get the dog back.\n\nDeji Olatunji had tried to restrain the dog after it bit an elderly woman, a court hears\n\nProsecutor Charles Falk told the court that on 23 July last year Olayinka Olatunji had \"caused the dog to be let out\" of the house.\n\nIt then bit an elderly woman twice, causing what Judge David Farrell QC described as \"very nasty injuries\".\n\nMr Falk told the court after this initial bite, Deji Olatunji came out of the house to try to get Tank under control.\n\nBut it then bit another person, causing no injury, before it was finally restrained, Mr Falk said.\n\nThe judge adjourned sentencing for reports to be made for both Olayinka Olatunji and the dog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the end Thomas Cook was a victim of that serial company killer – debt. When you owe £1.7bn, not much needs to go wrong to tip you over the edge – and with Thomas Cook a lot had been going wrong.\n\nIn fact, Thomas Cook has been struggling for a decade. Mergers with MyTravel and Co-Op had left it with 1,200 high street stores JUST as consumers were moving online.\n\nIt had a near death experience in 2011 but was saved when its lenders agreed to support it during a restructuring that saw it close over 600 bricks and mortar outlets.\n\nThomas Cook’s basic business model is to buy up package holidays in bulk months in advance and then sell them on. It's inherently risky as terror attacks, currency moves, unexpected heatwaves in the UK and uncertainty about ease of travel and insurance arrangements after Brexit could and did hit demand leaving the company exposed.\n\nIn May it announced a loss of £1.5bn, pushing it further into debt. Its largest shareholder, the Chinese company Fosun - which also owns another holiday company, Club Med – offered to plough in £450m but the company’s lenders didn’t think there was enough cash to see it through the lean winter months.\n\nIt required another £200m and when that couldn’t be raised privately, it turned to the government, which refused, just as it had with contractor Carillion to prop up a private company with taxpayers' money.\n\nThomas Cook’s chief executive took home £8m in pay and bonuses in the last four years and there will be an investigation into the conduct of directors. That will be little comfort to 21,000 Thomas Cook workers who are facing unemployment rather than a bit of holiday disruption.", "Two police officers and a man were injured in the crash in Littlehampton\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two police officers were hit by a stolen car.\n\nThe officers were carrying out a routine drugs check at the side of the A259 in Littlehampton, West Sussex, at about 01:05 BST when they were struck.\n\nSussex Police said a Mercedes-Benz, taken in a burglary, hit the officers and a man they were with \"at speed\".\n\nOne officer suffered a broken leg and shoulder, and his colleague suffered multiple fractures.\n\nThe two officers and the man arrested in a roadside check - who suffered a back injury - were taken to hospital.\n\nA 20-year-old man has been arrested, and police are trying to track down two other people.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Julia Chapman said: \"We are investigating this as potentially a deliberate attack on our response officers as they carried out a proactive stop following a report of suspicious behaviour.\n\n\"Tragically, they were seriously injured in the course of carrying out their duties.\"\n\nACC Chapman described it as \"a shocking incident\", and said the officers involved were being supported.\n\nA force spokesman said they were a man and woman.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government will abide by the Supreme Court's ruling on Parliament's suspension when the judgement is given this week, the foreign secretary says.\n\nAsked if prorogation would be used again if the PM wins, Dominic Raab said he did not want \"to take levers off the table\" that weakens the UK's position.\n\nThe ruling on whether the decision to prorogue was unlawful is due this week.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he will work with other opposition parties to secure Parliament's recall if the PM loses.\n\nDuring a three-day hearing in the Supreme Court last week, the government argued that prorogation was not a matter for the courts.\n\nOn the other side, lawyers opposing the suspension sought to prove the prime minister was trying to \"silence Parliament\" for five weeks - the longest period for 40 years - at a crucial political moment in the run-up to Brexit.\n\nParliament is due to return for a Queen's Speech on 14 October - two weeks before the UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Raab said: \"Of course we will respect whatever the legal ruling is from the Supreme Court.\n\n\"But I think we are getting a little bit ahead of ourselves.\"\n\nHe said the government was \"confident\" in its position.\n\n\"There are different permutations as to what the Supreme Court may or may not decide,\" he said.\n\n\"Later in the week we'll obviously want to look at that very carefully, but I can reassure you of course we are going to abide by a Supreme Court judgement.\"\n\nWhen asked whether Parliament would be prorogued again if the government wins, he said: \"I think, let's wait and see what the first judgement decides and then we'll understand the lie of the land.\"\n\nWhen pushed on the matter, he added he was \"keen not to take levers off the table that weaken the position of the UK in Brussels\".\n\nThe Supreme Court ruling is due early this week\n\nBut Labour leader Mr Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show his party would oppose any attempt to prorogue Parliament again, saying the length of the suspension was \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"If they [the Supreme Court] decide that Parliament should be recalled, in other words the advice he [the prime minister] gave was wrong, then we would seek to take immediate action in Parliament to prevent him closing down Parliament all the way to 31 October,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nMeanwhile, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said there would have to be controls at the Irish border in a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"We have to make sure that the interests of the European Union and of the internal market will be preserved.\n\n\"An animal entering Northern Ireland without border control can enter without any kind of control the European Union via the southern part of the Irish island.\n\n\"This will not happen. We have to preserve the health and the safety of our citizens.\"", "Guests at Les Orangers resort in Tunisia say they are being asked to pay extra fees to cover what the hotel is owed by Thomas Cook\n\nAs Thomas Cook customers anxiously wait to see if and how their holidays might be affected, some say they have already found themselves in \"horrible\" situations abroad.\n\nThe travel company is requesting £200m in extra funds from the government in order to stay afloat, and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said affected holidaymakers could be flown home if the firm collapses.\n\nCustomers at a hotel in Tunisia say they were prevented from leaving the property on Saturday unless they paid extra fees - thousands of pounds in some cases - to cover what the resort says it is owed by the tour operator.\n\n\"We're being held hostage,\" said Ryan Farmer, from Leicestershire, one of those staying at Les Orangers resort in Hammamet, near Tunis.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live the hotel asked everyone who was due to leave that day to come to reception, where they were asked to pay \"additional fees, obviously because of the situation with Thomas Cook\".\n\n\"We've been up to the gates, they had four security guards on the gates, holding the gates closed, and were not allowing anybody to leave,\" he added.\n\nMr Farmer, who described the mood at the hotel as \"horrible\", said an elderly lady who had already paid for her holiday in full was made to pay an additional fee of over £2,000.\n\nAlthough the gates of the hotel have since been opened, one customer told the BBC they feared they may be closed again when the next group of guests was due to leave.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are hostages\": Holidaymaker Fatima De Andrade says a coach was stopped from picking up tourists at the hotel\n\nThe guests say they have been told not to pay the hotel by their Thomas Cook representative - and that the British Embassy later became \"involved\" and had spoken to the hotel.\n\nNo official statement has been released by Thomas Cook, but the company is telling customers via Twitter that it is aware some guests were asked to pay extra fees, adding: \"We have refunded those customers who paid on their credit cards.\"\n\nThe company has not commented on potentially refunding customers who may have paid through other methods.\n\nChris Rutherford, from Southampton, who is staying at Les Orangers resort, spoke of a similar experience.\n\n\"The hotel reception told us we need to pay £4,000 to be allowed to leave,\" he said.\n\nGary Seale said staff had locked the gate of the hotel, preventing guests from leaving\n\n\"They made an elderly lady who had fallen and broken her arm whilst on holiday pay £2,500 to leave the hotel...\n\n\"The Thomas Cook rep told us last night they were only dealing with people who had to leave that evening, as we are supposed to be here until Friday we got no information and have not had any further correspondence with Thomas Cook.\"\n\nGary Seale, who is also at the resort, said he was hoping to catch a flight back to Manchester - but refused to pay the additional fees and was not allowed to leave.\n\n\"It's been very fraught but it hasn't got to fisticuffs yet,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that more customers are due to leave on Monday and it could be \"carnage if this isn't sorted\".\n\nStaff at the reception desk at Les Orangers\n\nFatima De Andrade is staying at the hotel with her boyfriend, and described the scene near reception on Saturday night as \"absolute madness\".\n\n\"Myself and my boyfriend went out for a day trip and when we arrived back to the hotel around 6pm we saw the lobby full of people some crying and were completely clueless.\"\n\nShe said people's suitcases were \"everywhere\" and people were panicking.\n\nShe added: \"The wi-fi was turned off, to which management said it's due to the weather it's not working, so we couldn't check what was happening online contact family back home.\"\n\nMs De Andrade said notes were put through room doors demanding payment.\n\n\"People were furious,\" she said.\n\n\"Guest who had their flight were walking up to the gate with their suitcases to leave and security weren't letting them, some tried to jump the wall and security grabbed them back.\"\n\nMs De Andrade added: \"Myself and my boyfriend feel safe however it's not knowing what management will do when it's our turn to check out.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted both Les Orangers resort and the British embassy in Tunisia but has not yet received a response from either.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales delivered a performance of contrasting halves in their opening Rugby World Cup match as they produced a bonus-point, six-try win over Georgia in Toyota City.\n\nTries from Jonathan Davies, Justin Tipuric, Josh Adams and Liam Williams secured the bonus point before half-time.\n\nThe fluent first 40 minutes was followed by a scrappy second-half performance against a rejuvenated Georgian side.\n\nAustralia now await Wales in what will effectively be a potential Pool D decider in Tokyo on 29 September.\n\nThis was the oldest Wales starting side at a Rugby World Cup with an average age of 28 years and 331 days.\n\nCaptain Alun Wyn Jones celebrated victory as he equalled Gethin Jenkins' record of 129 Wales caps in front of a crowd of 35,545.\n\nWales were desperate to finally play following the pre-tournament departure of backs coach Rob Howley over an alleged betting breach.\n\nPreparations had already been checked by three warm-up defeats and injuries to Gareth Anscombe and Taulupe Faletau even before the Howley bombshell was revealed.\n\nAfter backs coach Howley was sent home from Japan, he was replaced by former Wales fly-half Stephen Jones who only had two training sessions with the squad before the opening fixture.\n\nJones knows many of the Wales players, having coached them at Scarlets and there appeared to be little early disruption.\n\nIn fact it appeared a more seamless transition with Georgia unable to cope with Wales' pace in the opening period.\n\nWales took only until the third minute to open the scoring with a well-worked backs move, the nation's fastest ever World Cup try.\n\nCentre Jonathan Davies sliced through the Georgian defence from a slick scrum set-piece move from Gareth Davies' pass.\n\nDan Biggar inexplicably missed the conversion in front of the posts after he seemed to be struggling to shake off a knock in the warm-up which left him with a gashed chin.\n\nThe battered Northampton fly-half experienced a bruising game but recovered in time to add a penalty as Wales benefited from an early strong scrum, a major reason why Wyn Jones was selected at loose-head prop.\n\nMore backline chemistry followed between wing Adams and scrum-half Davies, leading to the second try for flanker Tipuric, who produced a clever finish.\n\nBiggar this time slotted the conversion from under the posts and turned creator with a delayed inside pass to release Adams.\n\nThe wing ran rampant in the opening quarter and scorched over for a deserved try. Normal service resumed as Biggar slotted over the touchline conversion.\n\nGeorgia's first break could have resulted in a yellow card for Wales scrum-half Davies after he intercepted a pass from flanker Giorgi Tkhilaishvili, but the ball was adjudged to have gone backwards after being referred to the television match official Rowan Kitt.\n\nMilton Haig's side were inspired and started to secure some scrum pressure, but strong Welsh defence held them out, typified by a thumping Josh Navidi tackle.\n\nWales secured the bonus point before half-time with a well-worked fourth score with the Scarlets Davies boys, centre Jonathan and scrum-half Gareth, setting up Liam Williams, who finished with an audacious pick-up.\n\nGeorgia battled back at the start of the second half with a try for hooker Shalva Mamukashvili from a typical driving line-out. Fly-half Tedo Abzhandadze converted.\n\nWales responded with a rampaging forward drive of their own which was brought down illegally, earning replacement hooker Jaba Bregvadze a yellow card from referee Luke Pearce.\n\nGeorgia ensured their numerical disadvantage did not tell with some thunderous tackling against some one-dimensional attack with Wales failing to scoring any points when they had the extra man.\n\nWales broke their second-half deadlock when a North chip kick was gathered by replacement scrum-half Tomos Williams before Biggar converted, but Georgia stormed back for their second try through Bregvadze.\n\nWales had the final word when replacement scrum-half Williams returned the favour to set up North and replacement full-back Leigh Halfpenny converted.\n\nA bruising battle with no long-term injuries would have pleased Gatland especially as Wales still only have two fit-second rows with Jake Ball and captain Jones and back-rower Aaron Shingler covering the position.\n\nAdam Beard only arrived in Japan on Friday after having his appendix removed with Gatland saying he probably would not be fit for the Australia match and post-match revealing Cory Hill could be sent home without playing a game as he struggles to overcome a stress fracture in the leg.\n\nWhat the coaches said\n\n\"I have been watching the games in the last few days and the guys were itching to get out there and I am pleased with the first-half performance.\n\n\"I thought we were pretty clinical and probably let things slip a bit in the second-half.\n\nThat probably did not help because we were losing some continuity and making some changes with the subs and bringing people off, trying to think about keeping players as fresh as we possibly can with the six day turnaround.\n\nGeorgia coach Milton Haig added: \"I thought we played pretty well in that second half and we showed our typical Georgian fighting spirit that we're known for, so I'm proud of how they went in that second half.\"", "Stefan Carr admitted four counts of assault and one of attempted assault\n\nA man who was caught assaulting his partner on cameras he had installed in his home has been jailed.\n\nStefan Carr, from Carlyle Crescent, Castleford, subjected Bethany Marchant to a violent attack in the early hours of 5 May.\n\nDuring the three-hour attack he tied a noose around her neck and lifted her off the ground.\n\nThe 28-year-old was jailed for 11 years three months for four counts of assault and one of attempted assault.\n\nTwo of the charges related to attacks on his previous partner who had left him in April 2018.\n\nBelieving she was in a new relationship, he punched his ex-partner in the face in late-autumn 2018, and in January 2019 he attempted to suffocate her.\n\nCarr had been on bail for those offences when he attacked Ms Marchant on 5 May.\n\nThe couple had arrived home at 01:30 BST and a long argument escalated into a sustained series of attacks on Ms Marchant.\n\nMs Marchant said Carr had \"manipulated and fooled\" her\n\nCarr's house was covered by CCTV cameras he had installed which recorded his assault on Ms Marchant\n\nCarr pushed her from room to room, attacking her in various ways.\n\nAt one point he created a noose out of a length of rope and lifted her off the ground. He also threatened her with a knife.\n\nShe eventually persuaded him to take her to hospital but after driving a short distance he threatened to drive the car into a reservoir, drowning them both, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nThe police arrived at this point, having been alerted by a neighbour.\n\nSpeaking after sentencing Ms Marchant said: \"I am just glad he is locked up and can't hurt anyone else.\n\n\"I will never trust nobody again. He completely fooled and manipulated me.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Vanessa Rolfe, of West Yorkshire Police, praised Ms Marchant's courage and bravery after such a \"horrific\" ordeal.\n\nShe said the strength of the case against Carr, which led to his guilty pleas, came in part from him effectively recording and documenting his own criminal acts.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nFleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Killing Eve star Jodie Comer were among the big British winners at this year's Emmy Awards.\n\nThe ceremony, which recognises excellence in television, took place in Los Angeles on Sunday.\n\nComer won best leading drama actress for playing Villanelle in Killing Eve.\n\nFleabag star and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge took home the prize for best leading comedy actress, best comedy series and best comedy writing.\n\nOriginally made for BBC Three, it is the first British-made show to be named best comedy series. \"It's so wonderful and reassuring to know that a dirty, pervy, angry and messed-up woman can make it to the Emmys,\" Waller-Bridge laughed, referring to the show's lead character.\n\nWaller-Bridge also joked that the possibility of winning awards was the reason she wrote the series in the first place.\n\n\"I find writing really hard and really painful, but I'd like to say from the bottom of my heart that the reason that I do it is this,\" she said, holding up the Emmy statuette. \"So it's made it all really worth it guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nGame of Thrones won the night's most prestigious prize - best drama - despite the eighth and final series receiving a mixed response from fans and critics.\n\nOne of the HBO fantasy's stars, Peter Dinklage, also took home the prize for best supporting drama actor.\n\nJodie Comer paid tribute to her Killing Eve co-star Sandra Oh\n\nWaller-Bridge's win for leading comedy actress was a particular surprise, given that she was nominated against Emmy favourite Julia Louis-Dreyfus.\n\nThe US actress has previously won in this category six times for her role in Veep, and was widely expected to win again for the show's seventh and final series.\n\nComer's win for her performance as the ruthless assassin Villanelle in BBC America's Killing Eve tops off an extraordinary year for the actress, who also won a TV Bafta in May for the same role.\n\n\"I was not expecting to get up on this stage tonight,\" Comer said as she picked up her prize. \"I cannot believe I'm in a category alongside these women, one of them who is my co-star Sandra Oh.\n\n\"Safe to say Sandra that this Killing Eve journey has been an absolute whirlwind and I feel so lucky to have shared the whole experience with you.\"\n\nAs Waller-Bridge took to the stage near the end of the ceremony to accept Fleabag's fourth award of the night, for best comedy series, she commented: \"This is getting ridiculous!\n\n\"Fleabag started as a one-woman show at the Edinburgh festival in 2014, and the journey has been absolutely mental to get here.\"\n\nBen Whishaw was among the other British winners\n\nPaying tribute to Fleabag's \"hot priest\", she added: \"Season two would not have exploded in the way that it did if it wasn't for Andrew Scott, who came into our Fleabag world like a whirlwind and gave a performance of such depth and complexity it elevated the whole thing.\"\n\nThe show's director, Harry Bradbeer, won best director for a comedy series. \"For a director, something like Fleabag only comes along once in your life,\" he said.\n\n\"Thank you Phoebe for coming into my life like some kind of glorious grenade. Scientists are still trying to work out how someone so incredibly talented can be so utterly lovely.\"\n\nThe second series of Fleabag aired on the BBC earlier this year and has been released by Amazon in the US.\n\nOther British winners include Ben Whishaw, who won best supporting actor in a limited series for his role in BBC One's A Very English Scandal. He played Norman Scott, the man who accused Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe of trying to have him killed.\n\nCharlie Brooker won best television movie for Netflix's Bandersnatch, a win he said he was \"quite unprepared for\". The interactive Bandersnatch allowed viewers to choose the way the film's storyline unfolded.\n\nIn his speech, Brooker thanked his two children, joking: \"I can never limit your video game screen time again, if I do I'm a disgusting hypocrite [because] it sometimes pays off.\"\n\nBritish writer Jesse Armstrong, whose work on HBO's Succession won him best writing for a drama series, made reference to the strong UK showing at the ceremony.\n\n\"Quite a lot of British winners, maybe too many? Maybe you should have a think about those immigration restrictions,\" he joked.\n\nPeter Dinklage was the only Game of Thrones actor to win on Sunday, for playing Tyrion Lannister\n\nAnother Brit, TV host John Oliver, won outstanding variety talk series for Last Week Tonight. In total, 13 of the night's 27 awards had British involvement, including the three trophies for Chernobyl, which was a Sky/HBO co-production.\n\nThe series, which dramatised the 1986 nuclear disaster, took home the prize for best limited series, as well as best writing and directing for a limited series.\n\nElsewhere, the best drama series prize for Game of Thrones and the best supporting drama actor award for Peter Dinklage meant the fantasy epic won 12 Emmys in total, including the trophies it took home at last week's Creative Arts Emmys.\n\nThe show is already the most honoured series and most-nominated drama in Emmy awards history.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by phoenix This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBilly Porter made history as the first openly gay black man to win best leading drama actor, for his role in Pose.\n\nOther winners included Jharrel Jerome, who won best leading actor in a limited series for When They See Us - a series that told the true story of The Central Park Five, five black and Hispanic men who were jailed for sexual assault despite their innocence.\n\nJharrel Jerome was recognised for his role in When They See Us\n\nAmazon's series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel netted supporting comedy acting prizes for both Tony Shalhoub and Alex Borstein.\n\nSunday's event was only the fourth Emmy ceremony ever not to have a host.\n\nMore than 25,000 members of the Television Academy vote for the awards, which were first presented in 1949.\n\nThe name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube, nicknamed the Immy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A tractor with a trailer has blocked a road after overturning into a garden in Fife.\n\nThe farm vehicle toppled over into the garden, which is lower than the road, on the A915 at Lundin links at about 09:40.\n\nThe road is closed between Cupar Road to Woodielea Road.\n\nPolice Scotland said diversions are in place.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn is coming under pressure amid divisions over Labour's Brexit strategy as leading figures call for the party to back staying in the EU.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour must \"say no\" to leaving the EU at its party conference.\n\nAnd deputy leader Tom Watson said it must settle its position as \"a Remain party\" once and for all this week.\n\nBut Unite leader Len McCluskey said anyone who could not support Jeremy Corbyn's position should stand aside.\n\nHe said talk of divisions were \"fake news\" given that Labour had a policy of giving the public the final say in another referendum which the shadow cabinet could unite around.\n\nThe party's NEC, or governing body, has agreed a motion which calls for the party to renegotiate the current terms of exit and then give voters the choice to back the new Brexit deal or to remain in the EU.\n\nMr Corbyn has persistently refused to be drawn on which way he would campaign in another vote, saying it would depend on the kind of agreement he struck.\n\nLabour will also decide the terms of further motions on Brexit, which could call for the party to endorse a remain stance outright.\n\nThe exact wording of the motion to be debated will be decided later on Sunday and voted on Monday.\n\nMr Corbyn is under growing pressure to declare his hand from pro-EU figures in the party.\n\nAddressing a rally organised by the Progress group in Brighton, Mr Watson - who saw off an attempt to oust him on Saturday - said the \"simple truth is whatever anyone says - Labour is a remain party\".\n\nCalling on the leadership to \"to settle once and for all our position\", he said by backing remain \"I'm sure we can deliver a Labour government\".\n\nAnd Ms Thornberry questioned \"why on earth\" Labour would be complicit in allowing the UK to leave the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour \"will have a special conference\" to decide its stance on Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn says.\n\n\"Are we going to celebrate a Labour version of Brexit? No. We must have the Labour Party this week saying no to Brexit and we must lead the campaign to remain.\"\n\nYou might think policy is made on the conference floor but what goes behind closed doors - in smoke free rooms these days - is often more important.\n\nRepresentatives from constituencies and from trade unions try to distil disparate motions on the same topic down in to just one, on which they can all agree - and this is then put to the conference for approval the following day in the full knowledge that it will pass.\n\nBut on Brexit, this usual template isn't working.\n\nThe gap between the leadership and many in the grassroots has proved difficult to bridge.\n\nLabour's ruling national executive - which includes representatives of the big unions - has agreed a statement which would not commit the party to backing leave or remain until after any snap election.\n\nOn Sunday night, though, grassroots delegates are expected to agree a motion, which would commit the party to campaigning to remain in the EU during the election.\n\nThe pro-remain Mayor of London Sadiq Khan told me he would be urging delegates to stand firm on this and not to accept a fudge.\n\nAnd I understand it, the call from Len McCluskey of Unite - for remainers to back down in the interests of party unity - is likely to go unheeded.\n\nSo as things stand, the differences between the leadership and much of the rank and file will be displayed in the full glare of publicity.\n\nHowever, the unions account for 50% of the votes at Labour conference - and if they continue to stand firmly behind Jeremy Corbyn then the overtly pro-remain position will be defeated.\n\nThe political price could be high, though, and there will undoubtedly be further appeals for the remain motion to be withdrawn.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Mr Corbyn acknowledged that most Labour supporters backed staying in the EU.\n\nBut he said the party needed to show more understanding of why the country voted leave and even if the UK were to remain in the EU, there needed to be serious reform.\n\nMr McCluskey, a key ally of Mr Corbyn, appealed for loyalty on the issue, saying the party must go into the looming general election \"united\".\n\n\"When we have a policy on Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn makes it clear that that is the policy, then that's what leading members of the shadow cabinet should argue for,\" he told Sky News.\n\n\"If they find they can't argue for it because they feel strongly, well, of course they have that right but they should step aside from the shadow cabinet…and they can argue whatever they want.\"", "Labour has urged Boris Johnson to address claims he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest in how money was given to a US businesswoman while he was London mayor.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Jennifer Arcuri, an entrepreneur associated with Mr Johnson, joined trade missions he led and was given £126,000 in public money.\n\nShe told the paper this was part of her role as a legitimate businesswoman.\n\nNo 10 declined to comment. A government department says it is investigating.\n\nMs Arcuri was quoted by the Sunday Times as saying: \"Any grants received by my companies and any trade mission I joined were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted her for comment.\n\nLabour's London mayor Sadiq Khan has told the BBC that he has ordered City Hall officials to look into the allegations.\n\nMr Khan said: \"All I know is what I have seen in the press. These are very serious allegations. At the moment they are just allegations.\n\n\"I have asked my chief of staff to ask City Hall officials to look into what process there was during this time, were those processes followed, but also whether there are also any lessons that need to be learned.\"\n\nThe newspaper says she moved back to the US in June 2018, but her latest company won a £100,000 grant intended for \"English-based\" businesses earlier this year.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it had found the registered address on the grant application form is a rented house in the UK and no longer connected to her.\n\nThe paper said the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport was investigating the award of the grant after the newspaper's inquiries.\n\nThe government has now confirmed to the BBC it is investigating. But it highlighted the funds were awarded to a UK-registered company.\n\nA statement from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"Funding for this scheme was awarded through open and fair competition.\n\n\"We regularly monitor grant initiatives and treat any allegations of impropriety with the utmost seriousness.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times claims one of Ms Arcuri's businesses also received £10,000 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when Mr Johnson was in office, and she received a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs to build businesses in Britain.\n\nJon Trickett, shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, said Mr Johnson should provide full disclosure on the allegations.\n\n\"Boris Johnson must now give a full account of his actions in response to these grave and most serious allegations of the misuse use of public money in his former role as mayor of London,\" Mr Trickett said in a statement.\n\n\"The public has a right to know how and why these funds were used for the benefit of a close personal friend without on the face of it legitimate reason.\n\n\"This cannot be swept under the carpet. It is a matter of the integrity of the man now leading our country, who appears to believe he can get away with anything.\"\n\nMr Johnson was London mayor between 2008 and 2016.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Everything done in the proper way\"\n\nBoris Johnson has denied any impropriety following claims he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest while London mayor.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Jennifer Arcuri - who knew Mr Johnson - joined trade missions he led and received thousands of pounds in sponsorship grants.\n\nThe PM earlier refused address the allegations, but later said \"everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nShe told the paper it was part of her role as a legitimate businesswoman.\n\nLabour has said Mr Johnson must give a full account of his actions, but pressed by journalists during a flight to New York on Sunday night, the now-prime minister refused to comment.\n\nOn Monday evening, though, he told the BBC's John Pienaar: \"All I can say is I am very proud of what we did as Mayor of London... particularly banging the drum for our city and country around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can tell you that absolutely everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nTechnology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri is believed to have moved to London seven years ago - Mr Johnson was mayor between 2008 and 2016.\n\nShe joined a joined a number of trade missions led by him while in office, and it is understood she attended events on two of these trips - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that one of her businesses received £10,000 and £1,500 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when Mr Johnson was mayor, as well as a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs to build businesses in Britain.\n\nThe newspaper also said Ms Arcuri got a £100,000 grant from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport earlier this year.\n\nThe grant was intended for \"English-based\" businesses - although she had moved back to the US in June 2018.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it had found the registered address on the grant application form was a rented house in the UK and no longer connected to her.\n\nThe government has confirmed to the BBC it is investigating, but said the funds were awarded to a UK-registered company.\n\nBoris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was \"perfectly normal\" for entrepreneurs to join trade missions, aimed at promoting British businesses overseas.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"British companies and entrepreneurs go on trade missions. It's quite right and proper and I'm sure that's exactly what's happened there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 4 Today This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe current London Mayor, Labour's Sadiq Khan, said he had ordered City Hall officials to look into the allegations.\n\nJournalists asked Mr Johnson about the allegations when travelling with him to the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nThe PM told reporters he was there to \"talk about what we're doing in the UN and this country's commitment to tackle climate change\", as well as \"the crisis in the Gulf and any other issues that may arise\".\n\nAsked again, he replied: \"I'm here to talk exclusively about the work of the UN.\"\n\nMs Arcuri was quoted by the Sunday Times as saying: \"Any grants received by my companies and any trade mission I joined were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman.\"\n\nThe woman at the centre of this story is Jennifer Arcuri, who describes herself on Twitter as an entrepreneur, cyber security expert and producer.\n\nShe began her career as a DJ on Radio Disney, before moving into film - where she wrote, produced and directed a short film that went on to be sold at Cannes Film Festival.\n\nMs Arcuri then brought in her tech skills to create a streaming platform for independent film makers.\n\nBut it was her founding of The Innotech Network in London that saw her path cross with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe network hosts events to discuss tech policy, and Mr Johnson was the keynote speaker at the first of those in 2012.\n\nSince then, Ms Arcuri has also founded another company called Hacker House, which uses ethical hackers to find tech solutions for businesses.", "Eight men were detained by police after landing on the Kent coast\n\nSixty six men women and children have been found in one day crossing the English Channel in small boats heading for the Kent coast.\n\nOne of the four boats was carrying 27 adults and eight children, said the Home Office.\n\nAnother boat reached Kingsdown, Kent. Eight men were passed to immigration officers after being held by police.\n\nIn addition to the 66, a dinghy with 13 men was returned to Calais after being spotted by a French navy helicopter.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"We are working closely at all levels with the French authorities to tackle this dangerous and illegal activity.\"\n\nA French navy helicopter spotted 13 men in a dinghy off the coast of Calais at about 04:30 BST\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel met her French counterpart Christophe Castaner in Paris on Thursday to discuss a joint response to the rise in crossings.\n\nThey agreed to develop an \"enhanced action plan\" to stop vessels leaving the French coast.\n\nIn the early hours of Saturday the French authorities alerted the Border Force to a boat carrying 16 migrants towards the UK.\n\nThe six men, five women and five children on board were taken to Dover. One woman needed hospital treatment.\n\nAnother boat carrying seven people was later intercepted in mid Channel. Those on board were also taken to Dover.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Lee boards a small boat to see some of the dangers face by migrants\n\nThe migrants have told immigration officials their nationalities are Iranian, Iraqi, Afghan, Syrian, Kuwaiti and Lebanese.\n\nPolice said on Thursday the body of a migrant who fell from a boat off the coast of Ramsgate on 9 August has been found, while the body of an Iraqi migrant, who is believed to have drowned while trying to swim to the UK, was found at a wind farm off the coast of Belgium on 23 August.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHong Kong riot police have used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse crowds as tens of thousands marched in the city, defying a ban.\n\nOfficers also fired live warning shots as they tried to clear the streets.\n\nProtesters lit fires, threw petrol bombs and attacked the parliament building. A number of people were later held as they fled into metro stations.\n\nSaturday's event to mark five years since China ruled out fully democratic elections was banned in Hong Kong.\n\nOn Friday, several key pro-democracy activists and lawmakers in China's special administrative region were arrested.\n\nThe protest movement grew out of rallies against a controversial extradition bill - now suspended - which would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial.\n\nIt has since become a broader pro-democracy movement in which clashes have grown more violent.\n\nProtesters took to the streets in the Wan Chai district, many joining a Christian march, while others demonstrated in the Causeway Bay shopping district in the pouring rain. Many carried umbrellas and wore face masks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police hit people with batons and used pepper spray\n\nOn the 13th weekend of protests, demonstrators - chanting \"stand with Hong Kong\" and \"fight for freedom\" - gathered outside government offices, the local headquarters of China's People's Liberation Army and the city's parliament, known as the Legislative Council.\n\nIn the Admiralty district, some protesters threw fire bombs towards officers. Earlier, protesters marched near the official residence of embattled leader Carrie Lam, who is the focal point of much of the anger.\n\nThe riot police had erected barriers around key buildings and road blocks, and fired tear gas and jets of blue-dyed water from water cannon. The coloured liquid is traditionally used to make it easier for police to identify protesters.\n\nThe police later confirmed that two officers fired into the air during operations to clear protesters from the streets. Both officers fired one shot each when they felt their lives were threatened, the police department said.\n\nSome were seen kneeling on the ground under police watch\n\nEric, a 22-year-old student, told Reuters news agency: \"Telling us not to protest is like telling us not to breathe. I feel it's my duty to fight for democracy. Maybe we win, maybe we lose, but we fight.\"\n\nThe recent demonstrations have been characterised as leaderless.\n\nOn Friday police had appealed to members of the public to cut ties with \"violent protesters\" and had warned people not to take part in the banned march.\n\nA sea of young people gathered on the streets surrounding the government headquarters. Like most weekends many came prepared. Protesters pushed wheelbarrows full of broken bricks to the front lines. They were thrown and pushed to the front over barricades in an attempt to slow the police's advance.\n\nRounds of tear gas, now the go-to weapon of the police, hung in the air, followed by rubber bullets fired towards the ground and in some cases nearly horizontally.\n\nBut police projectiles were met with rounds of petrol bombs thrown over police barriers and into the makeshift no-man's-land which separated the police and protesters. Many young protesters have become battle-hardened by nearly three months of demonstrations. They are strategic, organised and increasingly willing to resort to violence.\n\nDuring a 24-hour police crackdown, at least three activists - including prominent 23-year-old campaigner Joshua Wong - and three lawmakers were detained.\n\nMr Wong, who first rose to prominence as the poster boy of a protest movement that swept Hong Kong in 2014, was released on bail after being charged over the protests which have rocked the territory since June.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Wong said: \"Organising protests, having assembly on street is the fundamental right of [the] Hong Kong people... People will still gather on [the] street and urge President Xi [Jinping] and Beijing [that] it's time to listen to people's voice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow vow to continue protests after their release on bail\n\nHong Kong is part of China, but enjoys \"special freedoms\". Those are set to expire in 2047, and many in Hong Kong do not want to become \"another Chinese city\".\n\nBeijing has repeatedly condemned the protesters and described their actions as \"close to terrorism\". The protests have frequently escalated into violence between police and activists, with injuries on both sides.\n\nActivists are increasingly concerned that China might use military force to intervene. On Thursday, Beijing moved a new batch of troops into Hong Kong, a move Chinese state media described as a routine annual rotation.", "Michel Barnier said the backstop offered the \"maximum amount of flexibility\" that could be given to a non-member state\n\nThe EU's lead Brexit negotiator has rejected Boris Johnson's demands for the Irish backstop to be scrapped.\n\nMichel Barnier said the backstop - intended to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - was the \"maximum flexibility\" the EU could offer.\n\nMr Johnson has previously told the EU the arrangement must be ditched if a no-deal Brexit was to be avoided.\n\nMeanwhile, the PM has told rebel Tories they face a \"fundamental choice\" of siding with him or Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nHis comments come as some MPs who oppose a no-deal Brexit - including Conservatives - are planning to take action in Parliament next week.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nFormer justice secretary David Gauke, who voted three times for the Withdrawal Agreement in the House of Commons, will meet the prime minister on Monday to ask about the practicalities of securing a deal.\n\n\"I want to hear from him as to what is his plan to deliver a deal, when are we putting forward proposals to deal with this backstop issue - which is the one issue he has identified as the problem within the Withdrawal Agreement,\" he said during an interview on Sky News' Sophy Ridge show.\n\n\"I want to hear how he's going to address that, and I want to hear how he plans to deliver the legislation if we get a deal by 31 October - because at the moment, frankly, I can't see how he's got time to do that.\"\n\nThe backstop is part of the withdrawal agreement negotiated between Brussels and former prime minister Theresa May, which has been rejected by Parliament three times.\n\nIf implemented, it would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market, should the UK and the EU not agree a trade deal after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson has said there has been some movement from the EU, as he attempts to broker a new deal and remove the arrangement, which he has described as \"undemocratic\".\n\nHowever, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Barnier said: \"On the EU side, we had intense discussions with EU member states on the need to guarantee the integrity of the EU's single market, while keeping that border fully open.\n\n\"In this sense, the backstop is the maximum amount of flexibility that the EU can offer to a non-member state.\"\n\nMr Barnier also said he was \"not optimistic\" about avoiding a no-deal Brexit, but \"we should all continue to work with determination\".\n\nHe added: \"The EU is ready to explore all avenues that the UK government may present and that are compatible with the withdrawal agreement.\"\n\nThe EU could not stop the UK from leaving without a deal, he said, but he \"would fail to understand the logic of that choice\" because \"we would still need to solve the same problems after 31 October\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson says he wants to leave the EU on 31 October with a deal, but it is \"do or die\" and he is willing to leave without one rather than miss the deadline.\n\nThat position has prompted a number of opposition MPs to come together to try to block a possible no deal.\n\nMPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit are expected to try and seize control of the Parliamentary agenda this week to push through legislation that would force the PM to seek a Brexit extension beyond 31 October.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has warned Tory MPs who are considering lining up with opposition groups that they risk plunging the country into chaos.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times, he said: \"I just say to everybody in the country, including everyone in Parliament, the fundamental choice is this: Are you going to side with Jeremy Corbyn and those who want to cancel the referendum?\n\n\"Are you going to side with those who want to scrub the democratic verdict of the people - and plunge this country into chaos.\n\n\"Or are you going to side with those of us who want to get on, deliver the mandate of the people and focus with absolute, laser-like precision on the domestic agenda?\"\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nHis comments come after the Sun reported that No 10 would stop any Tory MP who votes to block a no-deal Brexit from standing for the party in a general election.\n\nThe report prompted former chancellor Philip Hammond to say it would be \"staggeringly hypocritical\" for the government to sack Conservative MPs who rebel over its Brexit plans, as eight current cabinet members had themselves defied the party whip this year by voting against Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nSpeaking on Sky News' Sophy Ridge show, International Development Secretary Alok Sharma said that Mr Johnson must be given time to secure a new deal.\n\n\"We want any future agreement not to have the backstop… The reality is that the previous Withdrawal Agreement, which contained the backstop, did not pass on three occasions. It didn't pass then, it won't pass again,\" he said.\n\n\"In fact, having the backstop also potentially makes us rule-takers from the EU forever. That is not what we want. We want that out, we want a deal, but we will be leaving on 31 October - no ifs, no buts.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell told the same programme that a cross-party group that includes MPs and legal experts is looking at introducing a legislative measure next week to stop a no-deal Brexit without parliamentary approval.\n\n\"The technique of that will be published on Tuesday, and I'm hoping that we'll have a debate in which we can bring the House together,\" he said.\n\n\"The ultimate goal, very straightforwardly, this week, is to ensure that Parliament can have a final say... we cannot have a prime minister overriding Parliament - not just on this issue, on any issue.\"\n\nOn Saturday, demonstrations were held across the UK in response to Mr Johnson's plans to suspend Parliament in the run-up to Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister, who announced the move on Wednesday, said it would enable the government to bring forwards new legislation.\n\nBut the decision prompted an angry backlash from some politicians and opponents of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Mr Johnson of a \"smash and grab on our democracy\" in order to force through no deal by leaving MPs too little time to pass laws in Parliament aimed at preventing such an outcome.\n\nBut Chancellor Sajid Javid defended the decision, adding: \"It's right because we are focusing on the people's priorities.\"\n\nIf the prorogation happens as expected, Parliament will be closed for 23 working days.\n\nMPs have to approve recess dates, but they cannot block prorogation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have blocked roads to the territory's airport, disrupting the operation of the major Asian transport hub.\n\nTrains to the airport were halted and roads blocked. Passengers had to walk to the terminal. Most flights operated as normal, but delays were reported.\n\nThousands of black-clad protesters then tried to enter the terminal building but were stopped by riot police.\n\nOn Saturday, police and protesters clashed during a banned rally.\n\nLive warning shots were fired into the air and tear gas and water cannon used to disperse tens of thousands of protesters.\n\nImages later showed riot police hitting people with batons and using pepper spray on a train in Hong Kong's metro.\n\nPolice say they were called to the scene amid violence against citizens by \"radical protesters\".\n\nRoads to Hong Kong's airport were blocked and trains suspended\n\nPeople took to the streets on Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Beijing government banning fully democratic elections in China's special administrative region.\n\nThe political crisis in Hong Kong - a former British colony - is now in its third month with no end in sight.\n\nThousands of protesters gathered at the main bus station near Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport on Sunday morning.\n\nSome passengers had to walk to the airport with their luggage\n\nThe demonstrators then moved to other parts of the complex, blocking roads and other transport links.\n\nThe airport is built on a tiny outlying island and can only be reached via a series of bridges.\n\n\"If we disrupt the airport, more foreigners will read the news about Hong Kong,\" one protester was quoted as saying by Reuters.\n\nAt one point the airport express train service was suspended. Officials said this was because of debris thrown onto the line.\n\nFollowing the arrival of riot police, demonstrators first built barricades to slow their advance, then left the airport on foot.\n\nIn August, protesters paralysed the airport for several days. Hundreds of flights had to be cancelled.", "Images have emerged purportedly showing smoke rising above Lebanon's Maroun al-Ras village after Israeli strikes\n\nThe Lebanese Shia Muslim militant group Hezbollah has fired several anti-tank rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for a reported Israeli drone attack in Beirut last week.\n\nIsraeli military sources confirmed rockets had been fired at an Israeli army base and military vehicles.\n\nThe Israeli army responded by attacking targets in southern Lebanon.\n\nHezbollah sources reported several Israeli casualties, but Israel said no-one had been injured on its side.\n\nThe Lebanese military earlier said an Israeli drone had entered its airspace and dropped incendiary material on a forest along the border.\n\nThe Israeli army has acknowledged it started a fire. Tensions on the frontier escalated in recent days.\n\nIsrael deployed artillery near the border with Lebanon\n\nHezbollah, which is backed by Iran, has threatened to carry out an attack against Israel.\n\nIt accuses Israel of trying to carry out a drone attack in Lebanon's capital Beirut last week.\n\nAccording to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), \"Hezbollah fired two to three anti-tank missiles from Lebanon, hitting an IDF military outpost and ambulance in northern Israel.\"\n\n\"We fired at the Hezbollah squad responsible. No Israelis were injured in the attack,\" the IDF said in a tweet.\n\nIsrael said it had responded with artillery and helicopter fire, sending about 100 shells across the border at Hezbollah positions.\n\nRadio reports from northern Israel say residents in some border communities have been sheltering in bunkers after suffering sustained rocket attacks.\n\nMeanwhile, Hezbollah is quoted by local media as saying the movement destroyed an Israeli tank, killing and injuring those on board.\n\nHowever, it provided no evidence, and its claims were rejected by Israel.\n\n\"At this moment I can make an important announcement: we have no casualties, no-one injured or even scratched,\" said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\n\nMilitary action by Hezbollah had been anticipated, even expected, after a reported attack by Israeli drones on a target in Lebanon's capital Beirut a week ago, reports the BBC's Wyre Davies in Jerusalem.\n\nIsrael has not confirmed carrying out that attack - but it had warned Hezbollah it would not allow it to develop precision guided missiles in Lebanon with support and parts from Iran.\n\nOn Saturday night, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel that an attack was inevitable.\n\nSpeaking in Jerusalem, Mr Netanyahu said Israel was prepared for any scenario.\n\nThe Hezbollah attack and Israel's response represent the most serious border incident between the two parties in recent years.\n\nIn 2006, Israel and Hezbollah fought a month-long conflict that killed more than 1,000 civilians, most of them Lebanese.", "Victims were shot at random, police say\n\nThe death toll in Saturday's mass shooting in Texas has risen to seven, police in the US state say.\n\nThe shooting, Texas' second in August, began when police stopped a car between the cities of Midland and Odessa.\n\nThe gunman wounded at least 20 people, including a 17-month-old girl. At one point, he abandoned his car and stole a US postal vehicle.\n\nPolice later shot dead the gunman near a cinema. Officials say they believe he had no connection to terrorism.\n\nThe motive of the gunman, who was white and in his mid-30s, remains unclear.\n\nThe shooting occurred exactly four weeks after 22 people were killed by another gunman in the Texan city of El Paso.\n\nOn Sunday, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said that those killed on Saturday were aged 15 to 57. He did not name them.\n\nThe gunman was shooting at random, targeting motorists and passers-by, he said.\n\nMr Gerke also said he would not name the killer to avoid giving him \"any notoriety for what he did\", but added that this would be done later.\n\nLater, Odessa police named the gunman as Seth Aaron Ator, aged 36, from Odessa.\n\nAmong the injured on Saturday was Anderson Davis, a girl aged 17 months, who was hit in the face by a bullet fragment and airlifted to hospital.\n\n\"She has a hole in her bottom lip, a hole in her tongue, and her top and bottom teeth were knocked out,\" Haylee Wilkerson, a family friend, told BuzzFeed News.\n\n\"Her mom said she's up playing and running around like nothing ever happened. She's a strong little girl, added Ms Wilkerson.\n\nThe toddler was expected to have surgery on Sunday.\n\nAt least three of those injured were police officers - although the police say not all of them were shot. Some were cut by glass when their car windows were hit by bullets and shattered.\n\nSaturday's incident began just after 15:00 (20:00 GMT) after two Texas Department of Public Safety officers pulled over a vehicle on a Midland highway, police said.\n\nThe driver then opened fire on the officers before driving away and shooting at other people in several other locations.\n\nTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he was \"horrified to see such a senseless act\". Texas Governor Greg Abbott said: \"We will not allow the Lone Star State to be overrun by hatred and violence. We will unite, as Texans always do, to respond to this tragedy.\"\n\nIn a tweet, US President Donald Trump said he was being kept informed about the shootings.\n\nLater, Vice-President Mike Pence said he and the Trump administration remained \"absolutely determined to work with leaders in both parties in Congress to take steps that we can address and confront this scourge of mass atrocity in our country\".\n\nAmid a clamour in the aftermath of the Texas and Ohio shootings earlier this month for increased background checks on firearm purchases, Mr Trump had said he was \"looking to do background checks\".\n\nBut he appeared to reverse that position after a phone call with the chief executive of the National Rifle Association), Wayne LaPierre, saying: \"I'm also very, very concerned with the Second Amendment, more so than most presidents would be. People don't realise we have very strong background checks right now.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app. Click\n\nNaomi Osaka has won hearts all over again.\n\nThe defending champion consoled 15-year-old American Coco Gauff after beating her 6-3 6-0 in the third round of the US Open.\n\n\"She was crying, she won. I was crying. Everybody was crying!\" said Gauff. \"I didn't know why she was crying. I was like, 'you won the match!'\"\n\nIt was not the first time Osaka has shown compassion in victory and after a heart-warming embrace at the net, she invited a tearful Gauff to speak to the crowd in a post-match interview.\n\n\"I was wanting to leave the court because I'm not the type of person who wants to cry in front of everyone. I didn't want to take that moment away from her, as well,\" said Gauff, competing in only her second Grand Slam singles main draw.\n\n\"She told me it's better than crying in the shower. She convinced me multiple times to stay. I kept saying no. Finally I said, OK, I'll do it. Because I didn't know what to do.\n\n\"I'm happy that she kind of convinced me to do it because, I mean, I'm not used to crying in front of everyone.\"\n\nOsaka, 21, was holding back tears herself when she then spoke directly to Gauff's box, before apologising for playing so well.\n\n\"You guys raised an amazing player,\" said the Japanese world number one. \"I used to see you guys training in the same place as us. The both of us made it and are working as hard as we can. I think this is the most focused I have been since Australia.\n\nTurning back to Gauff, she added: \"I am sorry for playing you in this mentality. It was super fun!\"\n\nOsaka later told a news conference: \"It was kind of instinctive because when I shook her hand, I saw that she was kind of tearing up a little. Then it reminded me how young she was.\n\n\"I was just thinking it would be nice for her to address the people that came and watched her play. They were cheering for her.\"\n\nGauff said she had not expected that reaction from Osaka.\n\n\"I'm glad that I was able to experience that moment,\" she said. \"I'm glad the crowd was kind of helping me and her.\n\n\"For me a definition of an athlete is someone who treats you as their worst enemy on the court but after they treat you like you're their best friend. That's what she did.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nTearful - but a contrast to last year\n\nJapanese top seed Osaka announced herself to the world when she won the US Open last year after an angry Serena Williams accused the umpire of being a \"thief\" in some of the most dramatic scenes at a Grand Slam final.\n\nWilliams was given a game penalty for her outburst, which followed racquet smashing and another code violation as Osaka won 6-2 6-4.\n\n\"I'm sorry it had to end like this,\" a crying Osaka said during the trophy presentation.\n\nFast-forward 12 months and Osaka was once again up against the home favourite on Arthur Ashe. But this time the tears were different.\n\nOsaka, though still only 21, was the senior - showing grace and maturity as she offered advice and comfort to Gauff - but could not hide her emotions when speaking to the teenager's family.\n\nAnd remaining humble, Osaka laughed when it was suggested she was a \"mentor\" before hugging Gauff as the American left the court.\n\nIt was a moment which American 11th seed Sloane Stephens said is \"what tennis should be about\".\n\n'Proud to have Osaka as number one'", "Lindsay Birbeck was last seen on CCTV walking on Burnley Road in Huncoat\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been charged with murdering a teaching assistant whose body was found in a cemetery.\n\nLindsay Birbeck 47, was last seen in Huncoat, Lancashire, on 12 August and was found dead at Accrington Cemetery on 24 August.\n\nPost-mortem tests found she had been strangled.\n\nThe teenager, from Accrington, who cannot be named because of his age, is due to appear at Blackburn Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMs Birbeck's disappearance prompted wide-ranging searches by hundreds of members of the public.\n\nHer children Steven, 19 and Sarah, 16, said they had lost \"not only our mum but our best friend too\".\n\nMs Birbeck's body was found in Accrington Cemetery on Saturday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buckle up. This next sentence is one that in normal political times (remember them?) might give any follower of politics palpitations.\n\nTory MPs who vote against the government in the Commons this week will be chucked out of the party and banned from standing for the Conservatives at the next election.\n\nSenior sources in government are confirming that plan was agreed by the prime minister and his enforcers - the party whips - in the splendour of his country pile, Chequers, on Sunday.\n\nIt's not just Westminster gossip - it is actually No 10's plan.\n\nThat's remarkable not just because Westminster is a place where rebellions are relatively commonplace, and backbenchers are permitted to express their opinion in such a way with the consequence being a rap on the knuckles, or a cold shoulder in the tea room.\n\nIt's remarkable not just because Boris Johnson's government is stuffed full of ministers, including in the cabinet, who defied the party whip under Theresa May's administration, but who stayed on.\n\nFormer chancellor Philip Hammond has said it would be \"staggeringly hypocritical\" for the government to sack Tory MPs who rebel\n\nBut it's remarkable, too, because Boris Johnson knows full well there are Tory MPs who are determined to vote against him this week, and if he holds good on that threat he would be giving up the whisker of a majority he has.\n\nThat's not a boring detail. Prime ministers can't run the country easily if they don't have a majority in the Commons, let alone at a time when their main policy courts controversy everywhere.\n\nSo why make such a threat that if followed through, would be an act of self harm?\n\nFirst off, Downing Street does not want to lose this week to the rebel alliance whose members will try, from Tuesday, everything they can to outlaw the possibility of no deal.\n\nThis threat from No 10 might put the frighteners on a few of them who are tempted to vote against the government.\n\nSo it reduces the chance of defeat a little, even though some of those determined to vote against the government are planning not to stand at the next election in any case.\n\nThe numbers may be tight, but one source close to the group told me, \"We've moved beyond the point where threats will persuade people to abandon their principles\". Another senior MP up to their guts in the plans told me if they are deselected, \"so be it\".\n\nBut the nature of the threat is also a sign that No 10 is actively considering whether they will have to call a general election, and soon.\n\nIf you are an ambitious prime minister, (step forward Boris Johnson), and you don't have a majority, you need to try to find one, and fast.\n\nAnd he was elected by the Tory party with a promise of sticking to his Brexit deadline, come hell or high water.\n\nIf MPs make that impossible this week, he may well choose instead to press the button on another campaign, and go to the country.\n\nI understand calling an election, maybe even this week, is one of the options under consideration.\n\nBut his team is well aware that chunks of the electorate might be pretty cross about going to the polls again.\n\nSo cranking up the pressure on Tory rebels at the start of this crucial week could create a convenient group of bogeymen who could be chucked out of the party, and take the blame.\n\nDon't be surprised if by the end of the day No 10 has found another way of upping the pressure still further.\n\nIt is far from inevitable, but it's not impossible that, within a matter of days, we could all be asked to go to the polls again.\n\nA prime minister ready to give up his tiny working majority sounds like a prime minister ready to call an election, if needs be.", "The former chancellor has described a no-deal Brexit as anti-democratic\n\nIt would be \"staggeringly hypocritical\" for the government to sack Conservative MPs who rebel over its Brexit plans, former chancellor Philip Hammond says.\n\nIt comes after the Sun reported No 10 would stop any Tory MP who votes to block a no-deal Brexit from standing for the party in a general election.\n\nBut Mr Hammond said eight current cabinet members had themselves defied the party whip this year by voting against Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Parliament would be suspended, or prorogued, just days after MPs return to work in September, prompting an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister said the move would enable the government to bring forwards new legislation.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Mr Johnson of a \"smash and grab on our democracy\" in order to force through no deal by leaving MPs too little time to pass laws in Parliament aimed at preventing such an outcome.\n\nAt present, the default position in law is that the UK leaves the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nSome MPs who oppose a no-deal Brexit - including Conservatives - are planning to take action in Parliament next week.\n\nMr Corbyn has said opposition MPs have agreed to first try to avoid no deal using legislation, while using a vote of no confidence to bring down the government remained an option.\n\nAccording to the Sun, Mr Johnson plans to sack any Tory MPs who back either of these moves.\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC Boris Johnson wanted all MPs to \"recognise their duty\"\n\nIn response to the reports, Mr Hammond tweeted that he wanted to honour the party's 2017 manifesto promise for a \"smooth and orderly\" exit and a \"deep and special partnership\" with the EU and \"not an undemocratic No Deal\".\n\nConservative MP Sam Gyimah tweeted that the possibility of every MP who votes against \"no-deal chaos\" being purged showed the direction the party had gone in a very short space of time, adding that it was not \"real Conservatism\".\n\nAnd Conservative backbencher Antoinette Sandbach has said she will \"always put [her constituents] interests above my career prospects\" and her party.\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC that Mr Johnson wanted all MPs to \"recognise their duty\" and \"give him their support\" to get the UK out of the EU by 31 October.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"All options for party management are under consideration, but first and foremost the PM hopes MPs will deliver on the referendum result and back him on Parliament.\"\n\nWhether Boris Johnson's government would really go so far as to throw rebellious MPs out of the party isn't yet certain.\n\nBut the fact that today's reports aren't being denied is yet another indication that Downing Street is, it appears, doing its best to dissuade wavering Conservatives from supporting legislation designed to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson believes that taking that outcome off the table will weaken his hand in trying to get a new agreement.\n\nHowever, some MPs take the view that this administration is being deliberately provocative, perhaps with the aim of being able to create that \"People versus parliament\" narrative in the event of a general election.\n\nMr Hammond's intervention came after his successor, Sajid Javid, backed Mr Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament.\n\nDespite insisting during the Tory leadership campaign that he thought proroguing Parliament was a bad idea, Mr Javid has now defended the plan.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It is quite usual this time of year, Parliament goes into what's called a conference recess and it doesn't usually sit for some time in September and early October.\n\n\"It's right because we are focusing on the people's priorities.\"\n\nThousands of people took to the streets across the UK to protest the suspension on Saturday.\n\nDemonstrations were held in central London, near Downing Street, and in other locations across the UK, including Manchester, Leeds, York and Belfast.\n• None Why are MPs being sent home again?", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nVasyl Lomachenko produced a battling display to beat Britain's Luke Campbell on points and add the WBC lightweight title to his WBA and WBO belts.\n\nLomachenko, 31, regarded as one of the best pound-for-pound boxers, was made to work hard for the thrilling win.\n\nCampbell, also 31, was aiming to become a world champion for the first time but was floored in the 11th as the Ukrainian's class proved decisive.\n\nLomachenko got the verdict 119-108, 119-108, 118-108 at London's O2 Arena.\n\nCampbell, an Olympic gold medallist in 2012, suffered the third loss of his 23-fight professional career but deserves huge praise for the way he fought back to hear the final bell.\n\n\"He is so good, he adapts to any plans,\" said Campbell. \"Tonight was not the jackpot but my time will come.\"\n\nThe Hull man was in trouble at the end of the fifth when he was caught by a crushing left hook and then a barrage of body and head shots, but was saved by the bell.\n\nCampbell took more punishment in the sixth, but had success of his own later in that round and the next in a captivating contest.\n\nHe was floored in the 11th after a barrage of body shots and then a jab. But he got up to finish the fight, although two of the three judges only gave him a round, with the other judge giving him two.\n\nCampbell was later taken to hospital but promoter Eddie Hearn said it was only a precautionary measure.\n\nLomachenko lives up to the hype\n\nA sold-out crowd at the O2 Arena witnessed another fantastic, dominant performance from Lomachenko, a three-weight world champion.\n\nThis latest victory - in only his 15th fight as a professional - means he now holds three of the main four belts in the lightweight division - Ghana's Richard Commey, the IBF champion, is the man standing between him and being undisputed champion.\n\nLomachenko has also held world titles at featherweight and super-featherweight after an incredible amateur career that saw him win 396 out of 397 bouts and also win Olympic gold medals in Beijing in 2008 and in London four years later.\n\nNow, less than five miles from where he won that second gold medal and in his first professional fight in Europe, Lomachenko dazzled from the off.\n\nBefore the fight, Hearn said it was an \"honour\" to get the Ukrainian to fight in the UK - and he did not disappoint.\n\nThe right jab proved a constant menace and the left was dangerous, twice rocking Campbell's head back as early as the third round.\n\nHe also provided some brutal body shots, leaving Campbell wincing in pain in the fourth.\n\nLomachenko told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He has big amateur experience, he's a smart fighter, a technical fighter and you saw his reach so of course it was hard for me.\n\n\"He gave me a good experience and a good fight. I want a unification fight for the four belts.\"\n\nIn the build-up to this fight, legendary promoter Bob Arum said Lomachenko was the greatest technical fighter in boxing since Muhammad Ali and afterwards also compared him to other greats including Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Floyd Mayweather, Oscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao.\n\nSo to go the distance shows what a gutsy effort it was from Campbell.\n\nThis was his second world title shot after he lost on a controversial split decision against Jorge Linares in the US in September 2017.\n\nOn that occasion, Campbell, whose father died two weeks before the fight, was knocked down in the second but fought back, and later insisted he won the fight by a two-round margin.\n\nBut against Lomachenko it never looked likely that Campbell, a 10-1 underdog, would get the victory, as the Ukrainian was too good, despite the Briton being two inches taller and having a five-inch reach advantage.\n\nLomachenko was fighting a British opponent for only the second time, after knocking out former world champion Anthony Crolla in the fourth round in the US earlier this year.\n\nCampbell managed to go the distance, but a shock win was not to happen.\n\nFormer world champion Carl Frampton: \"I never expected that. It was down to Luke Campbell who showed such skill alongside grit and determination. His stock has risen dramatically tonight even though he is the loser. I think Lomachenko underplayed how hard that was. I think it's the toughest fight he has had as a professional.\"\n\nBBC Sport boxing correspondent Mike Costello: \"Three of the four versions of the title now rest with Vasyl Lomachenko. But people who haven't seen it won't realise how hard he has had to work for it.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing expert Steve Bunce: \"We came for sorcery and were given a display of old-fashioned grit, determination and heart and desire. Such bravery, such guts. The points mean nothing. Luke Campbell made the magician look normal.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app. Click\n\nJohanna Konta reached the US Open quarter-finals for the first time by edging an unpredictable match against Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova.\n\nKonta, 28, fought back from a set and 3-1 down to win 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 7-5.\n\nShe will face Elina Svitolina in the last eight after the Ukrainian fifth seed beat Madison Keys 7-5 6-4.\n\n\"I've been in the fourth round twice before so reaching the quarter-finals is a massive achievement for me,\" said the British number one.\n\n\"The key was to keep going, with Karolina you know there will be massive portions of the match where I don't feel effective.\n\n\"It is about staying out there and trusting the fundamental things. It was a great match and I'm so happy.\"\n\nThe 16th seed missed chances in the first set before composing herself to punish an out-of-sorts Pliskova at Flushing Meadows. The Czech won 77% of points on her first serve and served 16 aces but those statistics were undermined by nine double faults and a second serve which earned her just seven points.\n\nKonta has been hitting clean groundstrokes all tournament and continued to trust her ability against the similarly powerful Pliskova, landing 45 winners which outnumbered her unforced errors and proved to be a key differential.\n\nKonta, who is the first British woman to reach the quarter-finals in New York since Jo Durie in 1983, has now made the last eight at all four Grand Slams.\n\nShe reached the French Open semi-finals and Wimbledon quarter-finals earlier this year.\n\nOn emulating Durie, Konta said: \"I'm really pleased with that and, more specifically, this season to make it three quarter-finals in successive Grand Slams is a tremendous achievement.\n\n\"I will enjoy this but I have to keep looking forward and try to go one, two or three steps further.\"\n\nKonta will now face 24-year-old Svitolina, who enjoyed a routine win over 10th seed and 2017 finalist Keys in the first night session match on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\n\"It is going to be another great battle,\" said Svitolina, who boasts a 3-0 winning record against Konta.\n• None Federer cruises into US Open quarter-finals by thrashing Goffin\n• None Second seed Barty knocked out by Wang\n• None Medvedev the Russian troll in New York\n• None Murray and Skupski into last eight\n\nKonta, supported again by actor Tom Hiddleston in her player box, started strongly against an opponent who had won six of their seven previous tour-level meetings.\n\nShe broke to love in the first game and continued to create more opportunities as the tall Czech struggled to land first serves, enabling Konta to dismantle Pliskova's second serve on her way to setting up nine points for a double break in the opening set.\n\nPliskova rallied to save all of them and it looked likely to prove costly for Konta when her service game - which she had only dropped twice in her previous three matches - suddenly disintegrated.\n\nKonta failed to land a first serve as she tried to see out the opener at 5-4, paying the price as the Czech rediscovered her biggest weapon to instead take the advantage.\n\nPliskova looked completely in control as she broke in the first game of the second set and won nine out of 10 points with Konta's game starting to become ragged.\n\nBut, after the pair traded two more successive breaks, momentum shifted back to Konta, who won five games in a row to take an engrossing match into a decider.\n\nKonta had won 16 of her 19 three-set matches this year and looked set to improve that tally when a poor service game from Pliskova, which featured three unforced errors and a double fault, left the Briton serving for the match.\n\nHowever, as when she served for the first set, nerves seemed to take hold and Pliskova threatened to level by bringing up break point. Konta, though, composed herself again with a brave forehand winner down the line.\n\nAfter missing a first match point, she reset again to win at the second opportunity when 27-year-old Pliskova - still searching for a maiden Grand Slam title herself - hit long to go down in two hours and 20 minutes.\n\n\"It was important not to panic or be worried,\" Konta said about fighting back from a set and a break down.\n\n\"I was doing a lot of good things out there and I kept into perspective I was playing the number three player in the world.\n\n\"I was pleased with what I was doing in that first set, even though I wasn't able to come through, and I definitely felt there was a lot for me to build on.\n\n\"I trust in my ability to create more opportunities and I managed to do that.\"\n\n'Konta seems to relish mixing it with the elite' - analysis\n\nJohanna Konta won that match the hard way. Many would have subsided after losing a first set they had dominated - especially after being broken twice in a row at the start of the second.\n\nBut Konta has an extraordinary third-set record this year, and seems to relish mixing it with the elite.\n\nShe has won her past four matches against top 10 players in Grand Slams - against Sloane Stephens twice, Petra Kvitova and now Karolina Pliskova.\n\nThe serve is the bedrock of her game, but she also hit bravely and freely from the baseline when the match was up for grabs.\n\nTo have reached the last eight of all four Grand Slams is a mighty achievement, and she is only the 14th active player to have done so.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Red Crescent medics next to bags containing the bodies of victims the air strike\n\nMore than 100 people have died in Yemen after the Saudi-led coalition launched a series of air strikes on a detention centre, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).\n\nThe ICRC said that at least 40 survivors were being treated after the attack on Sunday in the city of Dhamar.\n\nLocal residents reported hearing six air strikes during the night.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition, which backs Yemen's government, said its attack destroyed a drone and missile site.\n\nThe Iran-aligned Houthi rebel movement, which is fighting in opposition to the government and Saudi-led coalition, said the strikes had hit a facility it was using as a prison. The ICRC said it had visited detainees at the location before.\n\nFranz Rauchenstein, the head of delegation for the ICRC in Yemen, said the organisation was collecting bodies from the site and described the chances of finding more survivors as \"very low\".\n\nYemen has been at war since 2015, when President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his cabinet were forced to flee the capital Sanaa by the Houthis. Saudi Arabia backs President Hadi, and has led a coalition of regional countries in air strikes against the rebels.\n\nThe coalition launches air strikes almost every day, while the Houthis often fire missiles into Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe civil war has triggered the world's worst humanitarian disaster, with 80% of the population - more than 24 million people - requiring humanitarian assistance or protection, including 10 million who rely on food aid to survive.\n\nMore than 70,000 people are believed to have died since 2016 as a result of the conflict, according to UN estimates.\n• None Yemen: Why is there a war there?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal staged a stirring comeback to earn a point in a chaotic, thrilling north London derby against Tottenham at Emirates Stadium.\n\nSpurs looked to be in complete control when Christian Eriksen pounced to put them ahead in the 10th minute after Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno pushed out Erik Lamela's shot.\n\nLeno then saved superbly from Son Heung-min before the South Korean was senselessly hacked down in the area by Arsenal captain Granit Xhaka to allow Harry Kane to score his 10th goal in 11 derby games.\n\nArsenal started the revival when Alexandre Lacazette pulled one back on the stroke of half-time before they laid siege to Spurs' goal after the break.\n\nSpurs keeper Hugo Lloris saved superbly from Matteo Guendozi's low shot and from substitute Dani Ceballos before Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang showed the poacher's instinct to turn home the equaliser with 19 minutes remaining.\n\nKane struck the inside of the post and Sokratis had a goal ruled out for offside - Spurs also had strong penalty claims rejected when the pair clashed late on - but neither side could make the decisive breakthrough and this entertaining encounter ended with honours even.\n\nThe result lifts Arsenal to fifth in the Premier League with seven points from four games, while Tottenham head into September's international break four places behind their rivals in ninth on five points.\n\nArsenal showed real character amid the mood swings of this north London derby to fight back from a precarious position to earn a point.\n\nUnai Emery's side found themselves in big trouble at two goals down but never felt sorry for themselves, fighting their way back to parity and pinning Spurs back for most of the second half.\n\nThe Gunners were guilty of poor defending and moments of carelessness but no-one could question their heart.\n\nLacazette's goal with seconds left of the first half was vital, lifting the spirits of Arsenal's players and supporters and setting the perfect platform for a second half that was low on moments of high class but full of fervour and entertainment.\n\nThe action swung from end-to-end but Arsenal looked stronger after the break with 20-year-old Guendouzi performing with great maturity in midfield.\n\nGuendouzi certainly showed greater composure than his captain Xhaka, who was guilty of a moment of crass stupidity when diving into a sliding challenge on Son to concede a penalty.\n\nThe young Frenchman almost scored only for Lloris to make a brilliant save and it was his intelligent, probing ball into the box that was diverted in by Aubameyang.\n\nIt is already becoming clear the title is a two-horse race between Liverpool and Manchester City but Arsenal will feel they can make a serious top-four challenge - although once again questions must be asked about their defending.\n\nSpurs will be disappointed at only getting a draw after establishing such a position of strength at 2-0 but in the end there was almost a sense they should be grateful for a point.\n\nIt continues an indifferent start to the season as they have five points from their first four games, with just one win at home to Aston Villa.\n\nSpurs, to give perspective, have also had tough away assignments at Manchester City and Arsenal and come away with points but they are not yet back to their best.\n\nThe experiment of using Davinson Sanchez at right-back was not an unqualified success and on several occasions manager Mauricio Pochettino could be seen showing his exasperation, both at moments of poor defending and also when Spurs were wasteful in attack.\n\nSpurs were grateful for a superb display of shot-stopping by Lloris but Pochettino will be frustrated that his side looked to have Arsenal where they wanted them before the break, then ended hanging on for long periods in the second half.\n\n'A great job' - what they said\n\nArsenal manager Unai Emery, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was an amazing match. We are proud of our work and our supporters. The result isn't the best for us.\n\n\"The key was the first goal to give us confidence and give us more chances in the second half. We deserved it. We did a lot of good things. We made some mistakes in the first half and they have good players.\n\n\"Before their first goal we were playing well. Sometimes our heart is more strong than our head.\"\n\nTottenham striker Harry Kane, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I feel like were coming off disappointed. We expect to see the game out. The goal hurt us with momentum just before the break. It was an end-to-end game, especially last 10-15 minutes but the players left everything on the pitch.\n\nOn his late penalty shout: \"As a striker, if it is on halfway it is a definite foul. In the box you don't always get them. He's come through the back of me but it is 50/50. VAR would probably have backed the ref in this.\"\n\nSpurs continue to stutter on the road - stats\n• None Tottenham have dropped 42 points from winning positions in the Premier League against Arsenal - 11 more than against any other side in the competition.\n• None Spurs are winless in their last eight away league games, drawing two and losing six. They last endured such a run on the road in their eight games between December 2011 and April 2012.\n• None Arsenal have lost just one of their last 27 Premier League home games against Tottenham, a 2-3 defeat in November 2010 after being two goals ahead.\n• None Since his Premier League debut in August 2016, no player has conceded more penalties in the competition than the five by Arsenal's Granit Xhaka.\n• None Arsenal have recorded 13 errors leading to goals in the Premier League since the start of last season - the most of any club in the competition. Goalkeeper Bernd Leno is responsible for six of those errors.\n• None Spurs' Christian Eriksen has now scored 50 Premier League goals - the first Danish player to reach this landmark - whilst also becoming the first Spurs player to register both 50-plus goals and assists for the club in the competition.\n\nAfter the international break, Tottenham resume their Premier League season with a home match against Crystal Palace on Saturday, 14 September (15:00 BST).\n\nA day later, Arsenal travel to Watford in the late Sunday kick-off (16:30 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Harry Kane following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicolas Pépé.\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Schools rated outstanding will no longer be exempt from inspections by Ofsted, under new plans announced by the Department for Education (DfE).\n\nThe move is part of proposals to help struggling schools in England.\n\nThe government stopped inspectors from carrying out routine inspections of top-rated schools in 2011, but the DfE said bringing them back would ensure parents had up-to-date information.\n\nOfsted called for their reintroduction after concerns about falling standards.\n\nIt highlighted the issue last year, saying that as some schools had not been inspected for a decade or more, there was a chance their ratings no longer truly reflected standards at the school.\n\nThe exemption, introduced when Michael Gove was education secretary, aimed to focus resources on the worst-performing schools but was criticised at the time.\n\nA National Audit Office report in 2018 found 1,620 schools, most of them outstanding, had not been inspected for six years or more, and 290 for a decade or more.\n\nEarlier this year, England's schools standards watchdog re-inspected 305 schools rated outstanding that had specific issues, and 80% lost their top-level rating.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), which represents leaders in the majority of schools in England, welcomed the announcement to reintroduce inspections for outstanding schools.\n\n\"Many of these schools are completely different places now to when they were inspected, with changed cohorts of pupils and different staff teaching a dramatically different curriculum,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added that the NAHT remained concerned about Ofsted's ability to judge a school, saying \"in the past outstanding judgements have been largely data driven\".\n\nAs part of the plans to tackle underperformance, the DfE also announced:\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said he was determined to make sure those schools leading the way were \"sharing their expertise and lifting up others\" so every child had the best possible start to life.\n\nThe latest plan follows the government's announcement on Friday of a multi-billion pound cash boost for schools in England over the next three years.\n• None Some 'outstanding schools not that good'", "The incident took place in a house on Park Avenue in Mynydd Isa\n\nA child has been airlifted to hospital after a dog attack in Flintshire.\n\nNorth Wales Police and the air ambulance were called to Mynydd Isa, near Mold, at about 16:45 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said a child had been treated at the scene and was flown to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.\n\nA spokesman for North Wales Police said its officers were investigating the attack.\n\nThe air ambulance landed in a park near the house", "Hong Kong police used water cannon to fire blue-coloured water at protesters who defied a police ban and marched through the city.\n\nThe coloured liquid is traditionally used to make it easier for police to identify protesters.\n\nDemonstrators lit fires, threw petrol bombs at riot police and attacked the parliament building.\n\nThe protest movement grew out of rallies against a controversial extradition bill - now suspended - which would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crowds fill Whitehall in central London to protest against Boris Johnson's plans to suspend Parliament\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the UK against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament in the run-up to Brexit.\n\nThousands of protesters took to the streets in cities including Manchester, Leeds, York and Belfast.\n\nParts of central London were brought to a standstill, as people chanted: \"Boris Johnson, shame on you.\"\n\nA small group of counter-protesters, marching in support of the prime minister, also arrived in Westminster.\n\nMr Johnson's plan to prorogue Parliament prompted an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit when he announced it on Wednesday.\n\nIf the prorogation happens as expected, Parliament will be closed for 23 working days.\n\nCritics view the length and timing of the suspension - coming just weeks before the Brexit deadline on 31 October - as controversial.\n\nThousands registered their interest in the protests - including in Manchester - on social media\n\nIn Whitehall, protesters gathered to hear from speakers including Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott\n\nPolice kept a watchful eye on protesters as arguments broke out in Westminster\n\nProtests were held place in more than 30 towns and cities across the UK, including Edinburgh, Belfast, Cambridge, Exeter, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.\n\nIn London, demonstrators stopped traffic in Whitehall and the West End.\n\nThey also staged a sit-down protest in the roads around Trafalgar Square, before marching to Buckingham Palace shouting: \"Whose democracy? Our democracy.\"\n\nThe Met Police said it had made three arrests but gave no further details.\n\nThe Green Party said London Assembly member Caroline Russell was among those arrested.\n\nSian Berry, co-leader of the Green Party, tweeted she was \"proud of Caroline standing up for democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liverpool City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNHS pharmacist Bridie Walton, 55, said she had never been to a demonstration before, but joined the protest in Exeter to oppose Mr Johnson's plan.\n\n\"These are the actions of a man who is afraid his arguments will not stand scrutiny,\" she said.\n\nIn Liverpool, Paula Carlyle said she was \"proud\" to stand alongside protesters \"who voted both Remain and Leave\".\n\n\"We will not be silenced,\" she said. \"Without us you have no power and we will continue to show ours until Mr Johnson is stopped.\"\n\nIn Oxford, crowds holding banners gathered outside Balliol College, where Mr Johnson studied at university.\n\nIn Oxford, protesters gathered outside Mr Johnson's former college\n\nThe protests were triggered by Mr Johnson's move to suspend Parliament until 17 days before the Brexit deadline\n\nMany of the protests - like the one in Exeter - began at 11:00 BST, while others started at midday\n\nNamed \"Stop the Coup\", the protests are organised by anti-Brexit campaign group Another Europe is Possible.\n\nSmall protests also took place in Amsterdam, Berlin and the Latvian capital Riga.\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Glasgow, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the protesters' message to the prime minister was: \"No way do you take us out without a deal.\"\n\n\"Demonstrations are taking place everywhere because people are angered and outraged about what is happening,\" he added.\n\nMr Corbyn told the crowds in George Square, Glasgow, people are \"angered and outraged\"\n\nProtesters marched to Buckingham Palace, after the Queen formally approved Mr Johnson's plan\n\nPolice began moving protesters off the roads around Trafalgar Square\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott both addressed crowds in London.\n\nSpeaking from a stage near Downing Street, Ms Abbott told protesters: \"We cannot allow Boris Johnson to shut down Parliament and to shut down the voice of ordinary British people.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Bristol, former Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams said by suspending Parliament, Mr Johnson had left MPs \"with about four days to make the most important decision of any of our lifetimes\".\n\nBy late morning at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, small crowds had gathered - one of three protests abroad\n\nThe protest in Bristol had to be moved to College Green outside City Hall to avoid traffic problems\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, defended the prime minister's decision to suspend Parliament.\n\nHe said: \"It's quite usual this time of year for Parliament to go in to a recess. It's perfectly correct and appropriate to prorogue Parliament.\n\n\"I think it's absolutely right that this prime minister and his government get the chance to set up their agenda.\"\n\nIt's a far cry from the numbers that we saw marching through Westminster earlier this year. I think we'd probably measure this one in the thousands [in central London].\n\nBut there are deeply-held passions here, different kinds of passions. Some are here because they don't like Boris Johnson's government, some because they are worried about proroguing Parliament, some because they don't want no deal, some because they don't want Brexit at all.\n\nThere's been a lot of talk about democracy from the people I've spoken to here today, but actually I think what it comes down to is a country which is riven by very different definitions about what democracy actually means.\n\nThe Jo Cox Foundation, which was set up in the wake of the Labour MP's murder in 2016, warned that anger over Brexit \"should not spill over into something more dangerous\".\n\nMeanwhile, a petition against the prime minister's plan to suspend Parliament has received more than 1.5 million signatures.\n\nAnd on Friday, former Tory Prime Minister Sir John Major announced he will join forces with anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller to oppose the decision to suspend Parliament in the courts.\n\nHe believes Mr Johnson's move to suspend Parliament is aimed at preventing MPs from opposing a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has dismissed suggestions that suspending Parliament is motivated by a desire to force through a no deal, calling them \"completely untrue\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"The idea this is some kind of constitutional outrage is nonsense.\"", "Blanca Fernandez Ochoa, an Olympic bronze medallist, was reported missing on 23 August\n\nBlanca Fernandez Ochoa, the first Spanish woman to win a medal at the Winter Olympics, has been reported missing.\n\nThe former alpine skier, 56, disappeared more than a week ago, Spain's national police said.\n\nOfficials said on Sunday that a black Mercedes A-Class car that Ms Fernandez was last seen driving has been located in a town near Madrid.\n\nBut police are still working to locate Ms Fernandez herself.\n\nA public appeal was issued at the request of Ms Fernandez's family, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Policía Nacional This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 former skier's daughter, Olivia Fresneda, who reported her mother's disappearance on 23 August, is \"very worried\", the paper reports.\n\nMs Fernandez left home without her phone and has not used her credit cards since she vanished, police sources told El Pais.\n\nDetectives, who have reportedly been looking for Ms Fernandez for seven days, are yet to find any trace of her.\n\nBorn in Madrid in 1963, Ms Fernandez took part in four Winter Olympics between 1980 and 1992.\n\nShe was Spain's first female Winter Olympic medallist, winning the bronze in the slalom in the 1992 games at Albertville, France.\n\nMs Fernandez skis downhill during the women's slalom at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, in 1992\n\nIn an interview in 2014, Ms Fernandez said skiing had become an \"obsession\" but admitted she preferred playing golf since retiring.\n\nMs Fernandez was one of five siblings who competed at the Winter Olympics for the Spanish skiing team.\n\nHer brother, Francisco Fernandez Ochoa, was the first Spaniard to win a gold medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Japan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pope, late for his weekly prayer, explains what happened\n\nPope Francis has apologised for arriving late for his weekly prayer in St Peter's Square, saying he was stuck in a lift in the Vatican.\n\nThe 82-year-old pontiff said he had been trapped in the lift for 25 minutes because of a power outage before he was freed by firefighters.\n\n\"I have to apologise for being late,\" a smiling Pope said at the start of the Angelus address.\n\nHe then asked the crowd for a round of applause for the firefighters.\n\nAddressing the crowd, the Pope said there had been a \"drop in voltage and the elevator stopped\".\n\n\"Thank goodness, the firefighters arrived, and I thank them so much, and after 25 minutes of work they managed to get it started again,\" he said.\n\nTelevision networks in Italy which broadcast the prayer live had been concerned the unprecedented delay might have been due to health reasons, AFP news agency reports.\n\nIn his address, the Pope announced that he would create ten new Roman Catholic cardinals next month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pope Francis pulled away from 19 people trying to kiss his ring", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nFormula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert has been killed in a crash at the Belgian Grand Prix, motorsport's governing body the FIA has said.\n\nThe Frenchman, who was 22, suffered a huge impact from the car of American Juan Manuel Correa at about 170mph at the Raidillon swerves.\n\nAn FIA statement said that Hubert was taken to the medical centre after the incident, and died at 18:35 local time.\n\nCorrea is in intensive care, but his condition is stable, after surgery.\n\nThe 20-year-old suffered fractures to both his legs and a \"minor spinal injury\" in the crash and was taken to hospital by helicopter.\n\n\"Juan Manuel remained conscious the entire time until his admission to the operating room,\" a statement said.\n• None Why the motorsport 'family' races on after a driver pays the ultimate price\n\nThe race was stopped after the crash and cancelled within a few minutes when the potential seriousness of the accident became clear.\n\nFormula 2 have announced that Sunday's sprint race at Spa has been cancelled \"out of respect\", while the Formula 3 race will go ahead.\n\nHubert, who drove for the BWT Arden team, was lying eighth in the championship and had scored two wins this season, in Monaco and France.\n\nHe was also part of Renault F1's young driver programme. Renault said in a statement: \"Anthoine was a member of the Renault Sport Academy and raced in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, the final ladder to F1.\n\n\"As reigning GP3 champion and member of the Equipe de France, FFSA (French Federation of Motorsport), the Frenchman was a huge talent who also brought great energy and positivity to his championship, his teams and the Renault Sport Academy.\n\n\"His smile and sunny personality lit up our formidable group of young drivers, who had formed tight and enduring bonds.\n\n\"His strong results in F2 this season, including wins on home soil in Monaco and France, inspired not just the other recruits but also the wider Renault Sport Racing group.\"\n\nOther racing drivers and teams from across motorsport have paid tribute on social media.\n\nFormer F1 driver Fernando Alonso posted on Twitter: \"What a sad afternoon. I have no words. It hurts the heart. Rest in peace, champ.\"\n\nLewis Hamilton wrote on Instagram: \"This is devastating. God rest your soul Anthoine. My prayers and thoughts are with you and your family today.\n\n\"If a single one of you watching and enjoying this sport think for a second what we do is safe your hugely mistaken. All these drivers put their life on the line when they hit the track and people need to appreciate that in a serious way because it is not appreciated enough.\n\n\"Not from the fans nor some of the people actually working in the sport. Anthoine is a hero as far as I'm concerned, for taking the risk he did to chase his dreams. I'm so sad that this has happened. Let's left him up and remember him. Rest in peace brother.\"\n\nAlfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi said on Twitter: \"We are boys who, with great sacrifice, chase their dreams. But we are first and foremost professionals. Anthoine was all this, but above all he was one of us. At this terrible time my thoughts are with his family and all the people who love him.\"", "Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in cities including Sheffield, Belfast and Truro to protest against Boris Johnson's plans to suspend Parliament.\n\nIn London, Whitehall has been brought to a standstill, with protesters chanting \"Boris Johnson, shame on you\".\n\nThe prime minister's decision to prorogue Parliament prompted an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit.", "A new 800-mile mainly off-road cycle route between England and the north coast of Scotland has been launched.\n\nThe Great North Trail links the Peak District to Scotland's most northerly mainland points for the first time.\n\nAbout 98% of the route is on existing off-road cycle routes, forest roads and low traffic minor roads.\n\nThe trail's path through Scotland takes in picturesque areas such as the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Loch Ness and Cape Wrath.\n\nA cyclist on the Great North Trail in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park\n\nCycling UK said it had developed the route, which only traverses about 16 miles of busier roads, in response to demand from cyclists for greater access to the countryside on routes largely away from traffic.\n\nDuncan Dollimore, the organisation's head of campaigns, said: \"We've created the Great North Trail because we recognised very little has been done to promote national off-road trails.\n\n\"For example, plans to extend the Pennine Bridleway to Scotland were published 20 years ago, but still haven't been implemented.\n\n\"And yet we know there is an appetite for more cycling access to the countryside as off-road trails can be ideal for families to ride safely, away from traffic and city pollution.\"\n\nThe Great North Trail covers 800 miles and 98% of the route is off-road\n\nCycling UK said it had been helped in creating part of the trail north of the border by the Obscura Mondo Cycle Club, a group of volunteers who have mapped out a 368-mile off-road route between Glasgow and the lighthouse at Cape Wrath in the far north west of Scotland.\n\nIn England, the new trail takes in many popular spots including the Peak District, Yorkshire Dales and Kielder Forest,\n\nThe trail gives you the option of finishing or starting at either Cape Wrath or John O'Groats in the far north of Scotland\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ferrari's Charles Leclerc finally took his maiden Formula 1 victory after holding off Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes to win the Belgian Grand Prix.\n\nLeclerc dedicated the win to Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert, who was killed in a crash on Saturday.\n\n\"This one is for Anthoine,\" he said over team radio after crossing the line. \"Feels good, but difficult to enjoy on a weekend like this.\"\n\nAfter pulling up in the pits at the end, Leclerc celebrated in fittingly subdued style, pointing at the sticker on his Ferrari dedicated to the memory of Hubert, against whom he had raced on his way through the ranks to F1.\n\nThe 21-year-old has come close to wins twice before in his first season with Ferrari, his second in F1, but delivered under pressure at the classic Spa track.\n\nBut he had to fight for it as Hamilton closed in to cross the line less than a second behind in a nail-biting finish.\n\nMercedes driver Valtteri Bottas was third, ahead of the second Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel, who had a disappointing day - outclassed and out-paced by his team-mate.\n\nMcLaren's Lando Norris suffered a bitter blow at the end. After a strong race in fifth place after starting 11th, he had a suspected engine failure on the final lap and dropped out of the points.\n\nThat elevated Alexander Albon to fifth after a strong drive from 17th on the grid on his first outing for Red Bull.\n• None Listen: 'This one is for Anthoine'\n• None F1 pays tribute to Hubert with minute's silence at Spa\n• None Why the motorsport 'family' races on after a driver pays the ultimate price\n\nFerrari had locked out the front row in qualifying with Leclerc ahead of Vettel, but they always suspected the race would be a more difficult task, and they were right.\n\nLeclerc led away from pole and Vettel managed to re-pass Hamilton up the long straight to Les Combes after losing second at the first corner.\n\nAfter a safety car following a collision between Kimi Raikkonen's Alfa Romeo and Max Verstappen's Red Bull led to the Dutchman crashing out at Eau Rouge, Leclerc led the first stage of the race, inching away from Vettel as Hamilton began to pressure the German.\n\nHamilton's pace forced Ferrari to pit Vettel early on lap 15, to prevent Mercedes getting ahead by doing the same, and his pace on fresh tyres meant he was leading by the time Leclerc and Hamilton rejoined from their pit stops six and seven laps later.\n\nBut Leclerc closed rapidly on Vettel, who was told to let him by so as not to hold his team-mate up, and after Hamilton also passed Vettel easily with 22 laps to go, the race became a fight between Leclerc and the five-time champion.\n\nLeclerc looked to be in control, but Ferrari were wearing their tyres quicker than Mercedes.\n\nHamilton was seven seconds behind with 10 laps to go, but then began to carve chunks out of Leclerc's lead and was 1.5secs behind going into the final lap.\n\nThere were backmarkers to negotiate but Leclerc held on, to take a first win he has deserved for some time.\n\nWhat did Leclerc say?\n\nLeclerc would have won in Bahrain, the second race of the season, had he not suffered an engine problem in the closing laps. He also crashed in qualifying in Azerbaijan when looking set to dominate the weekend, and lost the win to Verstappen in Austria with just two laps to go.\n\nBut he has come on increasingly strong as the season has gone on, and the suspicion is there will be many more wins to follow this one, now the dam has finally been broken.\n\nBut his celebrations were muted by the context of the weekend, a sobering one for all drivers, but especially for Leclerc, who had known Hubert well.\n\n\"On the one hand I have realised a childhood dream but on the other it has been a very difficult weekend,\" he said.\n\n\"We lost friend first of all. It is very difficult in these situations. I want to dedicate this win to Anthoine. We have grown up together and my first ever race I did when I was seven with Anthoine. So it is such a shame what happened yesterday. I can't enjoy it fully, my first victory, but it is a memory that will live with me forever.\n\n\"It has been a very difficult race, we have been struggling quite a bit with the tyres to the end but I managed the tyres better than in Budapest.\n\n\"Mercedes were very quick in the race and we expected that. But it is a good weekend, pole position and first win.\n\n\"The end of the race was definitely not easy, he was catching pretty quickly. I had quite a bit of pressure but I kept him behind.\n\nHamilton, whose championship lead has extended to 65 points over Bottas, said: \"I gave it absolutely everything that I had. A really difficult race. The Ferraris were just too quick on the straights.\n\n\"I got close at the end, maybe needed a few more laps but congratulations to Charles. His first win, he has had it coming all year and I am really happy for him.\"\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nF1 barely has time to catch its breath before next weekend's Italian Grand Prix, and Ferrari go to their home race at historic, atmospheric Monza, as favourites for a second win in a row.", "Extinction Rebellion climate activists outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London\n\nA failed protest over a bus lane and a psychedelic drug retreat had key roles in forming a global climate protest movement, two founders have revealed.\n\nExtinction Rebellion now claims to have 100,000 members on its database.\n\nSimon Bramwell said he felt an \"acute sense of loss\" after protests in Bristol in 2015 that saw campaigners living in trees that were cut down to make way for the Metrobus.\n\nGail Bradbrook said she \"prayed for the codes for social change\" on a retreat.\n\nExtinction Rebellion describes itself as a \"non-violent civil disobedience activist movement\". Its mass protests have been controversial - 1,200 campaigners were arrested in London in May after parts of the capital were brought to a halt.\n\nFour years earlier Mr Bramwell, from Stroud in Gloucestershire, took part in the Stapleton allotment protests that saw campaigners perch in trees for more than a month before being evicted.\n\nMore than £1m was spent in 2015 removing the Stapleton allotment protestors\n\nThey were opposing the construction of a new bus lane that connected to the M32, along with several new bus stops and a bridge. The protestors claimed the land was some of the most fertile in the area but ultimately they were moved on and the work took place.\n\nThe protest led - in part - to the formation of Extinction Rebellion and its new approach to demonstrations.\n\n\"The acute sense of loss saw me meeting up with Gail Bradbrook to build campaigns of civil disobedience\", said Mr Bramwell.\n\n\"You have to be disruptive unfortunately,\" said Dr Bradbrook, who has a PhD in molecular biophysics.\n\nThe 47-year-old said she came up with the idea for Extinction Rebellion after \"praying for the codes for social change\" while on a retreat with psychedelic medicines.\n\n\"I've always been interested in how things change, in social change. I was involved in the animal rights movement as a young woman. I've been involved in issues around gender and racism,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been focused on trying to start civil disobedience since 2010 and tried lots of things that didn't work. So I actually went on a retreat and prayed deeply, with some psychedelic medicine… it was a really intense experience.\n\n\"I prayed for the codes for social change… and within a month, my prayers were literally answered.\"\n\nExtinction Rebellion has outlined three demands: that the government is transparent on climate change, for the UK to be carbon neutral by 2025, and for a \"citizen's assembly\" on environmental policies.\n\nSimon Bramwell said he knew how he would feel if he couldn't see a dying relative\n\nA protest in Bristol in July caused disruption that prevented one man seeing his dying father in hospital.\n\n\"I can't communicate with any degree of real depth how sorry I am [that that] happened,\" said Mr Bramwell.\n\n\"My mum's quite ill... and I know how I'd feel if I didn't make it to her bedside during her death.\n\n\"We've become so siloed in the way we think, where the media picks up on that, but tens of thousands of people are dying each year from air pollution in the UK.\n\n\"I have a huge sense of responsibility to pass on a better planet to our children.\"\n\nFurther demonstrations in major cities and smaller towns around the UK and in other countries have brought both disruption and headlines.\n\nWhen the protests at the allotment failed part of it was built on for a new bus lane and stops\n\nApril's protests in London cost the Metropolitan Police an extra £7.5m, including overtime payments and the cost of bringing officers in from other forces, its Commissioner Cressida Dick said.\n\nEarlier this summer, Extinction Rebellion estimated that, in addition to the arrests made in London, about 400 of its demonstrators had been arrested internationally since October 2018.\n\nDr Bradbrook said: \"It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.\n\n\"We started this thing in my house with 12 of us saying 'let's do this', and within a year it's gone global.\n\n\"We've got 130 groups across the UK, we're in 59 countries, and it's growing all the time.\"\n\nThe full story features on Inside Out West on BBC One, Monday 2 September at 19:30 BST.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly £15m has been spent on collecting medical waste in Scotland since the collapse of Healthcare Environmental Services, figures show.\n\nThe Lanarkshire-based company went to the wall last December after becoming embroiled in a waste stockpiling scandal.\n\nContingency measures were put in place to remove waste from every hospital, GP surgery, dental practice and pharmacy.\n\nBut NHS figures released to BBC Scotland show these costs have soared.\n\nBetween December last year and July this year, a total of £14.8m was spent on contingency waste measures by NHS National Services Scotland.\n\nBy contrast the deal with the firm taking over the waste collection contract for the next ten years, Spanish-owned Tradebe Healthcare, will be worth £10m a year.\n\nTradebe was meant to take over the contract in April but delays over planning permissions mean the firm is now not expected to be fully operational until October.\n\nThe Scottish government said the higher costs for the contingency measures come as a result of the additional measures required to be put in place at short notice following the collapse of HES.\n\nBut Monica Lennon MSP, Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman, said: \"By the health secretary's own admission, the NHS in Scotland was put at risk by the clinical waste scandal and it is continuing to cost taxpayers millions of pounds.\n\n\"No one has taken responsibility for the crisis and despite no lessons being learned the Scottish government have handed a new contract to another private firm.\n\n\"NHS services are struggling to cope and patients can't afford for money to be wasted like this.\"\n\nWaste was pictured piling up at health centres in Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld in January but has since been collected\n\nAfter HES collapsed, the Scottish government provided £1.4m towards initial contingency planning and a string of temporary contractors took over the HES work to ensure clinical waste continued to be disposed of safely.\n\nThe Scottish government has insisted the contingency measures are working well but there have been reports of a backlog of waste at some NHS sites.\n\nIn Inverness, four porters at Raigmore Hospital were injured carrying out work involving clinical waste, and photographs showing bags of clinical waste piled at three health centres in North Lanarkshire were posted on social media in January.\n\nSome hospital waste from Scotland is to be sent to Wales for disposal under the new collection deal with Tradebe.\n\nAbout 150 workers in Scotland lost their jobs when HES collapsed, the majority of whom worked at the firm's headquarters in Shotts\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"National Services Scotland continues to work closely with NHS health boards, contractors, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Scottish government to deliver robust contingency plans to ensure NHS Scotland services to the public are maintained and patient services are not impacted.\n\n\"The current arrangements ensure clinical waste is appropriately stored, collected and disposed of in line with industry regulations.\n\n\"As we have said before, the cost of contingency - and ultimately maintaining NHS services - comes at a higher cost due to the additional measures required to be put in place at short notice following withdrawal of services by HES.\n\n\"We will know the final net cost of contingency at the end of current arrangements, when costs can be set against the unpaid contracted costs which would have been due to HES if they had not arbitrarily withdrawn from the contract.\"", "Some flights to and from the UK are facing delays and cancellations due to problems affecting French airspace.\n\nBritish Airways said flights heading to, or passing over, France and Spain had been affected.\n\nEasyJet said it has been forced to cancel 180 flights out of almost 2,000 scheduled to take off on Sunday.\n\nThe French aviation regulator said a \"computer failure\" had affected control centres at about 01:30 BST on Sunday, but the issue had now been resolved.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, it added that delays \"should be reduced gradually\".\n\nNational Air Traffic Services (Nats) said it does not know how many flights have been affected but it is working with airlines in the UK to try to minimise disruption.\n\nIt added that French authorities had been allowing extra flights to enter the country's airspace on Sunday afternoon to try to limit knock-on delays.\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\nGatwick Airport said passengers should check with airlines on the status of their flights before heading to the airport.\n\nEasyJet said it had contacted affected passengers directly and given the option of transferring their flight for free or receiving a refund, it said.\n\nThe airline added it was seeing significant delays and recommended all its passengers, regardless of their destination, check the status of their flight using its online \"flight tracker\" tool for real time information before going to the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 British Airways This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBritish Airways also urged customers to check the status of their flights online.\n\nThe airline said an air traffic control \"outage\" in France had hit flights going through both French and Spanish airspace.\n\nSome passengers have told the BBC their British Airways flights had been cancelled.\n\nThe airline said it would not release any cancellation figures but added any affected customers had been notified directly.\n\nIt said it would offer flexible rebooking options for anyone who wants to change their dates of travel as a result of the disruption.\n\nRyanair advised customers on its website there had been a \"serious French ATC [air traffic control] equipment failure\" early on Sunday morning.\n\nIt said delays of \"up to three hours are being suffered\".\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder said: \"France is absolutely at the heart of European air traffic control - some 60% of all EasyJet flights to anywhere go over French territory.\n\n\"This appears to be some kind of malfunction which has greatly reduced the flow rate [of flights] so there's reports of pilots in Lisbon, for example, trying to get to the UK telling passengers we could be five hours late.\"\n\nHe said affected passengers will not be eligible for compensation, explaining: \"It's not the airlines' fault.\"\n\nBut he said the airlines have a strict duty of care, which means they must provide meals and if necessary accommodation to passengers.\n\nHe added: \"They also have to rebook you on the first available flight, ideally on the same day, even if it means paying money to a rival to get you home.\"\n\nThe disruption is having a wider knock-on effect in the UK, with some flights from Scotland to England cancelled.\n\nRichard Martin was due to fly from Edinburgh to London Stansted when EasyJet texted to say his flight had been cancelled.\n\n\"We are booked on another flight tomorrow but I'm due to be back at work,\" he said.\n\n\"The queues at the airport and everything are crazy and we've had some family members say something similar has also happened to them.\"", "Emmy Burbidge is a make-up artist who runs her own beauty salon in Somerset, and wants to know where palm oil comes from and how it's made.\n\nPalm oil is used in 70% of cosmetic products, and Emmy says that her customers are increasingly asking whether it's in the products she's using. 20% of palm oil globally is certified as sustainable but it's also responsible for the loss of around 8% of the world's forests between 1990 and 2008.\n\nThe 28-year-old travels to Papua New Guinea to discover the truth about what's in her make-up, and to find out whether there's a sustainable way of producing the oil used in making it.\n\nWill her trip make her change the way she runs her business?\n\nYou can watch the full documentary on iPlayer. If you're from outside the UK you can watch the film here.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to find a Brexit deal.\n\nHe was speaking ahead of talks with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Dublin.", "The service sector helped to boost growth in July\n\nThe UK's economy grew faster than expected in July, easing fears that it could fall into recession.\n\nThe economy grew 0.3% in July, the UK's official statistics body said, helped by the dominant services sector.\n\nGrowth was flat over the three months to July, but this was an improvement on the 0.2% contraction seen in the April-to-June quarter.\n\nThis contraction, coupled with some weak business surveys, raised concerns the UK was heading for recession.\n\nAn economy is generally deemed to be in recession if it contracts for two quarters in a row.\n\nHowever, while growth in the services sector - which accounts for about 80% of the UK economy - helped to drive July's stronger-than-expected growth figure, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) warned that the sector remained weak.\n\n\"While the largest part of the economy, the services sector, returned to growth in the month of July, the underlying picture shows services growth weakening through 2019,\" the ONS said.\n\nThe pound rose in reaction to the figures, rising 0.6% against the dollar to $1.2357.\n\nThe return to growth in the economy in the month of July will be a political relief for a troubled government keen to avoid recession headlines in early November. It makes unlikely the notion of another consecutive quarter of contraction between July and September, the definition of a recession.\n\nBut that does not make the economic reality rosy. In the three months to July, the economy did not grow. Even with a Q3 registering 0.3% growth, it would be the weakest first three quarters of a year since the financial crisis.\n\nOver nine months, much of the volatility around no-deal - stockpiling effects and car industry shutdowns - should have been stripped out too.\n\nThere is some evidence in the figures that firms are beginning to restart stockpiling in anticipation of the rising possibility of no-deal Brexit next month.\n\nIt is difficult to predict how the current political impasse affects those patterns. But a prolonged squeeze on business investment was always going to hit productivity and growth.\n\nThe global context is far from benign too, with the German economy looking likely to be in recession and the eurozone as a whole growing sluggishly.\n\nOther survey indicators for the UK look more difficult too. But if July's pattern continued last month and into this, the government should, when full Q3 figures are released in November, be able to avoid the R-word, for now.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) also said that concerns remained.\n\n\"Although there was a rise in GDP between June and July, the zero growth recorded on the underlying three-month measure points to an economy under pressure from uncertainty over Brexit and weakening global economic conditions,\" said Suren Thiru, head of economics at the BCC.\n\n\"The manufacturing sector remains an area of concern, with tightening cash-flow, concerns over disrupted supply chains and weakening demand in key markets weighing on activity in the sector.\"\n\nLast week, a series of downbeat surveys of various sectors of the economy had raised fears that the UK was at risk of slipping into recession.\n\nHowever, analysts said the latest GDP figures appeared to have dampened these concerns.\n\n\"The pick-up in GDP in July is a reassuring sign that the economy is on course to grow at a solid - perhaps even above-trend - rate in Q3,\" said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, adding that figures \"substantially\" weakened the case for any cuts in UK interest rates \"before Britain's Brexit path is known\".\n\n\"The upside surprise came from the services sector, which displayed broad-based strength and did not seemingly benefit from any one-off stimuli,\" Mr Tombs said.\n\nAnalysts also noted that August's growth figure should be boosted by car manufacturers, which were operating last month, contrary to normal practice. Many carmakers had brought their annual shutdown forward for the original Brexit date in March.\n\n\"GDP will get a further boost of about 0.2% in August, when car manufacturers will be at work when they are usually on holiday,\" said Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\n\"Overall, the economy is still fairly weak - we estimate that the underlying pace of growth is around +0.2% quarter-on-quarter - but it's not in recession. Political chaos, yes. Economic chaos, no.\"", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and Leo Varadkar in Brussels on 20 June\n\nThere is a weary sense of \"here we go again\" among Irish government officials dealing with Brexit about briefings coming from London that Dublin is under pressure from other EU members about the backstop to avoid a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy in the withdrawal agreement between the United Kingdom and European Union, designed to ensure that there is no hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nBoth sides say they hope it never has to come into effect and that it will become redundant because of a wider trade deal.\n\nWhile Irish sources describe Tuesday's phone call between Leo Varadkar and Boris Johnson as \"warm and friendly\" on \"both a personal and a political level\", that description is bound to raise an eyebrow given the widening gap between the two capitals.\n\nEspecially after what the prime minister has been saying about the need to bin the backstop as a precondition to get into Brexit negotiations and to avoid a no-deal exit.\n\nIrish sources insist Dublin has not come under any EU pressure to relent on the backstop, with one source describing as \"codswallop\" suggestions otherwise.\n\nAnother says this isn't the first time there have been inaccurate reports in the British media that pressure is mounting on Dublin.\n\nBoris Johnson's first speech as prime minister in the House of Commons\n\nThe sources agree that what Mr Johnson is doing, in calling for the binning of the backstop as a first step to allow negotiations, is taking any pressure off Dublin that may have been forthcoming down the line.\n\nThat's because after the lengthy negotiations that went into the withdrawal agreement to accommodate the British red lines, the EU-27 are not going to suddenly offer Boris Johnson a substantially better deal than the one they gave Theresa May.\n\nAnother official says the British government's attitude \"is consistent with several of their fundamental misconceptions; such as the EU needs us more than we need them; the damage of a no-deal Brexit is symmetric and affects the EU and the UK both equally: that German car manufacturers will put pressure on Angela Merkel and Ireland is so small it won't be able to withstand pressure\".\n\nThe Irish authorities have published a number of reports which highlight how drastic a no-deal Brexit would be be for the Republic.\n\nThe governments summer economic statement suggested there could be 55,000 fewer jobs and a 3% drop in growth.\n\nIf and when serious talks start in a few weeks time, Fergus Finlay, a newspaper columnist with the Irish Examiner who has experience as an Irish official of negotiations with the British on Northern Ireland, says \"until a compromise is visible, there must be no compromise\".\n\nHe says the Irish government has \"not been guilty of any triumphalism\", but is seeking to defend its interests and those of Northern Ireland.\n\nIrish minister Helen McEntee and the French Minister for Europe AmŽile de Montchalin stand on either side of the border on 19 July\n\nThere have also been mutterings in the British media that Leo Varadkar is coming under domestic political pressure to alter his government's position on the backstop.\n\nThat is simply not the case.\n\nThe taoiseach leads a minority government that is dependent on the support of the main opposition party in a confidence and supply arrangement.\n\nIndeed, there is a widespread consensus in the Dáil (lower house of parliament) that the government must hold the line on the backstop to prevent a hard border and to protect the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that helped to bring about peace on the island.\n\nBut there is also a view among a minority of commentators that Dublin is not cognisant enough of UK sensitivities and political needs.\n\nThey argue that the backstop designed to avoid a hard border might result in that very eventuality if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nThe new prime minister visited Wales on Tuesday\n\nMinisters and officials in Dublin suspect that the prime minister may be more interested in an early general election, than in making the necessary compromises to reach a deal to allow the UK leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nThey, like everybody else, are keeping an eye on the evolving parliamentary arithmetic at Westminster.\n\nAnd although Boris Johnson has only been a short time in his new job, the next few weeks and months promise to be very interesting and uncertain as bluffs have to be eventually called by all sides.", "Parking on pavements should be banned across England, according to MPs.\n\nThe Commons' Transport Committee has called for a new law and an awareness campaign on the impact it has, especially for those with mobility or visual impairments.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had concluded a review into the issue and would be announcing its next steps \"over the coming months\".\n\nBut the committee said government action had \"been slow\".\n\nIts chair, Labour MP Lilian Greenwood, said: \"A couple of years ago a young wheelchair user came to one of my coffee mornings... asking me to do something about pavement parking because it stopped him getting round his own neighbourhood.\n\n\"[This report] has recommended action that will make a real difference.\"\n\nPavement parking is already banned in London - with those who flout the rules facing a fine.\n\nThe Scottish government has already banned pavement parking in its Transport (Scotland) Bill, and the Welsh government has set up a task force to look at the issue.\n\nThe committee spoke to people with visual and mobility impairments, as well as carers and parents, who suffer as a result of pathways being blocked - being forced into the road with wheelchairs, pushchairs or small children, for example.\n\nIt said in its report: \"Pavement parking can have a considerable impact on people's lives and their ability to safely leave their homes.\n\n\"People are at risk of social isolation if they feel unable to leave their homes safely or are physically prevented from doing so.\n\n\"While pavement parking can be a necessity in some areas, it should not be allowed to happen where it has a significant adverse impact on people's lives.\"\n\nThe committee has made a list of recommendations, including a public awareness campaign, improvements to Traffic Regulation Orders - which could be used to enforce a ban - and a new civil offence for pavement parking.\n\nAnd they have gained the support of charities, including Guide Dogs - which is running its own campaign called Streets Ahead - and Living Streets, the UK charity promoting everyday walking.\n\nStephen Edwards, policy and communications director for Living Streets, said: \"Cars parked on pavements force people with wheelchairs, parents with buggies and those living with sight loss into the carriageway and oncoming traffic.\n\n\"The committee is right to draw attention to the impact of pavement parking on loneliness. Many older adults we speak to feel stuck in their homes because they're not able to navigate their local pavements.\n\n\"People continue to be put at risk of injury and isolation with every day of inaction that passes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huw Merriman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"We are committed to ensuring that our roads work for everyone, but are aware that pavement parking can cause real problems for a variety of road users.\n\n\"This is why the department recently concluded a review to better understand the case for changing the law, and will be announcing our next steps over the coming months.\"", "Tom Hanks spoke to reporters at the Toronto Film Festival\n\nTom Hanks has said the increasing level of cynicism in society is partly what led him to take a role as a loveable children's entertainer.\n\nThe actor plays Fred Rogers in his new movie - a legendary US kids TV host whose brand was wholesome and warm.\n\n\"Cynicism has become the default position for so much of daily structure and daily intercourse,\" Hanks told reporters.\n\n\"Why? Because it's easy, and there's good money to be made.\"\n\nHe added: \"Cynicism is a great product to sell, and it's the perfect beginning of any examination of anything. And part of that is conspiracy theories and what have you.\n\n\"But I think when Fred Rogers first saw children's programming, he saw something that was cynical, and why would you put something that is cynical in front of a two or three-year-old kid? That you are not cool because you don't have this toy? That it's funny to see someone being bopped on the head?\n\n\"That's a cynical treatment of the audience, and we have become so inured to that, that when we are met with as simple a message as 'Hey you know what, it's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood!' we get slapped a little bit. We are allowed, I think, to feel good. There's a place for cynicism, but why begin with it right off the bat?\"\n\nA Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood serves as the title of the Rogers film, which is directed by Marielle Heller - well known for the Oscar-nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me?\n\nHeller has explained that, because Mr Rogers (as he was known) had such little conflict in his life, he was not an obvious protagonist for a movie, and his career alone wouldn't have served as a strong enough storyline.\n\nTom Hanks plays the gentle and softly-spoken TV host, who was usually seen in zip-up sweaters\n\nInstead, A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood follows the relationship between Mr Rogers and a journalist for Esquire magazine, who wrote a profile of the entertainer in 1998.\n\nThe journalist who wrote the original piece, Tom Junod, possessed by trade just the kind of cynical personality Hanks refers to. But when he met Mr Rogers, he found a more complex character than he was expecting.\n\nOver a series of sittings, he and Mr Rogers developed a friendship. The entertainer won Junod over with his seemingly unrelenting kindness and empathy, helping him examine his own issues and find a deeper appreciation for life.\n\nlt is, frankly, an outstanding film - one of the best seen so far at the Toronto Film Festival and undoubtedly an awards season contender.\n\n\"Marielle Heller excels at pulling heartstrings from sturdy foundations, injecting smart and insightful details into material that could easily default to sentimentality,\" wrote Eric Kohn in IndieWire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Hanks leads his fans in a sing-along of his movie's theme song at the Toronto Film Festival\n\n\"Hanks isn't just good - he's transporting,\" added Variety's Owen Gleiberman. \"He takes on Mr Rogers' legendary mannerisms and owns them, using them as a conduit to Rogers' disarming inner spirit. He makes you believe in this too-nice-for-words man... [the film] is a soft-hearted fable that works on you in an enchanting way.\"\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter was more sceptical: \"It is a sympathetic and yet entirely predictable in its dramatic trajectory of making a believer of an angry, cynical journalist. Still, the lure of the Hanks/Rogers match-up looks to stir some reasonable commercial returns.\"\n\nThe script for A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood had been floating around Hollywood for some time before production began.\n\nHanks even passed on the role several times - but then ended up saying yes once director Marielle Heller became attached to the project.\n\nThe pair had been looking to work on a film together for some time and Hanks said he felt she was the right person to deliver it to the screen.\n\nMatthew Rhys, who plays the journalist, said the film taps into a vulnerability which men in particular often keep hidden under the surface.\n\n\"Marielle talked about giving men in general a greater emotional vocabulary, or working towards articulating their emotions, and not just generally men, I think society in general would benefit from it,\" he said.\n\nMatthew Rhys (right) plays a sceptical journalist who is eventually won over my Mr Rogers' kindness\n\n\"And I think it was instantly relatable that someone was so desperately wanting to be seen, but hiding behind this castle that he built for himself, and I think it's a message of hope.\"\n\nMr Rogers, who died in 2003, isn't well known in many international territories, however, in the same way he is in the US.\n\nTherefore, while a Tom Hanks movie can generally be expected to draw the public to the cinema, the distributors may have a struggle on their hands to market it in some international territories.\n\nBut by the time it reaches UK cinemas, the awards season buzz it is generating may well be enough to carry it to significant box office success.", "The act of proroguing or suspending Parliament is marked by a traditional ceremony in the House of Lords.\n\nThis begins with an announcement on behalf of the Queen, read by the Leader of the House.\n\nA Royal Commission made up of five peers – usually made up of the leader and deputy leader of the Lords, the Lord Speaker, the shadow leader of the Lords and the convener of crossbench peers – then enter the Chamber dressed in parliamentary robes.\n\nThey instruct Black Rod, a senior officer in the Lords, to summon the House of Commons.\n\nBlack Rod then heads to the Commons where, as is customary, the door is slammed shut in his or her face.\n\nAfter knocking three times with his ebony rod, the door is opened and MPs proceed to the Lords.\n\nWhen MPs arrive, there is a ceremonial greeting from the Royal Commission, who doff their hats, with representatives of the Commons bowing in return.\n\nThe Clerk of the Crown then announces the names of Acts to be given royal assent, declaring “La Reyne le veult” – Norman French for “The Queen wishes it”, after each Act.\n\nThe achievements of the government are reviewed and back in the Commons, MPs traditionally file out of the Chamber and shake the Speaker's hand.\n\nWhether many of them are still awake at this early hour of the morning is another question...", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed he will visit Dublin on Monday to meet taoiseach Leo Varadkar.\n\nMr Johnson is facing a showdown in Westminster as MPs aim to stop a no-deal Brexit.", "Amber Rudd has resigned from her cabinet post in Boris Johnson's government. Here is the full text of her letter to the prime minister.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I am resigning as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Minister for Women and Equalities.\n\nIt has been an honour to serve in a department that supports millions of people and can be such a force for good. I would like to pay tribute to the thousands of people who work for the DWP across the country. They are committed public servants and I am proud of the work that we have done together over the last 10 months to create a more compassionate welfare system.\n\nI would also like to thank you and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for your support in the recent Spending Review. I am so pleased that you committed to spend millions more supporting the most vulnerable in society, and I hope that the Government will stay committed to going further at the next fiscal event, building on the work the department has done.\n\nThis has been a difficult decision. I joined your Cabinet in good faith; accepting that 'no deal' had to be on the table, because it was the means by which we would have the best chance of achieving a new deal to leave on October 31.\n\nHowever, I no longer believe leaving with a deal is the Government's main objective.\n\nThe Government is expending a lot of energy to prepare for 'no deal' but I have not seen the same level of intensity go into our talks with the European Union, who have asked us to present alternative arrangements to the Irish backstop.\n\nThe updates I have been grateful to receive from your office have not, regretfully, provided me with the reassurances I sought.\n\nI must also address the assault on decency and democracy that took place last week when you sacked 21 talented, loyal One Nation Conservatives.\n\nThis short-sighted culling of my colleagues has stripped the party of broad-minded and dedicated Conservative MPs I cannot support this act of political vandalism.\n\nTherefore, it is with regret that I am also surrendering the Conservative whip.\n\nBritain's body politic is under attack from both sides of the ideological debate. I will now play whatever role I can to help return it to a better place.\n\nI have been lucky to have had extraordinary support from my Conservative Association since I was adopted as their candidate in 2006. Three times they helped elect me as their MP, keeping Labour at bay through nail-biting campaigns.\n\nI remain a proud conservative and will continue to champion the values of fairness and compassion, and to support my constituents of Hastings and Rye.", "MP Amber Rudd has quit the cabinet and surrendered the Conservative whip, saying she cannot \"stand by\" while \"moderate Conservatives are expelled\".\n\nMs Rudd described the sacking of 21 Tory MPs on Tuesday as an \"assault on decency and democracy\".\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, she said there was not \"sufficient concentration and planning\" by the government on getting a Brexit deal.", "Part of Strabane was cordoned off during the security alert\n\nA mortar bomb left near a police station in County Tyrone was a \"callous attempt to kill or maim\" officers, the PSNI chief constable has said.\n\nThe device was found by a resident on a wall near houses in Church View, Strabane, at 8:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nA 33-year-old man has been arrested under terrorism legislation.\n\nBBC News NI home affairs correspondent Julian O'Neill said: \"The PSNI strongly suspects dissident republicans were behind the attempt to kill officers.\"\n\nThe device can be seen on a wall in Strabane as an Army robot deals with it\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne tweeted it was a \"stark reminder\" of why the Police Service of Northern Ireland needed \"7,500 officers to grow our presence in communities to deal with this severe threat\".\n\nDet Insp Andrew Hamlin said the device had been an attempt to target police officers, but that it had \"the capacity to kill or seriously injure anyone in the vicinity\".\n\n\"This is not the first time a deadly device has been left in a public space recently and serves to remind us all how little the terrorists responsible care for the lives of local people,\" he added.\n\nA number of houses were evacuated on Saturday, but residents were allowed to return home in the early hours of Sunday after Army technical officers made the device safe.\n\nThe police are linking the incident to the hijacking of a pizza delivery driver's car in the Mount Sion area at about 21:30 BST on Friday.\n\nA fake order was placed with a pizza outlet from a phone box on Bridge Street in the town.\n\nWhen the driver arrived at the stated address, the orange-coloured Fiat Sedici was taken by a group of three men.\n\nThe car was found on fire at Evish Road, about 45 minutes later.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley condemned those responsible for the bomb.\n\n\"This was an attack on the entire community. Thankfully no one was injured in this disgraceful incident,\" she said.\n\nSDLP MLA for West Tyrone Daniel McCrossan described those behind the bomb as \"reckless, cowardly and selfish\".\n\nThe wall where the bomb was found is close to the local police station and homes\n\n\"This device obviously was very sophisticated and was placed there deliberately, not only to cause a huge inconvenience but, ultimately has endangered human life,\" he said.\n\n\"This could have been much, much worse.\n\n\"There's no mandate for it, no-one wants it. We want them off our streets, we want them to leave and go away. That's the message that this community will be sending very strongly to those responsible.\"\n\nThe Police Federation chairman Mark Lindsay told the BBC's Sunday News programme: \"It's a worrying development, not only for our police officers, who were obviously the target, but for members of the community.\n\n\"These devices are inherently unstable, even before they are initiated. If it was a child that came across it, we could have been looking at a fatality.\n\n\"Police officers do not feel that any sacrifice of one of them will progress things one iota, it will only be a waste of life.\"\n\nOn its Facebook page, PSNI Strabane thanked residents for their \"support and understanding\".\n\n\"To those affected by the inconvenience of having to be asked to leave your homes etc we can only apologise,\" the post added.\n\nDissident republican activity has been stepped up in recent months, with attempted bomb attacks on police in Belfast, Craigavon and Fermanagh.\n\nBoth the New IRA and Continuity IRA have been involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRafael Nadal won his 19th Grand Slam title after holding off Russian Daniil Medvedev's exhilarating fightback in one of the greatest US Open finals.\n\nSpain's Nadal, 33, won 7-5 6-3 5-7 4-6 6-4 against the fifth seed in New York.\n\nNadal, seeded second, was cruising at two sets and a break up, only for Medvedev to force a decider.\n\nBut Nadal stopped his momentum to clinch a thrilling win in four hours and 50 minutes - just four minutes shorter than the longest US Open final.\n• None Impossible to hold in my emotions - Nadal\n\nNadal's victory moves him within one of Swiss rival Roger Federer's all-time leading tally of men's Grand Slam victories.\n\n\"It has been one of the most emotional nights in my tennis career,\" Nadal said. \"It has been an amazing final. It has been a crazy match.\"\n\nAfter taking his third match point, Nadal collapsed to the court in celebration, covering his face as he contemplated another famous victory which epitomised his fighting spirit.\n\nMedvedev, 23, trudged around the net to warmly congratulate his opponent, who looked on the verge of tears as he hid behind his sweat-soaked vest while taking rapturous acclaim.\n\n\"I just want to congratulate Rafa, a 19th Grand Slam title is something unbelievable, outrageous,\" said Medvedev, who looked mesmerised as he watched a video montage of Nadal's achievements.\n\nThose lucky enough to be watching among a near-24,000 capacity crowd were regularly left open-mouthed at what they witnessed, with the majority jumping to their feet and celebrating wildly after every point, helping create an electric atmosphere on a noisy Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nMedvedev had been booed by the crowd earlier in the tournament, yet heard his name loudly chanted by many as he threatened to complete an extraordinary comeback.\n\nUltimately it was too late as he was unable to become the first man outside Nadal, Federer and Serbia's world number one Novak Djokovic to claim one of the sport's biggest prizes since Stan Wawrinka's victory here in 2016.\n\nNadal, Federer and Djokovic have won the past 12 Grand Slams after the Spaniard lifted the trophy in New York for a fourth time.\n\nNow Nadal has the chance to draw level with 38-year-old Federer, who was nine titles better off than his long-time rival in 2007, at the Australian Open in January.\n\nDespite Nadal, Federer and Djokovic being in their 30s, nobody has been able to break their stranglehold on the men's game and Medvedev was the latest to fall short after a heroic effort.\n\nThat has allowed the illustrious trio to pile on the Grand Slam victories over the past three years, livening up the race to be crowned the greatest of all time, which Federer once seemed certain to win.\n\nNadal, who also won his 12th French Open title this year, is now within one of Federer's tally for the first time.\n\nThe magnitude of his achievements - which were shown on the big screen inside Ashe - hit the emotional Spaniard, who broke into tears while he sat in his chair and watched them.\n\nThat was a release of all the expendable emotional energy built up over the final two sets of a match which, against a less inspired opponent, he may have wrapped up much earlier.\n\nA couple of hours before, Nadal appeared to be heading to a dominant three-set win against Medvedev, who was the first Russian man to compete in a Grand Slam final since Marat Safin at the 2005 Australian Open.\n\nA physical contest, where both men jousted for supremacy as they tried to outlast each other in brutal rallies, seemed destined to end in familiar fashion when Nadal broke for a 3-2 lead in the third set.\n\nFrom somewhere, Medvedev summoned the strength to not only survive but threaten to produce one of the most memorable comebacks ever seen.\n\nBut Nadal's intensity allowed him to eventually outlast the wiry Russian who, despite struggling with a quad injury during the tournament, continued to hang in even as the clock approached five hours.\n\nNadal's mental resilience saw him through in the end, despite Medvedev producing another fightback from a double break down at 5-2 in the decider.\n\nA fourth victory at Flushing Meadows seals another stellar year for Nadal, who reached three Grand Slam finals in the same year for the fourth time of his incredible career.\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\nThat is now 12 Grand Slam titles in a row which have been won by Nadal, Federer and Djokovic. Their domination of the sport began in 2005, and does not show any signs of abating.\n\nBut the way Medvedev played should give the younger breed real heart. There are three other top-10 players who are the same age or younger than the 23-year-old Russian.\n\nMedvedev played with passion, power, resilience and great touch at the net, and in the fourth set Nadal looked increasingly stressed.\n\nAnd yet he came through once again, for the fourth time at the US Open, and on a surface which has so often disagreed with his body.\n\nSurely no-one who saw Nadal limp away from last year's Australian Open quarter-final with a leg problem, and from last year's US Open semi-final with a knee injury, could begrudge him one of the most emotional triumphs of his career.\n\n'One of the greatest finals' - Reaction\n\nThirty-nine-time Grand Slam champion Billie Jean King: One for the ages! Absolutely incredible #USOpen Men's Singles Final with the indomitable @RafaelNadal winning his fourth US Open title. Congratulations, Rafa!\n\n2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens: Wowwww that was unreal tennis - talk about leaving it all on the court. What a battle. Congrats Rafael Nadal & you too Daniil Medvedev\n\nFormer US Open finalist Greg Rusedski: What we have just witnessed is one of the greatest US Open men's finals in the history of tennis. Daniil Medvedev was incredible to fight back from two sets down and a break. Rafael Nadal showed us why he is the greatest competitor we have ever seen on a tennis court. Slam No. 19!\n\nTennis great Rod Laver: Congratulations Rafael Nadal, a gutsy victory to claim your 19th major, fourth US Open crown and second Slam title this year after the French. Stand tall friend, you are closing in, it was a privilege to present this trophy to you tonight.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Cambridge has seen a steady increase in state school students going to the university\n\nThe proportion of state school pupils starting at the University of Cambridge this autumn will be the highest for decades - rising to 68%.\n\nThe university also says one in four are from \"disadvantaged backgrounds\".\n\nCambridge has faced accusations of being socially exclusive and this year ran a scheme ensuring more places for poorer youngsters.\n\nApplicants have not been put off by \"false perceptions\", says director of admissions, Sam Lucy.\n\nThe official admission figures for 2019-20 will not be published until next year, but the university says the proportion of state school students among its UK intake will be the highest in records going back to the 1980s.\n\nLast year, about 65% of students starting at Cambridge were from state schools - but this year's figure has risen to 68%.\n\nFour years ago, there were 62% of students from state schools.\n\nThis shift has seen Cambridge's intake, in terms of state-educated pupils, becoming more similar to other Russell Group universities.\n\nAbout 7% of pupils in England are in private schools - but that figure rises to more than 15% by sixth form.\n\nLeading universities have been under pressure to ensure fair access to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\nFor this year's intake, the university offered 100 places only available to deprived students.\n\nThis provided a second chance for disadvantaged students who might have got better exam results than expected, and who could re-apply after they had their A-level grades.\n\nThis has contributed to more students from poorer backgrounds going to Cambridge this year, with the university saying about one in four new students will be classified as disadvantaged.\n\nThe university defines disadvantage using measurements such as the \"Index of Multiple Deprivation\" and whether students live in areas where not many people go to university.\n\nCambridge says it wants this to rise to one in three new students coming from \"under-represented and disadvantaged\" backgrounds.\n\nThe university does not have official figures yet for numbers of ethnic minority students beginning in the autumn, but says it expects a \"significant increase\".\n\nDr Lucy, head of admissions, said: \"It is deeply encouraging to see that our actions to provide educational opportunity for all those who have the potential to study here are paying off.\"\n\nShe said the university wanted to \"make our student population truly representative of the UK population\".\n\n\"This has included challenging false perceptions that put off applicants.\"", "A coroner has ruled the death of CBBC actress Mya-Lecia Naylor at the age of 16 was caused by misadventure.\n\nNaylor, who appeared in CBBC shows Millie Inbetween and Almost Never, died on Sunday 7 April.\n\nCBBC said she was a \"much-loved part of the BBC Children's family and a hugely talented actress, singer and dancer\".\n\nSouth London assistant coroner Toby Watkin said the actress was found dead in a marquee at her family home in South Norwood.\n\nEmergency services were called to an address on reports of a teenage girl in cardiac arrest.\n\nShe was pronounced dead at Croydon University Hospital shortly afterwards.\n\nThe inquest heard she was found hanged. She had spent the evening before her death watching a film with her family and had been planning for the future.\n\nHer family said she had been grounded and stopped from going to a party and had some worries about her GCSE results being worse than expected but added nothing had suggested she wanted to take her own life.\n\nThe coroner said Naylor had no alcohol or drugs in her system and her father Martin Naylor added he had seen her two hours before she was found, and felt it was \"a spur of the moment\" act and she had not intended to kill herself.\n\nHe told South London Coroners Court: \"I honestly believe she was just making some sort of point.\n\n\"I genuinely believe she did not mean to do it.\"\n\nSearches of her phones, laptop, and social media accounts did not present anything suspicious.\n\nFollowing her death in April, A&J Management said they would \"miss her greatly\".\n\nMya-Lecia, left, had been in the cast of Millie Inbetween from its first series\n\nCBBC announced the news of her death on its website, where young fans shared their memories of the actress.\n\nTributes have been paid to the teenager, who starred as Fran in two series of Millie Inbetween, about two sisters whose parents have split up, and Mya in Almost Never, about a fictional boyband and rival girl group Girls Here First.\n\nNaylor played the lead singer of the girl band, and said in a recent interview that she'd always wanted to sing as well as act. She also said she had some \"amazing projects\" coming up soon, including another series of Almost Never.\n\nNaylor's screen debut came as a toddler when she appeared in Absolutely Fabulous as Saffy's daughter Jane. She also had the title role in ITV series Tati's Hotel.\n\nHer film roles included Miro in Cloud Atlas, alongside Halle Berry and Tom Hanks.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations which offer advice and support, click here or you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Frances O'Grady has led the TUC since 2013\n\nTrade union body the TUC has called for legal measures to tackle discrimination based on class at work.\n\nAmong the proposals, it said firms should be forced to report any gaps in pay between workers from different social backgrounds.\n\nThe body said graduates from wealthier families were more than twice as likely to start on a higher salary than their working-class peers.\n\nThe TUC's annual congress is being held in Brighton from Sunday to Wednesday.\n\nIt said that without new laws, people from working-class backgrounds would continue to face \"direct\" forms of discrimination, such as employer bias during job applications and interviews.\n\nIt also warned of indirect forms of discrimination, such as the use of unpaid internships as a gateway into jobs.\n\nIt said the country was wasting some of its \"best skills and talent\" and urged the government to outlaw discrimination on the basis of class, as it had done with race, gender and disability.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"If you're from a working-class family, the odds are still stacked against you.\n\n\"Everyone knows that getting that dream job is too often a case of who you know, not what you know. It's high time we banned discrimination against working class people.\n\n\"Let's have a new duty on employers to stamp out class prejudice once and for all.\"\n\nThe TUC says there are a number of definitions about what working class means, some historic and some more recent.\n\nBut it said that rather than \"ignite a lengthy debate about definitions, we want to focus on how to tackle the persistent class inequality that still exists in Britain today\".\n\nIt said other forms of disadvantage experienced by working-class people included low pay and the greater impact of austerity on working-class households.", "Amber Davies and her boyfriend were confronted by door staff\n\nA student who was accused of taking drugs while using a disabled toilet at a Wetherspoons pub is calling for better awareness of invisible disabilities.\n\nAmber Davies, 21, from Builth Wells, has a stoma after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis aged 13.\n\nWhile on a night out in Birmingham, she was \"grabbed\" by a bouncer after coming out of the disabled toilet.\n\nWetherspoons said staff apologised for the \"confusing situation\".\n\nAmber posted an open letter on her Instagram account detailing her experience, saying the door staff \"very happily and very openly accused me of snorting, dealing and having sex in the disabled toilet for 'there is no other reason I would need to visit it so often'\".\n\n\"I got grabbed by a female bouncer and my boyfriend by a male bouncer, we were accused of using them [the disabled toilet] for the wrong reasons,\" Amber told the BBC.\n\n\"She [the bouncer] was quite reluctant to listen to my side of the story, I said it bluntly and I didn't raise my voice once.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amber has a stoma after having her bowel removed\n\nDespite gaining access to the locked disabled toilet using a radar key, staff \"kept shouting\" and her boyfriend, who had gone in the toilet with her, was taken outside.\n\n\"I was upset at the time, we hadn't done anything wrong, I spoke well considering. I was more annoyed that people were allowed to behave that way,\" she added.\n\n\"[It's] just completely unacceptable and they're such a big chain, you'd think they'd have training or be knowledgeable before grabbing us.\"\n\nAmber, who is about to start her third year at Cardiff University, said she had come to expect \"funny looks\" but not the kind of treatment she received at the Dragon Inn in Birmingham.\n\nAmber and her friends were enjoying a night out in Birmingham when the incident happened\n\nIn her post she said her stoma \"needs constant care\" and can be emptied up to 15 times a day, \"it can make going out, especially on nights out, a pretty daunting prospect\".\n\nThe 21-year-old described her disability as a \"chronic, debilitating, lifelong illness\".\n\nShe contacted the chain to complain about her treatment and has been offered a gift card in response.\n\nA JD Wetherspoon spokesman said: \"A female member of door staff spoke with Ms Davies, who explained her disability.\n\n\"Staff expressed that if this had been known beforehand, or an explanation given sooner, the situation could have been avoided.\n\n\"Staff listened at length to Ms Davies' points, never once questioning her disability and apologised for the confusing situation on both sides.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A police campaign to get the public to prepare a \"grab-and-go\" bag in case of emergencies has been both criticised and mocked by social media users.\n\nA Police Scotland tweet urged people to pack essentials such as a first aid kit, radio, torch, and food and water.\n\nIts recommendations were part of an annual Preparedness Month, which is being promoted by local authorities and emergency services across the UK.\n\nHowever, the police force has been accused of scaremongering.\n\nThe tweet read: \"September is preparedness month. Emergencies can happen at any time and it's recommended to have a #GrabBag ready containing essential items including medication, copies of important documents, food/water, torch, radio and other personal items.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Police Scotland Control Rooms This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn accompanying diagram showing a cross-section of a rucksack also included medication, phone charger and battery bank, whistle, pen and paper, and seasonal clothing.\n\nSome users were concerned that the the tweet would scare people into thinking there was a reason for the sudden advice.\n\nOne user, bellshillbaker, wrote: \"This is crass. Scaring people with no explanations. What emergencies do you envisage? Brexit? War? Civil disturbance? Flood? Pestilence? Nuclear accident? Martial Law?\"\n\nSharon Gathercole, replied to Police Scotland: \"Confusing/worrying. I'm 50 years old, lived here all my life and have never been given this kind of advice before. You need to explain.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Elisabeth Anderson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut social media quickly responded with humour as the tweet went viral. Robby McBobby asked: \"Some advice please on #grabbag re \"seasonal clothing\". I have packed some fancy dress for Hallowe'en and then a Santa suit for Christmas. Will that be enough do you think?\"\n\nOthers offered alternative suggestions for their grab bags, many featuring Scottish snacks or alcohol.\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\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"The messaging is part of a general resilience awareness campaign that runs each year during September which emergency services and partners across Britain are taking part in.\"\n\nNational Preparedness Month was originally a US campaign run by the Department of Homeland Security. The department's theme for 2019 is \"Prepared, Not Scared\".\n\nIt has been adopted by a number of UK councils, police forces and fire services over the past five years under the banner 30Days30WaysUK.\n\nThe organisation co-ordinating the UK campaign describes emergencies as power cuts, water main bursts, gas leaks, fires, transport strikes and road closures, as well as major disasters.\n\n\"Taking proactive steps to be better prepared will help you not only with everyday emergencies but also with far less likely incidents,\" it advises on its website.", "Tafida Raqeeb's mother said her daughter was \"completely healthy\" before her sudden brain injury\n\nThe parents of a seriously ill girl have begun a High Court fight to take her to Italy for treatment.\n\nDoctors at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel say there is no hope five-year-old Tafida Raqeeb will recover from a brain injury and it is in her best interests to be allowed to die.\n\nBut clinicians at a hospital in Genoa have offered her treatment.\n\nA week-long hearing is being held in front of Mr Justice MacDonald to establish if Tafida can go to Italy.\n\nLawyers representing Tafida said the girl, who has serious brain damage, was being denied her right to free movement under European Union law.\n\nVikram Sachdeva QC said: \"Tafida and her parents have, in principle, a right to elect to receive medical care in another EU state.\n\n\"By refusing her transfer, the trust is acting in breach of that right.\"\n\nTafida's mother said her daughter was opening her eyes and moving her limbs\n\nBosses at Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, want the court to rule that stopping \"life-sustaining treatment\" is in the youngster's best interests.\n\nTafida's parents Shelina Begum, 39, and Mohammed Raqeeb, 45 want to move her to the Gaslini children's hospital in Genoa - which they claim is the Italian equivalent of Great Ormond Street children's hospital.\n\nThe trial continues and is expected to end later this week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mubashar Hussain ran over the officer as he fled the scene in Moseley, Birmingham, in the police car\n\nA car thief has admitted seriously injuring a police officer who he ran over with a police car.\n\nPC Gareth Phillips suffered potentially life-changing injuries when he was punched to the ground and hit by the car in Moseley, Birmingham, last month.\n\nThe traffic officer was attacked stopping Mubashar Hussain, 29, who had stolen a Range Rover Evoque.\n\nHussain admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on 15 October.\n\nPC Gareth Phillips has been \"absolutely overwhelmed by messages of support\", West Midlands Police said\n\nThe accused, of no fixed address, faced a total of 12 charges when he appeared via videolink at Birmingham Crown Court earlier.\n\nPC Phillips, 42, had gone to reports of a stolen car in Moorcroft Road at about 16:45 BST on 10 August and found Hussain in the driver's seat and his co-defendant Ahsan Ghafoor in the passenger seat.\n\nHussain fought back as the PC and other officers tried to arrest him.\n\nHe was Tasered but managed to break free and got into a BMW police car at the scene which was parked behind the stolen car and drove at the officer.\n\nHussain was arrested in Sparkbrook, about a mile away from the attack in Moseley\n\nHussain, who was already banned from driving, fled the scene, driving over the officer.\n\nHe abandoned the vehicle a short time later in the Sparkbrook area and was arrested. He was originally charged with attempted murder.\n\nPC Phillips underwent two operations within hours of the attack and remains in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Smith QC told the court updated medical evidence about PC Phillips' injuries would be presented at the next hearing.\n\nWest Midlands Police initially said PC Phillips was run over by his own patrol car, but have since clarified it was a different force vehicle which was also at the scene.\n\nPC Phillips had been called along with other officers to the stolen Range Rover in Moorcroft Road, Moseley\n\nHussain admitted causing grievous bodily harm, two counts of vehicle theft, dangerous driving, two counts of driving while disqualified, two counts of assault, assaulting an emergency worker, aggravated vehicle-taking, and two charges of having no insurance.\n\nHis co-defendant Ghafoor, 24, also of no fixed address, admitted two counts of car theft and was also remanded in custody.\n\nGhafoor also admitted dangerous driving, having no insurance and driving other than in accordance with a licence.\n\nPaul Farrow, of the CPS, said: \"This was a sickening offence where Hussain's only thought was to ensure his escape, whatever the cost.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with PC Phillips as he embarks upon a long road to what is hoped will be a full recovery, although this remains uncertain.\"\n\nAhsan Ghafoor was also remanded in custody for sentencing next month\n\nWest Midlands Police said PC Phillips had now moved from the intensive care unit on to a general ward, was \"comfortable and in good spirits\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"He and his family have been absolutely overwhelmed by messages of support and they have asked that their heartfelt thanks be passed on to everyone who has been in touch.\"\n\nHussain pleaded not guilty to a further count of assault with intent to resist arrest, which will not be proceeded with.\n\nThe CPS confirmed Hussain was originally charged with attempted murder \"before all the available footage and other evidence was available\".\n\n\"On careful review of all of the evidence, it could not be proved that Hussain had an intention to kill PC Phillips as he drove forward and this meant that there was insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction for the offence of attempted murder.\n\n\"Causing grievous bodily harm to PC Phillips with intent to resist arrest was considered to be the appropriate charge,\" a CPS spokesman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Northern Ireland\n\nNorthern Ireland's Euro 2020 qualifying hopes suffered a major setback as they lost 2-0 to Germany in a pulsating qualifier at Windsor Park.\n\nMarcel Halstenberg's stunning half-volley early in the second half and a stoppage-time goal by Serge Gnabry gave Joachim Low's men victory.\n\nGermany go top of Group C, above Northern Ireland on goal difference.\n\nConor Washington squandered two gilt-edged chances for the home side and Stuart Dallas also went close.\n\nNI keeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell made some fine saves as Germany dominated the second half while Steven Davis became Northern Ireland's most capped outfield player with 113 appearances.\n\nNorthern Ireland produced a spirited display but now face an uphill struggle to qualify for a second successive Euro finals after suffering an eighth consecutive defeat in matches against the Germans.\n\nMichael O'Neill's side hoped to build on the momentum generated by winning their first four matches of a qualifying campaign for the first time - home and away doubles over Estonia and Belarus - but eventually came out second best to the three-time European champions.\n\nThe Netherlands' win over Estonia moves them to within three points of the two teams at the top of Group C and the Dutch will be NI's next opponents in Rotterdam on 10 October.\n\nFurther matches at home to Ronald Koeman's side and away to the Germans complete the campaign in November with the top two teams to qualify.\n\nNorthern Ireland were left to rue poor finishing and the lack of a prolific scorer as their enterprising attacking play and energy was not rewarded with goals.\n\nRoared on by a vociferous crowd, who were hoping to see their side emulate the famous September victories over England in 2005 and Spain in 2006, the hosts made a bright start but when Hearts striker Washington found himself through on goal after a rare mistake by Toni Kroos, he was unable to beat Manuel Neuer, who was quick off his line to charge the ball down.\n\nLone striker Washington passed up another great opportunity when the ball got stuck under his foot a few yards out after Neuer could only palm Stuart Dallas's low cross from the right into his path.\n\nA goalmouth scramble ensued but no Northern Ireland player could apply the final touch in a crowded penalty area.\n\nNI's best chance of the second half fell to Leeds United player Dallas but he dragged his effort from substitute Gavin Whyte's cross wide of the post.\n\nNorthern Ireland defended resolutely for much of the game, keeping their shape and defensive discipline and getting men behind the ball, but when needed goalkeeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell distinguished himself with a number of fine saves.\n\nThe 22-year-old former Leeds player has been starved of first-team action at new club Burnley this season but his performance in this game brought back memories of fellow NI keeper Michael McGovern's display against the same opposition at the Euro 2016 finals in France.\n\nPeacock-Farrell denied Niklas Sul, Lukas Klostermann and Thomas Werner on a number of occasions, also diving to push round Marco Reus's free-kick.\n\nThe Germans also had a couple of penalty appeals turned down in the first half, with Craig Cathcart getting away with a possible handball.\n\nNorthern Ireland held their own in the first half, enjoying more than their fair share of possession, but the Germans dominated after the break and those two clinical finishes from Halstenberg and Gnabry proved the difference between the teams.\n\nWing-back Halstenberg's left-foot drive from a right-wing cross flashed past Peacock-Farrell and flew into the top corner three minutes after the break for the opener and his first international goal.\n\nA combination of profligate finishing and Peacock-Farrell's heroics kept NI in touch until Gnabry completed a fine move by scoring with an angled drive from an acute angle in added time to make it nine goals in 10 international appearances for the Bayern Munich forward.\n\nThe injury-hit Germans' defensive frailties were exposed throughout however as O'Neill's side put the four-time world champions under pressure for sustained spells.\n\nAlongside several decent opportunities, the hosts had a penalty appeal waved away after Paddy McNair went down under a challenge from Kroos.\n\nGerman manager Joachim Low's rebuilding process after a disastrous World Cup 2018 campaign and relegation from the Nations League looks to be very much a work in progress on the evidence of this display despite the victory.\n\nEven if their air of invincibility may have gone as a new generation of players continue to be introduced this win will give them a boost after the disappointing 4-2 defeat by the Netherlands on Thursday.\n• None Germany have won three consecutive away games for the first time since September 2015, having lost their previous three in a row.\n• None Having lost just two of Michael O'Neill's first 14 competitive meetings at home (P14 W8 D4 L2), Northern Ireland have suffered five defeats in their last seven such games (P7 W2 D0 L5).\n• None Northern Ireland failed to score at home for the first time in their last eight international matches, last doing so in a 0-1 defeat to Switzerland in November 2017.\n• None Marcel Halstenberg scored his first ever goal for Germany, on his fourth appearance.\n• None Northern Ireland's Steven Davis earned his 113th cap for his country - only one other player in the country's history has ever made more appearances for the Green and White Army (Pat Jennings, 119).\n• None Germany's Serge Gnabry has scored five goals in his five international appearances in 2019, more than any other German player this year.\n• None Goal! Northern Ireland 0, Germany 2. Serge Gnabry (Germany) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kai Havertz.\n• None Attempt blocked. Emre Can (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kai Havertz (Germany) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Marco Reus.\n• None Offside, Germany. Joshua Kimmich tries a through ball, but Julian Brandt is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Germany. Marco Reus tries a through ball, but Marcel Halstenberg is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Northern Ireland. Stuart Dallas tries a through ball, but Josh Magennis is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Patrick McNair (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale has got \"a lot closer to reality\"\n\nMargaret Atwood says thieves made concerted efforts to steal her manuscript for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.\n\nThe author and her publisher were targeted by \"fake emails\" from \"cyber criminals\", trying to obtain the unpublished novel, she told the BBC.\n\nShe described the attempts as a \"phishing exercise\" that could have led to blackmail or identity theft.\n\n\"It was a commercial venture of a robbery kind,\" Atwood said.\n\n\"People were trying to steal it. Really, they were trying to steal it and we had to use a lot of code words and passwords,\" she told BBC arts correspondent Rebecca Jones.\n\n\"What would they have done with it if they had succeeded? They might have said, 'We've got the manuscript, and we're putting it up online [unless you] give us your credit card details'. Or they might have said, 'Read this excerpt and download it. And if you downloaded it, a virus would have stolen your information'.\n\n\"Think of how terrible we all would have felt had that happened.\"\n\nAtwood's new book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize even before its publication\n\nIn the end, the novel was kept out of thieves' hands and a major operation was put in place to ensure plot details did not leak to the press.\n\nEarly review copies were issued under a different title for fear of their being stolen; while judges for the Booker Prize were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement before they could read watermarked manuscripts that were locked in drawers overnight.\n\nThen, last week, online retailer Amazon mistakenly delivered copies of the novel to US customers a week ahead of the 10 September publication date, causing uproar amongst independent booksellers.\n\nAtwood played down the incident, characterising it as a \"boo-boo\" and a \"big fracas\", saying the biggest surprise was that Amazon had apologised.\n\n\"Apparently, it's the first time they've ever apologised for anything ever,\" said the 79-year-old. \"At least, that's what I was told.\" (Never habitually contrite, Amazon has apologised at least once before, in 2009, for remotely deleting copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from people's Kindle devices).\n\nHowever, Atwood suggested that there should be financial penalty for such errors whether \"on purpose or by mistake\".\n\n\"I think anybody putting an embargo in place in the future should attach a dollar amount,\" she said. \"They should say if you violate the embargo, this is what it will cost you and that money will go to independent bookstores.\"\n\nDespite the secrecy surrounding The Testaments, the novel has already received dozens of positive reviews, with critics deeming it an \"addictively readable, fast-paced adventure\" and \"a rallying cry for activism\".\n\nSet 15 years after The Handmaid's Tale, it returns readers to the oppressive Republic of Gilead, a dystopian future America, where women have been stripped of their rights and reduced to sexual slavery.\n\nThe original narrator, Offred, has escaped to Canada and the story is continued by three female narrators who provide differing perspectives on the regime as it begins to crumble.\n\nAtwood says she was inspired to return to Gilead by events in \"the world we've been living in\" - and The Testaments arrives as access to abortion and women's health services are being restricted in several US states.\n\n\"The big effort of the Trump administration in that area will be to try and get rid of Roe versus Wade,\" says Atwood, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court judgement, which enshrined a woman's right to have an abortion.\n\nThe political shift has made the story of The Handmaid's Tale more relevant to a generation of young women who \"feel they're on the verge of having decisions made about them, and about their future and fate and body and health that they have not been able to design,\" the author continues.\n\n\"Young women of reproductive age are always in the minority in any society and therefore, they're never allowed to vote, as a group, on measures that concern them.\n\n\"So the people making the decisions are going to be men, and they're going to be women who are not of reproductive age.\"\n\nThe TV version of The Handmaid's Tale will return for a fourth series\n\nThe Canadian author says she's been encouraged by women who adopt the Handmaid's \"uniform\" of white bonnets and long, red capes to protest laws that restrict women's rights.\n\n\"It's a brilliant demonstration stratagem,\" she says. \"It started in Texas, when a number of them went into the Texas legislature where... a group of men in suits were making laws about women's bodies.\n\n\"So there they were and you can't kick them out, because they're not saying anything, and you can't kick them out because they're dressed improperly, as they're all covered up. But everybody looking at them knows what they mean.\n\n\"So therefore, in the age of TV, they're very visible and very clearly signifying [resistance].\"\n\nThe imagery has attained even greater cultural relevance thanks to the hit TV adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale, which stars Elisabeth Moss as Offred.\n\nWhile the first series adhered closely to Atwood's novel, the second and third season have developed Offred's story beyond the scope of the source material.\n\nThe Canadian writer says she reads and approves all the scripts, but has yet to sit down with the box set (\"I will watch all of it when I have a little more time\").\n\nHowever, she denies having written The Testaments to reclaim ownership of her story.\n\n\"I think you're implying that I'm more vengeful and weird than I actually am,\" she laughs. \"Not that I'm not vengeful and weird.\"\n\n\"But everybody in the show is very dedicated to it and for them, it's not just another show, it's not just an acting part. They get very involved.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tian Tian has not become pregnant after being artificially inseminated in March\n\nA sixth attempt to produce a giant panda cub at Edinburgh Zoo through artificial insemination has failed.\n\nThe zoo's female panda, Tian Tian, has not produced a cub following the latest procedure in March.\n\nThe Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), which owns the zoo, has confirmed the attempt was unsuccessful.\n\nTian Tian has failed to reproduce despite repeated artificial inseminations since her 2011 arrival.\n\nCharlotte MacDonald, the zoo's director of conservation and living collections said: \"Tian Tian was artificially inseminated at the end of March and we now know this was not successful.\n\n\"Giant panda breeding is an incredibly complex, unpredictable process and we will continue to share our research with our colleagues in China.\n\n\"It is too soon to say what any next steps will be.\"\n\nTian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nTian Tian, which means \"Sweetie\", and her mate Yang Guang, which means \"Sunshine\" came to Edinburgh in 2011 in a 10-year agreement with the Chinese government.\n\nThe two giant pandas are being rented by Edinburgh Zoo from the Chinese government for an annual fee of about £600,000.\n\nTian Tian had previously given birth to twins in China but all attempts to produce a cub at Edinburgh Zoo have failed.\n\nZoo staff believe she may have been pregnant on a number of occasions but pandas sometimes re-absorb the foetus during the course of the pregnancy.\n\nPanda reproduction is notoriously difficult, partly due to the very short breeding window with ovulation occurring only once a year.\n\nStaff had hoped Tian Tian would mate naturally with the zoo's male giant panda Yang Guang but after years of failed attempts the breeding programme was suspended last year, with officials saying they wanted to make improvements to the pandas' enclosure before trying again.\n\nIn November, it was reported that the zoo's male giant panda Yang Guang had both testicles removed after tumours were discovered by keepers.\n\nYang Guang in his new enclosure earlier this year\n\nThis year, a decision was taken to artificially inseminate her using sperm from a panda in the Chinese panda breeding programme.\n\nSome animal rights campaigners have criticised the use of artificial insemination and attempts to breed the animals in captivity as there is no intention to return to them to the wild.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sellers of the Big Issue can join a scheme allowing them to accept contactless card payments.\n\nThe magazine, sold by people to lift themselves out of poverty, launched the initiative as consumers are moving away from using cash for small purchases.\n\nVendors involved in a trial scheme in five cities saw 80% of sales become cashless.\n\nRussell Blackman from the Big Issue said sellers would \"increase their ability to earn a legitimate income\".\n\nThe magazine's managing director added the scheme was \"an effort to improve levels of financial inclusion for vendors, who often live lives that are blighted by poverty and who have difficulty accessing mainstream financial services and products typically offered by retail banks\".\n\nJim Hannah, 59, who sells the magazine in Norwich, said he was \"really pleased\" to be able to offer card payments and now felt \"ready for a cashless future\".\n\n\"Before all this started I had no ID, no bank account and a rubbish phone and now I have a decent smartphone, a passport, a bank account and a card reader,\" he said.\n\nMike Hall, 29, who sells the magazine inside Bristol Temple Meads railway station said: \"It has been really important in attracting more customers to buy copies of the magazine from me\".\n\nOther Big Issue sellers, like Robin Fabian in Bristol, bought a card reader for themselves before the pilot started after potential customers told them they did not carry cash.\n\nFinancial technology company iZettle is making card readers available to Big Issue vendors for the reduced price of £9 and says they will benefit from a per-transaction fee \"significantly lower\" than its standard rate of 1.75%.\n\nLaunched in 1991, the Big Issue is sold by people who are homeless or close to homeless. Vendors buy each magazine for £1.25, before selling them on for £2.50.", "Kevin de Bruyne inspired Belgium to a brutal defeat of hapless Scotland to all but end hopes of reaching Euro 2020 via their qualification group.\n\nThe Manchester City man set up Romelu Lukaku, Thomas Vermaelen and Toby Alderweireld and netted the fourth.\n\nSteve Clarke's side must now look to next year's play-offs as their best hope of ending a 22-year wait for an appearance at a major finals.\n\nVictory made it six wins from six for Roberto Martinez's Group I leaders.\n\nIn truth, it could have been far worse for Scotland against the world's number one ranked side at Hampden, who played well within themselves.\n\nScotland, in fifth, now trail Russia by nine points and Belgium by 12 with four games to go.\n• None Who did you vote man of the match?\n• None 'We looked like we could become a good team' - Clarke\n\nAfter the chastening 2-1 loss at home to Russia on Friday came this evisceration by Belgium - an Eden Hazard-less Belgium at that. Who needs the Real Madrid man when you already have the supernatural brilliance of De Bruyne on top of desperate weakness from the home team, whose defence was paper-bag thin, with all due apologies to paper bags?\n\nScotland, with Kenny McLean, Ryan Christie, Robert Snodgrass and Matt Phillips coming in for John McGinn, Ryan Fraser, James Forrest and Oli McBurnie, had a few early minutes of optimism and then a harrowing night thereafter, the horror show beginning when they conceded the first goal after just nine minutes. The Scots got done on the counter attack. In leaving themselves so open they were were unbelievably naive and utterly reckless. Incompetence on an international scale.\n\nFrom the edge of their own box, Belgium went like the clappers after regaining possession from a Snodgrass free-kick, Dries Mertens peeling away and finding De Bruyne who was running free up the left. He had time and space and far, far too much excellence for the scrambling Scottish defence. He simply looked up, picked out Lukaku who had strolled in on goal all on his lonesome and the Internazionale striker did the rest.\n\nThe whole thing - from Mertens to De Bruyne to Lukaku to the back of Dave Marshall's net - took 14 seconds. It was Lukaku's 49th goal for his country. He could have had his 50th nine minutes later when De Bruyne - who else? - dinked a gorgeous ball into him. Lukaku failed to clip it past Marshall.\n\nA second Belgium goal was not long in coming. Once again it was De Bruyne who created it, this time with a cross from the right which was poked home by Vermaelen. Scotland, a disorganised mess at the back, failed to pick him up. What gargantuan problems Clarke has in trying to create something resembling a defence worthy of the name.\n\nPhillips tested Thibaut Courtois but a shell-shocked Hampden sunk ever deeper into despair when Belgium struck again just after the half-hour mark. It was another avoidable goal, a free header from a De Bruyne corner. Alderweireld got away from Charlie Mulgrew and thumped his effort in off the underside of Marshall's crossbar.\n\nThree goals and three De Bruyne assists. Belgium had scored 10 goals in two-and-a-half games against the Scots in a year. The thing about this latest hiding was they pulled it off without ever having to move out of second or third gear. They did not have to get anywhere near their best.\n\nMarshall had to tip away a shot by Mertens and De Bruyne missed a great chance. Sandwiched in between was a forlorn dive from Stephen O'Donnell which brought the Scotland right-back a yellow card instead of the penalty he was looking for. Scott McTominay also went into the book and he will miss the trip to Russia next month, not that it matters. Scotland's goose is well and truly cooked now.\n\nThere was a fourth for the Belgians, Lukaku being allowed to turn by some more comatose Scottish defending before finding the unplayable De Bruyne, who slotted a right-footed curler beyond Marshall to pile on the pain for what was left of the home crowd. Many of them had headed for home by then. One has to wonder how many of them will be back.\n\nA masterclass from the playmaker with his passing, pace, awareness and never ending ability to find space beguiling and bemusing Scotland in equal measure. A sumptuous finish late on provided the goal his performance richly deserved.\n• None Belgium have scored 16 goals without reply in their past six meetings with Scotland.\n• None Scotland have won just one of their past 14 games against Belgium (W1 D2 L11), a 2-0 Euro qualifier victory in October 1987.\n• None Steve Clarke has lost three of his first four matches in charge of Scotland.\n• None Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku has scored five goals in his three international appearances against Scotland.\n• None Under Roberto Martinez, Belgium have won all five of their matches against British sides by an aggregate score of 13-0.\n• None Scotland have kept two clean sheets in their past 10 games.\n• None Attempt saved. Yari Verschaeren (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\n• None Goal! Scotland 0, Belgium 4. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Christie (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kenny McLean (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Scott McTominay.\n• None Thomas Vermaelen (Belgium) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOpposition party leaders should be ready to try to impeach the prime minister if he ignores a new no-deal Brexit law, says Plaid Cymru.\n\nBoris Johnson has \"already driven a bulldozer through the constitution\", said Plaid's Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts.\n\nThe law, which gained royal assent on Monday, aims to stop the UK exiting the EU with no deal on 31 October.\n\nNumber 10 has been contacted for comment.\n\nNo prime minister has ever successfully been impeached but Mr Johnson himself previously supported a bid to impeach Tony Blair when he was prime minister in 2004.\n\nIt is method by which Parliament can try individuals for high treason or other misdemeanours, but it is now considered to be obsolete.\n\nThe controversial five-week suspension of Parliament is to begin on Monday night, after opposition MPs including Plaid Cymru are again expected to reject government calls for a snap election.\n\nThe Brexit cross-party bill - which requires the prime minister to extend the exit deadline until January unless Parliament agrees a deal with the EU by 19 October - was passed on Friday.\n\nBut the prime minister has said he would \"rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask for a delay.\n\nLiz Saville Roberts said politicians needed to \"think the unthinkable\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said previously that the government would abide by the law but would \"look very carefully\" at its \"interpretation\" of the legislation.\n\nLegal experts have warned the prime minister could go to prison if he refuses to comply with the new law.\n\nMs Saville Roberts, MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, said opposition leaders had had a \"productive\" meeting on Monday where she urged her counterparts to consider impeaching Mr Johnson in such circumstances.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: 'We are working wholeheartedly, straining every sinew, to get a deal'\n\nShe pointed out it was a procedure he had supported himself as a Tory backbencher in 2004 when current Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price sought to impeach the then Prime Minister Tony Blair over the Iraq war.\n\n\"I made absolutely clear that Plaid Cymru will leave no stone unturned in our attempts to stop Boris Johnson from inflicting the calamity of a crash-out Brexit upon the people of Wales,\" she said.\n\nMs Saville Roberts also stressed the need for opposition parties to be \"united not only in opposition to no-deal, but also in favour of a positive alternative\" in the form of a fresh referendum.\n\nMeanwhile Conservative Monmouth MP David TC Davies said the likelihood of the UK leaving the EU on 31 October was \"up in the air at the moment\".\n\nHe told BBC Wales that by refusing to back a general election, opposition parties were \"not willing to let the public have their say\", claiming they feared people would vote for Brexit-supporting parties as they had done at the 2017 general election and the 2019 European parliament elections.\n\nNo prime minister has ever been impeached, and while Boris Johnson would probably face legal action if he disobeyed the law, that action would most likely be in the courts rather than in Parliament.\n\nBut we are some way away from either of those situations arising at the moment.\n\nMinisters insist that the PM will abide by the law, although Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab suggests he will \"look very carefully\" at the \"interpretation\" of the legislation.\n\nPlaid has attempted impeachment against a prime minister before - Tony Blair over the Iraq War - it was a long shot then and remains so now.\n\nThe last (unsuccessful) attempt at the prosecution of an impeachment was in 1806.\n\nBack in 1999 the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege stated that \"the procedure may be considered obsolete\".\n\nBut politically, it is a means of keeping up the pressure on the prime minister and highlighting the serious nature of the dispute in question.\n\nAnd with both government and opposition parties engaging in unconventional constitutional measures in the run up to 31 October, the improbable is not the impossible.", "The US Air Force (USAF) has ordered a review of its guidance on overnight accommodation for flight crews.\n\nIt has emerged that some personnel have been staying at one of President Donald Trump's Scottish golf resorts.\n\nThere has been an increase in the number of US military flights stopping at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, near the resort, since he took office.\n\nA US congressional committee is investigating Mr Trump for a potential conflict of interest over the matter.\n\nAir Force chiefs have \"directed Air Mobility Command [AMC, which oversees all Air Force transport around the world] to review all guidance pertaining to selection of airports and lodging accommodations during international travel\", according to a statement to the BBC from Brig Gen Edward Thomas.\n\nThe US Air Force said its crews had obeyed all the rules, but said \"lodging at higher-end accommodations, even if within government rates, might be allowable but not advisable\".\n\nBrig Gen Thomas also explained the increased use of Prestwick airport in the last four years because of a number of key factors, including longer operating hours and standardisation of routing locations.\n\n\"Between 2015 and 2019, AMC Total Force aircraft stopped at Prestwick a total of 936 times (*659 overnight stays), including 95 (*40) in 2015, 145 (*75) in 2016, 180 (*116) in 2017, 257 (*208) in 2018 and 259 (*220) through August 2019,\" his statement added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump on the Turnberry golf course in 2014\n\nOver the weekend, it emerged that the crew of a US C-17 military transport aircraft stayed at Trump Turnberry when it stopped at Prestwick en route to Kuwait earlier in the year.\n\nMr Trump has tweeted he did not know anything about the matter:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nThe Air Force has not said how many of its staff have stayed at the president's resort.\n\nDemocrats and critics argue such stays might enrich the president at taxpayers' expense as crews who land at the airport then go on to stay at the nearby Trump Turnberry resort.\n\nThe House Oversight and Reform Committee says expenditure at Prestwick airport has \"increased substantially\" since Mr Trump came into office.\n\nThe debt-ridden airport 34 miles (55km) from Glasgow has been fighting off closure.\n\nIt is said to be integral to the Trump business, which is also loss-making.\n\nThe committee's accusations are detailed in a letter to the Pentagon - which is dated to June, but was only revealed on the Politico website on Friday.\n\nCiting Defence Logistics Agency (DLA) records, it said the US military had made 629 fuel purchase orders at the airport, totalling $11m (£9m), since October 2017.\n\nIt also alleges that certain military personnel have been offered \"cut-price rooms\" and free rounds of golf at the Trump Turnberry resort.\n\nIn a statement sent on Monday to the BBC, Glasgow Prestwick airport said: \"Like all airports, we provide a full handling service for customers and routinely arrange overnight accommodation for visiting aircrew when requested. We use over a dozen local hotels, including Trump Turnberry, which accounts for a small percentage of the total hotel bookings we make.\n\n\"It's important to note that we do not pay for aircrew accommodation and take no commission from Trump Turnberry for any bookings made on behalf of our customers. All aircrew landing at Glasgow Prestwick settle their bills directly with the hotels involved and, contrary to some claims we have seen, we do not offer free rounds of golf at Trump Turnberry for any aircrew.\"\n\nPrestwick airport, south of Glasgow, is approximately 20 miles (30km) north of Trump Turnberry.\n\nThe Scottish government bought it for £1 in 2013, when it was facing closure.\n\nIn June, it was put up for sale. No buyer has been announced.\n\nAmid rising debts, the airport has reportedly slashed its charges to try to retain business.", "The victim was found injured in Belmont Street, Chalk Farm\n\nA 35-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was stabbed to death in north London.\n\nThe victim, in her 20s, died nearly an hour after she was found wounded in Belmont Street, Chalk Farm, at 23:10 BST on Sunday.\n\nTwo other women were discovered with slash wounds. They were taken to hospital but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nThe Met said the arrested woman was in custody at a London police station.\n\nThe victim's next of kin have been informed and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.\n\nTwo other women were taken to hospital with slash wounds\n\nTerry Ellis, from Camden Against Violence, said he understood the attack was the result of \"an argument\" which the woman \"wasn't really involved in\"\n\n\"She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time,\" he said.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid on the street by friends of victim.\n\nOne, who gave her name as Ronney, described the woman as a \"really, really good mum\" who had a son.\n\n\"She was part of everyone's life, she helped everyone,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been left in the road where the woman was killed\n\nThe killing was the second in two hours in north London after a man was shot dead on Malden Road in Kentish Town.\n\nPolice have said there is no link between the two deaths.\n\nAnother man was shot dead in Sydenham, south-east London on Sunday afternoon.\n• None Man in his 20s shot dead in London\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 9,000 of badgers are likely to have suffered \"immense pain\" in culls to control cattle TB, according to a former government adviser.\n\nProf Ranald Munro is the ex-Chair of an independent expert group appointed by the government to assess its trials.\n\nHe has written to Natural England to say that the policy is causing \"huge suffering\".\n\nHe adds that the culls are not reducing TB in cattle and in one area the incidence of the disease has gone up.\n\nThe culls began in 2012 following appeals from cattle farmers whose livelihoods are continuing to be damaged by the spread of TB.\n\nProf Munro's independent expert group found that up 23% of badgers took more than five minutes to die after they were shot. These figures prompted the group to conclude that the culls were inhumane in its assessment report to government. This document's publication was delayed but its contents were revealed by BBC News in 2014.\n\nThe independent expert group was disbanded by the Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ministers, who said that its work had been completed - though this was against the wishes of many of the experts involved, with one claiming that ministers were \"wilfully\" ignoring scientific advice.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the expected announcement of new culling areas for 2019 later this week, Prof Munro estimates that 40,000 badgers have been culled so far which according to the expert group's figures equates to thousands of them dying slowly.\n\n\"The numbers are huge, they really are. If you look at the likelihood of not dying within five minutes of being shot, you are looking at 3,000 badgers having suffered immense pain at a minimum. It could be as high as 9,000. There is a huge issue of suffering in these badgers.\"\n\nThe spread of cattle TB is devastating the livlihoods of many farmers\n\nProf Munro's remarks come as he and 19 other vets, scientists and animal welfare campaigners wrote to Natural England, the body that oversees the culls.\n\nA freedom of information request by the group has shown that as the number of cull areas has increased over the years, the environment watchdog's monitoring staff have been spread ever thinner.\n\nIn 2014, 20% of culls were supervised by Natural England staff. In 2018, it was able to monitor only 0.4%.\n\n\"The terms of the roll-out of the culling have not been adhered to,\" Prof Munro said.\n\n\"They are saying 'oh yes, we are observing'; but they are observing at a level which is of no value whatsoever in determining the humanness of culling and whether badgers are being injured or how long they are taking to die.\"\n\nAn NFU spokesperson said that the rates of suffering quoted by Prof Munro were out of date.\n\n\"Those involved with the cull take their responsibilities very seriously and have all taken part in rigorous training. The Chief Vet has said that contractors continued to show high levels of discipline and compliance with the best practice guidance that governs the culls.\n\n\"No-one involved in the organisation and management of a targeted badger cull as part of the government's TB eradication strategy would recognise the figures being talked about today. They appear to be an extrapolation of data from seven years ago and bear no relation to the safety and humaneness levels being recorded today.\n\n\"We believe the science and evidence due will show a positive impact on bovine TB incidences in cattle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The science behind the badger cull was established in 1990s\n\nThe FOI request also revealed that in the very first cull area, in Gloucestershire, which could be among the first to see benefits if there are any from the policy, the number of new herds confirmed to have TB increased from 10 in 2017 to 23 in 2018.\n\nThis single increase in one year in one area is not sufficient to show that the culls are not working. More data and expert analysis will be needed to determine their effectiveness one way or another.\n\nBut the experts and campaigners write in their letter: \"We are unconvinced that the culling of large numbers continues to be justified in the view of recent data showing zero disease control benefits after six years of culling of badgers in Gloucestershire.\"\n\nA Natural England spokesperson said: \"We help to implement the badger culling policy under the direction of Defra and in line with decisions taken by ministers. We are in the process of reviewing the badger cull applications for 2019 made under that policy and will communicate decisions in due course.\n\n\"One of our roles is to independently consider licence applications to cull or vaccinate badgers, and we take policy advice from Defra when deciding if the activity will deliver effective disease control. Licensing is not done lightly and those involved in the cull - farmers, contractors and Natural England staff - take the welfare of badgers very seriously.\"\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\nUS adventurer Victor Vescovo has become the first person to visit the deepest points in every ocean.\n\nHis fifth and final dive in a prototype submersible was made to the bottom of the Arctic's Molloy Trench, some 5.5km (3.4 miles) below the sea surface.\n\nThis followed dives during the past 10 months to the floor of the Pacific, Indian, Southern and Atlantic oceans.\n\nThe millionaire financier's team also visited the wreck of the Titanic.\n\nAll Mr Vescovo's dives were made using the 12-tonne Deep Sea Vehicle (DSV) Limiting Factor, launched and recovered from a dedicated support ship, the DSSV Pressure Drop, ironically a one-time navy submarine hunter.\n\nThe last leg of the \"Five Deeps Expedition\" was concluded on 24 August when the explorer reached a spot known as the Molloy Hole, which is about 275km (170 miles) west of Norway's Svalbard archipelago.\n\nThe recorded depth on the solo dive was 5,550m, plus or minus 14m. It is the first time any human has been to this location.\n\nMr Vescovo spoke of his elation and deep gratitude to the people who had worked with him.\n\n\"These things need to be done,\" he told BBC News. \"I come from a philosophy that says we're put here not just to survive, or even just to be comfortable - but to contribute in some way. And the path I chose was to have some adventure whilst also doing something that could move us forward as a species.\"\n\nThe former US Navy reservist's wealth and drive have previously led him to ski to both poles and to climb the highest mountains on every continent. But it's evident when you talk to him that he is utterly absorbed by the science he's facilitated.\n\nOver the course of the worldwide tour, researchers deployed more than 100 landers. These are instrumented frames that sink to the seafloor and record what they see and sense on the way down, and at the seabed.\n\nThe VSSV Pressure Drop has collected a large amount of bathymetric (depth) data\n\nThe Five Deeps science team says it has discovered upwards of 40 new species in the process. A large catalogue of biological and water samples awaits analysis in the lab, including a unique set of bottom-water samples retrieved at every one of the five deeps visited.\n\nDr Alan Jamieson is the expedition's chief scientist. He highlighted the measurements of salinity, temperature and depth that were made by the sub and the landers.\n\n\"You cast on the way down and on the way up, and if you add up the metres we measured - it works out at 1.5 million metres of water,\" he said. This will help researchers better understand ocean circulation, which is needed to improve the computer models that project future climate scenarios.\n\n\"We have so few measurements from the deepest parts of the oceans, from below 6,000m,\" the Newcastle University, UK, marine biologist added.\n\nThe DSSV Pressure Drop mapped the seafloor as it traversed the five oceans. This bathymetric (depth) data covers roughly 300,000 sq km - an area equivalent to Italy.\n\nThis is being donated to the international project that seeks to chart the entire global ocean floor by 2030. Currently, less than 20% has been mapped to an acceptable resolution.\n\nBut the Five Deeps Expedition has also fundamentally demonstrated the capability of the latest deep-sea technology.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo spoke to the BBC on completion of his historic five dives\n\nThe hope is that the DSV Limiting Factor will now be followed by many more such vehicles.\n\n\"I think what Victor has done is remarkable and others are going to want to continue what he's started by going back to some of these places and spending more time there,\" said Patrick Lahey, co-founder of Triton Submarines which built the Limiting Factor.\n\n\"You're starting to see more privately funded marine research being conducted by wealthy individuals who bought subs they thought they would use recreationally but are now using to complete scientific expeditions, to give people like Al Jamieson a platform to work from.\"\n\nIt is no surprise to learn that Victor Vescovo has set his sights on going into space; he's actively talking to those who might help him get there.\n\nHowever, he's far from done with ocean research and expects next year to conduct further dives in previously unexplored trenches around the Pacific rim.\n\nThe American oceanographer Don Walsh made history in 1960 when he joined Jacques Piccard in making the first crewed dive to the deepest point on Earth - the Challenger Deep, part of the Pacific's Mariana Trench. Mr Walsh marvels at the latest technology.\n\n\"What you have here is a system - the ship, the sub and the landers. They interact and cooperate, and when you see them working together it's like a ballet,\" Mr Walsh told BBC News.\n\n\"What's impressive is the repeatability - being able to dive time and time again.\"\n\nAtlantic Productions is making a five-part documentary about the Five Deeps Expedition for the Discovery Channel. It's likely to air early next year.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patel: Police \"haven't always had enough support\"\n\nThe new home secretary has told police officers she is \"ashamed\" that they have not had enough support from previous governments.\n\nPriti Patel promised more resources to help bring a stop to officers being \"overworked and undervalued\".\n\nThe government has pledged 20,000 more officers over the next three years.\n\nIn her first major speech as home secretary, Ms Patel also said she wanted longer jail terms for \"monsters\" who attack police.\n\nMs Patel told the Police Superintendents' Association (PSA) conference she wanted to \"reset the relationship\" between the government and the police.\n\n\"This is a new government and I'm prepared to be frank. I'm ashamed to say you haven't always had enough support,\" she said at the conference in Warwickshire.\n\n\"You have been overworked and undervalued, unable to do the job you love as well as you'd like. And that stops now.\"\n\nMs Patel spoke alongside PSA Ch Supt Paul Griffiths, who said the rank of superintendent was the most cut rank across the police force\n\nBetween March 2010 and March 2018, police forces in England and Wales lost 21,732 officers - a drop of 15%, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThe cuts came as part of austerity measures brought in by the Conservative and coalition governments, in an attempt to reduce the deficit.\n\nBut Ms Patel said she would do \"everything\" to ensure police had \"the resources, the power and the authority\" needed to help \"restore pride\" in the service.\n\nShe also said she was \"urgently exploring\" what more could be done to support families of officers killed on duty.\n\nIt comes after a recent spate of violent attacks on officers and the death of PC Andrew Harper, who was killed while investigating a burglary in Berkshire in August\n\nOn Monday, car thief Mubashar Hussain admitted seriously injuring PC Gareth Phillips, who he ran over with his own police car in Moseley, Birmingham, last month.\n\nMs Patel said the \"epidemic of attacks\" demanded urgent action, adding she was working to ensure such incidents were handled with \"the appropriate severity\".\n\nTraditionally, the Police Superintendents' Association conference plays second fiddle to the annual gathering of the much larger Police Federation.\n\nThe federation event - attended by hundreds of constables, sergeants and inspectors - has acted as a barometer of the mood of the police service. The home secretary, who always attends, often becomes a recipient of their anger.\n\nBut this year's federation conference was cancelled after a cyber-attack - so all of the focus is on the superintendents' gathering.\n\nThe senior officers greeted Priti Patel's appearance on stage with applause and reacted positively to what she had to say. The questions from the association's members were probing, but polite.\n\nAlthough some complained that her speech lacked detail, there was an acknowledgement that Ms Patel is trying to draw a line under the fractious nature of the police's previous relationship with the government.\n\nThe PSA's Ch Supt Paul Griffiths had earlier highlighted that numbers at the rank of superintendent have been cut by 25% since 2010, making it the most cut rank across the police force.\n\nThe PSA has called for another 300 superintendents to be recruited as part of the additional 20,000 officers that were pledged by Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he took office in July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Summer heatwaves led to drought conditions across areas of France and western Europe\n\nRecord heatwaves in June and July caused the deaths of 1,435 people in France this year, according to the country's health minister.\n\nSpeaking on French radio, Agnès Buzyn said half of those who died were aged over 75.\n\nBut Ms Buzyn said, thanks to preventative measures, the rate was 10 times lower than the same period in 2003 when a deadly heatwave hit Europe.\n\nFrance recorded its highest-ever temperature of 46C (114.8F) in June.\n\nThe capital, Paris, also saw a record high temperature of 42.6C (108.7F) in July.\n\nAccording to the Ministry of Health, 567 people died during France's first heatwave this year, from 24 June to 7 July. A further 868 died during the second from 21 to 27 July.\n\nMs Buzyn said that 10 people had died while at work.\n\nDuring the summer, red alerts - the most severe warning category - were issued in several areas of France.\n\nDuring hot periods, many schools and public events were closed to minimise public exposure.\n\nLarge parks and swimming pools were also kept open in some cities to help people stay cool. Paris authorities organised emergency phone lines and set up temporary \"cool rooms\" in municipal buildings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is it so hot and is climate change to blame?\n\nThe heat spurred wildfires in neighbouring Spain, with Catalonia experiencing some of its most devastating blazes in 20 years.\n\nAll-time high temperatures were also recorded in other European countries, including the UK, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.\n\nNo other country has yet released official data on deaths caused by this year's heatwaves.", "Police searched for Kim Avis after he was reported missing\n\nAn Inverness man who is facing 24 charges including rape has appeared in court after being extradited to Scotland from America.\n\nKim Avis failed to appear in court in Edinburgh in March.\n\nThe 55-year-old had been reported missing in California in February before being found in Colorado in July.\n\nAppearing at the High Court in Edinburgh, he offered his apologies to judge Lord Malcolm for missing court. He was remanded in custody.\n\nDefence counsel Lorenzo Alonzi told judge Lord Malcolm that Mr Avis appeared in answer to a warrant that was issued after the failure to appear.\n\nMr Alonzi told the judge that he expected a fresh indictment to be served on Mr Avis and added: \"I make no motion for bail.\"\n\nMr Avis was reported missing after apparently going for a swim at Monastery Beach in Carmel, California.\n\nHe was found in Colorado after an extensive search and was returned to the UK by US authorities.", "ScotRail is adding extra carriages to trains going to and from Hampden Park for Scotland's Euro 2020 qualifying fixture against Belgium.\n\nIt comes after recent problems with overcrowding on some of its services.\n\nThe train operator said it would be adding carriages to trains to and from Mount Florida as well as on trains travelling back to Perth and Dundee.\n\nQueuing systems will be in place at Glasgow Central before the match, and at Mount Florida station afterwards.\n\nFans are being advised to head back to Mount Florida as quickly as possible after the game finishes and join the queues on Bolton Drive as trains are expected to be busy.\n\nScotRail said those heading to the game for the 19:45 kick off should allow extra time for travel - as well as purchasing tickets to Mount Florida in advance.\n\nAn alcohol ban will be in place on trains between Glasgow and Mount Florida from 17:00 and ScotRail will have extra staff on the ground.\n\nPhil Campbell, ScotRail's head of customer operations, said: \"This is a crucial game for Scotland, and we're looking forward to helping supporters travel to the game to cheer on our national team.\n\n\"To help the event run smoothly, we're adding extra carriages to trains to and from Hampden.\n\n\"Regular commuters who travel home from Glasgow on the line via Mount Florida should be aware that services will be much busier than normal with fans heading to the match.\"\n\nScotRail admitted it did not do well enough following overcrowding on some of its services last month\n\nLast month ScotRail said it had \"not done well enough\" after being criticised following major disruption on services from Edinburgh.\n\nCommuters claimed trains from Waverley and Haymarket were dangerously overcrowded on the night of Saturday 24 August, while other services were cancelled.\n\nPassenger numbers were high as it was the last weekend of the Edinburgh festivals and Murrayfield had hosted an international rugby match.\n\nScotRail said a trespasser on the line and a train failure were partly to blame and admitted it could not cope with the volume of customers on top of two rail incidents.\n\nOn Friday football fans travelling by train to Hampden for Scotland's game against Russia also faced serious disruption.\n\nA train was brought to a halt after a passenger triggered an alarm.\n\nAs a result, many services to the south of Glasgow including the Cathcart Circle which serves the area of the stadium were cancelled or delayed.\n\nIt later emerged that knock-on disruption would continue until late evening, affecting fans after the game.", "Typhoon Faxai battered the Japanese capital with winds of up to 210km/h (130mph)\n\nMore than 900,000 homes have been left without power after Typhoon Faxai made landfall near Tokyo.\n\nWith winds of up to 210km/h (130mph), Faxai is one of the strongest typhoons to hit the Japanese capital in a decade.\n\nMore than 130 flights were cancelled and train lines closed for hours, disrupting the morning commute.\n\nPower cuts hit 910,000 people in the Tokyo area, Japan's national broadcaster NHK said on Monday morning.\n\nThe entire city of Kamogawa lost power at one stage, and authorities warned against going outside.\n\nAs the storm approached, non-compulsory evacuation warnings were issued to more than 390,000 people in Kanagawa, Shizuoka and Tokyo prefectures.\n\nA woman in her fifties was found unconscious on a street in Setagaya City, a residential area near central Tokyo, and later died in hospital, NHK reported.\n\nCCTV footage showed her being blown head-first into a building by the force of the wind.\n\nMore than 30 people have been injured, according to Japanese news agency Kyodo.\n\nThe storm comes as the country prepares to host the Rugby World Cup, which is expected to draw more than 400,000 overseas visitors.\n\nEngland manager Eddie Jones, a former manager of the Japanese national team, said his side would have to \"ride with it\".\n\nThe Australian squad's arrival was delayed by the storm, while the French narrowly beat it to Japanese shores.\n\nTyphoon Faxai is now moving back out towards the Pacific, but there is still a risk of flooding and landslides.\n\nJapan's severe weather comes after a separate powerful typhoon swept over the Korean peninsula at the weekend, leaving eight people dead.\n\nNorth Korea's news agency KCNA said Typhoon Lingling had flooded 460 sq km (178 sq miles) of farmland.\n\nThere are fears the storm could worsen severe food shortages in the country.\n\nEarlier this year, the UN warned that up to 10 million North Koreans were \"in urgent need of food assistance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Typhoon Lingling arrives in North Korea after battling the South", "Boris Johnson said a no-deal Brexit would be a \"failure\" by both the British and Irish governments\n\nWhen Boris Johnson headed to Dublin on Monday there were no obvious signs of common ground between the British and Irish governments over alternatives to the border backstop.\n\nBut many expected the prime minister to repeat his \"germ of an idea\" for a common food and agriculture zone across Ireland.\n\nHe said he had an \"abundance of proposals\" to replace the backstop, though didn't share any of them with reporters.\n\nNeither he nor Leo Varadkar gave much away in the press conference before they sat down over breakfast.\n\nBut behind the scenes, the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) likely in turn pointed out the practical and political obstacles for the EU.\n\nWhy should it drop the comprehensive agreement it negotiated with Theresa May for an approach which may prove tough to implement?\n\nSo where might the room for compromise lie?\n\nIs it possible that you could add bells and whistles to the food zone idea which is based on Northern Ireland following EU agricultural rules?\n\nMight that end up looking a bit like a Northern Ireland-only regulatory backstop?\n\nThe Northern Ireland-only backstop was offered by the EU at an early stage in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nBack then the DUP responded angrily to the idea. Theresa May, dependent on them for votes, pivoted to a UK-wide backstop which she was never able to get through the Commons.\n\nNow the maths is different. Boris Johnson is well short of the numbers he needs for a workable administration, with or without the DUP, and an election looks inevitable.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar said Ireland stood ready to be Britain's \"Athena\" in the Brexit talks\n\nAsked about reports that the government might shift back towards an NI only backstop, the Chancellor Sajid Javid responded negatively.\n\nHe repeated the prime minister's mantra that the backstop is not democratic.\n\nThe unionist objection has been that, under the backstop, the people of NI would be left subject to EU rules with no way for their local representatives to approve reject or change them.\n\nHowever, could this concern be allayed by providing an enhanced role for Stormont politicians in scrutinising and/or approving any European agricultural or other trade regulations which might apply in NI?\n\nSome influential figures believe a backstop could be devised which incorporates the principle of consent built into the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThey argue that by harnessing the agreement, a compromise could be found on the island of Ireland.\n\nThis in turn might address the fear that the backstop is nothing but a trap set by Brussels which would constrain UK sovereignty after Brexit.\n\nDevising some mechanism for Stormont input into a Northern Ireland only backstop is fraught with difficulty.\n\nMake it too weak and it would look like meaningless consultation. Make it too strong and the EU would balk at the notion that any changes to its future trade rules could be subject to a unionist veto at Stormont.\n\nThere is, moreover, the rather inconvenient truth that we currently have no working Stormont assembly or power-sharing executive. Why on earth should you give a failed institution extra responsibility?\n\nAdditionally, there will be suspicions on both sides.\n\nNationalists and the Alliance Party have previously advised the EU not to concede any substantial role for Stormont in the backstop as they fear it would simply invite unionism to wield its veto.\n\nThe DUP has cautiously welcomed the PM's food zone idea.\n\nBut DUP politicians may look over their shoulders at the traditional unionists who have already rejected the all-Ireland food zone as a slippery slope which would see NI increasingly diverging from Great Britain.\n\nThe swiftly changing politics at Westminster may mean both the food zone and the idea of Stormont playing a role in a \"backstop with consent\" never get off the drawing board.\n\nHowever that doesn't mean officials won't want to tease out such proposals in order to see if they might provide an escape route from the potentially destabilising consequences of a no-deal Brexit.", "Theresa May's chief Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins will join investment bank Goldman Sachs after a sabbatical, the Cabinet Office has said.\n\nThe civil servant headed talks which led to the former prime minister's withdrawal agreement which formed the basis for the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nHowever, the deal repeatedly failed to get through Parliament, prompting Ms May to resign earlier this year.\n\nMr Robbins, 44, announced he would quit his role shortly afterwards.\n\nThe civil servant attracted criticism from prominent Brexit supporters who accused him of being too pro-EU.\n\nBut new Prime Minister Boris Johnson - who has himself has been fiercely critical of the withdrawal agreement - paid his own tribute to Mr Robbins on Monday.\n\nMr Robbins' work earned him a knighthood from former prime minister Theresa May in her resignation honours list.\n\nMr Robbins will first spend a sabbatical at the University of Oxford, becoming the first holder of a visiting fellowship set up in memory of former Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood.\n\n\"I am delighted that Olly will be the first permanent secretary to take up this fellowship in Jeremy Heywood's memory, which follows his many years of dedication to public service in a variety of different roles,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Robbins will leave the civil service at the end of the fellowship to become a managing director in Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking Division.\n\nHe will join former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who is the non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International.\n\nHe is not the only figure from British politics to have gone into finance. Former Chancellor George Osborne earns £650,000 a year in a role with US investment fund Blackrock, while former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling is a non-executive director at investment bank Morgan Stanley.", "In March, passengers had to queue outside the airport in freezing conditions due to delays at security\n\nLong queues, crowded terminals and pricey parking charges have led to Belfast International being rated the UK's worst airport in a survey by consumer magazine Which?.\n\nCustomers gave the airport an approval score of 42%, saying it was \"shabby\", \"understaffed\" and had a poor layout.\n\nIt came just behind London Luton on 43% and Manchester T3 on 47%.\n\nBy contrast \"cosy\" Doncaster Sheffield came top, followed by Birmingham and Heathrow's Terminal 5.\n\nIn April and May this year, 4,499 Which? members were surveyed about 6,237 airport experiences in terms of satisfaction.\n\nPeople could mention up to four experiences, and an airport would only be included if it got more than 30 responses, with the results then weighted.\n\nOf the 4,499 people who took part in survey, 68 of them focused on Belfast International.\n\nThe airport acknowledged passengers had faced problems during the past 18 months, but said satisfaction had improved since the survey.\n\nThe survey took place just after the airport invested more than £1m in its security, expanding security lanes following months of complaints about long delays.\n\n\"Our new security company has taken us on in leaps and bounds with our staff,\" Belfast International Airport managing director Graham Keddie told BBC Radio Ulster.\n\n\"It [the survey] was done in April and May before the changes were really in place, in fact we started with the changes at Easter.\n\n\"We have now got a tracking system in place and we're seeing more than 90% of our passengers going through in less than 15 minutes.\n\n\"It's perhaps legacy from the past, but again we've got to take it on board and continue to improve.\"\n\nHe said he believed the airport's parking charges were very reasonable and were below most other UK airports.\n\nOf the largest airports with more than 10 million passengers a year, Luton was the worst performer, a position it has held for four years running.\n\nDespite terminal improvement works finishing in December, Luton travellers complained about \"limited seating\" and \"congested\" security queues.\n\nAberdeen International was ranked the worst Scottish Airport for the fifth year in row, with a customer score of 50%.\n\nCustomers criticised its staff and seating, with one telling Which? they only used the airport for \"geographic convenience\", not out of choice.\n\nBy contrast, Doncaster Sheffield topped the survey for the third year in a row, with customers calling it a \"cosy airport\" with no queues that was \"easy to navigate\".\n\nThe Yorkshire hub got a customer satisfaction score of 86% - although some respondents said they wished it offered more connections than its current 55.\n\nHeathrow Terminal 5 was the best performing large airport, with a score of 66%. Customers praised its ample seating, helpful staff and toilet facilities, although there were complaints about its high parking charges.\n\nA spokesperson for London Luton Airport (LLA) said: \"We're disappointed by our ranking but pleased to see this year's customer score has improved 23% compared to last year. This highlights passengers are now beginning to see the benefits of our £160m redevelopment.\"\n\nThey added that of the 4,499 people surveyed by Which?, only 273 had used Luton, while the airport has more than 16 million passengers a year.\n\nSteve Szalay, managing director of Aberdeen International Airport, said Which's survey was \"months out of date and in no way tallies with the hugely positive feedback we're receiving from the tens of thousands of passengers who are travelling through our doors on a weekly basis\".", "A man has been shot dead in south-east London.\n\nPolice said officers were called at 15:45 BST to reports of \"suspicious activity\" in Sydenham Road in Sydenham.\n\nThey then heard shots being fired and firearms officers were called to the scene, along with the London Ambulance Service.\n\nA man in his 20s was found with gunshot wounds. He died at the scene at 15:50. No arrests have been made and the force is appealing for witnesses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James O'Brien was blinded in his right eye more than 20 years ago when a corrosive substance was thrown in his face.\n\nFor the last 18 months he has been undergoing pioneering treatment at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital.\n\nSurgeons used stem cells to replace the scar tissue over his eye.\n\nMr O'Brien is the first NHS patient to receive this treatment and it is hoped the procedure will help other victims regain their sight.\n\nSee more on this from Inside Out on BBC One London at 7.30pm on 9 September, or on iPlayer.", "Thomas Dunn told his trial he had made a \"bad judgement call\"\n\nA man who put a 13-month-old girl in a tumble dryer has been jailed for seven years.\n\nThomas Dunn claimed he had only \"assisted\" the toddler, saying the child had been climbing into the machine herself.\n\nDunn, 25, said he did not fully close the machine door on the child, but the dryer activated and started rotating.\n\nHe was previously found guilty of culpable and reckless conduct following a trial at Dundee Sheriff Court.\n\nDunn, of Hamilton, was convicted of placing the child in the dryer and closing the door, causing the machine to activate, in Arbroath in 2017.\n\nHe was also found guilty of causing fractures to the child's skull during an assault.\n\nDundee Sheriff Alistair Brown told Dunn that he could only impose a five year sentence on him and remitted the case to the High Court.\n\nJudge Lord Brodie sentenced Dunn to seven years imprisonment and three years supervision following his release, at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nDefence advocate Niall McCluskey said: \"He suffers from depression and mental health problems.\n\n\"He also accepts that the imposition of a prison sentence is inevitable.\"\n\nDuring the trial, Dunn claimed he had not \"pushed\" or \"squashed\" the baby into the machine but had \"tucked her leg into it\" after she had climbed in herself.\n\nHe said: \"She was already climbing into it and I tucked her leg in. I closed the door but not fully, it wasn't like properly shut.\"\n\nProsecutor Nicola Gillespie asked Dunn: \"Why on earth did you do that, assist, tuck, whatever you want to call it, that child into a tumble dryer?\"\n\nHe replied: \"I don't know, it was a bad judgement call.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow stands down: \"We degrade this parliament at our peril\"\n\nJohn Bercow says he will stand down as Commons Speaker and MP at the next election or on 31 October, whichever comes first.\n\nSpeaking in Parliament, Mr Bercow said his 10-year \"tenure\" was nearing its end and it had been the \"greatest honour and privilege\" to serve.\n\nIf there was no early election, he said 31 October would be the \"least disruptive and most democratic\" date.\n\nThe ex-Tory MP succeeded the late Michael Martin as Speaker in 2009.\n\nHe has faced fierce criticism from Brexiteers, who have questioned his impartiality on the issue of Europe and claim he has facilitated efforts by MPs opposed to a no-deal exit to take control of Commons business.\n\nHe has also been criticised for not doing more to tackle allegations of bullying and harassment in the House of Commons.\n\nMr Bercow himself has been accused of mistreating several members of his own staff, which he denies.\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 a break from normal convention, Mr Bercow was facing a challenge from the Conservatives in his Buckingham constituency at the next election - whenever it is called.\n\nHis wife, Sally, was in the public gallery as he made his announcement - which comes just hours before Parliament is due to be suspended or prorogued for five weeks.\n\nMr Bercow said he had decided at the time of the 2017 election that this would be his last Parliament as Speaker.\n\nIf MPs reject calls for an early election later on Monday, as seems likely, the Speaker said it was important an \"experienced figure\" chaired debates in the final week of October leading up to the UK's possible exit from the EU.\n\nThe period between 14 October - when the Queen will open the new session of Parliament and the government announces its new legislative programme - and 31 October is likely to be among the most eventful and unpredictable in living memory.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will not ask for a further Brexit delay and the UK must leave the EU on Halloween.\n\nMr Bercow received a standing ovation after his announcement, although not all Tories joined in\n\nBut, unless he negotiates a new deal acceptable to Parliament, he will be legally obliged to seek a delay under the terms of legislation passed by MPs and which gained Royal Assent on Monday.\n\nThere has been speculation that, to avoid this, Mr Johnson could resign or force a vote of confidence which, if he lost, would trigger 14 days of negotiations over forming a new government.\n\nMr Bercow warned that if the appointment of his own successor was left until after the next election, newly-elected MPs might find themselves being \"unduly influenced\" by party whips in their choice of figure.\n\n\"It will mean a ballot is held when all members have some knowledge of the candidates. This is far preferable to a contest at the start of a Parliament where new MPs will not be similarly informed,\" he told the Commons of his plans.\n\n\"We would not want anyone to be whipped senseless, would we?\"\n\nIn an emotional speech, he said he had been proud to stand up for the interests of MPs and to act as the \"backbenchers' backstop\".\n\n\"Throughout my time as Speaker, I have sought to increase the relative authority of this legislature for which I will make absolutely no apology to anyone, anywhere, at any time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Speaker has found fame across Europe with his signature cry capturing the public's attention\n\nMr Bercow received a standing ovation from the Labour benches after announcing his imminent departure, but most Tory MPs stayed in their seats.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn led tributes, saying the Speaker had stood up for and promoted democracy, adding that the \"choice and timing\" of his exit date was \"incomparable\".\n\nFor the government, Michael Gove said his determination to give MPs increased opportunities to hold the government to account were \"in the best tradition of Speakers\".\n\nWhen he was first elected, Mr Bercow said he intended to serve no more than nine years in the job.\n\nThe Speaker is chosen by all MPs in the House by secret ballot.\n\nFor many years, the role alternated between the two largest parties although this unwritten convention was broken in 2000 when Labour's Michael Martin succeeded his colleague Betty Boothroyd.\n\nPotential Labour successors to Mr Bercow include Commons deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, who announced his candidacy on Twitter.\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\nOther possible contenders include Harriet Harman, the former Labour deputy leader and the longest-serving female MP in the House.", "Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays have both announced they are facing billions of pounds in new costs to cover a late rush of claims for the mis-selling of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI).\n\nLloyds said it faced a bill of £1.2bn-£1.8bn after \"a significant spike\" in claims in the run-up to the final deadline of 29 August.\n\nBarclays said it faced new costs of £1.2bn-£1.6bn.\n\nBoth banks have already paid out huge sums to cover compensation claims.\n\nPPI was designed to cover loan repayments if borrowers fell ill or lost their job, but many were sold to people who did not want or need them.\n\nBanks and other providers sold millions of the policies, mainly between 1990 and 2010.\n\nLast month's final deadline for PPI compensation prompted a surge of last-minute claims from consumers.\n\nAn FCA ad campaign featuring an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger urged consumers to make claims before the deadline\n\nLloyds said that at the time of its half-year results in July, it had assumed that PPI claims would continue to come in at the rate of 190,000 a week.\n\nHowever, in the run-up to the final deadline, it said it received 600,000 to 800,000 a week.\n\n\"Including claims by the Official Receiver, the group now estimates that it will need to make an incremental charge for PPI claims, in addition to the provisions to 30 June 2019, in the range of £1.2bn to £1.8bn in its Q3 interim management statement,\" the bank said.\n\nBy May, Lloyds had set aside some £19.5bn to cover PPI claims, but this bill will have now risen.\n\nBarclays, which had already set aside more than £9.2bn, said it too had seen a \"higher than expected volume of PPI-related claims\" during August.\n\nOther UK banks have been hit by the last-minute rush for compensation.\n\nEstimates suggest that the last-minute surge in claims means that banks will ultimately have set aside well over £50bn in total to pay for the PPI scandal.\n\nIn February this year, Lloyds said it planned to buy back £1.75bn of its shares this year.\n\nHowever, given the \"uncertainty around the final outcome for PPI\", Lloyds said it had \"decided to suspend the remainder of the 2019 buyback programme, with [around] £600m of the up to £1.75bn programme expected to be unused at mid-September\".", "At least 17 people were injured at a religious procession in Kotte, Sri Lanka when two elephants ran amok, according to local reports.\n\nFootage captured by a local news outlet showed one of the elephants running down a street.", "Jesy Nelson from Little Mix has revealed that online bullying following her appearance on X Factor drove her to try to kill herself.\n\nIn a new BBC Three documentary, Jesy Nelson: 'Odd One Out', the singer, 28, says that comments about her appearance made her so unhappy she “just wanted to die”.\n\nIn a candid and tearful moment, Jesy recalls how she took an overdose after taunts about her looks became too much to bear.\n\nJesy and her bandmates won the reality show in 2011, instantly taking them from complete unknowns to celebrities.\n\nIn the documentary, the singer also explores how the trolling affected her mum, her sister, her bandmates and her relationships – and meets ordinary people who tell Jesy their stories of being bullied online.\n\n◾ You can watch Jesy Nelson: ‘Odd One Out’ on BBC iPlayer and on BBC One from 12 September\n\nThe moment Little Mix won X Factor in 2011 – but Jesy's joy was short-lived\n\nThe bullying began almost immediately after Jesy appeared on TV in the X Factor.\n\nShe was put into the girl group alongside Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock.\n\nWhen Little Mix were announced as that year’s winners, Jesy says they were all “on cloud nine”. But just hours after winning the show, her excitement was tainted by trolling.\n\n“I had about 101 Facebook messages in my inbox, and the first one that came up was from some random man, saying: ‘You are the ugliest thing I’ve seen in my life, you do not deserve to be in this girl band. You deserve to die’.”\n\nIt was a devastating blow to Jesy who, up until the barrage of insults and hate started during her time on X Factor, hadn’t had any problems with her body image.\n\n“It became the worst time of my life,” she says. “I wasn’t just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as ‘the fat, ugly one’.”\n\nIn 2013, the group returned to the show as guest stars.\n\n'This is never going to go away'\n\n“I’d lost quite a bit of weight, and we were going back on X Factor to perform our new single,” she says.\n\nJesy says this time their performance was not her priority.\n\n“All I cared about was people seeing me and saying ‘Oh, she looks good’. I starved myself for a week.”\n\nBut the comments continued, and Jesy says her mental health “spiralled out of control”.\n\n“I thought, 'I could be the skinniest girl in the world, and this is never going to go away’,” she remembers. “That was the point I got severely depressed.”\n\n◾ Reality TV bosses ask for help picking stars who can cope\n\n◾ Little Mix's Perrie: Anxiety made me feel 'so alone'\n\nThe bullying left Jesy unable to enjoy her early years in Little Mix, despite the fact that performing, she says, was something she always wanted to do.\n\nAfter seeing yet more unpleasant comments on Twitter after the 2013 X Factor performance, Jesy says she couldn’t take the pain.\n\n“I was sat in bed crying, thinking, ‘This is never going to go, I’m going to feel sad for the rest of my life, so what is the point in being here?’” she remembers, wiping away tears.\n\n“The only way I can describe the pain is like constantly being heartbroken. I remember going to the kitchen and I just took as many tablets as I could. Then my ex, who was with me at the time, he woke up and was like, ‘why are you crying?’ I kept saying, ‘I just want to die’.\n\nJesy was taken to hospital, and wasn’t left with any complications following her attempt to take her own life.\n\nLittle Mix's Jesy Nelson describes the toll online abuse took on her\n\nSeparately to the documentary, Jesy spoke to BBC Three about the experience of making it.\n\nThinking back to when she was in the depths of depression while also dealing with her newfound fame with Little Mix, she says: “It was such a weird feeling to be living your dream but hating it at the same time.”\n\nThis led her to try to hide her unhappiness.\n\n“I didn’t want to annoy anyone or be seen as a diva,” she explains. “That’s how I thought it would be perceived if I was getting upset. So I thought, 'OK, I'm just gonna ignore this'. It was the worst thing I could have done.”\n\nThe trolls only got more vicious if she showed any signs of being upset, she says. \"It was like the more people knew it affected me the more they wanted to do it.\"\n\nBut eight years on from when the bullying began, she's feeling much stronger, and has changed her mindset about the people behind the insults.\n\n\"Back then I just thought everyone hated me,\" she remembers. \"But no, actually, they're doing it because they feel bad about themselves. So now when I look at trolls being nasty, I feel a bit sorry for them. The only way I can understand it is that being nasty makes them feel better in themselves. I didn't have the mindset to think like that back then – I wish I did.\"\n\nShe admits the comments made it hard to fulfil her commitments as a member of Little Mix.\n\n\"I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn't bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I used to feel disgusted in myself,\" she reveals.\n\n\"And if the stylist hadn't got the right size for me – by accident – I used to go into a meltdown and think, 'It's not just because I've got the wrong size clothes, it's because I'm too fat to be in them'.\"\n\nJesy has now stopped using Twitter, and says she's \"a lot mentally stronger and happier\".\n\nShe says her motivations for making the programme were to try to help others.\n\n“I’m a completely different person now, I’m a lot happier and mentally stronger,” she says. “I really wanted to make this because, as much as it was a horrible experience for me, I want to make something good come out of it. I’ve got this huge platform – why would I not use that to raise awareness of how social media is affecting people?”\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can find advice here.", "Nearly half of Ryanair's shareholders voted against a pay deal for Michael O'Leary that could hand the chief executive €99m (£88m).\n\nThe Irish airline said that just 50.5% of investors voted in favour of the company's remuneration report.\n\nThe revolt comes at a difficult time for Ryanair which is facing more strike action from pilots and is cutting jobs.\n\nFollowing the vote, a spokesman said it would consult with its investors.\n\nHe said: \"Ryanair is, and will continue, to consult with its shareholders and we will report back to them over the coming year on how the board will adapt its decision-making to reflect their advice and input on all these topics.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Mr O'Leary signed a new contract to stay on as chief executive until 2024.\n\nUnder the deal he stands to make €99m from stock options if he doubles Ryanair's profit or share price.\n\nIn the last financial year, however, the airline's profit dropped sharply and Mr O'Leary said on Thursday that he was planning to cut between 500 and 700 jobs.\n\nRyanair said Mr O'Leary's agreement to stay for another five years \"gives certainty to our shareholders\".\n\nIt also noted that his remuneration is \"considerably lower than many other European airline chief executives\".\n\nHowever, a sizeable number of the airline's shareholders voted against the company's remuneration report at its annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday.\n\nPilots are planning more walkouts this month in a row over pay and conditions.\n\nThe pilots' union Balpa said its members want the same kind of agreements that exist in other airlines on pensions, loss of licence insurance, maternity benefits allowances and pay.\n\nRyanair branded earlier strikes as \"pointless\" as industrial action had not resulted in any flight cancellations.\n\nUnder his new deal, Mr O'Leary's pay and the maximum annual bonus have both been cut in half to €500,000.\n\nHe was also granted 10 million share options.\n\nThese are shares he can acquire for €11.12 and then sell at the market price if Ryanair's profits hit €2bn in any year up to 2024 or its share price reaches €21 for a period of 28 days from April next year. He would then pocket the difference.\n\nThe company's shares are currently trading at €9.84.\n\nPre-tax profit dropped to €948m in the year to 31 March compared to €1.6bn in the previous 12 months.\n• None Ryanair flights take off despite pilots' strike", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron explains how he sought the Queen's help in Scottish independence vote\n\nFormer PM David Cameron has revealed he asked whether the Queen could \"raise an eyebrow\" about the prospect of Scotland voting for independence.\n\nHe told the BBC he sought help from royal officials days before the 2014 vote amid \"mounting panic\" he may lose.\n\nWhat was discussed was not \"anything that would be in any way improper... but just a raising of the eyebrow even... a quarter of an inch\", he said.\n\nThe Queen later urged people to \"think very carefully about the future\".\n\nThe comments - made to a well-wisher outside a church on the Balmoral estate - were one of the main talking points of the referendum campaign.\n\nReflecting on his rise to power and six years in Downing Street in a two-part BBC documentary, Mr Cameron said the Queen's words on the issue were \"very limited but helped to put a slightly different perception on things\".\n\nScotland went on to reject independence by a margin of 55.3% to 44.7%, a result which Mr Cameron said left him \"blissfully happy\".\n\nIn a statement, Alex Salmond, who resigned as Scotland's first minister in the wake of the result, said Mr Cameron's actions were not only improper, but showed how desperate the No side was during the final stages of the independence campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron criticises Boris Johnson's motives for supporting Leave campaign\n\nThe Cameron Years, which begins on Thursday, examines Mr Cameron's modernisation of the party, his decision to enter a coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the 2010 election and the fallout from 2016 Brexit referendum, which led to his resignation.\n\nOn the EU referendum, Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he \"wasn't the slightest bit complacent\" during the campaign, saying that he fought \"with every fibre of my being\".\n\nBut he said the Labour leadership during the campaign \"simply wasn't there, wasn't committed\" and it was \"very hard to fight these things on your own\".\n\nHe added that the result would \"probably have been even worse\" if people knew he would quit if Leave won the vote.\n\nJust as the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of the relationship between the prime minister and the Queen is that you never, ever talk about the relationship between the PM and the Queen.\n\nIt is difficult to imagine anything other than horror in the Palace at David Cameron's revelations. Not just because he has broken the first rule. But because he has made it painfully clear that in 2014 he used the Queen for his own political purposes. And that she and her advisors thought that was OK.\n\nThe revelation comes as her suspension of Parliament - a suspension made on the effective instruction of Boris Johnson - comes under unprecedented scrutiny in the Supreme Court.\n\nThe two cases are very different; but they both highlight the dark greys of the Queen's constitutional position, the discretion she has or lacks, under extraordinary circumstances, to speak out and act.\n\nIn the run-up to the 18 September poll on Scottish independence, it was reported that the Queen was concerned about the possibility of Scotland opting to sever the 300-year union with England and Wales.\n\nA Sunday Times poll on 7 September putting the Yes campaign ahead contributed to a \"mounting sense of panic\" in Downing Street, Mr Cameron recalls.\n\nThe poll, which was published while he and his wife, Samantha, were staying at Balmoral, \"hit me like a blow to the solar plexus\".\n\nA poll finding the Yes campaign in front contributed to a \"mounting sense of panic\" in Downing Street\n\nMr Cameron - who agreed to hold the independence referendum in the face of opposition within his party - said there followed urgent conversations between advisers in Downing Street and Buckingham Palace to figure out how the Queen could comment while still remaining within the constitutional boundaries of neutrality.\n\n\"I remember conversations I had with my private secretary and he had with the Queen's private secretary and I had with the Queen's private secretary, not asking for anything that would be in any way improper or unconstitutional but just a raising of the eyebrow even, you know, a quarter of an inch. We thought would make a difference.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace insisted that the Queen was above politics\n\nWhen asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme for more detail about what had happened, Mr Cameron said he \"didn't want to say anything more about this\".\n\n\"I'm sure that some people would think, possibly even me, that I've already said perhaps a little bit too much,\" he said.\n\nAt the time, the BBC's royal correspondent said the Queen's words were \"more of an observation than an intervention\", while Buckingham Palace said any suggestion the Queen was seeking to influence the outcome of the referendum was \"categorically wrong\".\n\nOfficials insisted the monarch was above politics, and the issue of Scotland's future was a matter for the people.\n\nTwo weeks after the Scottish referendum, Mr Cameron was forced to apologise after suggesting the Queen \"purred down the phone\" when she was told about the No result.\n\nWhile he feels \"sorry\" about events since the 2016 Brexit vote, Mr Cameron said he did not regret the decision to hold the EU referendum.\n\nWhile some people would \"never forgive\" him, he maintained the UK's 40-year membership was becoming \"unstable\" and the duty of leaders was to \"see difficulties coming and try to resolve them and shape the country's response to them\".\n\nHe accepted he \"totally underestimated the latent Leave gene\" in his party and that during the campaign while \"he had a winning hand, he could not seem to play it\".\n\nAfter losing the vote, Mr Cameron said he knew he had to quit because he did not have the \"credibility to deliver Brexit\", but was \"desperately sad\" his time in office was cut short.\n\nMr Cameron said the coalition government staved off a financial crisis\n\n\"I think of all the things we could and should have done if we had been able... to win the referendum,\" he recalls. \"A whole lot of what we could have done effectively ran into the sand of the European issue.\"\n\nOn his economic and social record, he rejects as \"total nonsense\" opponents' claims that he embraced deep spending cuts as a political choice to reduce the size of the state.\n\nHe says the multi-billion pound budget deficit inherited by his government in 2010 was a \"clear and present danger to the British economy\" requiring immediate action.\n\n\"In the end there were difficult and painful decisions, but inequality fell and the share of income tax paid by the richest went up, not down,\" he argued. \"We protected pensioners, we protected the NHS, we protected help for the poorest.\"\n\nMr Cameron's long-awaited memoirs, entitled For The Record, was published on Thursday.\n\nIn excerpts published by the Times last week, he accused Boris Johnson and Michael Gove of behaving \"appallingly\" during the Brexit referendum.\n\nThe first episode of The Cameron Years will be broadcast on BBC One at 21.00 BST.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Newcastle United forward Peter Beardsley has been suspended from all football-related activity for 32 weeks for making racist comments to players.\n\nEx-England man Beardsley called one black player \"a monkey\" while Newcastle's Under-23s coach and joked about climbing trees, an independent Football Association panel said.\n\nIt added his remarks \"were obviously racist and wholly unacceptable\".\n\nBeardsley said he was \"surprised and disappointed\" by the panel's findings.\n\nHe was charged by the Football Association with three counts of using racist language to players in March and had \"categorically denied\" the claims.\n\nHe left Newcastle after a 14-month club investigation earlier this year.\n\nThe FA panel said in its written reasons: \"Even if he did not intend to do so, he plainly did cause offence.\"\n\nBeardsley, who was capped 59 times by England, has been ordered to complete a face-to-face education course.\n\nHowever, the panel said it did not believe Beardsley was racist. \"We are satisfied that Mr Beardsley is not a racist in the sense of being ill-disposed to persons on grounds of their race or ethnicity,\" it said.\n\n\"He is now 58 years of age. It is also relevant that he has not had the benefit of training and education about offensive racist remarks and the importance of not making them.\"\n\nOne of the witnesses to the \"monkey\" comment\" said: \"I don't think Peter meant it as racist, but it came out looking bad as he is a black player.\"\n\nThe panel did, though, say it had \"serious reservations about Mr Beardsley's credibility\".\n\nOne of the aggravating factors in deciding its punishment was that Beardsley had contended that \"three of the black players had made up the allegations motivated by financial greed, for which he did not have a shred of evidence\".\n\nAs a player, Newcastle-born Beardsley enjoyed two spells at his hometown club, making more than 300 appearances, and also played for Liverpool, Everton, Manchester City, Fulham, Bolton, Hartlepool, Doncaster, Carlisle and Vancouver Whitecaps.\n\nWhat were the charges against Beardsley?\n\nAll three charges were proven by the panel, which found:\n• None Beardsley said: \"You should be used to that\" to one or more black players of African origin at a team-building event at Go Ape\n• None He questioned the legitimacy of the age of black players - \"a negative stereotype that players of black African origin commit fraud as to their true age\", the FA panel said, and\n• None He called a player of black African origin a monkey during a game of head tennis.\n\nFootball's anti-discrimination group Kick It Out called on Newcastle to publish its own findings from its internal investigation in the wake of the FA panel's punishment, \"and clarify whether he was sacked for racist abuse\".\n\nIt added: \"Beardsley's career in football has no relevance to this case - calling black players monkeys, comparing black players to apes and questioning their true age are all horrific racial stereotypes. Punishment and education is the only way to deal with these matters.\"\n\nA statement from Beardsley's solicitors released shortly after the verdict was made public said: \"Peter Beardsley is very surprised and disappointed by the decision of the Regulatory Commission.\n\n\"It was almost impossible for Peter to clear his name because of the serious flaws and contamination of evidence that occurred in the disciplinary process before Newcastle United and by the unusual fact that the FA Rules put the burden of proof on him to prove his innocence in the proceedings.\n\n\"After a long process which has been unnecessarily protracted, Peter feels vindicated that the Commission has expressly found that he is not a racist.\"\n\nIt added he had been \"inundated with support\" from \"fellow professionals of the highest repute including John Barnes, Kevin Keegan, Les Ferdinand and Andrew Cole, as well as other football professionals including managers, coaches, players, and football fans, all of which provided unchallenged evidence to the Commission as to Peter's good character, the fact that he is not a racist and whatever was said, there was no intent to cause offence\".", "Tsunehisa Katsumata (L), Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto are found not guilty\n\nMore than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court has cleared three former executives of the firm operating the plant of professional negligence.\n\nIt was the only criminal case to arise out of the disaster, which was the worst since Chernobyl in 1986.\n\nIn 2011 a plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) was hit by a tsunami causing a triple meltdown.\n\nMore than 470,000 people were evacuated from their homes as a result.\n\nNearly 18,500 died or are missing from the wider disaster.\n\nThe three former executives - ex-chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 79, and vice-presidents Sakae Muto, 69 and Ichiro Takekuro, 73 - were indicted for failing to implement tsunami countermeasures leading to the deaths of 44 people.\n\nThough no-one died directly in the nuclear meltdown, more than 40 hospital patients died after having to be rushed out of the evacuation zone.\n\nThirteen people were also injured in hydrogen explosions at the plant.\n\nIn the much-anticipated verdict, a Tokyo court found all three men not guilty of professional negligence resulting in death and injury.\n\nThey were facing five years in prison if convicted.\n\nThe prosecution argued that as far back as 2002, the bosses had been warned that a large tsunami of more than 15 metres could hit the plant, but had chosen to ignore the evidence - and had not increased their defences.\n\nDozens of protesters had gathered outside the Tokyo court ahead of the ruling.\n\n\"If we don't hear guilty verdicts, our years-long efforts to bring this to court will not have been rewarded,\" Saki Okawara, who travelled from the Fukushima region to hear the ruling told AFP.\n\n\"And Japanese society's culture of no-one taking responsibility will continue.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eight years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, people are being allowed to return to Okuma\n\nProsecutors had twice declined to press criminal charges against the former executives, saying there was little chance of success.\n\nBut a judicial panel ruled against them and they were forced to prosecute. The trial began in June 2017.\n\nThe accident led to a complete shutdown of all nuclear reactors in the country. Despite widespread anti-nuclear sentiment, several reactors have since resumed operations after passing special safety checks.\n\nTepco is facing various legal cases seeking compensation over the disaster, after several workers developed illnesses after cleaning up the Fukushima plant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos has promised to make the company carbon neutral and meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement by 2040.\n\nMore than 1,500 Amazon employees have pledged to stage a \"walkout\" protest against the company's environmental record, on Friday.\n\nIt will be the first walkout by staff at Amazon's Seattle headquarters.\n\nOrganisers have welcomed Mr Bezos's promise but say it does not go far enough.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amazon Employees For Climate Justice This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Amazon Employees For Climate Justice\n\nMr Bezos said he hoped to make the company carbon neutral 10 years earlier than expected.\n\nAt a press conference in Washington DC, he announced the launch of a climate pledge any company can sign up to.\n\nIts aim is to meet the targets set out in the Paris agreement by 2040, 10 years earlier than specified.\n\nGreenpeace welcomed the announcement but said Amazon needed to end its use of fossil fuels.\n\n\"If Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to be a leader on climate, he needs to spell out exactly how it is going to rapidly move the company off of fossil fuels to keep our planet within the 1.5 degree temperature threshold in the Paris Agreement that Amazon has now committed to,\" the organisation said.\n\n\"Throwing money at carbon offsets and continuing to support the oil giants find even more oil is an early indication that Jeff Bezos doesn't understand the transition that is needed.\"\n\nTo meet its pledge, Amazon said it had ordered 100,000 electric delivery vehicles to reduce its fuel consumption. The first will enter service in 2021.\n\nAs well as its online shopping and delivery operations, Amazon operates vast data centres and cloud computing services.\n\nAccording to the International Energy Agency, data centres were responsible for about 1% of the world's electricity use in 2018. And demand for cloud computing is expected to increase.\n\nAmazon has pledged to use more electric vehicles\n\nMr Bezos said 40% of the energy Amazon used was currently from renewable sources but this would rise to 100% by 2030.\n\nAmazon will also invest $100m (£80m) to restore forests and wetlands.\n\nThe company will also measure and report greenhouse gas emissions regularly.\n\n\"We want to use our scope and our scale to lead the way,\" said Mr Bezos in a press statement.\n\nIn June 2017, the Trump administration said the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord.\n\nBut Amazon said it would meet the targets set out in the agreement 10 years \"ahead of schedule\".\n\nIn July, thousands of Amazon workers staged protests about pay and working conditions at the online retail giant.\n\nThe disruption was timed to coincide with Prime Day, when Amazon offers discounts and promotions.", "A man accused of claiming a £2.5m jackpot with a fake lottery ticket was helped by a National Lottery operator employee, a court heard.\n\nEdward Putman, 54, from Hertfordshire, denies committing fraud by false representation by allegedly claiming £2,525,485 with a faked ticket in 2009.\n\nSt Albans Crown Court heard he was helped by Camelot insider Giles Knibbs, who knew how to cheat the system.\n\nThe alleged fraud came to light after Mr Knibbs took his own life.\n\nProsecutor James Keeley told the court Mr Knibbs worked for Camelot in Watford between 2004 and 2010 and his role in the fraud detection department allowed him the opportunity to create the false ticket, which he gave to the defendant to cash in.\n\nThe court was told Mr Knibbs had seen a document containing details of big wins which had not yet been claimed.\n\nMr Putman, of Station Road, Kings Langley, claimed the prize from the 11 March 2009 draw on 28 August, just before the six-month deadline passed to claim the win.\n\n\"He did not hold the winning ticket, but a forgery created by Mr Knibbs,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nThe genuine winning ticket has never been found, the court heard.\n\nCamelot verified the ticket was genuine and paid out\n\nMr Keeley told the jury the fraud came to light after Mr Knibbs, from Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, died at Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire on 5 October 2015.\n\nMr Knibbs had allegedly told friends he had \"conned\" the lottery, as well as telling them about technical inaccuracies about the way the ticket was created, the court was told.\n\nMr Keeley said: \"The veracity of his [Mr Knibbs'] narrative and thus credibility is strongly supported by the forged ticket which the defendant could not have acquired by legitimate means.\"\n\nThe court was told Mr Knibbs did not feel he had received his fair share of the jackpot and they had a bitter argument in June 2015.\n\nEvidence suggested Mr Knibbs was paid an initial £280,000 from Putman for his part in the ruse, followed by smaller increments totalling £50,000, Mr Keeley said.\n\nThe argument led Mr Putman to make allegations of burglary, blackmail and criminal damage against Mr Knibbs, who was arrested, Mr Keeley said.\n\nMr Keeley said the ticket submitted by the defendant was badly damaged, \"lacking the entire bottom section\" but on 8 September, Camelot decided he was the genuine winner and paid out.\n\n\"They had been conned,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last two weeks, continues.\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\nConfidential documents that \"reflect the ideas the UK has put forward\" on Brexit have been shared with the EU, the UK government has said.\n\nMinisters will table \"formal written solutions when we are ready\" and not to an \"artificial deadline\", it added.\n\nBoris Johnson said he did not want to \"exaggerate progress\" of negotiations, but some was being made.\n\nIt comes after Finland's prime minister said that Mr Johnson had 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU.\n\nBut a government source said the development was not in response to the remarks.\n\nMeanwhile, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told Sky News that talks earlier this week with Mr Johnson were \"rather positive\" and that a deal could be reached in the next few weeks.\n\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he will try to get a deal with Mr Johnson when they meet at a UN summit in New York next week.\n\nBut his deputy, Simon Coveney, said there was \"still a big gap\" between what the UK government wanted and what Ireland and the EU needed, in terms of getting a deal.\n\nThe commission said it had received documents from the UK government and technical talks were taking place.\n\nChief spokesperson Mina Andreeva also confirmed there would be talks at a political level at a meeting on Friday between the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, and Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay.\n\nThe technical discussions were on some aspects of rules relating to customs and manufactured goods, as well as sanitary rules and phytosanitary rules - which relate to the health of plants - she said.\n\nThe BBC also understands \"live discussions\" are taking place between the EU and UK about ruling out another delay to Brexit if a deal is agreed.\n\nSources told BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg that, if a plan is signed off by both sides, the EU could then announce it would not grant an extension to 31 October deadline if MPs voted the deal down - essentially giving them a choice between the negotiated deal or a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOther sources on the EU and UK sides played down the possibility, denying there had been any formal consideration of the proposal and saying the current focus was on getting a deal.\n\nBut Laura Kuenssberg said: \"It's clear that government officials are considering ways of sticking to the prime minister's October deadline, with, or without a deal being reached.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said he wants to leave the EU, preferably with a deal, on 31 October and has urged the EU to scrap the backstop in the withdrawal agreement reached by predecessor Theresa May.\n\nThe backstop is the controversial policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland and it was a key sticking point in Mrs May's attempts to get Parliament to back her plan.\n\nThe EU has asked for alternative suggestions and had criticised the UK for not putting any plans in writing.\n\nMr Juncker told Sky News that the EU did not \"need the backstop\" if all its objectives for the Irish border were met.\n\nHe added that \"if the results are there, I don't care about the instruments\".\n\nFinnish PM Antti Rinne (left) says he and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) agreed the new deadline for Boris Johnson\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I don't want to exaggerate the progress that we are making, but we are making progress.\"\n\nHe said the UK needed to leave in a way that allowed it to \"do things differently\" and \"not remain under the control of the EU in terms of laws and trade policy\".\n\nBut he also reiterated the need to ensure no hard border returned to Northern Ireland, and the Good Friday Agreement was protected.\n\n\"We think we can do that,\" said the PM. \"We think we can solve that problem and I think we are making some progress.\"\n\nHe added: \"Let's see where we get. It is vital whatever happens that we prepare for no-deal and we will be ready for no-deal on 31 October. We have got to do both things at once.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Rinne said he and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the UK needed to produce the proposals in writing by the end of September, adding if not, \"then it's over\".\n\nA French government official said the deadline was \"not at all a new proposal\" and added: \"If we don't get the proposals before the end of September, we will not have enough time to discuss them before the summit in October.\"\n\nThe sending of the documents to the EU comes as the legal battle over the suspension of the UK Parliament is in its third day at the UK's Supreme Court.\n\nThe UK government is arguing the decision to prorogue Parliament was a political matter and not for the courts to \"design a set of rules\" around it.\n\nBut campaigners say the move was used \"for an improper purpose\" - to stop MPs scrutinising Mr Johnson's plans in the run up to Brexit on 31 October.\n\nThe prime minister prorogued Parliament earlier this month for five weeks, with MPs not scheduled to return until 14 October.", "Soldier F is to be charged with the murder of William McKinney and James Wray\n\nThe case of the Army veteran facing a murder trial over Bloody Sunday has been adjourned until later this year.\n\nSoldier F was not in Londonderry Magistrates' Court, but 28 members of the Bloody Sunday families watched proceedings from the public gallery.\n\nThe Army veteran, now aged in his 60s, faces two counts of murder and five of attempted murder.\n\nThe case against the former soldier has been adjourned until 4 December.\n\nSoldier F's legal team told the court it needed time to consider evidence served on him.\n\nHis anonymity remains in place by court order.\n\nSome of the Bloody Sunday families have walked together to Londonderry's courthouse\n\nA prosecution lawyer told the court that committal papers had been served in mid-August and that this was a complex matter involving a significant number of papers.\n\nA lawyer for Soldier F told the court they wanted an adjournment so that the papers containing the evidence could be fully considered.\n\nHe said the defence wanted to consider what witnesses would need to appear at a later stage.\n\nHe added the defence wanted an anonymity order on Soldier F's identity maintained.\n\nThe Solider F cipher had been used since 1972 and was not objected to by the prosecution, he said.\n\nGranting the adjournment, Judge Barney McElholm said it would allow time for the defence to fully consider the voluminous papers in the case and prepare a witness list.\n\nSpeaking outside court, William McKinney's brother Mickey said the start of a case was a 'significant event'\n\nIt would also allow prosecutors to ascertain their availability, he told the court.\n\nJudge McElholm said it is important there is fairness to all concerned.\n\nEarlier relatives of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday walked to Londonderry's court house before the court hearing.\n\nThe families marched from the city's Diamond to the Bishop Street court prior to the start of proceedings.\n\nCourtroom four was crowded for the hearing. Twenty-eight relatives of the Bloody Sunday families occupied every available seat in the public gallery.\n\nIn front of them, the glass-sided dock was empty.\n\nAs expected, proceedings were opened and quickly adjourned.\n\nAlmost 50 years separated this hearing from the events of Bloody Sunday.\n\nThe families came to court knowing this would be the start of lengthy process - and this could be the first delay of many.\n\nSoldier F is to be charged with murdering James Wray, 22, and William McKinney, 27.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, William McKinney's brother Mickey described the legal proceedings as a \" very significant event\" in the Bloody Sunday justice campaign.\n\nThe attempted murder charges relate to Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon and Patrick O'Donnell.\n\nA fifth attempted murder charge - not revealed earlier this year - relates to persons unknown.\n\nThousands of people took part in the civil rights march in Derry\n\nThirteen people were killed and 15 wounded when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry on Sunday, 30 January 1972.\n\nThe day became known as Bloody Sunday.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service decided in March that Soldier F, as he was known at the Bloody Sunday public inquiry, would be the only ex-paratrooper to be charged.\n\nThe former soldier was served with a court summons in recent weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron explains how he sought the Queen's help in Scottish independence vote\n\nDavid Cameron's revelation that he sought help from the Queen ahead of the Scottish independence vote in 2014 has caused displeasure at Buckingham Palace, a source has said.\n\nThe former PM told the BBC he had asked whether the Queen could \"raise an eyebrow\" about the prospect of Scotland voting for independence.\n\nThe Queen later said people should \"think carefully about the future\".\n\nBuckingham Palace has made no official comment on Mr Cameron's remarks.\n\nThe revelation is made in a two-part BBC documentary in which the former PM reflects on his time in Downing Street.\n\nWhat was discussed with the Queen's officials was not \"anything that would be in any way improper... but just a raising of the eyebrow even... a quarter of an inch\", he says.\n\nThe former Tory leader also discusses the Scottish referendum in his book, which he has been publicising this week.\n\nA source told the BBC \"it serves no-one's interests\" for conversations between the PM and the Queen to be made public .\n\n\"It makes it very hard for the relationship to thrive,\" they added.\n\nAsked about the response from the Palace, Mr Cameron told the BBC's Jeremy Vine he had tried to give an \"honest explanation\" of his actions while he was PM.\n\n\"We have to set the context - at the time [Scotland's then-first minister] Alex Salmond was saying that the Queen would be a proud monarch of an independent Scotland and there was frustration around that and that was being put and nothing else was.\"\n\nBut he said he had \"probably said as much or possibly too much\" about his conversation with the monarch.\n\nScotland rejected independence by a margin of 55.3% to 44.7%, a result which Mr Cameron said left him \"blissfully happy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond: 'It's an astonishing thing to do, even more so to reveal'\n\nMr Salmond, who resigned as Scotland's first minister in the wake of the result, accused the former PM of \"breaking every rule in the book\" by trying to involve the Queen.\n\nBut he said the monarch appeared to remain neutral during the campaign, describing her 2014 comment about the future as \"a pretty innocent remark\".\n\n\"David Cameron was clearly trying to mobilise the Queen to help his political interest and that's not just completely improper, it's quite extraordinary that he should reveal it and boast about it,\" he told the BBC in an interview.\n\n\"I'm not surprised that the Palace appears to be extremely displeased with the former prime minister.\"\n\nAt First Minister's Questions in Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon was asked whether she was concerned about the Queen being asked to interfere in a potential second independence referendum.\n\n\"I think the revelations - if I can call them that - from David Cameron say more about him than they do about anybody else, and really demonstrate the panic that was in the heart of the UK government in the run-up to the independence referendum five years ago,\" she said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson would not be drawn on the issue.\n\n\"Not only do I not comment on conversations that I may have held with Her Majesty, but I don't comment on conversations she may have held with anybody else,\" he told reporters in Wiltshire.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was \"improper\" to ask the Queen to become involved in the independence referendum.\n\n\"I don't think she should be asked to be involved in political decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"I wouldn't ask the Queen to get involved. It's not her job - she's the head of state. She is not the head of government or the political process in Britain… and she knows that as well. \"\n\nJust as the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of the relationship between the prime minister and the Queen is that you never, ever talk about the relationship between the PM and the Queen.\n\nA Buckingham Palace source told the BBC that there was an amount of displeasure at David Cameron's comments.\n\nYou can probably read that as cold fury. Not just because he has broken the first rule. But because he has made it painfully clear that in 2014 he used the Queen for his own political purposes. And that she and her advisors thought that was OK.\n\nThe revelation comes as her suspension of Parliament - a suspension made on the effective instruction of Boris Johnson - comes under unprecedented scrutiny in the Supreme Court.\n\nThe two cases are very different, but they both highlight the dark greys of the Queen's constitutional position, the discretion she has or lacks, under extraordinary circumstances, to speak out and act.\n\nIt is not the first time Mr Cameron has been accused of indiscretion in his dealings with the Queen.\n\nMr Cameron apologised to the monarch in 2014 after he was overheard saying she \"purred\" on hearing the result of the Scottish referendum.\n\nHe said talking about her reaction had been a \"terrible mistake\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The findings of this BBC investigation on children in care have been called \"a scandal\"\n\nChildren as young as 11 years old are illegally being placed in unregulated homes in England, the BBC has learned.\n\nHousing a child in care in an unregulated home is against the law if the child is under the age of 16.\n\nLeaked research also reveals children who should be placed in secure children's homes for their own safety are being housed in such homes too.\n\nThe government says \"no child should be placed at risk - especially the most vulnerable in our society\".\n\nUnregulated homes, often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation, offer support and not care. They are increasingly being used to house vulnerable children, many of whom are recognised as at risk of child sexual exploitation or from \"county lines\" criminal exploitation.\n\nBBC News has obtained findings from an unpublished report on the use of unregulated and unregistered provision for children in care produced for the Department for Education for England.\n\nLouise Casey says regulation for supported accommodation is needed immediately\n\nMore than 20 councils were asked about their use of such placements.\n\nThree said they have placed children and young people in unregulated provision on a short-term basis while waiting for a \"secure bed\" - understood to refer to a secure children's home - to become available.\n\nPlacing a child with these needs in an unregulated placement is \"an astonishing abdication of responsibility\", says Ann Coffey MP, who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults.\n\n\"A child is often assessed for a secure placement for their own safety, it is a serious step to take\".\n\nSecure children's homes are run by councils and are intended to hold children from the age of 10. Many are placed there for their welfare and are at risk of going missing.\n\nLocal authorities also told the research team that at least one child as young as 11 years old had been placed in such accommodation.\n\nThe regulator Ofsted says there is nothing in law that allows an unregistered home to take in under 16 year olds, unless for a holiday or for \"cultural, educational, recreational or sporting purposes\".\n\nMs Coffey says no council \"has any business\" placing someone of that age in an unregulated home. \"A child aged 11 cannot manage simply through support.\n\n\"It is unbelievable and shameful that we have taken these children into care and placed them here.\"\n\nIn a separate investigation, the BBC this week revealed there have been over a dozen investigations launched into so-called \"organised and complex abuse\" involving young people who lived in unregulated homes in the last four years.\n\nA BBC News investigation into unregulated homes found that one was subject to police surveillance\n\nDame Louise Casey, who led the investigation into Rotherham Council after more than 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town, said the revelations of inadequate supervision and support were a \"scandal\".\n\nThe BBC found one child had been trafficked to the West Midlands while placed in a home, and a different placement was under police surveillance over concerns about criminal activity.\n\nLocal authorities are responsible for checks on unregulated homes in England and Wales. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, the homes are regulated although not to the same standard as children's homes.\n\nCouncils in England are increasingly putting young people in semi-independent or supported accommodation because they cannot match the needs of some children or afford the cost of some registered homes.\n\nThis year, Hertfordshire Council says it was offered a placement for one person with complex needs at a cost of £19,000 a week.\n\nEven semi-independent accommodation can be hugely expensive. Five councils say they spent more than £250,000 a year on an individual child's placement last year, according to freedom of information requests received by BBC News.\n\nHalf of England's £8.6bn children's services budget is now spent on the 73,000 young people in care.\n\nIn May, the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said Children's Services were at \"breaking point\" and current funding levels are unsustainable.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education in England said: \"Local authorities are required by the law to ensure that accommodation for children in care or those leaving care is high-quality and, most importantly, safe.\n\n\"They are held accountable for the care they provide to vulnerable children by Ofsted,\" it added.", "A blast caused by a fire at a chemical factory in Istanbul sent a metal tank flying into the air and injured two fire fighters.\n\nSeveral people were affected by fumes, but there were no reported fatalities.", "Burger King UK will no longer give away plastic toys with children's meals, amid pressure to reduce plastic waste.\n\nThe fast food restaurant chain is also encouraging customers to bring in old promotional plastic toys, which it says it plans to melt to make other items.\n\nThe move comes after two Hampshire children petitioned the fast food giant and its rival McDonald's to stop giving away free plastic toys.\n\nMcDonald's said its customers would be able to choose between a toy and fruit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ella (left) and Caitlin McEwan said they were \"amazed\" by Burger King's decision\n\nThe petition, organised by Ella, aged nine, and Caitlin McEwan, aged seven, calling for companies to \"think of the environment and stop giving plastic toys with their kids meals\" has received more than half a million signatures.\n\nThe girls wrote: \"Children only play with the plastic toys they give us for a few minutes before they get thrown away and harm animals and pollute the sea.\"\n\nInstead, they suggested any giveaways could be made from sustainable materials.\n\nJust hours before Burger King announced its change of policy, rival chain McDonald's in the UK said it had no plans to scrap its toy giveaways.\n\nInstead, customers will be given the option of swapping the toy for a sachet of fruit if they wish.\n\nMcDonald's also plans a trial from early next year enabling parents to choose between a book or a toy.\n\n\"The gifts provide fun for many families and children. That's why we'll be running these trials, in order to give our customers a choice. They also can choose not to have a toy or gift at all,\" said Paul Pomroy, chief executive of McDonald's UK and Ireland.\n\nBut Burger King said it wanted to undertake \"significant action\" to address the issue of plastic waste.\n\nThe fast-food restaurant chain will provide bins in its restaurants to collect old toys. It said the move would save 320 tonnes of plastic a year.\n\nMcDonald's says it will still have toys in its Happy Meals, but that toys can be swapped for fruit\n\nHelen Bird, from sustainability campaign group Wrap, described Burger King's response as a \"bold move\", welcoming the in-store collections since plastic toys cannot be recycled with plastic packaging at home.\n\nPentatonic, which makes consumer goods from recycled materials, is working with Burger King to recycle collected plastic toys into restaurant items such as trays and play areas.\n\nMost toys today are made from three polymers - polypropylene, ABS and PET.\n\nPentatonic said no harmful gases would be released into the environment when these plastics were melted.\n\nThe melted plastic forms a continuous strip and can then be cut into beads or pellets which are used to manufacture new plastic products, the firm said.\n\n\"If we were to use recycled polypropylene to make a tray, instead of new plastic, total energy consumption would be reduced by approximately 88% and carbon emissions would be cut by approximately 70%,\" Pentatonic's chief executive Johann Boedecker told the BBC.", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 19 September 2019.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney confirmed the controversial plan to appoint a named person to safeguard the welfare of every child in the country is to be scrapped.\n\nThe scheme, which was branded a \"snooper's charter\" by opponents, was due to be introduced three years ago.\n\nBut it was delayed when the Supreme Court ruled that part of the plan breached Human Rights laws.\n\nScottish Conservative education spokesperson Liz Smith called for an apology over \"one of the most deeply unpopular and illiberal policies of modern times\".\n\nHer counterpart in Scottish Labour, Iain Gray, called the announcement the \"mother and father of humiliating U-turns\".", "David Cameron has accused the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, and Michael Gove of behaving \"appallingly\" during the EU referendum campaign.\n\nSpeaking to the Times ahead of the launch of his memoir, the former Tory PM attacked some colleagues who backed Leave for \"trashing the government\".\n\nMr Cameron said the result in 2016 had left him \"hugely depressed\" and he knew \"some people will never forgive me\".\n\nHe also said another referendum cannot be ruled out \"because we're stuck\".\n\nMr Cameron criticised Mr Johnson's strategy for dealing with Brexit, including his decision to suspend Parliament ahead of the 31 October deadline and removing the whip from 21 Tory MPs who voted to block a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister has said the suspension - or prorogation - is a normal action of a new government to let it lay out its new policies in a Queen's Speech, and blocking no-deal would \"scupper\" his negotiations with the EU.\n\nMr Cameron called the referendum in 2016 after promising it in the Conservative Party's election manifesto the year before.\n\nHe campaigned for Remain, but lost the vote by 52% to 48%, and announced within hours he would be stepping down as PM.\n\nThe former Tory leader said the Leave side had a \"very powerful emotional argument\", while Remain had the \"very strong technical and economic arguments\", and the former - plus the issue of immigration - was a \"winning combination\" for his rivals.\n\n\"It turned into this terrible Tory psychodrama and I couldn't seem to get through,\" he said.\n\nBut leading Brexiteer and former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Lilley said the 17.4 million people who voted to leave the EU \"didn't care a fig about Tory psychodramas or anything else\", accusing Mr Cameron of using \"an extraordinary Westminster bubble phrase\".\n\n\"Most [Leave voters] put aside party loyalties and voted on the issue,\" he told BBC Two's Newsnight programme.\n\n\"When the British people speak, their voice will be respected, not ignored.\"\n\nLord Lilley said Mr Cameron had vowed before the 2016 referendum the public would decide whether the UK left the EU, but \"now he's saying different things\".\n\nThe former PM famously wrote his memoirs in a shed - which allegedly cost £25,000\n\nIn his interview with the Times, Mr Cameron - who was prime minister between 2010 and 2016 - said his Conservative colleagues Mr Johnson, Mr Gove, Penny Mordaunt and Priti Patel had \"left the truth at home\" on the referendum campaign trail, especially when it came to immigration.\n\nHe said: \"Boris had never argued for leaving the EU, right?\n\n\"Michael was a very strong Eurosceptic, but someone whom I'd known as this liberal, compassionate, rational Conservative ended up making arguments about Turkey [joining the EU] and [the UK] being swamped and what have you.\"\n\nMr Cameron called it \"ridiculous\" and \"just not true\" when Ms Mordaunt made a similar argument about Turkey, followed by claims by the now-Home Secretary Ms Patel that \"wealthy people didn't understand the problems of immigration\".\n\nHe added: \"I suppose some people would say all is fair in love and war and political campaigns. I thought there were places Conservatives wouldn't go against each other. And they did.\"\n\nDespite his criticism of his former colleagues' conduct during the referendum campaign, Mr Cameron defended his decision to call the vote, saying the issue of the EU \"needed to be addressed\".\n\n\"Every single day I think about it, the referendum and the fact that we lost and the consequences and the things that could have been done differently, and I worry desperately about what is going to happen next,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we can get to a situation where we leave but we are friends, neighbours and partners. We can get there, but I would love to fast-forward to that moment because it's painful for the country and it's painful to watch.\"\n\nDavid Cameron and his wife Samantha after he became PM in 2010\n\nSpeaking about the current prime minister's strategy, Mr Cameron said he \"wants him to succeed\", but his plan has \"morphed into something quite different\".\n\nHe said: \"Taking the whip from hard-working Conservative MPs and sharp practices using prorogation of Parliament have rebounded.\n\n\"I didn't support either of those things. Neither do I think a no-deal Brexit is a good idea.\"\n\nDavid Cameron has been very quiet since he walked out of Downing Street for the last time in 2016.\n\nSo his decision to use this interview to come out fighting for why he called the referendum is significant.\n\nDespite admitting that he worries about the consequences and accepting he may be blamed for them by some, he doesn't believe he was wrong to call it.\n\nInstead, he maintains that holding the vote was \"inevitable\".\n\nAfter years of silence, the timing of Mr Cameron's return to the front pages may play badly for Boris Johnson.\n\nHe's highly critical of Mr Johnson's role in the Leave campaign, writing in his book that he and his fellow Leave campaigner Michael Gove behaved \"appallingly\".\n\nAnd although he seemed to be giving Mr Johnson breathing space as the new prime minister, the decision to suspend Parliament and expel 21 Conservative rebels seems to have hardened his tone.\n\nMr Cameron also spoke of the damage to his friendships - including the one between him and Mr Gove, who had been close friends since university.\n\n\"We've spoken,\" he said. \"Not a huge amount. I've sort of had a conversation with him.\n\n\"I've spoken to the prime minister a little bit, mainly through texts, but Michael was a very good friend. So that has been more difficult.\"\n\nBut he did praise his immediate successor, Theresa May, who had been his home secretary throughout his time at No 10, for her \"phenomenal\" work rate and her \"ethos of public service\", even if he was not unquestioning of her strategy.\n\nDavid Cameron with Theresa May, when she was his home secretary\n\n\"I remember frequently texting [Mrs May] about the frustration of getting a Brexit deal and then seeing Brexiteers vote it down, possibly at the risk of the whole project they had devoted themselves to,\" said Mr Cameron. \"Maddening and infuriating.\"\n\nHe continued: \"There's an argument that Brexit is just impossible to deliver and no one could have done, and there's an argument that, well, wrong choices were made. This is somewhere in between.\"\n\nAsked what happens next, Mr Cameron said he did not think a no-deal Brexit \"should be pursued\".\n\nHe also did not reject a further referendum.\n\n\"I don't think you can rule it out because we're stuck,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not saying one will happen or should happen. I'm just saying that you can't rule things out right now because you've got to find some way of unblocking the blockage.\"\n\nMr Cameron became the Conservative Party leader in 2005. Five years later he was voted into Downing Street as the UK's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years - aged 43.\n\nHis six-year tenure - firstly in coalition with the Liberal Democrats and latterly with a majority government - was dominated by his desire to reduce the deficit, and the introduction of austerity measures with his Chancellor George Osborne.\n\nBut when he pledged in his party's 2015 manifesto to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, the focus shifted.\n\nMr Cameron backed Remain during the 2016 campaign and, on the morning of the result after discovering he had lost, he announced he would be stepping down, saying: \"I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.\"\n\nThe former PM has remained silent until now about both of his successors at the helm of the Tory Party - Theresa May and Boris Johnson.\n\nBut his allegedly fractious relationship with Mr Johnson has been well documented since their days together at Oxford University - most notably as members of the infamous Bullingdon Club.", "The fastest-growing terror threat in the UK comes from far-right extremism, police have said.\n\nNeil Basu, the UK head of counter-terrorism, said seven of the 22 plots foiled since March 2017 have been linked to the ideology.\n\nHe said far-right terrorism had gone from 6% of the caseload two years ago to 10% today, adding: \"It's small but it's my fastest-growing problem.\"\n\nBut, he said, the biggest threat still came from jihadists.\n\nMr Basu, Assistant Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, said some of the right-wing plots they disrupted were \"designed to kill people\" - and methods mimicked those seen in jihadist attacks, with some even using Islamic State materials.\n\nSpeaking at a briefing on Thursday, Mr Basu said about 10% of around 800 live terror investigations were linked to right-wing extremism.\n\nChildren as young as 14 have been involved in extremist activity, the briefing was told.\n\nHe also said the government's terrorism-prevention programme, Prevent, which aims to stop people being radicalised, has seen referrals nearly doubling since 2015/16 to 18%.\n\n\"Despite the increases, right-wing terrorism remains a relatively small percentage of our overall demand, but when nearly a third of the plots foiled by police and security services since 2017 relate to right-wing ideology, it lays bare why we are taking this so seriously,\" he said.\n\n\"As a proportion of our overall threat it's definitely increasing, whereas the Islamist threat is staying the same, albeit at a very high level.\"\n\nMr Basu added young people and those with mental health issues were particularly vulnerable to becoming radicalised.\n\nWhite supremacist Vincent Fuller, 50, was jailed for more than 18 years last week\n\nLast week white supremacist Vincent Fuller, 50, was jailed for 18 years and nine months for stabbing 19-year-old Bulgarian Dimitar Mihaylov in what a judge called a \"terrorist act\".\n\nThree other right-wing activists are due to be sentenced in London and Leeds on Friday.\n\nBut Mr Basu said police \"can't arrest ourselves out of this problem\" and called on the public to come forward if they fear a friend or family member is becoming radicalised.\n\n\"I have been called ridiculously idealistic, but I believe more than ever that evil triumphs when good people do nothing,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether the police's approach to right-wing threats has changed in recent years, he said: \"I would say that some of the criticism that we did not look at white supremacist, right-wing violence as terrorism in the past is probably justified.\"\n\nHe said investigations into the banned group National Action \"have broken that organisation\".\n\nNational Action was proscribed in 2016, becoming the first neo-Nazi group to be outlawed under terrorism legislation.\n\nThe briefing was also told the threat comes from a \"spectrum\" of right-wing ideologies.\n\nThey range from far-right groups that are anti-immigration and anti-Islam and so-called white nationalists through to neo-Nazi white supremacists, such as National Action and its spin-offs, System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division.\n\nSince last year the Security Service MI5 has been working closely with counter-terrorism police to tackle the threat.", "Speaking at a congressional hearing, climate activist Greta Thunberg pushed a Republican lawmaker on the issue of climate change.\n\nThe teenager attended the hearing alongside other young activists.", "Consumers spent more money on credit cards with UK retailers last year than they did in cash, a retailers' trade body has said.\n\nDebit cards were the most popular, but falling cash use pushed notes and coins down to third place, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nCash accounted for just over £1 in every £5 spent with UK shops.\n\nThe BRC argued that rising costs faced by retailers to process card payments could push up prices.\n\nCredit and charge cards accounted for £82bn, or 22%, of retail sales last year - outstripping cash (£78bn) for the first time, according to the BRC, which has been running its payments survey for 20 years. Spending on debit cards totalled £216bn.\n\nCash was still used more frequently than credit cards, but the typical transaction using notes and coins was worth over £20 less than the average credit card payment of £31.54.\n\nAndrew Cregan, policy adviser at the BRC, said that falling cash use and growth of online shopping were both factors in the shift.\n\nHe echoed concerns that any move to a totally cashless society could leave millions of people in the lurch. Without cash, it would be harder to leave tips or give to the homeless.\n\nVulnerable people, such as those with physical or mental health problems, who find it hard to use digital services, people who have been bankrupt, or those who use cash as a lifeline when in difficult or abusive relationships, could also be severely affected.\n\nHowever, the BRC's main concern for its members - the retailers - was the cost of accepting card payments.\n\nThe average cost faced by a retailer for a debit card transaction was 6.23p, rising to 18.19p for credit or charge cards, compared with 1.66p for cash, the BRC said.\n\nMr Cregan said about a third of the cost on cards was the so-called scheme fee charged by card companies such as Visa and Mastercard, and that cost had been rising sharply.\n\n\"Without action [from government], we will see businesses put under further pressure and it will be consumers who are forced to pay the price,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this year, a survey by banking trade body UK Finance also showed the dominance of cards among today's consumers.\n\nAn independent report on Access to Cash called for a guarantee, so people can get hold of cash if they need it.\n\nIt wants to see an independent body, funded by the banks, to be set up that would step in if local communities were running short of access to cash in shops and ATMs.\n\nOn Wednesday, consumer group Which? said that free-to-use cash machines were disappearing quicker in deprived areas than in affluent ones.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The father of a sick child confronted Boris Johnson during a ward visit\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is \"glad\" the father of a sick child challenged him about NHS funding in a hospital corridor.\n\nThe prime minister was confronted by Omar Salem at Whipps Cross University Hospital in north-east London.\n\nMr Salem, who said his seven-day-old daughter had been \"gravely ill\", told Mr Johnson there were not enough staff.\n\nThe PM later wrote on Twitter that the encounter was not \"an embarrassment\" but \"part of my job\".\n\nHe added that it did not matter whether people \"agree with me\" - a reference to Mr Salem's work as a Labour activist.\n\nIn a conversation lasting around two minutes, the new father said the situation he had experienced at Whipps Cross was \"not acceptable\".\n\n\"There are not enough people on this ward, there are not enough doctors, there's not enough nurses, it's not well organised enough,\" he told Mr Johnson.\n\n\"The NHS has been destroyed... and now you come here for a press opportunity.\"\n\nMr Johnson said \"there's no press here\" but Mr Salem gestured to cameras filming the confrontation, and said: \"What do you mean there's no press here? Who are these people?\"\n\nThe prime minister explained he was \"here to find out\" about the situation, but the man said: \"It's a bit late, isn't it? Years and years and years of the NHS being destroyed.\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Mr Johnson said later that it was part of his job to talk to people on the ground.\n\n\"I've been PM for 57 days, part of my job is to talk to people on the ground and listen to what they tell me about the big problems. It doesn't matter if they agree with me,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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'm glad this gentleman told me his problems. This isn't an embarrassment, this is part of my job.\"\n\nMr Salem wrote in a tweet: \"Boris Johnson had the temerity to come to [Whipps Cross Hospital] for a press opportunity on the children's ward that my seven-day-old daughter is on, having been admitted to A&E yesterday gravely ill.\n\n\"The A&E team were great but she then went for hours on the ward without seeing a doctor.\n\n\"Boris Johnson has been an MP, [Mayor of London], cabinet minister and now PM while the NHS has been neglected, just as my daughter was last night.\n\n\"Rather than drips of money for press opportunities he should get on with properly supporting the NHS so that patients get the care they deserve, there is adequate staffing with good working conditions and worried fathers like me can have some peace of mind.\"\n\nAlan Gurney, chief executive of Whipps Cross hospital, said: \"We are constantly reviewing staffing levels on our wards to ensure our patients are safe at all times, but occasionally - as in fact happened on this ward last night- an unexpected emergency in one part of the hospital can cause a temporary pressure elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You should be in Brussels; you're in Morley,\" a member of the public told Boris Johnson when he arrived\n\nIt is not the first time Mr Johnson has experienced an impassioned exchange with a member of the public since becoming prime minister in July.\n\nOn a visit to Yorkshire two weeks ago, the prime minister was told by a member of the public he should be in Brussels negotiating with the EU instead of touring Morley high street, near Leeds.", "The report also stated there has been a decrease in the number of on-street sex workers\n\nPublicity around a change to Northern Ireland's prostitution laws caused a spike in business, a new report has claimed.\n\nAcademics carried out a three-year review of the impact of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act 2015.\n\nThe law introduced the \"Nordic model\", which criminalised paying for sexual services in Northern Ireland.\n\nSex workers, consulted for the review, said media discussion at the time publicised the idea of prostitution.\n\nThe report said sex workers noted \"a surge in business in the run-up to the legislation and its immediate aftermath and it was suggested that the public debate around Article 64A publicised prostitution to those who had never previously considered it\".\n\nArticle 64A in the 2015 act related to paying for sex.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly passed the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill in December 2014. The private member's bill was brought before the house by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) peer Lord Morrow.\n\nDUP peer Lord Morrow criticised the methodology of the report\n\nHe criticised the methodology of the report and claimed on Good Morning Ulster that those who compiled it had a \"clear track record on this issue in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nLord Morrow added that he was \"disappointed in some regard with how the legislation has been implemented\" but that it had led to arrests and convictions \"so the PSNI and PPS (Public Prosecution Service) can build on this in the future\".\n\nOne of the academics involved in the report, Dr Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill, rejected Lord Morrow's criticism, tweeting that his claims were \"unfounded and untrue\" and that they \"simply reported what was found\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, she told Good Morning Ulster that \"the demand for sex work is as strong as ever\".\n\n\"Now because clients have been criminalised, the clients are putting a lot more pressure on sex workers to put themselves in more risky situations and to move into sexual practices that they wouldn't have done before,\" she said.\n\nThe report, based on research which examined a period between June 2015 and December 2018, also found an increase in online advertising for prostitution.\n\nLooking at a total of 173,460 advertisements, there was a 5% increase in the total number over that period.\n\nThe report said that worked out at about 308 sex workers advertising each day.\n\nThe estimated number of sex workers in Northern Ireland increased from 3,351 up to 3,973.\n\nThe number of sex workers in Northern Ireland increased from 3,351 up to 3,973\n\nThe report also examined issues around the safety of sex workers and human trafficking for exploitation.\n\nOn the basis of the findings, it concluded there was \"no evidence that the offence of purchasing sexual services has produced a downward pressure on the demand for, or supply of, sexual services\".\n\nResponding to the report, the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) said it showed current legislation is \"not fit for purpose\".\n\n\"Sex workers in Ireland tend to work both jurisdictions so a lot of the findings in this report will be applicable to the Republic of Ireland,\" said Kate McGrew, current sex worker and spokesperson for the SWAI.\n\n\"If the purpose of the law was to decrease demand it has failed.\n\n\"If the purpose of the law was to help sex workers it has failed.\"\n\nThe report said the legislation had little effect on the supply or demand for sexual services\n\nThe report said the \"tailing off\" in demand, which had been expected, has not happened.\n\nRather, the legislation \"has had little effect on the supply or demand for sexual services\".\n\nOn the issue of safety, the report states serious crimes against sex workers are \"comparatively rare\".\n\nHowever, information gathered from a website used by sex workers to report instances of abuse showed increases in the number of reports it had received of assaults, sexual assaults, and threatening behaviour.\n\nThe report also stated there has been a decrease in the number of on-street sex workers, falling from about 20 operating in Northern Ireland in 2014, down to less than 10 currently.\n\nIn 2014, ahead of the law change, baseline research was carried out by the Department of Justice to give a point of comparison.\n\nA requirement was built into it at the time for a review to be carried out after three years.\n\n\"The evidence from Northern Ireland based on a comparison of the before and after data suggests very strongly that Article 64A has had minimal to no effect on the demand for prostitution, the number of active sex workers in the jurisdiction and on levels of human trafficking for sexual exploitation,\" the report concluded.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Morgan says her life could have turned out very differently because of where she grew up\n\nPeople from the most deprived parts of Scotland are three times more likely to die before they are 25 than those from the least deprived, a study has found.\n\nThe research was carried out by Prof Morag Treanor, of Heriot-Watt University, for the charity Aberlour.\n\nProf Treanor said the results showed the \"massive inequality\" between rich and poor in Scotland.\n\nIt also showed young men and boys were far more likely to die before 25 than young women and girls.\n\nThe study analysed data from the National Records of Scotland on the causes of death from 2011 to 2017.\n\nIn total there were 4,081 deaths across the seven-year period, excluding those who were less than a year old.\n\nMost of the deaths were classified in official data as \"external causes\", which includes suicides, drug and alcohol poisonings, falls and road traffic accidents as well as deaths resulting from neglect or maltreatment, assault and violence.\n\nProf Treanor said because the numbers who died annually were relatively small it was important to add them together to make sure there was reliable dataset.\n\nThe academic mapped the deaths against the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), which splits Scotland into 6,505 zones, ranked by their level of deprivation.\n\nProf Treanor compared the death rates in the most deprived 20% of Scottish areas with the least deprived.\n\nShe found a rate of 0.21 deaths per 1,000 people among under 25s in the poorest areas compared with a rate of 0.07 in the richest.\n\nIn all areas, young men and boys were more likely to die than young women and girls.\n\nFigures released by the National Records of Scotland in August showed that a boy born last year in one of the 10% most deprived areas of Scotland would have a life expectancy 13 years shorter than a boy from the most affluent area.\n\nIt said a boy born in the poorer areas can expect to spend almost a third of his life (29.2%) in poor health.\n\nThe death toll caused by drugs is known to be higher in areas of deprivation.\n\nProf Treanor said one major reason for the higher incidence of early deaths was poverty and its impact across the whole of a child's life.\n\nShe said this was linked to housing, neighbourhoods, health inequalities, nutrition, outdoor space, education and access to activities as well as the stresses poverty caused families.\n\nProf Treanor said: \"The results of the research really couldn't paint a clearer message and underlines the massive inequality between rich and poor in this country.\"\n\nJohnny Hendry, a youth worker at Aberlour's Youthpoint Service in Govan, said: \"A lot of young people we work with come from chaotic backgrounds, their parents have mental health problems, drug or alcohol addictions, and many are living in poverty.\n\n\"What young people in these situations need is somebody that's going to listen to them, believe in them, and support them.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We recognise the damaging impacts poverty can have on young lives, that is why we have set in statute our ambition to eradicate child poverty in Scotland.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Scotland is the only part of the UK to set statutory income-based targets for reducing child poverty and we are doing in the face of continued UK government welfare cuts which are set to reduce spending on social security in Scotland by £500m a year.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City bounced back from their shock Premier League defeat at Norwich by launching their Champions League campaign in style with a deserved victory at Shakhtar Donetsk.\n\nHumbled at Carrow Road on Saturday evening, the English champions were imperious in Ukraine against an initially tenacious, but ultimately inferior, opponent.\n\nRiyad Mahrez opened the scoring midway through the first half, firing into a largely empty net after Ilkay Gundogan's curling shot came back off the post.\n\nMahrez then turned provider for the onrushing German to toe-poke the ball past the helpless Andriy Pyatov and give the visitors a firm grip on the game - a grip they did not relinquish.\n\nAfter spurning a number of good opportunities, including an untypically forgiving close-range effort from Raheem Sterling that struck the post, Gabriel Jesus gave the one-sided game a more fitting scoreline with a neat finish after Kevin de Bruyne's pass.\n\nOnly Dinamo Zagreb's 4-0 hammering of Italian side Atalanta in Croatia prevents Pep Guardiola's side topping the group.\n• None Fernandinho: Pep Guardiola had no doubts over Brazilian's defensive ability\n\nCity's 3-2 defeat by Norwich left them five points behind leaders Liverpool (the side they pipped to last season's title) with just five games played.\n\nBut they have the start they wanted in the Champions League - the only trophy Guardiola has yet to deliver to the Etihad - after arguably the toughest game of a group from which they are favourites to qualify.\n\nThere was little of the apprehensive defending on display in Norfolk and a far greater level of fluency and attacking verve as the home side's largely counter-attacking attempts were regularly repelled and their defence repeatedly unpicked.\n\nRestored to the starting XI, De Bruyne was full of intelligent runs and passes to match, while the direct and pacy trio of Mahrez, Sterling and Jesus (who scored three against the same opponent in a 6-0 win last November) terrorised the home back four.\n\nBut for some wayward finishing, City could well have matched the scoreline they racked up against Shakhtar in that game at the Etihad a little under a year ago.\n\nRegardless, City's recent dominance over a side who are their regular Champions League opponents continues, with this their fourth win in five encounters, the only defeat of which came in a dead rubber at the end of the group stage in 2017-18.\n\nCity have been plunged into something of a defensive injury crisis of late as a result of the muscle injury that has consigned John Stones to a spell on the sidelines alongside fellow centre-back Aymeric Laporte, who is out until the new year.\n\nIn their absence, Fernandinho - a midfielder by trade but long touted as a potential central defender by Guardiola - made the short move into the back four in Ukraine, alongside Nicolas Otamendi.\n\nIf, as expected, the Brazilian is to be the man to deputise at the back (and he hinted as much after the game by admitting he had been training as a defender since the start of the season), he will have sterner tests than this, but what he was required to do, he did well.\n\nTwo interceptions, two solid headers won and a passing accuracy of 90% make for a quietly efficient night.\n\nShakhtar's best opportunities fell to Junior Moraes, but after three times finding himself with just Edersen to beat he first struck the Brazilian's chest with a shot, then missed the ball completely with an attempted flick finish before floating a lob harmlessly off target after the City keeper had rushed out of his box.\n\nThey sent on wily and capable Ukraine international Yevhen Konoplyanka and Brazilians Marcos Antonio and Dentinho but to zero alteration to the flow of the game.\n\nMeanwhile, City were able to give Benjamin Mendy a first run-out of the season and some minutes to Joao Cancelo - a clear indication that while they currently lack depth in some defensive areas they are spoilt for choice in others.\n• None Shakhtar Donetsk have conceded 15 goals in their five meetings with Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League; the most they've conceded against an opponent in the competition.\n• None Manchester City have kept clean sheets in four of their five Champions League matches against Shakhtar Donetsk, double the amount than they have versus any other side.\n• None Since the start of 2016-17 campaign, only Real Madrid (84) and Bayern Munich (72) have scored more Champions League goals than Pep Guardiola's Man City (71).\n• None Shakhtar Donetsk have failed to keep a clean sheet in any of their last 17 UEFA Champions League matches (36 goals conceded).\n• None Riyad Mahrez has had a hand in seven goals in seven Champions League appearances for Man City (2 goals, 5 assists).\n• None Goal! Shakhtar Donetsk 0, Manchester City 3. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne following a fast break. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Robberies are increasing at a faster rate in England and Wales than in any other major developed country, research seen by the BBC suggests.\n\nA new report says the wide use of smartphones and cuts to police patrols are behind the rise.\n\nIt also found some 269,000 young people were involved in or at risk of violence last year.\n\nThe Home Office said it was funding a police recruitment drive and helping officers to use their powers.\n\nThe new report from criminal justice consultants Crest Advisory examined robbery trends across Western nations - including Germany, Australia and France.\n\nFrom 2010 to 2014, offences were on the decline almost everywhere.\n\nSince then, however, there have been small increases in five countries - and a 33% rise in England and Wales, which researchers said was \"significant\" because robbery acted as an \"entry point\" for violent crime.\n\nHarvey Redgrave, managing director of Crest Advisory, said: \"It acts as a bit of a gateway offence into more serious violence, whether that's because young people are being asked to carry out robberies as an initiation into gangs [or] whether it's because they're paying off debts.\"\n\nThe report suggests the increase may be connected to the availability of smartphones, with eight in 10 people in the UK using them, higher than any other country.\n\nIt also cites pressures on policing, after 21,000 officer posts were cut between 2010 and 2018, pointing out that only 7% of robbery cases result in a suspect being charged compared with 21% four years ago.\n\n\"The opportunity to commit robberies may be greater here than in other countries,\" said Mr Redgrave.\n\n\"Criminals respond to incentives and if they feel they're not being effectively policed - often these are opportunistic crimes - we're likely to see an increase in these types of offences.\"\n\nThe Home Office suggested that changes in the way forces log robberies were partly responsible for the rise.\n\n\"We are pleased with improvements in police recording, which have contributed to reported increases in robbery offences,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"We are giving police the tools they need to keep families, communities and our country safe, including recruiting 20,000 new police officers and making it easier for them to use stop-and-search powers.\"\n\nThe report also analysed how many 10 to 17-year-olds experienced violence in England and Wales last year, producing an estimate of between 145,000 to 269,000, which is 5% of the under-18 population.", "Network Rail has submitted a planning application to install a bridge walk and visitor hub on the rail bridge\n\nVisitors will be able to walk at the top of the Forth Bridge rail crossing if proposals from Network Rail are approved.\n\nThe operator has submitted a planning application to install a bridge walk and visitor hub.\n\nIt is hoped the plan could attract 85,000 visitors a year to one of the world's most famous railway bridges.\n\nNetwork Rail wants to construct a walkway and a viewing platform on the south cantilever.\n\nA visitor reception hub would be created at South Queensferry.\n\nThere are longer-term plans to build similar facilities on the Fife side of the bridge.\n\nThe Forth Bridge was awarded Unesco World Heritage site status in 2015.\n\nThe landmark, which was designed by Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker, took eight years to build at a cost of £3.2m.\n\nWhen it was opened in March 1890, it was the longest cantilever bridge in the world and the first major crossing made entirely of steel.\n\nSpanning 1.5 miles, weighing 53,000 tonnes and containing 6.5m rivets, the bridge carries 200 trains per day over the Firth of Forth, linking Fife with the Lothians.\n\nIts tallest point is 110 metres above high water, and 137 metres above its foundations.\n\nThe new planning application has been lodged with City of Edinburgh Council.\n\nAlan Ross, Network Rail Scotland's director of engineering and asset management, said: \"The Forth Bridge is an engineering icon and the plans we have submitted to deliver a bridge walk experience will offer a unique and memorable visit to one of Scotland's most loved structures.\n\n\"From the engineering genius behind its design, to the historical accounts of its construction and its crucial role in Scotland's operational railway, the bridge really is a national treasure and there is real appetite to take these plans forward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Saudi Arabia's defence ministry has shown off what it says is wreckage of drones and cruise missiles that prove Iranian involvement in weekend attacks on two oil facilities.\n\nIt said 18 drones and seven cruise missiles were fired from a direction that ruled out Yemen as a source.\n\nYemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels had said they were behind the attacks.\n\nIran has denied any involvement and warned it would retaliate against any attack that targeted it.", "Chairman Jerome Powell voted in favour of the cut\n\nThe US central bank has cut interest rates for only the second time since 2008, amid concerns about slowing global growth and trade wars.\n\nAs expected, the Federal Reserve lowered the target range for its key interest rate by 25 basis points to between 1.75% and 2%.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly criticised the Fed for cutting rates too slowly.\n\nThe president took to Twitter in the minutes immediately following the rate cut announcement to lambast the move: \"Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve Fail Again. No \"guts,\" no sense, no vision! A terrible communicator!\".\n\nThe bank said the cut is aimed at shoring up the US economy, amid \"uncertainties\" about future growth.\n\nBut officials were divided about the decision and over the need for future cuts.\n\nSeven members of the Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee, which sets the rates, voted in favour of Wednesday's cut, including Mr Powell.\n\nTwo members wanted to hold the rate steady, while one wanted to cut further.\n\nMr Powell said policymakers decided on a second cut after global growth slowed and trade tensions worsened over the summer.\n\n\"The thing we can't address really is what businesses would like, which is a settled roadmap for international trade ... but we do have a very powerful tool which can counteract weakness to some extent,\" he said, referring to the rate cut.\n\nHowever, he dismissed the need for negative interest rates - a proposal backed by Mr Trump - as \"not at the top of the list\".\n\nThe comments underscored the strain between Mr Powell and the president, who has sought to blame the Fed for economic slowdown, while waging trade wars with China, Europe and others.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nCutting rates helps fuel economic activity, by making it cheaper to borrow money for both businesses and consumers.\n\nBut with interest rates in the US already low by historic standards - and much of the economic uncertainty caused by the trade war with China - analysts have questioned how much rate cuts will help.\n\nUS share markets fell after the announcement, but later recovered.\n\nThe Fed's decision to lower rates on Wednesday follows a similar cut in July and marks a reversal from its policy only a year ago, when America's healthy economy had convinced policy makers to enact a series of small hikes.\n\nBut US economic growth slowed to 2% in the second quarter, job creation has slipped and inflation remains lower than US policymakers would like.\n\nIn recent days, parts of the financial markets have also shown signs of a cash-crunch, temporarily pushing short-term interest rates above the Fed's target and prompting the bank to intervene.\n\nThe cut in interest rates was of course the headline from this Fed meeting. But the Chairman Jerome Powell also commented on some developments in the US financial system that have really had people scratching their heads this week.\n\nThere was a sharp rise in borrowing costs in a rather arcane corner of the financial system known as the repo (repurchase) market which firms use to raise or lend cash for short periods.\n\nWhat was going on? Could it be a warning sign of serious stress somewhere in the financial world? The crisis a decade ago has made people more sensitive to that kind of possibility.\n\nMr Powell said it was due to companies needing a lot of cash for tax payments and for investors buying government bonds. Although the Fed and the markets knew these developments were coming, Mr Powell said they \"had a bigger effect than most folks anticipated\". He said these issues have no implications for the economy. So, flap over? Maybe. Let's hope so.\n\nIn economic projections released on Wednesday, Federal Reserve policymakers said they expect the economy to grow 2.2% this year, faster than they forecast in June.\n\nBrian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings, said the upgrade to that growth prediction underscores the fact that the Fed is worried about global factors, such as the trade war, rather than the underlying health of the US economy.\n\n\"This move is all about the deterioration in the global economic outlook over the late summer and very little about incoming US data,\" he said.\n\n\"While the Fed has maintained its 'will act as appropriate' language, we still see this as an insurance policy move and don't expect a series of further rate cuts,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dave brought his mum on stage as he won the 2019 Mercury prize\n\nRapper Dave has won the Mercury Prize for his debut album, Psychodrama.\n\nA thought-provoking reflection on his upbringing in London, it has been hailed as \"the boldest and best British rap album in a generation\".\n\nThe Streatham-born star beat the likes of Foals, Anna Calvi and The 1975 to win the prize, which recognises the best British album of the last year.\n\nReleased in March, Psychodrama entered the UK charts at number one and has sold 129,354, copies to date.\n\nMercury Prize judge Annie Mac said the album \"showed remarkable levels of musicianship\" as well as \"true artistry, courage and honesty\".\n\n\"I did not expect this,\" said Dave, whose full name is David Orobosa Omoregie, as he took to the stage.\n\nHe went on to dedicate the award to his family and friends, especially his brother, Christopher, who is serving a life sentence for murder.\n\nPsychodrama was inspired by the therapy Christopher is receiving in prison, in which offenders role-play events from their past to help with rehabilitation; and finds the 21-year-old casting an eye over his own life to see what lessons he can learn.\n\nIts lead single, Black, focused on the perception of black people in Britain.\n\n\"Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident,\" Dave rapped. \"It's working twice as hard as the people you know you're better than.\"\n\nWhen it was played on BBC Radio 1, the song provoked complaints from a small minority of listeners who said it was \"racist against white people\".\n\nAnnie Mac spoke in defence of the song, saying: \"If you are genuinely offended by the idea of a man talking about the colour of his skin and how it has shaped his identity, then that is a problem for you.\"\n\nThe rest of the album is framed as vignettes from a year-long course of therapy, as Dave grapples with grief, pain, domestic abuse, depression and his brother's incarceration.\n\nThe 21-year-old's music is as thoughtful and introspective as his lyrics, dusted with melancholy piano chords and textured beats that set it apart from the grime scene he rose up through.\n\nThe rapper previously won an Ivor Novello for his 2018 track Question Time, which railed against Grenfell, drone warfare and NHS cuts.\n\n\"I find it [expletive] that the government is struggling / To care for a person that cares for a person,\" said the musician, whose mother is a nurse.\n\n\"This is surreal, a massive honour\" he said backstage after the ceremony. \"I'm glad I've been able to repay the faith that people have put into me.\"\n\nComplementing Dave's victory, this year's Mercury Prize ceremony had a chaotic urgency that has been missing from award shows since the heyday of Britpop.\n\nPost-punk band Idles leapt into the crowd, while one of the members of Black Midi ran headfirst into a piano, before attempting, and failing, to perform a somersault.\n\nBut Northampton-based rapper Slowthai caused the biggest stir by performing with a dummy of Boris Johnson's severed head, which he held aloft as he performed Doorman, a track about wealth disparity in modern Britain.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he explained the song, like the rest of his album, aimed to give a voice to \"the people from small communities that have been forgotten about\".\n\n\"It's time to let people in,\" he said. \"Everyone, the lower class, the middle class, and even the ones in the upper who feel their life is hard.\"\n\nIt was the 28th year of the Mercury Prize, with previous winners including Pulp, Dizzee Rascal, Elbow, Skepta, Arctic Monkeys and last year's victors, Wolf Alice.\n\nJudges for 2019 included Radio 1's Clara Amfo, Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes, Glastonbury headliner Stormzy and rock critic Will Hodgkinson. Their deliberations were chaired by Jeff Smith, head of music for BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music.\n\nAlbums by British and Irish artists with a UK release date between 21 July 2018 and 19 July 2019 were eligible, and more than 200 were submitted.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Early evidence of the effects of MUP suggest it is helping cut alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow\n\nA charity has called for Scotland's minimum unit pricing policy for alcohol (MUP) to be rolled out across the UK.\n\nIt followed the publication of evidence suggesting MUP has had a significant impact on drinking patterns.\n\nData presented at a conference in Glasgow suggested alcohol-related deaths in the city had fallen by 21.5%.\n\nThe policy was introduced in May 2018, but organisers said there was already an indication it was working - and should be more widely applied.\n\nThe research was presented at the British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL) conference in Glasgow and was based on unpublished data from the city's Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP).\n\nThe British Liver Trust said although the results came very soon after the law was introduced and the long term impact was still being studied, they nonetheless had important implications for MUP in England and the rest of the UK.\n\nScotland was the first country in the world to implement a minimum unit price for alcohol, following a 10-year campaign by health bodies.\n\nIt means licensed premises in Scotland cannot sell alcohol below a price which depends on the amount of alcohol contained in the product. It is currently set at 50p per unit of alcohol.\n\nDr Ewan Forrest who presented the results of the research at the conference said there had been a 21.5% reduction in alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow from 2017 to 2018 - from 186, down to 146.\n\nAlmost half (44%) the deaths in 2018 occurred before May when MUP was introduced.\n\nDr Forrest said: \"Glasgow has always had much higher levels of alcohol-related deaths than other parts of Scotland.\n\n\"This latest information suggests that MUP may be reducing alcohol-related harm in those at highest risk.\n\n\"More time is needed to assess the effect of MUP on the rest of Scotland and to get a clearer idea as to how MUP might affect the rest of the UK.\"\n\nThe data from the ADP suggested the reduction in the number of alcohol-related deaths had been most marked in the most deprived areas of the city where the behaviour of consumers was more price-sensitive.\n\nMUP targeted high-strength cheap ciders and spirits which saw steep price rises.\n\nThe British Liver Trust, which campaigned for MUP, has launched a \"Love your liver\" road show which offers people a free screening test\n\nProf Matthew Cramp, president of BASL, said: \"This early evidence suggests that implementing MUP does exactly what it is supposed to - it is a highly targeted measure that improves the health of the heaviest drinkers and those experiencing the most harm from alcohol whilst those who drink in moderation continue much as before.\"\n\nPamela Healy, chief executive of the British Liver Trust which campaigned for the introduction of MUP said: \"We are facing a liver disease epidemic in the UK and a major reason for this is that as a nation we are drinking too much alcohol.\n\n\"There is good evidence that interventions such as minimum unit pricing (MUP), targeted taxes and marketing regulations reduce alcohol harm.\n\n\"Alcohol taxes have been cut repeatedly in real terms. The government needs to look carefully at the outcomes from Scotland on MUP so that more lives can be saved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deejay Bullock was refused a tattoo at studio in Dundee in July\n\nDeejay Bullock says he was \"absolutely devastated\" to be refused a tattoo because he is HIV positive.\n\nThe 38-year-old, who was diagnosed a decade ago, said he was shocked to be turned away because there had been no problems with his previous tattoos.\n\nHIV groups say Deejay should not have been refused and are publishing new guidelines aimed at stopping people with HIV being discriminated against.\n\nThey say refusing an HIV positive person is illegal under equality laws.\n\nTattooists should not even ask clients about their HIV status, the organisations said.\n\nDeejay, who lives in Aberdeen, already has four tattoos\n\nDeejay, who lives in Aberdeen, has been living with HIV since 2006 but was not diagnosed until 2009.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland he struggled with his status at first and his mental health declined rapidly.\n\nFor his first two tattoos, which he had soon after his diagnosis, he did not disclose his HIV for fear of being rejected.\n\nSince 2012, Deejay has worked in LGBT health, which he said had boosted his confidence and helped him to come to terms with his status.\n\nMore recently, he has had two tattoos in Aberdeen at which he declared on the form that he was HIV positive.\n\nDeejay says he declared his HIV positive status for his previous two tattoos\n\n\"It was absolutely fine. There were no questions,\" he said. \"It was never even discussed.\"\n\nIn July this year, Deejay decided to get a tattoo for his birthday.\n\nHe found a tattooist in Dundee who could fit him in and went along and filled out a form.\n\n\"I handed it back to him and he looked and said 'are you joking?'.\"\n\nThe tattooist told Deejay: \"I'm not putting myself or my colleagues or anyone else at risk.\"\n\nFor Deejay, the rejection took him back to the stigma and hurt of the early days of diagnosis.\n\nHe said the tattooist turned him away through fear and ignorance.\n\nHIV Scotland, alongside other HIV/Aids groups, has published a statement saying that the virus does not present a barrier to tattooing, piercing and cosmetic or beauty treatments.\n\nIts guidelines say that refusing people living with HIV a tattoo or piercing is illegal under the Equality Act 2010.\n\nIt also says that asking clients if they are HIV positive is unjustified according to current data protection legislation.\n\nThe HIV organisations said that standard safety procedures meant tattooists and clients would be protected from blood-borne viruses.\n\nThese include sterilising equipment, using fresh disposable gloves and new ink for each client.\n\nIt is estimated that 5,881 individuals are living with HIV in Scotland.\n\nEarlier this year, Public Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick said people should not be turned away from tattoo studios because they were HIV positive.\n\nHe said: \"This should not be happening in Scotland and I think we need to raise awareness, and as part of that tackle stigma.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said it welcomed the British HIV Association statement.\n\nShe said: \"There is no place for HIV stigma in today's Scotland, and a diagnosis of HIV should not represent a barrier to living a full and enjoyable life.\"\n• None 'I tattooed my face so I couldn't get a normal job'", "Broadcaster John Humphrys has presented his final edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe was joined by ex-prime ministers David Cameron and Tony Blair and Dame Edna Everage for his last day.\n\nThe presenter is leaving after 32 years, and has built a reputation as a tenacious interrogator of politicians, and said he had been \"a seeker of truth\" during his time on the programme.", "The pilot was suspended from a power line for some time before rescuers were able to reach him\n\nA Belgian air force F-16 fighter plane has crashed in north-western France, leaving one pilot caught on a high-voltage electricity line.\n\nBoth pilots were lightly injured after they ejected from the plane near Pluvigner in Brittany.\n\nThe plane had clipped the roof of at least one house before crashing in a nearby field.\n\nThe man was eventually retrieved from the power line after a two-hour rescue operation by French emergency services.\n\nThe cable was high voltage at 250,000 volts, local media reported.\n\nThe plane had been flying at 500m (1,500ft), said the commander of the Belgian air force, Frederik Vansina.\n\nThe aeroplane was on a practice flight from Florennes in the Belgian province of Namur to a French airbase at Lorient, some 30km (19 miles) from the crash site, according to Belgian reports.\n\nFrench news outlet Le Télégramme posted a photo from a great distance away which appeared to show a parachute dangling from a power line near a large pylon.\n\n\"They needed time to free him. They had to cut the electric current, but I've been on the phone to him and he says he feels fine,\" said Gen Maj Vansina. Both pilots were only thought to require hospital checks before being released.\n\nOther photos appeared to show black smoke billowing from the nearby area and a damaged roof on one home, which was reportedly only 50m (164ft) from the site of the crash.\n\nResident Patrick Kauffer told Le Télégramme that a wing of the plane had taken out part of the roof of his house, causing serious damage.\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 Cindy 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 crash also set fire to his shed and nearby trees, he added.\n\nAnother resident, Cindy Le Gloanic, described seeing the pilots eject and posted photos of a damaged house.\n\nIn one photo, sheets of metal appeared to be on fire in a wooded clearing and another shows a nearby maize field in flames.\n\nThe plane was not carrying weapons during its flight, officials said. Built in 1983, the F-16 was apparently in good condition when it took off. The head of the air force said the pilot had told him there had been a problem with the engine during the flight and he had tried to restart it.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.", "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised for wearing \"brownface\" make-up at a gala at a private school where he taught nearly two decades ago.\n\nThe 2001 yearbook picture obtained by Time Magazine shows Mr Trudeau with skin-darkening make-up on his face and hands at the West Point Grey Academy.\n\nAddressing the image, Mr Trudeau said he \"deeply regretted\" his actions and \"should have known better\".\n\nThe prime minister is battling for re-election on 21 October.\n\nMr Trudeau, son of the late former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was 29 when he took part in the gala at the school in Vancouver.\n\nThe image is politically embarrassing for the prime minister because he has made progressive policies a signature issue.\n\nSpeaking to journalists after the Time article was published, Mr Trudeau said he had dressed up in the photo in an Aladdin costume at an Arabian Nights-themed gala.\n\n\"I take responsibility for my decision to do that. I shouldn't have done it.\n\n\"I should have known better. It was something that I didn't think was racist at the time, but now I recognise it was something racist to do and I am deeply sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justin Trudeau told reporters: \"I should have known better, but I didn't\"\n\nWhen asked if there had been other occasions, Mr Trudeau told reporters he had also worn make-up when he was a student performing at a talent show in high school.\n\nAn image from that incident has since been posted to Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robert Fife This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 source has confirmed to the BBC that the image is indeed from the second incident Mr Trudeau referred to.\n\nHe wore \"blackface\" and sang Day-O, a Jamaican folk song popularised by American civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.\n\nLike \"blackface\", \"brownface\" typically refers to when someone paints their face darker to appear like someone with a different skin colour.\n\nThe practice is associated with minstrel performances - in past centuries, white actors could be seen with their faces painted black, caricaturing African-Americans, and perpetuating offensive and racist stereotypes.\n\nIn recent years, there have been several controversies involving politicians, celebrities and brands accused of \"blackface\", \"brownface\" or \"yellowface\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Trudeau said \"brownface\" was \"a significant thing that is very hurtful\" to \"communities and people who live with intersectionalities and face discrimination\".\n\nMustafa Farooq, executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, said: \"Seeing the prime minister in brownface/blackface is deeply saddening. The wearing of blackface/brownface is reprehensible, and hearkens back to a history of racism and an Orientalist mythology which is unacceptable.\"\n\nThe council added that it recognised \"people can change and evolve over two decades\". Later, the council issued a tweet thanking Mr Trudeau for apologising promptly.\n\nThe picture was racist in 2001 and is racist now, said Andrew Scheer, leader of the opposition Conservatives.\n\n\"What Canadians saw this evening is someone with a total lack of judgement and integrity and someone who is not fit to govern this country,\" he said.\n\nNew Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, a Sikh, said the image was \"troubling\" and \"insulting\".\n\n\"Any time we hear examples of brownface or blackface, it's making a mockery of someone for what they live and what their lived experiences are,\" Mr Singh told journalists on the campaign trail in Toronto.\n\nThe image was also criticised in a tweet by Green Party leader Elizabeth May.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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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End of twitter post 2 by Elizabeth May\n\nIt is still too early to say how damaging this will be for Justin Trudeau but there is no doubt his tough fight for re-election just got tougher.\n\nCanadians have made clear that they pay attention when Mr Trudeau does something that contradicts his progressive political brand.\n\nHe will also have to explain himself further to the many Canadians from diverse backgrounds who may feel deeply hurt by the image.\n\nJagmeet Singh - who has spoken openly about the racism he faced in Canada growing up - wrote online that this is \"not about the prime minister\".\n\n\"This is about every young person mocked for the colour of their skin, the child who had the turban ripped from their head.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four years of Justin Trudeau in two minutes\n\nBrian Lilley, a political columnist for the tabloid Toronto Sun, said it was a \"shocking photo\" and that Mr Trudeau was \"a hypocrite\".\n\n\"Trudeau isn't resigning over this even though he would demand that any other party fire any candidate caught in the same situation,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, political scientist Max Cameron told the Vancouver Sun that Mr Trudeau's apology \"hit all the right notes\", but had still caused \"a real dent in the strongest part of his armour\" as he had built himself up as a defender of multiculturalism and tolerance.\n\nAnalysing the fallout, weekly news magazine Maclean's said, \"Blackface has a long, troubling history in Canada.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Cheryl Thompson, who has researched the phenomenon in Canada, told the magazine it \"was not nearly so widely denounced in 2001 as it is now\".\n\nShe credited Mr Trudeau for apologising unequivocally but said she hoped his colleagues would not \"let him off easily\".\n\nMr Trudeau has taken a pro-immigration stance as prime minister, and worked to appeal to ethnic minority voters.\n\nHowever, his costume choices have attracted criticism in the past - including during a 2018 official visit to India, when his extensive range of traditional Indian outfits were mocked as \"ridiculously overdressed\".\n\nOpinion polls indicate October's election will be a tough race for Mr Trudeau who is seeking a second term in office.\n\nHis campaign got off to a bad start after his plane was grounded by a scraped wing on the first day. A bus ferrying journalists collided with the wing of the Liberal party's chartered Boeing last week.\n\nEarlier this year, in the US, Virginia governor Ralph Northam faced calls to resign over a photo in his 1984 yearbook.\n\nThe photo showed a person in blackface beside another in Ku Klux Klan robes.\n\nMr Northam initially apologised for the photo - but later said he was neither of the men pictured.\n\nHowever, he said he had worn blackface on a separate occasion that year while dressing up as Michael Jackson.", "Rhys Williams, from Bolton, has epidermolysis bullosa, a painful, life-limiting condition that has left him unable to walk.\n\nAs he turns 14, his mother has made an appeal for people to send him birthday cards to help improve his mood.\n\nHe has received 18,000, which he says has made him feel \"a lot better\".\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman says the case has \"stress-tested\" our unwritten constitution \"to the very limit\".\n\n\"If we had a written constitution that said 'two weeks proroguing is fine but five weeks isn't' we wouldn't be here today\n\n\"I think it's shown, really, the tectonic plates of the constitution grinding up against each other\", he says.\n\nBut, he adds, it all comes down to the decision of 11 people - the Supreme Court justices.\n\n\"We're in fascinating territory because if they do declare the PM has acted unlawfully then we really have to look at the nature of that declaration to see where things go from there.\n\nWhether its a case of MPs simply filing back in at the invitation of the Speaker, or whether that has to be activated by the government - quite how that is all going to shake down remains to be seen.", "The inquiry said \"the suffering does not stop when the abuse ends\"\n\nSurvivors of sexual abuse in care homes are denied compensation or have payouts cut because of their own criminal convictions, an inquiry has found.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry on Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) heard how one boy stole jewellery to survive after running away from an abusive care home.\n\nIt meant his compensation years later was cut in half.\n\nThe compensation scheme should recognise abuse can directly contribute to offending, the inquiry said.\n\nIt found that the criminal and civil justice systems are unable to provide redress for victims of abuse, often leaving them \"retraumatised\" and missing out on compensation.\n\n\"For victims and survivors of child sexual abuse, the suffering does not stop when the abuse ends. In our investigation we found that the criminal and civil court proceedings for redress can be frustrating, hostile and ultimately futile,\" said Professor Alexis Jay, chair of the inquiry.\n\n\"Many are left retraumatised and deeply unsatisfied with the often lengthy and confusing litigation.\"\n\nAmong the issues the inquiry identified was that the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) can deny or reduce claims if a victim has unspent criminal convictions.\n\nThe inquiry said the CICA used to have discretion to make full or reduced awards to people with certain criminal convictions, but that was removed in 2012 because the government believed publicly funded schemes should not benefit ex-offenders.\n\nOne man, abused as a child by two men at residential schools in the north-west of England, saw a payout of £12,000 reduced by half because of his own criminal record.\n\nHe told the inquiry he had run away from the abuse and stole jewellery from a travelling family because he \"needed to survive\".\n\nPaul Sinclair told the inquiry: \"Children who are abused in care often go on to offend because of the abuse\"\n\nPaul Sinclair, a survivor of abuse at Forde Park Approved School in Devon, said he did not apply for compensation because of the rule on criminal records.\n\n\"I believe that children who are abused in care often go on to offend because of the abuse that they suffered,\" he said.\n\nAnother victim said his claim was refused. \"I couldn't understand how I could be denied compensation when the things they used against me were as a result of what he had done to me,\" he said.\n\nEight men were convicted of crimes at Forde Park School in Devon during the 1960s and 1970s\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has launched a review into the criminal compensation system, and the inquiry said the rules should be changed so applications are not automatically rejected when victims' criminal records are likely to be linked to their abuse.\n\nThis report, on accountability and reparations, is one of 14 investigations being conducted by the ongoing inquiry. It heard from 38 witnesses including insurance brokers, lawyers, police officers and victims and survivors.\n\nIt focused on five key case studies of abuse from the 1960s to the present day: North Wales children's homes, Forde Park school in Devon, St Leonard's children's home in London, St Aidan's and St Vincent's children's homes in Cheshire and Merseyside, as well as Stanhope Castle school in County Durham.", "This week the BBC released new research on the conflict in Afghanistan – tracing every conflict-related death in the month of August.\n\nAccording to the data that was gathered, on average, more than a dozen civilians died every day.\n\nThe BBC spent a month visiting one of the country's busiest hospitals in the southern city of Kandahar.", "PC Andrew Harper was married four weeks before he was killed\n\nThe case against a man who was accused of murdering a police officer as he was investigating a burglary has been dropped, a court has heard.\n\nNewlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed after being dragged along a road by a vehicle in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on 15 August.\n\nJed Foster, 20, from Pingewood, has had his case \"discontinued\" after further police investigation, prosecutors said.\n\nThree teenagers charged with murdering PC Harper also appeared in court.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay told the Old Bailey: \"The Crown Prosecution Service concluded the full code is not met. There is a not a realistic prospect of conviction.\n\n\"Proceedings against Mr Foster cannot and should not be continued.\"\n\nMrs Justice Whipple said he would no longer be detained in custody.\n\nTributes were left at the site of PC Harper's death on the A4 Bath Road\n\nHenry Long, 18, from Reading, and two boys, 17, who cannot be named, are accused of murder and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nAppearing at the Old Bailey, Mr Long was remanded in custody, while the two other defendants were remanded in youth detention accommodation.\n\nA plea hearing has been set for 13 December, with a trial expected to take place on 9 March.\n\nThomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, has been charged with conspiracy to steal a quad bike and also appeared.\n\nHe was granted conditional bail until 13 December.\n\nPC Harper, 28, from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, was killed on the A4 Bath Road as he attended a reported break-in.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the officer, who got married four weeks earlier, died of multiple injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron can be heard saying \"she purred down the line\"\n\nDavid Cameron will apologise to the Queen after he was overheard saying she \"purred\" on hearing the result of the Scottish independence referendum.\n\nA camera crew recorded the PM telling former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg he had \"never heard someone so happy\" as the Queen after Scotland voted \"no\".\n\nMr Cameron has said he is \"embarrassed\" and \"extremely sorry\" for the remarks.\n\nHe has contacted Buckingham Palace and will apologise in person when he next meets the Queen, Downing Street said.\n\nLast Thursday, Scottish voters rejected independence from the UK by 55% to 45%.\n\nSpeaking in New York, Mr Cameron told Mr Bloomberg he had phoned the Queen to tell her the result.\n\n\"She purred down the line,\" he said. \"I've never heard someone so happy.\"\n\nHe added: \"It should never have been that close.\n\n\"It wasn't in the end, but there was a time in the middle of the campaign when it felt... I've said I want to find these polling companies and I want to sue them for my stomach ulcers because of what they put me through, you know. It was very nervous.\"\n\nFollowing the referendum result, the Queen said she believed Scotland would unite in a \"spirit of mutual respect and support\", despite \"strong feelings and contrasting emotions\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News revealed that 14 council investigations have been launched into \"organised and complex abuse\" in unregulated homes\n\nVulnerable teenagers in care are being placed at risk of abuse while living in unregulated homes in England and Wales, a BBC News investigation has found.\n\nAt least 14 council investigations have been launched into \"organised and complex abuse\" in the past four years.\n\nBBC News also obtained a confidential briefing reporting \"significant failings\" and spoke to one girl who had been trafficked and abused.\n\nThe government said children in care or leaving care \"deserve to be kept safe\".\n\nChildren over the age of 16 are increasingly being placed in unregulated homes, often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation.\n\nAs they are deemed to be providing support rather than care, they are not inspected by a regulator in England and Wales, despite the vulnerabilities of many of the children.\n\nSupport worker Andy says the homes run by Centurion Care were \"completely wild\"\n\nFreedom of Information requests to all UK councils revealed 13 investigations involving unregulated homes in England and one in Wales launched in the past four years.\n\nThe NSPCC says this suggests \"young people who need support are being exposed to serious dangers\".\n\n\"Organised and complex abuse\" is defined as \"abuse involving one or more abusers and a number of related or non-related abused children\" by the London Child Safeguarding Board.\n\nIncidents do not necessarily involve the staff themselves.\n\nOne of the investigations concerned children and young people living in homes in Essex and London run by a company called Centurion Care.\n\nBBC News obtained a confidential briefing sent around councils, claiming there were \"significant and numerous safeguarding failings\".\n\nMany of the children who lived in the homes - closed in 2017 - had faced some of the most challenging home lives imaginable and some had been involved in crime from an early age.\n\nCarla spent years in foster homes before being sent to Centurion Care.\n\nShe had a history of self-harm, which continued inside one of the company's homes in Basildon.\n\n\"There was a situation where it'd been really bad, I'd lost a lot of blood,\" she says.\n\nBut she says when she asked a member of staff to be taken to hospital, he said he could not leave the other residents alone - and there were no bandages for her to use.\n\n\"He was like, 'Oh, you should go walk to the shop,'\" she says.\n\nShe says an hour later, she was taken to a pharmacy.\n\nCarla says staff refused to take her to the hospital after she had taken an overdose\n\nAnd on another occasion, she took an overdose but says she was not taken to hospital until the next day.\n\n\"The staff shrugged it off,\" she says.\n\nCarla says she overdosed on three occasions while living in the home - but Centurion Care told BBC News it was aware of only one incident and the NHS 111 non-emergency telephone service had advised she did not require hospital care.\n\nAll its homes had first-aid kits, it added.\n\nAndy worked as a support worker across many of Centurion Care's homes, his first job working with young people.\n\n\"They were all very high risk - sexually exploited kids, drugs and alcohol abuse, some that had disabilities - all [under] one roof,\" he says.\n\nThe homes were \"completely wild\", with residents keeping drugs and large amounts of cash in their rooms, and Andy says he felt powerless to intervene.\n\n\"There was nothing you could have really done about it because the other staff members didn't do anything about it,\" he says.\n\nOne home was subject to police surveillance over concerns around criminal activity\n\nThe confidential briefing says one of the homes was under surveillance by Essex Police \"over concerns around drug dealing and criminal gang activity\", while other young people lived inside.\n\nCenturion Care said it had been aware of the police surveillance, had worked with the authorities and had introduced a CCTV system across all its homes to prevent drug dealing.\n\nEssex Police declined to say when the police surveillance had ended and how long residents had remained in the property.\n\nAndy says one child's story troubled him more than any other - a girl that frequently went missing.\n\nAnd he remembers looking out the window when he saw her for the last time.\n\n\"I just saw a bunch of boys in a car and she just jumped in,\" he says.\n\nShe was missing for more than a week before being found in the West Midlands, where she had been abused.\n\n\"It was the worst, no-one deserves that,\" she says. \"Whoever did what they did, someone needs to pay a price for the pain.\"\n\nLike a large number of children in care, she had been placed in a home outside of her local authority. She says she did not know the area at all and did not have any friends.\n\n\"I was always just running away, trying to get away from the home,\" she says.\n\nThere is no suggestion Centurion Care staff were involved in her trafficking.\n\nIt said they had all had local-authority safeguarding training and it had had relevant policies and procedures in place, including notifying the authorities.\n\nThree of the Centurion Care homes were in Basildon, Essex\n\nOne council that placed children in Centurion Care homes said it was unable to comment on \"police matters\" or \"individual cases\". Another said it had removed children as soon as it had become aware of concerns.\n\nLocal authorities are responsible for checks on unregulated homes in England and Wales. Many conduct unannounced visits but there is no mandatory inspection regime. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, the homes are regulated although not to the same the standard as children's homes.\n\nThe Department for Education in England declined to be interviewed.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Children in care or those leaving care, including older children, deserve to be kept safe in good quality accommodation.\n\n\"Councils have a legal duty to make sure accommodation for these children is suitable.\n\n\"We have written to all directors of children's services to remind them of this duty and we are working with the sector and with Ofsted to bear down on issues related to poor practice in the use of semi-independent accommodation.\"\n\nWhat are your experiences of unregulated homes or semi-independent accommodation? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The families of children killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting have put out a haunting video, showing how \"back to school essentials\" can be used to survive a school shooting.\n\nIt starts out normally enough, with kids showing off their new bags and snazzy folders.\n\nThe mood shifts, when one boy puts on his headphones and fails to see people behind him running from gunshots.\n\nIt ends saying \"school shootings are preventable if you know the signs\".\n\nThe video has been published by Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit organisation led by the families of children killed at the Sandy Hook primary school in Connecticut in 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The haunting video shows how \"back to school essentials\" can be used to survive a school shooting\n\nOn 14 December 2012, 20 children - aged between five and 10 - and six staff members were killed at Sandy Hook when a gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle before killing himself.\n\nThe video changes suddenly from smiling kids showing off their new trainers and skateboards at the start of the new school year, to them using those same items to escape gun violence.\n\n\"We don't want people to turn away from it, so pretending it doesn't exist is not helping to solve it,\" said Nicole Hockley, whose six-year-old son Dylan was killed at Sandy Hook.\n\n\"At the end, the girl with the phone gets me every time,\" she told NBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roman's best friend was among 22 people killed in El Paso in August 2019\n\nThis year, by 19 September - the 263rd day of the year - there had been 302 mass shootings in the US, according to the Gun Violence Archive.\n\nIf the current trend continues, 2019 is set to be the first year since 2016 with an average of more than one mass shooting a day.\n\nIn response to two mass shootings in August, US President Donald Trump said \"serious discussions\" were taking place about introducing \"meaningful\" background checks for people who want to buy guns.\n\nTo protect against potential violence, one US school is being rebuilt with concrete barriers in hallways so students can hide from bullets.\n\nMark Barden, co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise, says he refuses to accept school shootings as \"our new normal\".\n\n\"This is what our kids are having to think about now, and they shouldn't be. There is nothing normal about kids being shot, being hunted in their school.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "DUP Leader Arlene Foster spoke to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce on issues concerning devolution and Brexit\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said that she wants a solution to Brexit that does not affect Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nMrs Foster was speaking to reporters before she addressed the Dublin City Chamber of Commerce.\n\nShe also met with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar in Government Buildings after her address.\n\nThey discussed Brexit and the need for restoration of devolution.\n\nAsked if NI-specific solutions would not affect the current constitutional position of Northern Ireland, Mrs Foster said she wants a recognition that Northern Ireland is in the United Kingdom.\n\n\"What I want to see is Northern Ireland firmly being with the rest of Great Britain,\" she said.\n\n\"What we want to see happening is a recognition that we are on an island, we recognise that and we recognise the unique history and geography,\" she said.\n\n\"But we also have to recognise that we're in the UK and sometimes I think people forget that.\"\n\nShe said that she wants to see a sensible deal that works for Northern Ireland and \"our neighbours down here in the Republic of Ireland\".\n\n\"But one that works for the UK constitutional position as well. That's very important and one I hope the European Union will respect,\" she said.\n\nMrs Foster added that the DUP is often incorrectly pitted as a no-deal party.\n\n\"I think the sort of presentation that the DUP deal is a no-deal party is wrong and I think people get very alarmed when they hear that sort of rhetoric,\" she said.", "Finnish PM Antti Rinne (left) says he and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) agreed the new deadline for Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson has 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU, according to Finland's prime minister.\n\nAntti Rinne said he and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the UK needed to produce the proposals in writing by the end of September, adding if not, \"then it's over\".\n\nA Downing Street source said: \"We will continue negotiating and put forward proposals at the appropriate time.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said a deal is possible at a crucial summit of EU leaders on 17 October, but he has insisted Brexit will happen by the 31 October deadline, even if a deal is not agreed.\n\nThe UK government said talks with the EU have been making progress since Mr Johnson came into No 10 in July.\n\nIt said it had put forward \"a number of proposals\" as alternatives to the Irish border backstop - the policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland and a key sticking point in former PM Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has repeatedly refused to reveal details of the proposals in interviews, saying he did not want to negotiate in public.\n\nThe EU has continued to criticise the UK for not putting any plans in writing.\n\nEarlier, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said a meeting with Mr Johnson on Monday had been \"constructive\".\n\nBut he said until proposals had been put forward, \"I will not be able to tell you, looking you straight in the eye, that any real progress has been achieved\".\n\nMr Rinne spoke to reporters after a meeting with the French president in Paris on Wednesday.\n\nHe said: \"We both agreed that it is now time for Boris Johnson to produce his own proposals in writing - if they exist.\n\n\"If no proposals are received by the end of September, then it's over.\"\n\nThe Finnish PM intends to discuss the new deadline with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and Mr Johnson in the coming days, but the position has not yet been agreed with other EU nations.\n\nAn official at the Elysee said the plan was \"not at all a new proposal\" and added: \"If we don't get the proposals before the end of September, we will not have enough time to discuss them before the summit in October.\"\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted the prime minister was on course to deliver a \"fundamentally different\" Brexit deal to ensure the UK leaves on October 31.\n\nHe told a Telegraph event that to achieve such an outcome the government had to \"listen very carefully to what the DUP says\".\n\nDUP Leader Arlene Foster spoke to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce on issues concerning devolution and Brexit\n\nOn Wednesday, DUP leader Arlene Foster told business leaders in Dublin that she wanted a solution to Brexit that does not affect Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nMrs Foster - whose party's support had until recently given the Conservatives a majority in Parliament - said a Brexit deal \"will not be achieved that involves a backstop - whether it is UK-wide or Northern Ireland specific\".\n\nThe whole of the UK had to leave the customs union and single market, she said.\n\nBut she added that the DUP was prepared to \"look at Northern Ireland-specific solutions achieved with the support and consent of the representatives of the people of Northern Ireland\".\n\nProtesters outside the UK's Supreme Court in London\n\nIt comes as the legal battle over the suspension of the UK Parliament is to go into a third day at the Supreme Court later.\n\nThe UK government is arguing the decision to prorogue Parliament was a political matter and not for the courts to \"design a set of rules\" around it.\n\nBut campaigners say the move was used \"for an improper purpose\" - to stop MPs scrutinising Mr Johnson's plans in the run up to Brexit on 31 October.\n\nThe prime minister prorogued Parliament earlier this month for five weeks, with MPs not scheduled to return until 14 October.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who travelled to Balmoral to seek the Queen's approval over the move, said it was \"nonsense\" to suggest she was misled over the decision.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he believed voters want the country to \"get on\" with Brexit\n\nBoris Johnson has claimed his political opponents \"don't trust the people\" as they vowed to again block his demand for a snap general election.\n\nOpposition parties have said they will vote against or abstain in Monday's vote on whether to hold a poll.\n\nMr Johnson said the public was tired of \"dither and delay\" over Brexit, and want us to \"get this thing done\".\n\nAnd he vowed to \"go to Brussels and get a deal\" that would allow the UK to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems, the SNP and Plaid Cymru held talks on Friday on their strategy over the timing of a general election after joining forces earlier this week to block the PM's plan to hold an early vote\n\nAll four parties have said they will again not support the PM's call for an election in the Commons on Monday.\n\nThey are concerned that Mr Johnson would not stick to his pledge to have the election on 15 October, and would instead wait until after the UK leaves the EU on 31 October - potentially without a deal.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Aberdeenshire, the prime minister told journalists that it was \"curious\" the opposition had refused his offer of an election.\n\nA bull bumped into a plain clothes police officer while being walked by the PM at a farm in Banchory, near Aberdeen\n\nMr Johnson added: \"They don't trust the people, they don't want an election - perhaps it is because they don't think that they will win.\n\n\"Fine. I'll go to Brussels, I'll get a deal and we'll make sure we come out on 31 October\".\n\nHe insisted a deal would be agreed by 17 or 18 October - the dates of an EU Council summit - and would allow the UK to \"start a new partnership with our European friends\".\n\nThe PM said the public was tired of \"endless, pointless delays\" to Brexit, and \"want us to get on and do it\", and that \"never in history has the opposition party been given the chance for election and turned it down.\"\n\nMr Johnson has previously said he would rather be \"dead in a ditch\" than ask for another extension to Brexit - but he said resigning as PM if the country does not leave the EU by that date was \"not a hypothesis I want to contemplate\".\n\nHe also said he could see \"no reason\" to agree to a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nIn other developments on Friday:\n\nMr Johnson visited a fish market in Peterhead as he kicked off his trip to Scotland\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the possibility of having an election was \"extremely attractive\" but the \"immediate crisis\" of preventing a no-deal Brexit had to be dealt with first.\n\nScotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, says she would \"relish\" a general election, and predicted that the SNP would \"beat the Tories\" in Scotland on a ticket of offering the country a chance to \"choose our own future\".\n\nBut she told BBC Scotland that her priority was stopping a no-deal Brexit, and that a November general election was now looking more likely than October.\n\nAnd she said holding a general election before the end of October could allow Mr Johnson to \"cut and run\".\n\nThe prime minister's trip to Scotland will include a visit to the Queen's Balmoral estate.\n\nHe is expected to cut short his visit to the monarch's summer residence - a traditional prime ministerial trip each summer - because of the Brexit crisis.\n\nRather than the usual weekend-long visit, Mr Johnson and girlfriend Carrie Symonds are likely to return to London on Saturday.\n\nA politically bruising week for the prime minister has seen Mr Johnson lose his Commons majority, the expulsion of 21 of his own MPs for rebelling and his younger brother resign from government, alongside defeats in the Commons over Brexit.\n\nNicola Sturgeon does not believe a general election in October is in the public interest\n\nMr Johnson used his visit to Scotland to announce £51.4m of funding for Scottish farmers over the next two years, in addition to a £160m package unveiled earlier this week as part of the Spending Review.\n\nThe move is aimed at settling a long-running row over the distribution of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy payments across the UK, and meets the recommendations of the newly-published Bew Review.\n\nThe funding was announced as the UK government confirmed it would work to ensure cash for farmers was fairly allocated across the whole of the UK, and that the industry would be ready for a \"prosperous future\" outside the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. So who actually wants an election?\n\nNFU Scotland president Andrew McCornick described the move as being the \"largest funding uplift for the sector in recent memory\".\n\nBut the SNP said Mr Johnson was like a \"thief returning to the scene of a crime\", while Labour said the prime minister was \"no friend\" of Scottish agriculture.\n\nThe prime minister started his visit to Scotland at Peterhead Fish Market and joined in with a bidding war over a box of cod - which he ended up buying for £185.\n\nAsked whether Mr Johnson had paid a good price, fish market chief executive Simon Brebner said: \"If you're selling, it's a great price. If you're buying, maybe it's a little high.\"\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app. Click\n\nSerena Williams has another shot at winning a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title after demolishing Elina Svitolina to reach the US Open final.\n\nThe American, 37, overpowered the Ukrainian fifth seed to win 6-3 6-1.\n\nWilliams, seeded eighth, is aiming for her first Grand Slam win since giving birth in September 2017.\n\nThe six-time champion will face Canadian 19-year-old Bianca Andreescu in Saturday's final in New York.\n\nIn a gripping encounter, Andreescu defeated 22-year-old Swiss Belinda Bencic 7-6 (7-3) 7-5, winning the last five games of the match.\n\nAndreescu, who is playing in the US Open main draw for the first time and competing in only her fourth Grand Slam, was born nine months after Williams won her first title at Flushing Meadows in 1999.\n\nWilliams underlines why she is favourite for victory\n\nWilliams is already considered by many as the greatest female player ever, yet will not be satisfied herself until she has levelled - and then overtaken - Australian Margaret Court's total of Grand Slam singles titles.\n\nFollowing the difficult birth of daughter Olympia two years ago which almost cost Williams her life, she has reached consecutive Wimbledon finals - plus last year's controversial US Open showpiece against Naomi Osaka - without capping what has already been a remarkable comeback with another major win.\n\nFor Williams to not go on and win a seventh US Open title - an Open era record in the women's singles - would be a major shock on the evidence of her performances over the past two weeks.\n\nFree of the knee injury which bothered her earlier this year, she is looking as sharp, powerful and clinical as she has in a long time.\n\nThat was illustrated by the ease with which she swatted aside Svitolina, the highest-ranked player to reach the last eight at Flushing Meadows and competing in her second successive Grand Slam semi-final.\n\nThe 24-year-old has one of the most impenetrable returning games on the WTA Tour, yet even she could not keep Williams at bay.\n\nAfter a slow start where Svitolina could conceivably have led 2-0, it was the American who broke at the first attempt and from that point it was one-way traffic.\n\nWilliams found her range quickly and dominated with her powerful, precise hitting which resulted in 33 winners in a match which lasted only one hour and 10 minutes.\n\n\"The first two games were long games and I know how she can play - she is a good player,\" Williams said.\n\n\"I wanted to not get off to a slow start and I wanted to hang in there.\"\n\nSvitolina was expected to provide a tougher test for Williams after clinically dispatching British number one Johanna Konta in their quarter-final on Wednesday.\n\nWith her fleet of foot and ability to return, she would have been hoping to withstand everything fired by Williams and then outlast her older opponent.\n\nBut even she could not cope with the pummelling produced by the American.\n\nSvitolina's inability to take any of six break points in the early part of the first set proved terminal to her hopes.\n\nHelped by three unforced errors from Williams in the opening game, Svitolina created three break points which she could not convert and then saw her illustrious opponent fight back from 40-0 down to break for a 2-0 lead after a hard-fought 15 minutes.\n\nAnother 40-0 lead disappeared as Williams held for a 4-1 lead and from that point Svitolina's confidence sapped, along with her ability to push her opponent.\n\n\"I just wish I could have taken those opportunities,\" said Svitolina, who won the season-ending WTA Tour Finals last year.\n\n\"It could be maybe a 2-2 or 3-3 instead of 0-3, which allows you to push to play more freely.\"\n\nIn the second set she was not able to touch Williams' serve, winning just three receiving points.\n\n\"She has unbelievable strength. She gives lots of power,\" Svitolina said.\n\n\"There's lots of power behind her shots all the time. That's what makes her an unbelievable, legendary tennis player.\"\n\nSaturday's final at Flushing Meadows comes four weeks after Williams tearfully retired with a back injury against Andreescu in the Rogers Cup final in Toronto.\n\nAndreescu and Bencic were both competing in their first major semi-final, with the Canadian becoming the first teenager to play in a US Open last-four match since 2009.\n\nBencic made the running in the opening set but was undone as Andreescu saved all six break points created by the Swiss.\n\nAndreescu raced into a 5-0 lead in the first-set tie-break, and despite Bencic attempting a comeback, she made her lead count as her visibly frustrated opponent came to rue her missed opportunities.\n\nPerhaps it was the spur that Bencic - who reached the quarter-finals in New York as a 17-year-old in 2014 - needed as she replied in stunning fashion, quickly going a double break up, and despite having her own serve broken, immediately broke again to extend her lead to 5-2.\n\nBut Andreescu refused to go away and won the next five games, breaking Andreescu once more on her third match point to book her place in the final.\n\n\"I think it's just all the hard work I've put in through the years,\" she said. \"If someone told me a year ago I would be in the US Open final this year, I'd tell them they were crazy.\n\n\"It's just surreal. I really don't know what to say. It's a dream come true playing against Serena in the final of the US Open. It's crazy.\"\n\nAndreescu may not wish to dwell for too long on the highlights of Williams' semi-final performance.\n\nThe power could be taken for granted, but perhaps not the quality of the angles she produced and her movement around the court.\n\nThe stakes rise enormously in a Grand Slam final, and Williams has lost her previous three, but in terms of preparation and confidence-building this was extremely handy.\n\nNot that Andreescu has much to worry about, as the 19-year-old has won her past 22 completed matches, either side of a shoulder injury.\n\nNo wonder she never knows when she is beaten. Bencic made the running in both sets, but still ended up losing them.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Boris Johnson is at odds with Parliament on the issue of leaving the EU without a deal\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October \"deal or no deal\". But Chancellor Sajid Javid has now conceded that the deadline \"can't be met\".\n\nWhile opposition parties decide in which circumstances they could support Mr Johnson's request for a December general election, the fate of the Brexit deadline currently lies with European leaders.\n\nAs things stand, it is still just about possible for the UK to leave the EU without a deal at the end of the month.\n\nNow that EU ambassadors have agreed that there should be an extension, this route to a no-deal is extremely unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk on 19 October, requesting a three-month Brexit delay\n\nBut for an extension to the Halloween deadline to go ahead, leaders of the other 27 EU countries have to agree unanimously. Until the change is formalised, the legal \"exit date\" remains at 31 October.\n\nNow that the EU has agreed to an extension, it could still offer the UK a leaving date other than 31 January. In that instance, MPs would have up to two days in which they could vote to reject the proposal. If they don't vote, the proposal is automatically agreed to.\n\nThe EU may not announce the length of the extension until Tuesday, meaning any vote by MPs could theoretically happen on 31 October itself.\n\nIf the proposal was rejected, the extension would be off and a no-deal Brexit would happen next Thursday.\n\nMPs would be unlikely to reject a proposal, however, for two reasons:\n\nEven with an extension agreed and put in place before the end of the month, a no-deal Brexit is not \"off the table\". Instead, it just pushes the possibility further into the future.\n\nThe UK will need to wait for an answer from the EU\n\nRegardless of the length of the extension, the prime minister would probably still try to push his deal through Parliament.\n\nHowever, if the government is unable to implement his deal (or another) before the new deadline, the UK would leave without a deal.\n\nThis is the most controversial and unlikely scenario.\n\nIf an extension were agreed, a minister would be required to change the deadline in law using something called a statutory instrument (the power to change the law without a vote of MPs).\n\nAnd, theoretically, they could simply refuse to do this.\n\nBut not only would this be unlawful, it could be argued the \"exit date\" would be automatically changed anyway, because international law trumps domestic law.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI weather presenter Barra Best explains how the naming system works and what some of the chosen names are.\n\nIrish names feature prominently on a list to beware of in the coming year.\n\nBrendan, Ciara, Liam, Róisín and Tara are among the 21 names for storms set to hit Britain and Ireland in 2019-20.\n\nThe names are chosen by the public in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and are aimed at raising awareness of severe weather.\n\nThey have been announced by the Met Office and Met Éireann, joined this year by KNMI, the Dutch national weather forecasting service.\n\nThey received thousands of suggestions from the public after asking people to send in ideas for future storm names.\n\nThe list of 21 names was compiled from these suggestions, with some of the more popular names picked along with names that reflect the three nations' diversity.\n\nIt is the fifth year that names have been used for storms that hit Ireland and Britain.\n\nThey have been announced by the Met Office and Met Éireann, joined this year by KNMI, the Dutch national weather forecasting service\n\nMet Éireann's Evelyn Cusack, said the scheme had been an \"undoubted success in raising awareness of the threat and impact of severe weather\".\n\n\"We look forward to strengthening even further the close working relationship between the forecasters at Met Éireann, the Met Office and now also at KNMI in the Netherlands.\"\n\nDerrick Ryal, of the Met Office, said: \"We were delighted with the public response to our call for names earlier this year and are really pleased storm naming has been embraced by press, media and public to better communicate the potential impacts of severe weather so people are better prepared, when it matters.\"\n• None Why do storms have names?", "Sir Philip Green's Topshop retailing empire plunged to a loss last year, blaming a \"dramatically\" changed retail landscape and increased competition.\n\nThe business, which also includes Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins, has since agreed a rescue deal with its creditors that triggered 48 store closures.\n\nThe results for the year to 1 September 2018 show a loss of £169.2m compared with a £49.4m profit a year earlier.\n\nIt also warned it may need fresh funds.\n\nThe rescue deal, agreed in June, involved the landlords to the chains of stores backing a number of company voluntary arrangements (CVA), allowing the business to reach an agreement with its creditors to pay off all or part of its debts.\n\nIn an update provided in the latest results, the directors say are they \"confident that we will deliver on our plan, improve the way we work and win the hearts and minds of more and more of our customers\".\n\nThe results are for Taveta Investments, the holding company of the Arcadia group of businesses owned by Sir Philip's wife Tina.\n\nThe company said a 4.5% fall in its turnover was caused by \"the ongoing challenging global market conditions for retailers\".\n\nIf exceptional items and other one-off costs are stripped out the company made an operating profit of £78.1m, down from £124.1m a year earlier.\n\nTaveta said profits were knocked because it was not able to close stores at the same pace that sales fell.\n\n\"After coming through a challenging year, we are now very clear on our strategic direction,\" it added.\n\nIn a trading update in the latest results, the directors say that after closing its US stores and the Outfit Kids business, the group is expected to remain in its current form with a \"portfolio of diverse, market-leading brands\".\n\nTina Green, owner of Arcadia with her husband, Arcadia chairman Sir Philip Green\n\nThe results highlight the importance of refinancing a £310m loan on the flagship Topshop store on London's Oxford Street, which is currently due to be repaid in December.\n\nIf that does not happen, the company said \"the lenders would be able to enforce their security on its property in order to recover their debt\".\n\nThe directors express confidence that the loan can be refinanced. They say the store remains an attractive site, with Nike taking an additional floor in the building, while space previously used by Miss Selfridge has been leased to retailer Vans.\n\nHowever, they also say that the risk around the refinancing of the Oxford Street store and the \"on-going difficult financial conditions in a volatile retail sector\" could force the business to seek fresh financing.\n\nOn a pre-tax basis, Taveta's loss is £177m compared with profits of £53.5m a year earlier.\n\nResults for Arcadia, filed separately, show a pre-tax loss of £93m compared with £164m in the previous year.\n\nIn June, Sir Philip acknowledged to the BBC that the retail landscape had changed and that he had been slow to react.\n\n\"The market place has changed forever - people want a different kind of service. Should we have seen that three or four years ago - maybe. But now we need to get on with the job,\" he told the BBC in June.\n\nThe business has not been alone in finding the going tough on the High Street.\n\nEarlier this year, Britain's biggest department store chain Debenhams fell into the hands of its lenders as part of an administration process, while House of Fraser was sold to Mike Ashley's Sports Direct last year.\n\nMarks and Spencer has also illustrated the woes facing traditional retailers, falling out of the FTSE 100 index this week amid competition from firms such as Primark on the High Street and Boohoo online.", "Lynsey Milroy sent us this Oor Wullie pic from Aberdeen Beach to mark the final day of his Big Bucket Trail. She managed to see all 200 before they were removed to go up for auction. This one is called \"Ceol na Mara\", which means Sound of the Sea in Gaelic, and was painted by Moira Milne.", "Mugabe was the only leader Zimbabwe had known since independence. He is seen here, (second from left) in March 1980, with the Prince of Wales, Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) leader Joshua Nkoma and Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington.", "The memo suggested a poll that \"shows up the inequity of the existing border\"\n\nA top-secret memo written by an Army general during the Troubles refers to Britain needing to find a way to \"gradually escape\" from its commitment to Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was discovered by the BBC NI's Spotlight programme during the making of a major new series on the conflict.\n\nIt was written by Sir Michael Carver, who was providing advice to government in 1972 as the Army's chief of staff.\n\nLord Carver was the Army's chief of staff in 1972\n\nThe former chief of staff, later Lord Carver, wrote: \"If I am right, and we want a lasting solution, it must lie in finding a way in which HM Government can gradually escape from the commitment to the border.\"\n\nHe suggested a \"plebiscite\", or poll, organised \"in such a way that it shows up the inequity of the existing border\".\n\nRare film footage shows Martin McGuinness (right) present as a car bomb is assembled\n\nThe programme makers have also obtained rare film footage showing Martin McGuinness, the former IRA commander, in the presence of people assembling a car bomb.\n\nIdentifiable by its licence plate, the vehicle was used in an attack on Shipquay Street in the centre of Londonderry in 1972.\n\nThe car was used in a bomb explosion in Derry city centre\n\nIn other footage, the former Sinn Féin deputy first minister of Northern Ireland is seen showing children weapons and ammunition.\n\nPart one of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History covers 1966 to 1972 and also explores the rise of Ian Paisley, who went on become DUP leader and first minister.\n\nA former senior army officer, David Hancock, told the programme Mr Paisley \"financed\" a UVF bombing in Kilkeel in 1969.\n\nTargeting infrastructure, the blast was blamed on the IRA, but was part of a loyalist campaign designed to destabilise the Stormont government of Terence O'Neill.\n\nMr Hancock said police had shown him \"evidence\" that Mr Paisley \"had supplied the money which financed the explosion\".\n\nMr Paisley's son Ian, the DUP MP for North Antrim, said the allegations were \"complete and total poppycock\" and criticised the BBC for not approaching the Paisley family with them.\n\nIan Paisley told the Nolan programme on BBC Radio Ulster there was \"absolutely no truth whatsoever in what I can only describe as a filthy story designed to try and impugn the reputation of a dead man\".\n\nA BBC Spokesperson said: \"The BBC has complete confidence in the editorial integrity of the programme.\n\n\"As no allegations were made against the wider Paisley family it was not necessary to offer them a right to reply.\"\n\nThe series comprises seven programmes and contains interviews with around 100 people as well as archive never shown before.\n\nThe editor of Spotlight, Jeremy Adams, said the series had uncovered \"new findings\" on the Troubles.\n\n\"The past has shaped our present and it's vitally important that truths continue to be told.\"\n\nThe first episode of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Four on Tuesday, 10 September at 20:30 BST.", "The death toll from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas will be \"staggering\", the country's government has warned as aid efforts are being stepped up.\n\nOfficials are sending morticians and 200 body bags to the Abaco Islands, the worst-hit part of the archipelago.\n\nThe storm, which has now weakened, is moving slowly north along the eastern US seaboard.", "Opposition parties say they will not back the prime minister's call for an election - left to right: Jo Swinson, Jeremy Corbyn, Liz Saville Roberts and Ian Blackford\n\nUK opposition parties have agreed not to back Boris Johnson's demand for a general election before the EU summit in mid-October.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems, the SNP and Plaid Cymru say they will vote against the government or abstain in Monday's vote on whether to hold a snap poll.\n\nBut the PM said the parties were making an \"extraordinary political mistake\".\n\nMeanwhile, a bill designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit has been approved by the House of Lords and will pass into law.\n\nIt will force the prime minister to ask the EU for the Brexit deadline to be extended beyond 31 October if no deal is agreed by the UK and Brussels by 19 October.\n\nMr Johnson wants an election to take place on 15 October, ahead of that date and the EU summit on 17 and 18 October.\n\nHe argues that a snap poll will allow the government to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit by the end of October.\n\nBut opposition MPs - who, along with Conservative rebels, have already defeated one attempt by the government to bring in an early election - say Mr Johnson is trying to push through a no-deal exit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring the past week the prime minister has suffered several defeats over Brexit in Parliament, expelled 21 of his own MPs for rebelling and seen his younger brother, Jo Johnson, resign from government.\n\nFollowing the meeting of opposition parties on Friday, a Labour Party spokesman said: \"Jeremy Corbyn hosted a positive conference call with other opposition party leaders this morning.\n\n\"They discussed advancing efforts to prevent a damaging no-deal Brexit and hold a general election once that is secured.\"\n\nAs good weeks go, for Boris Johnson this wasn't one.\n\nDefeated and defeated again in the Commons, choosing to sack more than 20 of his most respected though rebellious colleagues - provoking uproar from Tories who say that was brutally heavy-handed, and now trying to sound conciliatory.\n\nThe list of Tory MPs standing down at the next election has continued to grow, and they look like reinforcing Mr Johnson's critics.\n\nAnd the House of Lords sent legislation to ban no-deal, and maybe force the PM to seek a Brexit extension, to become law.\n\nHe won't break his word. Civil servants are clear he can't break the law. Mr Johnson needs a way to force an election, or salvage his plan to deliver Brexit - maybe without getting an EU deal first. In Downing Street there's no sign they've found one.\n\nThe options on No 10's table - after another expected defeat on election timing next week - range from quitting office in hope of getting back in, to counting on the EU to deny the UK the Brexit extension the PM doesn't want.\n\nIf there's a cunning plan - and many people, in and out of government, don't believe there is - it seems to need more work. And soon.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he was \"desperate for an election\", but it could not happen until an extension to Article 50 - the process by which the UK is leaving the EU - had been secured.\n\n\"It's not just about our own party interests; it's about our collective national interests,\" he said. \"So we are prepared to work with others to make sure we get the timing right.\"\n\nHe said they wanted to make sure the UK did not \"crash out\" in a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry told Today that FTPA election legislation can't be amended\n\nLiz Saville Roberts, Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader, said there was an \"opportunity to bring down Boris\" and \"we should take that\".\n\nAnd a Lib Dem spokeswoman said the group was clear that \"we are not going to let Boris Johnson cut and run\".\n\n\"The Liberal Democrat position for a while now is that we won't vote for a general election until we have an extension agreed with the EU. I think the others are coming round to that,\" she said.\n\n\"As a group we will all vote against or abstain on Monday.\"\n\nBut Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said the public were \"sick of watching politicians bicker\" about Brexit and it was time for an election.\n\nHe said opposition parties should \"stop being cowardly, put the matter to the public, and get resolution at last, so the country can move forward with confidence and optimism for the future\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. So who actually wants an election?\n\nMr Johnson has promised the UK will leave the EU \"do or die\" on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nBut he said on Friday that he would go to Brussels on 17 October and reach a deal.\n\nHe added that resigning as prime minister if he did not get one by then was \"not a hypothesis\" he would be willing to contemplate.\n\nHe also said he was \"perplexed\" by the decision of opposition parties to \"run away\" from an election.\n\n\"All I see is Corbyn and the SNP clubbing together to try and lock us into the EU when it's time to get this thing done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the most sensational paradox - never in history has the opposition party been given the chance for election and has turned it down.\"", "British Airways and its pilots have been urged by Number 10 to \"sort out\" the dispute which will see pilots walk out next week in a row over pay.\n\n\"The unions and BA need to get round the table and sort this out. The public would expect nothing less,\" it said.\n\nBA pilots are due to strike on Monday and Tuesday over a pay offer pilots' union Balpa says is too low.\n\nThe vast majority of flights are expected to be cancelled on those two days, causing knock-on disruption.\n\nBA would not say how many flights had been affected, but reports suggested it was around 1,600 flights.\n\n\"Nobody should have their travel plans disrupted or their holidays ruined,\" Number 10 said.\n\nThe airline says it has emailed customers travelling on flights that are affected but the flight's status can still be checked on the website.\n\nThe airline and the union did not provide an update on the status of their dispute on Friday.\n\nThe two-day strike, set for next week, follows failed negotiations between the union and the airline over a pay offer of 11.5% over three years.\n\nUnite and GMB, representing cabin crew and engineers, have accepted the offer.\n\nHowever, pilots have argued that the pay award should be higher, following recent years of low pay increases and BA's recent strong financial performance.\n\nBA has said it was open to \"constructive talks\", but said Balpa was not acting in good faith.\n\nThe union has said it would call off the strike if BA would discuss a new proposal outlined in a letter on Thursday to the airline.\n\nThe union's general secretary Brian Strutton said his members were still \"very angry\" with BA, but were also willing to be flexible.\n\n\"They also want to leave no stone unturned in trying to find a resolution to their dispute,\" he said.\n\nIn response, BA had said: \"We do not believe the union is acting in good faith by making an 11th-hour inflated proposal which would cost an additional £50m.\"\n\nThe airline said Balpa should return to the talks without pre-conditions. The union was acting \"cynically\" by waiting until a late stage when the airline had already made arrangements to manage the industrial action, BA added.\n\n\"Our customers need the certainty that Balpa will call off the strikes for good, not just for two days next week,\" the airline said.\n\nA further day of strike action is scheduled for 27 September.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Double Dave was spotted in New Jersey's Pine Barrens forested area\n\nA rare two-headed baby timber rattlesnake has been found in a forest in the US state of New Jersey.\n\nThe reptile, named Double Dave, was spotted last month and taken by an environmental group.\n\nJoined at the body, the baby venomous snake has two fully-formed heads, four eyes and two flickering tongues - which work independently of each other.\n\n\"It would be pretty difficult for this snake to survive in the wild,\" environmentalist Dave Schneider said.\n\nHe said the snake stiffens when trying to escape, and it would have been an easy catch for predators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Schneider from Herpetological Associates (HA), a consultancy specialising in the study of endangered and threatened reptiles and amphibians, said he and his colleague spotted Double Dave on 25 August in the Pine Barrens forested area.\n\nThis happened as they were observing a rattlesnake giving birth.\n\nTwo-headed snakes are usually born the same way as conjoined twins: a developing embryo begins to split into identical twins - but then stops part way.\n\nThey came up with the name Double Dave because Mr Schneider and his colleague are both called David.\n\nMr Schneider told the BBC a special permit had been obtained from the state authorities for HA to keep and study the rare snake.\n\n\"We'll take care of it,\" he said.", "Laing appeared at the Strictly launch at the end of August\n\nMade In Chelsea star Jamie Laing has pulled out of this year's Strictly Come Dancing after injuring his foot while recording the launch show.\n\nHe will be seen in the pre-recorded launch episode on BBC One on Saturday, but won't play any further part.\n\n\"I'm absolutely devastated that I'm unable to continue in the competition,\" the 30-year-old said. \"I was so excited to hit the dance floor.\"\n\nAt the weekend, he was seen on crutches and with a protective boot on his foot.\n\nNo details have been released about whether he will be replaced in the line-up.\n\n\"I would like to wish the lovely couples all the very best and hope they enjoy their time on the show to the fullest,\" he added.\n\nExecutive producer Sarah James said: \"We are so sad that Jamie won't be able to take part in the series, he had already lit up the ballroom during the launch show with his boundless energy and enthusiasm. We all wish him a full and speedy recovery.\"\n\nKevin Clifton, who lifted the glitterball trophy last year with Stacey Dooley, sent a message of sympathy on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kevin Clifton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian Chris Ramsey, a contestant on this year's show, said he was \"gutted\" 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. Skip twitter post 2 by Chris Ramsey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 footballer Alex Scott, another of this year's hopefuls, wished Laing a quick recovery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Alex Scott MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWithdrawals from Strictly have been very rare over its 17 series to date, with just a handful leaving the ballroom bonanza without being voted off:\n\nOxford-born Laing has been one of the stars of Channel 4's structured reality show Made In Chelsea since 2011. He also co-hosts the Private Parts podcast and appeared in the first series of Celebrity Hunted in 2017.\n\nThis year's Strictly line-up also includes TV star Anneka Rice, Olympic rower James Cracknell, former footballer David James, sports presenter Mike Bushell and ex-Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Edward Vines is accused of sending Emily Maitlis a letter via her mother\n\nA prisoner has appeared in court accused of trying to contact BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis - a breach of his restraining order.\n\nEdward Vines, 49, of HMP Ranby in Nottinghamshire, pleaded not guilty to breaching it by sending her a letter via her mother between 7 and 16 May this year.\n\nThe order had been imposed on him at Oxford Crown Court in 2008.\n\nHe represented himself at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday.\n\nThe charge alleges that Vines acted in breach of the restraining order without reasonable excuse, by writing a letter to Marion Maitlis to pass on to Emily Maitlis - which he was prohibited from doing.\n\nHe met and briefly became friends with the Newsnight presenter when they were both students at Cambridge University.\n\nJudge Gregory Dickinson QC remanded the defendant into custody at the end of the hearing.\n\nThe trial is set to start on 3 February next year.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's Jeremy Corbyn is hosting a meeting with other opposition party leaders to discuss their approach to the timing of a general election.\n\nMPs get another chance on Monday to vote for Boris Johnson's call for a snap election, after rejecting it earlier this week.\n\nBut Labour's Emily Thornberry called the PM \"slippery\", adding that he could use a poll as a \"distraction\".\n\nMr Johnson said Labour was uniting with the SNP to \"lock us into the EU\".\n\nIt is the end of a tumultuous week for the prime minister, who has suffered a series of defeats over Brexit in Parliament, expelled 21 of his own MPs for rebelling and seen his younger brother resign from government.\n\nJo Johnson quit as a minister on Thursday and announced he was standing down as an MP, saying he had been \"torn between family loyalty and the national interest\".\n\nThe prime minister's decision to prorogue - suspend - Parliament next week ahead of a Queen's Speech on 14 October is also being challenged in the courts in Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut campaigner Gina Miller has lost a judicial review she brought to London's High Court over the prorogation. However, permission has been granted for the case to be heard in the UK Supreme Court on 17 September.\n\nAlso on Friday, Mr Johnson travelled to Scotland to announce additional funding for farmers. He will later visit the Queen's Balmoral estate.\n\nMeanwhile, a bill designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit is expected to finish its progress through the House of Lords.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry told Today that FTPA election legislation can't be amended\n\nShadow foreign secretary Ms Thornberry told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the possibility of having an election was \"extremely attractive\" but the \"immediate crisis\" of preventing a no-deal Brexit had to be dealt with first.\n\n\"If we vote to have a general election then, no matter what it is that Boris Johnson promises, it is up to him to advise the Queen when the general election should be,\" she said.\n\nMs Thornberry said Mr Johnson was \"as slippery as can be\" and could not be trusted over the timing of polling day.\n\nShe said that because Mr Johnson had said he would \"die in a ditch\" rather than delay Brexit beyond 31 October, \"our first priority has to be that we must stop no-deal and we must make sure that is going to happen\".\n\n\"We have a prime minister who is so unlike any other prime minister that we have had. In the past, if you passed a law you could be pretty sure the prime minister will abide by that law,\" she said.\n\n\"But we heard from the prime minister's own mouth that he will die in a ditch - obviously I hope he doesn't, but I actually hope he would obey the law.\"\n\nBut Mr Johnson said he would go to Brussels and get a deal so the UK can come out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nHe said resigning as prime minister if he did not get a Brexit deal by then was \"not a hypothesis\" he would be willing to contemplate.\n\nMr Johnson wants an early general election to take place on 15 October and he said he was \"perplexed\" by the decision of opposition parties to \"run away\" from an election.\n\n\"All I see is Corbyn and the SNP clubbing together to try and lock us into the EU when it's time to get this thing done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the most sensational paradox - never in history has the opposition party been given the chance for election and has turned it down.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You should be in Brussels; you're in Morley,\" a member of the public told Boris Johnson when he arrived\n\nIn a speech on Thursday, Mr Johnson argued an election was \"the only way to get this thing [Brexit] moving\".\n\nBut during his visit to the West Yorkshire town of Morley, a member of the public told Mr Johnson he should be negotiating the UK's exit from the European Union, not travelling around the UK.\n\nHowever, Theresa May's former chief of staff Gavin Barwell told the BBC's Brexitcast that Mr Johnson's Brexit strategy was not credible.\n\nHe said the government had been defeated in the most recent Brexit votes because \"people do not believe there is a serious attempt at the moment to get a revised deal\".\n\nMr Barwell said Mr Johnson's aim was \"a very demanding one\" as the government \"hasn't published any detailed proposal that the EU can consider or that MPs can look at and go: 'Ok that's what we're trying to do.'\"\n\nIn the Lords, peers will continue debating a Labour-backed bill designed to block a no-deal exit on 31 October, after MPs passed the legislation on Wednesday.\n\nAll stages of the bill are due to be completed in the Lords by 17:00 BST, at which point the bill can go back to the House of Commons before being presented for royal assent.\n\nMeanwhile, a judgement is expected on a challenge to the suspension of Parliament brought by businesswoman Gina Miller and former Conservative prime minister John Major in England's High Court.\n\nIn Belfast, the Royal Courts of Justice will hear a separate case arguing that the suspension is unconstitutional. Meanwhile, a group of politicians in Scotland are attempting to overturn a court ruling made on Wednesday that the plan to shut down Parliament is legal.", "Alcohol sold in supermarkets should be taxed at a higher rate than drink sold in pubs, a think tank has suggested.\n\nA \"pub relief\" would make drinking at home less affordable and support the pub sector, according to the Social Market Foundation (SMF).\n\nThe Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS), which commissioned the research, said it would help to cut problem drinking.\n\nTaxing cider and wine by the unit in England would also have public health benefits, the IAS said.\n\nThe idea would be to shift taxation towards high-strength drinks bought for consumption at home - and away from weaker products bought in pubs and bars, the SMF said.\n\nThat could mean that beer in pubs would become less expensive, depending on how the duties were structured.\n\nTaxing cider and wine by the unit, as is already the case with beer and spirits, would also help cut down problem drinking, it added.\n\nAccording to recent research, cheap supermarket alcohol was the \"number one\" concern for publicans, said IAS senior policy analyst Aveek Bhattacharya, followed by competition from big chains.\n\n\"Wetherspoon's comes in, and that's a killer,\" he said, adding: \"Business rates are a big pressure.\"\n\nThe number of pubs in the UK has declined by nearly a quarter since 2008 as small pubs disappear and big chains consolidate their businesses, according to the latest official figures.\n\nColin 'CJ' Lewis says higher taxes for supermarket alcohol is a great idea in theory, but might not work out in practice.\n\n\"I've been in the game 20 years, and it's got tougher and tougher,\" says \"CJ\" Lewis, the manager of the independent King and Queen pub in London's Fitzrovia district.\n\n\"And to be honest, the supermarkets are a little bit to blame,\" he says.\n\nHe says that alcohol available in supermarkets \"is, in theory, too cheap\".\n\n\"The price of alcohol here [in the pub] compared with the price in a supermarket is a bit ridiculous.\"\n\nHowever, he adds: \"I can't complain, because I buy it myself.\"\n\nHe says the idea of higher taxes for alcohol in supermarkets is \"great\" for the pub industry in theory, but he's not sure how it would work out in practice.\n\nSupermarkets may still find a way to cut prices, he says.\n\nAnd any tax relief on beer sold in brewery-owned pubs might be clawed back from landlords by the breweries, he adds. The breweries could charge those landlords more for their beer, and it would stay the same price in the pub for customers, he says.\n\nMr Bhattacharya said alcohol in supermarkets is cheap for a number of reasons.\n\nAlcohol duty has been cut in real terms every year since 2013, and beer duty in real terms is 18% lower than then.\n\nOne of the main reasons supermarket booze is cheaper than pubs is bargaining power, he says.\n\nSupermarkets can squeeze brewers on price because they are such large customers, but when it comes to landlords negotiating with brewers, \"the boot's on the other foot\", he said.\n\nSupermarkets can also use alcohol as a loss leader - that is, it's sold at a loss to attract shoppers into stores, where they will buy more profitable items.\n\nKatherine Severi, IAS chief executive, said: \"Alcohol has become a lot more affordable, and cheaper too, by comparison with other goods... For too long, alcohol duty has been politicised.\"\n\nLandlords have a duty of care to people in their pubs, she said, adding that a change in the tax regime would \"reduce societal harms\".\n\nBrigid Simmonds, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), which represents brewers, said: \"The focus should be on reducing the overall beer duty rate, which is one of the highest in the EU and places an enormous burden on pubs.\n\n\"It is also important that the report recognises that the excise duty regime should encourage the consumption of lower-strength products.\"\n\nA Treasury statement said: \"We are committed to supporting our pub industry and responsible drinkers, while tackling the sources of harmful drinking.\n\n\"That's why we've consistently cut or frozen alcohol duties, saving drinkers £5.2bn, and introduced a new higher rate of tax for harmful high-strength ciders.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Johnson: \"It's time to move on\"\n\nJo Johnson, the younger brother of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is resigning as an MP and minister, saying he is \"torn between family loyalty and the national interest\".\n\nThe business minister and Tory MP for Orpington, south-east London, cited an \"unresolvable tension\" in his role.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was \"unbelievable timing\".\n\nMr Johnson voted Remain in the 2016 EU membership referendum, while his brother co-led the Leave campaign.\n\nMr Johnson's resignation follows the removal of the Tory whip from 21 MPs this week for supporting moves to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOur political editor tweeted that Mr Johnson was \"understood to be upset about the purge of colleagues\" and that the brothers were \"in very different places\" on Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at an event in West Yorkshire, Boris Johnson called his brother a \"fantastic guy\" and a \"brilliant minister\".\n\nBut he added that he had a \"different approach to me about the European Union\".\n\nJo Johnson resigned as a minister last year in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal with the EU. But he re-entered government during the summer, after Conservative Party members elected his brother as leader.\n\nJo Johnson's resignation also comes as the government announced it would give MPs another chance to vote for an early election on Monday.\n\nThe fresh vote on an early election is scheduled just before Parliament is due to be prorogued - or suspended - from next week until 14 October.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Downing Street spokesman said: \"The PM, as both a politician and brother, understands this will not have been an easy matter for Jo. The constituents of Orpington could not have asked for a better representative.\"\n\nFormer cabinet minister David Gauke, one of the MPs who lost the Conservative whip, tweeted: \"Lots of MPs have had to wrestle with conflicting loyalties in recent weeks. None more so than Jo. This is a big loss to Parliament, the government and the Conservative Party.\"\n\nDowning Street said Jo Johnson (right) had been a \"brilliant\" minister\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: \"Boris Johnson poses such a threat that even his own brother doesn't trust him.\"\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the resignation showed the \"centre of gravity in the Conservative party is shifting rapidly\".\n\nBut, in a tweet, Rachel Johnson, the Remain-supporting sister of Boris and Jo Johnson, said \"the family avoids the topic of Brexit, especially at meals, as we don't want to gang up on the PM\".\n\nJo Johnson appeared at several of his brother's campaign events during the Conservative Party leadership contest.\n\nIn 2013, Boris Johnson predicted Jo Johnson was himself \"very likely\" to become prime minister, telling The Australian newspaper: \"He'd be brilliant.\"\n\nAt the last general election, Jo Johnson held the Orpington seat by a 19,461 majority.\n\nHe is expected to stand down at the next general election, rather than leaving Parliament immediately and prompting a by-election.\n\nNorthern Ireland Minister Nick Hurd also announced that he would not stand as an MP in the next election.\n\nHe said politics had become \"dominated by the ongoing division over Brexit\". He also said his life had been \"changed profoundly by the birth of my two youngest children\".", "Yahoo says most of its email services are working again following a fault that affected users across the world for more than seven hours.\n\nIt had been impossible for people to send and receive messages using the platform or check their webmail accounts.\n\nIn the UK, the problem had impacted BT, Sky and TalkTalk's email accounts, which are powered by the firm.\n\nDowndetector indicates that the problem began at about 07:00 BST.\n\n\"Most services are back online,\" Yahoo tweeted shortly after 14:30 BST.\n\n\"We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience as we get everything back up and running.\"\n\nThe business is owned by the US communications firm Verizon.\n\nThose with AOL accounts had also been affected.\n\nInternet faults of one kind or another are not uncommon, but it is relatively unusual for them to last this long.\n\nSome customers who have reported being able to access their accounts again, say that several hours-worth of emails appear to be missing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I'd rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask for Brexit delay\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for politicising the police by using uniformed officers as the backdrop for a speech about Brexit.\n\nThirty-five officers stood behind the prime minister during the speech which included details on police recruitment.\n\nThe Police Federation said the decision was wrong while the police commissioner labelled it a \"political stunt\".\n\nWest Yorkshire Police's chief said he was pleased the force was chosen as a focal point for the recruitment drive.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Johnson took part in walkabouts in Leeds and Wakefield where he was approached by a member of the public who shook his hand before politely asking him to leave his town.\n\nThe encounter led to the the hashtag PleaseLeaveMyTown trending on Twitter.\n\nPolice commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson called for the prime minister to apologise\n\nMeanwhile, although the speech in Wakefield focused on police funding, it also referenced a possible general election and was critical of Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation for England and Wales, said: \"I am surprised that police officers were used as a backdrop for a political speech in this way.\n\n\"I am sure that on reflection all concerned will agree that this was the wrong decision and it is disappointing that the focus has been taken away from the recruitment of 20,000 officers.\"\n\nMark Burns-Williamson, West Yorkshire's Labour police and crime commissioner, welcomed Mr Johnson's pledge to increase police funding which was the main reason for the prime minister's speech.\n\nBut he said he was not consulted about details of his visit and has contacted the chief constable for an explanation on why the new recruits were used in such a way.\n\nCalling on Mr Johnson to apologise, he said a visit which should have been about plans for police recruitment was \"hijacked\" by Mr Johnson and turned into a \"rant about Brexit, about the opposition and appeared to be blatant electioneering\".\n\nHe added: \"The news of the recruitment drive and the acknowledgment of how officers and staff have suffered with austerity was completely lost because he was only interested in getting his own agenda across.\n\n\"There is no way police officers and staff, who clearly thought it would be all about police recruitment announcements, should have formed a backdrop to a speech of that nature.\"\n\nDuring the speech one officer apparently became ill and had to sit down, leading Boris Johnson to ask if she was unwell.\n\nThe officer stood up minutes later before being checked by the prime minister as he finished. She was then attended to by colleagues.\n\nLabour's shadow policing minister Louise Haigh said she had written to the Cabinet Office to ask how many officers had rest days cancelled or were taken away from their duties to attend the event.\n\nShe has also questioned whether the chief constable had been told the event would \"stray beyond the police recruitment campaign when the request was made to supply officers\".\n\nIn a statement, West Yorkshire Police said the prime ministerial visit was arranged to launch a \"recruitment campaign for an extra 20,000 new police officers\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacob Rees-Mogg likened Dr Nicholl to Dr Wakefield during a debate in the Commons\n\nA doctor who spoke out against the government's no-deal plans has said Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg is \"bullying whistleblowers\".\n\nDavid Nicholl expressed concern over medical plans for a no-deal Brexit during a radio phone-in this week.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Rees-Mogg told MPs that Dr Nicholl was \"as irresponsible as Dr [Andrew] Wakefield\", who inaccurately linked the MMR vaccine with autism.\n\nThe Conservative MP later apologised to Dr Nicholl for making the comparison.\n\nDr Nicholl, a consultant neurologist with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, shared his concerns about the supply of drugs in the event of a no-deal Brexit in an interview with BBC Newsnight in March.\n\nAnd on Monday he called in to LBC to ask Mr Rees-Mogg what mortality rate he would accept if the UK were to leave the EU without a deal.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg said this was \"the worst excess of Project Fear\" and the doctor should be \"quite ashamed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr Rees-Mogg referred to the exchange when challenged about preparations for leaving the EU without a deal.\n\n\"Preparations have been made, they are in place and they have been done with remarkable efficiency, but a lot of remainers wish to make our skins crawl,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm afraid it seems to me that Dr David Nicholl is as irresponsible as Dr Wakefield.\n\n\"What he [Nicholl] had to say - I will repeat it - is as irresponsible as Dr Wakefield.\n\n\"In threatening that people will die because we leave the European Union - what level of irresponsibility was that?\"\n\nIn response, Dr Nicholl said he was \"appalled\" by the comments and visited Westminster to call on the MP to apologise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A neurologist who was involved in planning for a no-deal Brexit calls out Rees-Mogg for \"bullying\" him\n\nHe added that the remarks were \"an attempt by government to bully whistleblowers, and it's not just doctors.\"\n\n\"I challenge him to repeat outside the chamber the allegation that I am comparable to Andrew Wakefield - let's see what happens.\"\n\nAs an MP, Mr Rees-Mogg cannot be sued for any comments he makes during his duties in the House of Commons.\n\nBut on Thursday evening, the MP for North East Somerset, apologised to Dr Nicholl for his comments in the Commons.\n\nIn a statement he said he had \"the utmost respect for all of the country's hardworking medical professionals and the work they do in caring for the people of this country.\"\n\nHe added that the government was \"working closely with the NHS, industry and distributors to help ensure the supply of medicine and medical products remains uninterrupted\" by the UK's withdrawal from the EU.\n\nDr Nicholl came to Newsnight in March with his concerns about the inability to stockpile medicines for conditions such as epilepsy, neuropathic pain and bipolar disorder in the event of no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe was neurology lead for Brexit planning and gave us NHS England documents. He said it was his duty as a doctor to speak up over concerns about patient safety.\n\nA range of health organisations supported him, telling the BBC there needed to be transparency about supplies. Unavailability of certain drugs may affect doctors' decisions about what to prescribe.\n\nHis concerns were later supported by Operation Yellowhammer - the leaked government report describing the possible consequences of leaving without a deal - which said there may be significant disruption to medicines supplies lasting up to six months.\n\nIn response to the row, the Chief Medical Officer for England, Prof Sally Davies, has written to Mr Rees-Mogg to express her \"sincere disappointment in the disrespectful way\" he spoke to and about Dr David Nicholl.\n\nIn the letter, she said that Brexit \"obviously divides opinion\" but that comparing Dr Nicholl to Dr Wakefield is \"going too far and is frankly unacceptable\".\n\nShe thanked Dr Nicholl for his help in planning for no-deal and added that \"there are now full plans in place that we believe, if enacted to plan, should ensure unhindered medical supplies\".\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\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association, said Mr Rees-Mogg's \"unwarranted attack\" was \"utterly disgraceful and totally irresponsible\".\n\n\"Highly experienced doctors like David Nicholl who decide to speak out about risks to life and patient care, should be supported and listened to, not attacked and derided by those who hold positions of responsibility.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth criticised Mr Rees-Mogg's comments, describing them on Twitter as \"offensive, irresponsible garbage\".\n\nHe added: \"His casual belittling of experienced, medical opinion really is shameful and straight out of the Trump playbook.\"\n\nAlistair Burt, who was one of 21 MPs who lost the Tory whip after they rebelled against the party, said: \"The Brexit obsession is giving rise to sheer irrationality.\"\n\nHe added: \"As a former minister fully aware of the worldwide risks to health security from Wakefield's anti-vax consequences, I am distressed such a comparison could come from a government minister in the UK.\"\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.", "Parents and pupils gathered to protest against new uniform rules\n\nAbout 150 parents and pupils have staged a protest outside a secondary school over gender neutral uniforms.\n\nPriory School in Lewes, East Sussex, made trousers compulsory for new and existing students for the new term.\n\nThe school said \"concerns\" had been raised over the length of girls' skirts and new rules also catered for a handful of transgender pupils.\n\nProtesters have said pupils should have a choice to wear skirts, while others believe clothes are being wasted.\n\nAll students were told they must wear trousers as part of new regulations\n\nFormer Priory student and TV presenter Piers Morgan tweeted his support for the protesters saying the \"gender neutral craze\" was out of control and girls should be girls, and boys should be boys.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Lewes, Maria Caulfield, also tweeted: \"Very disturbed to see the school turning away girls from Priory school because they choose to wear a skirt and calling the police on them.\n\n\"This is not how we should be treating the young women of Lewes.\"\n\nLibby Murray, who is in her final year, said the new rule meant clothes were going to be thrown away, which would contribute to the climate change crisis.\n\nShe also said removing the choice for pupils to wear skirts because some wear them too short was \"unfair\".\n\n\"Girls roll up their skirts but that can be solved by better policing of it.\"\n\nShe added: \"To make it gender neutral they have to let everyone wear skirts or trousers and have that choice.\"\n\nSome pupils believe they should be given a choice about whether to wear trousers or skirts\n\nIn 2017, the school introduced a trouser-only policy for new students. It brought in the blanket ban on skirts for all students on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, it said students not conforming to the new rule would be asked to return home and change before being allowed into the building.\n\nPupil Nina Cullen wore a skirt to school and was refused entry.\n\n\"I haven't bought the new uniform and I don't see the point in wasting money,\" she said.\n\nDuring extremely hot weather pupils had previously been allowed to wear PE shorts or skorts - shorts made to look like skirts.\n\nHowever, a letter sent to parents in June said the decision had \"created more problems than we wished\".\n\nIt said pupils not following the new rule was \"detracting\" staff from teaching.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was Christmas Day 2018 in Carol Morgan's home in Battersea, south London and she was spending it with her three children, Dionne, Earl and Shonah.\n\nOn the table was dinner for the family - turkey, stuffing, salad and rice and peas - and Monopoly was laid out ready for a big game that Earl would probably win. He almost always did.\n\nBut there was one person missing from the house - Carol's daughter Joy.\n\nCarol had spoken to her daughter on the phone that day to try to persuade her to join the family at her aunt's house for a Boxing Day celebration.\n\n\"I was begging her to come to her auntie's party,\" Carol says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe even offered to pay for a taxi for Joy to get up to London from her student accommodation in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.\n\nThe reason why Joy didn't want to join her family is because for some years she had been a member of a strict church, which discouraged members from celebrating Christian festivals.\n\nCarol would never see her daughter again.\n\nFlicking through the photo albums in Carol's 10th-floor flat there are numerous photos of Joy as a child surrounded by her brother, sisters and cousins.\n\nWhether it's on a trip to Jamaica, holding her cake on her 7th birthday or on a fairground ride - one thing you notice is that Joy is always smiling.\n\nTo her family, she lived up to her name. She was a joy to be around.\n\n\"She would buy sweeties, Christmas presents, she'd remember me, take photographs, cook dinner for me. She was just lovely, an all-round superstar in my eyes, truly.\n\n\"I suppose that's a bit over the top because I'm her mum. But it really was like that.\"\n\nGrowing up, the family didn't have a lot of money, and Carol often worked 12-15 hour shifts as a care worker.\n\nBut family time was important and they would do little things like go to Battersea Park or cook together.\n\n\"Our treat was we'd go swimming and we'd walk from Latchmere Swimming Bath down to Falcon Road. There'd be this chicken shop on the corner which used to do £2 meals,\" says Carol.\n\n\"Sometimes I'd have no money, but I used to walk up and down to all the different parks.\"\n\nEducation was important to Joy, and she would nag her cousins and brother and sisters to do the best they could.\n\n\"She liked to make sure you were doing the best for yourself,\" says her 23-year-old brother Earl, to whom Joy was particularly close.\n\n\"Stuff like looking for jobs, going to college, she always wanted to make sure that you were doing the most you could do with the surroundings that you have.\"\n\nSo it was no surprise to her family when Joy decided she wanted to become a midwife.\n\nJoy was studying midwifery at the University of Hertfordshire when she disappeared. She wanted to go on to be a doctor.\n\n\"I said to her: 'I know one day you won't be in England. You won't be looking after us Europeans, you'll be going to Africa',\" Carol remembers.\n\n\"I'd have been getting postcards from other countries. Once she got her qualifications she would've been off.\"\n\nBut Joy's life hadn't always been easy and some deaths in the family had hit her hard.\n\nHer uncle Prince, who she was also close to, died from cancer in 2006. Six years later, her stepfather passed away from the same disease.\n\nThen in 2014, Joy's father killed himself.\n\nHer family says it was not long after that Joy started to get interested in a US-based church called Israel United in Christ.\n\n\"It was a weird church,\" says Carol. \"It told you that you should divide people by colour.\"\n\nIt became a huge part of Joy's life and she started to pull away from her mum and siblings.\n\nIn a video filmed just two weeks before she went missing, Joy explained what the church meant to her.\n\n\"IUIC is my family and like the best family that I've ever had.\"\n\nIsrael United in Christ (IUIC) was founded in 2003 in New York and is part of a movement called the Black Hebrew Israelites.\n\nIt has around 40 churches or \"schools\" as they're known in the US - and its leader is a man who goes by the name of Bishop Nathanyel Israel.\n\nIUIC teaches that black people, Hispanics and Native American people are God's chosen ones and are the descendants of the Biblical 12 tribes of Israel.\n\nThe organisation spreads its message through videos posted on the internet, and over the years churches have been set up in other parts of the world - including one in the UK.\n\nIts leaders teach classes on YouTube on topics such as: \"Why white people hate black people\", \"A strong marriage makes for a strong nation\" and \"Black people must leave the Christian Church\".\n\nAnd it's the slick videos and messages about uplifting black people which initially attract people into the organisation, according to former members.\n\n\"In the beginning it was a proud feeling. It was a feeling of being a part of a unified group,\" says Gina Blue, an ex-member of IUIC Las Vegas.\n\n\"You don't see a lot of black people together so I had a sense of pride and a sense of, yes we're actually organising something, we're doing something for God.\"\n\n\"The positive thing was always seeing people change,\" says Bezaleel Ben Israel, an ex-IUIC member who lives in Texas.\n\n\"I watched men who came in who were drug addicts, drug dealers, and they were having a hard time getting over these things, coming out of the 'world'.\n\n\"And they actually changed.\"\n\nHe explains that being in the \"world\" means being a part of society and everyday life - and not following the Israelite faith.\n\nBut IUIC has some controversial views.\n\nIt claims that the Bible says that when Jesus Christ returns to Earth, the Israelites will be the rulers and all the other races will become their servants.\n\n\"They have the belief that caucasians are literally, not metaphorically, the devil,\" says Heidi Beirich from the US civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).\n\n\"So white people and what they've done with slavery, for example, and other ways of oppressing black people are because they're the devil.\n\n\"It's like white people are genetically driven to destroy black people. And that's the part that makes white people the devil in this interpretation.\"\n\nIt's these views that have led the SPLC to label the organisation as a \"black nationalist hate group\" and \"racist\".\n\n\"[They are] racist against white people, racist against Jews. And another part of this group which isn't discussed very much is that they're incredibly homophobic, as well. For those reasons anti-LGBT beliefs, anti-white beliefs, anti-Semitic beliefs, all of that together is the reason we list them.\"\n\nIn IUIC, members of the church are told to follow strict rules which it claims are set out in the Bible.\n\nSex before marriage is forbidden, and women and men aren't allowed to be alone together if they're not husband and wife.\n\nMen and women also sit apart in church.\n\nIt also has a strict hierarchy system for the men only - Bishop Nathanyl at the top followed by deacons, captains, officers, soldiers and then brothers.\n\nWomen don't have formal ranks and are simply referred to as \"sisters\".\n\nAnyone who breaks the rules or questions leaders can be demoted, punished or even kicked out the church, say former members.\n\n\"People were able to do bad things to other people and nobody would say anything because this person is an officer or this person was a captain,\" says Bezaleel.\n\n\"People were literally scared that they would lose their ticket to heaven if they spoke up against this person.\"\n\nGina remembers being told to stand in front of the congregation in Las Vegas for having a piece of hair outside of her head wrap.\n\n\"They stood me up one too many times, and I found myself really just crying and being very vulnerable and I was uncomfortable with that.\n\n\"I was really uncomfortable with being verbally abused. It's all men doing this. So they're grown men and just very aggressive and very harsh.\"\n\nIUIC denies it's a hate group and says \"at no point do we teach against the laws of the land or authorities\".\n\nIt says former members who speak out against them are \"disgruntled\".\n\nJoy first came across IUIC on the internet.\n\nCarol remembers hearing the videos from her daughter's room in the early hours of the morning.\n\n\"It just sounded so harsh,\" she recalls.\n\nIn January 2016, Joy joined the UK branch of the organisation, which has a building in the centre of Ilford, east London.\n\nThe only sign this might be a church is a purple trimmed curtain blowing through an open window.\n\nStanding at the door are male members with walkie-talkies, who act as security guards.\n\nJoy and other members of the church would meet on a Saturday - known as the Sabbath.\n\nShe ran the children's group and hardly ever missed one of the church's festivals.\n\n\"The moment she started getting more and more into the church it was unbearable,\" says Carol.\n\n\"We were dirty people because we had not converted to the faith. That meant we were sinners.\n\n\"She would make you feel like you were diseased. That's how bad it was.\n\n\"We were excommunicated in our own home. She wouldn't talk to us.\n\n\"She would come into the house and if I had a vest top on, she'd say: 'Mum you need to cover yourself up, you need to take off your shoes'.\n\nJoy's sister Dionne, 34, says she and Joy also became more distant after she joined the church.\n\n\"It was like, 'Whoa what's happened to Joy?' She hardly spoke to me.\"\n\nShe says one thing that really upset the family was that Joy would target her and her younger sister because they are both mixed race.\n\n\"In the Israelite church, you can't be an Israelite if your father is white man,\" Dionne says. \"She would say to my little sister, 'You're a white devil'.\"\n\nFor Carol it got too much.\n\n\"The moment she called my mixed-raced daughter a demon, I said: 'No'.\n\n\"I took the laptop away and that was when things got to the point of arguments and she left.\"\n\nCarol says Joy was then homeless, before being rehoused by the local council. She then moved into student accommodation in her first year at university.\n\nJoy still spoke to her family but the distance between them had become bigger.\n\n\"She became someone different,\" says Dionne. \"She came to separate herself from her family, which had been important to her. Because I know Joy loves her family.\n\n\"The teachings of church - it just seems like a cult and she just got swept away in it.\"\n\nFormer members say distancing yourself from your family if they're non-believers is something IUIC teaches.\n\n\"They say your family 'are in the world', they're of the devil because they don't know who they are,\" says Gina.\n\n\"They're lost so basically cut them off or you're not going to heaven. Their sins are going to be on you if you don't cut them off.\"\n\nIUIC says the claims that it encourages members to cut off their families are \"lies\".\n\nOn the day that Carol so desperately wanted her daughter to join the family for a meal - 26 December - Joy was at a celebration at the IUIC church in Ilford.\n\nSix weeks later, Carol received a phone call from the estate agent who looked after Joy's student accommodation.\n\nHer daughter hadn't paid her rent and her housemates hadn't seen her since Christmas.\n\nCarol admits she didn't realise anything was wrong until she got that call.\n\n\"I will be forever sorry for that,\" she says.\n\nShe reported her daughter missing on 7 February, and the police started to investigate her disappearance.\n\nOfficers spoke to Joy's housemates who told them that she was a regular member of IUIC.\n\nThey got some contact details of members from Joy's landlord, and started making calls to people in the church that knew her.\n\nOne of them was 40-year-old Shohfah-El Israel.\n\nWhen police first spoke to him, he told them he'd last seen Joy on 26 December during the church meal, and he'd given her a lift back to her flat in Hatfield afterwards.\n\nTwo days later, officers pulled over his red Honda car onto the hard shoulder by junction 22 on the M25.\n\n\"You have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Joy Morgan,\" an officer explained.\n\n\"I just want to ask if she's dead? I just want to ask if you know if she's dead, cos this is a shock. Is she dead?\"\n\nHe and his wife were friends with Joy. They had two homes - a flat in Cricklewood, north London, and a rented house in Luton, Bedfordshire.\n\nHis original name was Ajibola Shogbamimu but had changed his name in May 2018 - something IUIC encourages its members to do.\n\n\"He got his name for his voice,\" one former London member says.\n\n\"The Shohfah is the ram's horn. Because he had a very loud voice, he was a prominent speaker.\n\n\"One of the things IUIC does a lot of is street preaching, and they also do a lot of videos where they are doing teaching.\n\n\"And a brother who has a very distinctive loud voice is something to be celebrated.\"\n\nBorn in Nigeria, Shohfah-El Israel had lived in the UK since 1997.\n\nHe'd joined IUIC in December 2016 after being introduced to the church by his wife.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was liked by the leaders and rose to the rank of soldier during his time with the congregation.\n\nThe church described him as an \"enthusiastic\" member of the church who was \"always offering to help in any way\".\n\n\"He was very intuitive with ideas on reaching out to improve the community.\"\n\nBut there were times when he was warned about his behaviour.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was once demoted from the rank of soldier after he interrupted one of the church leaders who was speaking to members and got angry when he was corrected.\n\nAfter his arrest, Shohfah-El Israel was questioned for two days before he was released on bail, while officers continued looking into the case.\n\nPolice then started to focus their investigation on parts of Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\nSpecialist search teams and police dogs carried out searches in woodland on the outskirts of the town.\n\nCarol and Dionne even handed out leaflets in Stevenage town centre in the hope someone might know something about where Joy was.\n\nOn 27 February, the family were told Shohfah-El Israel had been charged with murder. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nIt would be another five months before Joy's family found out why the police believed she was dead and why Shohfah-El Israel was her murderer.\n\nIt was a sunny evening on 7 July 2019 - the day before the trial was due to start.\n\nSurrounded by her plants, Carol stood out on the balcony of her flat drying her hair and looking out across London.\n\n\"I open my balcony and I stand on it and when I look on my balcony I have to say 'Where are you Joy?' because I don't know where she is.\n\n\"There's only one person that knows and that's him.\"\n\nIt's a 40-mile journey from Carol's home in south London to Reading Crown Court.\n\nCarol has Multiple sclerosis (MS) and has to use a stick to help her walk. But she wasn't going to miss a single day of the four-week trial.\n\nThe public gallery was packed with members of Joy's family, Shohfah-El Israel's family and members of IUIC.\n\nCarol sat in the front row as she heard how Shohfah-El Israel told police he had dropped Joy back at her flat in Hatfield on 26 December.\n\nBut phone evidence showed that Joy's phone and the defendant's phone were in his flat in Cricklewood together for two nights after.\n\nThat's when he admitted he had taken Joy back to his place where she slept on the sofa.\n\n\"The reason I didn't bring it up before was because of my wife and people getting the wrong idea,\" he told police.\n\nIn tears, Carol had to leave the court when Shohfah-El Israel gave some of his evidence.\n\nIt was the first time she'd seen the man accused of murdering her daughter.\n\nDressed in a navy suit, wearing glasses and his hair in cornrows, he used a crutch and had a limp as he took to the stand. He claimed he suffered from chronic pain syndrome.\n\nShohfah-El Israel said Joy was upset and thinking about leaving the church after watching videos online of ex-IUIC members in the US explaining why they were no longer part of the organisation.\n\nThat's why he agreed to let her stay at his flat. His wife was at their other home in Luton.\n\nBut what were they doing in his flat for two days?\n\nShohfah-El Israel claims they watched videos from ex-members on YouTube before he dropped her off at her home on the 28 December.\n\nHe denied having sex with Joy, whom he said he thought of as a \"daughter\".\n\nAround 19.30 on 28 December, Joy's telephone number was suddenly removed from a church group instant messaging chat on Telegram.\n\nIt's one of the ways someone shows they have decided to leave the organisation.\n\nSeveral IUIC members said this was a \"surprise\" as Joy didn't seem unhappy.\n\nPeople tried to contact her on the phone to see if she was OK but couldn't get through.\n\nThe next day, Joy failed to turn up at church as usual.\n\nSo two members of the church went to her house looking for her - one of them was Shohfah-El Israel himself.\n\nBut no-one from the church contacted Joy's mum or the police about her sudden disappearance.\n\nOutside court, Carol confronted some of the members about this.\n\n\"Why did none of you phone the local authorities, the police, the 999 services?,\" she asked.\n\n\"That's the thing that gets me. Isn't that a Christian thing to do? A real Christian thing.\n\n\"To care about another human being enough to call the police.\"\n\nBack in court, the jury heard that Shohfah-El Israel's car was picked up on cameras near Stevenage. Around the same time, Joy's phone sent a signal from the same area on 28 December.\n\nOver the next three days, he tried calling her and went to her house several times to check up on her.\n\nBut it was all part of his cover-up.\n\nThe prosecution said it was Israel who had removed her number from the group after he killed her.\n\nHis car was in Stevenage as he was \"probably looking for somewhere to get rid of her body\".\n\nJoy's phone sent its final signal in the early hours of New Year's Day in Stevenage.\n\nShohfah-El Israel's phone was also in the same area.\n\nPolice later found Joy's house keys in his red Honda - seven weeks after she was last seen alive.\n\nIt was this piece of evidence that made Carol finally come to terms with the likelihood that her daughter was dead.\n\n\"She couldn't have been alive if she had no key to get into her flat,\" she says.\n\n\"She didn't phone me… that means she's not around.\"\n\nAfter a four-week trial, a jury of eight women and four men found Shohfah-El Israel guilty of murder.\n\nHe was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 17 years.\n\n\"Only you know the circumstances or details or your terrible deed and why you did it,\" said judge Mr Justice Soole.\n\n\"You are evidently an intelligent man and have said nothing beyond the lies and explanations which the jury has rejected.\"\n\nA month on from the guilty verdict, Joy's name has disappeared from the headlines but there's no closure for her family.\n\nThere are still so many unanswered questions.\n\nWhy did Shohfah-El Israel kill Joy? Where is her body? Did the church do enough to protect her?\n\nOne former member who knew Joy says she was let down by the church\n\n\"They failed her when her name was deleted from the Telegram group by not fiercely trying to find out if she's OK.\n\n\"We are taught that we are brothers and sisters and we are taught we are all we have and we are taught to look after the little ones.\n\n\"It just seems like Joy was failed by the very organisation that she loved and trusted and who were responsible to look after and protect her.\"\n\nIt's something Carol also believes.\n\n\"I don't respect the church. It just needs to be knocked down and taken apart because they are going on that men are the top and women are beneath them and that's it.\"\n\nIsrael United in Christ says when Joy went missing \"all indications pointed to her leaving the church or wanting time away, not being in danger\".\n\nSpeaking about Shohfah-El Israel, the church says his \"conduct throughout the investigation and trial has been nothing short of disgraceful and is not in line with church principles\".\n\nIt says he is no longer a member of Israel United in Christ.\n\nThe church says it doesn't address criticisms or allegations made by ex-members.\n\n\"We will make this clear, though, Israel United In Christ cares strongly about the wellbeing and safety of all our members and constantly strive to ensure improved safety procedures are in place.\"\n\nIt describes what happened as an \"isolated incident\".\n\n\"Regardless, we want the world to know that we seek to follow the laws of the land when not conflicting with the laws of the most high.\"\n\nThe investigation into the murder of Joy Morgan isn't closed.\n\nPolice hope that Shohfah-El Israel will tell them where he's put Joy's body or someone comes forward with a new piece of information.\n\nCarol holds a map of Stevenage in her hand which shows the areas where the police have searched for Joy's body.\n\n\"My son's been going out looking for my daughter. He's a 23-year-old man and he's looking for his little sister.\n\n\"I have to be proud of him. It takes a really strong person to do that.\n\n\"But ask that man this: 'Should a 23-year-old brother be looking on a map for his little sister because you decide to take her away from us?\n\n\"How's he ever going to find her? It's a needle in a haystack. If my daughter was metal she'd be easier to find.\"\n\n\"I just can't let her be forgotten. She's not going to just be some little story. I've got to do more than that for my daughter.\n\n\"She will be found. I don't know when, but she will be found.\"\n\nFor Carol, finding her daughter is what she's clinging onto.\n\nUpdate 10 October: Police have confirmed that a body found in woodland in Stevenage is that of Joy Morgan.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Thousands of Ethiopian migrants leave their country every year in search of work Image caption: Thousands of Ethiopian migrants leave their country every year in search of work\n\nPolice in Kenya have arrested 91 people believed to be Ethiopian nationals suspected to be in the country illegally.\n\nThe Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) says the group was arrested at a house in Kitengela, outside Nairobi, on Sunday evening.\n\nAll are men below the age of 25, and had attempted to break out of the house where they were being held.\n\nOn Twitter, the DCI said they are believed to have been smuggled into the country onboard a lorry and were being held in the house temporarily as the smugglers sought means to sneak them to another country.\n\nPolice are searching for the persons who brought them in.\n\nUndocumented Ethiopians are routinely arrested in Kenya every year after arriving to look for jobs or in transit to other countries.\n\nIn October, police arrested 14 Ethiopian nationals, four adults and 10 children, suspected to be in Kenya illegally.\n\nMore on this topic:\n• Migrant crisis: 'I was sold three times by slave traders'\n• How Ethiopia cracked down on people smugglers", "It's been a tumultuous week for Boris Johnson and there was little respite on Friday, with further Brexit headaches for the prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson has been on an away day to a farm in Aberdeenshire but, back in London, the House of Lords and the opposition continue to do their upmost to thwart his strategy.\n\nElsewhere, among the day's other headlines, there was a silver lining for the PM at the High Court but eyebrows were raised over his choice of language to describe his predecessor.\n\nParliament has spent the week attempting to pass a bill preventing a no-deal Brexit on 31 October - and today they succeeded.\n\nThe law requires the prime minister to extend the exit deadline to the end of January unless Parliament has agreed a deal with the EU by 19 October.\n\nOn Tuesday, the bill, known as the Benn bill after Labour MP Hilary Benn, passed through the Commons.\n\nIt then went to the Lords, where it passed on Friday after Brexit-supporting peers dropped their opposition to it.\n\nThere had been suggestions that the government would stop the bill being signed into law by the Queen, but it is set to receive what is known as Royal Assent in the coming days.\n\nThe PM has repeatedly said he will not agree to a Brexit extension, suggesting he would rather \"die in a ditch\". It remains to be seen how this particular circle will be squared.\n\nFaced with the prospect of having to ask for more time from Brussels, Mr Johnson desperately wants to call an early general election to strengthen his hand.\n\nBut under the terms of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, this requires two-thirds of MPs to vote for it, and the prime minister needs the support of some opposition MPs.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems and the SNP withheld their support when it was put to the vote on Wednesday and have now agreed to do the same when the PM tries again on Monday.\n\nThey say that any election before the 31 October deadline could give a newly-re-elected Mr Johnson the ability to pursue a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThey say a Brexit extension must be officially secured at the 17 October summit before an early election can take place, to avoid Mr Johnson ignoring the bill's provisions.\n\nThere was some better news for the prime minister - who spent most of the day campaigning in Scotland.\n\nThe High Court ruled that his decision to suspend, or prorogue, Parliament was lawful.\n\nOpponents of the move, including former prime minister John Major and anti-Brexit businesswoman Gina Miller, had argued that the reasons for prorogation given to the Queen by the PM were untrue and the prorogation would break the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.\n\nThe court dismissed the case but did give the claimants the right to seek a judicial review.\n\nToday's ruling means prorogation is likely to go ahead next week, with Parliament closed until the Queen's Speech on 14 October.\n\nA speech given by the prime minister on Thursday in front of a crowd of police recruits has continued to create waves.\n\nChief Constable John Robins of West Yorkshire Police said he had understood the speech would be solely about police officer recruitment and he was \"disappointed\" his officers were used as a backdrop as Mr Johnson spoke about Brexit.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, sought to up the ante by writing to the cabinet secretary about the issue.\n\nThe PM, she said, had \"serious questions\" to answer about how he had given an essentially political speech at a police event, given the police are supposed to be impartial.\n\nBoris Johnson and David Cameron have a lot in common, the same school, the same university, the same job and, these days, the same European headaches.\n\nThe two men have long been considered rivals but, the joshing and ribbing aside, we rarely get a glimpse of what they actually think of each other.\n\nHopefully we'll learn a bit more when the former prime minister publishes his long-awaited memoirs next month.\n\nBut, as for Mr Johnson, we've now learnt that he described Mr Cameron as a \"girly swot\" for agreeing when he was PM to allow the Commons to sit for longer hours in September.\n\nWe've got Sky's deputy political editor Samuel Coates to thank for this choice nugget - drawn from cabinet papers disclosed to the High Court as part of a judicial review of the PM's decision to suspend, or prorogue, Parliament for five weeks.\n\nMr Johnson, who earlier this week called Jeremy Corbyn a \"big girl's blouse\" for blocking an election, has come under fire for his choice of language - with one commentator saying the UK was \"being governed by a nine-year old\".", "The wreckage of the plane was discovered after a long search of the sea floor\n\nMagistrates in France have dropped charges against Air France and Airbus over a mid-Atlantic plane crash in 2009 that killed all 228 people on board.\n\nThe Airbus A330 aircraft flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris stalled in a storm and plunged into the ocean.\n\nOn Thursday, the magistrates looking into manslaughter charges brought by victims' relatives decided that there were not enough grounds to prosecute.\n\nThey blamed the plane's crew for losing control after speed sensors froze.\n\nThe main association of victims' families called the magistrate's decision an \"insult to the memory of the victims\" and announced plans to appeal, AFP news agency reports.\n\nIn 2012, a civil investigation found a combination of technical failure and human error had led to the loss of Flight AF447 on 1 June 2009.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2012 investigator-in-charge Alain Bouillard told reporters: ''The crew had almost lost complete control of the situation''\n\nThe report by the French aviation authority highlighted faults with the Airbus 330's air-speed sensors which confused the pilots.\n\nBut it also pointed to inappropriate action by the pilots.\n\nOne of the mistakes of the crew was to point the nose of the aircraft upwards after it stalled, instead of down.\n\nThe accident is the worst disaster in the history of Air France.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane was discovered after a long search of 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles) of sea floor.\n\nSince the crash, Air France has replaced the speed sensors on its fleet of Airbus jets with a newer model.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is \"very excited\" about starting school, the Duke of Cambridge said as he dropped her off for her first day.\n\nWalking across the playground with both parents and her brother, Princess Charlotte smiled as she met the head of the lower school at Thomas's Battersea.\n\nPrince George has attended the private school in south west London since 2017.\n\nHe began his first day of year two - his final year in the lower school before he moves to the middle school.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released a photograph of Princess Charlotte and Prince George taken outside Kensington Palace before they left for St Thomas's.\n\nPrincess Charlotte photographed outside Kensington Palace with Prince George before her first day of school\n\nAnd as she arrived at the school, Princess Charlotte, four, was photographed by the press meeting head teacher Helen Haslem.\n\nHer uniform includes a navy pleated skirt and cardigan, white socks and black shoes.\n\nThe duchess carried her daughter's backpack, which was decorated with a pink key-ring in the shape of a pony's head. She smiled as she greeted Ms Haslem and asked about her summer holidays.\n\nMs Haslem bent down to shake hands with both George and Charlotte, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nThe duke and duchess accompanied Charlotte to her classroom before saying their goodbyes.\n\nPrince William, who drove the family to the school, said: \"First day - she's very excited.\"\n\nPrince George was also photographed on his first day at Thomas's Battersea, a preparatory school located a few miles from the family residence in Kensington Palace, in September 2017.\n\nHe, too, was greeted by Ms Haslem, after Prince William drove him through the school gates. The Duchess of Cambridge missed the occasion as she was not well enough to take him.\n\nPrince George on his first day of school\n\nThe school has around 560 pupils between the ages of four and 13.\n\nIt charges £6,429 per term for a family's eldest child and £6,305 for their second eldest child throughout reception, year one and year two, according to its website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I'd rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask for Brexit delay\n\nBoris Johnson has said he would \"rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask the EU to delay Brexit beyond 31 October.\n\nBut the PM declined to say if he would resign if a postponement - which he has repeatedly ruled out - had to happen.\n\nMr Johnson has said he would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal, but Labour says stopping a no-deal Brexit is its priority.\n\nThe prime minister's younger brother, Jo Johnson, announced earlier that he was standing down as a minister and MP.\n\nSpeaking in West Yorkshire, Boris Johnson said Jo Johnson, who backed Remain in the 2016 referendum, was a \"fantastic guy\" but they had had \"differences\" over the EU.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation earlier in the day, the MP for Orpington, south-east London, said he had been \"torn between family loyalty and the national interest\".\n\nDuring his speech at a police training centre in Wakefield, the prime minister reiterated his call for an election, which he wants to take place on 15 October.\n\nHe argued it was \"the only way to get this thing [Brexit] moving\".\n\n\"We either go forward with our plan to get a deal, take the country out on 31 October which we can or else somebody else should be allowed to see if they can keep us in beyond 31 October,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe told the audience he hated \"banging on about Brexit\" but accused MPs of having \"torpedoed\" the UK's negotiating position with the EU by voting for a Labour-backed bill designed to block a no-deal exit on 31 October.\n\nThe legislation would force the prime minister to delay Brexit until January 2020, unless MPs approve either a new deal or a no-deal exit by 19 October.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the PM of having \"no plan to get a new deal\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said the prime minister's comments were \"deeply troubling\", and the PM would soon be legally forced to seek a Brexit delay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he and his brother Jo \"haven't seen eye-to-eye for a long time\" about the EU\n\nThe House of Commons rejected Mr Johnson's plan for a snap election in a vote on Wednesday.\n\nBut the government has announced that MPs will get another chance to back this plan next Monday.\n\nThe fresh vote on an early election is scheduled just before Parliament is due to be prorogued - or suspended - from next week until 14 October.\n\nOpposition parties are holding talks about how to respond to the prime minister's call for a mid-October election, amid concern over whether it should be delayed until after an extension has been agreed to prevent a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nMeanwhile, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned Mr Johnson that he \"cannot win an election, whenever it comes, if the Brexit Party stands against him\".\n\nHowever, if they were to make a pact during a general election \"with a clear policy, we'd be unstoppable\", he told the BBC.\n\nYvette Cooper, Labour MP and chairwoman of the Home Affairs Committee, criticised the PM for using police officers as a backdrop to his speech.\n\n\"This is an abuse of power by Boris Johnson, making so many police stop their training and work to be part of his political stunt,\" she said.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police chief constable John Robins said he was pleased the force was \"chosen as the focal point of the national recruitment campaign\" and welcomed Mr Johnson's pledge to increase police funding.\n\nOne of the student officers standing behind the prime minister appeared to become unwell during his speech and question-and-answer session.\n\nTwenty minutes in, she sat down with her head bowed, at which point Mr Johnson apologised and said: \"That is the signal for me to actively wind up.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I'd rather be dead in a ditch\" than ask for Brexit delay\n\nA chief constable was \"disappointed\" his officers were used as a backdrop to a speech by Boris Johnson about Brexit.\n\nThirty-five officers stood behind the prime minister during the speech which was scheduled to mark a recruitment campaign for an extra 20,000 officers.\n\nMr Johnson was accused of politicising the police by having them present during Thursday's speech in Wakefield.\n\nChief Constable John Robins said he understood the speech would be solely about police officer recruitment.\n\n\"We had no prior knowledge that the speech would be broadened to other issues until it was delivered,\" the West Yorkshire Police chief said on Friday.\n\n\"I was therefore disappointed to see my police officers as a backdrop to the part of the speech that was not related to recruitment.\"\n\nAlthough the speech in Wakefield focused on police funding, it also referenced a possible general election with Mr Johnson stating he would \"rather be dead in a ditch\" than delay Brexit.\n\nMark Burns-Williamson, West Yorkshire's Labour police and crime commissioner, said the visit which should have been about plans for police recruitment was \"hijacked\" by Mr Johnson.\n\nHe added: \"The news of the recruitment drive and the acknowledgment of how officers and staff have suffered with austerity was completely lost because he was only interested in getting his own agenda across.\n\n\"There is no way police officers and staff, who clearly thought it would be all about police recruitment announcements, should have formed a backdrop to a speech of that nature.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation for England and Wales, said: \"I am surprised that police officers were used as a backdrop for a political speech in this way.\n\n\"I am sure that on reflection all concerned will agree that this was the wrong decision and it is disappointing that the focus has been taken away from the recruitment of 20,000 officers.\"\n\nPaula Sherriff, MP for Dewsbury and Tracy Brabin, MP for Batley and Spen, have written to the chief constable about Mr Johnson's visit.\n\n\"We've asked him a number of questions including about whether the officers had the option about whether to be there during that visit, which was clearly hijacked, and also what was the cost of that visit to the public purse,\" Ms Sheriff said.\n\nShortly before Mr Robins' statement was released, Downing Street defended Thursday's visit to the force's operations and training complex.\n\nA Number 10 spokeswoman said: \"The PM's long-planned visit was highlighting a national recruitment campaign for 20,000 new officers which has been welcomed across the police service.\"\n\n\"It gave the PM an opportunity to see first-hand the outstanding training which new recruits receive and to meet those who have committed their lives to keeping us safe.\"\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Johnson took part in walkabouts in Leeds and Wakefield where he was approached by a member of the public who shook his hand before politely asking him to leave his town.\n\nThe encounter led to the hashtag PleaseLeaveMyTown trending on Twitter.\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. \"You should be in Brussels; you're in Morley,\" a member of the public told Boris Johnson when he arrived\n\nDowning Street wanted it to seem like the first day of an election campaign that's springing into life.\n\nEven though they have yet to find their way through the process that would actually make it happen, the plan was clear: play to the perceived strengths of portraying the prime minister as the leader outside Westminster - where politicians are trying to delay Brexit - and on the side of the public.\n\nAnd this is a public that quite understandably frets more about the police, health and crime than about the latest parliamentary standing order.\n\nThe overall agenda is bigger than the personal and political emblem of the prime minister's brother resigning from government. As a member of the cabinet diplomatically described it, \"things are self-evidently bad\".\n\nThe strategy of suspending Parliament to try to stop the anti-no deal legislation didn't work. Then threatening Tory MPs who might vote that way didn't work - they stuck to their guns even though they knew they would be chucked out of their party.\n\nAnd it is far from certain that the Labour Party and the other opposition parties will agree to the next tactic of holding a general election as soon as possible.\n\nAnd we saw Boris Johnson, who normally seems to charge his batteries when he is on the road, struggle to deal with a heckler on a Yorkshire high street.\n\nSeeing that happen was like a premonition of what would happen in an election campaign.\n\nThe PM was challenged, first by a voter who asked politely \"Please leave our town\", then more aggressively by a man furious about Johnson's Brexit plan. But then, within five minutes, the prime minister appealed to the crowd to back him on Brexit, and it was clear in that moment, on that high street, more voters were with him, than against. That is despite the spiky and vocal objections and the trouble that he seems to attract.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he and his brother Jo \"haven't seen eye-to-eye for a long time\" about the EU\n\nBut there is no way that No 10 can be sure that will be remain the case if he goes on to fight the election he so desires.\n\nAnd there is deep worry in the cabinet that the prime minister has quite simply picked the wrong strategy.\n\nSeveral have warned privately of serious unease about the path that's been chosen by Number 10 - alienating moderates, riding roughshod over any convention, speeding into a strategy that looks like running into a brick wall at 100mph.\n\nTory MPs in the middle, who backed Boris Johnson in the hope that he could unite them at least, fret now that they are all in trouble. One said: \"This was NOT the plan.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has, of course, been written off on so many occasions before. He still seems wedded to the strategy that won over Tory members - stick to the Brexit deadline, pursue clarity at almost any cost, don't worry about what he once described as plaster off the ceiling.\n\nThat was the political calculation that got him to Number 10. That's what, for now, still makes sense in his inner circle. But some Tories, including some of those who backed him, now fear that political strategy might cause more trouble than it was worth.\n\nOne cabinet minister says it is just as feasible that Boris Johnson's fortunes will rise again next week as it is that the mess will get worse.\n\nBut Downing Street must be in no doubt now that they have little on which to rely.", "Richard Selley and his wife Elaine travelled to Switzerland earlier this week\n\nA former teacher from Scotland who campaigned for the legalisation of euthanasia has died at a Swiss clinic.\n\nRichard Selley, 65, was suffering from motor neurone disease (MND). He had campaigned for a change in the law in a blog and a book on the issue.\n\nHe had travelled from his home at Glenalmond near Perth to the clinic in Zurich earlier this week.\n\n\"Knowing that I will die very soon is a surreal experience, but it is my choice,\" he said.\n\nMr Selley's wife Elaine wrote online: \"I am writing this post from my hotel room in Zurich. Richard died very peacefully at lunchtime today. His brother Peter and I were at his side.\n\n\"At Dignitas, in a clinically clean room, well appointed but devoid of any personal touches, we could feel all the love that has been shared with us over the years.\n\n\"The end was dignified and calm, exactly as Richard wanted. He had taken control of his own destiny.\"\n\nMr Selley, who had to talk-type to communicate, had spoken about being a \"prisoner\" in his own body and he has been campaigning for a change in the law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Selley spoke to the BBC about his decision to end his life\n\nIn July he wrote an open letter to MSPs calling for reform.\n\nHe said in a video recorded before his journey to Switzerland: \"Having to be able to fly means that I am choosing to die earlier than I would prefer.\n\n\"If an assisted death was possible in Scotland, I would be able to die at a time of my choosing, at home.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hope that members of the Scottish parliament support an assisted dying bill in the future.\n\n\"I think the momentum for a change in the law is growing.\"\n\nThe campaign group Dignity in Dying published a report this week recommending that assisted dying is legalised in Scotland \"to give terminally ill, mentally competent adults a further option of escaping or avoiding a period of unbearable suffering at the end of lives\".\n\nIt claimed that, even with high levels of palliative care, hundreds of patients still had no relief from pain at the end of life.\n\nThe campaign's director Ally Thomson said: \"Our thoughts are with Elaine and her family. Richard and Elaine showed immense bravery and dignity in sharing their story and speaking out about the injustice they both suffered under Scotland's outdated, broken law in their final weeks together.\"\n\nShe added: \"As Richard pointed out in his final message, he received outstanding palliative care. But it was simply not enough to guarantee him the swift, peaceful and dignified death he wanted.\n\n\"Richard is not alone - this week we published research which finds that even with universal access to the best hospice care, 11 Scots a week would still die with absolutely no relief of their pain.\n\n\"Surely those people whose suffering is beyond the reach of palliative care deserve another option?\"\n\nPrevious attempts to introduce new legislation have failed to get through the Scottish Parliament.\n\nOpponents of euthanasia argue that changing the law risks exposing people to abuse, coercion and exploitation.\n\nDr Stuart Weir, national director at Christian charity CARE for Scotland, said the Dignity in Dying report failed to address those risks.\n\nHe said: \"We believe this report muddies the waters by suggesting palliative care and assisted suicide are two sides of the same coin.\n\n\"The truth is that legalising assisted suicide goes right against the ethos of palliative care and in fact would undermine it.\"\n\nHe said there was a debate to be had about the provision of palliative care across Scotland, but that was \"a separate conversation to whether we should legalise something as dangerous as assisted suicide, with all the consequences of doing so\".", "A sex offender who concealed a spy camera in the ladies' toilets at Pinewood Studios has been jailed.\n\nMaintenance worker Peter Hartley, 50, planted a tiny motion-triggered camera behind a grille in the toilets at the studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe camera was spotted in June by a woman working at Pinewood, where the new James Bond film is being shot, Aylesbury Crown Court heard.\n\nHartley, of Uxbridge, west London, was jailed for 16 months.\n\nThe latest Bond film is being filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire\n\nHe will be on the sex offenders register for 10 years.\n\nHartley, who was working as a maintenance man, was caught after the worker noticed light reflecting from the lens similar \"to light reflecting off the face of a watch\" and used a screwdriver to take off the grille.\n\nProsecutor Daniel Wright told the court the device was marketed as a \"spy camera\" and Hartley had used a piece of tape to cover its LED light to try to stop it being detected.\n\nHartley, who has a history of similar offences dating back to 2008, contacted his public protection officer at the Met Police later that morning to tell him he had reoffended.\n\nHe has previous convictions for placing cameras in a council building in Coventry in 2009 and for placing one in the changing rooms of a leisure centre in 2016.\n\nHartley has a total of three convictions for eight offences.\n\nHe later pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the young woman who found the camera said she had needed mental health treatment and had suffered from acute anxiety.\n\nJailing Hartley, Judge Francis Sheridan said the victim's life \"has been devastated by a dirty-minded individual who preys on women\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Graham said his daughter's trousers were just centimetres above her shoe\n\nA father has said his daughter was left \"angry and humiliated\" after she was taken out of class because her trousers were \"too short\".\n\nThe year 11 pupil at George Spencer Academy, in Nottinghamshire, was excluded from class on Tuesday.\n\nHer father Graham said being placed in another room with 15 other pupils had upset his daughter.\n\nThe school, in Stapleford, said it had changed its uniform policy and expected trousers to touch the top of shoes.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The academy has updated its uniform policy to bring it in line with other schools. We don't make exceptions for any pupils.\"\n\nThe girl's father said his daughter had worn the same trousers last year and believed the new policy was too harsh.\n\n\"They were a plain, simple pair of black Marks & Spencer school trousers,\" he told the BBC. \"They weren't fashion. They weren't ankle grabbers.\n\n\"I think she had just slightly outgrown the trousers and they were just a little bit off the top of the shoe. That was enough for her to be singled out and put in isolation for the entirety of Tuesday.\"\n\nThe George Spencer Academy said trousers had to touch the top of the shoe\n\nHe added: \"I accept rules should be abided by, but the sanctions and punishment have to be appropriate.\n\n\"The blame shouldn't be on the child, it should be with the parents, so why punish the child?\"\n\nThe academy said its new uniform policy states trousers should be a plain style and cover ankles and socks.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the school would be happy to discuss the matter further with the girl's father.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A London gender identity clinic has mistakenly exposed details of close to 2,000 people on its email list.\n\nThe Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic sent patients an email about an art competition, with hundreds of others CC-ed in.\n\nThe clinic later tried to recall the message but the error had already been noticed.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for the clinic, is investigating.\n\nTwo separate emails were sent, with about 900 people CC-ed on each.\n\nOne patient at the clinic, Jessie, told the BBC she was angry about what had happened.\n\n\"It could out someone, especially as this place treats people who are transgender,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust said: \"We are currently investigating a data security incident.\n\n\"This incident involved an email from our patient and public involvement team regarding an art project.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to an error, the email addresses of some of those we are inviting to participate were not hidden and therefore visible to all.\n\n\"We can confirm we are reporting this breach to the Information Commissioner's Office as well as treating it as a serious incident within the Trust.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the ICO said: \"Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has made us aware of an incident and we will assess the information provided.\"\n\nIn 2016, an NHS Trust was fined £180,000 after a sexual health centre mistakenly leaked the details of nearly 800 patients who had attended HIV clinics.\n\nIn that case, the 56 Dean Street clinic had sent a group email without using the BCC function, which obscures other recipients in the mailing list.\n\nThe incident took place before the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which can see organisations fined up to €20 million (£18m) or 4% of their annual global turnover.", "Reiss, Ralston and Ricky (l-r) Gabriel were jailed after DNA linked to them was found on a pistol intended for a violent criminal\n\nIdentical triplets have been jailed after DNA linked them to a plot to supply an \"extremely dangerous criminal\" with an Uzi sub-machine gun.\n\nDNA found on a handgun linked it to either Reiss, Ralston or Ricky Gabriel but it was impossible for police to prove which brother it belonged to.\n\nHowever, an investigation revealed all three were involved.\n\nThe 28-year-olds, from Edmonton in north London, were sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court.\n\nRicky and Ralston Gabriel, who are both semi-professional footballers, were found guilty of conspiracy to possess firearms and ammunition with intent to endanger life in July and each jailed for 14 years.\n\nReiss Gabriel was found guilty of the same charge and also admitted possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life after being caught with a handgun in July last year, and two counts of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.\n\nHe was jailed for 18 years.\n\nArmed police found an Uzi sub-machine gun with a silencer and ammunition and a loaded pistol on courier Hamza Ahmed\n\nArmed police found an Uzi sub-machine gun with a silencer and ammunition and a loaded pistol on courier Hamza Ahmed, 21, after stopping a taxi in Tottenham, north London, on 10 April 2017.\n\nThe DNA recovered from the pistol was not attributable to just one of the triplets, as they shared almost identical DNA.\n\nDetectives carried out an extensive investigation to find out which of the brothers was involved in handling the firearms - but mobile phone and surveillance evidence revealed it was all three, the court heard.\n\nAron Thomas was given a life sentence for two counts of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nThe brothers were the final three of eight individuals charged over a plot to supply weapons.\n\nProsecutor Kerry Broome said: \"An Uzi sub-machine gun is clearly an extraordinarily serious firearm. It is not capable of any lawful use. It has the capability to cause maximum indiscriminate harm.\n\n\"The pistol was loaded. They were both ready for immediate use.\"\n\nThe firearms were meant for Aron Thomas, 32, who was caught with another loaded revolver and ammunition when he was held on 26 April 2017.\n\nAt the time, he was on licence, having been released from an 11-year prison sentence for opening fire at random towards a crowded street near Wood Green Tube station in 2010.\n\nThomas, from Holloway, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years last year after he was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nHamza Ahmed, Elyace Hamchaoui and Joshua Miller were also jailed over the plot\n\nAhmed, from Archway, north London, was jailed for 16 years for one count of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life in relation to the first incident.\n\nMiddleman Elyace Hamchaoui, 23, from Arnos Grove, north London, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the same charge.\n\nJoshua Miller, 27, of no fixed address, was jailed for 17 years for conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life in relation to the second incident.\n• None Why criminal twins may no longer be safe\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Riot police, a helicopter and dog units were deployed at the Govan parade\n\nPolice Scotland has said it will have a \"significant\" presence at two Irish republican marches through Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGlasgow City Council has agreed to allow the processions to go ahead a week after a march through Govan was marred by sectarian violence.\n\nCouncil bosses had previously threatened to take action against marches to protect the public.\n\nPolice said security for Saturday's events had been \"extensively planned\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins said: \"Without going into specific numbers, I can confirm that we will have a significant deployment of conventional and specialist resources across the city.\n\n\"Police Scotland has to balance the right of people who wish to take part in the processions, under the conditions agreed by Glasgow City Council, and those who wish to protest peacefully and lawfully.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads were blocked as a result of the demonstrations\n\nHe added: \"I am appealing that those taking part should do so in a peaceful and lawful manner, which will allow us to facilitate the rights of all in terms of freedom of expression.\n\n\"I want to re-emphasise that anyone intent on becoming involved in any kind of anti-social or criminal behaviour will be dealt with promptly.\"\n\nRiot police, a helicopter and dog units were called in last Friday evening when an Irish Unity march in Govan was met by hundreds of \"disruptive\" counter demonstrators.\n\nRoads were blocked in what police described as \"significant disorder\".\n\nThe Scottish government's justice secretary, Humza Yousaf, has now said he is \"open-minded\" about increasing council powers to restrict marches.\n\nBut he insisted introducing a blanket ban on loyalist and republican parades would be impossible as the European Convention on Human Rights \"simply wouldn't allow it\".\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"If there is something we can do legislatively to give more powers to councils to restrict these marches, I am open-minded.\"\n\nThe first of Saturday's marches, led by the Cairde na hEireann group, will assemble at 14:00 and march from Millroad Street in the city's east end, along the Gallowgate and finish at Clyde Street.\n\nMeanwhile, Friends of IRPWA will begin their procession at 15:00 from Blythswood Square, head down to the Broomielaw, on to Trongate and finish at Barrowlands Park.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe and Isabel Baxter have lived in their house in Deans South for 53 years\n\nThere were once 240 inhabited houses on Livingston's Deans South housing estate in West Lothian.\n\nThe houses were condemned 15 years ago, and while most people have left, a handful of families still live among the derelict buildings.\n\nThey claim the council has not offered them enough money to leave.\n\nNow they are hopeful a developer will enable them to move on, but the council said it was not a complete solution.\n\nIsabel and Joe Baxter have lived in their house in Deans South for 53 years.\n\nTheir immaculate home stands out among the derelict, boarded up buildings which surround it.\n\nThese council houses were condemned 15 years ago, and most people moved.\n\nHowever the Baxters, who had bought their home, stayed.\n\nThe council tenants were re-housed, and Mrs Baxter said that was what they wanted - a house for a house.\n\nOnly nine of the original houses in South Deans are still occupied.\n\nMrs Baxter said West Lothian Council has never offered them enough money for theirs.\n\nShe said: \"They're expecting us to just to go and take what they want to give us.\n\n\"They're not even giving us the valuation of the house.\n\n\"Our house was valued at £110,000 about 15 years ago.\n\n\"But they want to give us £41,000. It's not on. \"\n\nMost of the 240 homes at Deans South are uninhabited\n\nOnly nine of the original houses in South Deans are still occupied.\n\nJoe Baxter said it can be a depressing place to live.\n\nHe said: \"It's desperate because we've lost all our good neighbours.\n\n\"There's nobody left here at all and the condition of the place is not the best.\n\n\"It's just a worry now. We don't want to move now because 15 years have passed since this started.\"\n\nNow a developer, Springfield, has offered the residents a new house in return for theirs, with the idea that eventually the firm will be able to develop the area.\n\nHowever, because Springfield has not secured a deal with all the householders, West Lothian Council said it was not a complete solution, because redevelopment cannot start until all the residents have left.\n\nThe local authority is still trying to buy the remaining houses, including the possibility of compulsory purchase orders.\n\nLawrence Fitzpatrick, West Lothian Council leader, said it could not offer any more money to homeowners.\n\nHe said: \"I have to look from the council and the council taxpayers' point of view.\n\n\"The government valuer has placed this value on their houses.\n\n\"That's what they're worth. We cannot offer any more or we would be in serious audit problems.\n\n\"I feel very much for these people in the sense they're caught up in circumstances. We're caught by the law.\"\n\nKerry MacIntosh is the last one left on her block\n\nKerry MacIntosh is the last one left on her block.\n\nShe said being surrounded by empty, boarded-up houses makes her home cold and damp.\n\nShe has rejected all of the councils offers to move over the years, but wants to sell to Springfield.\n\nShe urged the council to back the Springfield offer, and to drop its effort to buy the houses.\n\n\"I want them to accept the solution from Springfield.\n\n\"There's no more the council can do. It's my house and it's for my children as well. This is our home.\n\n\"I've just not given in. I'm fighting for justice. The council's trying to take my home away from me and I want a new house for that.\"\n\nMs MacIntosh is not looking forward to another winter in her house, because she said living there has taken its toll on her health.\n\nAfter 15 years, she and the other homeowners are determined to hold out for a house.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TripAdvisor has hit back at allegations that it is failing to stop a flood of fake reviews that artificially boost hotel ratings.\n\nThe travel review site has come under fire from consumer group Which? over what it calls \"hugely suspicious\" patterns of comments from contributors.\n\nBut James Kay, a UK director of TripAdvisor, said the site went after fake reviews \"very aggressively\".\n\n\"We are doing this more than any other platform out there,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Kay was speaking in response to a Which? Travel survey that looked at 250,000 TripAdvisor reviews for the top 10 ranked hotels in 10 popular tourist destinations worldwide.\n\nWhich? said it had reported 15 of those 100 hotels to TripAdvisor as having \"blatant hallmarks\" of fake reviews.\n\nIt said that in the case of one hotel in Jordan, TripAdvisor subsequently removed 730 of its five-star reviews.\n\nNaomi Leach of Which? Travel accused TripAdvisor of a \"failure to stop fake reviews and take strong action against hotels that abuse the system\".\n\n\"Platforms like TripAdvisor should be more responsible for the information presented to consumers.\"\n\nBut TripAdvisor's Mr Kay said the site had already taken action against the reviews in question, independently of the Which? investigation.\n\n\"This is something we do every day,\" he said. \"We have fraud detection tools that are far more sophisticated than those used by Which?\"\n\nMr Kay said its investigators were always on the lookout for suspicious patterns of reviews.\n\nIn Italy, he added, TripAdvisor had assisted a prosecution that sent one fake reviewer to jail.\n\nUnder an EU directive that has been in force in the UK since 2008, hotel staff who post favourable reviews of their establishment on travel information websites such as TripAdvisor are committing a crime.\n\nAny firm breaking the rules may face prosecution, stiff fines and possibly even jail terms for its staff.", "Demi Lovato told her followers in the Instagram post that she is proud of her body\n\nPop singer Demi Lovato has posted an unedited image of herself showing off her cellulite, telling her millions of followers it was her \"biggest fear\".\n\nThe 27-year-old said the image was \"cellulit\" adding she was tired of \"being ashamed\" of her body and admitting that previous pictures had been edited.\n\n\"I want this new chapter in my life to be about being authentic to who I am rather than trying to meet someone else's standards.\n\n\"So here's me, unashamed, unafraid and proud to own a body that has fought through so much and will continue to amaze me when I hopefully give birth one day.\"\n\nThe unedited image appears to have been taken at the same time as similar ones Lovato posted in May this year while on holiday in Bora Bora, French Polynesia.\n\nThe popularity of the new picture has already far surpassed the 4.1 million likes the image of her in the same location wearing the same bikini garnered, with more than 7.1 million fans so far showing their support.\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 ddlovato 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\nHer photo prompted her fans to share their images of cellulite with her too - which she also included in her Instagram story.\n\nMari, 20, who posts as @lovatolight, was one of those who responded.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"When I saw she posted my picture and said she was proud of me, all I did was cry. She is such a strong person and that meant a lot. I had that picture but I had never posted it before because I was really insecure about my body. When Demi posted hers I felt really inspired by her courage and decided to post mine too.\"\n\nCellulite is a condition where the skin has a dimpled and lumpy appearance. It affects 90% of all women at some point in their lives yet is often airbrushed from pictures or not shown at all.\n\nDemi Lovato updated her Instagram story with a response to the reaction her initial picture had\n\nFellow celebrities have expressed support for Lovato's post too.\n\nComedian Amy Schumer added Demi's photo to her own Instagram story stating \"@ddlovato is the truth\" while model Ashley Graham wrote: \"I love Demi\".\n\nThe singer took a short break from the platform in July this year after facing abuse.\n\nAs well as working on new tracks in the studio and appearing as a recurring character in the television show Will and Grace, the star is also working on a film for Netflix called Eurovision.", "Lorraine Carpenter was one of the first two people to have the transplant with an infected kidney\n\nKidneys infected with hepatitis C have been successfully transplanted from donors to patients in what is believed to be a UK first.\n\nThe recipient then has a 12-week course of anti-viral tablets to cure them.\n\nCardiff and Vale health board said it represented a medical breakthrough as it opened the pool of organ donors when there remains a shortage.\n\nLorraine Carpenter, 75, who was one of the first recipients, said it had \"given me my freedom\".\n\nSuch transplants have taken place in other parts of the world.\n\nMrs Carpenter, from Hengoed, Caerphilly county, had her transplant in May from a dead donor and is coming to the end of her course of treatment.\n\nShe said: \"Before having a kidney transplant, I was dialysing every night for about seven months. I'm a positive person so I didn't let it affect me too much but I did find it difficult to plan to do things.\n\n\"When the team asked me if I would consider a kidney with hepatitis C, I didn't hesitate, I jumped at the chance. I felt as though I had nothing to lose and wasn't at all frightened.\n\n\"Saying thank you isn't enough because what they have given me is simply my freedom.\n\n\"Since the operation, my treatment to cure my hepatitis C has been good and I expect to be totally cleared of it really soon.\"\n\nThe reason the donor cannot be cured first is it takes 12 weeks of treatment and there is usually only hours available for organ donation.\n\nThe transplants were carried out at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff\n\nThere are an estimated 12,000 people affected by hepatitis C in Wales. Of 236 people needing transplants as of June 2019, 177 were waiting for kidneys.\n\nHepatitis C is treated using direct acting antiviral (DAA) tablets which have been available on the NHS to treat and cure all cases of the virus since 2014.\n\nStaff from the transplant team at the health board worked with the blood-borne virus team and Welsh Specialist Virology Centre to implement a transplantation process.\n\nConsultant transplant nephrologist Dr Sarah Browne, who led the process at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales, said: \"Thanks to the availability of DAA across NHS Wales, we have been able to allow many more people to become kidney donors and improve the lives of those patients waiting to receive a kidney.\"\n\nDr Ahmed Elsharkawy, chairman of the British Viral Hepatitis Group added: \"Clinical practice elsewhere in the world is currently showing that accepting kidneys from donors with hepatitis C and treating recipients with DAAs is safe and effective.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it allowed more people to become organ donors \"which can help save more lives\".", "PC Avi Maharaj was jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to fraud\n\nA police officer who bought pornography at the family home of a dead child has been jailed for 12 months.\n\nMet PC Avi Maharaj was asked to guard the house on 11 February 2018 while the family was \"being consoled elsewhere\" after their 14-year-old son had taken his own life.\n\nMaharaj guessed the password to the household Virgin Media account and downloaded four pornographic films.\n\nHe was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nMaharaj, 44, of Kingswood Place, Hayes, had previously pleaded guilty to fraud.\n\nThe family had initially thought their son had downloaded the clips before realising Maharaj was responsible.\n\nSentencing, Judge Deborah Taylor told him that while the parents of the boy were grieving elsewhere he had responsibility to guard the house.\n\n\"Instead of performing that duty with respect and professionalism, you took it upon yourself to guess the password to the household Virgin Media account, to act as if you were the account holder, and use it to purchase, download and view four pornography films.\"\n\nThe judge added the family were \"vulnerable, traumatised by the loss of their son, and trusted you to guard their house\" and his actions had led to a \"false understanding of their son's last hours\".\n\n\"All right-thinking people would be appalled by your gross lack of decency and respect in indulging yourself at all in those circumstances, let alone deviously, and at the expense of the bereaved parents.\"\n\nPc Maharaj was supposed to be waiting for the undertaker to take the body away when he downloaded pornography worth £25.96.\n\nHe then falsified his attendance logs, claiming he left the property in Littleton Street almost two hours earlier than he really did as part of a bid to cover up his actions, the court heard.\n\nIn a letter, the boy's father, Graham Miller, said Maharaj's actions had initially \"upset\" his image of his son, adding it \"made me feel like I didn't know my own son\".\n\nThe boy's father only realised his son was not responsible for the downloads when he contacted Virgin Media and was told what time the clips were downloaded.\n\nMaharaj, who was based in Earlsfield, Wandsworth, initially denied the allegations when interviewed by police, the court heard.\n\n\"He provided officers with a prepared statement in which he denied the allegation and questioned security of the premises,\" Prosecutor Gregor McKinley said.\n\nEdmund Gritt, representing Maharaj, said the defendant \"expressed his wholly ashamed apologies to the Miller family\".\n\nAvi Maharaj pleaded guilty to fraud at Westminster Magistrates' Court in July\n\nMr Gritt told the court that Maharaj's guilty plea would \"terminate\" his police career \"forever\".\n\nHe added it was \"inevitable\" he would be dismissed.\n\nThe Met officer's conviction follows a complaint from a member of the child's family, which led to an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nThe IOPC's regional director Sal Naseem described PC Maharaj's behaviour as \"shocking\" and \"deceitful\", adding that he \"caused considerable distress for the family involved who were dealing with the sudden death of a family member\".\n\nThe Met said there would be a special case hearing on Monday.\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. Mr Mugabe resigned in 2017, after more than three decades in power\n\nAs independent Zimbabwe's first prime minister, and later its president, Robert Mugabe promised democracy and reconciliation.\n\nBut the hope that accompanied independence in 1980 dissolved into violence, corruption and economic disaster.\n\nPresident Mugabe became an outspoken critic of the West, most notably the United Kingdom, the former colonial power, which he denounced as an \"enemy country\".\n\nDespite his brutal treatment of political opponents, and his economic mismanagement of a once prosperous country, he continued to attract the support of other African leaders who saw him as a hero of the fight against colonial rule.\n\nRobert Gabriel Mugabe was born in what was then Rhodesia on 21 February 1924, the son of a carpenter and one of the majority Shona-speaking people in a country then run by the white minority. Educated at Roman Catholic mission schools, he qualified as a teacher.\n\nWinning a scholarship to Fort Hare University in South Africa, he took the first of his seven academic degrees before teaching in Ghana, where he was greatly influenced by the pan-Africanist ideas of Ghana's post-independence leader Kwame Nkrumah. His first wife Sally was Ghanaian.\n\nIn 1960, Mugabe returned to Rhodesia. At first he worked for the African nationalist cause with Joshua Nkomo, before breaking away to become a founder member of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu).\n\nIn 1964, after making a speech in which he called Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and his government \"cowboys\", Mugabe was arrested and detained without trial for a decade.\n\nMugabe (l) with Nkomo (r) in 1960. The relationship between the two would sour after independence\n\nHis baby son died while he was still in prison and he was refused permission to attend the funeral.\n\nIn 1973, while still in detention, he was chosen as president of Zanu. After his release, he went to Mozambique and directed guerrilla raids into Rhodesia. His Zanu organisation formed a loose alliance with Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu).\n\nDuring the tortuous negotiations on independence for Rhodesia, he was seen as the most militant of the black leaders, and the most uncompromising in his demands.\n\nOn a 1976 visit to London, he declared that the only solution to the Rhodesian problem would come out of the barrel of a gun.\n\nBut his negotiating skills earned him the respect of many of his former critics. The press hailed him as \"the thinking man's guerrilla\".\n\nThe Lancaster House agreement of 1979 set up a constitution for the new Republic of Zimbabwe, as Rhodesia was to be called, and set February 1980 for the first elections which would be open to the black majority.\n\nFighting the election on a separate platform from Nkomo, Mugabe scored an overwhelming and, to most outside observers, unexpected victory. Zanu secured a comfortable majority, although the polls were marred by accusations of vote-rigging and intimidation from both sides\n\nA self-confessed Marxist, Mugabe's victory initially had many white people packing their bags ready to leave Rhodesia, while his supporters danced in the streets.\n\nHowever, the moderate, conciliatory tone of his early statements reassured many of his opponents. He promised a broad-based government, with no victimisation and no nationalisation of private property. His theme, he told them, would be reconciliation.\n\nLater that year he outlined his economic policy, which mixed private enterprise with public investment.\n\nHe launched a programme to massively expand access to healthcare and education for black Zimbabweans, who had been marginalised under white-minority rule.\n\nWith the prime minister frequently advocating one-party rule, the rift between Mugabe and Nkomo widened.\n\nAfter the discovery of a huge cache of arms at Zapu-owned properties, Nkomo, recently demoted in a cabinet reshuffle, was dismissed from government.\n\nWhile paying lip service to democracy, Mugabe gradually stifled political opposition. The mid-1980s saw the massacre of thousands of ethnic Ndebeles seen as Nkomo's supporters in his home region of Matabeleland.\n\nMugabe was implicated in the killings, committed by the Zimbabwean army's North Korean-trained 5th Brigade, but never brought to trial.\n\nUnder intense pressure, Nkomo agreed for his Zapu to be merged with - or taken over by - Zanu to become the virtually unchallenged Zanu-PF.\n\nAfter abolishing the office of prime minister, Mugabe became president in 1987 and was elected for a third term in 1996.\n\nThe same year, he married Grace Marufu, after his first wife had died from cancer. Mugabe already had two children with Grace, 40 years his junior. A third was born when the president was 73.\n\nHe did have some success in building a non-racial society, but in 1992 introduced the Land Acquisition Act, permitting the confiscation of land without appeal.\n\nThe plan was to redistribute land at the expense of more than 4,500 white farmers, who still owned the bulk of the country's best land.\n\nIn early 2000, with his presidency under serious threat from the newly formed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by former trade union leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe lashed out against the farmers, seen as MDC backers.\n\nHis supporters, the so-called \"war veterans\", occupied white-owned farms and a number of farmers and their black workers were killed.\n\nThe action served to undermine the already battered economy as Zimbabwe's once valuable agricultural industry fell into ruin. Mugabe's critics accused him of distributing farms to his cronies, rather than the intended rural poor.\n\n2008: Comes second in first round of elections to Tsvangirai who pulls out of run-off amid nationwide attacks on his supporters\n\n2009: Amid economic collapse, swears in Tsvangirai as prime minister, who serves in uneasy government of national unity for four years\n\n2017: Sacks long-time ally Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, paving the way for his wife Grace to succeed him\n\nNovember 2017: Army intervenes and forces him to step down\n\nZimbabwe moved rapidly from being one of Africa's biggest food producers to having to rely on foreign aid to feed its population.\n\nIn the 2000 elections for the House of Assembly, the MDC won 57 out of the 120 seats elected by popular vote, although a further 20 seats were filled by Mugabe's nominees, securing Zanu-PF's hold on power.\n\nTwo years later, in the presidential elections, Mugabe achieved 56.2% of the vote compared with Mr Tsvangirai's 41.9% against a background of intimidation of MDC supporters. Large numbers of people in rural areas were prevented from voting by the closure of polling stations.\n\nMDC activists were attacked around the country in 2008\n\nWith the MDC, the US, UK and the European Union not recognising the election result because of the violence and allegations of fraud, Mugabe - and Zimbabwe - became increasingly isolated.\n\nThe Commonwealth also suspended Zimbabwe from participating in its meetings until it improved its record as a democracy.\n\nIn May 2005, Mugabe presided over Operation Restore Order, a crackdown on the black market and what was said to be \"general lawlessness\".\n\nSome 30,000 street vendors were arrested and whole shanty towns demolished, eventually leaving an estimated 700,000 Zimbabweans homeless.\n\nIn March 2008, Mugabe lost the first round of the presidential elections but won the run-off in June after Mr Tsvangirai pulled out.\n\nIn the wake of sustained attacks against his supporters across the country, Mr Tsvangirai maintained that a free and fair election was not possible.\n\nAfter hundreds of people died from cholera, partly because the government could not afford to import water treatment chemicals, Mugabe agreed to negotiate with his long-time rival about sharing power.\n\nThe power-sharing agreement was undermined by arguments\n\nAfter months of talks, in February 2009 Mugabe swore in Mr Tsvangirai as prime minister.\n\nIt came as no surprise that the arrangement was far from perfect, with constant squabbling and accusations by some human rights organisations that Mugabe's political opponents were still being detained and tortured.\n\nMr Tsvangirai's reputation also suffered by his association with the Mugabe regime, despite the fact that he had no influence over the increasingly irascible president.\n\nThe 2013 election, in which Mugabe won 61% of the vote, ended the power-sharing agreement and Mr Tsvangirai went into the political wilderness.\n\nWhile there were the usual accusations of electoral fraud - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked that these be investigated - there was not the widespread violence that had marked previous polls in Zimbabwe.\n\nIt was an election that saw Robert Mugabe, at the age of 89, confirm his position as the undisputed power in the country.\n\nHis advancing years, and increasing health problems, saw much speculation as to who might replace him.\n\nBut the manoeuvring among possible successors revealed how fragmented Zimbabwe's administration was and underlined the fact that it was only held together by Mugabe's dominance.\n\nMugabe himself seemed to delight in playing off his subordinates against each other in a deliberate attempt to dilute whatever opposition might arise.\n\nWith speculation that his wife, Grace, was poised to take control in the event of his death in office, Mugabe announced in 2015 that he fully intended to fight the 2018 elections, by which time he would be 94.\n\nHe was the undisputed power in Zimbabwe\n\nAnd, to allay any doubt remaining among possible successors, he announced in February 2016 that he would remain in power \"until God says 'come'\".\n\nIn the event it wasn't God but units of the Zimbabwe National Army which came for Robert Mugabe. On 15 November 2017 he was placed under house arrest and, four days later, replaced as the leader of Zanu-PF by his former vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa.\n\nDefiant to the end Mugabe refused to resign, But, on 21 November, as a motion to impeach him was being debated in the Zimbabwean parliament, the speaker of the House of Assembly announced that Robert Mugabe had finally resigned.\n\nMugabe negotiated a deal which protected him and his family from the risk of future prosecution and enabled him to retain his various business interests. He was also granted a house, servants, vehicles and full diplomatic status.\n\nAscetic in manner, Robert Mugabe dressed conservatively and drank no alcohol. He viewed both friend and foe with a scepticism verging on the paranoid.\n\nThe man who had been hailed as the hero of Africa's struggle to throw off colonialism had turned into a tyrant, trampling over human rights and turning a once prosperous country into an economic basket case.\n\nHis legacy is likely to haunt Zimbabwe for years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "University admissions service Ucas has been accused of promoting \"inappropriate\", high-interest private loans to students.\n\nAn email sent by Ucas Media included an advert for Future Finance, which offers student loans with interest rates of between 8% and 23.7% - higher than those of government-funded loans.\n\nConsumer campaigner Martin Lewis said Ucas had \"breached an ethical line\".\n\nUcas said it always advised government loans as the best option for students.\n\nThe Labour Party's deputy leader Tom Watson tweeted that it was \"indefensible\" for Ucas to promote \"sky-high loans\", adding it should \"drop these adverts straight away\".\n\nOlga Dolchenko, CEO of Future Finance, said it was a \"highly valued source of funding\" for students who needed extra financial assistance and it always advised customers to seek a government-funded loan first.\n\nUcas is an independent charity that operates the application process for UK universities.\n\nThe advert for Future Finance was sent on 22 August by Ucas Media - the organisation's commercial arm - to subscribers who had opted in to receiving marketing emails.\n\nMartin Lewis, who founded MoneySavingExpert.com, has written to Ucas, the universities minister and Universities UK calling for Ucas to stop sending emails with adverts for commercial loans, arguing it had \"failed in its duty of care\" to existing and prospective students.\n\nHe said the loans were \"inappropriate for the huge majority of recipients\", with higher interest rates than government-funded loans, which are provided by the Student Loans Company, a non-profit, government-owned organisation.\n\n\"Ucas has privileged, monopoly access to this young and impressionable audience,\" he wrote in his letter.\n\n\"It is also seen as an institutional authority and therefore adverts contained in your email are effectively being legitimised by inclusion, and some may even mistake it for a direct recommendation.\"\n\nHe said the loans offered by Future Finance were \"an entirely different beast\" to government-funded loans, which currently have a maximum interest rate of 5.4%, are only repaid once graduates earn a certain amount and are wiped after 30 years.\n\nStudents must start paying off Future Finance loans while they are still at university.\n\nA spokesperson for Universities UK said government-backed student loans were \"the best available option\" as, unlike a conventional debt, the amount repaid depends on how much the graduate is earning, and outstanding repayments do not impact on future lenders' decisions.\n\nIn a statement, Ucas said students had to actively opt-in to receive marketing material from outside companies and it \"carefully considers which companies to work with\".\n\nIt added that Ucas was compliant with all relevant Charity Commission guidance.\n\nMs Dolchenko said Future Finance offered \"fully transparent and flexible loans\" and \"never encourages students to borrow more than they can afford\".\n\n\"Our terms are competitive when compared with other forms of private finance, but also need to reflect the risk we take on by lending to young people with little or no credit history,\" 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 Eva Crossan Jory This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEva Crossan Jory, vice president for welfare at the National Union of Students, said increasing numbers of students were resorting to using \"high-cost lenders\" as government-funded student maintenance loans often failed to cover living costs.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said government-funded loans were available to eligible students regardless of their financial background, and no commercial loans offered the same level of borrower protection.\n\n\"We have increased cash-in-hand living costs support for undergraduate students from the lowest income households by 2.8% for the current academic year - 2019/20 - and have announced a further 2.9% increase for 2020/21 - to record levels,\" the spokesperson added.", "Men's Ashes: England v Australia, fourth Specsavers Test (day three of five)\n\nEngland face a huge battle to save the Ashes after Australia took three late wickets on the third day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.\n\nJosh Hazlewood removed Rory Burns, Joe Root and Jason Roy to leave the home side 200-5, still 297 behind Australia's 497-8 declared.\n\nWhen Burns and Root were adding 141 for the third wicket, England were making steady progress.\n\nBut Hazlewood backed up a superb spell from Pat Cummins to have Burns fencing to second slip for 81, then trapped Root lbw for 71.\n\nWhen Roy's middle stump was removed, England had lost three wickets for 30 runs.\n\nBen Stokes and Jonny Bairstow were together when bad light ended play about 45 minutes early, with England probably needing to bat for much of Saturday and probably Sunday in order to avoid defeat.\n\nIf they fail, Ashes holders Australia will be 2-1 up with one Test to play and assured of retaining the urn.\n\nEngland are unlikely to have the benefit of the rain that delayed play until 13:30 BST on Friday - the weather forecast is clear for the weekend.\n• None Agnew column: Burns and Root show England the way - but hosts face a huge battle\n• None England can still save Ashes despite late wickets, says Burns\n• None TMS podcast: Can Stokes save the Ashes again?\n\nFaced with such a huge Australia total, England arrived knowing that any sort of batting slump in their first or second innings would send the urn back down under.\n\nFor so long, Burns and Root were defiant in the face of some hostile bowling from Hazlewood and Cummins in particular. Burns was peppered by the short ball, while Root came through an early examination from off-spinner Nathan Lyon.\n\nThey were given more vocal support from an Old Trafford crowd still having to shiver through the cold - every run was celebrated, while Lyon came in for regular taunting after his fumble at the end of England's thrilling third-Test win at Headingley.\n\nAustralia had to battle the conditions that faced England's bowlers for much of the first two days - not only the wind, but also the placid pitch.\n\nThat they tested the batsmen with such regularity is to their credit, and the tourists deserved Hazlewood's late success.\n\nIt moved them a step closer to retaining the Ashes, but England could yet take the contest to The Oval if the rest can replicate the battling qualities of Burns and Root.\n\nThere were just a few signs of frustration creeping in for the tourists when it looked like their efforts would be wasted.\n\nDuring an electric 10-over spell from Cummins either side of tea, Root edged between keeper Tim Paine and first slip David Warner on 54 and, in the next over, Australia wasted a review on a wishful lbw appeal against the same man.\n\nWhereas Cummins was luckless, his replacement Hazlewood was incisive.\n\nFirst he got one to go across Burns that the left-hander followed and edged to Steve Smith at second slip, then got one to scuttle that the pinned Root did not bother to review.\n\nRoy had already moved down the order after opening in the first three Tests and was in no position to play one that nipped back, pushing hard with his hands and on the walk with his feet. It left Hazlewood with 4-48, having removed nightwatchman Craig Overton in the second over of the day.\n\nSuch was Australia's momentum, it seems likely they would have done more damage had the light not closed in.\n\nFrom 23-1 overnight and with Overton adding only two to his overnight three, England were under pressure when Root joined Burns.\n\nBurns bravely repelled the pace bowler, Root engaged in a battle of wits with Lyon and also had his box broken by a blow from Mitchell Starc.\n\nAs they warmed to the task, runs were accumulated, particularly when Starc was wayward and Lyon dropped short.\n\nBurns and Root scored square of the wicket on both sides. Root followed up his half-century in the second innings at Headingley, while Burns has almost 100 runs more than all of the other openers in the series combined.\n\nEven though Burns' dismissal sparked the late slump, England have been moved to a position from where they should get the 98 more runs they need to avoid the follow-on.\n\nHowever, by the end of the day, there were some signs of the ball beginning to keep low, adding a further complication to their task of batting to save the game.\n\nEngland in a 'decent position' - what they said\n\nEngland opener Rory Burns on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's not ideal, losing those wickets, but the way we scrapped throughout the day, we're in a decent position.\n\n\"Test cricket is Test cricket and it was challenging at times. I found a way to get through today and that's probably the method of my batting.\n\n\"It's about partnerships, now. We're in a fight and it's very obvious what we need to do come tomorrow.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"This is Australia's game to lose. England have to bat beyond lunch, bat into the afternoon session and if they can get to 350, they're taking overs out of the game that they'll have to bat on Sunday. It will be the great escape.\"\n\n\"That Pat Cummins spell was probably the best of the series and the fact is, Rory Burns survived that spell. That should give him a huge amount of confidence. Every single person that adores Test cricket would admire what Cummins produced for his team today.\"\n\nAustralia bowler Pat Cummins: \"The ball started to zip around and I felt in the game. It was not to be for me. It makes me happy when Josh comes on and takes wickets at the other end straight away. He did say, 'I owe you one for that'.\n\n\"We are pretty happy being 300 ahead. It was a tough day of Test cricket. To get those three wickets late, we feel really in the game.\"", "Many small firms can identify with Nimisha Raja's view of Brexit: \"We have absolutely no idea what's going on.\"\n\nMs Raja, founder and boss of Nim's Fruit Crisps, stockpiled supplies last year in the run-up to the original Brexit date in March.\n\nBut she told the BBC she had no plans to do the same ahead of 31 October.\n\nMs Raja is not alone. New research by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) shows 41% of UK firms have done no risk assessment on the impact of Brexit.\n\nThe BCC survey canvassed the views of more than 1,500 business leaders.\n\n\"Last time we stockpiled, it came to absolutely nothing. We were lucky enough to get a deal with the NHS and we were able to use the products that we had stockpiled,\" said Ms Raja, whose factory is based in Kent.\n\n\"But this time around, it just feels like we want to do what [people at] Westminster seem to be doing, which is just folding their arms and waiting for the deadline.\"\n\nThe BCC said: \"Business has consistently called on government to avoid a messy and disorderly exit.\n\n\"But in light of the political turmoil and relentless uncertainty, clearer and more consistent information is needed to help them prepare.\n\n\"With just weeks until a potential no-deal exit, there is still a large proportion of firms that aren't in a position to prepare for the impact.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said supporting businesses to \"get ready for Brexit on 31 October, and take advantage of the opportunities of leaving the EU\" was the department's top priority.\n\nThe BEIS had announced £108m in funding support, he added.\n\nCurrently efforts are continuing in Parliament to rule out a no-deal Brexit on 31 October. A bill designed to secure a three-month extension to the process could receive royal assent next week.\n\nAll VAT-registered firms in the UK need an Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number to continue to trade with customers and suppliers in the EU once the UK has left the EU.\n\nFirms without an EORI number will not be allowed to trade with EU member states after Brexit.\n\nEarlier this month, the government said it would start automatically enrolling UK firms in a customs system as it speeds up its preparations for a no-deal Brexit, a move the BCC campaigned for.\n\nHow will Nim's Fruit Crisps cope with the Brexit crunch?\n\nBut BCC director-general Dr Adam Marshall said businesses needed more information.\n\n\"There are many areas where there simply isn't enough clear and actionable information for businesses to mitigate some of the impacts of an unwanted no-deal exit.\"\n\nMs Raja said she was not at all clear about what preparations were needed to export her firm's products after the Brexit deadline.\n\nShe said: \"We are dealing with fresh produce, just-in-time products, and the worrying thing is that if suddenly on 31 October there are border controls, produce that we have coming in will be held up, which will mean production in our factories will stall.\"\n\nMs Raja said that despite everything, she was hopeful about future prospects.\n\nShe added: \"I'm still optimistic about Made In Britain carrying as much weight as it always has done.\n\n\"Whether we're able to continue to export the way we have been doing and import the way we have been doing, I don't know.\"", "Ayesha Tan-Jones protested against the designs with a message written on their hands\n\nA model staged a silent protest while walking in the Gucci show at Milan Fashion Week on Sunday.\n\nAyesha Tan-Jones and other models were dressed in white jumpsuits for the show, some resembling strait jackets.\n\nTan-Jones, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, wrote \"Mental health is not fashion\" on their hands.\n\nGucci said the designs were meant to represent \"how through fashion, power is exercised over life, to eliminate self-expression\".\n\nPosting on Instagram after the show, Tan-Jones wrote: \"Straitjackets are a symbol of a cruel time in medicine when mental illness was not understood, and people's rights and liberties were taken away from them, while they were abused and tortured in the institution.\n\n\"It is in bad taste for Gucci to use the imagery of straitjackets and outfits alluding to mental patients, while being rolled out on a conveyor belt as if a piece of factory meat.\"\n\nThe jumpsuits were designed to mimic straitjackets\n\nIn another post on Monday, Tan-Jones added that they, along with some of the other models in the show, were donating a portion of the fees they were paid by Gucci to mental health charities.\n\n\"Many of the other Gucci models who were in the show felt just as strongly as I did about this depiction of straitjackets, and without their support I would not have had the courage to walk out and peacefully protest,\" they said.\n\nIn response, Gucci said the jackets were meant to be an antidote to the colourful designs in the rest of the Spring/Summer 2020 show.\n\n\"These clothes were a statement for the fashion show and will not be sold,\" Gucci said.\n\nTan-Jones's protest comes just months after Gucci appointed a diversity chief, Renée Tirado, prompted by two incidents earlier in the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In February we asked, are controversial ads for fashion brands accident or design?\n\nIn February, Gucci was forced to withdraw a jumper after critics said it resembled a blackface minstrel. The black balaclava jumper, which was being sold for n $890 (£715), covered half of the model's face and had large red lips knitted onto it.\n\nThen in May, the fashion house was accused of cultural appropriation for a $790 headpiece that looked like a Sikh turban. It attracted criticism from the US-based Sikh Coalition, which tweeted: \"The Sikh turban is not just a fashion accessory, but it's also a sacred religious article of faith.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The move has been called \"fundamentally flawed\" by those who already have licences\n\nGun owners have criticised plans to tighten guidelines on issuing firearms licences.\n\nUnder the current system, police ask GPs to provide an applicant's medical details, but they are not obliged to give it.\n\nSo the Home Office wants to put the onus on the applicant providing a medical certificate.\n\nBut the move has been called \"fundamentally flawed\" by those who already have licences.\n\nCeredigion-based shooting instructor Meurig Rees said people who shoot are being unfairly penalised for having to provide information which should be obtained by the police.\n\n\"When we look at it from a shooter's point of view, it's a right mess to be honest,\" said Mr Rees, a country officer for the British Association of Shooting and Conservation.\n\n\"The medical checks are there already. It's the inconsistencies on the medical side of it - certain doctors' surgeries can charge anything from £20 to £100 for the information and it's just not right.\n\n\"We shouldn't be paying but the onus is coming back on us as shooters all the time.\"\n\nMeurig Rees said applicants should not be paying for the checks\n\nThe Home Office has found not all GPs respond to police requests and some charge varying amounts for the service.\n\nIn some cases, firearms certificates have been issued without medical information, which flags up any mental health issues or possible risks from owning a gun.\n\nThe highest number of shotgun licences in Wales and England are held in the Dyfed-Powys Police force area.\n\nLast year alone more than 15,000 shotgun licences were issued and more than 4,500 firearms certificates.\n\nThe numbers tend to be higher in rural areas, where people hold guns for a variety of reasons, including the need to shoot predators to protect livestock.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it would not issue a licence without medical information.\n\n\"We need a standardised process for the whole of the UK,\" she added.\n\n\"We are very thorough and have a good working relationship with our GP practices - they're very supportive in providing information but the new consultation would speed up the process for everyone involved.\"\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the British Medical Association, Dr Phil White, a GP in Y Felinheli, Gwynedd, said there were many reasons why doctors do not always provide the information.\n\nHe said: \"We are allowed to disclose if the public is at risk from someone who has a firearms licence - putting a marker on their record is a way of doing this.\n\n\"But there are also GPs who feel strongly that no-one should have firearms in their homes and decline to comply with the regulations.\"\n\nIn a statement, a Home Office spokesman said: \"We have some of the toughest firearms controls in the world and we will do everything we can to ensure it stays this way.\"", "For months now, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have been playing a semantics game. They wanted those who supported and those who opposed a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump to both think they were getting what they wanted.\n\nThis strategy suggested a fear by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others that heading down the path to impeachment would put moderate Democrats facing tough 2020 re-election fights at risk.\n\nThat calculus appears to have changed, after the rapid drumbeat of new revelations about Mr Trump's contacts with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Now even middle-of-the road politicians are coming out in favour of impeachment proceedings.\n\nThe dam has broken. The genie is out of the bottle. Pick your metaphor. The simple fact is that Ms Pelosi - a keen judge of the political mood within her caucus - has made the decision to shift from resisting impeachment to -at the very least - being open to it.\n\nThe path forward is uncertain. The administration could back way from its across-the board stonewalling and give Congress some of the information it requests. Opinion surveys could show the latest drama is taking a toll on one party or the other, causing political will to crumble. Or, both sides could dig in for a long, gruelling battle that could drag into the darkest days of winter.", "US reporter Lisa Evers has been in court for the trial of Daniel Hernandez, better known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, in New York City.\n\nThe rapper has turned on other alleged gang members as part of a plea deal with the US government which he hopes will reduce his prison time.\n\nHe was facing a minimum of 47 years and a maximum of life imprisonment, now there is the possibility he could be released by 2020. He has finished testifying but the trial is expected to run until October.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour is pledging to invest billions of pounds in electric car production and offshore wind farms to accelerate the \"green industrial revolution\".\n\nA future Labour government would take equity stakes in car producers in return for a £3bn capital investment in new electric models and machinery.\n\nThirty-seven publicly-owned wind farms will be built, with the profits used to regenerate deprived coastal areas.\n\nDelegates have been debating the pace of decarbonisation at the conference.\n\nEarlier this year, Parliament approved a law requiring the UK to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, a stricter target compared with the previous one of at least an 80% reduction from 1990 levels.\n\nLabour delegates, many of whom want a more ambitious strategy, approved a motion calling for a 2030 zero net emissions target as part of a green new deal.\n\nThis does not automatically become part of Labour's manifesto, however, as the party's policy will be determined during the drafting process.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said she would be willing to support the more ambitious target if there was a \"credible plan with trade unions and industry\", and a \"just transition\" that did not adversely affect workers.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Provided we have a plan, I am happy to work as quickly as possible. I know we have got to act faster and we've got to push people to do that.\"\n\nSome unions, including the GMB, are concerned this is too ambitious and want guarantees that it will not lead to massive job losses in the automotive, energy and industrial sectors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by iain 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\nFirms will be able to bid for funding over two years to bring new electric car models to market, in return for the government taking an equity stake in their business.\n\nA further £2.3bn will be set aside to build three battery plants to supply electric cars. The plants are earmarked for South Wales, Stoke and Swindon - the latter potentially on the site of the Honda factory due to close in 2021.\n\nLabour has already signalled this week it would spend £3.6bn on new electric charging infrastructure and introduce 2.5 million interest free loans to spur the take-up of electric models.\n\nAnnouncing the new plans, Ms Long Bailey said the state should \"not be afraid to intervene\" to ensure the success of the automotive sector in light of the huge technological and economic challenges it faced.\n\n\"The sector is under siege from Brexit uncertainty and the government's lack of ambition on electrification,\" she said.\n\n\"At the same time, we need to accelerate the shift away from fossil-powered cars if we are to tackle the climate emergency.\n\n\"Labour's support package will offer a lifeline for a new clean era of manufacturing.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said 2050 is too late to decarbonise the economy, although he hasn't offered an alternative date. The question is: could the UK achieve Momentum's preferred goal of 2030?\n\nMost energy economists say it's impossible without massive social upheaval. Just imagine - no petrol or diesel cars, and no gas central heating.\n\nBut an increasing number of people are warning that with climate change accelerating faster than expected, society will need to accept major disruption to protect the planet for future generations.\n\nLabour's plans to support wind energy and battery cars build on Conservative policies which have caused the cost of renewables to plummet.\n\nBut will Labour plan cut out the free market competition that's created the fall in energy prices?\n\nEnvironmentalists will also demand a broader vision of what's known as the \"just transition\" to a clean economy. They want to see a masterplan for retraining workers from dirty industries and supporting them to move to new areas with clean jobs. They want support for workers too old to retrain.\n\nIn a series of green energy announcements on Tuesday, Labour will commit to using billions in public money to accelerate the transition to carbon-free transport and power systems.\n\nLabour is also planning an unprecedented intervention in the renewables industry, modelled on countries including Norway, Sweden and Denmark.\n\nTo counter what it says is the domination of foreign firms in the UK's offshore market, it is proposing to take a 51% stake in a new public-private venture, which would build 37 new offshore wind farms capable of supplying the energy needs of 57 million households.\n\nProfits from the scheme would be reinvested in the wider energy network as well as a \"People's Power Fund\" - which would see up to £1bn each year for recreational and leisure facilities in struggling coastal communities.\n\nThis, Labour says, will create 67,000 high-skilled jobs in Scotland, East Anglia, Yorkshire and North-East England.\n\nThe CBI said it wanted to work with Labour and other parties to make a success of the transition to a zero-net carbon economy.\n\nLabour says the offshore wind sector is too dominated by foreign firms\n\nBut the employers' group said \"in the push to reach net-zero as fast and as cost-effectively as possible, renationalisation will hugely disrupt the investment needed in the energy sector to decarbonise\".\n\nThe Conservatives said the wind farms plan could cost up to £80bn and that \"nationalising huge swathes of the energy network\" would set back efforts to tackle climate change.\n\n\"It is by working with business that we've ensured offshore wind will provide more than a third of our electricity by 2030, tripling the number jobs in the industry and keeping bills low for consumers,\" said Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom.\n\nLabour has made a raft of policy pledges during its conference, including plans to abolish prescription charges in England, push for a 32-hour working week and integrate private schools into the state system.\n\nThe first three days in Brighton, though, have been dominated by Brexit divisions and internal wrangling.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn received a major boost to his authority on Monday when delegates backed his \"wait and see\" policy of leaving a decision about which side the party would back in another Brexit referendum until after the next general election.\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson, who has led calls for a more assertive pro-EU position and who survived efforts to oust him on Friday, will address the conference on Tuesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There was confusion over the show of hands vote\n\nJeremy Corbyn's policy on Brexit has triumphed at Labour conference, as members endorsed his stance to stay neutral while negotiating a new deal.\n\nThe party voted against a motion which would have seen Labour backing Remain in any future referendum.\n\nBut there was confusion as the votes were called, as the chair of the proceedings faced calls for a recount.\n\nLabour's position on Brexit has dominated the conference agenda, with huge disagreements over the issue.\n\nThe party's draft plan for its Brexit policy, put forward by Mr Corbyn, suggests that, if Labour wins power in a general election, it would remain neutral while negotiating a new deal with the EU within three months.\n\nIt would then hold a referendum within six months, and the party would decide which side to back ahead of that at a special conference.\n\nGrassroots activists at the conference have been pushing for an unambiguous stance, tabling a motion calling for Labour to campaign \"energetically\" to Remain.\n\nBut this motion was rejected in a show of hands while a motion setting out the leadership's official position and another endorsing its handling of Brexit were overwhelmingly passed.\n\nLen McCluskey said the Labour party trusted their leader\n\nAfter the results were announced by trade union official Wendy Nichols, there were charged scenes in the conference hall.\n\nSeveral delegates called for the votes to be counted individually, suggesting the outcome of the Remain motion was much closer than officials had suggested.\n\nOne delegate said there had to be an official card vote as \"this is one of the most important decisions Labour is going to take in the next decade\".\n\nThe result is a major boost for Jeremy Corbyn, who was backed by the majority of Labour's 12 affiliated unions, including Unite and the GMB.\n\nUnison had broken ranks with other unions to back the Remain motion.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said he was disappointed by the result of the vote, and that he would campaign for Remain.\n\n\"Would I have liked us to have gone a bit further and won that vote? Of course I would - but I don't want to take away from the fact that is quite considerable movement,\" he said.\n\nThe leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, said the vote showed ordinary members coming behind the Labour leader's stance in a show of loyalty.\n\n\"What you've seen here is a massive show of support for Jeremy Corbyn,\" he said, adding that it was \"time to unite\".\n\nThe vote was decisive - the Labour leadership position on Brexit triumphed.\n\nThose calling for a more robust Remain stance at the likely snap election were defeated.\n\nBut the manner of the triumph was immediately called in to question.\n\nThe vote wasn't a secret ballot, it was a show of hands.\n\nCalls for a card vote - where the vote of each delegate is individually counted in secret - were dismissed by the chair.\n\nThat's not to say there wasn't clear show of support for the leadership.\n\nBut some remainers maintain that the vote would at least have been closer if it wasn't conducted in public.\n\nThat's because the debate became - for some delegates - a demonstration of support for the leadership, close to an election, rather than a pure test of opinion on Brexit.\n\nThe conventional wisdom was that Jeremy Corbyn might have to rely on the big unions - with 50% of conference votes - to win.\n\nBut some unions chose to defy him, making a defeat possible.\n\nIn the end a section of the grassroots - the ordinary members - did not prioritise their own pro-Remain position and rallied round Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nRemainers are now accentuating, for them, the positive - that the party is now unambiguously backing a new referendum, with Remain as an option.\n\nNonetheless, Labour will go in to the election unable to say whether it will officially back leave or remain in a subsequent referendum.\n\nBut after a difficult few days, most of those close to Jeremy Corbyn are relieved tonight, and some are jubilant.\n\nAndrew Lewin, the founder of Remain Labour, said the vote represented the \"grassroots against the party machine - and the machine won\".\n\n\"If this fudge is the Labour policy at the next general election, we will drive Remain voters away.\"\n\nAnother campaigner, Michael Chessum, from Another Europe is Possible, said: \"Labour members, 90% of whom want to stay in the EU, will be deeply disappointed with this decision.\"\n\nLabour's stance on Brexit has dominated the conference\n\nBut Labour MPs remain divided over the issue.\n\nSpeaking before the vote, shadow Treasury minister Annaliese Dodds said the economic consequences of Brexit were \"so severe\" that she believed Labour must back remain in another referendum.\n\n\"Is it going to be easy?\" she told the BBC's Carolyn Quinn. \"No it is not, because people are passionate in both directions.\"\n\nBut Stephen Kinnock, the MP for Aberavon, told a fringe meeting organised by the Social Market Foundation that Labour had had \"more Brexit positions than the Karma Sutra\".\n\nDescribing the first two days of conference as an \"utter shambles\", he said Labour should have stuck with its 2017 manifesto pledge to honour the referendum result and moving away from this this would not go down well in Leave constituencies.\n\n\"Our position on Brexit is being treated with ridicule on the doorsteps in my constituency,\" he said.\n\nAway from Brexit, Labour has announced a pledge to introduce free personal care in England for over-65s, so they will not have to pay for help with dressing, washing and meals.\n\nIn his speech, Mr McDonnell also pledged to end in-work poverty within five years and to move to a four day, or 32-hour, working week within a decade without any cut to pay.\n\nThese are the latest of several new policies likely to feature in the party's next election manifesto, including pledges to:", "A woman travelling on a Thomas Cook flight organised an impromptu whip-round for staff after the firm collapsed on Monday.\n\nCabin crew on the flight from Dalaman in Turkey were \"heartbroken\" after losing their jobs, Elaine Kerslake said.\n\nOver the plane's tannoy system, she told her fellow passengers more than £650 had been raised for the staff.\n\nOne of the stewards tearfully thanked the passengers, who applauded the effort.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nRussia could face a ban from all major sports events over \"discrepancies\" in a lab database, the World Anti-Doping Agency has warned.\n\nThe country has been given three weeks to explain \"inconsistencies\" or risk being excluded from the Olympics and world championships.\n\nRussia also faces being barred from hosting major events.\n\n\"There's evidence this data has been deleted,\" chairman of Wada's compliance panel, Jonathan Taylor, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We need to understand from the Russian authorities what their explanation is.\"\n\nRussia handed over data from its Moscow laboratory in January as a condition of its reintegration back into the sporting fold after a three-year suspension for a state-sponsored doping programme.\n\nBut on Monday Wada said its executive committee had been informed that a formal compliance procedure had been opened over the discovery of \"inconsistencies\".\n\n\"This is hypothetical at the moment, but if the experts maintain their current view, then the compliance review committee will make a recommendation to send a notice to Rusada asserting 'you're non-compliant' and proposing consequences,\" said Taylor.\n\n\"In a case with a 'critical non-compliance', there is now a starting point for the sanctions that can go up and down, and they do include sanctions against Rusada and options include no events hosted in Russia, and they do include no participation of Russian athletes in world championships and up to the Olympics.\"\n\nTaylor emphasised that under a new set of rules, Wada now has the power to apply such punishments, but also explained that if Russia were to appeal, the case would ultimately be decided by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).\n\n\"Everyone has agreed they will enforce what Cas agrees,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got to be very careful. Procedure has got to be followed. We can't prejudge the outcome.\"\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) rejected Wada's recommendation to ban Russia from the 2016 Olympics in Rio following the doping scandal, but suspended the team from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, with athletes forced to compete as neutrals.\n\nOn Monday the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) confirmed its decision to uphold a ban on Russia just four days before the start of the World Championships in Doha after hearing a report from its task force overseeing the country's reinstatement efforts.\n\nBut Russia now faces the prospect of being excluded from many other events, including next year's Olympics in Tokyo and football's 2022 World Cup.\n\nTaylor said Wada's new sanctioning powers justified the highly controversial decision to reinstate Rusada in January before the data could be analysed.\n\nBut Linda Helleland, Wada's outgoing vice-president, said: \"The reason I, along with Oceania, voted against Russia's reinstatement back in September of last year, was because we first wanted to assess all the data given, and then decide whether Russia should be rendered compliant or not. This would have been the right way to proceed.\n\n\"This process has already stripped the sports bodies of a lot of credibility. We owe it to all the fans and athletes around the world to at the very least try and restore some trust.\"\n\nRob Koehler of Global Athlete, a group that has been critical of Wada's handling of the crisis, said his members were \"furious\".\n\n\"The time has come to demand resignations from Wada's leadership because they have shown they are not fit for purpose.\n\n\"I hope I, along with the athlete community, am proven wrong, but this entire ordeal will play out in favour of Russia as it has done all along with no meaningful consequences.\"\n\n'This is a test for the new system'\n\nTaylor said he had \"no concerns\" that 47 disciplinary cases already referred to international sports federations would be undermined by the database discrepancies, but others may be affected.\n\n\"There will be cases where it looks like the data has irretrievably gone, and in those then potentially a cheat is going to escape.\n\n\"But then the job is for Wada to respond to that action. If the experts say it was deliberate deletion of data…\n\n\"The problem will be if Wada and its stakeholders don't pursue and don't get proper sanctions, but this is a test for the new system.\n\n\"Obviously if the experts say the Russians have deliberately tampered with this evidence, of course it's disappointing. But the question now is how is Wada and its stakeholders going to respond?\n\n\"If they are able to respond in a way that sends a clear message that this kind of conduct carries severe sanctions, that's all you can do.\n\n\"You can't stop cheating. You can only make sure you've got a system that allows you to respond to it.\"\n\nIn comments reported by the Russian news agency Tass, the country's sports minister Pavel Kolobkov said: \"What exactly are these discrepancies and what are they related to?\n\n\"Experts in digital technology from both sides are already in collaboration. For our part, we continue to provide all possible assistance.\"\n\nRussia had missed deadlines to hand over the data before finally granting Wada access to the Moscow anti-doping laboratory in January.", "HMP Long Lartin holds some of the country's most \"dangerous\" offenders\n\nSpecialist prison officers have been deployed to a high security jail after officers retreated from a wing when they came under attack.\n\nAbout 10 prisoners are currently involved in the disturbance at HMP Long Lartin, in Worcestershire.\n\nA prison officer was hurt as inmates caused damage to a building and attacked staff with pool balls.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said \"specialist staff\" had been deployed \"to manage an ongoing incident\".\n\nThe trained unit, known as a Tornado team, is brought in to manage riots.\n\n\"We are absolutely clear that prisoners who behave in this way will be punished and face extra time behind bars,\" an MoJ spokeswoman said.\n\nThe injured officer has gone to hospital after indirectly sustaining a minor injury.\n\nEarlier reports said 70 prisoners were involved in the disorder.\n\nPrison Officers' Association general secretary Steve Gillan tweeted: \"At moment we do not know all the facts but we fully support all our members at Long Lartin who are clearly facing a difficult evening with a disturbance.\"\n\nThe prison holds more than 500 of the country's most \"dangerous and serious\" male offenders, according to a 2018 report from HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.\n\nAt the time of the inspection around a quarter of inmates were Category A, the highest security classification, and more than 75% were serving life sentences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Model Caprice Bourret is the 12th and final celebrity confirmed to be taking part in Dancing On Ice.\n\nThe 47-year-old revealed the news to Lorraine Kelly on her ITV show on Tuesday morning.\n\n\"At the moment no nerves,\" she said, adding: \"I'm excited more than anything.\"\n\nThe London-based Californian is no stranger to British reality TV, having appeared on Celebrity Big Brother back in 2005.\n\nAs a model, Caprice has appeared on the cover of Vogue, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire and FHM.\n\nLet's take a look at who will be joining her out on the rink in January.\n\nOn Monday, Trisha Goddard was named as the penultimate celebrity skater booked for next year's ITV show.\n\nThe TV chat show host, whose series Trisha ran for 12 years, was revealed as a contestant on Monday's Good Morning Britain.\n\n\"I learned to ice skate when I was a kid,\" the TV host explained.\n\nWhen asked if she could \"lift\", she joked \"Yes. In my hotel, up to the fifth floor in the lift!\"\n\nGoddard is best known for her ITV mid-morning talk show Trisha, which ran from 1998-2004, before moving to Channel 5, where it remained until 2010.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Britain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe later moved to the States and hosted a US version of the show before it was cancelled in 2014.\n\nOn joining the show, Trisha added: \"I love physical stuff. Every day I bike ride, I weight train, I love any physical thing. I learned to ski at 37, I learned to roller blade at 42. I'm 62 in December. I thought 'why not?'\"\n\nLast week former TV presenter Michael Barrymore was one of the first two celebrities to be named for the new series.\n\nBarrymore, 67, told This Morning he was \"delighted\" to be joining the contest.\n\nHe made his name hosting shows like Strike It Lucky and Kids Say the Funniest Things in the 1980s and 90s. But his career effectively ended after a man died in a swimming pool at his home in 2001. He was arrested in 2007, but was released without charge.\n\nHe sued Essex Police for lost earnings, claiming the arrest had cost him £2.4m, but dropped the claim in July.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 This Morning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 This Morning\n\nMaura Higgins reached the final of this year's Love Island\n\nLove Island star Maura Higgins was announced alongside Barrymore as one of the first names on the list.\n\nHiggins, who made the 2019 final of the ITV2 dating show, said: \"I've skated once in my life for fun, so I've no experience at all. I'm up for the challenge.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm more excited than scared. I'm competitive so I think that will drive me.\"\n\nIn July the 28-year-old found herself embroiled in a TV controversy after watchdog Ofcom decided not to investigate 700 complaints about her repeatedly trying to kiss Tommy on the show.\n\nAlso on the DOI list is former Everton and Republic of Ireland footballer Kevin Kilbane, who should at least be able to demonstrate some nimble footwork.\n\n\"I think I'll probably be the novelty act!\" the 42-year-old told RTE's Late Late show.\n\nKilbane, who played for Ireland at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and Korea, now works as a BBC pundit and in 2015 ran the London Marathon in aid of the Down's Syndrome Association.\n\nIan 'H' Watkins from Steps appeared live on Good Morning Britain to confirm he'd signed on the dotted dancing line.\n\nThe dance-pop act made a comeback in 2017, after a five year hiatus. They returned with a number two album, Tears on the Dancefloor, and a UK tour but then skating and dancing are two very different prospects.\n\n\"What am I doing?\" asked the 43-year-old.\n\n\"I have frantically been YouTubing [former contestants] James Jordan and Ray Quinn\".\n\nHe added: \"I have kids now so it's a skill I can learn and take my kids to the ice. It's scary and exciting and now there's no turning back. I know I'm going to be put through my paces and that's the name of the game.\"\n\nBest known for playing Mickey Miller in Eastenders, Joe Swash went on to become a reality TV star when he won I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2008.\n\n\"I can't even dance when I'm on a dancefloor\" he told ITV's Loose Women.\n\nSwash's girlfriend and fellow TV personality Stacey Solomon was also warned \"he might be practicing his ice moves on you!\"\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\nLisa George plays Beth Tinker in Coronation Street and confirmed to ITV's Lorraine that she was heading for her own ice age.\n\nThe actor said: \"I haven't been on the ice for about 40 years.\n\n\"I can't believe I'm 50 next year and I just thought 'if I don't do this now I'm never going to have the chance to do it again'.\"\n\nPerri Kiely, from British street dance troupe Diversity, appeared live on Kiss FM Drivetime to confirm the news that he will appear on the show.\n\nHe said: \"I've done a couple of training sessions. Not gonna lie, it's hard. It's game face.\"\n\nHe's stepped up to the big occasion before, having won the second series of Tom Daly's diving show, Splash! in 2014.\n\nScottish Paralympic sprinter Libby Clegg, is used to performing under pressure.\n\nClegg, who is registered blind due to a deteriorative condition in her eyes known as Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy disease, won two Gold medals at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio - breaking a world record in the process.\n\n\"Well, it's finally been announced!\" she wrote on Twitter. \"I'll be swapping my sprint spikes for ice skates in the coming months! Hopefully skating my way to success on the ice rink too.\n\n\"Incredibly exciting opportunity which I can't wait to embrace!\"\n\n\"She's used to delivering the news, but can she deliver the moves?\" quipped the Dancing on Ice Twitter account.\n\nMillanirini, 43, fronts the ITV lunchtime news and revealed she \"can't wait\" to take on the challenge.\n\n\"I'm super excited to be joining the line up for DOI!\" she said. \"I can't wait to get out there on the ice and start training.\"\n\n\"The cat's out of the bag!... Or should I say skate!\" joked the magician, while literally pulling an ice skate out of a shopping bag.\n\nWe suppose it's more original than pulling yet another rabbit out of a hat.\n\n\"I can't wait, let's do this!\" said the 33-year-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 Ben Hanlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll of the above celebs will skate with professional partners and attempt to impress viewers and the judges, which this year includes John Barrowman - who replaces Jason Gardiner.\n\nThe actor will join Jane Torvill, Christopher Dean and Ashley Banjo on the judging panel for the show, once again hosted by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sherry Bray and Christopher Ashford both admitted three counts of computer misuse\n\nTwo people \"driven by morbid curiosity\" who accessed CCTV footage of footballer Emiliano Sala's post-mortem test have been jailed.\n\nCCTV firm manager Sherry Bray, 49, and her employee Christopher Ashford, 62, admitted illegally accessing mortuary footage of the striker's body.\n\nSala had been flying from Nantes after just signing for Cardiff City when the plane he was on crashed into the sea.\n\nJudge Peter Crabtree jailed Bray for 14 months and Ashford for five months.\n\nAt Swindon Crown Court the judge said the offences were \"driven by morbid curiosity\" and in Ashford's case, \"forensic science\".\n\nThe judge said they had taken place within \"a culture\" at the company where staff watched post-mortem examinations even though they \"had no justification to do so\".\n\nWiltshire Police started investigating when an image appearing to show Sala's body appeared on social media.\n\nOn 18 February, officers investigated Camera Security Services (CSS) in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and found the post-mortem test in Bournemouth had been viewed live on 7 February and then played back twice on 8 February.\n\nEmiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City before the plane he was travelling in crashed into the English Channel on 21 January\n\nBray's phone was seized and two images of the Argentine player's body were discovered, which the court heard had been taken from the screen of the mortuary CCTV.\n\nHowever, the judge said there was no suggestion the pair had taken the actual photograph that appeared on social media or posted it.\n\nBray, of Corsham, and Ashford, of Calne, each admitted three counts of computer misuse in August.\n\nSpeaking at the start of the sentencing hearing at court on Friday, Rob Welling, prosecuting said Bray had \"allowed a culture to develop\" where she and other staff watched footage of post-mortem examinations.\n\nBray told police she had the authority to view all videos but said she \"didn't sit here watching autopsies all day as I'm not sick\".\n\nShe admitted taking one photo and later admitted the second photo was also taken by her.\n\nThe court heard Bray sent a screenshot to her youngest daughter, while Ashford let a friend photograph the screenshot he had taken.\n\nIn a police interview, Ashford admitted watching post-mortem examinations, admitting he had a \"morbid fascination\" with them.\n\nOne message sent from Bray to Christopher Ashford read: \"Nice one on the table for you to see when you get in\".\n\nAshford replied that due to press coverage he assumed it was Sala.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read to the court on Friday, Emiliano Sala's sister Romina said: \"I couldn't believe there were people so evil and wicked who would do that.\"\n\nBray also took a photo of Andrew Latcham's body which was in the same mortuary - he is pictured here (centre) with his son and grandson\n\nBray's phone also revealed she had taken a picture of another body in the same mortuary - a man called Andrew Latcham who had died in non-suspicious circumstances in Dorset.\n\nDet Insp Gemma Vinton, from Wiltshire Police, said: \"While both Bray and Ashford did plead guilty at the first crown court hearing, this case clearly shows that those in a position of responsibility need to ensure they act to the highest moral standards, as well as having a thorough understanding of the law.\n\n\"No sentence will undo the additional unnecessary distress and heartache caused to the Sala and Latcham families, who have remained at the forefront of our thoughts throughout the investigation.\n\n\"I hope that the families will now be able to focus on grieving for Emiliano and Andrew.\"\n\nAnthony Johns, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Bray and Ashford had caused \"immense suffering\" to grieving relatives.\n\nHe added: \"It is impossible to imagine why anyone would wish to record or view these sorts of images in such a flagrant breach of confidentiality and human decency.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Frequent flyers should face higher taxes to help tackle aviation emissions, the government’s climate advisers say.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change says a “frequent flyer levy” would help curb the growing demand for air travel.\n\nAnalysis shows that 70% of UK flights are made by a wealthy 15% of the population, with 57% not flying abroad at all.\n\nThe government says it will study the recommendations.\n\nAviation is set to be the biggest source of UK emissions by 2050. And at the moment, ministers are planning for an increase of up to 49% in flying.\n\nBut the committee says growth should be limited to 25% of current levels.\n\nThe CCC said frequent flyers were a large part of the problem, but it is not clear how a levy would work in practice.\n\nFor instance, would it apply to businesses at a time when the UK wants to stimulate trade with other nations? And how would you stop people pretending their flights were for work purposes to avoid paying it?\n\nOther solutions could include increasing taxes on airlines, or restricting airport capacity, the committee said.\n\nBut it warned that if the planned expansion of Heathrow airport went ahead, it would leave very little growth room at other UK airports.\n\nThe government has been hoping to solve problems of aviation emissions through new technology, including battery-powered short-haul planes and long-haul planes running on sustainable biofuels.\n\nThe committee says aviation emissions could be reduced by about 20% from today to 2050 through improvements to fuel efficiency.\n\nBut electric planes will only be suitable for small short-haul journeys for the foreseeable future, critics say.\n\nWhat is more, the aviation industry has been struggling to develop adequate biofuels. And all plant-based material is likely to be contested by different industries as the century wears on.\n\nIn a letter to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, the committee chairman, Lord Deben, writes that the industry is “highly unlikely” to be able to eliminate emissions by 2050 by technical means.\n\nHe warns that contrails - the trails of condensed water left by aircraft at high altitude - add to the warming impact of flying, even though currently their effects are poorly understood.\n\nLord Deben says the UK should continue pushing for strong international policies on aviation.\n\nCurrently the airline industry is hoping to counterbalance its emissions through the controversial practice of offsetting, in which firms agree to pay for, say, tree-planting in developing countries.\n\nBut many such schemes have been discredited.\n\nCait Hewitt, from the Aviation Environment Federation, said: “British people currently take more international flights than anyone else in the world, but there’s a growing public recognition that this feels out of step with the action we need on climate change.\n\n“The government’s dodged the issue of aviation emissions for too long. It’s worth remembering that demand for aviation growth is being driven by a minority of frequent flyers - 70% of UK flights are made by just 15% of the population.”\n\nNeil Robinson, from the industry group Sustainable Aviation, urged the government not to adopt stand-alone UK policies on aviation pollution.\n\nHe said: “By investing tens of billions of pounds in new, cleaner aircraft we have already decoupled growth in aviation from growth in emissions, and as a global industry we have a long-established plan to halve our emissions by 2050.\n\n“Carbon reduction, however, is a global issue requiring a global response, with governments and industry working closely together for emissions to be managed within an international framework.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: “We are also committed to setting a clear ambition for the aviation sector and will carefully consider the advice of the Committee on Climate Change when we publish our position on aviation and climate change for consultation shortly.”", "The collapse of Thomas Cook could have an impact on tourism around the globe, concerned industry professionals say.\n\nThe oldest tour operator in the world was famous for its package holidays to more than 60 destinations.\n\nIn some of these countries – such as Spain, Greece and Turkey – there is a fear that tourist numbers could drop dramatically.\n\nThomas Cook's Chinese, German and Nordic subsidiaries continue to trade as normal, as does Thomas Cook India.\n\nSo far this year, more than 1.3 million passengers have travelled to Spain on Thomas Cook Airlines. That does not include a further 1.6 million passengers who travelled on Condor Airlines, in which Thomas Cook has a 49% stake. The airline says it is still operating.\n\nThe tourism sector in Spain's Balearic Islands faces millions of euros in losses.\n\nThomas Cook has a tax office in Palma with hundreds of employees, and also works with 20 hotels in the Balearic Islands and 20 in the Canary Islands.\n\nJosé María Mañaricua, from the Federation of Hospitality and Tourism Entrepreneurs of Las Palmas, told El País that the collapse will have a \"dramatic\" impact on the Canary tourism sector.\n\nTurkey's Hoteliers Federation (TUROFED) has warned that the country could miss out on up to 700,000 tourists a year due to the collapse of the tour operator.\n\nAccording to official data, about 40 million tourists travelled to Turkey in 2018, bringing in $29.5 billion (£23.8 billion).\n\nThe chairman of TUROFED, Osman Ayik, told Reuters: \"There are a large number of small businesses whose fates depend on Thomas Cook, especially in Mugla, Dalaman and Fethiye.\"\n\nHe added that some small hotels in Turkey are still owed around £100,000 – £200,000 ($125,000-$250,000).\n\nTurkey's tourism ministry has said that it is working on extending a loan-based support package for the affected businesses.\n\nThere are currently 45,000 tourists in Turkey from the UK who booked through Thomas Cook.\n\nGoa, a winter holiday destination, was reliant on Thomas Cook charter flights which brought in about 2,000 tourists a week during October to March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSavio Messias, president of the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa said: \"Thomas Cook is a very reputed company, bringing in British tourists.\n\n\"British tourists are loved by the local Goans and the hotel industry. Thomas Cook has been operating for the last 25-30 years in Goa and losing out on Thomas Cook is a big, big, blow to the industry.\"\n\nHe added that several hotels face an uncertain future as they were entirely depending on Thomas Cook.\n\n\"It was a very good business which we are going to miss,\" Mr Messias said.\n\nAbout 250,000 people travel annually to Cyprus with Thomas Cook, bringing an estimated €18.5 million (£16.3m, $20m), according to Cyprus' deputy tourism minister.\n\nSavvas Perdios said that the loss for hoteliers and the wider economy is about €50 million. He added that hotels were owed money for July, August and even September.\n\nChristos Efstathion, general manager of the Napa Plaza hotel told AFP news agency: \"It's a big anxiety...it's not only the current guests, it's how to deal with the immediate, medium and long-term future for the hotel.\"\n\nHe added that the hotel had 300 room nights booked through Thomas Cook until the end of this month with an additional 700 in October.\n\nQueues for the Thomas Cook counters in Crete on Monday\n\nA further 50,000 tourists are stranded in Greece, according to the tourism minister.\n\nGrigoris Tassios told local TV that hotels were expected to make losses on payments from the past two months.\n\nHe added that hotel companies would attempt to recover money from Thomas Cook in court.\n\n\"This is an earthquake on a scale of seven, now we are waiting for the tsunami,\" Michalis Vlatakis, president of the Association of Travel Agents of Crete said.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge has signed a major contract to make TV shows for Amazon.\n\nThe Fleabag and Killing Eve creator, who won three Emmy Awards on Sunday, said she was \"insanely delighted\" with the exclusive deal.\n\nIt will see the 34-year-old create and produce new programmes for streaming service Amazon Prime.\n\nAccording to Variety, it's believed to be worth $20m (£16m) a year. Amazon co-produced Fleabag with the BBC.\n\nWaller-Bridge said: \"I'm insanely excited to be continuing my relationship with Amazon. Working with the team on Fleabag was the creative partnership dreams are made of.\n\n\"It really feels like home. I can't wait to get going!\"\n\nThe Londoner is in high demand, having been drafted on to the James Bond writing team in an attempt to make the Bond girls feel \"real\".\n\nOn Sunday, she won the Emmys for best lead actress in a comedy series and best writing for a comedy series, both for Fleabag, which was also named best comedy series.\n\nKilling Eve was also triumphant, with actress Jodie Comer winning best lead actress in a drama series. Waller-Bridge was an executive producer on that show's second season.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has told teenage girls in a deprived part of South Africa she is with them \"as a woman of colour and as your sister\".\n\nMeghan was visiting a women and children's centre in Nyanga township alongside her husband, Prince Harry.\n\nIt's the pair's first official overseas tour with four-month-old son, Archie.\n\nSpeaking at the centre, which is in an area with a high crime rate, the duchess praised its work to counter violence against women and children.\n\nAnd she added: \"And just on one personal note, may I just say that while I'm here with my husband as a member of the Royal Family... I am here with you as a mother, as a wife, as a woman, as a woman of colour and as your sister.\"\n\nHer comments come amid a recent spike in violence against women which has ignited protests in many areas of South Africa.\n\nApproximately 2,700 women and 1,000 children were murdered by men in the country last year. At least 100 rapes were also reported daily.\n\nDuring the visit to the Justice Desk in Nyanga Prince Harry told the crowds that \"no man is born to cause harm to women\" and this was \"a cycle that needs to be broken\".\n\n\"It's about redefining masculinity,\" he said. \"It's about creating your own footprints for your children to follow in, so that you can make a positive change for the future.\"\n\nMeghan said the work of the centre, which includes teaching children about their rights and how to deal with trauma, was needed \"more than ever\".\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa has called for urgent action to counter violence and pledged £60m for measures including public education, strengthening the criminal justice system, increasing sentences for perpetrators of sexual offences and providing better care for victims.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited a project which supports women and children in a Cape Town township\n\nThe couple learned about the work of the Justice Desk, a human rights organisation which supports children in the Nyanga township\n\nDuring the visit, Meghan danced with performers after one woman, Lilitha Mazana, took her hand.\n\nThe 23-year-old dancer from the Nyanga arts centre said Meghan was \"a good dancer\" and \"very nice\".\n\n\"Her dancing is fantastic - I've been dancing 10 years,\" she added.\n\nThe NGO visited by the couple is supported by the Queen's Commonwealth Trust\n\nLater the couple visited a museum dedicated to Cape Town's District Six - once a multi-ethnic neighbourhood that was bulldozed by the apartheid authorities in the 1960s to create racial segregation.\n\nBaby Archie did not accompany his parents on either of the opening two trips, but he was pictured wearing a bobble hat as the family arrived at Cape Town airport.\n\nIn May, the Justice Desk charity, which the royal couple visited on Monday, welcomed the birth of baby Archie with a video message on Twitter.\n\n\"As a proudly South African gift to baby Archie we want to give him the name 'Ntsika',\" the message said.\n\nThe charity said the South African name means \"bold and brave\" - the same meaning as Archie.\n\nThe royal couple's arrival was marked with cheers, song and dance, but this visit is a serious one.\n\nSexual violence and violent crimes are the norm here in Nyanga township, with children and women often the most exposed in what is considered the murder capital of South Africa.\n\nThe duke and duchess were taken on a tour of a the NGO Justice Desk centre and talked in private to young women who've survived violence to learn more about what can be done to bring about change.\n\nIn impoverished communities such as this one across the country, local projects are often the only help people have to access justice and educational opportunities.\n\nThe couple wanted to visit Nyanga to learn more about the work the young people of this community are doing to try and better their lives, against such incredible and difficult odds.\n\nLoud cheers and well-wishers greeted the couple outside the museum\n\nThe couple delved into the history of apartheid, which divided people by their skin colour\n\nThe duke is set to visit Angola later in the tour, where he will mark the legacy of his mother\n\nIn a post on the Sussex Royal Instagram account ahead of the tour, the duke said he could not wait to introduce his wife and son to South Africa.\n\nThe family arrived in Cape Town on a BA commercial flight to begin the 10-day tour of southern Africa.\n\nWhile the duchess and Archie will spend the duration in South Africa, Prince Harry will also tour Angola, Malawi and Botswana before being reunited with his family in Johannesburg.\n\nIn Angola, he will mark the legacy of his mother, the Princess of Wales, paying homage to her 1997 campaign to outlaw landmines.\n\nIn Malawi he will pay tribute to a British soldier killed by an elephant during anti-poaching operations.\n\nHis visit will also focus on efforts to protect endangered animals.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"The Duke of Sussex's love for Africa is well known; he first visited the continent at the age of 13, and more than two decades later the people, culture, wildlife and resilient communities continue to inspire and motivate him every day.\"\n\nPrince Harry's first trip to Africa came in the months after his mother's death in 1997, when the Prince of Wales took him to the continent \"to get away from it all\", he has said.\n\nIt is the duchess's first visit to South Africa.", "BBC Live Page readers have been writing in with their experiences of the firm's collapse.\n\nMichael Sheppard says that he and his family, who were on holiday in Corfu, \"watched the breaking news with increasing dread\" as their holiday was not ATOL-protected.\n\nHowever, they got an alternative flight home with the help of the CAA website, he says.\n\n\"When we got to Corfu airport we were amazed to see four smiling Thomas Cook staff working hard to help people.\n\n\"When I spoke to them they did not think they were going to be paid but they had come to help anyway - how professional, dedicated and caring - I was incredibly moved.\n\n\"By 9am we were amazed to see Foreign and Commonwealth [Office] staff flown in from the UK and local staff commissioned by the CAA in fluorescent jackets appearing and setting up information stalls.\n\n\"They had the passenger lists and all the information that was available and that we could want.\n\n\"They could not have been more helpful so I find it odd to read people complaining of a lack of help and information at Corfu airport.\"", "The Supreme Court ruling that the prime minister's suspension of Parliament was void and his advice to the Queen unlawful, raises all sorts of questions for the EU - will their Brexit negotiating partner Boris Johnson stay in his job? When might the UK hold a general election?\n\nPrivately the court ruling has been described to me by EU sources as \"an embarrassment\" and \"a humiliation\" for Boris Johnson but this isn't the first time the EU has found itself faced with similar questions about possibly imminent elections and Mr Johnson's longevity as prime minister.\n\nYet then, as now, the EU has taken the decision to put its metaphorical hands over its metaphorical ears in an attempt to block out the noise.\n\nWhy? Because EU leaders view the Supreme Court ruling and what follows next in the UK as an unpredictable domestic political affair. They regard themselves as onlookers to that drama - which is why German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have stayed silent, and why the European Commission refused to comment on the ruling on Tuesday, however hard UK journalists pushed.\n\nBrussels prefers to focus on where it can play a part - negotiations. And there, in the short term at least, Tuesday's ruling changes little. EU leaders still want a Brexit deal and, under EU law, their negotiating partner is Her Majesty's government, still headed by Boris Johnson.\n\nEU-UK technical talks are pressing ahead on Wednesday in Brussels, regardless of what might be going on in a parallel universe in London, when MPs are reunited with the prime minister in Parliament.\n\nBut is the Supreme Court ruling a demotivating factor for the EU in engaging with the Johnson government?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"This is a verdict that we will respect\"\n\nIn fact, EU politicians say the most demotivating factor for them is the lack of a guarantee that the majority of MPs would definitely approve a new Brexit deal, even if they made big compromises.\n\nBut, although EU leaders says they are \"open\" to another Brexit extension, such is the impatience with the more than three-year-long Brexit debate, they would love to agree a new deal with Boris Johnson by mid-October as he hopes to do.\n\nAnd yet, scepticism is rife in Brussels.\n\nOne diplomat from a country traditionally very close to the UK told me: \"The prospects of an October deal already weren't good. They're now complicated further by UK domestic issues. Time, as we always say, is running out.\"\n\nEU diplomats argue that the current UK ideas on how to replace the Irish backstop in a new Brexit deal may be a start. But as the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said on Tuesday in Berlin, in EU eyes the UK proposals fall far short of the \"technically detailed, legally operable, concrete solutions\" they are calling for.\n\nPushback from journalists and/or the UK government that the EU needs to compromise, too, is rejected at this stage in Brussels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe stock reply is that before anyone in the EU thinks of compromise, they need realistic UK proposals to negotiate over.\n\nAs for assertions by UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and others that the EU always blinks at five minutes to midnight, EU contacts say this shows a misunderstanding of how the EU works.\n\nOne EU diplomat from a small member state commented to me: \"We only compromise when that compromise doesn't cause us great harm.\"\n\nBrussels believes it couldn't protect the single market, the Northern Ireland peace process or EU member state Ireland if it agreed to current UK proposals on how to replace the backstop.\n\nAnd EU sources claim the two sides are still too far apart for it to make sense to \"go into a tunnel\" of intense negotiations with a media blackout at this stage.\n\nEU governments admit that a new Brexit extension would be likely to take the pressure off both sides to make the compromises necessary to agree a new deal.\n\nHowever, the bottom line is that Europe's leaders are unsure whether Boris Johnson would be willing to make Brexit compromises anyway, if he knows that he's heading into a general election.", "Revenues at Manchester United have hit a record £627m for the year to July.\n\nThis was despite the football club enduring a \"turbulent season\" in 2018-19 that saw the departure of manager Jose Mourinho and the team finish sixth in the Premier League.\n\nBroadcast revenue soared by 18% thanks to a new Uefa Champions League deal, while commercial income was flat.\n\nBut the team expects revenue and profit to fall in 2019-20 after it failed to make the Champions League this season.\n\nThe New York-listed club is currently eighth in the UK's Premier League after a flat start to the campaign.\n\nThat leaves it 10 points behind leaders Liverpool, and five points behind cross-town rivals and reigning champions Manchester City.\n\nThere is now a danger of the club falling behind their traditional rivals in mainland Europe for the right to be branded the world's richest. Last week, Spanish giant Barcelona announced it expected to pass the €1bn ($1.1bn; £883m) income mark for the first time this season.\n\nDespite the record revenues executive, Manchester United's vice-chairman Ed Woodward said the club still valued playing success on the field most highly.\n\nHe said: \"We remain focused on our plan of rebuilding the team and continuing to strengthen our youth system, in line with the philosophy of the club and the manager.\n\n\"Everyone at Manchester United is committed to delivering on our primary objective of winning trophies.\"\n\nFor the current financial year he forecast revenue of £560m to £580m, down from £627.1m, and core profit of £155m to £165m, down from £185.8m.\n\nThe club said that during the past year it had signed three new first team players and completed several key player contract extensions.\n\nIt said it had also announced 10 new or renewed global sponsorship deals, and that - as measured by Kantar - its total number of fans and followers globally had increased to 1.1 billion.\n\nDuring the year the Old Trafford club also made an operating profit of £50m.\n\nStaff wages for the year, mostly spent on players, were £332.3m, an increase of £36.m, or 12.3%, on the previous year, \"primarily due to investment in the first team squad\".\n\nThe club spent more than half of its income on player wages, despite a campaign in which no trophies were won.", "Playing music to dementia patients in Accident and Emergency has a calming effect on them, a study has found.\n\nMP3 players were used to play music to people with dementia as part of an eight week pilot carried out by NHS Fife.\n\nResearchers found it reduced levels to agitation and led to patients becoming markedly less stressed.\n\nThe results of the study have led to calls from specialists for the widespread use of music in A&E wards.\n\nA total of 28 dementia patients displaying signs of stress and agitation were targeted in the trials.\n\nThey were given an MP3 player loaded with songs from a variety of genres, as well as headphones or mini speakers.\n\nThey were assessed on nine key behaviours including eye contact, vocalisations, touch, movement to music, laughter and smiling.\n\nA report on the trials concluded: \"The use of music complements scientific treatment by distracting people's attention away from stressful procedures.\n\n\"This in turn decreases anxiety and improves outcomes.\n\n\"Using music for people with dementia in the ED [emergency department] is a person-centred approach to delivering holistic, therapeutic, and effective care.\n\n\"Improving care can be as simple as putting on headphones.\"\n\nNow the technique has been introduced in post-theatre recovery and medicine of the elderly wards.\n\nThe music is said to distract patients' attention away from stressful procedures\n\nHelen Skinner, a leading Alzheimer Scotland dementia nurse consultant, said: \"Patients can be distressed when they come to A&E and we initially try to deal with that distress non-pharmacologically.\n\n\"We've found the use of music in an A&E setting has been hugely beneficial in supporting many patients with dementia to help relieve that distress.\n\n\"We'd like to see the use of music as a necessity, not a nicety, as part of a wider approach to helping patients and their carers deal with dementia.\"\n\nThe results of the study were welcomed by dementia charity Playlist For Life.\n\nSarah Metcalfe, chief executive of Playlist for Life, described the results of the trials as \"encouraging\".\n\n\"Playlist for Life hopes other NHS Trusts adopt the approach to help them enhance not only the level of care they provide to patients living with dementia, but also to support family members and carers,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Confused by the latest election developments in the UK election campaign? Got a question about polling or policy? Or is there anything else you'd like us to explain?\n\nSend your questions to BBC News and we'll do our best to answer them.\n\nHere are some we have answered recently:\n\nDo you have any questions about the forthcoming election?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Mr Johnson suspended - or prorogued - Parliament for five weeks earlier this month, saying it was to allow a Queen's Speech to outline his new policies.\n\nBut the UK's highest court said it was wrong to stop Parliament carrying out its duties.", "No go: A motorist had to be rescued in Aberdare, Cynon Valley, as their car became trapped in flooding by a rail bridge\n\nTrains and buses have experienced delays and drivers warned to be careful after heavy rain.\n\nThe Met Office issued a warning for heavy rain on Tuesday across south and north east Wales, Powys and Wrexham.\n\nIt said up to 30mm (1.2in) of rain was expected to fall quite widely, with the potential for up to 70mm (2.8in) in a few locations.\n\nFlood alerts are in place and a landslip has blocked a road in Neath Port Talbot.\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\nA car got stuck at Dipping Bridge near Merthyr Mawr with the driver safe and well, South Wales Police Roads Unit said\n\nIn Neath Port Talbot, the A4107 was shut in both directions after becoming blocked by a landslip between Commercial Street in Abergwynfi and A4061 Bwlch-Y-Clawdd Road in Cwmparc.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council tweeted that the road would remain shut for most of the day while it was cleared by council workers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Neath Port Talbot Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were flood alerts in place in Wales, including at River Neath and River Ely.\n\nForecasters said the downpour was brought by a burst of low pressure travelling across the UK, along with warm and humid air linked to the remnants of Hurricane Humberto which hit the Bermuda coastline last week.\n\nForecaster Mark Wilson warned of \"thunder, lightning and gusty winds\" through the affected areas.\n\n\"It's very likely there will be issues with surface water causing flooding,\" he said.\n\nA \"brief respite\" in some parts was expected in the early afternoon, Mr Wilson said, adding \"more rain is predicted for the evening\".\n\nA weather warning was issued between 04:00 and 22:00 on Tuesday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow, has told reporters Parliament will resume on Wednesday at 11:30 BST.\n\nHe said that \"due to notification requirements\", Prime Minister's Questions would not go ahead - but there would be time for urgent questions and ministerial statements.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We will redesign system to supply cheaper medicines\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has promised to \"put the people in power\" if he becomes prime minister as he announced plans to compel drug firms to produce affordable versions of patented medicines.\n\nIn his closing conference speech, he said the \"tide was turning\" for Labour \"after years of retreat and defeat\".\n\n\"We'll take on the privileged, and put the people in power,\" he said.\n\nIf Labour wins power, it will set up a publicly owned firm to manufacture generic versions of leading drugs.\n\nIn his closing address to the conference, brought forward by a day after the decision by the Speaker to resume Parliament, Mr Corbyn said his party was ready for a general election once the threat of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October had been averted.\n\nThe Labour leader called again for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign after the Supreme Court declared he had acted unlawfully in suspending Parliament.\n\nBut he said his party would not seek to oust Mr Johnson in a vote of no confidence until a no-deal Brexit was taken off the table, suggesting the prime minister could not be trusted not take the country out of the EU during an election campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: We must take Brexit \"out of the hands of the politicians and let the people decide\"\n\nAnd he defended Labour's own Brexit policy, after a week of wrangling at the conference, saying the promise of another referendum where voters would get the choice between leave and remain \"was not complicated\".\n\nLooking ahead to the prospect of an election, he said Labour would mount the biggest \"people-powered\" campaign in history to fight Boris Johnson's \"born-to-rule\" Conservatives.\n\nIf Labour was elected, he said he would be a \"very different prime minister\" to those the country were used to, motivated by the desire to spread rather than hoard power,\n\n\"I want to put government on your side and power and wealth in your hands,\" he said.\n\n\"Together, we can go beyond defending the gains made by previous generations.\n\n\"It's time we started building a country fit for the next generation. Where young people don't fear the future but look forward with confidence and hope.\n\n\"The tide is turning. The years of retreat and defeat are coming to an end. Together, we'll take on the privileged, and put the people in power.\"\n\nLabour, he said, would \"rebuild and transform\" a country desperate for change after nearly 10 years of austerity \"so no-one is held back and no community is left behind\".\n\nPromising a bold and radical manifesto, he said rail companies, Royal Mail and the energy grid would be brought back into public ownership and top-earners would pay more tax.\n\nHe also committed a future Labour government to intervene in the pharmaceutical market to ensure drugs only currently available privately will become so on the NHS.\n\nThe Labour leader said people were being denied potentially life-saving treatments because drugs firms were not willing to supply their drugs at reasonable prices.\n\nHe talked about meeting a nine-year old boy, Luis Walker, a cystic fibrosis sufferer, who, he said, he was not able to get hold of the drug Orkambi.\n\n\"Luis and thousands of others are being denied medicines by a system that puts people before profits,\" he said.\n\n\"Labour will tackle this and re-design the system to serve public health, not private wealth, using compulsory licensing to secure generic versions of patented medicines.\"\n\nHe said Labour would make public research and development funding conditional on action by firms to \"save money in the health service and to save lives at the same time\".\n\nLabour has already pledged to abolish prescription charges in England.\n\nThe Conservatives said Labour would leave the UK with \"higher taxes and fewer jobs\".\n\nAnd the CBI warned of a lack of respect for business, at the end of a week in which Labour vowed to intervene in the car, energy markets and delegates voted to scrap private schools.\n\n\"Firms have faced a volley of attacks, on sectors from life sciences to utilities,\" said its director Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\n\"This is desperately disappointing…Jeremy Corbyn talks about the importance of listening. This must include business.\"\n\nMr Corbyn concluded his speech with what he will hope will be the rousing rhetoric to fuel his activists' enthusiasm for the election campaign ahead.\n\nDelegates here see a government repeatedly humbled by events and they're united in their relish to take on and beat Mr Johnson.\n\nBut beyond that divisions are plain to see and, privately, not all are confident they can do it.", "What do we know about Emily Doe? We know she was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner outside a frat party at Stanford University, California, one night in January 2015. She was found unconscious and partly-clothed, near a dumpster.\n\nHe would get a six-month term, for sexually assaulting an intoxicated victim, sexually assaulting an unconscious victim and attempting to rape her.\n\nHe would serve three months and be put on probation for three years, ending this month. Judge Aaron Persky, who was later removed from his post, cited Turner's good character and the fact he had been drinking.\n\nMuch of the coverage at the time also focused on the fact Turner was a star swimmer.\n\nWhat do we know about Chanel Miller? Maybe you don't know a lot, yet. If you've read the victim impact statement she addressed to Turner, which went viral when she was still known as Emily Doe to protect her anonymity, you'll know she is brave and articulate.\n\nHere is what you should know about Chanel.\n\nShe is a literature graduate, who has now written a book, Know My Name. She is a talented artist and would love to illustrate children's books, her drawings being a little surreal and - by her own description - sinister. She has also studied ceramics and comic books, and done stand-up comedy.\n\nShe loves dogs. She describes herself as shy. She is half-Chinese, her Chinese name being Zhang Xiao Xia (with Xia sounding like \"sha\", the first syllable of Chanel). She smiles easily, is thoughtful and funny. She is someone's daughter, sister, girlfriend. She could be someone you know.\n\nWarning: This story contains content that readers may find distressing\n\nChanel's memoir brims with the rage of her ordeal. But why write it, when it meant reliving her pain, reading the court documents and witness statements that had been - until then - kept from her?\n\nShe says she felt a duty to shine a light on the darkness so many young women have to go through.\n\n\"I've had days where it's extremely difficult to get up in the morning,\" says Chanel, 27, speaking in her home city of San Francisco. \"I've had days where I really could not imagine a single pathway forward. And those were such weighing times.\n\n\"And it was terrible. I wouldn't draw anything, I wouldn't write anything. All I wanted to do is sleep so that I wouldn't have to be conscious. That's no way to live.\n\n\"I think of other young women who have to go through this and you see them withdraw and crumble and fall away from the things that they love. And I just think - how, how do we let that happen?\"\n\nHer voice is articulate and clear but it vibrates with emotion, and quiet fury, at the injustice of this happening to other women around the world. An endless parade of other people who know what it is to be Emily Doe.\n\n\"Here are these young, talented women excited for their futures, who have so many things to give and offer. And something like this happens,\" says Chanel. \"And they go home, and they carry the shame, and they swallow it up and it eats them from the inside out.\n\n\"And they think 'everything would be better off if I was just holed up in my room', 'maybe things would be better if I didn't speak at all'. 'Maybe I don't deserve to be loved or caressed gently'.\n\n\"It's so sick, that we let this happen. That we let them digest these negative ideas of themselves. And let them be isolated. Instead of coaxing them back out here and saying, no, you deserve a full life. You deserve an amazing future.\"\n\nChanel wasn't a university student at the time - she had already graduated. Her younger sister Tiffany was back home for the weekend and had asked if she wanted to go along to a party with her.\n\nBut her story expanded the conversation about campus rape and she wants to see changes at Stanford University specifically, like the fact forensic exams can't be given at Stanford hospital, with victims having to travel 40 miles.\n\n\"Do you get an Uber for 40 minutes with a stranger while you're still in the clothes you were just attacked in? Do you text your one friend who has a car and disclose that information?\"\n\nMany women came forward after reading Chanel's victim impact statement, emboldened to tell their own stories - in some cases for the first time.\n\nRAINN - the rape, abuse and incest national network, the largest anti-sexual violence organisation in the US - puts the figure at one in six US women being the victim of an attempted, or completed, rape. Every 92 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Out of every 1,000 sexual assaults, 995 perpetrators will walk free.\n\nThink of how many women you walk past each day. Think of one in every six.\n\n\"We always say like, oh, why didn't she come forward? Why didn't she report?\" says Chanel.\n\n\"Because there's no system for her to report to. Why should she have faith in us to take care of her if she comes forward? We need to be doing more to help survivors after this happens.\"\n\nWhen Turner was sentenced, the crime was not described as rape - but the law in California has since changed, as a result of Chanel's case.\n\nThere is now a mandatory three year minimum prison sentence for penetrating an unconscious person or an intoxicated person, Chanel's attorney Alaleh Kianerci explains. Another piece of legislation was written to expand the definition of rape to include any kind of penetration (\"The trauma experienced by survivors cannot be measured by what exactly was put inside them without their consent,\" she argued, in her support of the bill).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe had felt so beaten down by the court case (\"I just felt degraded and empty all the time,\" she says) and the shock of Turner's sentence that when her lawyer asked her permission to release her victim impact statement, she just said \"sure, if you think it'd be helpful\". She thought it would end up on a community forum or local newspaper website - never imagining the impact it would have.\n\nWhen her statement came out, originally published in full on Buzzfeed, it received 11 million views in four days and Chanel was sent hundreds and hundreds of letters and gifts from around the world.\n\nShe read them all, saying they \"taught me to be gentler to myself, taught me who I was to them\", adding: \"I was learning to see myself through them.\"\n\nShe even got a letter from the White House - Joe Biden, then vice-president, telling her: \"You have given them the strength they need to fight. And so, I believe, you will save lives.\"\n\nAs she was anonymous, it was common for friends to forward the statement to her, unaware she had written it. Chanel's therapist knew she had been sexually assaulted but did not know her identity as Emily Doe for months, asking her: \"Have you read the Stanford victim statement?\"\n\nCourts hear from cases like Chanel's all the time - it's just the names, the places, the details change. So what made her story, her pain, resonate so widely?\n\n\"Maybe not shying away from the darkest parts,\" Chanel says. \"I think it feels almost like a relief when someone acknowledges your darkness because you feel like it's this ugly, dirty thing you need to be concealing.\n\n\"If you show it, people are going to cringe and back away. I could communicate all of these difficult feelings and be open about them and just lay them out and not feel shame for experiencing them.\"\n\nHaving been through the court system, Chanel said she felt she had a responsibility to report back, to show others what it is like.\n\n\"I know that for me, I had so many, quote unquote, advantages,\" she says. \"I had my rape kit done [a sexual assault forensic evidence kit]. I had the assistance of policemen and nurses. I had an advocate that was assigned to me, I had a prosecutor, I had all the things you're supposed to have.\n\n\"And I still found it so excruciatingly difficult and emotionally damaging and going through it. I thought, 'if this is what it looks like, to be well equipped going into this, how the hell is anyone else supposed to survive this process?'.\n\n\"I felt that I had a duty to write about what it's like inside the windowless walls of a courtroom, what the internal landscape is like, what it's like to sit on that stand and be attacked with this meaningless interrogation.\"\n\nWriting the book also allowed her access to the court documents and thousands of pages of transcripts she had not been present for.\n\nWhile elucidating, it was also deeply painful, knowing what not just the court - but her family and friends had heard and seen.\n\n\"It was extremely difficult. I put it off for a really long time. Finally, I thought well, I have to look into them.\n\n\"I would read about Brock and the defence talking about, play by play, taking off my underwear, putting his fingers inside…,\" she stops, before adding: \"It was so graphic and suffocating, to read about myself being verbally undressed again.\n\n\"And to imagine it all happening in a courtroom where everyone's just listening and nobody's doing anything. I could not stomach it.\"\n\n\"There's a lot of power in being able to craft the narrative again\"\n\nIt caused her anger and \"self-induced depression\" but says there was \"this wonderful moment where I'm like, all of these voices in these transcripts are literally in my hands, I can pick them up and put them down. But I own all of them. I get to pick out whichever words I want and assemble them how I want\".\n\n\"There is a lot of power in being able to craft the narrative again,\" she adds.\n\nKnow My Name brims with the trauma Chanel experienced - from waking up not knowing what had happened, to learning details of the assault from news reports, to finally telling her parents, to breaking down in court. As she says, \"writing is the way I process the world\".\n\nChanel only chose to reveal her name six months ago, having started writing the book in 2017.\n\nShe says the burden of secrecy had become too much for her - 90% of people who knew her didn't know her other identity.\n\nChanel, drawing at her home in San Francisco\n\nFriends thought she was still doing her 9-5 office job. So she had former colleagues (\"my suppliers\", she smiles) feed her snippets of information. \"In the beginning that was so important for self-preservation and processing and privacy,\" she says. \"But over time, you feel really diminished. And I think it's important to be able to live my full truth.\"\n\nShe expected the day, earlier this month, when she came out as Chanel to be \"stormy\". But it was, in the end, a moment of deep calm and strength.\n\n\"It turned out to be the most peaceful day I've had in the last four-and-a-half years,\" says Chanel. \"I suddenly realised, I've come out on the other side of this.\"\n\nShe doesn't feel Turner - who denied all of the charges - has acknowledged what he did.\n\n\"You know, at the sentencing, he read 10 sentences of apology,\" she says. \"It sounded generic to me.\n\n\"And it really made me question what we're doing in the criminal justice system, because if he's not even learning, then really what is the point? If he had transformed himself, then I think I would have been much more forgiving of the sentence.\n\n\"I am really interested in self-growth and understanding that the fact that he deviated so far from that, and was never forced to do any kind of introspection, or to really look at the way he affected me, that really hurt.\"\n\nWe applaud Chanel Miller's bravery in telling her story publicly, and we deeply regret that she was sexually assaulted on the Stanford campus. As a university, we are continuing and strengthening our efforts to prevent and respond effectively to sexual violence, with the ultimate goal of eradicating it from our community.\n\nThe closest location for a SART [sexual assault response team] exam is at Valley Medical Center in San Jose. We have long agreed on the need for a closer location and have committed to provide space at Stanford Hospital for SART exams. Santa Clara County, which runs the SART program, is working to train sufficient nurses to staff it.\n\nMuch of the criticism towards Judge Aaron Persky was about the relatively lenient sentence given to Turner - sparking a national debate about whether white men from wealthy backgrounds were treated more favourably by the US justice system.\n\n\"Privilege is not having to reckon with his own actions to examine his effects on someone who is not him,\" says Chanel.\n\n\"You know, we have young men of colour serving far longer sentences for nonviolent crimes for having marijuana possession. It's ridiculous.\n\n\"I just kept thinking, where does the punishment come in? When are you forced to be held accountable for what you do in life and not just float through, as if anything you do can never hurt anybody, and you will not be affected by it.\n\n\"I think what bothers me the most is that there's never the suggestion that the victim was also busy having a life before this happened.\n\n\"We have our own agendas and goals, and don't appreciate being completely thrown off the rails when this happens. And when people say, why didn't she report? It's like, casually asking, why didn't she stop everything she was doing to attend to something that she never wanted to attend to in the first place?\"\n\nTurner attempted to have his convictions overturned last year, but his appeal was rejected. He remains on the sex offenders register. Turner was banned from the university and is now living with his parents in Ohio.\n\nAsked whether she would like Turner and his family to read the book, she says: \"If they choose to read it, and really hear it, I will always encourage that. I will always encourage learning and deeper understanding.\n\n\"But I've also accepted that what they do is out of my control, that I can only focus on my own trajectory and how I wish to keep moving forward. Mainly, I want the book to exist as a companion.\n\n\"I think of it as something you can carry with you and you go through difficult things, something you can physically hold or read in bed late at night, when you feel isolated. I always thought like, what would I have needed to hear when I was going through this?\"\n\nA letter from Chanel explaining that drawing kept her afloat in her dark times - and an illustration she drew over the top of a photograph she took in Vietnam\n\nShe holds a space in her heart for the two Swedish students - Peter Jonsson and Carl-Fredrik Arndt - who stopped the assault, having seen what was happening as they cycled past.\n\nChanel drew a picture of two bikes and slept with it above her bed after the assault, a talisman to remind her there was hope out there.\n\nShe's since met the pair for dinner. \"I always like to say 'be the Swede'. Show up for the vulnerable, do your part, help each other and face the darkest parts alongside survivors.\n\n\"I think the response I've been getting makes it sound like people are willing to step up now and really fight for what's right. And that's extremely encouraging.\"\n\nNow the book is out in the world, Chanel plans to decide what to do with the next phase of her life. But she does so with the hope and belief that the good in the world outweighs the bad.\n\n\"On the same night I was assaulted, I was also saved,\" she muses. \"There was a really terrible thing that happened - and also a really wonderful thing. They say you shouldn't meet your heroes - but in this case you definitely should.\"\n\nAsked what she plans to do now, Chanel says: \"I want to write books for kids, for their ripe brains and juicy hearts, which have not yet learned to be dark and serious and drab. I've had a bumpy few years, but I have lots of hope. I feel like my life is always beginning.\"\n\nIn the UK, the rape crisis national freephone helpline is 0808 802 9999. In the US, the national sexual assault hotline is 1-800-656-4673. Further information and support for anyone affected by sexual assault can be found through BBC Action Line\n\nKnow My Name is published in the US and the UK on 24 September", "Leave.EU founder Arron Banks tweeted \"victory is sweet\" after the decision\n\nThe National Crime Agency has found \"no evidence\" of criminal offences after allegations against Leave.EU and its founder Arron Banks.\n\nThe agency launched an investigation into the pro-Brexit campaign group after it was fined £70,000 by the Electoral Commission in May last year.\n\nBut the NCA said it would not take any further action against Leave.EU, its chief executive Liz Bilney or Mr Banks.\n\nTweeting after the ruling, Mr Banks said: \"Victory is sweet.\"\n\nEarlier this month, a criminal investigation into Leave.EU was also dropped by the Metropolitan Police as there was \"insufficient evidence\" to justify any further inquiry.\n\nIn response to the NCA decision, the Electoral Commission said it stood by the need for the investigations to ensure \"voters have transparency\" over political funding.\n\nIn a May 2018 report, the commission said Leave.EU had exceeded the spending limit for \"non-party registered campaigners\" by at least 10% by failing to include at least £77,380 in its spending return.\n\nIt also referred Ms Bilney to the police, saying its investigation found she had committed four offences, including submitting an inaccurate spending return and exceeding the spending limit.\n\nBut she claimed the investigations had stemmed from Remain-backing MPs \"desperately trying to overturn the result of the referendum\".\n\nBrexit Party leader and former Leave.EU campaigner Nigel Farage said he was \"pleased\" the NCA had dropped its investigation, but \"heads must roll\" at the Electoral Commission.\n\nLeave-backing Labour MP Kate Hoey called for those who \"condemned Leave.EU to apologise\".\n\nLeave.EU was a rival to Vote Leave, which was designated as the official Leave campaign during the 2016 referendum campaign.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016\n\nBoris Johnson is to call for the release of jailed British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe when he meets Iran's president later.\n\nThe prime minister will meet Hassan Rouhani at a UN summit in New York, hours after blaming Iran for attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.\n\nIt comes amid calls for him to take a tougher line with Tehran over its detention of dual nationals.\n\nMrs Zahgari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016.\n\nThe 40-year-old was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nOn his flight to New York on Sunday, Mr Johnson told reporters: \"I will not only be discussing Iran's actions in the region, but also the need to release not just Nazanin but others who in our view are being illegally and unfairly held in Tehran.\"\n\nFormer foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt suggested Mr Johnson should form a new coalition of allies at the UN to call out Iran for its \"diplomatic hostage taking\".\n\nAnd Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said the prime minister must tell his Iranian counterpart \"enough is enough\" and secure his wife's release.\n\n\"I don't mind how he does that, but this has gone on long enough,\" he said.\n\n\"Nazanin is at the end of her tether. We have to be clear with Iran that it's not OK to conduct hostage diplomacy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nMr Hunt is supporting Mr Ratcliffe's move to launch a new campaign group made up of other families of different nationalities with loved ones held in Tehran.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it should be a priority to ensure the price of taking hostages is \"too high\" for Iran.\n\n\"Iran is one of the few countries in the world that seeks to settle disputes by taking hostages,\" he said.\n\nHe said it is thought other countries' citizens have been taken hostage in Iran and only by working together can countries find a solution.\n\n\"When Europe and the US go separate ways on Iran it doesn't work,\" he said.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said efforts by Mr Johnson to get his wife released could make amends for comments he made as foreign secretary in 2017, when he said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran teaching journalism.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family has always insisted she was on holiday in Iran when she was arrested - and the UK government later clarified it had \"no doubt\" this was the case.\n\nA number of people with dual Iranian and foreign nationality have been detained in Iran in recent years.\n\nIn August, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said a British-Iranian dual national, Anousheh Ashouri, had been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court in Tehran after being convicted of spying for Israel.\n\nWeeks later, two British-Australian women and an Australian man were detained in Iran.\n\nBritish-Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East politics specialist at Melbourne University, is being held on charges that remain unclear, according to the Australian government.\n\nAustralians Mark Firkin and Jolie King, who also holds a UK passport - are also being detained in Iran.\n\nTravel bloggers Jolie King and Mark Firkin are reportedly being held in Tehran's Evin prison\n\nEarlier this year, the UK foreign office warned all dual nationals against travelling to Iran because of the risk of arbitrary detention.\n\nTensions between the UK and Iran have worsened in recent months following a row over the seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf.\n\nThe meeting between Mr Johnson and Mr Rouhani comes after the UK, France and Germany agreed on Monday that Iran was responsible for the attack on Saudi oil facilities last weekend.\n\nSaudi Arabia has also accused Iran of carrying out the 14 September attacks, in which 18 drones and seven cruise missiles hit an oil field and processing facility.\n\nHowever, Iran has denied responsibility, accusing the UK, France and Germany of \"parroting absurd US claims\".\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said slowly and cautiously, some diplomatic pressure was being applied on Iran.\n\nBut he added there was little sign Iran was ready to make any diplomatic concessions, not least while Europe and the US appeared uncertain over how to respond to the Saudi attacks.", "Labour MP calls for review of 'limits of language' in Parliament\n\nLabour MP Seema Malhotra asks the Speaker whether there is any capacity for a \"formal review about the limits of language\" that can be used about MPs in the chamber. \"Experience has shown that raising it again and again in the chamber is not enough,\" she says. \"And yet if we can have other rules about how we conduct ourselves, could you advise the House as to whether there is any capacity to review the language used so that we can create other ways in which calling a colleague a traitor could be ruled out of order?\" Mr Bercow replies that he was not aware of the word \"traitor\" being used in the chamber, and that he would already regard that as \"unparliamentary\" language.", "\"He has completely lost control of the process.\"\n\nThat's how one of the prime minister's cabinet colleagues summed up Boris Johnson's position as he flies back to face Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson's likely to end up at the despatch box on Wednesday, where he will have the rulings of the Supreme Court brandished at him.\n\nThe opposition parties calling on him to quit. A flurry of urgent demands for the government to answer questions about its plans for Brexit. And all that, before the profound embarrassment of having been found to have broken the law.\n\nDowning Street at this stage seems to have no intention of doing anything other than toughing this out.\n\nAnd Number 10 may choose to promote the plot of a prime minister, battling against the mighty establishment to keep his Brexit promise believing that will appeal to many leave voters, and can tune in to the frustration many members of the public feel at political failure.\n\nThe leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg's team are not denying what sources told me on Tuesday night, that he described the move to colleagues as a \"constitutional coup\".\n\nAnother cabinet minister told the BBC: \"It's interesting for justices to be giving political direction\".\n\nIndeed, it is blatant - another senior Conservative told me after the judgement: \"This is now literally the people versus the establishment.\"\n\nBut not even every Conservative feels easy with that stance, let alone the opposition, or every one around the country.\n\nAnd MPs are determined to tie Number 10 in knots, to hold up Mr Johnson's hope of relentlessly pushing forward.\n\nChutzpah can make the difference in politics.\n\nBut the court's verdict matters. Bravado isn't governing. Embracing controversy won't find a Brexit deal, or a straightforward way out of the mess.\n\nAnd with the opposition parties still refusing Mr Johnson his election, he has to wait before his high wire act is put to the ultimate test - the judgement of every voter at the ballot box.", "Columba McVeigh, 19, from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, was kidnapped in November 1975\n\nThe sister of a man who was murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in 1975 has said her family is in \"torment\" after another search for his body has ended without success.\n\nColumba McVeigh, 19, from Donaghmore in County Tyrone, was one of 16 murder victims known as the Disappeared, who were killed and secretly buried.\n\nA new search for his body in Bragan Bog in County Monaghan ended on Sunday.\n\n\"Someone knows where he is,\" his sister Dympna Kerr said.\n\nShe said: \"It's impossible to describe the continuing pain and torment of another year passing and another search ending with Columba still lying in some desolate unmarked hole in the ground where he was left by his murderers.\n\n\"What cause is served by denying an ordinary Catholic family a funeral Mass for over 40 years?\" she added\n\nDespite numerous searches, three of the Disappeared have never been found.\n\nThe search was being undertaken by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR).\n\nOn Monday, Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin said that he was \"saddened and disappointed\" that the latest search for Columba's body had been unsuccessful.\n\nIn a statement, he added: \"Columba's family have suffered too much pain, distress and anxiety over the years.\"\n\n\"I appeal to those carrying long-held secrets, from what were awful, terrible times, to share what information they have.\"\n\nThe most recent search took place for the teenager's remains at a section of Bragan Bog last September and was temporarily stopped in November. It recommenced in June.\n\nSeveral previous searches in the bog have failed to uncover his remains.\n\nJon Hill is a senior investigator with the ICLVR\n\nSenior investigator with the ICLVR, Jon Hill, said it was a \"bitter blow to the family\".\n\nHe said that they had done \"absolutely everything (they) could in often difficult circumstances\".\n\n\"If Columba had been here we would have found him,\" he added.\n\nLead forensic scientist, Geoff Knupfer, said everyone in the republican movement the ICLVR had spoken to had been \"adamant that Columba was buried where they told us he was\".\n\n\"We have no reason to believe that we have been deliberately mislead,\" he added.\n\nHe said there was the \"possibility\" that at some point Mr Veigh's remains had been removed from their original site and buried somewhere else.\n\nThe search took place at Bragan Bog in County Monaghan\n\n\"If he was moved than we need someone who has knowledge of that to come forward,\" he added.\n\nIn May, it emerged a reward of almost £50,000 is being offered for new information that results in finding the bodies of the Disappeared.\n\nThe anonymous donation of $60,000 (£47,191) was given to the independent UK charity Crimestoppers.\n\nThe ICLVR was set up to obtain information that may lead to where the bodies of the Disappeared are buried.\n\nInformation it receives is strictly confidential and is not passed to other agencies or used in prosecutions.\n\nMr McVeigh's brother Oliver said he was \"devastated\" and \"angry\".\n\n\"Angry that people who have information are watching us suffer and are doing nothing,\" he added.", "Sead Kolašinac and Mesut Ozil were uninjured in the incident in July\n\nTwo men have been charged following an attempted robbery of two Arsenal footballers.\n\nSead Kolašinac and Mesut Ozil were targeted by armed men in Platts Lane, near Golders Green, north-west London, on Thursday 25 July.\n\nAshley Smith, 30, of Cardinals Way, north London, is charged with attempted robbery and threatening a person with an offensive weapon on 5 September.\n\nJordan Northover, 26, of West Yorkshire, faces the same two charges.\n\nMr Smith, who faces an additional charge of possession of cannabis was remanded in custody and will appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nKolašinac and Ozil have both returned to playing for the Premier League side after missing several matches following concerns about their security at the start of the season.\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. 'I would like to have been more effective'\n\nA man who helped arm the IRA has admitted links to major bomb attacks, including one which targeted Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984.\n\nPatrick Ryan, a former priest from Tipperary, gave an interview to a BBC NI Spotlight series on the Troubles.\n\nMrs Thatcher once described him as having an \"expert knowledge of bombing\".\n\nAsked if she was right to connect him to events like the Brighton bomb, he replied: \"One hundred per cent.\"\n\nFive people died when an IRA bomb exploded inside the Grand Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher's ruling Conservative Party was holding its annual conference.\n\nThe prime minister narrowly escaped injury in the attack on 12 October 1984.\n\nMargaret Thatcher's bathroom in the Grand Hotel, Brighton, following the explosion\n\nEpisode three of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History explores Mr Ryan's key role in IRA arms shipments from Libya.\n\nIn the programme, he takes credit for introducing the organisation to a type of timer unit it used to set off bombs.\n\nAsked if he had any regrets, Mr Ryan said: \"I regret that I wasn't even more effective, absolutely.\n\n\"I would have liked to have been much more effective, but we didn't do too badly.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he wanted an apology from the Irish government for not extraditing Mr Ryan.\n\nHe said the Irish government should now \"step up to the mark\" and cooperate with extradition.\n\n\"He is an elderly man and the sooner he is brought before the courts the better for the pursuit of justice,\" he said.\n\nUlster Unionist councillor Danny Kinahan, a former member of the Blues and Royals, an Army regiment whose members were killed in the Hyde Park bombing in 1982, said it was \"extremely uncomfortable to see a former priest seemingly gloating in the part that he played in the murder of my friends\".\n\nFour soldiers and seven horses were killed in the Hyde Park attack\n\n\"If Patrick Ryan happens to live in the Republic of Ireland, this will be a test of the Varadkar government`s commitment to righting the wrong of the Irish government`s refusal to extradite Ryan to the United Kingdom in 1988,\" he added.\n\nTUV leader Jim Allister also called for an apology from the Irish government and told the Nolan Show Mr Ryan should be \"pursued\" for the crimes he admits to in the programme.\n\n\"I believe when someone boasts of the terrible crimes that he has boasted of then there should be no end to justice,\" he said.\n\n\"If it's right to pursue British soldiers, and it seems that is the perceived wisdom, then why would it not be right to pursue Ryan for all his crimes which he has self-confessed to?\"\n\nMr Ryan was once the subject of an extradition battle after being arrested with cash and bomb-making materials in Belgium in 1988.\n\nRepatriated to Ireland, the country refused to extradite him to the UK believing he would not receive a fair trial.\n\nThose who died in the Brighton bomb were Anthony Berry MP, Roberta Wakeham, Eric Taylor, Muriel Maclean and Jeanne Shattock.\n\nMany more were injured including Norman Tebbit, now a peer, and his wife.\n\nThe then trade secretary and his wife Margaret were lying in bed when their ceiling collapsed. Lady Tebbit remains paralysed to this day.\n\nPatrick Magee, who planted the bomb, subsequently received eight life sentences, seven of them related to the bombing.\n\nFour members of an IRA \"active service unit\" were also jailed for involvement in the plot.\n\nMagee was released under the Good Friday Agreement in 1999.\n\nEpisode three of Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History will be shown Tuesday 24 September at 21:00 BST on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Four. Episodes one and two can be viewed now on the BBC iPlayer.", "Deji Olatunji admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control\n\nA YouTube star and his mother have admitted dangerous dog offences after their German shepherd bit and seriously injured an elderly woman.\n\nDeji Olatunji, who has more than 9.8 million subscribers, tried to restrain the dog, Tank, when his mother let it out of a house in Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe 22-year-old admitted at Cambridge Crown Court to being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nHis mother, Olayinka Olatunji, 53, had already pleaded guilty to her role.\n\nAt an earlier hearing, she admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control that injured a person.\n\nThe pair, from Holme, near Peterborough, will be sentenced on 25 October.\n\nDeji posted a video in which he told his followers that Tank the dog had been seized by police in September last year\n\nDeji Olatunji, who has used the pseudonym ComedyShortsGamer and posts videos of pranks and gaming, has 2.5 million followers on Instagram and is the younger brother of fellow YouTuber KSI.\n\nHe has previously spoken of his dog being seized, and uploaded a video last week in which he said he was going to court to try to get the dog back.\n\nDeji Olatunji had tried to restrain the dog after it bit an elderly woman, a court hears\n\nProsecutor Charles Falk told the court that on 23 July last year Olayinka Olatunji had \"caused the dog to be let out\" of the house.\n\nIt then bit an elderly woman twice, causing what Judge David Farrell QC described as \"very nasty injuries\".\n\nMr Falk told the court after this initial bite, Deji Olatunji came out of the house to try to get Tank under control.\n\nBut it then bit another person, causing no injury, before it was finally restrained, Mr Falk said.\n\nThe judge adjourned sentencing for reports to be made for both Olayinka Olatunji and the dog.\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 improvised weapon has been discovered in the playground of a primary school in north Belfast, the police have said.\n\nIt was discovered at Holy Cross Boys' Primary School and was \"most likely\" left by dissident republicans to attack police, a senior officer said.\n\nCh Supt Jonathan Roberts said the weapon had the \"potential to fire a high-calibre round\".\n\n\"What they have done is endangered the lives of children,\" he said.\n\n\"The device was left in the immediate area where the youngest children who attend school would be playing during the course of the school day.\"\n\nHe said it was an \"act of utmost recklessness\".\n\nThe weapon was found by the principal and caretaker under a sewage man-hole cover, in a plastic package in a garden area of the school.\n\nThe school was evacuated on Monday and was closed again on Tuesday but the security operation has now ended.\n\nCh Supt Jonathan Roberts added: \"Our working theory at this time is that this weapon was most likely to have been left there by dissident republican terrorists.\n\n\"It was probably destined to be used in an attempt to kill or seriously injure police officers who are serving and protecting the community of north Belfast.\"\n\nCh Supt Jonathan Roberts said the weapon had the \"potential to fire a high-calibre round\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster earlier, the school's principal, Kevin McArevey, spoke of his shock.\n\n\"I was helping the caretaker with some sewage problems out the back of the school, in the nature garden and we had to lift a manhole cover to get the rods down and to my surprise, there was a plastic package just sitting in the sewers.\n\n\"I lifted it out and... when I opened it up, there were wires at the top of this and tubing in it.\n\n\"It was a scary moment for both of us.\"\n\nHe added: \"We had cleared out the sewers three years previous, it was put in there within the last three years.\n\n\"Whoever left this device should consider their reckless disregard for the health and wellbeing of the children who would regularly use the nature garden.\"\n\nIn a tweet, North Belfast MLA Nichola Mallon said the incident was a \"disgrace\".\n• None Why is dissident republican activity on the rise?", "Stefan Carr admitted four counts of assault and one of attempted assault\n\nA man who was caught assaulting his partner on cameras he had installed in his home has been jailed.\n\nStefan Carr, from Carlyle Crescent, Castleford, subjected Bethany Marchant to a violent attack in the early hours of 5 May.\n\nDuring the three-hour attack he tied a noose around her neck and lifted her off the ground.\n\nThe 28-year-old was jailed for 11 years three months for four counts of assault and one of attempted assault.\n\nTwo of the charges related to attacks on his previous partner who had left him in April 2018.\n\nBelieving she was in a new relationship, he punched his ex-partner in the face in late-autumn 2018, and in January 2019 he attempted to suffocate her.\n\nCarr had been on bail for those offences when he attacked Ms Marchant on 5 May.\n\nThe couple had arrived home at 01:30 BST and a long argument escalated into a sustained series of attacks on Ms Marchant.\n\nMs Marchant said Carr had \"manipulated and fooled\" her\n\nCarr's house was covered by CCTV cameras he had installed which recorded his assault on Ms Marchant\n\nCarr pushed her from room to room, attacking her in various ways.\n\nAt one point he created a noose out of a length of rope and lifted her off the ground. He also threatened her with a knife.\n\nShe eventually persuaded him to take her to hospital but after driving a short distance he threatened to drive the car into a reservoir, drowning them both, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nThe police arrived at this point, having been alerted by a neighbour.\n\nSpeaking after sentencing Ms Marchant said: \"I am just glad he is locked up and can't hurt anyone else.\n\n\"I will never trust nobody again. He completely fooled and manipulated me.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Vanessa Rolfe, of West Yorkshire Police, praised Ms Marchant's courage and bravery after such a \"horrific\" ordeal.\n\nShe said the strength of the case against Carr, which led to his guilty pleas, came in part from him effectively recording and documenting his own criminal acts.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Obesity is not a choice and making people feel ashamed results only in them feeling worse about themselves, a report by top psychologists says.\n\nIt calls for changes in language to reduce stigma, such as saying \"a person with obesity\" rather than an \"obese person\".\n\nAnd it says health professionals should be trained to talk about weight loss in a more supportive way.\n\nA cancer charity's recent ad campaign was criticised for \"fat shaming\".\n\nObesity levels rose by 18% in England between 2005 and 2017 and by similar amounts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThis means just over one in four UK adults is obese while nearly two-thirds are overweight or obese.\n\nBut these increases cannot be explained by a sudden loss of motivation across the UK - it is a lot more complicated than that, according to the British Psychological Society report, which concludes it \"is not simply down to an individual's lack of willpower\".\n\n\"The people who are most likely to be an unhealthy weight are those who have a high genetic risk of developing obesity and whose lives are also shaped by work, school and social environments that promote overeating and inactivity,\" it says.\n\n\"People who live in deprived areas often experience high levels of stress, including major life challenges and trauma, often their neighbourhoods offer few opportunities and incentives for physical activity and options for accessing affordable healthy food are limited.\"\n\nPsychological experiences also play a big role, the report says, with up to half of adults attending specialist obesity services having experienced difficulties in childhood.\n\nAnd stress caused by fat shaming - being made to feel bad about one's weight - by public health campaigns, GPs, nurses and policymakers, often leads to increased eating and more weight gain.\n\nComedian James Corden recently spoke out against fat shaming, saying: \"If making fun of fat people made them lose weight, there'd be no fat kids in schools.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Late Late Show with James Corden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Late Late Show with James Corden\n\nPsychologists can use their expertise to help train health professionals to communicate better on obesity, says Dr Angel Chater, report author and reader in health psychology and behaviour design at the University of Bedfordshire.\n\n\"If the treatment for obesity was easy, we wouldn't be here and wouldn't have written this report,\" she says.\n\n\"You might have the best willpower in the world, but if you don't have access to the right food, the right environment, the best start in life... it will be tough.\"\n\nThe government should approach the problem of obesity in the same way as smoking, the report says.\n\nBritish Psychological Society chief executive Sarb Bajwa said: \"It has taken action at all levels for decades, from government policy to helping individual smokers, but we are now seeing significant reductions in the level of smoking and the health problems it causes.\n\n\"Psychologists have the science and clinical experience to help the health service do the same for obesity.\n\n\"We can help, not just by devising ways of helping individuals, but also by advising on public policy which will help create an environment in which people find it easier not to become obese in the first place.\"\n\nHowever, the psychologists are not in favour of obesity being classed as a \"disease\", because, they say, this could take the focus away from behavioural changes that could succeed.", "Katrice Lee went missing on her second birthday while out shopping with her mother\n\nAn arrest has been made over the 38-year-old mystery of a toddler who went missing in Germany.\n\nKatrice Lee, from Hartlepool, disappeared from a supermarket near a British Army base in Paderborn on her second birthday in 1981.\n\nShe was with her mother at a Naafi supermarket when she vanished.\n\nRoyal Military Police said an arrest was made in the Swindon area but would not comment any further. A garden has also been searched.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We can confirm that an arrest was made on 23 September by the Royal Military Police in connection with the disappearance of Katrice Lee in 1981.\"\n\nRoyal Military Police said this man was seen putting a child in a green saloon car near where Katrice Lee disappeared\n\nIn 2012, Royal Military Police chiefs admitted mistakes were made during the initial investigation into Katrice's disappearance, and in 2017 the government agreed to review the case.\n\nA year later, the Royal Military Police undertook a forensic search on the bank of the River Alme, near to where she went missing.\n\nThe river site was identified after the release of an age-progressed photo-fit of a man seen at the Naafi holding a child similar to Katrice.\n\nHe was seen in a parked green car on a bridge over the river the day after she went missing.\n\nAt the time, Katrice's father Richard Lee, a former sergeant major, said the news confirmed his long-held belief the toddler had been abducted.\n\nAn army search of the riverbank area involved more than 100 soldiers\n\nMore than 100 soldiers took part in the five-week search which unearthed bone fragments, but tests confirmed they were non-human.\n\nFollowing the search Mr Lee said: \"I believe what we should now be looking at a public inquiry into the treatment of the family through all of this and the way in which the case has been handled.\n\n\"If things had been done properly in 1981 we wouldn't still be going through this now.\"\n\nKatrice's father Richard Lee has always maintained she was abducted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What do we know about Emily Doe? We know she was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner outside a frat party at Stanford University, California, one night in January 2015. She was found unconscious and partly-clothed, near a dumpster.\n\nHe would get a six-month term, for sexually assaulting an intoxicated victim, sexually assaulting an unconscious victim and attempting to rape her.\n\nHe would serve three months and be put on probation for three years, ending this month. Judge Aaron Persky, who was later removed from his post, cited Turner's good character and the fact he had been drinking.\n\nMuch of the coverage at the time also focused on the fact Turner was a star swimmer.\n\nWhat do we know about Chanel Miller? Maybe you don't know a lot, yet. If you've read the victim impact statement she addressed to Turner, which went viral when she was still known as Emily Doe to protect her anonymity, you'll know she is brave and articulate.\n\nHere is what you should know about Chanel.\n\nShe is a literature graduate, who has now written a book, Know My Name. She is a talented artist and would love to illustrate children's books, her drawings being a little surreal and - by her own description - sinister. She has also studied ceramics and comic books, and done stand-up comedy.\n\nShe loves dogs. She describes herself as shy. She is half-Chinese, her Chinese name being Zhang Xiao Xia (with Xia sounding like \"sha\", the first syllable of Chanel). She smiles easily, is thoughtful and funny. She is someone's daughter, sister, girlfriend. She could be someone you know.\n\nWarning: This story contains content that readers may find distressing\n\nChanel's memoir brims with the rage of her ordeal. But why write it, when it meant reliving her pain, reading the court documents and witness statements that had been - until then - kept from her?\n\nShe says she felt a duty to shine a light on the darkness so many young women have to go through.\n\n\"I've had days where it's extremely difficult to get up in the morning,\" says Chanel, 27, speaking in her home city of San Francisco. \"I've had days where I really could not imagine a single pathway forward. And those were such weighing times.\n\n\"And it was terrible. I wouldn't draw anything, I wouldn't write anything. All I wanted to do is sleep so that I wouldn't have to be conscious. That's no way to live.\n\n\"I think of other young women who have to go through this and you see them withdraw and crumble and fall away from the things that they love. And I just think - how, how do we let that happen?\"\n\nHer voice is articulate and clear but it vibrates with emotion, and quiet fury, at the injustice of this happening to other women around the world. An endless parade of other people who know what it is to be Emily Doe.\n\n\"Here are these young, talented women excited for their futures, who have so many things to give and offer. And something like this happens,\" says Chanel. \"And they go home, and they carry the shame, and they swallow it up and it eats them from the inside out.\n\n\"And they think 'everything would be better off if I was just holed up in my room', 'maybe things would be better if I didn't speak at all'. 'Maybe I don't deserve to be loved or caressed gently'.\n\n\"It's so sick, that we let this happen. That we let them digest these negative ideas of themselves. And let them be isolated. Instead of coaxing them back out here and saying, no, you deserve a full life. You deserve an amazing future.\"\n\nChanel wasn't a university student at the time - she had already graduated. Her younger sister Tiffany was back home for the weekend and had asked if she wanted to go along to a party with her.\n\nBut her story expanded the conversation about campus rape and she wants to see changes at Stanford University specifically, like the fact forensic exams can't be given at Stanford hospital, with victims having to travel 40 miles.\n\n\"Do you get an Uber for 40 minutes with a stranger while you're still in the clothes you were just attacked in? Do you text your one friend who has a car and disclose that information?\"\n\nMany women came forward after reading Chanel's victim impact statement, emboldened to tell their own stories - in some cases for the first time.\n\nRAINN - the rape, abuse and incest national network, the largest anti-sexual violence organisation in the US - puts the figure at one in six US women being the victim of an attempted, or completed, rape. Every 92 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Out of every 1,000 sexual assaults, 995 perpetrators will walk free.\n\nThink of how many women you walk past each day. Think of one in every six.\n\n\"We always say like, oh, why didn't she come forward? Why didn't she report?\" says Chanel.\n\n\"Because there's no system for her to report to. Why should she have faith in us to take care of her if she comes forward? We need to be doing more to help survivors after this happens.\"\n\nWhen Turner was sentenced, the crime was not described as rape - but the law in California has since changed, as a result of Chanel's case.\n\nThere is now a mandatory three year minimum prison sentence for penetrating an unconscious person or an intoxicated person, Chanel's attorney Alaleh Kianerci explains. Another piece of legislation was written to expand the definition of rape to include any kind of penetration (\"The trauma experienced by survivors cannot be measured by what exactly was put inside them without their consent,\" she argued, in her support of the bill).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe had felt so beaten down by the court case (\"I just felt degraded and empty all the time,\" she says) and the shock of Turner's sentence that when her lawyer asked her permission to release her victim impact statement, she just said \"sure, if you think it'd be helpful\". She thought it would end up on a community forum or local newspaper website - never imagining the impact it would have.\n\nWhen her statement came out, originally published in full on Buzzfeed, it received 11 million views in four days and Chanel was sent hundreds and hundreds of letters and gifts from around the world.\n\nShe read them all, saying they \"taught me to be gentler to myself, taught me who I was to them\", adding: \"I was learning to see myself through them.\"\n\nShe even got a letter from the White House - Joe Biden, then vice-president, telling her: \"You have given them the strength they need to fight. And so, I believe, you will save lives.\"\n\nAs she was anonymous, it was common for friends to forward the statement to her, unaware she had written it. Chanel's therapist knew she had been sexually assaulted but did not know her identity as Emily Doe for months, asking her: \"Have you read the Stanford victim statement?\"\n\nCourts hear from cases like Chanel's all the time - it's just the names, the places, the details change. So what made her story, her pain, resonate so widely?\n\n\"Maybe not shying away from the darkest parts,\" Chanel says. \"I think it feels almost like a relief when someone acknowledges your darkness because you feel like it's this ugly, dirty thing you need to be concealing.\n\n\"If you show it, people are going to cringe and back away. I could communicate all of these difficult feelings and be open about them and just lay them out and not feel shame for experiencing them.\"\n\nHaving been through the court system, Chanel said she felt she had a responsibility to report back, to show others what it is like.\n\n\"I know that for me, I had so many, quote unquote, advantages,\" she says. \"I had my rape kit done [a sexual assault forensic evidence kit]. I had the assistance of policemen and nurses. I had an advocate that was assigned to me, I had a prosecutor, I had all the things you're supposed to have.\n\n\"And I still found it so excruciatingly difficult and emotionally damaging and going through it. I thought, 'if this is what it looks like, to be well equipped going into this, how the hell is anyone else supposed to survive this process?'.\n\n\"I felt that I had a duty to write about what it's like inside the windowless walls of a courtroom, what the internal landscape is like, what it's like to sit on that stand and be attacked with this meaningless interrogation.\"\n\nWriting the book also allowed her access to the court documents and thousands of pages of transcripts she had not been present for.\n\nWhile elucidating, it was also deeply painful, knowing what not just the court - but her family and friends had heard and seen.\n\n\"It was extremely difficult. I put it off for a really long time. Finally, I thought well, I have to look into them.\n\n\"I would read about Brock and the defence talking about, play by play, taking off my underwear, putting his fingers inside…,\" she stops, before adding: \"It was so graphic and suffocating, to read about myself being verbally undressed again.\n\n\"And to imagine it all happening in a courtroom where everyone's just listening and nobody's doing anything. I could not stomach it.\"\n\n\"There's a lot of power in being able to craft the narrative again\"\n\nIt caused her anger and \"self-induced depression\" but says there was \"this wonderful moment where I'm like, all of these voices in these transcripts are literally in my hands, I can pick them up and put them down. But I own all of them. I get to pick out whichever words I want and assemble them how I want\".\n\n\"There is a lot of power in being able to craft the narrative again,\" she adds.\n\nKnow My Name brims with the trauma Chanel experienced - from waking up not knowing what had happened, to learning details of the assault from news reports, to finally telling her parents, to breaking down in court. As she says, \"writing is the way I process the world\".\n\nChanel only chose to reveal her name six months ago, having started writing the book in 2017.\n\nShe says the burden of secrecy had become too much for her - 90% of people who knew her didn't know her other identity.\n\nChanel, drawing at her home in San Francisco\n\nFriends thought she was still doing her 9-5 office job. So she had former colleagues (\"my suppliers\", she smiles) feed her snippets of information. \"In the beginning that was so important for self-preservation and processing and privacy,\" she says. \"But over time, you feel really diminished. And I think it's important to be able to live my full truth.\"\n\nShe expected the day, earlier this month, when she came out as Chanel to be \"stormy\". But it was, in the end, a moment of deep calm and strength.\n\n\"It turned out to be the most peaceful day I've had in the last four-and-a-half years,\" says Chanel. \"I suddenly realised, I've come out on the other side of this.\"\n\nShe doesn't feel Turner - who denied all of the charges - has acknowledged what he did.\n\n\"You know, at the sentencing, he read 10 sentences of apology,\" she says. \"It sounded generic to me.\n\n\"And it really made me question what we're doing in the criminal justice system, because if he's not even learning, then really what is the point? If he had transformed himself, then I think I would have been much more forgiving of the sentence.\n\n\"I am really interested in self-growth and understanding that the fact that he deviated so far from that, and was never forced to do any kind of introspection, or to really look at the way he affected me, that really hurt.\"\n\nWe applaud Chanel Miller's bravery in telling her story publicly, and we deeply regret that she was sexually assaulted on the Stanford campus. As a university, we are continuing and strengthening our efforts to prevent and respond effectively to sexual violence, with the ultimate goal of eradicating it from our community.\n\nThe closest location for a SART [sexual assault response team] exam is at Valley Medical Center in San Jose. We have long agreed on the need for a closer location and have committed to provide space at Stanford Hospital for SART exams. Santa Clara County, which runs the SART program, is working to train sufficient nurses to staff it.\n\nMuch of the criticism towards Judge Aaron Persky was about the relatively lenient sentence given to Turner - sparking a national debate about whether white men from wealthy backgrounds were treated more favourably by the US justice system.\n\n\"Privilege is not having to reckon with his own actions to examine his effects on someone who is not him,\" says Chanel.\n\n\"You know, we have young men of colour serving far longer sentences for nonviolent crimes for having marijuana possession. It's ridiculous.\n\n\"I just kept thinking, where does the punishment come in? When are you forced to be held accountable for what you do in life and not just float through, as if anything you do can never hurt anybody, and you will not be affected by it.\n\n\"I think what bothers me the most is that there's never the suggestion that the victim was also busy having a life before this happened.\n\n\"We have our own agendas and goals, and don't appreciate being completely thrown off the rails when this happens. And when people say, why didn't she report? It's like, casually asking, why didn't she stop everything she was doing to attend to something that she never wanted to attend to in the first place?\"\n\nTurner attempted to have his convictions overturned last year, but his appeal was rejected. He remains on the sex offenders register. Turner was banned from the university and is now living with his parents in Ohio.\n\nAsked whether she would like Turner and his family to read the book, she says: \"If they choose to read it, and really hear it, I will always encourage that. I will always encourage learning and deeper understanding.\n\n\"But I've also accepted that what they do is out of my control, that I can only focus on my own trajectory and how I wish to keep moving forward. Mainly, I want the book to exist as a companion.\n\n\"I think of it as something you can carry with you and you go through difficult things, something you can physically hold or read in bed late at night, when you feel isolated. I always thought like, what would I have needed to hear when I was going through this?\"\n\nA letter from Chanel explaining that drawing kept her afloat in her dark times - and an illustration she drew over the top of a photograph she took in Vietnam\n\nShe holds a space in her heart for the two Swedish students - Peter Jonsson and Carl-Fredrik Arndt - who stopped the assault, having seen what was happening as they cycled past.\n\nChanel drew a picture of two bikes and slept with it above her bed after the assault, a talisman to remind her there was hope out there.\n\nShe's since met the pair for dinner. \"I always like to say 'be the Swede'. Show up for the vulnerable, do your part, help each other and face the darkest parts alongside survivors.\n\n\"I think the response I've been getting makes it sound like people are willing to step up now and really fight for what's right. And that's extremely encouraging.\"\n\nNow the book is out in the world, Chanel plans to decide what to do with the next phase of her life. But she does so with the hope and belief that the good in the world outweighs the bad.\n\n\"On the same night I was assaulted, I was also saved,\" she muses. \"There was a really terrible thing that happened - and also a really wonderful thing. They say you shouldn't meet your heroes - but in this case you definitely should.\"\n\nAsked what she plans to do now, Chanel says: \"I want to write books for kids, for their ripe brains and juicy hearts, which have not yet learned to be dark and serious and drab. I've had a bumpy few years, but I have lots of hope. I feel like my life is always beginning.\"\n\nIn the UK, the rape crisis national freephone helpline is 0808 802 9999. In the US, the national sexual assault hotline is 1-800-656-4673. Further information and support for anyone affected by sexual assault can be found through BBC Action Line\n\nKnow My Name is published in the US and the UK on 24 September", "Brook House immigration removal centre, near Gatwick Airport, can hold up to 448 detainees\n\nPrivate firm G4S will no longer run Brook House immigration removal centre once the contract expires next year, BBC News has learned.\n\nG4S says it has pulled out of the bidding to focus on running prisons.\n\nThe company was heavily criticised after undercover filming at the facility near Gatwick Airport captured detainees being mistreated by staff.\n\nThe decision means G4S will no longer have any involvement in the immigration and asylum sector.\n\nIn August, the company stopped operating accommodation for asylum seekers in the Midlands, north-east England and Northern Ireland.\n\nG4S began running Brook House when it opened in 2009 but was embroiled in controversy in 2017 after the BBC's Panorama programme broadcast video, secretly taken by a staff member, of detainees being verbally and physically abused.\n\nAfter the programme was shown, various investigations were carried out and 15 of the 21 staff allegedly involved later resigned or were sacked.\n\nThe contract to run the 448-bed facility was due to end in 2018 but was temporarily extended until May 2020.\n\nThe Home Office began a tendering process but after initial discussions, G4S has decided not to continue beyond that date.\n\n\"G4S will not seek to renew the contract to run Gatwick's immigration removal centres, Brook House and Tinsley House,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"This will allow us to give greater focus to our custody and rehabilitation business, where we operate four of the highest-rated prisons in England and Wales.\"\n\nG4S is keen to acquire further prison contracts as the government seeks to provide 10,000 new places.\n\nThere's also been concern among managers that its bid to renew the Brook House contract might fail because of damaging publicity surrounding it.\n\nFurther revelations about alleged abuse are likely to emerge during an independent inquiry which is expected to start next year.\n\nSerco is believed to be a front-runner for the contract. The results of the bidding process are due to be announced in January.\n\nHowever, the latest inspection report on Brook House suggests there have been significant improvements.\n\nPeter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, said: \"We found no evidence that the abusive culture shown by the Panorama programme was present among the current staff group.\"\n\nHe went on: \"Most detainees were positive about the way they were treated.\"And he said the workforce had been \"determined\" to inject a \"respectful\" culture into the centre.\n\nNevertheless, the inspection report, the last under G4S's watch, said security was sometimes too stringent, detainees spent too long locked in their rooms and rates of self-harm had increased, with 40% saying they had felt suicidal at some point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Everything done in the proper way\"\n\nBoris Johnson has denied any impropriety following claims he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest while London mayor.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Jennifer Arcuri - who knew Mr Johnson - joined trade missions he led and received thousands of pounds in sponsorship grants.\n\nThe PM earlier refused address the allegations, but later said \"everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nShe told the paper it was part of her role as a legitimate businesswoman.\n\nLabour has said Mr Johnson must give a full account of his actions, but pressed by journalists during a flight to New York on Sunday night, the now-prime minister refused to comment.\n\nOn Monday evening, though, he told the BBC's John Pienaar: \"All I can say is I am very proud of what we did as Mayor of London... particularly banging the drum for our city and country around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can tell you that absolutely everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nTechnology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri is believed to have moved to London seven years ago - Mr Johnson was mayor between 2008 and 2016.\n\nShe joined a joined a number of trade missions led by him while in office, and it is understood she attended events on two of these trips - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that one of her businesses received £10,000 and £1,500 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when Mr Johnson was mayor, as well as a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs to build businesses in Britain.\n\nThe newspaper also said Ms Arcuri got a £100,000 grant from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport earlier this year.\n\nThe grant was intended for \"English-based\" businesses - although she had moved back to the US in June 2018.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it had found the registered address on the grant application form was a rented house in the UK and no longer connected to her.\n\nThe government has confirmed to the BBC it is investigating, but said the funds were awarded to a UK-registered company.\n\nBoris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was \"perfectly normal\" for entrepreneurs to join trade missions, aimed at promoting British businesses overseas.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"British companies and entrepreneurs go on trade missions. It's quite right and proper and I'm sure that's exactly what's happened there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 4 Today This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe current London Mayor, Labour's Sadiq Khan, said he had ordered City Hall officials to look into the allegations.\n\nJournalists asked Mr Johnson about the allegations when travelling with him to the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nThe PM told reporters he was there to \"talk about what we're doing in the UN and this country's commitment to tackle climate change\", as well as \"the crisis in the Gulf and any other issues that may arise\".\n\nAsked again, he replied: \"I'm here to talk exclusively about the work of the UN.\"\n\nMs Arcuri was quoted by the Sunday Times as saying: \"Any grants received by my companies and any trade mission I joined were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman.\"\n\nThe woman at the centre of this story is Jennifer Arcuri, who describes herself on Twitter as an entrepreneur, cyber security expert and producer.\n\nShe began her career as a DJ on Radio Disney, before moving into film - where she wrote, produced and directed a short film that went on to be sold at Cannes Film Festival.\n\nMs Arcuri then brought in her tech skills to create a streaming platform for independent film makers.\n\nBut it was her founding of The Innotech Network in London that saw her path cross with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe network hosts events to discuss tech policy, and Mr Johnson was the keynote speaker at the first of those in 2012.\n\nSince then, Ms Arcuri has also founded another company called Hacker House, which uses ethical hackers to find tech solutions for businesses.", "The Supreme Court has ruled the suspension of Parliament was unlawful. Meanwhile, what's happening at Labour Party Conference?\n\nListen to the more episodes of Brexitcast here.", "Some commuters in Birmingham were undeterred by the flooding\n\nHeavy rain is causing flash flooding and travel problems on roads across England.\n\nFive flood warnings and 40 flood alerts remain in place across much of the country by the Environment Agency.\n\nThe Met Office has a yellow rain warning covering most of the country in force until 23:00 BST.\n\nFloods have been reported on roads in Southampton, Birmingham, Liverpool and London, where a deluge was reported at the Houses of Parliament.\n\nFlooding has also hit roads in Southampton\n\nSome areas saw more than 50mm of rain in less than 12 hours as wind, rain and thunder battered parts of the country.\n\nBoscombe Down in Wiltshire had the biggest downpour, with 51.2mm falling at the military base near Amesbury in the 12 hours to 13:00 BST.\n\nAbout 49.6mm (2in) of rain fell there in the six hours before 09:00, according to the Met Office.\n\nSpokesman Grahame Madge said it was a \"significant\" amount of rain.\n\nHe said the band of rain was \"transient\" having started in the South West, before moving to the Midlands and hitting the North later in the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCurrently, flood warnings, where flooding is expected, are still in place for:\n\nFlood alerts, which indicate flooding is possible, are in place across the country, including for parts of Greater London, Derbyshire, Sheffield, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire.\n\nThe Environment Agency said a further 14 flood warnings are no longer in place.\n\nThe torrential downpours saturated pedestrians in Birmingham city centre on Tuesday morning\n\nWales has also been affected by the heavy rainfall, with the Met Office issuing warnings across south and north eastern areas of the country.\n\nThe weather has affected public transport, with National Rail warning of major disruption between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stourbridge earlier due to a tree blocking the line.\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\nIn sport, the rainfall has affected the cricket County Championship, while the fan zone for the UCI Road World Championships in Harrogate has been closed due to the rain.\n\nThe cycling action can still be seen on West Park and Parliament Street, organisers said, but the wet weather did lead to two crashes involving riders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He takes an early bath!' Wet Yorkshire weather causes two HUGE crashes\n\nThe downpours are being brought by low pressure travelling across the UK, along with warm and humid air linked to the remnants of Hurricane Humberto which hit Bermuda coastline last week.\n\nThe heavy rain is expected to clear by Wednesday, but a low-pressure front is expected to remain for the rest of the week.\n\nA road has been partially flooded at Colnbrook in Berkshire\n\nA road was flooded in the Longbridge area of Birmingham\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Don't just book it - Thomas Cook it!\" is a phrase etched in the British memory.\n\nOver the years one of the world's best known holiday brands has taken millions of holidaymakers around the world, responding to technological advances in transport and social trends.\n\nIts history is also the history of how we have spent our holidays and explored an increasingly accessible world.\n\n\"There's an incredible fondness\" for the brand, says travel commentator Emma Coulthurst. \"We have grown up with it.\n\n\"You would go into your local travel agent, get your brochures, look at your brochures and go back again as a family. It was an event, booking was part of the whole experience.\"\n\nAlthough it is now best known for its trips abroad, when cabinet-maker Thomas Cook founded the business in Leicestershire in 1841 it was for more local excursions.\n\nA former Baptist preacher, he wanted to offer working class people a form of educational entertainment to divert them from drinking which he saw as at the root of Victorian social ills.\n\nThomas Cook thought railway trips could be used for social reform; an advert for an early excursion, right\n\nHe harnessed the UK's newly built railways to offer his first 12 mile trip from Leicester to Loughborough, at the cost of a shilling per head (around £3 in today's money).\n\nThose travelling were so-called \"temperance supporters\" - supporting the prohibition of alcohol.\n\nThe visit was such a success that Thomas Cook repeated it over several summers on behalf of Sunday schools which laid the foundations for the business.\n\nBy 1855, after having pioneered trips around the British Isles and to London's Great Exhibition, Thomas Cook set his sights across the Channel to Paris where the International Exhibition was being held.\n\nHis commercial tour there, linked to other European destinations, was a huge success.\n\nMore European trips followed, and before long Thomas Cook was taking travellers to America, Asia and the Middle East.\n\nEarly adverts for trips, including Liverpool to New York in 1866 for 25 guineas, about £1,552 in today's money\n\nThe company flourished, fuelled by the growing middle classes and their desire to travel.\n\nThomas' son, John Mason Cook, eventually took over running the company from his father, who died in 1892.\n\nIt stayed in family hands and, in the first quarter of the 20th Century, Thomas Cook's grandsons added winter sports, motor car tours and commercial air travel to its offerings.\n\nAt the end of the 1920s it changed hands for the first of many times when the grandsons unexpectedly sold the business to the Belgian owner of the Orient Express.\n\nBut as World War Two broke out, it was nationalised by the British government as part of British Railways, to save it from the Nazi occupation.\n\nThe post-war years were characterised by a holiday boom in the UK. For Thomas Cook, this meant taking holidaymakers on package holidays abroad but also to its Welsh holiday camp in Prestatyn.\n\n\"I see them as a pioneer in organised travel,\" says Ms Coulthurst, from holiday price comparison website TravelSupermarket, describing how people went on package holidays as children and later as adults with their own families.\n\n\"They were in all of the main package holiday destinations.\"\n\nThe Going Places travel brand was merged into Thomas Cook in 2007 before being killed off\n\nBut competition from other businesses also grew.\n\nThomas Cook was taken private in the 1970s and expanded its network of High Street travel shops through a string of acquisitions.\n\nThen in 1992 it was bought by Germany's third largest bank, the Westdeutsche Landesbank.\n\nIts next owner in 2001 was another German company, C&N Touristic AG, which quickly rebranded the whole business as Thomas Cook. And in 2007 the company merged with MyTravel - owner of the Airtours and Going Places brands - and became known as the Thomas Cook Group.\n\nMore acquisitions of shops and travel businesses, including websites, continued across the world.\n\nThomas Cook's Indian, Chinese, German and Nordic subsidiaries continued to trade as normal in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of their parent company.\n\nThrough its long history, it is the 21st Century that the company has found hardest to adapt to.\n\nThe digital age has seen a revolution in travel. The internet and the rise of budget airlines have made holidays cheaper and more accessible than ever before.\n\nThe package holiday remained popular, but customers are extremely price sensitive - and Thomas Cook's profit margins were slim.\n\nThe Thomas Cook brand expanded all over the world, including in India\n\nIts history left it with expensive overheads - hundreds of shops and thousands of staff.\n\nAcquisitions left it with high debt levels, and little ability to respond to the headwinds of the travel market. Hurricanes, heatwaves and currency fluctuations have hit the company hard over the last few years.\n\n\"I think the reasons are very complex,\" says Amie Keeley, the head of news at Travel Weekly.\n\nShe cites some \"questionable decisions\" years ago, when the company was under a different management and decided to expand its shop network at a time when more people were going online.\n\n\"In the short term, last summer's extended heatwave was a big reason. And they have also cited Brexit saying consumers are less confident,\" she said.\n\nThomas Cook offered a complete holiday \"package\" of travel, accommodation and food in 1855\n\nMs Coulthurst says UK travellers are still booking package holidays, which gives them financial protection through the government-run Atol scheme.\n\n\"However a lot of them are booking them in different ways now,\" she adds.\n\n\"Thomas Cook has 560 travel agents on the high street, it used to have more. That's bricks and mortar, they have overheads.\"\n\nShe says Thomas Cook was left competing with low-cost airlines as well as rivals with a big online presence, and says: \"But [Thomas Cook's] online presence isn't as strong. They are seen as a predominantly high street shop business.\"\n\nShe also says in North Africa - where Thomas Cook has an \"extremely strong package holiday presence\" - there has been political unrest, such as the ban on flights to Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh, which has affected the tour operator.\n\nBut Thomas Cook has retained a dedicated following, taking 19 million people from the UK and other countries on holiday each year.\n\n\"It's an iconic travel brand that has been in existence for 178 years,\" says Ms Keeley from Travel Weekly, adding it is \"much-loved\" both by consumers and those in the travel industry.\n\nEven the company's competitors did not want to see Thomas Cook collapse, she adds, not just because of the wider impact on the industry but also from an \"emotional and heritage point of view\".\n\n\"A lot of people have worked for Thomas Cook or work with them, so everyone is rooting for them.\"\n\nFor its loyal customers and for its 22,000 staff members, the company has stayed true to its roots - democratising travel and in the words of Thomas Cook himself making it \"a social idea\".\n\nAre you a Thomas Cook customer or member of staff? If you've been affected by the company's collapse, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Joaquin Phoenix (centre) was at the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival\n\nFamilies of those killed while watching a Batman film in 2012 have written to Warner Bros with concerns about the new Joker film and urging the studio to join action against gun violence.\n\nTwelve people died in a cinema showing The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado.\n\nThey included Jessica Ghawi, 24, whose mother Sandy Phillips told BBC News she was \"horrified\" by the Joker trailers.\n\nWarner Bros said the film - which stars Joaquin Phoenix - was not an endorsement of real-world violence.\n\nPhoenix walked out of a recent interview when asked about the issue.\n\nSandy Phillips and her husband, Lonnie, who run Survivors Empowered, an anti-gun violence group, wrote to Warner Bros along with three others whose relatives were killed, injured or caught up in the 2012 shooting.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Mrs Phillips said: \"When I first saw the trailers of the movie, I was absolutely horrified.\n\n\"And then when I dug a little deeper and found out that it had such unnecessary violence in the movie, it just chilled me to my bones.\n\n\"It just makes me angry that a major motion picture company isn't taking responsibility and doesn't have the concern of the public at all.\"\n\nThe families' letter said: \"When we learned that Warner Bros was releasing a movie called Joker that presents the character as a protagonist with a sympathetic origin story, it gave us pause.\n\n\"We support your right to free speech and free expression. But as anyone who has ever seen a comic book movie can tell you: with great power comes great responsibility. That's why we're calling on you to use your massive platform and influence to join us in our fight to build safer communities with fewer guns.\"\n\nThe letter asked the studio to lobby for gun reform, help fund survivor funds and gun violence intervention schemes, and end political contributions to candidates who take money from the National Rifle Association.\n\nThe film depicts the disturbing transformation of clown and comedian Arthur Fleck\n\nIn its response, the studio said it has \"a long history of donating to victims of violence\", including the 2012 cinema shooting in Aurora, Colorado.\n\nIt added: \"Make no mistake: neither the fictional character Joker, nor the film, is an endorsement of real-world violence of any kind. It is not the intention of the film, the filmmakers or the studio to hold this character up as a hero.\"\n\nJoker, which is released in the US on 4 October, has received rave reviews and has been tipped for Oscar nominations, but is also stirring controversy for its portrayals of mental illness and violence. It shows the origin story of Batman's nemesis.\n\nTime magazine's Stephanie Zacharek said it was guilty of \"aggressive and possibly irresponsible idiocy\", while Variety's reviewer Owen Gleiberman said the film \"does something that flirts with danger - it gives evil a clown-mask makeover, turning it into the sickest possible form of cool\".\n\nIndieWire's critic David Ehrlich wrote that there were \"moments of shocking violence\", and that the \"story can't help but feel aspirational\".\n\nPhoenix, who plays the title role, left an interview with the Telegraph when he was asked if he was worried that the film might end up inspiring the kind of people it's about, with potentially tragic results. He later returned, explaining that he was thrown because the question hadn't crossed his mind.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Evan Dozier, who was in the cinema, says people thought the attack was part of the film\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jess Beeton and Richard Berrington are on holiday on the Costa Almeria, Spain\n\nHolidaymakers who were abroad when Thomas Cook folded have been telling the BBC that their hotels have been demanding extra money from them.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says people should not make extra payments.\n\nBut Jess Beeton, on holiday with her partner Richard Berrington, said \"everyone who booked through Thomas Cook has been locked out of the rooms\".\n\nShe added: \"The only option we were given was to pay what Thomas Cook hasn't, or get our stuff and leave.\"\n\nJess said that after the hotel locked them out, she managed to gain access to their room by saying she had medication there that she needed to take.\n\nOnce inside, she and Richard locked themselves in, but they have since paid £520 on a credit card so they can stay at the hotel until their due departure date from Spain on Sunday.\n\nShe added: \"Most of the people in this hotel are elderly and about five couples of pensioners are having to sleep on sofas in reception with none of their belongings or access to food. They haven't even been provided with a blanket or pillow.\"\n\nHayley Hook and her family are on holiday in Greece.\n\nShe says they have been forced to give their credit card details to hotel staff and that at one point, security guards were brought in - although they have since left.\n\nShe posted on Facebook that the hotel was demanding €50 (£44) per person, per room per night and it said if they did not pay, it would stop supplying them with food and drink.\n\nSecurity guards were brought into Hayley Hook's hotel in Greece\n\nHolidaymakers like Hayley may have paid for their rooms months earlier, but hotels would normally only receive the money from Thomas Cook several weeks after their stay.\n\nBut the industry insurance fund Atol, which covers payments in the event of a firm failing, will only cover bills for rooms and food that have been run up since Thomas Cook's collapse on Monday.\n\nThat means any arrears built up at hotels beforehand will not be covered. Affected hoteliers will have to apply to the liquidators for their money instead - but there is no guarantee they will be successful.\n\nHotels may be worried that they are not going to be paid money they are owed for previous Thomas Cook guests, and therefore attempting to recoup costs by charging current guests.\n\nOr they may simply not feel confident the money will come through from Atol.\n\nGraeme Renwick said that in his hotel in Mallorca on Monday night, \"there was chaos at reception with staff shouting at guests when there were no Thomas Cook staff present and the hotel saying 'you're going to have to pay us'\".\n\nHe added: \"We're Atol-protected, and the hotel are, but I don't think they trust that Atol is going to pay them.\"\n\nClare McSweeney and Graeme Renwick are taking their last holiday before getting married next year\n\nHis fiancée Clare McSweeney said: \"Things have become very fraught in the hotel. Another guest, a 77-year-old lady, first time travelling alone, is distraught, with her son back in the UK trying to assist.\n\n\"Guests are too afraid to leave the hotel or stray too far in case anything happens.\"\n\nIf you are on a package holiday, you are covered by the Atol scheme.\n\nWhat are your rights? Read more here.\n\nOther hotels have taken the opposite approach. Maeve Pendlebury said the hotel where she and her partner are staying in Rhodes \"could not have been kinder or more hospitable\".\n\nManagers of the Atrium Prestige wrote to guests to reassure them that \"in spite of this unprecedented outcome that results in large debts\" for the company, they should continue to enjoy their holidays as planned.\n\nThomas Cook reps around the world have also received praise from holidaymakers.\n\nDan Birch is in Lanzarote with his partner and daughter and told the BBC: \"The reps are there, still working and speaking to people, which is amazing. They are really trying to help people.\"\n\nDan Birch, who is in Lanzarote with his family, says there is anger towards the hotel\n\nHe said some guests had moved to a cheaper hotel after they were told they had to pay for their accommodation.\n\nBut he said: \"They know it is not the reps' fault and the anger here is directed to the hotel.\"\n\nMichael Sheppard and family were due to return home from Corfu on Monday morning and as they had only booked a flight home through Thomas Cook, knew they had no Atol protection.\n\nHe said: \"When we got to Corfu airport we were amazed to see four smiling Thomas Cook staff working hard to help people.\n\n\"When I spoke to them they did not think they were going to be paid but they had come to help anyway - how professional, dedicated and caring - I was incredibly moved.\"\n\nMichael's plane took off six hours after its scheduled departure time.\n\n\"The crew were Thomas Cook staff, who had been offered two weeks' work by the lease company to do the rescue flights,\" he said.\n\n\"They got a huge round of applause both at the beginning and at the end of the flight.\"\n\nOn Monday, the CAA started repatriating British holidaymakers who were abroad at the time that Thomas Cook collapsed.\n\nDame Deirdre Hutton, CAA chairwoman, described Monday as \"a pretty good day for a first day\".\n\nShe told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money: \"We ran 64 flights, we brought back just under 15,000 people. That was over 90% of those we intended to bring back.\"\n\nThere will be more than 1,000 flights between now and Sunday 6 October to repatriate the remaining 135,300 holidaymakers, with 74 of those, returning around 17,000 people, scheduled for Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UK Civil Aviation Authority This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 CAA has set up a dedicated website to keep Thomas Cook customers updated with the latest advice and news.\n\nIt is running a call centre and Twitter feed with open direct messages to respond to holidaymakers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\n\nThe call centre can be reached on 0300-303-2800 inside the UK and +44 1753-330330 from abroad.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Supreme Court declared \"Parliament has not been prorogued\"\n\nBefore everything gets swept up in a force 10 political storm, stop for a moment to think about what has just happened.\n\nThe highest court in the land has just ruled that the serving prime minister broke the law. He gave the Queen advice that was unlawful.\n\nTherefore his decision to suspend Parliament was also against the law, so is now null and void.\n\nShort of the inscrutable Lady Hale, with the giant diamond spider on her lapel, declaring Boris Johnson to be Pinocchio, this judgement is just about as bad for the government as it gets.\n\nMr Johnson is, as is abundantly clear, prepared to run a general election campaign that pits Parliament against the people. And so what, according to that view of the world, if that includes the judges as part of the establishment standing in his way?\n\nBut there is a difference between being ruthless and reckless. And the scope and strength of this judgement cannot just be dismissed as some pesky judges sticking their noses in.\n\nJust a few weeks ago, the advice of government lawyers was said to be that it was unlikely the judges would want to step into such explosive territory. They were wrong. For the very many people in the Conservative Party who have doubts about Boris Johnson but wanted to give him the chance, this is a nightmare.\n\nThe Speaker has said MPs will resume sitting on Wednesday\n\nBut back to that political storm which is, no surprise, already raging. To shouts of \"Johnson out! Johnson out!\" on the Labour conference floor, Jeremy Corbyn said the prime minister should consider his position - in other words, he should quit.\n\nThe SNP and Liberal Democrats are calling on him to go now too.\n\nThe prime minister is in New York at the United Nations, and his team is yet to respond. But the idea that he would walk is far-fetched (for now). What seems certain, though, is that MPs will be sitting again in Parliament on Wednesday.\n\nThe Commons Speaker has already said they should convene urgently. Some MPs have, out of principle, already gone back to sit on the green benches. It is a different question, of course, to ask, for what purpose, what will they discuss.\n\nThere isn't suddenly going to be a majority in Parliament for a way out of this mess. And Boris Johnson will inevitably try to use this to his political advantage.\n\nDo not underestimate how aggressive Number 10 might be willing to be in response to the judgement. It is possible they will fly straight back from New York to face the music - armed with what strategy is harder to read.\n\nBut the decision to suspend Parliament may just have blown up in Number 10's face.\n\nIn his two months in power, Boris Johnson has lost his first six Commons votes, broken the law by suspending Parliament, and misled the monarch.\n\nEven for a politician who seems to enjoy breaking the rules, that is a serious charge that, only two months into office, even the most brazen Johnson backer cannot simply shrug off.", "Frome is the most mispronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists\n\nA market town in Somerset has topped a list of the 10 most difficult-to-pronounce place names in the UK.\n\nFrome is the most mispronounced town in England, according to a team of linguists behind a language learning app.\n\nBallachulish in Scotland, Beaulieu in Hampshire and Woolfardisworthy in Devon also made the top 10.\n\nThe list's makers said British English was \"famous for some of the most confusing pronunciations on earth\".\n\n'How do you say?': The Top 10 'most difficult' place names\n\nHow would you pronounce these place names? See below to find out if you are correct.\n\nThe name Frome is thought to come from the ancient Brythonic word \"ffraw\".\n\nIt means fair, fine or brisk, and describes the flow of the river that runs through the town, which dates to the 7th Century.\n\nPaul Wynne, of Frome Town Council, said the name was most commonly mispronounced as rhyming with \"home\".\n\nHe said: \"We're not a town that toes the line. Now it seems that even the way we pronounce Frome is different too. Ours is the right way, obviously. We always know who is new to the town by the way they pronounce Frome.\n\n\"But this is a good thing, as it's easy for us identify and welcome newcomers, who are then immediately part of the community.\"\n\nKent Barker, owner of Eight Stony Street wine bar and restaurant in the town, said: \"It doesn't surprise me at all. We have a lot of tourists who visit in the summer, and certainly the majority struggle with the name.\n\n\"Probably more the Mediterranean visitors and all the Americans get it wrong.\n\n\"But I love them being here and don't mind what they call it as long as they come and visit Frome.\"\n\nThere are two places in Devon called Woolfardisworthy - both equally difficult to pronounce\n\nWoolfardisworthy in Devon also featured on the list, but which one? There are two places in Devon called Woolfardisworthy.\n\nWoolfardisworthy West - the bigger of the two Woolfardisworthys near Bideford - has adopted the easier to say version of its name Woolsery.\n\nHowever post office manager Andy Fryatt said people sometimes still struggled to pronounce the shortened version.\n\n\"When you know it and you use it every day, then obviously you wonder why people can't (say it), especially with the shortened version,\" he said.\n\n\"Maybe it is just something that gets lost in translation over the telephone, or people just don't hear properly, or they think it is something that is spelt wrong and they are pronouncing it correctly.\"\n\nThe smaller Woolfardisworthy east near Crediton has kept the longer version of its name.\n\nThe two villages are just over an hour apart, and Alison Evans, who runs two holiday rentals in the village, said people used to get the two places confused.\n\n\"Thank God for postcodes,\" she said, adding that sat navs now meant people usually navigated to the correct Woolfardisworthy.\n\nMs Evans said she had been living there for 25 years, which was not that long in local terms.\n\n\"When we first arrived people would look at you blankly if you said Woolfarisworthy (phonetically),\" she said.\n\nBabergh District Council takes its name from the Anglo Saxon name Barberga\n\nAnother place on the list, Babergh in Suffolk, is apparently so hard to pronounce that the district town council is planning to rename it at a cost of £10,000.\n\nCouncil leader John Ward said: \"Babergh has a proud history but we know that people from further afield are often unaware of exactly where Babergh is and even struggle over its pronunciation.\"\n\nThe top 10 has been compiled by the creators of language app Babbel.\n\nOne of its editors, Ted Mentele, said: \"British English is famous for some of the most confusing pronunciations on earth.\n\n\"The main reason that these are difficult to pronounce is that they're not spelled phonetically - there are a lot of silent letters and letters that are pronounced differently depending on where they are in the word.\n\n\"Many people in the UK, particularly locals to these areas, have grown up hearing these names and naturally don't find them so hard to get their tongues around.\n\n\"Others attempt to pronounce them as they're spelled, and without knowing the origins of the word, can get it far from correct.\"\n\nHow to pronounce the place names in the top 10\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has announced that the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.", "The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully when he advised the Queen to suspend Parliament. Here is the full text of the statement Lady Hale, the president of the court, gave.\n\nWe have before us two appeals, one from the High Court of England and Wales and one from the Inner House of the Court of Session in Scotland. It is important, once again, to emphasise that these cases are not about when and on what terms the United Kingdom is to leave the European Union. They are only about whether the advice given by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty the Queen on 27th or 28th August, that Parliament should be prorogued from a date between 9th and 12th September until 14th October, was lawful and the legal consequences if it was not. The question arises in circumstances which have never arisen before and are unlikely to arise again. It is a \"one-off\".\n\nBriefly, the Scottish case was brought by a cross party group of 75 members of Parliament and a QC on 30th July because of their concern that Parliament might be prorogued to avoid further debate in the lead up to exit day on 31st October. On 15th August, Nikki da Costa, Director of Legislative Affairs at No 10, sent a memorandum to the Prime Minister, copied to seven people, civil servants and special advisers, recommending that his Parliamentary Private Secretary approach the Palace with a request for prorogation to begin within 9th to 12th September and for a Queen's Speech on 14th October. The Prime Minister ticked 'yes' to that recommendation.\n\nOn 27th or 28th August, in a telephone call, he formally advised Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament between those dates. On 28th August, Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Privy Council, Mr Mark Harper, chief whip, and Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, Leader of the House of Lords, attended a meeting of the Privy Council held by the Queen at Balmoral Castle. An Order in Council was made that Parliament be prorogued between those dates and that the Lord Chancellor prepare and issue a commission for proroguing Parliament accordingly. A Cabinet meeting was held by conference call shortly after that in order to bring the rest of the Cabinet \"up to speed\" on the decisions which had been taken. That same day, the decision was made public and the Prime Minister sent a letter to all Members of Parliament explaining it. As soon as the decision was announced, Mrs Miller began the English proceedings challenging its lawfulness.\n\nParliament returned from the summer recess on 3rd September. The House of Commons voted to decide for themselves what business they would transact. The next day what became the European Union (Withdrawal) (No 2) Act passed all its stages in the Commons. It passed all its stages in the House of Lords on 6th September and received royal assent on 9th September. The object of that Act is to prevent the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement on 31st October.\n\nOn 11th September, the High Court of England and Wales delivered judgment dismissing Mrs Miller's claim on the ground that the issue was not justiciable in a court of law. That same day, the Inner House of the Court of Session in Scotland announced its decision that the issue was justiciable, that it was motivated by the improper purpose of stymying Parliamentary scrutiny of the Government, and that it, and any prorogation which followed it, were unlawful and thus void and of no effect.\n\nMrs Miller's appeal against the English decision and the Advocate General's appeal against the Scottish decision were heard by this court from 17th to 19th September. Because of the importance of the case, we convened a panel of 11 Justices, the maximum number of serving Justices who are permitted to sit. This judgment is the unanimous judgment of all 11 Justices.\n\nThe first question is whether the lawfulness of the Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty is justiciable. This Court holds that it is. The courts have exercised a supervisory jurisdiction over the lawfulness of acts of the Government for centuries. As long ago as 1611, the court held that \"the King [who was then the government] hath no prerogative but that which the law of the land allows him\". However, in considering prerogative powers, it is necessary to distinguish between two different questions. The first is whether a prerogative power exists and if so its extent. The second is whether the exercise of that power, within its limits, is open to legal challenge. This second question may depend upon what the power is all about: some powers are not amenable to judicial review while others are. However, there is no doubt that the courts have jurisdiction to decide upon the existence and limits of a prerogative power. All the parties to this case accept that. This Court has concluded that this case is about the limits of the power to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament.\n\nThe second question, therefore, is what are the limits to that power? Two fundamental principles of our Constitution are relevant to deciding that question. The first is Parliamentary sovereignty - that Parliament can make laws which everyone must obey: this would be undermined if the executive could, through the use of the prerogative, prevent Parliament from exercising its power to make laws for as long as it pleased. The second fundamental principle is Parliamentary accountability: in the words of Lord Bingham, senior Law Lord, \"the conduct of government by a Prime Minister and Cabinet collectively responsible and accountable to Parliament lies at the heart of Westminster democracy\". The power to prorogue is limited by the constitutional principles with which it would otherwise conflict.\n\nFor present purposes, the relevant limit on the power to prorogue is this: that a decision to prorogue (or advise the monarch to prorogue) will be unlawful if the prorogation has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature and as the body responsible for the supervision of the executive. In judging any justification which might be put forward, the court must of course be sensitive to the responsibilities and experience of the Prime Minister and proceed with appropriate caution.\n\nIf the prorogation does have that effect, without reasonable justification, there is no need for the court to consider whether the Prime Minister's motive or purpose was unlawful.\n\nThe third question, therefore, is whether this prorogation did have the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification. This was not a normal prorogation in the run-up to a Queen's Speech. It prevented Parliament from carrying out its constitutional role for five out of the possible eight weeks between the end of the summer recess and exit day on 31st October. Proroguing Parliament is quite different from Parliament going into recess. While Parliament is prorogued, neither House can meet, debate or pass legislation. Neither House can debate Government policy. Nor may members ask written or oral questions of Ministers or meet and take evidence in committees. In general, Bills which have not yet completed all their stages are lost and will have to start again from scratch after the Queen's Speech. During a recess, on the other hand, the House does not sit but Parliamentary business can otherwise continue as usual. This prolonged suspension of Parliamentary democracy took place in quite exceptional circumstances: the fundamental change which was due to take place in the Constitution of the United Kingdom on 31st October. Parliament, and in particular the House of Commons as the elected representatives of the people, has a right to a voice in how that change comes about. The effect upon the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme.\n\nNo justification for taking action with such an extreme effect has been put before the court. The only evidence of why it was taken is the memorandum from Nikki da Costa of 15th August. This explains why holding the Queen's Speech to open a new session of Parliament on 14th October would be desirable. It does not explain why it was necessary to bring Parliamentary business to a halt for five weeks before that, when the normal period necessary to prepare for the Queen's Speech is four to six days. It does not discuss the difference between prorogation and recess. It does not discuss the impact of prorogation on the special procedures for scrutinising the delegated legislation necessary to achieve an orderly withdrawal from the European Union, with or without a withdrawal agreement, on 31st October. It does not discuss what Parliamentary time would be needed to secure Parliamentary approval for any new withdrawal agreement, as required by section 13 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.\n\nThe Court is bound to conclude, therefore, that the decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification.\n\nThe next and final question, therefore, is what the legal effect of that finding is and therefore what remedies the Court should grant. The Court can certainly declare that the advice was unlawful. The Inner House went further and declared that any prorogation resulting from it was null and of no effect. The Government argues that the Inner House could not do that because the prorogation was a \"proceeding in Parliament\" which, under the Bill of Rights of 1688 cannot be impugned or questioned in any court. But it is quite clear that the prorogation is not a proceeding in Parliament. It takes place in the House of Lords chamber in the presence of members of both Houses, but it is not their decision. It is something which has been imposed upon them from outside. It is not something on which members can speak or vote. It is not the core or essential business of Parliament which the Bill of Rights protects. Quite the reverse: it brings that core or essential business to an end.\n\nThis Court has already concluded that the Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty was unlawful, void and of no effect. This means that the Order in Council to which it led was also unlawful, void and of no effect and should be quashed. This means that when the Royal Commissioners walked into the House of Lords it was as if they walked in with a blank sheet of paper. The prorogation was also void and of no effect. Parliament has not been prorogued. This is the unanimous judgment of all 11 Justices.\n\nIt is for Parliament, and in particular the Speaker and the Lord Speaker to decide what to do next. Unless there is some Parliamentary rule of which we are unaware, they can take immediate steps to enable each House to meet as soon as possible. It is not clear to us that any step is needed from the Prime Minister, but if it is, the court is pleased that his counsel have told the court that he will take all necessary steps to comply with the terms of any declaration made by this court.\n\nIt follows that the Advocate General's appeal in the case of Cherry is dismissed and Mrs Miller's appeal is allowed. The same declarations and orders should be made in each case.", "As the Supreme Court ruling hacked a new path through Britain's system of government, brushing ancient royal powers to one side, from Buckingham Palace came - nothing.\n\nThis is precisely where the Queen does not want to be - right in the middle of a political and constitutional hurricane, with the Supreme Court redefining the relationship between judiciary, legislature, government and monarch.\n\nWhen the Scottish Court of Session ruled that the prorogation was illegal - one of the cases that went to the Supreme Court last week - a Palace source said simply: \"The Queen acts and acted on the advice of her ministers\".\n\nAnd that line held right up until today. The Queen has very little, if any, discretion over the prorogation of Parliament.\n\nThere's an argument that says the Queen might have turned down Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request, given that his legitimacy is arguably thinner than previous prime ministers.\n\nThat would have been running zig-zag through a constitutional minefield.\n\nBut what happened today was painful for the Palace.\n\nIt wasn't just Mr Johnson's request for a prorogation that was found by the Supreme Court to be unlawful, void and of no effect.\n\nIt was also the Order in Council, the legal mechanism that the Queen personally approves, that was found to be unlawful, void and of no effect. And, said the Supreme Court, it should be quashed.\n\nMore importantly, the Queen has been dragged by the PM's unlawful prorogation into the place where for decades politicians have agreed she should never be - right into a domestic political argument.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Supreme Court declared \"Parliament has not been prorogued\"\n\nFormer Conservative prime minister Sir John Major commented after the judgement that \"no prime minister must ever treat the monarch or Parliament in this way again\".\n\nHe chose his words - and the order of his words - carefully, and conservatively. First monarch, then Parliament. He understands the damage this has done to the position of the Queen.\n\nThe man who pretty much defined the modern role of the Queen, the Victorian Walter Bagehot, wrote of the monarchy: \"Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.\"\n\nThe role has always worked in the shadows, the grey areas of the constitution, with an agreement going back decades amongst politicians that unwritten rules and conventions would be respected, and that nothing would be done to put the Queen into an embarrassing position, a position where she could be accused of having a political role.\n\nBoris Johnson has blown that apart.\n\nWith the Supreme Court judgement a bright and critical light now illuminates the monarchy.\n\nAnd the cry has gone up - even from the present system's doughtiest defenders - for a written constitution, one where the powers of the different parts of the state and the different nations of the kingdom, are clearly explained and defined.\n\nAt which point, of course, some will ask - just what is the role in government, in the 21st Century, of a hereditary monarch?\n\nElizabeth came to the throne as the age of deference slipped away.\n\nShe has been a conservative monarch, content to play little more than a symbolic and ceremonial role. She understands that her position is dependent on her staying deep in the shadows of government.\n\nBut now daylight has flooded in. No wonder the Palace has decided to stay silent.", "Thomas Cook passenger Mary Nicholls (right), on holiday with her grandson Matt Walker, fears running out of her heart condition medication if she is stranded in Cyprus.\n\nThomas Cook customers have told the BBC of their fears over unpaid hotel bills, cancelled trips and being stranded abroad following the collapse of the tour operator in the early hours of Monday morning.\n\nFor one British family on holiday in Cyprus, the firm's failure means a wedding marred by uncertainty, and worries over vital medication.\n\nGrandmother Mary Nichols, 87, has a heart condition and only enough medication to last until Wednesday - the day her prescription runs out.\n\nGrandson Matt Walker, 23, paid Thomas Cook about £1,100 by debit card for flights and hotel accommodation for Ms Nichols and his mother Sarah, 53, so they could attend his brother's wedding in Paphos on Tuesday.\n\nBut the family's excitement has turned to fears they could be stranded, after staff at the Kefalonitis hotel apartments said Thomas Cook had not yet paid for their stay.\n\nMr Walker, from Poynton, in Cheshire, said: \"We are unsure what to expect from the hotel. They've got our passports and told us they have not been paid by Thomas Cook.\n\n\"We're the only Thomas Cook passengers here, and they're not taking any more. We're not sure if they [the hotel] wants extra money.\n\n\"My nan fears if she's stranded in Cyprus she will run out of the medication she must take daily. She has her medication until Wednesday - even a delay of one day is trouble.\"\n\nThe family have been given no information about whether flights home will go ahead.\n\nMr Walker said he fears he will not be able to enjoy his brother's wedding because of the uncertainty.\n\nHe said: \"We feel left in the dark - the hotel doesn't know what's going on, there's no Thomas Cook rep and Thomas Cook haven't contacted us.\n\n\"I am going to have to make phone calls on my brother's wedding day tomorrow and get it sorted out. It's going to ruin the day because I'm going to be on the phone when I should be enjoying myself.\"\n\nLeanne Jones, with her partner, Andy and young sons, Harrington (bottom left) and Hudson (top left), fears £800 worth of Thomas Cook vouchers are now worthless\n\nBack in the UK, mum Leanne Jones has been forced to tell her children that their planned trip to Disneyland Paris in June has been cancelled.\n\nMs Jones, from Milton Keynes, said she feels \"rubbish\" after learning £800 worth of Thomas Cook gift vouchers saved for her two young sons' first foreign holiday are worthless.\n\nMs Jones said the family were £150 off meeting the £2,300 cost of the trip after separately putting money into a holiday fund.\n\nShe said she and her partner, Andy, held off booking the holiday until they had the necessary funds.\n\nShe said: \"Every birthday and Christmas over the last two years I've been saving to take my two young children [Harrington and Hudson] on their first holiday abroad - Disneyland Paris was the plan.\n\n\"We just thought it would be magical for them.\n\n\"I stand to lose all the money from the vouchers and my children will no longer get their holiday. After speaking with Atol [A scheme that protects most air package holidays sold by businesses based in the UK] I've learned my vouchers are not covered and there is nothing anyone can do to help.\n\n\"I'm going to have to start saving again - I have no other option. We'll have to wait another two years.\"\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority, which runs the Atol scheme, has been contacted for comment about the status of gift vouchers.\n\nZoe Sheehan and husband Stefan fear missing her father's memorial service after their Thomas Cook flights were cancelled\n\nFor Zoe Sheehan, 36, from Wales, the travel giant's collapse means she and her husband may miss a family memorial service in Gran Canaria.\n\nMrs Sheehan and Stefan, 28, spent months planning the trip to scatter her father's ashes.\n\nThey are now searching for new flights but do not know when they will be reimbursed for the old ones as there is no word from their travel insurer.\n\nThe couple drove to Gatwick in the early hours of Monday in the hope they could book alternative flights.\n\nMrs Sheehan said: \"I won't stop trying until my last breath. We're shopping around now for flights, but they're so expensive.\n\n\"We had planned this [trip] for months. We have insurance and we have paperwork for his ashes.\n\nShe added: \"It's really important not just for us two, but our two children and my mother.\n\n\"The kids are coming down with their Nan and they're just crying. I was crying earlier.\"\n\nElla Waine said passengers told her she had lost her cabin crew job when they received news alerts to their phones\n\nElla Waine said passengers told her she had lost her \"dream job\" when they saw the news of Thomas Cook's collapse on their mobile phones after their plane landed.\n\nMiss Waine, a seasonal member of Thomas Cook's cabin crew, had flown to Hurgada, in Egypt, while discussions to save the company were on-going.\n\nBut when their plane arrived back at Birmingham airport, passengers received news alerts of the company's collapse and told her and other staff.\n\nMiss Waine, from Broughton Astley, in Leicestershire, told the BBC: \"It was a complete heart-to-the-stomach moment.\n\n\"We found out at exactly the same time as the passengers.\n\n\"An email was sent out to our company emails but we can't go on our phones whilst we were on the flight.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old said she was \"devastated\" to lose her \"dream job\", and that staff did not know whether they would be paid at the end of this month.\n\nMiss Waine said she had work lined up for when her contract ended in November, but now needs to find a job urgently until then.\n\nOn arriving in Fuerteventura, Sam Emerton and partner Shaylee were told they must pay €1,211 (£1,071) to stay in their hotel\n\nHours after landing in Fuerteventura, Sam Emerton and partner, Shaylee, were told they must pay €1,211 (£1,071) to stay in their hotel after their booking was cancelled in the collapse.\n\nStaff at H-10 Ocean Suites, initially told the couple they would only have to pay €173 (£153) for one night's stay while the CAA resolved the situation.\n\nBut the pair from Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire, say the CAA has now told them they must pay the full hotel bill of €1,211 (£1,071) because their flight departed from Gatwick at 05.45 GMT - hours after Thomas Cook announced it had gone into administration shortly after 02.00 GMT.\n\nBut Mr Emerton, 24, insists they received no communication from Thomas Cook to tell them the company had gone bust- and they first learnt of it on landing in the Canary Islands.\n\nThe couple had been paying Thomas Cook £330 a month since March for the all-inclusive package holiday - which included Easyjet flights.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"We drove to Gatwick at 1:30 in the morning, unbeknown to us that Thomas Cook has collapsed.\n\n\"No-one told us. We received no email or text message from Thomas Cook.\n\n\"Our flight landed [in Fuerteventura] and we got our bags, only to be greeted by no-one. The Thomas Cook stand was empty.\n\n\"About half an hour later a woman showed up to tell us Thomas Cook had gone bust, there were no transfers to the hotel and the hotel would not accept us unless we paid 1,211 Euros.\"\n\nMr Emerton says the couple borrowed the money for one night's stay from Shaylee's dad, but do not have the money to pay the full bill.\n\nThe CAA has been contacted for comment in relation to the couple's case, and says it will investigate.", "The number of people vaping in the UK has reached 3.6 million - about half the number of smokers - figures from Action on Smoking and Health suggest.\n\nThe data indicates most vapers are former smokers, with the main reason for using e-cigarettes being to give up tobacco.\n\nThe findings come as the US continues to investigate a spate of serious lung injuries linked to vaping.\n\nIndia, meanwhile, says it will ban e-cigarettes as they pose a health risk.\n\nE-cigarettes allow users to inhale nicotine in vapour rather than breathing in smoke.\n\nThe anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health has been monitoring trends in their use since 2012.\n\nIts latest report suggests vaping helped an extra 70,000 people quit smoking in 2017.\n\nIt says the number of vapers in the UK has gone from 700,000 in 2012 to 3.6 million in 2019 - and of these:\n\n\"It's important that all vapers stop smoking completely, as otherwise they are still exposing themselves to the serious risks of disease and disability caused by smoking,\" says Prof Ann McNeill, who compiled a review of e-cigarettes for Public Health England.\n\nShe adds: \"Vaping isn't risk free - but it's much less risky than smoking, which kills nearly 100,000 people a year in the UK.\"\n\nThe figures come amid a backlash against e-cigarettes.\n\nThe US Centers for Disease Control is investigating a mysterious outbreak of lung injuries linked to vaping, in which eight people have died and more than 500 have become ill.\n\nMost, but not all, have reported \"cannabis vaping\", in which the vapour contains THC (the psychoactive component in cannabis).\n\nThere was a similar case in the UK last year, reported in the British Medical Journal, in which a woman developed lipoid pneumonia and the only explanation doctors could come up with was vaping.\n\nThe CDC recommends people \"consider refraining from using e-cigarette or vaping products\".\n\nThe situation in the US has led to President Donald Trump announcing a ban on flavoured e-cigarettes and the supermarket giant Walmart stopping selling them entirely.\n\nMeanwhile, India has announced a ban including three-year jail terms for offenders.\n\nThe stance from health bodies in the UK has remained that vaping is 95% safer than smoking.\n\nDeborah Arnott, the chief executive of ASH, said: \"Vapers should not be scared back to smoking by the news of vaping illness in the US. Nor should smokers stick to smoking rather than switch to vaping.\n\n\"It is essential, however, to only use legal vapes bought from reputable suppliers in the UK and not source illicit unregulated products over the internet.\"\n\nThe World Health Organization says e-cigarettes are \"undoubtedly harmful and should therefore be subject to regulation\".\n\nIt also raises concerns vaping is being aggressively marketed at young people - particularly through the use of flavourings - and risked re-normalising smoking.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Campaigner Gina Miller reacts to the judgement outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday\n\nGina Miller is the businesswoman and campaigner who has twice led legal challenges against the government and won.\n\nHer first victory came in September 2017, when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of giving MPs a say over triggering Article 50 - the legal mechanism taking the UK out of the EU.\n\nHer second came on Tuesday, when the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nHer success in the courts has come at a price - she has become a hate figure for many Brexit supporters and has had to employ round-the-clock security after threats to her life.\n\nShe says she does not want to block Brexit, but is standing up for Parliamentary democracy.\n\nSpeaking outside the Supreme Court after the ruling on Tuesday, she said: \"Today is not a win for any individual or cause, it's a win for Parliamentary sovereignty, the separation of powers and the independence of our British courts.\n\n\"Crucially, this ruling confirms that we are a nation governed by the rule of law.\"\n\nMrs Miller is not officially aligned to any political party, having spurned the advances of the Liberal Democrats, who rapturously received a speech she gave at their 2018 party conference.\n\nA 54-year-old investment manager and philanthropist, Mrs Miller was born in Guyana and educated in Britain.\n\nShe went first to an exclusive all-girls private boarding school, Roedean, on the outskirts of Brighton, at the age of 10, then to Moira House Girls' School, in Eastbourne, East Sussex.\n\nAfterwards, she studied law at the University of East London, but left before completing her degree.\n\nMrs Miller went on to start a successful marketing consultancy business with clients including private medical specialists in Harley Street in London.\n\nIn 2009, she used the money she had made in marketing to co-found an investment firm supporting smaller charities.\n\n\"I realised then it was my money, I could do what I wanted with it and so I used that money to get involved in social justice,\" Mrs Miller told Unfiltered with James O'Brien last year.\n\nAnd in 2012, the businesswoman began the True and Fair Campaign, which campaigned for greater transparency in the City of London's fund management industry.\n\nAccording to an interview with the Financial Times in 2016, this led some in the industry to label her the \"black widow spider\".\n\nSpeaking about a time she asked three men at an industry party why they were staring at her, she told the paper: \"One of them replied that I was a disgrace and that my lobbying efforts would bring down the entire City.\"\n\nMrs Miller launched her first Brexit legal case with London-based Spanish hairdresser Deir Tozetti Dos Santos and the People's Challenge group, set up by Grahame Pigney - a UK citizen who lives in France.\n\nBacked by a crowd-funding campaign, they argued the government could not invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - starting the formal process of the UK leaving the EU - without seeking approval from Parliament.\n\nMrs Miller argued only Parliament could make a decision leading to the loss of her \"rights\" under EU law.\n\nBut she stressed the challenge was not an attempt to overturn the referendum decision, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are all leavers now.\"\n\nIn November 2016, three High Court judges ruled Parliament had to vote on when the process could begin.\n\nSpeaking after her victory, Mrs Miller told the BBC the case was about scrutinising the details of Brexit, such as \"how we leave, how they're going to negotiate, the directions of travel the government will take\".\n\nAnd she said the legal challenge was about more than Brexit, arguing that it was \"verging on dictatorship\" for a prime minister to be able to take away people's rights without Parliament's consent.\n\nThe government appealed, and the case went to the Supreme Court the following December, but the 11 judges rejected it by a majority of eight to three.\n\nMrs Miller after winning her High Court legal challenge in November 2016\n\nFollowing the successful legal challenge, Mrs Miller suffered online abuse, including rape and death threats against her and her family.\n\nShe told James O'Brien: \"It has changed the way we live our lives, and the conversations we have with the children\".\n\n\"We use humour a lot because that's the only way to get through it\", she told him.\n\nIn July 2017, an aristocrat who wrote a Facebook post offering £5,000 to anyone who ran over Mrs Miller was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.\n\nDescribing the businesswoman as a \"boat jumper\", Rhodri Colwyn Philipps - the 4th Viscount St Davids - wrote: \"If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.\"\n\nThe peer claimed the comments were \"satire\" and a \"joke\".\n\nBut the judge, who said the post effectively put a \"bounty\" on Mrs Miller's head, found him guilty of two charges of making menacing communications.\n\nLater that year, Mrs Miller was named as Britain's most influential black person.\n\n\"It's amazing to get an accolade when what I've done has solicited a huge amount of abuse,\" she said on receiving her title.\n\n\"To have somebody acknowledge me is extraordinarily kind and counters a lot of what I still get on a daily basis.\"\n\nMrs Miller arrived at the Supreme Court in 2017 flanked by security guards, having received death threats\n\nDespite the backlash, Mrs Miller went on to launch a second challenge against the government to \"defend Parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\nAfter Mr Johnson announced in August that he would suspend Parliament for five weeks, Mrs Miller challenged the legality of the decision at the High Court.\n\nShe argued that Parliament would be \"silenced\" for an \"exceptional\" length of time in the critical period before the 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nShe initially lost her case, but in Scotland, a separate legal challenge succeeded, with judges taking the view that the suspension was unlawful.\n\nThe UK government appealed to the Supreme Court against the Scottish judgement, and the two cases were then heard together.\n\nThe court unanimously ruled in favour of Mrs Miller's appeal and against the government's.\n\nGina Miller spoke to the media outside the Supreme Court after her victory\n\nJudges said it was wrong to stop MPs carrying out duties in the run-up to the Brexit deadline on 31 October.\n\nAfter the ruling Mrs Miller told reporters the ruling showed the government \"will push the law, they will push the constitution and they will even bend it to get their own way\".", "The President of The Supreme Court, Justice Lady Hale, has read out the court's judgement that the decision to prorogue - or suspend - Parliament was unlawful.\n\nHere are some of the key sections of the ruling:\n\nThe Supreme Court has drawn a clear line in the sand that a prime minister's executive powers in this most important area of how and when Parliament opens and closes are now curtailed - for ever.\n\nThe Supreme Court has underlined that the government and prime minister are the \"junior\" partners in the British constitution - that Parliament is the \"senior\" partner - and the junior cannot tell the senior, which acts for the people, what to do.\n\nThe Supreme Court is underlining that if there is an exceptional use of executive powers by the prime minister that infringes on parliamentary democracy, judges have the power to intervene.\n\nThis is the most important paragraph.\n\nDuring the case, the prime minister failed to provide any evidence to the court about his intentions - there was no witness statement.\n\nThis contributed to the Scottish Court of Session's inference that he had an improper purpose - and the Supreme Court's scathing conclusion that the highest court in the UK has seen no evidence to explain what he was doing.\n\nIn its last submissions last week, government lawyers argued that the prime minister retained the power to decide how and when to recall Parliament - and even to \"re-prorogue\" it.\n\nThe 11 justices have unanimously rejected that plea.\n\nThe Supreme Court was set up to resolve the most complicated legal and constitutional questions of the day - and in this judgement it has shown it is not afraid to tread into matters that judges in previous eras would have feared to have been too political.\n\nAnd this is why this judgement is so important for the future of the British constitution.", "Dominic Grieve, who lost the Conservative whip after voting against Boris Johnson, said that he is not surprised by the Supreme Court's decision that suspending parliament was unlawful.\n\nHe said it was \"perfectly obvious that the reason for suspending Parliament was bogus\".\n\nThe UK's highest court has ruled that the decision to advise the Queen to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nEleven judges at the Supreme Court unanimously agreed the suspension was void, meaning legally Parliament is no suspended.", "Tracey Neville has revealed she suffered a miscarriage a day after leading England to netball Commonwealth gold.\n\nNeville, who recently announced she is expecting a child with partner Michael Timmins, coached the Roses to their first major title on the Gold Coast in April 2018.\n\n\"I had a miscarriage and then I went into a three-hour media fest to celebrate what is something that I'd been waiting something like 30 years for,\" 42-year-old Neville recalls in an interview with BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"You think to yourself: 'This can't be right.' You see other ladies who have been through traumatic situations take time off work, but I just wasn't willing to do that.\n\n\"This was my family, this was my commitment. I didn't want to miss this journey that the Roses were on because, in a way - and it's awful to say - the Roses were my priority.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Neville also discussed the stigma of being an older mum, the support of her high-profile family, a possible return to coaching England and her faith in successor Jess Thirlby.\n\nNeville decides it is time to put family first\n\nNeville announced she would be leaving as head coach just before the World Cup began in Liverpool in July, but it was a decision she had made months earlier.\n\nShe had suffered another miscarriage at Christmas and then made the decision - one she describes as \"one of most difficult of my life\" - two months after January's international Quad Series.\n\nShe explains: \"It was when the girls had gone back to their clubs and then reality started to hit.\n\n\"I looked at taking a sabbatical but I'd be putting huge pressure on myself to get pregnant, and we all know it doesn't work like that.\n\n\"My family said don't do it until after the World Cup, but I'm a really honest person and I said I can't go into the tournament knowing that information.\"\n\nNeville told the squad, located around the world, on a group phone call.\n\nRecalling how she felt sick prior to making the call, Neville adds: \"The girls were amazing. They knew how important it was to me, they knew how much Michael meant to me and my family.\"\n\nNeville, who is the sister of former Manchester United footballers Gary and Phil, led the Roses to bronze in Liverpool, matching their performance of four years earlier in Sydney, her first major tournament in charge.\n\nAt 42, Neville's pregnancy is deemed relatively high risk but, as she looks forward to starting her own family, she is keen to change the conversation around older mums from \"negative to positive\", comparing the approach to coaching.\n\n\"We know the stats. We know that I'm 42 and the risks are high, but it creates a fearful environment,\" said Neville, who has a due date in March 2020.\n\n\"If only there was just a bit more positivity around health and wellbeing.\n\n\"[With our athletes] we don't sit down and quote stats at them, and quote how many times we've lost. We sit down and look at how we can win.\n\n\"[The doctors] go down the route of: 'Well, we're preparing you for the fail.' I don't prepare my team for the fail.\n\n\"Why is pregnancy not targeted like that? Why is it not given that positivity?\n\n\"I'd come out of a miscarriage and another consultant was giving me these stats again. No, tell me what can I do.\"\n• None England to host new international Test series in 2020\n\nThe importance of being a Neville\n\nNeville is a member of one of the country's most famous sporting families. Her twin, Phil, is head coach of the England women's football team and her older brother, Gary, is a football pundit and successful businessman.\n\nShe says the support from her whole family has been invaluable.\n\n\"I'm their little sister and that's how they always treat me. They want me to be happy,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm very close to my niece and nephews. They know how important this is to me. I think having two brothers has been really positive, and of course my mum as well. They don't only drive me, they've been so supportive.\"\n\nNeville could bloom as head coach again - but it is Thirlby's time now\n\nIn July it was announced that former Team Bath head coach Thirlby would be the new England coach and Neville has now stepped aside completely following several weeks of transition.\n\nNeville is \"100% behind Jess\" as she guides the Roses through the 'fallow' years that come before the next cycle of major competition in 2022 and 2023. However, she has also said she wants to return to the coaching set-up in the future.\n\n\"Yes, I want the opportunity to be part of the Roses,\" Neville said. \"What capacity that looks like I don't know.\n\n\"It might not be in the next year as I need this time out but netball has been part of my life since I was five-years-old and it's something that I want to be part of whether that's at national or international level.\n\n\"I still have aspirations. The Roses head coach was the ultimate dream and I probably got it earlier than I thought.\n\n\"I'm hoping this is going to be a really positive break for me to sit back and decide what I want to do next.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by issues raised in this article, information and support is available via BBC Action Line.\n• None Find your netball position from how you use your phone\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC in 2019, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "The couple are on their first official overseas trip as parents\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex ate traditional South African food and visited the country's oldest mosque on day two of their 10-day tour of Africa.\n\nThe royals visited the 225-year-old Auwal Mosque in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, on South Africa's Heritage Day - a public holiday celebrating national culture.\n\nEarlier, the couple visited a charity that works with surfers to provide mental health support for youngsters.\n\nThe tour is their first official overseas trip with their son, Archie.\n\nOn their trip to the mosque, Prince Harry and Meghan met with local faith leaders, including Imam Sheikh Ismail Londt and Muslim community leader, Mohamed Groenwald.\n\nMeghan wore a headscarf to enter the mosque which was built in 1794 in Bo-Kaap district, which is known for its neon-coloured terraced houses.\n\nAhead of the visit, the royals were pictured eating at a local family's home.\n\nShaamiela Samodien, 63, told AFP: \"We (are) used to cooking for big parties and family. So it's no effort.\n\n\"They tried koeksisters (a traditional South African sweet) and apple crumble.\"\n\nEarlier, in the day the royals visited a beach in Cape Town to learn about a project helping vulnerable young people with their mental health.\n\nThe couple met surfing mentors at Monwabisi Beach to hear about the work of the NGO Waves for Change.\n\nHarry and Meghan also learned about the non-profit Lunchbox Fund, which benefited from public donations after the birth of their son Archie.\n\nThe duchess joined the NGO for a session on Monwabisi Beach\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan met surf mentors and some of the young people they help\n\nWaves for Change offers a mix of mind and body therapy as part of a child-friendly mental health service for vulnerable young people.\n\nThe organisation, which supports 1,200 children, is based in a collection of shipping containers close to the beach.\n\nThe Lunchbox Fund provides nearly 30,000 meals a day to the children on the programme, as well as schools.\n\nAsked about the key issue in tackling the stigma around mental health, Meghan said: \"It's just getting people to talk about it and talk to each other, right?\n\n\"And you see that no matter where you are in the world, if you're a small community or a township, if you're in a big city - it's that everyone is dealing with a different version of the same thing.\"\n\nPrince Harry added: \"Everyone has experienced trauma or likely to experience trauma at some point during their lives.\n\n\"We need to try, not to eradicate it, but to learn from previous generations so there's not a perpetual cycle.\"\n\nThe royals also learned about the work of the Lunchbox Fund\n\nWell-wishers got into the spirit of things ahead of the couple's arrival\n\nHe said a whole generation of children that had \"no role models at all\" was now being given an opportunity.\n\nMonwabisi Beach is on the edge of one of South Africa's biggest townships, Khayelitsha.\n\nDuring the visit, the couple joined 25 surf mentors in taking part in a welcoming chant.\n\nA dancer performed ahead of the arrival of the couple in the Bo Kaap district of Cape Town\n\nMegahn speaks to Jade Bothma, centre, and Hunter Mitchell before handing them an award at the British High Commissioner's residence in Cape Town\n\nThey ended the day meeting young people and community leaders at the city's residence of the British High Commissioner.\n\nTheir first day involved meeting teenage girls in the deprived Nyanga township and they spoke out about violence against women and children.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Everything done in the proper way\"\n\nBoris Johnson has been given 14 days to give details of his relationship with a US businesswoman, following claims he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest when he was London mayor.\n\nA committee that scrutinises the mayor's spending has asked for details \"of all contact\" with Jennifer Arcuri.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Ms Arcuri joined trade missions he led and received thousands in sponsorship grants.\n\nMr Johnson has said everything was done \"entirely in the proper way\".\n\nMs Arcuri told the paper any grants she received and any trade missions she joined were \"were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman\".\n\nIn a letter addressed to Mr Johnson and dated 23 September, Len Duvall, chairman of the London Assembly GLA (Greater London Assembly) Oversight Committee, said he wanted the \"details and a timeline of all contact\" with Ms Arcuri \"including social, personal and professional during his period of office as Mayor of London\".\n\nHe also asked for \"an explanation of how that alleged personal relationship was disclosed and taken into account in any and all dealings with the GLA\".\n\nThe committee has the legal power to summon Mr Johnson to appear before it for questioning and has done once before - when it quizzed him over the failed Garden Bridge project in 2018.\n\nBoris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nOn Monday evening, when asked about the allegations, Mr Johnson told the BBC's John Pienaar: \"All I can say is I am very proud of what we did as Mayor of London... particularly banging the drum for our city and country around the world.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can tell you that absolutely everything was done entirely in the proper way.\"\n\nTechnology entrepreneur Ms Arcuri is believed to have moved to London seven years ago, when Mr Johnson was mayor.\n\nShe joined a number of trade missions led by him while in office, and it is understood she attended events on two of these trips - to New York and Tel Aviv - despite not officially qualifying for them as a delegate.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that one of her businesses received £10,000 and £1,500 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when Mr Johnson was mayor, as well as a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs to build businesses in Britain.\n\nThe newspaper also said Ms Arcuri received a £100,000 grant from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport earlier this year.\n\nThe grant was intended for \"English-based\" businesses - although she had moved back to the US in June 2018.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it had found the registered address on the grant application form was a rented house in the UK and no longer connected to her.\n\nThe government has confirmed to the BBC it is investigating, but said the funds were awarded to a UK-registered company.\n\nThe woman at the centre of this story is Jennifer Arcuri, who describes herself on Twitter as an entrepreneur, cyber security expert and producer.\n\nShe began her career as a DJ on Radio Disney, before moving into film - where she wrote, produced and directed a short film that went on to be sold at Cannes Film Festival.\n\nMs Arcuri then brought in her tech skills to create a streaming platform for independent film makers.\n\nBut it was her founding of The Innotech Network in London that saw her path cross with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe network hosts events to discuss tech policy, and Mr Johnson was the keynote speaker at the first of those in 2012.\n\nSince then, Ms Arcuri has also founded another company called Hacker House, which uses ethical hackers to find tech solutions for businesses.", "Commemorations have been held across America to mark 18 years since the 9/11 attack.\n\nA moment silence took place at various locations, including the site of the attack, 'Ground Zero', in New York and at the Pentagon, Virginia.\n\nNearly 3,000 people were killed that day and thousands more were injured.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe race to design and build a new generation of Royal Navy frigates has been won by engineering firm Babcock.\n\nIt has been named preferred bidder for the £1.25bn contract for five Type 31 warships.\n\nThe deal secures hundreds of jobs at Rosyth in Fife, where the ships will be assembled, with construction work expected to be spread between yards across the UK.\n\nWork is to begin by the end of 2019, with the first ships delivered in 2023.\n\nThe Type 31 is a smaller, cheaper frigate than the Type 26 warships currently being built at the Upper Clyde shipyards.\n\nWith a price ceiling of £250m per ship, the aim is to maintain the size of the Navy's surface fleet and generate export orders.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the modular construction method would support 2,500 jobs throughout the UK.\n\nHe said the UK was \"a great shipbuilding nation\" and that there were \"all sorts of ways\" in which UK naval vessels were helping the modern world.\n\nHe added: \"What it delivers is high quality jobs for young people - really high-skilled jobs for young people in this country - but also massive export opportunities of vessels that not only help to keep the peace but tackle piracy, help dealing with immigration issues across the seas.\"\n\nThe Babcock team's Arrowhead 140 design beat competition from a Cammell Laird/BAE Systems consortium and a bid led by Atlas Elektronik UK.\n\nThe winning consortium also includes Thales and BMT, as well as Ferguson Marine, based in Port Glasgow, and Harland and Wolff in Belfast - both of which are currently in administration.\n\nLast month, Babcock insisted these firms' financial difficulties would not affect its bid because its \"flexible build approach\" could accommodate \"a range of delivery sites\".\n\nScotland's Economy Secretary Derek Mackay said the awarding of the contract was \"testament to the skilled workforce and expertise which we have in Scotland\".\n\nHe added: \"I have spoken with Babcock this morning to assure them they have the full support of the Scottish government.\n\n\"Once the final details of the contract are announced, we look forward to discussions on the role that Ferguson Marine could play alongside other suppliers in Scotland.\"\n\nUnions also welcomed the announcement, with Unite saying it would secure hundreds of jobs at Rosyth \"for well over a decade\". GMB Scotland said it was \"excellent news\", adding that the team that put the bid together \"should be congratulated\".\n\nThree different designs were in the running for the Type 31 contract but they all have something in common - they're cheap.\n\nThe price cap of £250m per ship might sound a lot of money but, to put it in context, the bill for the eight Type 26 frigates currently under construction comes to about £8bn.\n\nThe extremely tight cost constraints on the new ship have led some critics to describe it as \"the Lidl frigate\".\n\nEach bidder has tried to keep the price down by basing its design on successful existing ships rather than starting from scratch.\n\nBabcock's \"Team 31\" design is derived from the Iver Huitfeldt frigates developed for the Danish navy.\n\nPlenty of flexibility has been factored in - equipment can be upgraded or reconfigured for different roles .\n\nThe ship is sometimes referred to as the Type 31e - the \"e\" standing for exportability.\n\nThe hope is that this \"bargain basement ship\" will prove its worth and orders from foreign navies will lead to economies of scale that will drive down costs.\n\nSuch value for money, some argue, might even tempt the Royal Navy to bolster its surface fleet by increasing the order.\n\nThe last big frigate order - for the Type 26 - was announced in the summer of 2014, just months before the Scottish independence referendum, with the work going to the BAE Systems yards in Glasgow.\n\nWhile the government insisted this was a value-for-money decision, many pro-union campaigners argued it demonstrated the benefits of being part of the UK.\n\nThe 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review scaled back the expected size of the Type 26 fleet from 13 to eight ships - and instead proposed building \"at least five\" new general purpose frigates, at a much lower cost.\n\nWith no guarantee this work would come to Scotland, pro-independence campaigners condemned this as a broken promise.\n\nIn 2017, the government's new National Shipbuilding Strategy, based on Sir John Parker's independent review, sought to encourage competition in naval procurement, with an emphasis on supporting shipyards across the UK.\n\nThe choice of Babcock - with its Rosyth site playing a key role in construction but with work spread across various UK sites - is in line with this strategy.\n\nIt also reduces the government's reliance on BAE Systems, which has long been the dominant force in naval shipbuilding.\n\nThe rival BAE Systems bid would have seen the company providing design expertise but the bulk of construction would have taken place at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Merseyside.\n\nNew Type 31 frigates will be built by Babcock in the Fife yard, as work comes to an end on the aircraft carrier programme\n\nIn shipbuilding, they talk a lot about the need for a drumbeat, describing the rhythm of production of ships, to keep the workforce busy and efficient, like you'll find on a factory production line.\n\nThe industry here has had an irregular drumbeat, partly because of lumpy government orders. And British shipbuilding has not been competitive in export markets.\n\nInstead, the larger yards, such as the two on the upper Clyde, have thrived only in the protected market of building warships for the Royal Navy.\n\nThe Type 31e decision means there should be a steadier drumbeat of work. It's already on the Clyde, with the Type 26 frigate programme running until 2030.\n\nSoon, the Forth should have its own drumbeat at Rosyth.\n\nThat's nearly a decade of work on both sides of Scotland. It's an opportunity to build in more efficiency, helped by an extra £50m Babcock investment in Rosyth facilities.\n\nWhat's much less clear than expected is what this means for Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow. It was part of the \"Babcock Team 31\", but at Rosyth, there's no talk of teams or consortiums now.\n\nBabcock is the preferred bidder (that is, the only one now in negotiations with the government). It has the capacity for all the work to be done at Rosyth, or it can choose how and where it sub-contracts.\n\nThat is subject, however, to a lot of political pressure - if not instruction - as to how the contract should be shared around the UK, to fit with the government's shipbuilding strategy.\n\nSo Ferguson has to fight with others for a share of the work, even including Cammell Laird on Merseyside with BAE Systems, which formed the losing bid.\n\nAnother uncertainty that has to be built into this announcement stems from the dismal track record of Ministry of Defence estimates of timing and budget for its procurement. This one looks particularly ambitious in driving costs down.", "Boris Johnson will tell EU leaders there needs to be a new Brexit deal when he makes his first trip abroad as PM later this week.\n\nThe UK will leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, he will insist.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sunday Times has printed leaked government documents warning of food, medicine and fuel shortages in a no-deal scenario.\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC a former minister leaked the dossier to try to influence discussions with EU leaders.\n\nThe documents say the cross-government paper on preparations for a no-deal Brexit, codenamed Operation Yellowhammer, reveals the UK could face months of disruption at its ports.\n\nIt also states plans to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are unlikely to prove sustainable.\n\nThe dossier, reported by the Sunday Times, says leaving the EU without a deal could lead to:\n\nThe Downing Street source told the BBC the leaked document \"is from when ministers were blocking what needed to be done to get ready to leave and the funds were not available\".\n\nMichael Gove, who is responsible for overseeing the devolution consequences of Brexit, said in a tweet that Operation Yellowhammer was \"a worst case scenario\".\n\n\"V significant steps have been taken in the last 3 weeks to accelerate Brexit planning,\" he added.\n\nEnergy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"I think there's a lot of scaremongering around and a lot of people are playing into project fear.\"\n\nBut a former head of the British civil service, Lord Bob Kerslake, who described the document as \"credible\", said the dossier \"lays bare the scale of the risks we are facing with no-deal Brexit in almost every area\".\n\n\"These risks are completely insane for this country to be taking and we have to explore every avenue to avoid them,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.\n\nIrish deputy prime minister Simon Coveney said, in a tweet, that Ireland had \"always been clear\" a hard border in Ireland \"must be avoided\".\n\nThe Irish backstop - the provision in Theresa May's withdrawal agreement that could see Northern Ireland continue to follow some of the same trade rules as the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU, thus preventing a hard border - was an \"insurance policy\" designed to protect the peace process, he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said the leaked documents showed the effects of a no-deal Brexit should be taken more seriously.\n\n\"The government have simply, I think, pretended that this wasn't an issue,\" he said\n\nThe government was in \"a real pickle\", since the \"the US has said that if that border is jeopardised, we're not going to get a trade deal with them\", he said.\n\nSpeaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said, on Wednesday, a US-UK trade deal would not get through Congress if Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe leak comes as the prime minister prepares to travel to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, before going to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to say Parliament cannot and will not change the outcome of the 2016 referendum and insist there must be a new deal to replace Mrs May's withdrawal agreement - defeated three times by MPs - if the UK is to leave the EU with a deal.\n\nHowever, it is thought their discussions will chiefly focus on issues such as foreign policy, security, trade and the environment, ahead of the G7 summit next weekend.\n\nBoris Johnson had been reluctant to fly to meet European leaders until it seemed a breakthrough was likely.\n\nWhen Mr Johnson meets the EU's most powerful leaders - Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron - he will repeat his message that the UK is leaving, no matter what, at the end of October.\n\nHe will tell them face-to-face for the first time that the only way the UK will sign up to a deal is if the EU thinks again, and replaces the agreement brokered by Mrs May.\n\nBut there seems to be little chance of any serious progress in the coming days.\n\nNo 10 does not seem particularly optimistic and says it expects both sides will say their piece, then move on to other issues.\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller said the Government had \"unequivocally\" accepted it could not shut down Parliament to clear the way for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe told Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: \"What they have said is, unequivocally, they accept that to close down Parliament, to bypass them in terms of Brexit - stopping a no-deal Brexit, in particular - is illegal.\"\n\nBut Ms Miller said she would continue to seek further reassurances that MPs would be able to pass legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMeanwhile, a cross-party group of more than 100 MPs has urged the prime minister to recall Parliament and let it sit permanently until the UK leaves the EU.\n\nIn a letter, MPs say the country is \"on the brink of an economic crisis\".\n\nIt continues: \"Parliament must be recalled now in August and sit permanently until 31 October, so that the voices of the people can be heard, and that there can be proper scrutiny of your government.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reiterated his call for MPs to work together to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSpeaking to the Observer, Mr Corbyn said his plan to be installed as an interim prime minister was the \"simplest and most democratic way to stop no deal\".\n\nThe Labour leader has said, as a caretaker PM, he would delay Brexit, call a snap election, and campaign for another referendum.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said Mr Corbyn was \"divisive\" and instead suggested Conservative MP Ken Clarke or former Labour leader Harriet Harman could head a temporary government.\n\nElsewhere, in a letter seen by the Mail on Sunday, Mr Johnson warned rebel Tory MPs their opposition to a no-deal Brexit was damaging the prospect of getting a new deal.\n\nHe said it was \"plain as a pikestaff\" that the EU will \"not compromise as long as they believe there is the faintest possibility that Parliament can block Brexit on 31 October\".", "A historic global agreement aimed at halting deforestation has failed, according to a report.\n\nAn assessment of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) says it has failed to deliver on key pledges.\n\nLaunched at the 2014 UN climate summit, it aimed to half deforestation by 2020, and halt it by 2030.\n\nYet deforestation continues at an alarming rate and threatens to prevent the world from preventing dangerous climate change, experts have said.\n\nThe critique, compiled by the NYDF Assessment Partners (a coalition of 25 organisations), painted a bleak picture of how the world's forests continue to be felled.\n\n\"Since the NYDF was launched five years ago, deforestation has not only continued - it has actually accelerated,\" observed Charlotte Streck, co-founder and director of Climate Focus, which co-ordinated the publication of the report.\n\nThe report says the amount of annual carbon emissions resulting from deforestation around the globe are equivalent to the greenhouse gases produced by the European Union.\n\nOn average, an area of tree cover the size of the United Kingdom was lost every year between 2014 and 2018.\n\nTropical forest loss accounts for more than 90% of global deforestation, with the hotspot being located in Amazon Basin nations of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.\n\nCraig Hanson, vice-president of food, forest, water & the ocean at the World Resources Institute, described the findings as a \"mixed report card\".\n\n\"There are some places in the world where we are suffering dramatic loss of primary forest, so we are losing the battle on stopping deforestation,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"In other places, we are finding that there are new trees that are enriching rural landscapes, but we are still seeing a net reduction in the number of forests the world has.\"\n\nWorryingly, say the authors, a new deforestation hotspot in West Africa is emerging. The rate of tree-felling in the Democratic republic of Congo has doubled in the past five years.\n\nThe New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) is a voluntary and a legally non-binding agreement to take action to halt global deforestation.\n\nIt was first endorsed at the United Nations Climate Summit in September 2014, and by October 2017 40 governments, 57 multi-national companies and 58 non-government organizations had endorsed the declaration.\n\nDespite the bleak outlook on a global scale, the report did highlight the positive steps being made in Indonesia, which has long been associated with devastating deforestation.\n\nThe authors said political action was a contributing factor. The country's president has banned the development of peatlands and primary forests.\n\nHowever, researchers highlighted why the overall picture was so gloomy and why halting deforestation was so vital in the battle against climate change.\n\n\"Halting deforestation and restoring tropical forests, for example, could provide up to 30% of the mitigation required to help meet the Paris Agreement,\" explained Eszter Wainwright-Deri, forestry technical advisor at the Zoological Society of London.\n\n\"This cannot be achieved while zero-deforestation commitments continue to be dishonoured.\"\n\nThe WRI's Mr Hanson concluded: \"\"We are losing the battle but we should not give up hope. This report, among other things, gives a clarion call that we need to re-energise commitment, action and financing towards the NYDF.\"", "Sainsbury's has become the latest supermarket to target packaging waste, pledging to halve the amount of plastic used in its stores by 2025.\n\nIts customers will have to change their behaviour to achieve the \"bold ambition\" it said, for example by buying milk in plastic pouches.\n\nIt is also inviting the public and business partners to submit new ideas.\n\n\"Reducing plastic and packaging is not easy,\" said Mike Coupe, Sainsbury's chief executive.\n\n\"We can't do this on our own and we will be asking our suppliers and our customers to work with us.\"\n\nMPs said this week reducing packaging should be the priority for retailers, rather than replacing plastic with compostable or recyclable alternatives.\n\nThe infrastructure is not in place in the UK to dispose of compostable or biodegradable materials effectively, parliament's committee for environment, food and rural affairs found. The committee said wider environmental considerations also needed to be taken into account when replacing plastic packaging, including its carbon footprint.\n\nOn Friday, Sainsbury's is meeting with food manufacturers, packaging suppliers, material scientists and the waste and recycling industry to kick-start the process of identifying new solutions.\n\nHowever the supermarket said it was already rolling out some measures, including removing all plastic bags from its fruit and veg sections by the end of this month.\n\nInstead customers will be invited to bring their own bags, buy reusable bags made from recycled plastic bottles, or put a price sticker onto loose items.\n\nThe supermarket considered introducing paper bags, but spokeswoman, Rebecca Reilly said the net impact would have been worse for the environment.\n\n\"There's the deforestation link, and they are heavier and bulkier [than plastic]. They take up space in transport, so there are knock-on carbon emissions,\" she said.\n\nSainsbury's will encourage customers to bring their own containers for products from shampoo to raw meat and fish, and will sell more products loose by weight, something Waitrose began trialling earlier this year.\n\nIn many areas it was a question of reducing plastic rather than eliminating it, suggested Ms Reilly. For example milk might be sold in pouches, using less plastic than the current bottles.\n\nBut Helen Bird from packaging campaign group, Wrap, said plastic milk bottles were one of the items being widely recycled in the UK.\n\nPlastic pouches aren't currently recyclable, she said, although they would probably produce lower carbon emissions.\n\nBut she praised the scale of Sainsbury's ambition and said accepting that it did not yet have all the answers was a sensible approach to the challenge ahead.\n\n\"We need to not take decisions like this lightly,\" she said. \"To achieve this they'll need significant levels of innovation.\n\n\"They'll also require suppliers to come to them with fresh business models for how they can deliver products to customers in a way that will not have a significant effect on prices as well as carbon and food waste implications.\"", "Ren Zhengfei says a Western buyer could modify his firm's products to meet the US's security concerns\n\nHuawei's chief executive has proposed selling its current 5G know-how to a Western firm as a way to address security concerns voiced by the US and others about its business.\n\nRen Zhengfei said the buyer would be free to \"change the software code\".\n\nThat would allow any flaws or supposed backdoors to be addressed without Huawei's involvement.\n\nThe US and Australia have banned their networks from using Huawei's equipment. The UK is still weighing a decision.\n\nHuawei has repeatedly denied claims that it would help the Chinese government spy on or disrupt other countries' telecoms systems, and says it is a private enterprise owned by its workers.\n\nOne expert, who had previously cast doubts on Huawei's claims to independence, said the idea of it helping another country's business to compete represented an \"extraordinary offer\".\n\n\"Perhaps the explanation is that Huawei recognises that it is unlikely to be able to bypass the efforts the Trump administration is putting into minimising its scope to operate in North America, Western Europe and Australasia,\" said Prof Steve Tsang from Soas University of London.\n\n\"But it's difficult to see Nokia or Ericsson being interested in buying it. And it's also difficult to see how an American company would be able to reassure the Trump administration that it's absolutely top notch American technology.\n\n\"And if they can't do that, why would they want to spend tens of billions of US dollars on something that will quickly become out-of-date.\"\n\nHuawei's founder Ren Zhengfei made the proposal in interviews with the Economist and the New York Times.\n\nThe deal would allow a Western firm to use Huawei's tech to making competing 5G products\n\nIt would include ongoing access to the firm's existing 5G patents, licences, code, technical blueprints and production engineering knowledge.\n\n\"[Huawei is] open to sharing our 5G technologies and techniques with US companies, so that they can build up their own 5G industry,\" the NYT quoted Ren as saying.\n\n\"This would create a balanced situation between China, the US and Europe.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Economist he added: \"A balanced distribution of interests is conducive to Huawei's survival.\"\n\nA spokesman for Huawei has confirmed the quotes are accurate and the idea represents a \"genuine proposal\".\n\nAt present, Europe's Nokia and Ericsson are the main alternatives to Huawei when it comes to networks selecting what 5G cell tower base stations and other equipment to install.\n\nSouth Korea's Samsung and China's ZTE are other alternatives.\n\nBut while American firms including Cisco, Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have developed 5G-related technologies, the US lacks an infrastructure-equipment specialist of its own.\n\nBeyond the licensing fee, Huawei could benefit because it might convince Washington to drop restrictions that currently prevent it buying US-linked technologies for its own use.\n\nOne consequence of this is that Huawei faces having to launch an Android smartphone later this month that will not offer Google apps such as YouTube or the Play Store.\n\nA deal would also help ensure Huawei gets its 5G technologies widely adopted.\n\nFor instance, 5G supports two different coding techniques for data transmission to help tackle interference.\n\nHuawei has developed a technique called \"polar codes\", which it says will give 5G devices longer battery life than an alternative favoured by many Western firms called \"low density parity check\".\n\nIf polar codes are widely adopted, Huawei will earn more patent fees from device-makers that support them.\n\nOne company-watcher, however, suggested Ren's proposal was doomed to fail.\n\nHuawei faces having to launch the Mate 30 without some of Android's most popular apps\n\n\"Huawei misunderstands the underlying problem,\" Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, from the European Centre for International Political Economy, told the BBC.\n\n\"The issue is not the trustworthiness of Huawei as a vendor but the legal obligations that the Chinese government imposes on it.\n\n\"China's National Intelligence Law requires Chinese businesses and citizens to surrender any data or 'communication tools' they may have access to, under strict punitive sanctions.\n\n\"Any equipment or software that Huawei licenses to an US entity would still fall under this obligation, and there is no way that the licensing entity or the intelligence agencies could scrutinise millions of lines of code for potential backdoors.\"\n\nBut Prof Tsang said the proposal was still a \"smart move\".\n\nEven if Huawei's offer is ultimately rejected, he explained, it demonstrates that the company is willing to go to remarkable lengths to try and win the West's trust.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I did everything right, everything that you should do\"\n\nA woman who says she was raped by a man she had been on a date with has told the BBC she was left \"devastated\" after prosecutors decided to drop her case.\n\nAnnie Tisshaw says her mental health \"really suffered\" during the year-long investigation, and she was then told the CPS would not proceed further.\n\nA report shows the number of rape convictions in England and Wales is at its lowest level since records began.\n\nThere were 1,925 convictions in 2018-19 - a 27% drop from the previous year.\n\nThis was in spite of allegations of rape reaching a high of 58,000 in England and Wales.\n\nCampaigners say the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has changed its approach in rape cases - no longer building rape prosecutions, but screening cases out if they think a jury will not convict.\n\nThis is denied by the CPS, which has announced a review of its decisions in rape cases.\n\nAnnie, who has waived her right to anonymity, told the Victoria Derbyshire show that she was raped in her own flat after she had been on a date with a man she had met a few times before.\n\nShe says she reported the incident straight after it happened, handed over her phone, and the case was passed by police to the CPS, who told her it was \"a positive case\".\n\n\"I've done everything right that you should do and then at the end, nearly a year later, I was told there were inconsistencies in the case.\"\n\nThose included CCTV from earlier in the night, which showed she wasn't looking \"particularly scared or nervous\", and text messages sent before the alleged rape, she says.\n\n\"This was a guy that I trusted, this was a guy that I had met before, so obviously at that time I didn't know it was going to happen,\" she says.\n\n\"My mental health really, really suffered throughout the police case. It's devastating that I've gone through all of that and it's just been dropped.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bonny Turner says the CPS dropped her case even though her alleged rapist apologised to her on Facebook Messenger\n\nAnother woman, Lizi, told the BBC she spent \"49 weeks of my life consumed by anxiety and anorexia\" before she heard her case was being dropped.\n\n\"All I really remember from that call is screaming and sobbing,\" she said.\n\nThe annual Violence Against Women and Girls report shows the number of reports of rape that end in a conviction is about 3%.\n\nThe figures also reveal that the number of suspects charged with rape or another offence has fallen, from 2,822 in 2017-18 to 1,758 in 2018-19.\n\nIn 2007-08, when records were first compiled in the current way, 2,220 cases resulted in a charge.\n\nOf those, 2,201 cases resulted in a conviction - although some would be for investigations started in previous years.\n\nThe conviction figure takes in the number of suspects initially investigated for rape who were later convicted of rape or other offences, such as sexual assault or indecent assault.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Director of Public Prosecutions Max Hill says he \"would be worried\" by the figures if he were a victim of sexual violence\n\nThe CPS - whose budget has been cut by 25% since 2010 - says it has worked hard to improve how it deals with sexual offence cases.\n\nIt explains the drop by saying it is getting fewer rape referrals from police - a 23% fall from the previous year - and that cases are taking longer because of digital evidence and the demands to disclose material to the defence.\n\nA coalition of women's organisations, represented by the Centre for Women's Justice (CWJ), is looking to take legal action against the CPS over claims cases are being \"dropped\" without good reason.\n\nLawyer Harriet Wistrich, founder of the CWJ, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was \"compelling\" evidence the collapse in prosecutions was mainly caused by \"a deliberate change in the approach taken by the CPS dating back to late 2016\".\n\nDame Vera Baird, the victims' commissioner, called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to intervene by giving the justice system adequate resources and funding support services for survivors.\n\nShe questioned whether \"abandoning thousands of cases of potentially traumatised men and women\" was \"ineptitude\" or \"deliberate policy\" by prosecutors.\n\nMax Hill, director of public prosecutions, denied there had been a change in approach from prosecutors at the CPS, but said he shared concerns at the \"growing gap\" between reported rapes and the number of prosecutions.\n\nHe told Today: \"I am not going to point the finger in any particular direction. We - all of us working in the criminal justice system - need to come together now to discuss this.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sarah Crew, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for rape and adult sexual offences, said the decline in convictions reflects \"a justice system that is stretched and under pressure\".\n\nBut she said police were working with victims' groups to address issues that prevent people from reporting rape or from continuing to support an investigation.\n\nThe independent CPS watchdog, Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, has also launched a review of charging decisions in rape cases.", "A keyhole-surgery technique for treating heavy menstrual bleeding is more effective and just as safe as a non-invasive alternative, a study of more than 600 UK women suggests.\n\nThose who had a laparoscopic supra-cervical hysterectomy, removing part of the uterus, were more satisfied than a group that had endometrial ablation.\n\nAnd they were less likely to have pelvic pain and pain during sex.\n\nHeavy bleeding affects a quarter of women in the UK.\n\nProf Kevin Cooper, consultant gynaecologist and study author from the University of Aberdeen, writing in the Lancet, said the study showed laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy offered \"a more effective option than endometrial ablation, without any increased risks\".\n\nFifteen months after surgery, there was a similar level of complications in both groups.\n\nThe women who had the modified hysterectomy technique did tend to have longer hospital stays and a slower return to work.\n\nBut, Prof Cooper said: \"Most women having this procedure get home within 24 hours and there are no restrictive rules for recovery, unlike traditional hysterectomy.\"\n\nHe said the procedure offered women \"another effective surgical choice for this common medical condition\".\n\nThere are many ways of carrying out a hysterectomy but the conventional one removes the womb and cervix.\n\nLaparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy is a less invasive and less complex alternative to this, where the cervix is left intact.\n\nIn endometrial ablation, the lining of the uterus (endometrium), which is responsible for heavy periods, is destroyed, and the uterus is kept.\n\nNo incisions are needed for this procedure and recovery tends to be quick - but one in five of the patients goes on to have a hysterectomy, the study suggests.\n\nDr Caroline Overton, consultant gynaecologist and spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said more research was needed to work out what happened in the longer term.\n\n\"It is important to note that both supracervical hysterectomy and endometrial ablation are generally safe procedures, but women should always consider non-surgical treatment options first.\"\n\nFor most women with heavy periods, the first recommended treatment is a medication called tranexamic acid, taken by mouth on the heavy days of the period.\n\nTaking the hormone contraceptive pill or using an intrauterine device (IUD) can also be highly effective, Dr Overton said.\n\nShe said it was important for women and clinicians to consider the main symptoms being experienced when exploring surgical options.\n\nCommenting on the research, Sukhbir Singh and Olga Bougie, from the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Ottawa, said there were still questions left to answer about the safety of preserving the cervix.\n\n\"In particular, cervical conservation raises issues of specimen removal, need for cervical screening, and the potential for new or ongoing symptoms secondary to the retained cervical stump,\" they said.\n\nThey also noted the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology states total hysterectomy is preferred over laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy.\n\nAnd as a result, numbers of laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomies have gone down.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Sussex has launched her clothing line for women's charity Smart Works in London.\n\nSmart Works, which the duchess is patron of, provides high-quality clothes and one-to-one interview preparation to long-term unemployed women.\n\nShe decided to intervene when she noticed a lack in variety of sizes and styles being donated. Speaking at the launch, she joked that during one visit there were \"40-50 lilac blazers\" hanging on the rails.\n\nIt was the duchess' first official public engagement since the birth of her son, Archie.", "Air strikes have been targeting hospitals in the rebel-held province of Idlib, Syria, despite the fact that it is a war crime. Medics have been forced underground in order to survive.\n\nThe UN accuses the Syrian government and allied Russian warplanes of conducting a deadly campaign that appears to target medical facilities.", "Not even a couple of months have passed, but it seems a lifetime since Boris Johnson said he wanted to bring the country together as he arrived in Downing Street as prime minister for the first time.\n\nBecause so far his time in No 10 has suggested he believes he will profit instead from a divide.\n\nThat's the crack that his team identifies between leavers and former remainers - described by one cabinet minister, as \"those who either want to get things done that matter to people, or MPs who want to stand up and repeat ad nauseam the things they have been saying about Brexit for the last three years\".\n\nThe \"dividing line\", is far from a new phenomenon in politics - it was beloved by Gordon Brown, then George Osborne too - maybe politicians since time began - a way of creating an easily understandable political choice for the public, a way for politicians to say \"pick us or them\".\n\nBut it's not just a line this time, it's like a toxic separation.\n\nReading this you may believe, damn right, it's about time that all this political agony was brought to an end.\n\nAnd let's face it, as one MP pointed out tonight, the public don't exactly hold the political class in high esteem - politicians pushing the rules?\n\nTell me something I don't know!\n\nMore talking in Parliament is plainly not, on its own, going to find the magic solution to this grinding Brexit crisis.\n\nThis is Downing Street's fundamental gamble, that in the end, most of the public are in the camp of the fed up and frustrated, who just want this to be over, and therefore they will tolerate a few prime ministerial bumps and scrapes along the way.\n\nAnd that's why, shocking though it may sound given No 10 has today been found to have misled the monarch and broken the law, in Downing Street, today's result is not entirely seen as bad thing, giving - as some of those close to the PM see it - yet more evidence of the \"establishment\" trying to stand in the way of allowing Brexit to happen.\n\nNor is it surprising to many in the government that this mess has already ended up in the courts.\n\nUnder Theresa May perhaps the resolution of Brexit was a conflict delayed, rather than avoided.\n\nIndeed, for Boris Johnson's team, it's almost perhaps as if this is a script they wrote long ago.\n\nThroughout the Vote Leave campaign the approach was consistent - if the controversial things they claimed were challenged, their answer was not to demur, but to double down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kwasi Kwateng: \"Many people are saying judges are biased\"\n\nThe parallels are already there. Listening to government minister Kwasi Kwarteng suggest tonight that independent judges doing their jobs are \"interfering\" tells us that - even though he used a classic political technique of saying he was only articulating what others were saying.\n\nWhen you listen to it remember that in this country, while it's not unusual for the courts to rule on cases relating to government business, we have an independent courts system traditionally and vitally free from political interference.\n\nThere's been a sense from day one this is a campaign to get Brexit done, rather than a traditional administration.\n\nBut the problems stacking up cannot just be dismissed as campaign upsets to be blasted away with brass neck.\n\nGovernment is not a campaign where screaming headlines and binary arguments jostle with each other over a period of a couple of months.\n\nWith no majority, the prime minister cannot simply dismiss MPs' concerns for more than a short period of time - a government that can't win votes is a government that can't last for long.\n\nWith Scotland's senior judges ruling Downing Street's behaviour broke the law, the prime minister may also soon have to reverse his decision on suspending Parliament - that depends on what the legal brains at the UK Supreme Court will conclude on Tuesday.\n\nEven though these challenges might in the end play into No 10's political narrative of \"us and them\", a tangle with the constitution is not a minor inconvenience that can just be dismissed.\n\nThose who know Boris Johnson say often that he never really believed the rules applied to him.\n\nBut as prime minister, his dreaded \"establishment\" will constrain him in some ways.\n\nAnd some old allies, who are not in the No 10 inner circle, are frankly furious that he has chosen to take such a confrontational path.\n\nRuthlessness in politics can be an attribute - any political leader who's ultimately succeeded has likely shown that.\n\nPerhaps Boris Johnson will perform a Houdini-like escape, get an EU deal and go on to govern successfully, stitching his angry and febrile party together - who knows, maybe then even winning an election?\n\nBut ruthlessness can tip in to recklessness too that could damage not just Mr Johnson's interests, not just the Tories' wider interests, but much more widely, push the two sides in our national debate further apart.\n\nThe prime minister and some of his team might revel in pushing the rules.\n\nThey have made a clear decision about taking a controversial strategy, which could ultimately be successful, from which they won't be diverted.\n\nBut there are powerful ministers in cabinet with concerns, as well as MPs in the Tory Party and the opposition.\n\nAnd ultimately of course, sooner or later, it's the public who will judge.\n\nBoris Johnson once joked about his own political style, suggesting he may sometimes take some plaster off the ceiling.\n\nBut pushing the boundaries of convention in Parliament, with the palace and perhaps the judiciary, risks bringing the whole house down too.", "The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes could be stabilising, or even falling, a study suggests.\n\nThe analysis looked at 47 studies from the mid-1960s up to 2014, mainly from the US and Canada and countries across Europe including the UK.\n\nA third of populations studied between 2006 and 2014 saw a fall in new cases and another third were stable.\n\nBut Diabetes UK said the challenges of obesity and unhealthy lifestyles, both linked to the condition, remained.\n\nProf Dianna Magliano, head of diabetes and population health at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, in Melbourne, who led the study, said: \"We are seeing a flattening of incidence and even a fall in many high income countries in the recent years.\"\n\nMeasures such as cycle paths may have encouraged people to live more healthily, thereby preventing diabetes cases\n\nStudies between 1990 and 2005 showed the number of new cases increased in two-thirds (67%) of populations studied, was stable in 31% and decreased in 2%.\n\nBut from 2006 to 2014, increases were seen in only a third, with 30% staying stable and 36% declining.\n\nProf Magliano said: \"The most obvious conclusion to be drawn from falling incidence is that we are succeeding in reducing the risk for developing diabetes in the population.\"\n\nThe studies did not reveal the level of undiagnosed diabetes in populations - and a different test for type 2 diabetes was introduced around 2010.\n\nBut Sarah Wild, professor of epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said the findings echoed what she had seen in Scotland.\n\n\"There does seem to be a flattening of new cases of diabetes,\" she said. \"Why that is seems to be a bit of a puzzle.\n\n\"It's good news. But that doesn't mean we can take our eye off the ball.\"\n\nDr Emily Burns head of research communications at Diabetes UK, said: \"This study looks at type 2 diabetes through a different lens, reporting on the number diagnosed rather than the number living with the condition - which can often be distorted by factors such as how long people live for.\n\n\"With this in mind, it's promising to see that the number of people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes might potentially be plateauing in certain parts of the world.\"\n\nBut she added: \"The challenges posed by obesity and unhealthy lifestyles - the two main drivers for type 2 diabetes - remain significant.\n\n\"That's why, while the findings are interesting, this study doesn't detract from the seriousness of the growing diabetes crisis and the vital prevention efforts under way to help tackle this.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Johnston suffered from debilitating mental health issues throughout his career\n\nDaniel Johnston, whose guileless, homemade recordings inspired dozens of musicians from Kurt Cobain to Lana Del Rey, has died at the age of 58.\n\nThe songwriter and artist \"passed away of natural causes\" at his home in Texas, said his family in a statement.\n\nHe was mourned online by those he inspired, including musician Beck and film star Elijah Wood, who called him \"a gentle, beautiful treasure\".\n\nProducer Jack Antonoff praised the way Johnston had \"shared fearlessly\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in California in 1961 and raised in West Virginia, Johnston became known as a songwriter after moving to Austin, Texas.\n\nHis reputation in the city grew after he started handing out cassette tapes of his no-frills home recordings to people in the street.\n\nA cult figure on the local music scene, he gained wider exposure when MTV filmed a programme on the Austin music scene in 1985 for its series The Cutting Edge.\n\nJohnston's performance brought him almost overnight acclaim, and his early home recordings received a belated vinyl release on the indie label Homestead.\n\nHe was never an accomplished player, and his pinched, high tenor vocals ensured he would never be a mainstream star - but the aching emotional sincerity of songs Life In Vain and True Love Will Find You In The End, earned him a fiercely loyal fanbase.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nKurt Cobain once described him as \"the best songwriter on earth,\" and famously wore one of Johnston's t-shirts to the 1992 MTV Awards.\n\nOther musicians who have covered Johnston's songs include Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens and Yo La Tengo.\n\nIn 2013, Lana Del Rey and rapper Mac Miller each contributed $10,000 to fund a short film about the singer, with Del Rey recording a version of his song about heartbreak, Some Things Last A Long Time for the soundtrack.\n\nJohnston was also known as an artist and comic-book writer, and his magic marker cartoon drawings were an inspiration for The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening.\n\nIn 1993, he was asked to turn Jeremiah the Innocent, the alien frog featured on the cover of his album Hi, How Are You, into a mural in Austin.\n\nIn 2006, his artwork was featured in a major exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art.\n\nFans have been laying flowers at the foot of Johnston's mural following news of his death\n\nBut Johnston was plagued by mental health problems, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, that hindered his career and endangered his life - including one incident where he attempted to crash a plane being piloted by his father.\n\nA harrowing documentary, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, released in 2005, showed how fragile he had become, while bringing his music and story to a new audience.\n\n\"It sure was embarrassing,\" Johnston reflected in an interview with the Austin Chronicle. \"Every terrible dilemma, every fabled mistake. Nothing I can do about it now, though. I wish they'd added a laugh track to it, because it sure is funny\".\n\nJohnston's own musical output had slowed in recent years and, following a farewell tour in 2017, he was largely confined to the family home.\n\nHis brother, Dick Johnston, told the New York Times he had been treated for kidney issues shortly before his death.\n\n\"He was still productive, writing songs and drawing, and was just annoyed by his health more than anything,\" he said. \"It was just one thing after another.\"\n\nIn a statement posted on Facebook, Johnston's family remembered him as \"a friend to all\".\n\n\"Although he struggled with mental health issues for much of his adult life, Daniel triumphed over his illness through his prolific output of art and songs.\n\n\"He inspired countless fans, artists, and songwriters with his message that no matter how dark the day that \"the sun shines down on me\" and \"true love will find you in the end.\"\n\nThe singer-songwriter [pictured in his youth] was known for his unfiltered lyrics, which spoke of depression and unrequited love\n\nAs news of his death spread, fans laid flowers and cassettes at the foot of his mural in Austin, while musicians and fellow creators spoke of Johnston's impact on their life.\n\n\"There are not enough words I can say about the vitality of Daniel Johnston's musical spirit,\" said musician Zola Jesus. \"He was a huge inspiration to me, to follow my creative impulses no matter how messy or simple.\"\n\nIndie band Death Cab For Cutie, who covered Johnston's song Dream Scream, wrote that their \"hearts were heavy\".\n\n\"His unique songwriting voice, so pure and so direct, spoke to us deeply,\" they continued. \"It is quite safe to say there will never be another like him and thankfully, his music will play on.\"\n\nDavid Bowie's son, Duncan Jones, tweeted: \"My dad introduced me to Daniel Johnston's music... Once I'd listened to a few songs, I heard the DNA of so many others' work. A unique and special human being. Rest peacefully, Daniel.\"\n\n\"Rest in peace... Living your broken dreams forever,\" added Avengers star Mark Ruffalo on Twitter. \"Thank you for your art.\"\n\nJohnston's family said plans for a memorial will be announced soon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 #EvanRachelWould This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A revised Brexit deal, acceptable to both UK and EU negotiators, remains elusive.\n\nOnly a few people know exactly what has been discussed behind closed doors, and the legal text of any proposed agreement has not been made public.\n\nBut it's worth bearing in mind that most of the deal hammered out by Theresa May's government - the withdrawal agreement and the accompanying political declaration - would remain in place.\n\nThe main changes Boris Johnson's government wants to see concern the Irish border, and the type of relationship it wishes the UK to have with the EU in the future.\n\nAll sides have ruled out customs checks at the land border in Ireland (between Northern Ireland and the Republic), and Mr Johnson's suggestion that checks could take place at \"designated locations\" away from the border was rejected by the EU.\n\nThat means there would have to be some customs checks within the UK instead, at ports along the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That's a big UK concession.\n\nBut Mr Johnson also insists that Northern Ireland has to leave the EU customs union, along with the rest of the UK, to allow it to take advantage of any future trade deals the government manages to negotiate.\n\nThe suggested compromise is that the legal customs border between the UK and the EU would be at the land border in Ireland. But the practical border, where checks would actually take place, would be in the Irish Sea.\n\nDiplomats say that means Northern Ireland would remain legally in the UK customs territory but it would apply EU customs processes on goods arriving from Great Britain. There would be exemptions, including on personal items and other goods, to be agreed at a later date by the UK and the EU.\n\nSo it's a dual customs system, which has no obvious parallel anywhere else in the world, and it raises plenty of technical and legal issues which will take some time to pin down.\n\nThere's also the issue of political consent in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoth sides agree that any new economic status for Northern Ireland, which sets it apart from the rest of the country, needs to win democratic approval.\n\nBut the EU won't accept anything that appears to give a veto to one party in Northern Ireland, in this case the government's allies in the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). That, in the EU's view, would mean the entire proposed settlement on the Irish border could be unexpectedly torn up with nothing to replace it.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not been sitting for more than 1,000 days\n\nFor its part, the DUP has been arguing that the Good Friday agreement, which forms the basis of the Northern Ireland peace process, provides for a dual majority (in other words a majority among both unionist and nationalist representatives) on controversial issues in the Northern Ireland assembly.\n\nOthers in Northern Ireland argue that if a dual majority is needed, then the prospect of Northern Ireland leaving the EU should also be subject to similar dual consent.\n\nDiplomats say the latest draft agreement outlines a plan which would give the Northern Ireland Assembly a consent vote four years after the Brexit transition period ends in 2020.\n\nIf it voted to continue the new arrangements by a simple majority, another vote would be held four years later. If the vote was carried with a dual majority it would be held again eight years later.\n\nDiplomats say that if the Assembly voted to end the arrangements, the UK and the EU would have two years to negotiate a new method to avoid a hard border.\n\nAll of this would replace the so-called backstop - the proposed guarantee to avoid a hard border in Ireland under all circumstances.\n\nBut so far, the DUP has made it pretty clear that it cannot accept the proposals as they stand.\n\nThe UK has submitted a new draft of the political declaration on the future relationship. Again, the text has not been made public, but Mr Johnson has made it clear that he wants a looser economic relationship with the EU in the future than Mrs May was seeking.\n\nDiplomats say the political declaration will point towards a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU with zero tariffs or quotas, but one which is embedded in a framework for economic competition that is \"fair\".\n\nOne of the key phrases to watch out for here is the \"level playing field\" - the degree to which the UK will agree to stick closely to EU regulations on things like social and environmental policies.\n\nMr Johnson wants to make fewer level playing field guarantees, and the EU fears that could mean he will seek to undercut EU regulation in the future to gain a competitive advantage.\n\nAnd that in turn has made a number of EU countries even more determined that any solution for the Irish border is legally watertight and fully thought through, before they sign up to any amended Brexit deal.\n\nIn any complex negotiation, there is nearly always an issue bubbling under the surface which emerges as a last-minute hitch.\n\nThis time it is VAT, and how to prevent fraud involving goods crossing any new border arrangement.\n\nOn all of these issues, time is against the negotiators and their political masters. Mr Johnson still says he is determined to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nBut if the House of Commons has not voted in favour either of a deal or of leaving with no deal by 19 October, then UK law says he must seek an extension to the Brexit process.\n\nThe EU has said it will not negotiate directly with Mr Johnson during the summit, which begins on Thursday.\n\nBut the next few days are obviously crucial.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.", "Zakari Bennett died after being pulled out of the River Irwell in Radcliffe\n\nA baby boy who died after being pulled out of a river in Greater Manchester has been named locally as Zakari Bennett.\n\nZakari, believed to have been 11 months old, was lifted from the River Irwell in Radcliffe, Bury, just before 16:30 BST on Wednesday but died in hospital.\n\nThe boy's father Zak Bennett-Eko, 22, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe child's mother said her son was the \"whole world and so much more\".\n\nAn emotional post made earlier on her Facebook account shared her shock and grief following his death.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it was not clear at this stage how the boy came to be in the water but unconfirmed reports suggest he was thrown from a bridge.\n\nThe force urged \"a significant number of witnesses\" to come forward, particularly those with photos or videos.\n\n\"We know that some of the incident was captured in images or on video so I want to ask people to provide these to the investigation team,\" said Det Insp Wes Knights.\n\nPeople have been leaving floral tributes at the scene\n\nPolice confirmed the baby had been in the area \"for a number of hours beforehand\" and witnesses \"may have information about the circumstances leading up to the incident\".\n\nDet Insp Knights added it was \"incredibly tragic\" and thanked those people \"who tried their best to help retrieve the baby from the river\".\n\n\"His family have understandably been left devastated by what has happened,\" he added.\n\nA post-mortem examination will take place on Friday.\n\nA cordon is still in place on Blackburn Street, at the junctions with Stand Lane and Radcliffe New Road, while investigations continue.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place on Friday\n\nEnzo Cabuderra, who works at Italia Mia restaurant in neighbouring Stand Lane, said he arrived to find police and ambulance staff at the scene.\n\n\"I've got grandkids myself and to think that someone could do something like this…it's just shocking,\" he said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said crews \"rescued one casualty who was then handed over to North West Ambulance Service\".\n\nPolice said they were \"working hard to piece together the circumstances that led to the baby boy ending up in the water\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children, MPs say.\n\nThe industry's UK trade body responded it would \"review these recommendations with utmost seriousness\".\n\nBut the committee of MPs had accused some of those who had given evidence of a \"lack of honesty and transparency\".\n\nFree video games often encourage players to buy virtual loot boxes, which contain an unspecified amount of items to improve further game-play.\n\nSome games have associated online marketplaces where players can trade or sell these items.\n\nThe Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee's inquiry into addictive and immersive technologies heard stories of young adults who had built up debts of thousands of pounds through spending in games. Jagex, the company behind online game RuneScape, admitted players could spend up to £1,000 a week or £5,000 a month.\n\nBut the MPs found the industry was reluctant to accept responsibility for intervening when a player was over-spending or even to put a figure on how much was too much.\n\nAnd some had been \"wilfully obtuse\" in answering questions about game-play, which MPs needed to know in order to better understand how players engaged with games.\n\nWithout naming names, they said they had sometimes found it difficult to get full and clear answers from the gaming industry representatives who had appeared before them, in particular when it came to answering questions about what data they collected, how it was used and the psychology underpinning how games were designed.\n\n\"Social media platforms and online games makers are locked in a relentless battle to capture ever more of people's attention, time and money,\" Mr Collins said.\n\n\"Their business models are built on this but it's time for them to be more responsible in dealing with the harms these technologies can cause for some users.\"\n\nIn response Dr Jo Twist, the chief executive of UK Interactive Entertainment, said: \"\"The video games industry has always, and will continue to, put the welfare of players at the heart of what we do.\n\n\"The industry does not dispute that, for a minority, finding balance is a problem.\n\n\"This is why we are vocal in supporting efforts to increase digital literacy and work with schools and carers on education programmes.\"\n\nBut Mr Collins said the games industry should contribute financially towards independent research into the long-term effects of gaming.\n\n\"Gaming disorder based on excessive and addictive game-play has been recognised by the World Health Organization,\" he said.\n\n\"It's time for game companies to use the huge quantities of data they gather about their players to do more to proactively identify vulnerable gamers.\"\n\nThe MPs also called for both social media platforms and game-makers to establish effective age-verification tools.\n\nCurrently both rely on a honesty system and, as a result, there are large numbers of under-age users on social media and playing games.\n\nLoot boxes offer a variety of rewards that can improve game-play\n\nLoot boxes should not be sold to children and should instead be earned as rewards for game-play, the MPs said.\n\n\"Loot boxes are particularly lucrative for games companies but come at a high cost, particularly for problem gamblers, while exposing children to potential harm,\" Mr Collins said.\n\n\"Buying a loot box is playing a game of chance and it is high time the gambling laws caught up.\n\n\"We challenge the government to explain why loot boxes should be exempt from the Gambling Act.\"\n\nThere is growing international disquiet about loot boxes, with a US senator calling for them to be banned and the government of Belgium ruling they were in violation of gambling laws.\n\nChina has restricted the number of loot boxes players can open each day. Sweden is also investigating them.", "Mario Draghi said the ECB had cut its forecasts for both inflation and economic growth\n\nThe European Central Bank has unveiled fresh stimulus measures to bolster the eurozone, including cutting a key interest rate.\n\nThe deposit facility rate, paid by banks on reserves parked at the ECB, was already negative, but has now been cut from minus 0.4% to minus 0.5%.\n\nThe ECB also said it was re-starting quantitative easing. It will buy €20bn of debt a month from 1 November.\n\nThe eurozone's main interest rate has remained unchanged at zero.\n\nThe moves come as the ECB combats an economic slowdown. The bank said its asset purchase programme would \"run for as long as necessary\", while interest rates would remain \"at their present or lower levels\" until eurozone inflation reached its target rate of 2%.\n\nQuantitative easing, or QE, is a way for central banks to pump money into the financial system when interest rates are ultra-low and conventional stimulus methods no longer work.\n\nThe central bank buys assets, usually government bonds, with money it has \"printed\" - or, more accurately, created electronically.\n\nMaking more money available in this way is supposed to encourage financial institutions to lend more to businesses and individuals.\n\nUnder its previous QE programme, the ECB bought €2.6 trillion of bonds between 2015 and 2018.\n\nThe eurozone's biggest economy, Germany, is thought to be on the brink of recession\n\nECB chief Mario Draghi told a news conference that the inflation outlook had been further downgraded.\n\n\"Headline inflation is likely to decline before rising again towards the end of the year,\" he said.\n\nMr Draghi also announced that the ECB had lowered this year's and next year's GDP growth forecasts for the eurozone. It now expects growth of 1.1% this year and 1.2% in 2020.\n\nHe said the eurozone was suffering from the \"prevailing weakness of international trade in an environment of prolonged global uncertainties\".\n\nThe eurozone's biggest economy, Germany, is widely thought to be on the brink of recession.\n\nThe ECB's decisions drew a swift reaction from US President Donald Trump, who tweeted that the ECB was \"trying, and succeeding, in depreciating the euro against the VERY strong dollar\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nResponding to Mr Trump's comments, Mr Draghi referred to him as \"the First Tweeter\".\n\n\"We have a mandate, we pursue price stability, and we do not target exchange rates, period,\" he said.\n\nMr Draghi is due to make way for incoming ECB President Christine Lagarde on 1 November.\n\nThe ECB's main refinancing rate has been at zero since March 2016.\n\n\"At first glance, the ECB has not quite thrown the kitchen sink at the eurozone economy,\" said Ranko Berich, head of market analysis at Monex Europe.\n\n\"The QE package is shy of market expectations, which were €30bn a month. But the Bank is clearly back in the business of serious policy easing and more aggressive action could easily be taken in response to a worsening in conditions.\"\n\nSo the ECB has fired off another volley of its monetary policy ammunition. But will it hit the target? Will it get inflation up towards the ECB's target and will it stimulate the eurozone's flagging economy? Many people are very sceptical.\n\nThe interest rate move takes us even further into the strange world of negative rates. There is a view that that measure is actually counterproductive, that it has an adverse impact on bank profitability. Perhaps ECB policy more widely has reached the limit of its ability to stimulate economic activity.\n\nThe other main weapon against economic weakness is in the hands of governments - fiscal policy, or public spending and taxation. For some governments in the eurozone, their scope to use that weapon is constrained by the amount of debt they already have and by eurozone rules. But the likely next head of the ECB, Christine Lagarde has called for more action in that area.\n\nCountries such as Germany have strong government finances, but so far have been wary of departing from what they see as prudent financial management. There is, however, a growing debate about what the eurozone needs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I felt helpless to stop my son's addiction': Kristen wants vaping companies held accountable\n\nUS President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will ban flavoured e-cigarettes, after a spate of vaping-related deaths.\n\nMr Trump told reporters vaping was a \"new problem\", especially for children.\n\nUS Health Secretary Alex Azar said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would finalise a plan to take all non-tobacco flavours off the market.\n\nThere have been six deaths and 450 reported cases of lung illness tied to vaping across 33 states.\n\nMany of the 450 reported cases are young people, with an average age of 19.\n\nMichigan this month became the first US state to ban flavoured e-cigarettes.\n\nJoining Mr Trump at the White House on Wednesday, Mr Azar said it would take the FDA several weeks to distribute the new guidance on e-cigarettes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also said the agency would take enforcement action if it determined children were being intentionally attracted to e-cigarettes.\n\nUS First Lady Melania Trump this week tweeted that she was \"deeply concerned about the growing epidemic of e-cigarette use in our children\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Melania 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\nShe was present at Wednesday's announcement.\n\nMr Trump told reporters his administration would implement strong rules to protect \"innocent children\", including his 13-year-old son Barron.\n\n\"We can't allow people to get sick and we can't have our youth be so affected,\" he said.\n\n\"That's how the first lady got involved. She's got a son, together, that is a beautiful young man and she feels very, very strongly about it.\n\n\"She's seen it. We're both reading it, a lot of people are reading it. But people are dying with vaping so we're looking at it very, very closely.\"\n\nHe added that he hoped the announcement would make parents become \"tougher\".\n\n\"People are going to watch what we're saying and parents are going be a lot tougher with respect to their children,\" said the president.\n\n\"A lot of people think vaping is wonderful, it's great. It's really not wonderful.\"\n\nIn a press release shortly after Mr Trump's announcement, the health secretary said officials \"will not stand idly by\" as a generation becomes addicted to nicotine.\n\nActing FDA Commissioner Dr Ned Sharpless said \"if we see a migration to tobacco-flavored products by kids, we will take additional steps to address youth use of these products\".\n\nE-cigarette manufacturers such as Juul have been blamed for fuelling childhood addiction through flavoured products such as mango, cream or cinnamon roll.\n\nJuul, which dominates the market, last year stopped selling most of its flavoured devices in order to defuse mounting criticism.\n\nHealth officials are still investigating whether a particular toxin or substance is causing the vaping-related illnesses, or whether it's the result of heavy usage.\n\nThe first death occurred in Illinois in late August. Since then, five more have died and hundreds have been sickened across 33 states.\n\nThe cause of the vaping illness has not yet been pinpointed by health officials.\n\nTHC, the psychoactive chemical in cannabis, was present in some, but not all of the devices used by those who fell ill, say authorities.\n\nThe FDA has said many of the products were found to contain significant amounts of vitamin E acetate, an oil used to thicken the vaping liquid.\n\nSeveral patients have been found with lipoid pneumonia, which occurs when someone inhales fats or oils.\n• None What's behind a vaping illness outbreak in the US?", "The boy was recovered from the river shortly before 16:30 BST\n\nA baby boy pulled out of a river in Greater Manchester has died.\n\nThe child, believed to be almost 12 months old, was pulled from the River Irwell in Radcliffe, Bury, just before 16:30 BST but died a short time later in hospital.\n\nA 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nDet Supt Jamie Daniels said it was an \"incredibly tragic incident\" which \"has led to an innocent baby boy losing his life\".\n\nPolice said they were \"working hard to piece together the circumstances that led to the baby boy ending up in the water\"\n\nOfficers said it was not clear how the boy came to be in the water but unconfirmed reports suggest he was thrown from a bridge.\n\nEnzo Cabuderra, who works at Italia Mia restaurant in neighbouring Stand Lane, said he arrived to find police and ambulance staff at the scene.\n\n\"I've got grandkids myself and to think that someone could do something like this… it's just shocking,\" he said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue service said crews \"rescued one casualty who was then handed over to North West Ambulance Service\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) who was traumatised by her reversal procedure has welcomed the opening of support clinics in England.\n\nJane, not her real name, said she felt \"helpless\" following the operation, blaming a lack of emotional support.\n\nNow eight walk-in FGM centres, in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and five London boroughs, will offer women aged over 18 expert care, NHS England says.\n\nJane, who sought an FGM reversal in her 30s, said such a service would have \"opened so many doors\" for her as a young woman.\n\nShe added that it may have helped her avoid \"psychological damage in the long-run\".\n\n\"I think it should be reaching out to girls under 18 because they don't know what services are available to them,\" she said.\n\nThe illegal practice of FGM is carried out for cultural and religious reasons in certain communities.\n\nIt involves the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.\n\nIn the last three months, almost 1,000 women and girls were identified as having been affected by FGM.\n\nMore than 1,300 women are expected to benefit from the clinics, which will prioritise swift support and treatment for young women aged between 18 and 25.\n\nTypically, victims of FGM are first identified and offered support when they are pregnant and access NHS maternity services, according to NHS England. This is usually between the ages of 25 and 35.\n\nThe new support clinics will aim to reach women before they are pregnant.\n\nJane, who was cut when she was four-years-old, had a reversal procedure in the UK last year.\n\n\"I didn't think of getting a reversal when I was a young adult. It was frowned upon in my culture and my community,\" she told BBC News.\n\nShe says it took more than four years to access the procedure through the NHS, during which time she was told by two GPs that it would have to be arranged privately at a cost of up to £4,000.\n\n\"The whole ordeal was horrible,\" she says. \"When I went for the procedure, there was no explanation.\n\n\"I was given four injections to numb the area because I could still feel something.\n\n\"Then there was no aftercare or advice. The stitches were beyond comfort.\n\n\"I couldn't sleep, walk or do anything. I felt helpless and alone and isolated.\n\n\"Having the reversal was a relief, but there was no relief for me in the aftercare and emotional support that I needed.\n\n\"It's just been from one trauma to the next.\"\n\nWomen will be able to discuss treatment options at the new centres, including de-infibulation - a minor procedure that is performed to divide the scar tissue which narrows the vagina in certain cases of FGM.\n\nHilary Garratt, deputy chief nursing officer for England, said: \"These are clinics for women, run by women.\n\n\"We've listened closely to survivors and their advocates and designed these services with them, meaning they represent a step-change in the quality and timeliness of support the NHS provides.\"\n\nAnother victim of FGM told the BBC the clinics offer \"a way forward\" by allowing women to \"speak out\" about how it has affected them physically and mentally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Don't be afraid. It is no longer a secret,\" says Patricia Mansaray as she urges FGM victims to seek help\n\nPatricia Mansaray, who was cut in Sierra Leone when she was primary school age, told BBC London she understands that FGM was \"part of the culture\" for her parents.\n\nBut she said she does not support the practice as she urged other victims to \"seek help\" and \"educate the next generation\" against it.\n\n\"Don't be afraid, be a voice to the voiceless,\" she said. \"I think it's time for them to get the message that they should stop it.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"It's absolutely crucial we reach more women so they can access support services that take care of mental, emotional, physical and clinical needs.\"\n\nThe clinics will also work with local community groups - including Women's Health and Family Services, Manor Gardens (Dahlia Project), Forward, and AYDA Centre - in an effort to prevent future cases by seeking to change the culture around FGM.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What are the four types of FGM?\n\nNaana Otoo-Oyortey, the executive director of Forward (the Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development), said: \"The community advocates at these clinics will provide valuable outreach to address much needed prevention work that is underfunded within the UK.\n\n\"Unfortunately, these new services still do not cater to under 18s. This could be due to the mandatory reporting policy for FGM which regulated health and social care professionals and teachers in England and Wales to report known cases to the police. This is a major deterrent for young girls under 18 who want to access support services for FGM.\"\n\nMiranda Dobson, communications manager for Orchid Project, said: \"It's especially encouraging to see that this network of clinics will work with local community groups, which we hope will encourage more survivors to seek health services free from stigma.\n\n\"We also hope that services will be expanded to meet any increases in demand as we know that data on the number of women and girls affected by the practice in the UK are incomplete.\"\n\nThe London clinics opening are located in Brent, Waltham Forest, Croydon, Hammersmith and Tower Hamlets.", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 12 September 2019.\n\nNicola Sturgeon told MSPs during FMQs she \"deeply regrets\" that Edinburgh's new children's hospital will not open for at least another year.\n\nThe first minister was speaking at Holyrood as opposition parties called for \"heads to roll\" over the delay.\n\nThe hospital was supposed to open in 2017 - but will now not be ready until next autumn at the earliest.\n\nJackson Carlaw, the Scottish Conservative interim leader, said the project was a \"shambles\" and accused the government of \"burying its head in the sand\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for a public inquiry into what has gone wrong with the construction project, which has been hit by a series of delays and cost increases over the years.", "William Moldt went missing in Florida at the age of 40 in 1997\n\nThe remains of a man who went missing two decades ago in Florida have been found in a submerged car visible on Google Maps.\n\nWilliam Moldt, was reported missing from Lantana, Florida, on 7 November 1997.\n\nHe failed to return home from a night out at a club when he was 40 years old.\n\nA missing person investigation was launched by police but the case went cold.\n\nOn 28 August this year - 22 years on - police were called to reports of a car found in a pond in Moon Bay Circle, Wellington.\n\nWhen the vehicle was pulled from the water, skeletal remains were found inside. One week later the remains were positively identified as belonging to Mr Moldt.\n\nMr Moldt's sunken car was spotted by a previous resident of the area after \"doing a Google search\", police said.\n\nThe man then contacted a current resident of Moon Bay Circle to tell them what he had seen. Using his personal drone, the current resident confirmed there was a car in the pond and contacted police.\n\nA report by the Charley Project, an online database of cold cases in the US, said the \"vehicle had plainly [been] visible on a Google Earth satellite photo of the area since 2007, but apparently no-one had noticed it until 2019\".\n\nPalm Beach County Sheriff's Office told the BBC that Mr Moldt is presumed to have lost control of his vehicle and driven into the pond.\n\nThe force said that, during the initial investigation into his disappearance, there was \"no evidence of that occurring\" until recently, when a shift in the water made the car visible.\n\n\"You can't determine what happened that many years ago, what transpired,\" police spokeswoman Therese Barbera said.\n\n\"All we know is that he went missing off the face of the Earth, and now he's been discovered.\"\n\nMs Barbera said it was a neighbour who reported the sunken car and was not aware of reports that Google Maps had been used.\n\nOn the night of his disappearance, Mr Moldt left the club at about 23:00 local time (03:00 GMT), a report by the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System said.\n\nMr Moldt, a quiet man who did not socialise much, did not appear intoxicated and left alone in his vehicle, it added.\n\n\"He also was not a frequent drinker but did have several drinks at the bar,\" the report said.\n\nMr Moldt called his girlfriend at about 21:30, telling her he would be home soon, but was never seen or heard from again.\n\nMr Moldt's family has been informed about the discovery of his remains.", "Zakari William Bennett-Eko died after being pulled out of the River Irwell in Radcliffe\n\nA father has been charged with the murder of his 11-month-old son, who died after being pulled out of a river in Greater Manchester.\n\nZakari William Bennett-Eko died in hospital after rescuers were called to the River Irwell in Radcliffe, Bury, on Wednesday.\n\nZak Eko, 22, has been charged with murder and remanded in custody, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nHe will appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nPolice believe a \"significant number of witnesses\" were in the area around Blackburn Street at about 16:25 BST.\n\nThe force urged them to come forward, particularly if they had photos or videos.\n\nMourners have lined a bridge over the river with flowers\n\nTributes have been left on a bridge across the river, while Zakari's \"devastated\" relatives have paid tribute to him.\n\nIn an emotional Facebook post, his mother described her son as her \"whole world and so much more\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he did not lie to the Queen\n\nBoris Johnson has denied lying to the Queen over the advice he gave her over the five-week suspension of Parliament.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking after Scotland's highest civil court ruled on Wednesday the shutdown was unlawful.\n\nAsked whether he had lied to the monarch about his reasons for the suspension, he replied: \"Absolutely not.\"\n\nHe added: \"The High Court in England plainly agrees with us, but the Supreme Court will have to decide.\"\n\nThe power to suspend - or prorogue - Parliament lies with the Queen, who conventionally acts on the advice of the prime minister.\n\nThe current five-week suspension began in the early hours of Tuesday, and MPs are not scheduled to return until 14 October.\n\nLabour has said it is \"more important than ever\" that Parliament is recalled after the government published the Yellowhammer document, an assessment of a reasonable worst-case scenario in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMeanwhile, the EU has said it is willing to revisit the proposal of a Northern Ireland-only backstop to break the Brexit deadlock, despite Mr Johnson ruling this out.\n\nThe President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, said there would be no agreement without a backstop - which aims to avoid a hard Irish border after Brexit - in some form.\n\nBut the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier told MEPs that the \"situation in the UK remains serious and uncertain\", saying: \"We do not have reasons to be optimistic\".\n\nHe also warned the UK could still leave without a deal, despite Parliament introducing a law to avoid the scenario.\n\nThe Yellowhammer document - published on Wednesday after MPs forced its release - warned of food and fuel shortages in a no-deal scenario.\n\nBut Mr Johnson insisted the UK \"will be ready\" to leave the EU by the current 31 October deadline without an agreement \"if we have to\".\n\n\"What you're looking at here is just the sensible preparations - the worst-case scenario - that you'd expect any government to do,\" he said.\n\n\"In reality we will certainly be ready for a no-deal Brexit if we have to do it and I stress again that's not where we intend to end up.\"\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was \"angry\" that MPs would not be able to debate the planning document during the suspension.\n\nIf you had a usual prime minister who'd been accused overnight of misleading MPs, of breaking the law, having been forced to publish a government report warning of riots and food shortages and telling porkies to the Queen; you would imagine they would emerge a broken, humbled, crushed individual.\n\nNot so Boris Johnson. He emerged characteristically brimming with optimism and confidence.\n\nNo deal? He insisted he had got in place the necessary preparations to avoid the sort of dire scenarios forecast.\n\nAn agreement with the EU? Yes he was hopeful of getting an agreement.\n\nAnd telling lies to the Queen? Absolutely not.\n\nBut the difficulty is optimism and confidence only get you so far. MPs want details. They want details about what he's actually doing to avoid the grim no-deal forecast and what he's doing to get an arrangement with the EU\n\nAnd they want details - or the truth - about why he chose to prorogue Parliament.\n\nWhich means if the judges decide on Tuesday that Parliament should be recalled then I suspect Boris Johnson's going to need an awful lot more than bullish bravado.\n\nIn a unanimous ruling on Wednesday, the Court of Session in Edinburgh said Mr Johnson's decision to order the suspension was motivated by the \"improper purpose of stymieing Parliament\".\n\nIt came after a legal challenge launched by more than 70 largely pro-Remain MPs and peers, headed by SNP MP Joanna Cherry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The court ruled the prorogation was unlawful due to the PM's advice\n\nBut a ruling last week from the High Court in London had dismissed a similar challenge brought by businesswoman and campaigner Gina Miller.\n\nIn their rejection of her claim, the judges argued the suspension of Parliament was a \"purely political\" move and was therefore \"not a matter for the courts\".\n\nMr Johnson has suggested it was \"nonsense\" to suggest the move was an attempt to undermine democracy, insisting it is normal practice for a new PM.\n\nProrogation normally takes place every year, but the length and timing of the current suspension - in the run-up to Brexit - has attracted controversy.\n\nOpposition parties have accused the prime minister of ordering it to prevent criticism of its Brexit strategy and contingency plans for a no-deal exit.\n\nThey backed a move to order the release of communications between No 10 aides about the decision to order the suspension.\n\nBut the government has blocked their release, saying the request to see e-mails, texts and WhatsApp messages from Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's chief aide, and eight other advisers in Downing Street was \"unreasonable and disproportionate\".\n\nQueues at ports are among the no-deal consequences explored by the government\n\nThe Yellowhammer file, which is redacted in parts and almost identical to a version leaked to the Sunday Times last month, says in a reasonable worst-case scenario a no-deal Brexit could lead to:\n\nThe document also says some businesses could cease trading, and the black market could grow in response to disruption along the UK's border with Ireland.\n\n\"This will be particularly severe in border communities, where both criminal and dissident groups already operate with greater threat and impunity,\" it added.\n\nIt also raised the prospect of \"protests and direct action\" in Northern Ireland as a result of disruption to key sectors.\n\nMichael Gove, the cabinet minister with responsibility for no-deal planning, told the BBC the government had taken \"considerable steps\" to ensure the safest possible departure after a no-deal Brexit in the six weeks since 2 August, the date which appears on the document.\n\nOn Wednesday, he said \"revised assumptions\" will be published \"in due course alongside a document outlining the mitigations the government has put in place and intends to put in place\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: England v Australia, fifth Specsavers Test (day one of five)\n\nJos Buttler's late hitting went some way towards rescuing England after a familiarly disappointing batting performance on the opening day of the final Ashes Test against Australia at The Oval.\n\nButtler crunched three sixes in his 64 not out to take England to 271-8 in an unbroken stand of 45 with reliable tailender Jack Leach.\n\nThe home side had earlier lost five wickets for 56 runs to slide from 170-3 to 226-8.\n\nThat position could have been worse for England had Joe Root, who made 57, not been dropped three times, while Rory Burns overturned an lbw decision on the way to 47.\n\nWhen they were together, Australia captain Tim Paine's decision to field first after winning the toss looked like backfiring.\n\nThe tourists were given the ascendancy by 4-35 from Mitchell Marsh, only for Buttler to launch his sensational counter-attack.\n\nBy the end, there was the feeling that England are still short of par on what looks to be a true batting surface, but they have been kept in the game by Buttler.\n\nAnd the pitch may dry out enough for a fourth-innings chase to be tricky for Australia, though that would require England to first find a way to dismiss the prolific Steve Smith, then post a challenging target.\n• None 'We wanted to win both' - Bayliss reflects on World Cup, Ashes and time with England\n• None Listen to the day one TMS podcast\n\nWith Australia having already retained the Ashes, there were times when this day had an end-of-term feeling, and both sides showed signs of limping towards the end of an intense summer.\n\nThe surprise of Paine opting to field because of a green tinge to the pitch was matched by the decision to omit Mitchell Starc in favour of fellow pace bowler Peter Siddle. There were times when both calls seemed like mistakes.\n\nCatches went down, Siddle was the most lacklustre of the Australian bowlers and, as the sun shone in the afternoon, batting conditions were ideal.\n\nHowever, England's deficiencies, their inability to occupy the crease and not throw wickets away, meant they could not take full advantage.\n\nAnd as Australia improved, they took the upper hand thanks to a combination of Marsh's bowling and the gifts from a number of England's batsmen.\n\nThen came Buttler, who switched into one-day mode with some brutal striking. Even with every fielder on the boundary, Australia could not contain him, to the delight of a previously deflated Oval.\n\nEngland had a real opportunity to punish Paine when Burns and Root were adding 76 for the second wicket either side of lunch.\n\nBurns scored off his toes and through the covers. Root, after a difficult series, was willing himself on to the front foot.\n\nHe was put down at long leg on 24 and by wicketkeeper Paine on 25, both off Cummins, then by second slip Smith off Siddle on 30.\n\nThey were parted when Burns needlessly shovelled a pull at Josh Hazlewood to mid-on, but it was the wicket of Root that started the slide.\n\nThe skipper has attracted wonderful deliveries all series and this one that nipped away to take the off bail from Pat Cummins was another beauty, albeit Root was in no position to play it.\n\nButtler saw most of the collapse from the other end, but finally found a willing ally in Leach, who supported Ben Stokes at Headingley and survived for an hour as England battled to save the fourth Test.\n\nEven before he upped the ante, Buttler had played some sumptuous cover drives, yet they were overshadowed by consecutive handsome straight sixes off Hazlewood and a meaty blow over the leg-side rope off the same man.\n\nThere were times when he protected Leach from the strike, but by the end the number 10 had faced 31 deliveries for his 10 not out, including fending off the second new ball.\n\nAll-rounder Marsh came in for batsman Travis Head to play his first Test since December and support the Australia pace attack.\n\nThere were times when he outshone the rest of the bowlers by swinging the ball on a full length.\n\nHe first had Stokes miscue a pull into the hands of point then, after Root fell, was the architect of England's collapse.\n\nBoth Jonny Bairstow and Chris Woakes played across inswingers to be lbw either side of Sam Curran, who had already survived being leg-before to a Cummins no-ball, slashing to second slip.\n\nInto his 16th over, and just as Buttler was beginning to tick, Marsh pulled up with cramp and had to leave the field.\n\nHe returned and managed one more over, but by that point, Buttler was into his clean-hitting stride.\n\n'Australia will be delighted after having a poor day'\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"England should have been on course for 400 to at least put some scoreboard pressure on Steve Smith.\n\n\"A combination of a lack of application, poor thinking and some decent bowling means England have collapsed again.\n\n\"Australia will be delighted with this position given they actually had a poor day.\"\n\nEngland's Jos Buttler, speaking to TMS: \"It's nice to contribute a little bit. The boys batted really well in the morning and we got ourselves into a fantastic position but could not capitalise.\n\n\"Batting has been hard work and not enjoyable this series so I wanted to take the shackles off and play with a smile on my face.\"\n\nAustralia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh, speaking to Sky Sports: \"I was like a kid at Christmas this morning. It can be a long tour when you are not playing. I just wanted to try and get an opportunity at some stage and it was nice to produce today.\n\n\"The ball came out reasonably well. I just wanted to come in today and take a few wickets.\"\n• None Joe Root became the 12th Englishman to reach 7,000 Test runs and is the third youngest player to reach the landmark. Only Alastair Cook and Sachin Tendulkar were younger.\n• None Only three England players have scored 7,000 runs in fewer innings than Root's 158 (Wally Hammond - 131, Kevin Pietersen - 150, Alastair Cook - 151).\n• None Since his recall in May 2018, Jos Buttler has made more 50+ scores in than any England batsman in Tests and has a higher average (36.51) than anyone in the current side.", "Owen Carey was celebrating his 18th birthday when he died\n\nA teenager had a fatal reaction after unwittingly eating buttermilk at burger chain Byron, an inquest has heard.\n\nOwen Carey, who had a dairy allergy, was celebrating his 18th birthday in London when he collapsed in April 2017.\n\nEarlier, he had ordered skinny grilled chicken at the O2 Arena branch, but the menu contained \"no mention\" of a marinade, the inquest heard.\n\nTechnical manager Aimee Leitner-Hopps said a notice on the menu asked customers to advise staff of allergies.\n\nShe also told Southwark Coroner's Court all waiting staff underwent allergy training.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Carey started to experience symptoms after leaving the restaurant in Greenwich, before he collapsed outside the London Eye.\n\nHe died later at St Thomas's Hospital in central London.\n\nClodagh Bradley QC, representing the Carey family, of Crowborough, Sussex, said regulations required allergy information in a restaurant to be clearly visible.\n\nInformation on the Byron menu was \"at the very bottom, in a really very small font, in black print, on a royal blue background\" making it difficult to read, she added.\n\nMs Leitner-Hopps said: \"It's perfectly legible in my opinion.\"\n\nShe also said it complied with legal obligations.\n\nA representative of the chain, which has branches around the UK, said all table staff underwent allergy training\n\nWhen asked by assistant coroner Briony Ballard why it could not be more prominent, she replied: \"The expectation is that a customer with an allergy should inform us.\"\n\nMs Leitner-Hopps said there had been numerous local authority visits over the years to the restaurant but they had \"never been told\" the wording was not clear enough or was too small.\n\nMs Bradley QC also said: \"The menu makes no mention at all of marinade. It would be very easy for a reader of the menu to think this was a plain grilled chicken breast.\"\n\nMs Leitner-Hopps said: \"If you have an allergy you should be asking for information and the team would have provided it.\"\n\nSince Mr Carey's death, she said, and subsequent research showing one in 10 people aged 16 to 24 hide their allergies, staff now ask customers directly if they have any allergies or dietary requirements.\n\nDr Robert Boyle, consultant paediatric allergist at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, told the inquest there had been about 150 deaths like Mr Carey's in the UK in the past 25 years.\n\nDr Robert Boyle called for a national register to aid understanding of food allergies\n\nHe said: \"Fatal food anaphylaxis is uncommon and it is very fast. Typically people die 30 to 40 minutes after they have eaten the food.\"\n\nHe said the subject was poorly understood and called for a national register to gather information on it.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Carey was not carrying his Epipen at the time, but Dr Boyle said it was \"unlikely\" that an Epipen would have made a difference.\n\nPathologist Andreas Marnerides gave the medical cause of death as asthma exacerbation caused by food-induced allergic reaction, or anaphylaxis.\n\nHe said he would \"not disagree\" to putting food-induced allergic reaction as the primary cause.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Carey ate half of his chicken before he felt his lips tingling and experienced stomach problems.\n\nMembers of the public, including an RAF doctor, tried to revive him but when paramedics arrived he was \"silent, not breathing and pulseless\", the hearing was told.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new uniform will be rolled out to all years from September 2020\n\nA school criticised for banning skirts on modesty grounds has defended its policy.\n\nStowmarket High School in Suffolk introduced a new uniform policy amid concerns over glass-sided stairwells.\n\nA school newsletter informed parents that, \"with modesty in mind\", skirts were no longer considered appropriate.\n\nHeadteacher Dave Lee-Allan said the reference to modesty was an \"error\" but claimed the new uniform was \"more affordable and smarter\".\n\nHeadteacher Dave Lee-Allan said the reference to \"modesty\" had been a mistake\n\nAccording to the East Anglian Daily Times, some parents accused the school of \"cracking down on girls's behaviour and trying to enforce a \"gender-neutral\" dress code.\n\nThe policy states all year groups must wear the new uniform when the new building opens next September.\n\nThe ban on skirts has been discussed on Facebook with some parents critical of the move and others supporting it.\n\nMr Lee-Allan said he thought the glass-sided stairwells could have been another reason for moving away from skirts, but the contractors had assured him this would not be an issue.\n\nHe said mentioning modesty in the newsletter was \"my error, hands up\".\n\n\"For years a number of schools in the region have had this particular uniform policy. We have consulted and a group of parents came in and we looked at different options and then asked students and then published our proposals.\n\n\"But we can not make all the people happy.\"\n\nThe new uniform includes a blazer, white shirt, clip-on tie, black shoes and black belt\n\nThe new uniform also includes a black blazer with the school's logo on it, a white shirt, a clip-on tie, black shoes, a black belt and black or white shirts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A rise in public disorder, higher food prices and reduced medical supplies are real risks of leaving the EU with no deal, a UK government document says.\n\nMinisters have published details of their Yellowhammer contingency plan, after MPs voted to force its release.\n\nIt outlines a series of \"reasonable worst case assumptions\" for the impact of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the paper confirmed the PM \"is prepared to punish those who can least afford it\".\n\nMichael Gove, one of Boris Johnson's senior cabinet colleagues who has been given responsibility for no-deal planning, said \"revised assumptions\" will be published \"in due course alongside a document outlining the mitigations the government has put in place and intends to put in place\".\n\nHowever, ministers have blocked the release of communications between No 10 aides about Parliament's suspension.\n\nMr Gove said MPs' request to see e-mails, texts and WhatsApp messages from Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's chief aide, and eight other advisers in Downing Street were \"unreasonable and disproportionate\".\n\nPublishing the information, he added, would \"contravene the law\" and \"offend against basic principles of fairness\".\n\nDominic Cummings was one of those named in the request to release communications\n\nThe government sought to resist the publication of the Operation Yellowhammer document, but lost a vote on the issue in the Commons on Monday, prior to the suspension of Parliament, so it was compelled it to do so.\n\nThe six-page document, dated 2 August and leaked to the Sunday Times last month, warns of disruption at Dover and other channel crossings for at least three months, an increased risk of public disorder, and some shortages of fresh food.\n\nOn food, the document says certain types of fresh food supply \"will decrease\" and \"critical dependencies for the food chain\" such as key ingredients \"may be in shorter supply\".\n\nIt says these factors would not lead to overall food shortages \"but will reduce the availability and choice of products and will increase price, which could impact vulnerable groups\".\n\nThe document also says low-income groups \"will be disproportionately affected by any price rises in food and fuel\".\n\nThe flow of cross-Channel goods could face \"significant disruption lasting up to six months\".\n\n\"Unmitigated, this will have an impact on the supply of medicines and medical supplies,\" it says.\n\n\"The reliance of medicines and medical products' supply chains on the short straits crossing make them particularly vulnerable to severe extended delays.\"\n\nAmong its other key points are:\n\nThe document also warns of potential clashes if foreign fishing vessels enter British territorial waters on the day after the UK's departure and says economic difficulties could be \"exacerbated\" by flooding or a flu pandemic this winter.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Mason said some of the scenarios outlined were \"stark\", but ministers were insisting the paper was not a prediction about what will happen.\n\nThe document, which, until now, was categorised as \"official, sensitive\", is not an official cabinet paper. It dates from 10 days after Mr Johnson became prime minister.\n\nRetailers said the document confirmed what they have been saying will happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"Fresh food availability will decrease, consumer choice will decrease, and prices will rise,\" Helen Dickinson of the British Retail Consortium said.\n\nAnd the British Medical Association described the Yellowhammer file as \"alarming\" and that it confirmed its warnings about no-deal, including the threat of medical supply shortages.\n\nLabour's shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer said: \"These documents confirm the severe risks of a no-deal Brexit, which Labour has worked so hard to block.\n\n\"It is completely irresponsible for the government to have tried to ignore these stark warnings and prevent the public from seeing the evidence.\"\n\nMPs voted on Monday to order the release of all internal correspondence and communications, including e-mails, texts and WhatsApp messages, between nine No 10 advisers relating to Parliament's suspension.\n\nBut the government has said it will not comply with the MPs' request, citing potential legal breaches of data protection and employment rights.\n\nThis is not an \"old\" Yellowhammer assessment, as was claimed by the government in August.\n\nIt is from the latest internal no-deal planning, from August, from well within the time of Boris Johnson's administration.\n\nThe government hopes that its recent efforts will change some of the most concerning aspects of what is titled a \"reasonable worst case assumptions\" document, but they are yet to be able to make those changes.\n\nEverything hinges on the core assumption made about disruption to freight traffic across the Channel - that over half would be stuck for up to two and a half days.\n\nThose assumptions on trade flow have improved recently, but are still poor, and enough to have several highly concerning consequences, from fresh food supply, to stability in Northern Ireland, to social care providers and supplies of medicines for people and animals.\n\nI have also been assured that a widely circulated version of this document, from the same day, had the phrase \"base scenario\".\n\nIt is somewhat confusing that there can be a base case of a worst case planning assumption.\n\nIn any event, these are the real, plausible short-term shocks from a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe section on Northern Ireland is particularly concerning. In many respects it is incredible to have such a list of the plausible consequences of what is government policy.\n\nIt is not difficult to see why the government resisted its release. It is unlikely to improve the mood of an already sceptical Commons.\n\nBut it is really the first tangible, quotable, warts and all assessment of what Whitehall fears could be around the corner.\n\nMr Gove said the legal advice received by Mr Johnson before requesting the prorogation of Parliament was in the public domain after being disclosed as part of the ongoing court cases, but there was no justification for the \"far broader\" information being sought.\n\n\"To name individuals without any regard for their rights or the consequences of doing so goes far beyond any reasonable right of Parliament under this procedure.\n\n\"These individuals have no right of reply, and the procedure used fails to afford them any of the protections that would properly be in place.\n\n\"It offends against basic principles of fairness and the Civil Service duty of care towards its employees,\" he said.\n\nHe said it was ministers, not civil servants or special advisers, who were ultimately accountable to Parliament for decisions taken.\n\nThe request, therefore was \"inappropriate in principle and in practice, would on its own terms purport to require the government to contravene the law, and is singularly unfair to the named individuals\".\n\nCorrection 2nd October 2019: An earlier version of this story suggested the Yellowhammer document had referred to the potential risk of rioting; it has been amended to more closely reflect the paper's exact wording, which referred to protests and \"a rise in public disorder and community tensions\".", "John Lewis has fallen to a half-year loss and says a no-deal Brexit will have a \"significant\" impact.\n\nThe retailer said while it had prepared for no deal, it could not fully offset the effect and the impact on fresh food supplies was a concern.\n\nThe stores group, which also owns Waitrose, reported a loss of £25.9m, down from a profit of £0.8m last year.\n\nSales slipped amid \"difficult\" trading conditions, which were not helped by \"subdued consumer confidence\".\n\nJohn Lewis pointed to \"soft demand\" for its home and electrical goods as a particular weak spot.\n\nThe partnership, which normally makes most of its profits in the second half of the year, said it had been making preparations for a no-deal Brexit, including building up stocks \"where that is sensible\".\n\nHowever, the partnership's chairman, Charlie Mayfield, said: \"Should the UK leave the EU without a deal, we expect the effect to be significant and it will not be possible to mitigate that impact.\n\n\"Brexit continues to weigh on consumer sentiment at a crucial time for the sector as we enter the peak trading period.\"\n\nHe said the group was worried about the impact of a no-deal Brexit on fresh food supplies and consumer confidence.\n\n\"Ultimately, that could have a knock-on impact on profits,\" he said. \"That could be significant.\"\n\nSalary increases and an IT overhaul also ate into the group's profits, John Lewis said.\n\nAmid what it described as a \"weak grocery market\" sales at Waitrose slipped slightly to £3.4bn in the six months to 27 July.\n\nHowever, the supermarket chain also reported a 10.7% growth in online sales, which the partnership said was \"well ahead of the market\".\n\nAt the John Lewis department store business, total sales were £2.1bn, down 1.8%.\n\n\"After a disappointing end to last year, and the well-documented problems at fellow department stores Debenhams and House of Fraser, it's no surprise to see John Lewis' like-for-like sales and profits falling,\" said Hargreaves Lansdown analyst George Salmon.\n\n\"Weakness in big ticket purchases is particularly interesting because it implies consumers are factoring in Brexit uncertainty before splashing savings on large screen TVs or setting up repayment plans for new furniture.\"\n\nJohn Lewis plans to reach more customers by expanding its network of \"click and collect\" points at Co-op stores.\n\nIn May, the department store announced that online shoppers would be able to pick up their purchases at six Co-op stores as part of a trial. John Lewis now plans to extend that to another 50 by the end of October.", "Oxford University has been ranked first in an international league table for the fourth year in a row.\n\nThe annual Times Higher Education world rankings put Cambridge in third place and Imperial College London in tenth.\n\nBut there is a warning from the compilers of the rankings that other UK universities are \"struggling to hold their own\" against global rivals.\n\nThey warn Germany is \"poised to overtake\" the UK in having the most top universities in Europe.\n\nThe rankings show Oxford once again named as the best university in the world, ahead of a US university - the California Institute of Technology - in second place.\n\nUS universities continue to dominate the rankings, taking seven of the top 10 places and 60 out of the top 200.\n\nThe Technical University of Munich: German universities have been among the biggest risers in the rankings\n\nAsian university systems are catching up - with China and Japan continuing to perform strongly in the rankings.\n\nIran's universities are among the \"biggest climbers\" in this year's league table.\n\nThe full list is of 1,300 universities in 92 countries, with the rankings taking into account teaching quality, the volume and reputation of research, citations of research, income from industry and international links.\n\nAn analysis accompanying the rankings says that the UK's so-called \"golden triangle\" - Oxford, Cambridge and London universities - continues to be very successful.\n\nBut it warns that this is \"masking\" a relative decline for other UK universities, while German universities are rapidly improving in the league table.\n\nSince 2016, the number of UK universities in the top 200 has fallen from 34 to 28, while the number of German universities has risen by three to 23.\n\nThe analysis from the Times Higher Education says this could reflect higher levels of investment being put into Germany's university system.\n\nCambridge University, part of the \"golden triangle\", was ranked in third place\n\nIt also warns that UK universities could fall further behind Germany in funding if they lose access to EU research partnerships after Brexit.\n\n\"If the UK starts to withdraw from the international stage, its position in the upper echelons of the rankings will suffer,\" says Phil Baty of the Times Higher Education rankings.\n\nThe vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, said: \"Oxford's success is in large part due to our research collaborations with other excellent universities around the world and we remain determined both to deepen and to expand these partnerships, whatever Brexit brings.\"", "About 1,000 people were involved in the marches and the counter protests last weekend\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council has instructed her teams to see if placing a temporary ban on all loyalist and republican marches \"would be workable\".\n\nSusan Aitken said it would provide \"breathing space\" to find a long-term solution following recent disorder.\n\nFour Loyalist marches and an Irish Republican parade planned for this weekend were banned by the council after a meeting on Wednesday.\n\nBut more marches are scheduled for the coming weeks.\n\nThe council's Public Processions Committee made the decision to prohibit the marches planned for Saturday and Sunday following serious sectarian disorder at similar events over the past two weekends.\n\nThe police had warned there was a strong likelihood of disorder and a large number of officers would be required.\n\nSupt John McBride said there had been calls on social media from Republicans to target Loyalist events and demands from Loyalists to protest against Republican parades.\n\nAt a council meeting on Thursday, leader Ms Aitken said: \"Community tensions are running high and more processions are planned for the weeks to come.\n\n\"[So} I have asked officers to consider every option available to us, including whether a moratorium on such marches in the interests of public safety would be workable and provide all stake holders with the breathing space needed to find a longer term solution.\"\n\nAt First Minister Questions at Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs the city council had made the \"right decision\" in banning the marches this weekend.\n\nShe added that the right to march was \"an important part of our democracy\" but those who were abusing it were putting it into jeopardy for others.\n\n\"It is also vital that the rights of the majority of law-abiding citizens are protected and given priority,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\nHowever, the Orange Order hit out at the decision.\n\nJim McHarg, Grand Master of the Orange Lodge, said the move was \"illegal\" and called for protests outside the City Chambers on Saturday.\n\nThe Orange Order accounts for the highest number of marches in the city\n\nA march in Govan two weeks ago led to violent disorder\n\nThe council decided to prohibit the marches after violent sectarian disturbances on the two previous weekends.\n\nOn Saturday, a police officer was injured as two Irish Republican marches and Loyalist counter-demonstrations were held in Glasgow.\n\nThe counter demonstrations at both marches were quickly contained by police, who had deployed officers in riot gear and mounted police.\n\nThe heavy police presence came a week after a riot developed in Govan when Loyalists tried to disrupt another Irish Republican parade.\n\nMr McHarg, from the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, claimed there had been a \"concerted campaign\" by Irish republican-supporting groups to cause fear and alarm to the protestant communities of Glasgow.\n\nHe said: \"Nationalist councillors in Glasgow, supported by Police Scotland, effectively weaponised these protests by sending out a message that they would use the threat of protests to ban protestant parades.\n\n\"This action led to the chaotic scenes in the streets of Glasgow as a hard-core element from both sides of the argument used this weaponised protest action against each other.\"\n\nMr McHarg said the Orange Order had played no part in any of the incidents in Glasgow in recent weeks.\n\nHe said the move to ban parades outright was \"something we cannot ignore\".\n\n\"We will not stand idly by whilst our democratic right of free assembly is curtailed by politically-motivated anti-unionist nationalists,\" he said.\n\nMr McHarg called on members to protest outside the City Chambers in Glasgow on Saturday morning.\n\nA group called Scottish Protestants Against Discrimination had already arranged a demonstration at that time to protest against what they claimed was Glasgow City Council's decision to \"discriminate\" against certain processions.", "First-generation or second-generation technology? It may depend on where you live\n\nNearly a third of all energy companies fitting smart meters are still installing old technology.\n\nGovernment guidance says that since the middle of March 2019 customers should only have been given second generation smart meters.\n\nHowever, eight companies still installing first generation smart meters say the network is not reliable enough to switch customers on to.\n\nThey say this is particularly a problem in northern England and Scotland.\n\nThe auto-switching service Look After My Bills has discovered that Bristol Energy, British Gas, Ecotricity, EON and Octopus are still installing some first generation meters in the North, and Nabuh Energy, Simplicity and Utilita are only installing the first generation after encountering difficulties with the new system.\n\nThe second generation of meters is supposed to be able to connect remotely to a national network, which should make switching supplier possible, for the first time for many customers.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, the companies emphasised that the issues were industry-wide problems.\n\n\"We are not ignoring government guidance,\" said a spokesperson for Ecotricity. \"In fact it's clear that in documented instances where a SMETS2 meter cannot be used, or in areas where connection is not possible, we are encouraged to use SMETS1, or non-smart meters.\"\n\nTwo different contracts were given out by the government to install those networks. The Southern Communications Network is being run on pre-existing mobile technology, while the Northern Communications Network is being run via specialist radio signal.\n\nA number of the companies claim that problems with the signal in that Northern Communications Network mean that they cannot reliably connect customers to it. Therefore customers living in the South of England and Wales are much more likely to receive a second generation meter, than those living in the North of England and Scotland.\n\nOctopus energy said the priority was to ensure customers' needs were met.\n\n\"Where a second generation meter can be reliably installed and commissioned, we'll do that,\" the firm said. \"Otherwise we'll offer customers the choice between first generation or waiting until second generation is available.\"\n\nSome firms also highlighted problems with the connection in high-rise flats and for those on pre-payment meters.\n\nThe company responsible for the operation of the data networks across the UK, Smart DCC, said thousands of second generation meters were being installed in the North every day.\n\n\"DCC is supporting the energy industry as it rolls out second-generation smart meters across the country,\" it said. \"There are now more than two million operating on our smart, secure network,\" Smart DCC said.\n\nUtilita supplies energy almost exclusively to pre-payment customers. The firm said it is waiting for the result of a judicial review into government policy, as it says companies should not be compelled to install the new meters.\n\nUtilita believes the new system has significant connectivity problems and \"provides a vastly inferior service for pay-as-you-go customers, many of whom are vulnerable\".\n\nBristol Energy said any installations of SMETS1 meters since March have been because customers are on pre-payment meters.\n\n\"As part of our social purpose, we have a fair proportion of customers who are in this payment category,\" it said.\n\nBritish Gas agrees, adding there \"have been some industry-wide delays with the infrastructure for SMETS2 pre-payment meters which means we're not yet installing SMETS2 to all of these customers.\"\n\nSimplicity energy said it is waiting for the first generation meters to have an upgrade, rather than install the newer version, which it believes will happen shortly. The firm said: \"Our strategy is to complete our roll-out programme and run down our stocks of SMETS1 meters to avoid them becoming landfill.\"\n\nAny first-generation meters installed after 15 March 2019 do not count towards the companies' smart meter roll-out obligations, and the regulator, Ofgem, could take enforcement action against any company not meeting those obligations.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said \"the network for the North is fully operational, with thousands of second generation meters being installed every day.\n\n\"Smart meters provide a much better service for customers over traditional meters. This is particularly the case for pre-payment customers by cutting costs,\" it added.", "Raymond McCord's son was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997\n\nA judge at the High Court in Belfast has dismissed a legal challenge against a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOne of the three cases brought was by the victims' campaigner Raymond McCord who plans to appeal the decision.\n\nThe court heard arguments that a no-deal would have a negative effect on the peace process and endanger the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nBut the judge said the main aspects of the case were \"inherently and unmistakeably political\".\n\nLord Justice Bernard McCloskey also excluded a challenge against the suspension of Parliament because the issue formed the \"centrepiece\" of proceedings in England and Scotland.\n\nThe current five-week suspension of Parliament, a process known as proroguing, started in the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nOn Wednesday, Scotland's highest civil court ruled that Parliament's suspension is unlawful.\n\nThe judge's verdict, in essence, is that the matter he was asked to rule on should be dealt with by politicians, not the courts.\n\nLord Justice McCloskey said \"virtually all of the assembled evidence belongs to the world of politics\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut with the cases heard in England and Scotland heading towards the UK Supreme Court, Raymond McCord and his lawyers feel the issues related to Northern Ireland should be examined there too.\n\nAfter Thursday morning's hearing, Mr McCord's solicitor Ciaran O'Hare said that in the absence of a Stormont Executive, the most important way Northern Ireland could have a voice was for people to take action through the courts.\n\nA UK government appeal against the ruling will be heard by the Supreme Court in London next week.\n\nLord Justice Bernard McCloskey added that the courts had to \"respect certain boundaries\".\n\nAn appeal hearing is likely to be held on Friday.\n\nRaymond McCord junior was beaten to death before his body was dumped in a quarry near north Belfast in 1997\n\nMr McCord's 22-year-old son, Raymond junior, was murdered by the UVF in Belfast in 1997.\n\nNo one has ever been convicted of the former RAF man's murder.", "The redevelopment of the Kingsway in Swansea is under way, in what has been a struggling area\n\nPeople not having much money to spend is the main reason high streets struggle, according to researchers.\n\nTactics such as lowering business rates or taxing online sales were unlikely to help because they ignore the problem of a weak local economy, the think-tank Centre for Cities said.\n\nIt described Swansea and Newport as weak cities and Cardiff as strong.\n\nStronger cities have more businesses that export and need higher-skilled staff, bringing wealth into the area.\n\nIn Cardiff, 22% of jobs are in these high-skilled exporting firms, compared to 19% for Newport and 16% for Swansea.\n\nAny government funds to support High Streets should be used to develop a higher-skilled workforce, better quality offices and improved transport, researchers argued, saying this would make the most difference because it helped attract businesses that create well-paid jobs.\n\nHigh streets of the strongest cities are more varied and less reliant on shops, with nearly half of their city centre businesses selling food and drink, and with more amenities such as cinemas and venues for the performing arts.\n\nIn Newport, the level of places where you can eat is below 10%.\n\nAn artist's impression of the planned 3,500-seater arena and surrounding \"coastal park\" in Swansea\n\nIn Swansea, the average household disposable income is £14,908, about three-quarters of the UK average.\n\nThe city has had various setbacks, such as the cancellation of the electrification of the rail line from Cardiff, and the council is now driving the tidal lagoon energy project after the UK government decided not to back it.\n\nThere have also been rows over the Swansea Bay City deal.\n\nBut it also has two universities which have brought forward expansion plans and there is widespread regeneration under way and more in the pipeline.\n\nThis is \"to create new leisure, office and housing that will see thousands more people live and work in the city centre and bring high-tech professional jobs to the area\", the council said.\n\nThe projects include a £130m indoor arena and the redevelopment of the Palace Theatre to include office space.\n\nIt will take many years to assess whether this investment pays off and creates the hoped-for wealth.\n\nIt is hoped the redevelopment of Swansea city centre will bring higher-paid jobs\n\nThe report comes as research suggested cities in Wales were some of the hardest hit by the closure of chain retailers.\n\nIt said internet competition was not the primary cause of High Street decline and city centres offering consumers something they were unable to get online were more likely to succeed in the long-term.\n\nOn the flip side, it said cities with stronger economies could become unaffordable and warned planning rules must enable them to build so there is enough property to meet demand.\n\nCentre for Cities' chief executive, Andrew Carter, said good jobs and a strong local economy were the key.\n\nHe said: \"Any interventions that seek to improve cities' amenities without boosting consumer spending power are doomed to fail from an economic perspective.\n\n\"Policy should focus on improving cities' overall economic performance.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "JK Rowling has donated £15.3m to support research into neurological conditions at a centre named after her mother.\n\nThe Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at the University of Edinburgh was established with a £10m donation from the Harry Potter author in 2010.\n\nHer latest gift will help create new facilities and support research.\n\nThe centre is an integrated care and research facility focusing on MS and neurological conditions with the aim of bringing more clinical studies and trials to patients.\n\nNeurological conditions studied at the clinic include motor neurone disease (MND), Parkinson's and dementias.\n\nThe university hopes the donation, which includes Gift Aid, will create a global legacy that will have a lasting effect on patients and their families.\n\nMs Rowling said: \"When the Anne Rowling Clinic was first founded, none of us could have predicted the incredible progress that would be made in the field of regenerative neurology, with the clinic leading the charge.\n\n\"It's a matter of great pride for me that the clinic has combined these lofty ambitions with practical, on the ground support and care for people with MS, regardless of stage and type; I've heard at first-hand what a difference this support can make.\n\n\"I am confident that the combination of clinical research and practical support delivered by Professor Siddharthan Chandran and his exemplary team will create a definitive step-change for people with MS and associated conditions.\"\n\nProf Chandran, director of the clinic, said: \"Our research is shaped by listening to, and involving, individuals who are living with these tough conditions.\n\n\"The Anne Rowling Clinic's vision is to offer everyone with MS or other neurodegenerative diseases, such as MND, the opportunity to participate in a suite of clinical studies and trials.\n\n\"This incredibly far-sighted and generous donation will unlock the potential of personalised medicine for people with MS in Scotland and further afield.\"\n\nUniversity vice chancellor Prof Peter Mathieson said they were \"immensely honoured\".\n\n\"This inspiring donation will fund a whole new generation of researchers who are focused on discovering and delivering better treatments and therapies for patients,\" he added.\n\nThe university set up a Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research in 2007, which has also received support from Rowling.\n\nMs Rowling's story of the boy wizard Harry Potter began as a story written in Edinburgh cafes while she was living on benefits.\n\nIt became a multi-billion pound worldwide franchise based on seven novels describing Harry's adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times Rich List, Ms Rowling has an estimated fortune of £750m. She has already given away many millions of pounds to various charities.", "The Australian couple are reportedly being held in Evin prison in the country's capital\n\nTwo Australian citizens detained in Iran have been identified as Jolie King and Mark Firkin.\n\nMs King, who also holds a UK passport, and Mr Firkin were blogging their travels in Asia and the Middle East.\n\nThey were reportedly arrested 10 weeks ago near Tehran but news of the arrest, and that of another British-Australian woman, came to light on Wednesday.\n\nAustralia said it had repeatedly raised their cases with Tehran, including in a meeting between officials last week.\n\nForeign Minister Marise Payne said she had lobbied on their behalf in a meeting with her Iranian counterpart.\n\nShe described the detentions as \"a matter of deep concern\" on Thursday, and confirmed that assistance had been offered to the families of the three detainees.\n\n\"[We] hope to see Mark and Jolie safely home as soon as possible,\" their families said on Thursday.\n\nThe situation comes amid growing tensions between the West and Iran.\n\nSeveral dual nationals have been detained in Iran in recent years, including the British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nRelations between the UK and Iran have also been strained in recent months by a row over the seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf.\n\nAustralia also announced in July that it would join the US and the UK in policing the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian threats.\n\nMs King - who has dual UK and Australian nationality - and Mr Firkin, an Australian citizen, were reported to have been travelling on Australian passports.\n\nIn 2017, the couple left Western Australia to embark on a major trip driving across Asia to the UK. They were documenting their adventures on Instagram and Youtube, where they had more than 20,000 followers.\n\nVideos of their travel through a dozen countries featured their cultural interactions and often showed drone footage of the natural landscape.\n\n\"Our biggest motivation... is to hopefully inspire anyone wanting to travel, and also try to break the stigma around travelling to countries which get a bad wrap [sic] in the media,\" the pair wrote online.\n\nFew details of the circumstances of their arrest have been made public, but the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said they had reportedly been flying a drone without a permit.\n\nThey are believed to be being held in Tehran's Evin prison, where Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is also detained.\n\nA source told the BBC that Ms King has been told she is being held as part of a plan for a potential prisoner swap with Australia.\n\nThe second detained British-Australian woman is reported to be a University of Cambridge-educated scholar who was lecturing at an Australian university.\n\nShe has reportedly already been tried on unknown charges and jailed for 10 years. The cases are not believed to be related.\n\nWhile the charges against her remain unclear, 10-year terms are routinely given in Iran for spying charges, the Times said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nThe two British-Australian women are believed to be the first British passport holders without dual Iranian nationality to be held in the country in recent years.\n\nOn Wednesday, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab met the Iranian ambassador to discuss Iran's behaviour over a seized tanker's oil.\n\nHe \"raised serious concerns about the number of dual national citizens detained by Iran and their conditions of detention\", said the UK Foreign Office.", "Cyclists Jason and Laura Kenny became parents in 2017\n\nParents should ask local councils to regularly shut down their streets so children can play outside, British cyclist Jason Kenny has said.\n\nThe six-time Olympic gold medallist told the BBC that traffic on residential roads was one of the \"big hurdles\" for parents who wanted their children to play outdoors near home.\n\nKenny's call is part of the Playing Out campaign, which began in Bristol.\n\nPlaying Out says only 21% of children play on their street regularly.\n\n\"A lot of parents don't feel confident to let their kids out on the street in front of them,\" Kenny said on Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"So it's giving them power to get in contact with the council, make it official and shut the road for a bit and let the kids play out.\"\n\nBarney Worfolk-Smith, who lives in Hackney, London, is among a growing number of people trying to persuade their council to regularly shut their streets to help children play outside.\n\nHe says there is now a \"thriving\" community based around the efforts, which he has been organising for the past three years, with about 15 children and 20 adults regularly taking part.\n\nBarney Worfolk-Smith tries to close his street down about once a month so children can play outside\n\nMr Worfolk-Smith says his son did play outside \"a bit\" prior to the closure - but, he adds, it has \"without doubt changed the colour, the attitude, of everyone around\".\n\n\"I really believe in this,\" he tells BBC News. \"I grew up in the countryside, I had complete freedom, especially on my bicycle.\n\n\"We try to do it every single month.\n\n\"On Sundays from two until four we shut off the streets - the main reason is for children to come out and reclaim the streets, but I'm also a big believer in community, in getting the neighbours out and talking to the older people who live here.\"\n\nNot only does closing the road encourage children to play out at the time, Mr Worfolk-Smith says, but it has also \"normalised\" playing outside on a regular basis.\n\n\"There's a gang of kids out most nights now just on their roller skates or bikes just having fun,\" he says.\n\nHolly Beasley says her street in Stockport used to be \"civil but quite distant\", with almost none of the children playing outside before the road closures were organised.\n\n\"But now lots of children do play out and there's a good mix of ages,\" she says. \"Lots of the children go to different schools but actually they've become friends and built those new friendships and little networks locally.\"\n\nThe road closures have been taking place on Ms Beasley's street for almost two years, and while she admits not all residents were keen on the idea initially, that has changed.\n\n\"People have come round to the idea and have realised it hasn't had any negative impact on their lives and has only brought good things for them,\" she says.\n\nHolly Beasley's street has been closing regularly for about two years\n\n\"I think the biggest surprising benefit has been the adult friendships.\n\n\"Not just for those of us who are directly involved in organising it - there are a lot of older people on the street who have really embraced it.\n\n\"I was surprised to see people who don't have children coming out regularly and just enjoying having a cup of tea and just getting involved in the practical side of things.\"\n\nHowever, not everyone is convinced by the campaign.\n\nDan Plummer, a resident of Bristol, questioned whether the idea could lead children to be less careful on roads in general.\n\n\"We should be very careful about normalising playful activities on roads,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Closing roads and allowing children to play on these roads may cause children to not think of the dangers of the road in other environments.\n\n\"Rather than allowing children to play on the road, perhaps parents could take their children to parks.\"\n\nPhil Crampton, from York, echoed that sentiment, saying he didn't believe the idea would catch on.\n\n\"Why can't the parents take their kids to the local park like they used to do?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kwasi Kwarteng claims 'many people are saying judges are biased' in Andrew Neil interview\n\nA minister has been criticised for suggesting that \"many people\" believe judges are biased about Brexit.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng's comments came after a court in Scotland said the current prorogation of Parliament was unlawful.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Neil Show: \"I'm not saying this, but, many people... are saying that the judges are biased.\"\n\nBut Boris Johnson has defended the independence of the judiciary.\n\nThe prime minister said he would not \"quarrel or criticise\" the judges in the case, adding: \"The British judiciary, the United Kingdom judiciary, is one of the great glories of our constitution - they are independent.\"\n\nHe said: \"Believe me, around the world people look at our judges with awe and admiration.\"\n\nMr Johnson, referring to an English court's decision that prorogation is lawful, added: \"The High Court in England plainly agrees with us but the Supreme Court will have to decide.\n\n\"I think it's proper for politicians to let them get on and do that.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said that British judges were \"incredibly fair\" and the \"the best in the world\".\n\n\"We should always defend the independence of our judiciary,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Kwarteng - who campaigned for Brexit in 2016 - told Andrew Neil that there was concern about the extent to which judges are \"interfering in politics\".\n\nHe said: \"I think that they are impartial, but I'm saying that many people, many Leave voters, many people up and down the country, are beginning to question the partiality of the judges.\n\n\"That's just a fact. People are saying this all the time, they are saying, 'Why are judges getting involved in politics?' We've got to be honest about the debate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added: \"The extent to which lawyers and judges are interfering in politics is something that concerns many people.\"\n\nLord Campbell, who was Liberal Democrat leader from 2006 to 2007, criticised Mr Kwarteng.\n\n\"I would expect a government minister to understand the importance of the independence of the judiciary and not make any comments that might undermine public perceptions,\" he said.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick distanced himself from Mr Kwarteng's comments when asked about them on Robert Peston's ITV programme on Wednesday.\n\nHe said: \"We must back the judges in this country to uphold the rule of law.\n\n\"I would go back to, though, the comment that was made by the High Court which said I think that the words they used were, 'You have to be very cautious before you intrude into debates between the executive and Parliament'.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng's views were also criticised by former Justice Secretary Sir David Lidington.\n\nSir David, who was effectively Theresa May's deputy when she was prime minister, tweeted that he had \"seen no evidence of the courts getting involved in politics but rather English and Scottish courts grappling with important legal/constitutional questions referred to them by UK citizens - and coming to different reasoned judgements\".\n\nMr Kwarteng's remarks came after a panel of three judges sitting at the Court of Session, Scotland's highest civil court, found in favour of a cross-party bid to prove Mr Johnson's move to suspend Parliament, known as proroguing, is illegal.\n\nA UK government appeal against the ruling will be heard by the Supreme Court in London next week.\n\nThe current five-week suspension of Parliament started in the early hours of Tuesday and is due to last until 14 October.\n\nBut opposition MPs have called for Parliament to be immediately recalled in the wake of Wednesday's judgement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ryanair and Aer Lingus are cutting some routes to and from Belfast airports\n\nTwo airlines are cutting routes at both Belfast International and Belfast City airports.\n\nRyanair is understood to have reduced a number of services at Aldergrove this winter.\n\nMeanwhile, Aer Lingus has confirmed it will no longer be offering two routes at Belfast City Airport from next summer.\n\nThe Belfast airports have both expressed their disappointment at the flight cuts.\n\nFrom November, it will no longer be possible to book Ryanair flights between Belfast and Berlin, Manchester and Lanzarote.\n\nBBC News NI has seen emails sent from Ryanair to customers cancelling flights to Manchester in which it said \"Ryanair regrets that following a commercial review\" certain flights will cease operation from 6 November.\n\nWhen it announced its winter schedule, the carrier said these routes would continue to be operated.\n\nBelfast International said it was \"extremely disappointed\" at the further reduction in services\n\nIn March, Ryanair said it was dropping routes to Poland and Malta from Belfast International, while also reducing the number of flights it operates to London Stansted and Manchester.\n\nThe carrier said this was due to the \"weak UK market\" and UK Air Passenger Duty (APD).\n\nAPD is a tax levied on air passengers, which varies according to destination and class of travel.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, the DUP's South Antrim MP Paul Girvan said that APD special conditions for Northern Ireland were a \"major ask\" as part of the confidence and supply agreement with the Conservative Party.\n\n\"We are competing directly with Dublin. No other airport in the UK is competing on that basis,\" said Mr Girvan.\n\n\"One of our major asks is to have that money for our airport and to allow us as a country to compete with Dublin.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Belfast International said it was \"extremely disappointed\" at the further reduction in service.\n\nThe airport said it again highlights the disadvantage posed by APD, which it said is \"denying Northern Ireland passengers destination choice\".\n\n\"There remains a strong market demand for direct air services to those destinations which will no longer be served by Ryanair,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We have already secured some additional capacity to the Canary Islands and will continue to work with our airline partners to replace lost services.\"\n\nIn July, Ryanair said a number of loss-making bases will be cut or closed this winter due to the late delivery of the Boeing MAX aircraft.\n\nWhen contacted about the route reductions at Belfast International, Ryanair said: \"As announced on 16 July, due to the late delivery of up to 30 Boeing MAX aircraft, a number of loss-making Ryanair bases will be cut or closed this winter.\n\n\"We are working hard to minimise the impact on our customers and our people, and to continue as many routes as possible, which will be served by flights from other bases.\"\n\nBut it declined to comment specifically on Belfast.\n\nAer Lingus is cutting routes from Belfast City airport to Malaga and Faro\n\nMeanwhile, Aer Lingus said it will no longer operate services from Belfast City to Faro and Malaga during summer 2020 following a \"commercial review\".\n\n\"Aer Lingus remains committed to Belfast City and continues to operate a high frequency daily service between Belfast City and London Heathrow.\"\n\nThe airport said it is disappointed at the decision.\n\n\"While this news will come as a disappointment to the thousands of passengers that filled the Faro and Malaga flights during the summer months, the airport will continue to work closely with Aer Lingus and IAG to explore other international routes.\"", "Vets say they are worried about potential problems in the availability of some animal medicines in the case of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe British Veterinary Association said it had concerns over short-shelf life products, such as vaccines.\n\nAnd it urged any pet owners who are worried to speak to their vet.\n\nThe government said it was \"working closely with the industry on extensive contingency planning to ensure there is no disruption\".\n\nIt comes after the government published a no-deal Brexit assessment, which included warning of possible disruption to medicines for veterinary use.\n\nSuch disruption would have \"potential detrimental impacts\" for animal welfare, as well as for diseases which are spread between animals and humans, the document said.\n\nMost of the veterinary medicines used in the UK are either produced in or enter via the EU, according to industry body the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH).\n\nThe government has confirmed that animal medicines are classed as \"category 1\" goods, which would be prioritised if there was disruption at the border after a no-deal Brexit.\n\nSimon Doherty, the president of the BVA, said there were concerns over how lorry delays at ferry ports could affect short shelf-life medicines.\n\n\"Where we have products which are short shelf-life products, you need the supply chain to be maintained on a pretty constant basis,\" he told the BBC. \"Most vaccines have to be kept in a refrigerator.\n\n\"If we run into a situation where there was a sustained part of time where a lot of animals weren't vaccinated we could have more substantial problems and losses in the industry.\n\n\"Where there is specific issues is around use of a lot of product at a specific time. We use a lot of anaesthetic in the springtime, we would be lambing, calving, dehorning calves.\"\n\nDr Sophie Aylett, who owns an independent farm animal vet practice in the Midlands with her husband, believes similar problems could arise in autumn - the time when the UK is due to leave the EU.\n\n\"We are approaching autumn and vaccine booster times,\" she said. \"In late autumn, farms start to bring cattle into sheds to avoid the worst of the winter weather.\n\n\"By necessity this increases stocking density and cow to cow contact, therefore creating a higher risk of infectious disease transmission such as pneumonia. Normally farmers can vaccinate at-risk animals in advance but if there is a delay, it could affect their ability to do so, and consequently adversely affect animal welfare.\"\n\nAnd it is not just farmers who should be concerned about no deal, according to Mr Doherty, who said it could affect animals \"across the board\" - including zoo animals and pets.\n\n\"It's not as if there will be sudden parvovirus outbreaks in dogs. But where there could be potential problems, is if there isn't a supply of vaccines for an animal to get its booster at a particular time.\"\n\nHe does not anticipate there will be a shortage of cat and dog medicines, but the advice to pet owners would be to speak to their vet if they are concerned.\n\nMeanwhile, for pets undergoing longer-term treatment, he added: \"Don't leave the next prescription until you have got one tablet left.\"\n\nA spokesman for the government's Veterinary Medicines Directorate said \"veterinary medicines will continue to be readily available when we leave the EU on 31 October, whatever the circumstances of our exit\".\n\nThey will be given priority on government freight to avoid disruption to supply, he said.\n\nThe government is also working with the industry to increase stocks of medicines, change supply routes and ensure they have early warning about potential issues with the supply chain.\n\nNOAH said its industry has been working on detailed planning for all Brexit scenarios.\n\nBut if there was a no-deal Brexit, there are broader issues which could affect the availability of vet medicines, it said. It also raised concerns about vaccines.\n\n\"This disruption does represent a potential risk to controlling disease and an animal welfare issue.\n\n\"If preventative medicines such as vaccines are not available, there is a greater risk of disease in the population. This could increase the risk of its spread, including the spread of zoonotic infections.\"\n\nThe president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Dr Niall Connell, said: \"As the released Operation Yellowhammer documents demonstrate, any interruption in the supply of veterinary medicines would be a threat to animal health and welfare and public health.\"\n\nThe RCVS also said it was concerned that a no-deal could be a risk to the veterinary workforce, with half of new vets recruited from elsewhere in the EU each year.", "Sir Philip Green's Topshop and Topman fashion chains suffered an almost £500m net loss last year, amid tumbling sales and a raft of one-off charges.\n\nIts latest accounts showed a £498.5m loss for 2018, a sharp rise on the £15.6m loss in 2017.\n\nThe results also showed that sales fell 9% to £846.7m.\n\nThe figures lay bare the extent of the problems at parent company Arcadia, which recently had to strike a rescue deal to keep its retail empire afloat.\n\nArcadia, which also owns other High Street names including Miss Selfridge and Burton, is shutting 48 stores and cutting rents at other outlets.\n\nLast week, Arcadia reported a smaller loss of £169.2m for 2018, suggesting some parts of Sir Philip's empire are offsetting the poor performance of others.\n\nHowever, despite the group's restructuring, Arcadia warned last week that it may need fresh funding to support its business.\n\nTopshop was long the jewel in Arcadia's crown. It became a trendsetter and attracted celebrity endorsements during the 2000s.\n\nKate Moss has twice worked with Sir Philip on Topshop lines, while Cara Delevingne, the model-turned-actress, became the face of the brand in 2014.\n\nBut like other traditional retailers, it has struggled with the rise of more nimble fast fashion players.\n\nIn terms of sales, most of the damage last year occurred in Topshop's dominant UK business, where revenue fell by £83m.\n\nHowever, it blamed most of its heavy losses on one-off charges, such as onerous shop leases on loss-making stores and writedowns on the value of assets. It also revealed a sharp fall in staff numbers, down 12% to 3,853.\n\nThere is increasing speculation that the Arcadia group could be broken up, in the hope new owners can resuscitate its brands.\n\nBefore agreeing the most recent shop closures, Arcadia had closed 200 of its UK stores over the preceding three years.", "Boris Johnson has confirmed the government will introduce a new bill aimed tackling the \"horrific crime\" of domestic abuse when Parliament returns.\n\nPrevious legislation, forcing councils to provide shelter for victims, was dropped after the prime minister suspended proceedings at Westminster.\n\nSeveral charities wrote to him, asking for a \"clear\" pledge to reintroduce it in the Queen's Speech on 14 October.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"fully committed\" to such a move.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Bill, introduced with cross-party support by Theresa May's government in July, would place a legal duty on councils to offer secure homes for those fleeing violence, and their children.\n\nApplying to England and Wales, it proposed the first government definition of domestic abuse, including financial abuse and controlling and manipulative non-physical behaviour.\n\nThe government confirmed in July that it would also be extended to Northern Ireland, which has been without a devolved administration since January 2017.\n\nWhen the bill was introduced in July, then Victims Minister Victoria Atkins said it addressed \"an injustice that has long needed to be tackled\".\n\nIt is estimated that almost two million adults in England and Wales are victims of domestic abuse every year.\n\nLocal authority spending on refuges for victims fell from £31m in 2010 to £23m in 2017.\n\nCharities say there is a severe lack of services in many areas, and victims are being turned away when they seek help because refuges with diminished budgets cannot cope with demand.\n\nWomen's Aid said victims' services were operating \"on a shoestring\".\n\nThe suspension - prorogation - of Parliament means all bills currently passing through the Commons and Lords are lost, unless the government decides to carry them over to the next session. The Domestic Abuse Bill was one of those lost when Parliament closed in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nLost bills can be reintroduced in the Queen's Speech, setting out the government's agenda, but all progress made so far in Parliament is undone.", "The government has released an assessment of the possible effects of a no-deal Brexit on the UK, after MPs demanded that it be made public.\n\nThe document, marked as \"Official Sensitive\" and dated 2 August 2019, outlines a series of \"reasonable worst-case planning assumptions\".\n\nIt was drawn up as part of \"Operation Yellowhammer\" - the name for the government's contingency plan to prepare for leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal.\n\nThe government says it is spending an extra £2.1bn on no-deal planning and is updating these planning assumptions.\n\nSo, what does the document say and what is being done - as far as we know - to prepare for no-deal?\n\nTo ensure more lorries are ready for customs, the government announced last month that 88,000 companies would be automatically enrolled in a new customs system.\n\nThe Port of Dover in Kent handles approximately 10,500 lorries a day. To prevent nearby roads from clogging up, the government has a traffic management plan codenamed Operation Brock.\n\nIf the plan is activated, up to 2,000 lorries will be held in a queue leading to the port. Other traffic will be kept flowing around the queued-up lorries, in what is known as a contraflow system.\n\nA fallback option would be to divert lorries to the disused Manston airfield, near Ramsgate - and use it to hold up to 6,000 lorries on the runway at any one time.\n\nIf further capacity was still required, a \"last resort\" would be to turn the 10-mile M26 motorway into a temporary lorry park.\n\nBut there is a still a lot of confusion, according to Rona Hunnisett, from the Freight Transport Association.\n\n\"The report shows there's still significant detail to be clarified if Britain is to keep trading efficiently,\" she says. \"Businesses can only prepare for, and implement, new processes once, and still need confirmation of what they are to adopt in the way of new practices.\"\n\nThe government has said that it will continue to recognise EU standards for food being imported into the UK, to minimise disruption.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said retailers are doing all they can to prepare for no-deal, but will not be able to prevent all negative effects. It stresses that many fresh fruits and vegetables will be out of season in the UK and that there will be a shortage of warehouse space ahead of Christmas.\n\n\"No deal Brexit would be extremely disruptive to the supply chains that we operate, particularly the fresh food supply chains,\" Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's told BBC News.\n\n\"There will inevitably be disruption simply because we've never done this before,\" he added, although he also said that previous delays to the Brexit date mean \"there's probably more understanding of what could go wrong and therefore more contingency planning\".\n\nAnother factor is what tariffs (the taxes on imports) will be charged on food coming into the UK.\n\nThe government published a \"tariff schedule\" in March, which removed most tariffs on imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit\n\nThat means some food from outside the EU that currently attract a tariff could be cheaper, but some goods from the EU that are currently imported with 0% tariffs, like beef and dairy, will now carry tariffs, and so could become more expensive.\n\nAt the end of June, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) started putting out contracts for freight, warehouse space and fridges. These will be used to stockpile medicines and fly in those which cannot be stored, like radioisotopes for cancer treatment.\n\nOf the £2.1bn pledged for no-deal preparations, £434m has been set aside for this.\n\nThat includes a £25m contract for planes to bring in emergency medical supplies within 24 hours.\n\nAhead of the UK's original departure date of 29 March - then extended to 12 April - the DHSC said thousands of medicines had been analysed to work out what might be affected by supply disruption from the EU.\n\nSuppliers stockpiled an additional six weeks' worth of these drugs over and above the usual \"buffer\" stock.\n\nThis exercise is being repeated to ensure the department is \"as prepared for leaving the EU without a deal in October as it was on 29 March and 12 April\".\n\nSpecific ferry routes were made available for suppliers to book onto 11 weeks before the no-deal deadline in March.\n\nSix weeks before the 31 October deadline, the government had only just opened the bidding process to freight firms competing to transport medicines. So the pharmaceutical industry doesn't currently know which ports and ferry routes will be made available.\n\nSteve Bates, an industry official working with government on no-deal planning, said the time frame to make sure everything was in place for the October deadline was \"significantly compressed\".\n\nHe said the difference for drug suppliers between three months and potentially three weeks to put plans into action was \"material\".\n\nOn social care, the government website advises providers to draw up contingency plans and support EU staff who may be working for them.\n\nPlans are in place to ensure there are enough essential medicines like insulin\n\nIn the event of no-deal, the UK has said it will not impose tariffs on electricity and gas coming into the country.\n\nHowever, if the value of the pound falls in response to a no-deal Brexit, it will become more expensive to import energy from abroad.\n\nThe government intends to remain part of the single energy market, in order for the UK's energy laws to continue to work after Brexit and that supplies are not disrupted.\n\nWater is unlikely to be affected, although there is still a low risk in the event of a chemical supply problem. The Yellowhammer report says water companies are well-prepared and have significant stockpiles of critical chemicals.\n\nThe UK government has said it is committed not to have any physical infrastructure at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn 13 March it published its contingency plan to avoid a hard border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It said it would not bring in new checks or controls, or require customs declarations for any goods moving from Ireland to Northern Ireland, in the event of no-deal.\n\nBut this will only be a temporary measure while negotiations take place to find longer-term solutions.\n\nTo protect people's health, some plant and animal products that come into Northern Ireland from outside the EU, via Ireland, will still need to be checked. The UK government has said these checks will not happen at the border itself, but it has not specified exactly where they will take place.\n\nIt remains unclear what will happen to goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Ireland. Under EU rules, checks would normally be required at the point certain goods enter the EU single market.\n\nThe Irish government says it is securing additional space, and has recruited more customs and agriculture staff to allow for a \"significant increase in checks and procedures\".\n\nThe National Police Coordination Centre will plan the allocation of officers across the country although it has said there has been no intelligence to suggest that any protests will not be peaceful.\n\nThe government has also established the International Crime and Coordination Centre, which is supposed to help the police cope with the change to the UK's relationship with law enforcement agencies in the EU.", "An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that could come from outside our Solar System.\n\nIf so, it would be the second interstellar object after the elongated body known as 'Oumuamua was identified in 2017.\n\nThe Minor Planet Center (MPC) at Harvard University has issued a formal announcement of the discovery.\n\nThe body appears to have a \"hyperbolic\" orbit, which would appear to indicate its origin in another planetary system.\n\nA hyperbolic orbit is an eccentric one, where the shape deviates substantially from that of a perfect circle.\n\nA perfect circle has an eccentricity of 0. The elliptical orbits of many planets, asteroids and comets have eccentricities between 0 and 1.\n\nThe newly discovered object - initially given the designation gb00234, but now known as Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) - has an eccentricity of 3.2, based on current observations.\n\nIt was noticed by the amateur stargazer Gennady Borisov on 30 August at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Bakhchysarai. At the time, it was about three astronomical units (about 450 million km) from the Sun.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Dunn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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'Oumuamua, discovered on 19 October 2017, was initially classified as a comet, based on its hyperbolic trajectory. But further observations detected no sign of a coma - the fuzzy envelope around the nucleus of a comet. C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), on the other hand, is clearly an active comet, with a visible coma and tail.\n\nUnlike the small, faint 'Oumuamua, the new object seems to be very large - around 20km wide - and bright.\n\nIn addition, 'Oumuamua was also spotted after its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion), so it wasn't visible long enough for astronomers to answer the many questions they had. C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), meanwhile, is still approaching our Solar System and shouldn't reach perihelion until 10 December.\n\nThe Minor Planet Center announcement called on astronomers to make follow-up observations. According to the MPC, \"absent an unexpected fading or disintegration, [C/2019 Q4] should be observable for at least a year\".\n\nThis would give observers an exciting opportunity to characterise the properties of an object that could have originated around a distant star.\n\nAstrophysicist Karl Battams, from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, tweeted: \"Unlike 'Oumuamua, whose asteroid-or-comet nature still gets debated, this one is definitely a comet.\n\n\"If it is unequivocally interstellar, it'll be fascinating to see how its composition (spectral properties) compares to the variety we see in comets from our own Solar System.\"\n\nAstrophysicist Simon Porter, from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, who has been tracking the object, added on Twitter: \"With such a bright coma, we should be able to get beautiful spectra of Q4 and hopefully measure isotopic ratios.\"\n\nIsotopes are different forms of the same chemical element. He added that these ratios could be different from those of \"domestic\" comets.", "Freddie Flintoff pictured on the trike involved in Tuesday's incident\n\nTop Gear presenter Andrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff has said he is \"absolutely fine\" after an incident involving a three-wheeled motorcycle.\n\nThe ex-England cricketer, 41, is understood to have \"run out of runway\" at Elvington Airfield near York while filming a race for the motoring show.\n\nHe was unhurt and did not need medical attention, the BBC understands.\n\nFlintoff said: \"I'm absolutely fine and was back filming today.\"\n\nHe added: \"I go to great lengths to make sure I do well in Top Gear drag races but on this occasion I went a few lengths too far! It will look more ridiculous than dangerous when you see it on TV.\"\n\nTuesday's incident happened as Flintoff took part in a drag race with fellow presenters Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris.\n\nIt took place at the same airfield where former Top Gear host Richard Hammond was seriously injured during filming in 2006.\n\nFlintoff was believed to have been driving a motorised trike known as a Time Bandit and was dressed in full motorcycle protective clothing and crash helmet.\n\nA BBC Studios spokesperson said: \"The health and safety of our presenters and crew on Top Gear is paramount.\n\n\"As viewers of the recent series will have seen, Freddie is often keen to get 'off the beaten track'.\n\n\"Tuesday's filming at Elvington Airfield was no exception - but he suffered no injuries as a result of his spontaneous detour, as fans will see for themselves when we show the sequence in full in the next series.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We are on track to be fully prepared'\n\nIt is \"more important than ever\" that Parliament is recalled after the government published an assessment of the possible impact of a no-deal Brexit, Labour has said.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the Yellowhammer document confirms there are \"severe risks\" if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.\n\nMPs forced the release of the file before Parliament was suspended.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said the government was mitigating the risks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the planning document only showed what might happen \"if the government didn't do anything about it\".\n\nBut he added \"lots of measures\" were being taken to reduce risks.\n\nSir Keir said recalling Parliament would allow MPs \"the opportunity to scrutinise these documents and take all steps necessary to stop no deal\".\n\nHis comments followed a ruling by Scotland's highest civil court on Wednesday that the government's proroguing of Parliament was unlawful.\n\nThe Yellowhammer file, which is redacted in parts and almost identical to a version leaked to the Sunday Times last month, was released on Wednesday. It says in a reasonable worst-case scenario a no-deal Brexit could lead to:\n\nThe document also says some businesses could cease trading, the black market could grow, and some adult social care providers might fail.\n\nOn the Northern Ireland border, the report says the current plans for \"no new checks with limited exceptions\" are \"likely to prove unsustainable due to a significant economic, legal and biosecurity risks\".\n\nBut former PM Gordon Brown said the government was \"still not telling the truth\" about the \"sheer scale\" of the possible effects of no deal.\n\n\"The worst-case scenario document downplays the risks to medical supplies, the threat to household budgets and the damage inflicted on the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nLast week, MPs passed a bill by 327 votes to 299 that forces the PM to ask for an extension beyond the 31 October Brexit deadline if a deal is not reached with the EU.\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would rather \"die in a ditch\" than request an extension, and at present the UK is still due to leave the EU on Halloween.\n\nMichael Gove, the cabinet minister with responsibility for no-deal planning, told the BBC the government had taken \"considerable steps\" to ensure the safest possible departure after a no-deal Brexit in the six weeks since 2 August, the date that appears on the document.\n\nOn Wednesday, he said \"revised assumptions\" would be published \"in due course alongside a document outlining the mitigations the government has put in place and intends to put in place\".\n\nThe bill also required the release of communications between No 10 aides about Parliament's suspension but ministers have refused to do this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It's been a fairly extraordinary few days in the House of Commons\n\nMr Gove said MPs' request to see e-mails, texts and WhatsApp messages from Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson's chief aide, and eight other advisers in Downing Street were \"unreasonable and disproportionate\".\n\nPublishing the information, he added, would \"contravene the law\" and \"offend against basic principles of fairness\".\n\nHowever, former justice secretary David Gauke told BBC Radio 5 Live the messages \"should be handed over\".\n\nHe added: \"I understand the concerns about private advice but on this particular issue… this is work-related information to get to the bottom of why Parliament was prorogued.\"\n\nConcern about medicines is understandable. Every month more than 30 million packs of medicines arrive from the EU. Supply chains are considered particularly vulnerable to disruption at the Channel ports - the Yellowhammer document itself acknowledges this.\n\nThe government has put out contracts for warehouse space and fridges to stockpile supplies. But there are some medicines that cannot be stored, like radioisotopes used for cancer treatment. Flu vaccines will also need to be imported - the winter vaccination programme will be well under way by 31 October.\n\nThere are plans in place to fly in emergency supplies if shortages of crucial products arise. But fears remain.\n\nHowever, it is not just about medicines. Hospitals feed about 120,000 patients a day - any disruption to the food chain could impact on them.\n\nAnd then there is social care. The Yellowhammer document warns that inflation could cause social care providers to go under - the market is already fragile. In this situation it is the responsibility of councils to step and find new care homes for residents affected or new providers to care for people in their own homes.\n\nThe document also warns of potential clashes if foreign fishing vessels enter British territorial waters on the day after the UK's departure and says economic difficulties could be \"exacerbated\" by flooding or a flu pandemic this winter.\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason said some of the scenarios outlined were \"stark\", but ministers were insisting the paper was not a prediction about what will happen.\n\nThe document, which, until now, was categorised as \"official, sensitive\", is not an official cabinet paper. It dates from 10 days after Mr Johnson became PM.\n\nRetailers said the document confirmed what they have been saying will happen in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Fresh food availability will decrease, consumer choice will decrease, and prices will rise,\" Helen Dickinson of the British Retail Consortium said.\n\nAnd the British Medical Association described the Yellowhammer file as \"alarming\" and that it confirmed its warnings about no-deal, including the threat of medical supply shortages.\n\nShadow transport secretary Andy McDonald told BBC Breakfast: \"This is more like emergency planning for war or a natural disaster and we're doing this voluntarily.\"\n\nThis is not an \"old\" Yellowhammer assessment, as was claimed by the government in August.\n\nIt is from the latest internal no-deal planning, from August, from well within the time of Boris Johnson's administration.\n\nThe government hopes that its recent efforts will change some of the most concerning aspects of what is titled a \"reasonable worst case assumptions\" document, but they are yet to be able to make those changes.\n\nEverything hinges on the core assumption made about disruption to freight traffic across the Channel - that over half would be stuck for up to two-and-a-half days.\n\nThose assumptions on trade flow have improved recently, but are still poor, and enough to have several highly concerning consequences, from fresh food supply, to stability in Northern Ireland, to social care providers and supplies of medicines for people and animals.\n\nI have also been assured that a widely circulated version of this document, from the same day, had the phrase \"base scenario\".\n\nIt is somewhat confusing that there can be a base case of a worst case planning assumption.\n\nIn any event, these are the real, plausible short-term shocks from a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe section on Northern Ireland is particularly concerning. In many respects it is incredible to have such a list of the plausible consequences of what is government policy.\n\nIt is not difficult to see why the government resisted its release. It is unlikely to improve the mood of an already sceptical Commons.\n\nBut it is really the first tangible, quotable, warts and all assessment of what Whitehall fears could be around the corner.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the latest Brexit developments?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Extinction Rebellion organiser Roger Hallam is charged with conspiring to cause a public nuisance\n\nAn Extinction Rebellion co-founder has appeared in court charged with attempting to cause disruption at Heathrow airport using a drone.\n\nRoger Hallam, 53, who declared Heathrow expansion \"a crime against humanity\", was arrested on Saturday.\n\nHe was applauded by a group of supporters as he entered the dock at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Hallam faces one charge of conspiring to cause a public nuisance between 1 August and 14 September.\n\nThe charge relates to a plan to fly drones near Heathrow airport \"in order to cause widespread disruption\".\n\nActivists are accused of planning to fly drones within the exclusion zone at Heathrow Airport\n\nHeathrow Pause, a splinter organisation of the environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion (XR), had threatened to interrupt flights by flying drones within the 5km exclusion zone around the west London airport.\n\nAsked if he would like to say anything, Mr Hallam, of Putney Bridge Road, Wandsworth, told the court: \"Heathrow expansion constitutes a crime against humanity, against the next generation.\"\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Isleworth Crown Court on 14 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two survivors of the Bethany Home in Dublin have called for an apology from the Irish state and Church of Ireland for their ill-treatment.\n\nJames Fenning, 78, who lives in County Antrim, and Paul Graham, 80, based in Sydney, said their lives have been blighted.\n\nThe home, which closed in the 1960s, was a place for unmarried Protestant mothers and their children.\n\nIt was run by a committee of Protestant clergy and lay people.\n\nMr Fenning and Mr Graham, who were both adopted from the home by families in Northern Ireland, met for the first time in an emotional meeting in Belfast on Saturday.\n\nThey said they each felt uplifted to have found each other to share their experiences.\n\nBoth men have a condition they attribute to severe malnourishment as infants.\n\nMr Fenning said he was neglected when \"nursed out\" to a home with 20 children in return for 15 shillings, while Mr Graham said he was emotionally damaged by several failed adoptions arranged by Bethany Home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Fenning calls for an apology over Bethany Home\n\nThey said the Irish government had \"discriminated\" against them as Protestants in failing to offer redress for those who lived at the home.\n\nThe Bethany Home was excluded from the Irish government's residential institutions redress scheme because it was deemed \"not to qualify\" since it was a home for mothers and children.\n\nMr Fenning and Mr Graham also want an apology from the Church of Ireland as they are convinced it played a key role in the home, but the Church strongly denies this.\n\nIt said it neither ran nor managed the home.\n\nThe Bethany Home Survivors Group '98 argue the church consigned women and children to the home.\n\nIn 2010, it also received a letter from Ireland's Department of Justice, which appeared to cast doubt on the Church's claim that the home was completely independent of it.\n\n\"The Church of Ireland denies all responsibility,\" said Mr Fenning, who left the home when he was about four.\n\n\"The Dublin government don't think we're fit to get redress, yet all the Catholic homes got redress, so is it discrimination against Protestants?\"\n\nAn estimated €1.5bn was paid out to historical abuse victims in the Republic as part of a financial redress scheme set up in 2009 following a government inquiry.\n\nHowever, none of that money has gone to people who say they were ill-treated at the Bethany Home.\n\nThe Bethany is included in a new inquiry - the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes - set up in 2015 following allegations about the deaths and burial of 800 babies in Tuam, County Galway.\n\nA shrine in Tuam, County Galway dedicated to babies buried on the site of a former mother-and-baby home\n\nThe commission is due to submit its final findings in February 2020.\n\nA Department of Education spokesperson said the original redress scheme had been closed to new applications since September 2011 and would not be reopened.\n\nThe spokesperson said the scheme was \"intended to deal with a very particular circumstance, namely, the abuse of children that occurred while the state was acting to a significant degree in loco parentis, where children had been removed by the state from their parents and placed out of their protection\".\n\nHe added: \"If we got a bit of honesty from the Church of Ireland, from the Dublin government, to say 'we hold our hands up, you were cruelly treated in the Bethany home', that would suffice.\"\n\nAdopted by a wealthy Belfast family in 1944, Mr Graham ran away from his home at the age of 14 to join the Royal Marines and later became an alcoholic because of childhood trauma.\n\nHe said one of his first memories is \"rows and rows of cots\" at Bethany Home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Graham calls for an apology over Bethany Home\n\nHe said he wanted the Church and the government to apologise and admit it had \"made mistakes\".\n\n\"All I want is redress, I just want to be treated the same as any other Irish citizen, I want to be treated as a human being,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed the authorities had \"washed their hands of Bethany and done little to help survivors\".\n\nBoth men are among a group of campaigners who have sought recognition for children and infants of Bethany Home since the 1990s.\n\nAs part of the campaign, a memorial was erected in a Dublin graveyard in 2014 on the previously unmarked graves of more than 200 babies and infants from the home.\n\nMany of them are understood to have died from ailments including TB and malnutrition.\n\nA Church of Ireland spokesman said Bethany Home was owned and managed by the Dublin Prison Gate Mission, which it said was an \"independent trust set up in the 19th Century to work with former prisoners\" and was not owned by the Church of Ireland.\n\n\"In terms of pastoral outreach, the Church has always sought to listen to people in difficulty, including people from various homes and institutions.\n\n\"In the case of Bethany Home, the Church wrote to the Irish state on behalf of former residents, and asked that their story would be heard as part of the wider investigations being carried out by the state.\n\n\"The Irish state responded positively to the request and the home is therefore being considered as part of the remit of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.\"\n• None Tuam babies to be exhumed from grave", "A community platform called SuperSisters, aimed at young Muslim women, has defended receiving a grant from the Home Office.\n\nHowever, it apologised on social media for not being more open about the source of its funding.\n\nIt said it had retained \"full independent control\" over its output.\n\nSuperSisters's parent company, J-Go, is one of 233 groups that received funding via the government's Building a Stronger Britain Together programme.\n\nSuperSisters describes itself as \"a global media platform for young Muslimahs in... east London and beyond to share and create inspiring and empowering content with positivity at its core\".\n\nThe Home Office said J-Go had received funding since 2018. While its list of successful recipients includes J-Go, it does not specifically name SuperSisters.\n\n\"BSBT is an open and transparent programme, which supports local people in their vital work to bring communities together, promote fundamental values and tackle the spread of all extremist ideologies,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThe platform launched in 2015, in response to the actions of Shamima Begum, who fled Britain to join the Islamic State group in Syria at the age of 15.\n\nIn a statement on its website, J-Go said it had accepted the grant to pay its staff a living wage and countering extremism was part of its purpose.\n\n\"We want to emphasise that even though BSBT may fund us, they do not have any creative control over SuperSisters content,\" it said.\n\nSuperSisters's former social media manager Sabah Ismail told the Guardian she had left in August after finding out about the grant.\n\nHowever, J-Go said it was \"clear and transparent\" about its funding to all interviewed candidates, including Ms Ismail.\n\nMs Ismail has been contacted by BBC News for comment.\n\nIn August, it was revealed the Home Office was behind a social news network called This is Woke, which featured discussions about many aspects of the Muslim faith.\n\nThat was part of a government counter-terrorism programme called Prevent, which SuperSisters said it had originally received money from but this had stopped because \"what we did was not deemed suitable for the Prevent funding\".", "A revised Brexit deal, acceptable to both UK and EU negotiators, remains elusive.\n\nOnly a few people know exactly what has been discussed behind closed doors, and the legal text of any proposed agreement has not been made public.\n\nBut it's worth bearing in mind that most of the deal hammered out by Theresa May's government - the withdrawal agreement and the accompanying political declaration - would remain in place.\n\nThe main changes Boris Johnson's government wants to see concern the Irish border, and the type of relationship it wishes the UK to have with the EU in the future.\n\nAll sides have ruled out customs checks at the land border in Ireland (between Northern Ireland and the Republic), and Mr Johnson's suggestion that checks could take place at \"designated locations\" away from the border was rejected by the EU.\n\nThat means there would have to be some customs checks within the UK instead, at ports along the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That's a big UK concession.\n\nBut Mr Johnson also insists that Northern Ireland has to leave the EU customs union, along with the rest of the UK, to allow it to take advantage of any future trade deals the government manages to negotiate.\n\nThe suggested compromise is that the legal customs border between the UK and the EU would be at the land border in Ireland. But the practical border, where checks would actually take place, would be in the Irish Sea.\n\nDiplomats say that means Northern Ireland would remain legally in the UK customs territory but it would apply EU customs processes on goods arriving from Great Britain. There would be exemptions, including on personal items and other goods, to be agreed at a later date by the UK and the EU.\n\nSo it's a dual customs system, which has no obvious parallel anywhere else in the world, and it raises plenty of technical and legal issues which will take some time to pin down.\n\nThere's also the issue of political consent in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoth sides agree that any new economic status for Northern Ireland, which sets it apart from the rest of the country, needs to win democratic approval.\n\nBut the EU won't accept anything that appears to give a veto to one party in Northern Ireland, in this case the government's allies in the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). That, in the EU's view, would mean the entire proposed settlement on the Irish border could be unexpectedly torn up with nothing to replace it.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has not been sitting for more than 1,000 days\n\nFor its part, the DUP has been arguing that the Good Friday agreement, which forms the basis of the Northern Ireland peace process, provides for a dual majority (in other words a majority among both unionist and nationalist representatives) on controversial issues in the Northern Ireland assembly.\n\nOthers in Northern Ireland argue that if a dual majority is needed, then the prospect of Northern Ireland leaving the EU should also be subject to similar dual consent.\n\nDiplomats say the latest draft agreement outlines a plan which would give the Northern Ireland Assembly a consent vote four years after the Brexit transition period ends in 2020.\n\nIf it voted to continue the new arrangements by a simple majority, another vote would be held four years later. If the vote was carried with a dual majority it would be held again eight years later.\n\nDiplomats say that if the Assembly voted to end the arrangements, the UK and the EU would have two years to negotiate a new method to avoid a hard border.\n\nAll of this would replace the so-called backstop - the proposed guarantee to avoid a hard border in Ireland under all circumstances.\n\nBut so far, the DUP has made it pretty clear that it cannot accept the proposals as they stand.\n\nThe UK has submitted a new draft of the political declaration on the future relationship. Again, the text has not been made public, but Mr Johnson has made it clear that he wants a looser economic relationship with the EU in the future than Mrs May was seeking.\n\nDiplomats say the political declaration will point towards a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU with zero tariffs or quotas, but one which is embedded in a framework for economic competition that is \"fair\".\n\nOne of the key phrases to watch out for here is the \"level playing field\" - the degree to which the UK will agree to stick closely to EU regulations on things like social and environmental policies.\n\nMr Johnson wants to make fewer level playing field guarantees, and the EU fears that could mean he will seek to undercut EU regulation in the future to gain a competitive advantage.\n\nAnd that in turn has made a number of EU countries even more determined that any solution for the Irish border is legally watertight and fully thought through, before they sign up to any amended Brexit deal.\n\nIn any complex negotiation, there is nearly always an issue bubbling under the surface which emerges as a last-minute hitch.\n\nThis time it is VAT, and how to prevent fraud involving goods crossing any new border arrangement.\n\nOn all of these issues, time is against the negotiators and their political masters. Mr Johnson still says he is determined to leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nBut if the House of Commons has not voted in favour either of a deal or of leaving with no deal by 19 October, then UK law says he must seek an extension to the Brexit process.\n\nThe EU has said it will not negotiate directly with Mr Johnson during the summit, which begins on Thursday.\n\nBut the next few days are obviously crucial.\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.", "Peter Duncan's family described him as a \"devoted father and husband\"\n\nA 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to murdering a lawyer with a screwdriver.\n\nPeter Duncan was stabbed outside a Greggs in Newcastle city centre's Eldon Square shopping centre on 14 August.\n\nThe lawyer was \"in the wrong place at the wrong time\" when he was attacked, according to Northumbria Police.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named, appeared at Leeds Crown Court via video link and also admitted stealing screwdrivers and carrying an offensive weapon. He will be sentenced in December.\n\nA previous hearing was told the teenager had 17 convictions for 31 offences between 2017 and 2019.\n\nOn one occasion he grabbed a knife during a family argument and on another he threatened a bus driver with a blade after he was challenged about drinking alcohol.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jane Fairlamb, from Northumbria Police, said the killing was \"shocking...a much-loved family man was murdered in an unprovoked attack\".\n\nAt the previous hearing, the court was told 52-year-old Mr Duncan was \"simply in the wrong place at the wrong time\" when he crossed paths with the teenager who had a history of violence and carrying knives.\n\nPolice cordoned off the entrance to Eldon Square close to where the stabbing occurred\n\nThe pair came into contact at the entrance to the shopping centre when they were walking in opposite directions.\n\nThe court was told the teenager was looking for another youth with whom he had previously argued about cigarettes.\n\nMr Duncan raised his arm to let the youth past, but \"the defendant took exception to that\" and \"a struggle ensued\", prosecutor Kevin Wardlaw said.\n\nAfter pushing the youngster off, Mr Duncan was stabbed once through the heart and collapsed a short distance away.\n\nThe attack was captured on CCTV, and cameras also tracked the teenager's movements through the city centre.\n\nOfficers searched the area outside the shopping centre in the hunt for the murder weapon\n\nMr Duncan was working as legal counsel in the Newcastle office of Royal IHC Limited, and previously as a solicitor and legal advisor with other companies in Darlington and Newcastle.\n\nHe had trained as an electrical engineer before graduating from Northumbria University with a law degree in 2003.\n\nIn a statement released following his death, Mr Duncan's family said he was a \"kind and caring man who was always first to help others\".\n\n\"His death will leave such a huge hole in our lives and he'll be deeply missed by us all,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany Fields, 21, was described as much loved and respected\n\nThe family of a woman who died after being found injured in a town street have described her as a \"kind, giving, and loving daughter\".\n\nBethany Fields, 21, died at the scene in Fitzwilliam Street, Huddersfield, on Thursday evening.\n\nPaul Crowther, 35, of Elm Way in Birstall, has appeared in court charged with her murder.\n\nHer family said Ms Fields had a \"wonderfully pleasant nature\" and had a bright future ahead of her.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"A daughter, who any parent would have been proud of, much loved and respected by all; family, friends, work colleagues and fellow students.\n\n\"Bethany had a bright future ahead of her.\"\n\nThey said she was studying environmental geography at university and had travelled to Iceland to study the effects of glacial melts on the environment and to the Canary Islands to study volcanoes.\n\n\"She was musically gifted, starting on a music mentoring course and gradually during the holidays working at a studio,\" they said.\n\nShe also worked with a charitable organisation for people with physical and learning difficulties.\n\n\"Bethany had a wonderfully pleasant nature, with a love of nature, plants and animals.\n\n\"She will be sadly missed, but never forgotten, forever in our hearts and thoughts.\n\n\"Heaven has gained the brightest star of them all,\" they said.\n\nMr Crowther was remanded in custody by Leeds Magistrates Court. He will appear before Leeds Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, has ruled out entering into a coalition with the Conservatives or the Labour party if a general election delivers a hung Parliament.\n\nMs Swinson insisted that neither Boris Johnson nor Jeremy Corbyn was \"fit to be our prime minister\".\n\nShe said: \"I'm not going to support Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn. They are not up to the job.\"\n\nAnd she said she wanted the party to win more than 300 seats in an election.\n\nTo secure a majority in the House of Commons, a party has to win more seats than all the other parties put together in a general election. At the moment, that means winning at least 326 seats - more to ensure a comfortable majority.\n\nMs Swinson dismissed the view that the Liberal Democrats were unlikely to win more than 300 seats.\n\n\"I reject this suggestion that you go into a general election campaign, particularly in these volatile political times and somehow people have to accept they don't have a genuine choice.\n\n\"People do have a genuine choice and they do not have to choose between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn because frankly that choice is not good enough. Neither of those men is fit to be our prime minister.\"\n\nMs Swinson, who has two children, added: \"I'm not prepared to let my kids' future be sold down the river just because the kind of previous rules of the way politics was done somehow have to apply.\"\n\nJo Swinson has taken her children into the chamber and voting lobbies\n\nThe Liberal Democrats currently have 18 MPs, including defectors from other parties including Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger and former Conservative minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nIn recent times, the number of seats held by the party has peaked at 62 seats in 2005.\n\nQuestioned on the possibility of having to choose between supporting Mr Johnson or Mr Corbyn, she said: \"I'm not going to support Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn to be prime minister because they're not up to the job. Our country deserves better.\"\n\nAsked to clarify that she would not support either man in the event of another hung Parliament, she replied: \"Absolutely. They're not up to it.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Lib Dem members voted overwhelmingly in favour of a manifesto pledge to revoke Article 50 - the formal process of leaving the EU - if they came into power with a majority government.\n\nMs Swinson said: \"As a party that wholeheartedly believes that our best future is within the European Union, we need to give the British people the chance to vote for that by saying that if you elect a Liberal Democrat government we will stop Brexit by revoking Article 50.\"\n\nAnd she revealed that she had had conversations over the weekend with further potential defectors because so many people were \"unhappy\" in the Labour Party and the Conservative Party.\n• None Where do the parties stand on Brexit?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We must stop Brexit\", Jo Swinson says\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson has warned Boris Johnson that \"if he thinks being a woman is somehow a weakness, he's about to find out it is not\".\n\nShe said the PM's choice of insults such as \"big girl's blouse\" and \"girly swot\" were \"revealing\".\n\nIn her first conference speech as leader, she said she could not wait to \"take on\" Mr Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage in an election.\n\nAnd she vowed a Lib Dem government would stop Brexit \"on day one\".\n\nThe Lib Dems currently have 18 MPs - a figure boosted by recent defections - but it would require a seismic shift in the electoral landscape for them to win power.\n\nNevertheless, Ms Swinson received a standing ovation when she told the conference she wanted to be prime minister, adding: \"There is no limit to my ambition for our party.\"\n\nMr Johnson called Mr Corbyn \"a big girl's blouse\" during their first clash at Prime Minister's Questions earlier this month - a remark that prompted some criticism.\n\nIt also emerged he had labelled former PM David Cameron a \"girly swot\".\n\nOn Tuesday, as the Supreme Court began hearing two appeals relating to the suspension of Parliament, Lib Dem conference delegates backed an emergency motion calling for the suspension of Parliament to be reversed.\n\nEarlier at the conference they voted overwhelmingly to back her proposal for a manifesto pledge to revoke Article 50 if the party came into power with a majority government.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Swinson criticised Mr Johnson's pledge to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nShe told the conference in Bournemouth the prime minister's spending on no-deal preparations was \"sickening\".\n\n\"The truth is you can't plan for no deal. Planning for no deal is like planning to burn your house down,\" she said. \"You might have insurance, but you're still going to lose all your stuff.\"\n\nThe six new Lib Dems - acquired from Labour and the Tories - were front and centre\n\nAsk Liberal Democrat members here what they think of their leader and words like \"refreshing\", \"energetic\" and \"relatable\" trip off the tongue.\n\nSome praise Jo Swinson's ability to communicate with voters, others gush about her confidence and composure in the House of Commons.\n\nBut old hands who've seen leaders come and go sound a note of caution about fulfilling expectations.\n\nOne senior figure said she needed to \"rise to the occasion\".\n\nJo Swinson has won her party's backing for a bold shift in policy on Brexit, and talks of winning 300 seats in a general election.\n\nBut with big ambitions come big expectations and soon Jo Swinson will be judged by her party on what she can deliver not just on what she can promise.\n\nMs Swinson, who succeeded Sir Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader in July, added: \"The first task is clear. We must stop Brexit. There is no Brexit that will be good for our country.\"\n\nShe criticised Mr Johnson for withdrawing the Conservative whip from 21 Tory rebels - including one, Sam Gyimah, who later joined the Lib Dems - and for deciding to suspend Parliament.\n\nShe said he was \"silencing critics, purging opponents, ignoring the law\".\n\n\"For someone who proclaims to hate socialist dictators, he's doing a pretty good impression of one.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Swinson also turned her fire on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of holding on to Eurosceptic views.\n\n\"Even now, when faced with all the clear and obvious dangers that Brexit brings, Jeremy Corbyn still insists that if Labour win a general election, they will negotiate their own Brexit deal to take us out of the EU,\" she said.\n\n\"Nigel Farage might be Brexit by name, but it is very clear that Jeremy Corbyn is Brexit by nature.\"\n\nEarlier, shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti described the Lib Dem's promise to revoke Article 50 without a further referendum as \"illiberal and anti-democratic\".\n\nTurning to Scotland, Ms Swinson highlighted its support to remain in the EU in the 2016 referendum and urged supporters there to give \"a big vote\" to her party.\n\n\"Together we can stop Brexit,\" she said. \"We are building a movement across the United Kingdom that is on the verge of stopping it.\"\n\nIn her keynote speech, Ms Swinson also touched on policy matters away from Brexit.\n\nOn climate change, she said a Lib Dem government would create a green investment bank and set up a citizens' assembly to debate how the UK would reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045.\n\nShe said her government would tackle climate change \"because, as the placards say, there is no Planet B.\"\n\nMs Swinson also said she wanted the party to \"fundamentally rethink the purpose of our economy\", asking why a country's success was \"reduced to a GDP figure\".\n\n\"It [GDP] measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile,\" she said quoting the American politician Bobby Kennedy.\n\nShe pledged to introduce a wellbeing budget \"to spell out our priorities for public spending on the things that matter most\".\n\nThe Lib Dem leader also promised to fund youth services in order to tackle knife crime and to ringfence funding for mental health services.", "The government has pushed back the deadline for smart energy meter rollout by four years until 2024.\n\nPreviously, suppliers' deadline was the end of 2020, but energy firms had warned the technology was not ready.\n\nBut the extra time could lead to more years of frustration for customers, many of whom are fed up with the new meters they have been given.\n\nIt also means the cost of installing the new equipment is likely to rise further, to more than £13bn in total.\n\nCustomers are not obliged to have a smart meter fitted, but energy firms must have offered them to all UK households by the end of the new deadline.\n\nThe promise of smart meters was that readings would be automatic, billing would be easier, and a new world of flexible charges would be ushered in.\n\nIn practice, millions of people found they had new meters which did not work properly if they switched suppliers - and millions more have not been given the technology at all.\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, thinks extending the smart meter rollout deadline is a \"common-sense move\" that is good for customers.\n\n\"This new deadline gives suppliers time to fix ongoing technical problems and make sure customer service isn't sidelined as the rollout continues,\" she said.\n\n\"We've seen some energy companies use aggressive techniques to try to persuade people to have smart meters fitted as soon as possible to meet the existing timeline.\"\n\nThere was a pledge in the Conservative Party's 2017 election manifesto that every household and business would be offered a smart meter by the end of 2020 - and there is still that expectation.\n\nThe government is adamant that its targets are being met and that the new regime outlined on Monday does not amount to a let-off for suppliers.\n\nThe energy regulator, Ofgem, had a rule that the energy companies had to take \"reasonable steps\" to fit meters, which left them plenty of wriggle room.\n\nThe Minister for Climate Change, Lord Duncan of Springbank, said: \"We remain on track for suppliers to offer every home a smart meter by the end of next year, but to maintain momentum beyond 2020 we are proposing strict yearly installation targets for suppliers from 2021. This will deliver even greater benefits for households and reduce emissions.\"\n\nBut it is clear to gas and electricity firms that ministers have recognised reality and allowed them an extension. The new framework gives them until the end of 2024 to install smart meters in at least 85% of their customers' homes.\n\nUSwitch.com's head of regulation Richard Neudegg said that public confidence in the smart meter programme had been \"badly damaged\".\n\n\"This is now an opportunity to rebuild trust. In particular, people want proof that the solution which allows older smart meters to stay smart when a household switches supplier is finally available,\" he said.\n• None Why your smart meter may not be so smart after all", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The clown made animal balloons during the meeting\n\nWhen copy writer Josh Thompson received an ominous email from his bosses asking to discuss his role at the company, he knew he was facing redundancy.\n\nThe human resources department at FCB New Zealand encouraged him to bring a \"support person\" to help cushion the blow, an option that is legally required in New Zealand.\n\nBut rather than bring a family member, a friend or even a pet, the part-time stand-up comedian decided to splash out NZ$200 (£100) on a clown called \"Joe\".\n\n\"I was working - because I had a job back then - and I got an email and the email said: 'Hi Josh we'd like to meet with you to discuss some matters in regards to your role,'\" he told the BBC from Australia, where he has been \"making the most of not having a job\".\n\n\"Basically I sensed that this was going to be a redundancy ... so I thought I might as well try to make the best out of this situation,\" he added.\n\n\"Joe\" accompanied Josh for the redundancy meeting, where the clown made balloon animals, although he had to be told to stop a few times as it was difficult to hear above the screeching of plastic.\n\n\"Boy, oh, boy, are they noisy,\" Josh said.\n\nWhen Josh was finally delivered the hammer blow that he was to lose his job, the clown reacted accordingly.\n\n\"He nodded his head along when I received the bad news as if he was also receiving the bad news,\" Josh said.\n\n\"Professionalism at its finest, really.\"\n\nJosh said he'd highly recommend hiring a clown as support for any suspected redundancy meeting.\n\n\"If you've got family, friends, step mums, step dads, step kids, bring them by all means,\" he said.\n\n\"But if there's a clown available, especially Joe, I'd definitely recommend it.\"\n• None Is it all over for non-creepy clowns?", "Almost £2m was raised to give the items a permanent home in Edinburgh - but the Church of Scotland wants a share\n\nThe Church of Scotland is suing for a share of a £2m Viking treasure trove which was unearthed on land it owns in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nLegal action has been filed at the Court of Session in Edinburgh against metal detectorist Derek McLennan, who found the hoard in 2014.\n\nThe National Museum of Scotland paid almost £2m for the items, which are due to tour Scotland in the next two years.\n\nThe Kirk said it was entitled to an equitable share of the find.\n\nThe hoard, consisting of gold and silver objects, was discovered in 2014 in Galloway by Mr McLennan from Ayrshire.\n\nDerek McLennan made the find in Dumfriesshire in 2014\n\nA retired businessman and amateur detectorist, Mr McLennan had been given permission by the church to search the area.\n\nAt the time he said: \"I unearthed the first piece, initially I didn't understand what I had found because I thought it was a silver spoon and then I turned it over and wiped my thumb across it and I saw the Saltire-type of design and knew instantly it was Viking.\n\n\"Then my senses exploded, I went into shock, endorphins flooded my system and away I went stumbling towards my colleagues waving it in the air.\"\n\nA Church of Scotland spokesperson said: \"We can confirm that The General Trustees of the Church of Scotland have raised an action against Derek McLennan.\n\n\"As that is now a matter before the court it would be inappropriate for us to provide any further commentary at this time.\"\n\nThe items were unearthed in Galloway five years ago\n\nEarlier this year funding was secured to put the items found on show in Edinburgh before they go on tour to Kirkcudbright, Aberdeen and Dundee in 2020.\n\nOnce the tour is completed the items will go on long-term display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.\n\nA \"significant and representative portion\" will also be shared with the new Kirkcudbright Galleries.\n• None Viking treasure hoard to go on tour", "Christopher Eccleston has revealed he's battled with anorexia for decades and at one point considered suicide.\n\nWriting in his new book, I Love the Bones of You, the actor described himself as a \"lifelong body-hater\", saying he was \"very ill\" with the condition while filming Doctor Who.\n\nThe 55-year-old played the ninth Doctor during the show's revival in 2005.\n\nHe said he's never revealed his struggle before because it's not what working class northern males do.\n\n\"Many times I've wanted to reveal that I'm a lifelong anorexic and dysmorphic,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I never have. I always thought of it as a filthy secret, because I'm northern, because I'm male and because I'm working class.\"\n\nFrom the age of six he was concerned he had a \"pot belly\" and \"knobbly knees\".\n\nThe father-of-two was diagnosed with clinical depression after splitting from his wife Mischka in 2015 and says it was then that he considered taking his own life.\n\n\"I was in a state of extreme anxiety, convinced I was either going to die or I was going to kill myself,\" wrote the actor, who was working on the BBC drama The A Word at the time.\n\nChristopher Eccleston acted alongside Billie Piper in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who\n\nHe added: \"In my despair I reached for my phone and looked up a psychiatric hospital, I rang ahead, grabbed my bag and ran.\"\n\nEccleston was prescribed antidepressants which he admits he could be on \"for the rest of my days\", though he would like to \"reduce the dose\" as he's worried the drugs could \"deaden my creative side\".\n\nThe UK's leading charity supporting anyone affected by eating disorders has praised the actor for his \"courage\" in speaking out.\n\nA spokesperson for Beat said: \"It takes a lot of courage to speak out about an eating disorder.\n\n\"Doing so helps to combat the stigma and misunderstanding that exists around these serious mental illnesses, especially for men and boys. We hope that Christopher has received the support he needed and that his bravery will encourage others to seek help, as we know that the sooner someone gets help for an eating disorder, the better their chances of recovery.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, there are organisations that can offer advice and support. You can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline - 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm). The Beat helpline is 0808 801 0677 and is available from 12pm to 8pm on weekdays and 4pm to 8pm at weekends and on bank holidays.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas has revealed he is HIV positive, saying he wants to \"break the stigma\" around the condition.\n\nHe said he wants to show how people with HIV are misrepresented as \"walking around with walking sticks who are close to dying\".\n\nHe has also spoken about \"shame\" and \"fear\" of keeping his condition secret.\n\nHe completed the Ironman triathlon in Pembrokeshire after making the announcement - cheered on by crowds.\n\nHe finished the gruelling challenge in 12 hours and 18 minutes with high emotion at times.\n\nThere was a warm embrace for the former Wales rugby captain before he continued his race\n\nIn a Twitter video posted on Saturday night, Thomas said he was compelled to make the announcement after threats were made to to him by \"evils\" to reveal his HIV status.\n\nSince making the announcement, support for the 45-year-old ex-British and Irish Lions skipper flooded in.\n\nIt included a message from the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, on the social platform Instagram where he said: \"Gareth, you are an absolute legend! In sharing your story of being HIV+, you are saving lives and shattering stigma, by showing you can be strong and resilient while living with HIV.\n\n\"We should all be appalled by the way you were forced to speak your truth, it is yours and yours alone to share on your terms and I and millions stand with you. H\"\n\nThe former Wales captain, who won 100 caps for his country, is due to talk about his diagnosis in a BBC Wales documentary on Wednesday.\n\nIn it, he says at his lowest point in 2018 he felt like dying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince William was among the thousands of messages supporting Thomas after his emotional revelation.\n\n\"Courageous as ever - legend on the pitch and legend off it,\" said a tweet from Kensington Palace.\n\n\"You have our support Gareth. W.\"\n\nSupport for Thomas around the epic Ironman challenge has been immense\n\nThe sporting legend was able to roar back his own cheer in thanks\n\nBrothers in arms - ex-Wales rugby mate Shane Williams greets Thomas at the Ironman finish\n\nPublic information campaigns in the 1980s, warning people to take precautions against Aids, have left a legacy of misunderstanding, he says.\n\nAdvances in medicine now allow people who are HIV positive to live long healthy lives. With effective treatment, the virus cannot be passed on.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gareth Thomas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 than waking at 06:00 to take a single pill every day and visiting the hospital for blood tests every six months, the condition has little impact on day-to-day life for Thomas.\n\nOn the contrary, he is taking part in an Ironman challenge on Sunday, which has involved him learning to swim, which to Thomas was a way of demonstrating his physical and mental strength.\n\n\"When I first found out that I was going to have to live with HIV, the first thing I thought was straight away: I was going to die,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not like I blame people for not knowing this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Shane Williams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Huw Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 British & Irish Lions This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"This is a subject that because of the 80s scenarios people don't talk about it because that's the only information they have.\"\n\nHe added: \"The overriding question that everybody said to me - the first question everyone says to me when I tell them I'm living with HIV - is 'Are you going to be OK?'\n\n\"And it's a really compassionate question to ask. But, this is meant the nicest way possible, it's a really uneducated question.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThomas said revealing that he is living with HIV was similar to coming out as gay in 2009 because of \"the fear, the hiding, the secrecy, the not knowing how people are going to react\".\n\n\"But I think when it was all about my sexuality it just seemed like there was more empathy and more understanding because you had more knowledge, because you could turn on the telly and you could see that there was LGBT representation on most platforms.\"\n\nPresenting a shirt to then Prime Minister David Cameron in 2011 at a meeting of sports figures to discuss homophobia and transphobia in sport\n\n1994: Makes debut for home town club Bridgend and goes on to play for Cardiff Blues (twice), Celtic Warriors and Toulouse\n\n1995: Makes his Wales debut and goes on to win 100 caps, scoring 40 tries and also appearing in three British Lions Tests\n\n2005: Wins the 2005 Heineken Cup with Toulouse and captains Wales to their first grand slam in 27 years\n\n2007: Wins his final cap for Wales in the World Cup\n\n2009: Reveals he is gay, saying \"what I choose to do when I close the door at home has nothing to do with what I have achieved in rugby\"\n\n2011: Announces his retirement, last appearing for Crusaders in Wrexham in July\n\n2012: His post-rugby career includes Celebrity Big Brother, roles in pantomime, regular work as a rugby pundit and campaigning against homophobia in sport. Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke is involved in talks to play him in a film\n\n2014: Publishes his autobiography, Proud, which wins sports book of the year\n\n2015: His life story is told in a stage play, Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage\n\n2018: He posts a video on Twitter after being assaulted and becoming victim of a hate crime in Cardiff. Took part in Sport Relief, when he conquered his fear of heights with the fire service\n\nThomas, who finished third in Celebrity Big Brother in 2012 and reached the semi-final of Dancing on Ice the following year, lives near Bridgend with his husband Stephen, 56. They married in 2016.\n\nIn the documentary, Stephen talks about how the public will react to Gareth's announcement and how the couple will be treated.\n\n\"I'm going to have to take it on board and deal with it,\" he says.\n\n\"I'm going to cross it when I come to it.\"\n\nStephen, who does not have HIV, added: \"I think it's going to teach so many people what is HIV. I was one of the ignorant ones, I will be honest, like so many people.\"\n\n\"I think it's a fantastic thing he's doing. He's showing that you can have HIV but you can still do the sport and the Ironman, for goodness sake.\"\n\nWhen you have a secret that other people know about it makes you really vulnerable towards them. And I just I felt like I had no control over my own life\n\nThe documentary shows Thomas's anxiety and having to consult legal representatives after a tabloid newspaper found out about his HIV status. It led to journalists going to his parents' home.\n\n\"I needed to take control of my life\" he said.\n\n\"When you have a secret that other people know about it makes you really vulnerable towards them. And I just I felt like I had no control over my own life.\"\n\nThomas said he currently felt the strongest he had ever been in his life.\n\n\"I've had a shitty rollercoaster of a ride. My parents say to me 'Jesus Christ. What's coming next with you?'.\n\n\"I had the whole emotional challenge of revealing my sexuality and confronting the sporting stereotype within that.\n\n\"And then I felt 'I'm confronting this', which has so many similarities.\"\n\nIn the film he confides in Shane Williams, another former Wales international turned amateur triathlete and actress Samantha Womack.\n\nIn a BBC Wales interview, he explained: \"I'm trying to take control of my life, but I'm not trying to break the stigma and educate for me. Because that's really selfish.\n\n\"I'm trying to educate and break the stigma for everybody, which includes me in that everybody.\"\n\nThe drug PrEP is being used as part of HIV prevention\n\nIan Green, chief executive at Terrence Higgins Trust, said: 'I'm very proud to call Gareth Thomas a friend. Gareth is proof that a HIV diagnosis shouldn't stop you from doing anything you want to do - whatever that is.\n\n\"I hope that by speaking publicly about this, Gareth will transform attitudes towards HIV that are all too often stuck in the 1980s.\n\n\"We've made huge medical advances in the fight against HIV that means that people living with HIV like Gareth now live long healthy lives.\n\n\"We can also say without doubt that those on effective HIV treatment can't pass on the virus. This is exactly the kind of information Gareth wants to get out there to challenge the stigma that still surrounds this virus.\"\n\nGareth Thomas: HIV and Me will be shown on BBC One Wales on Wednesday 18 September, 21:00 BST\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by state-owned Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.\n\nOne was at Abqaiq, which has the world's largest oil processing plant.", "An inquest into student Ceara Thacker's death opened on Monday\n\nThe father of a student found hanged at university has criticised staff for not telling the family about a previous suicide attempt, an inquest heard.\n\nCeara Thacker, 19, was found dead in her halls of residence at the University of Liverpool in May 2018.\n\nHer father Iain Thacker insisted it would have \"made a difference\" if they had known about an overdose just three months earlier.\n\nAn inquest heard that the family were not told of the suicide attempt.\n\nThe hearing at Liverpool's Gerard Majella Courthouse was told that Ms Thacker, from Bradford, had suffered mental health problems since she was 13.\n\nThe philosophy student was found dead at about 23:30 BST on 11 May last year.\n\nIain Thacker with his daughter who was at university for nearly eight months before being found dead\n\nMr Thacker, of Guiseley, Leeds said the family kept in regular contact with her after she moved to university in September 2017.\n\nHe said she had disclosed her mental health problems when applying to university.\n\nHowever Mr Thacker said the family were unaware she had had an overdose in February and believed she was continuing to take anti-depressant medication.\n\nHe said: \"Ceara's death was a horrible, terrible shock to us all.\"\n\nHer father added: \"We don't know why Ceara didn't feel able to tell us what was going on.\n\n\"However, we feel very strongly that someone in a position of responsibility needed to ask her if she wanted us to be told.\n\n\"Someone needed to recognise that they were dealing with a really vulnerable 19-year-old who was living away from home for the first time, who wasn't thinking straight, who wasn't coping and who needed her family to support her.\"\n\nCeara Thacker's father said she was \"perceptive, intelligent, loyal, funny and extremely kind\"\n\nThe court heard on the morning of her death, Ceara had posted on Twitter about the death of Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison, who took his own life.\n\nShe wrote: \"Honestly got no words, am so upset. What awful news to wake up to.\"\n\nThe hearing was told that Ceara left three letters with one addressed to \"World\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four million people have fled Venezuela, as the country continues to face economic and political crisis.\n\n40,000 have gone to the small Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, just seven miles off the coast.\n\nBut life isn’t easy for those who arrive, and some locals have made it clear they’re not welcome. The BBC’s Ashley John-Baptiste went to find out more.\n\nIn 2018 - more than 35,000 people were forced to flee their homes every day - that's one every two seconds.\n\nThis story is part of a BBC News series, called \"The Displaced\" - a selection of stories exploring the human impact of this movement, and how it is changing our world.\n\nCheck back next week, Monday 23rd September, for our next episode in Uganda #TheDisplaced\n\nIf you have been affected by these issues in Trinidad or anywhere else in the world and would like to speak to the BBC, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk", "Aldi plans to open a new store in the UK every week on average for the next two years, its boss has told the BBC.\n\nGiles Hurley said the discount retailer would invest £1bn to achieve its aim.\n\n\"The reality is that almost 50% of the population of the UK doesn't currently shop with us and they tell us the main reason for that is that they don't have a store near us,\" he said.\n\nAldi's pledge came as it reported a sales rise for last year, but saw profits fall sharply.\n\nLast year, the company attracted more than 800,000 new customers, adding an extra £1.1bn in sales, up 11% on the previous twelve months. But most of this sales growth is from opening new stores.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProfits for the same period fell 18%, partly due to price cuts aimed at keeping its competitive edge.\n\nWhilst the big established grocers are opening few, if any new stores, Aldi is still expanding, stealing their customers and growing market share. And that is set to continue.\n\n\"Over the next two years we're going to invest a further billion pounds in the UK and that shows our intent,\" says Mr Hurley, Aldi's chief executive for the UK and Ireland.\n\nAldi plans to double the number of its stores within the M25\n\nAldi now has over 840 stores and is increasing its focus on London. It wants to double the number of stores inside the M25, from 45 to 100, by the end of 2025.\n\n\"Within Greater London, our market share is around half of what it is in the rest of the country so there's clearly a big opportunity for us to expand the business. In the long term, we can comfortably see us opening 200-250 stores within London,\" says Mr Hurley.\n\nBut will they be able to find enough locations to fit their low-cost business model?\n\n\"It's not straightforward as you don't have the parking spaces,\" says Adam Leyland, editor of the Grocer magazine.\n\n\"It's also harder to get good sites in London. So you have to have a very flexible model and Aldi is so formulaic as a discounter that this is harder to manage.\n\n\"But they are determined to do it and they are a very capable grocer. We've seen over the years how they've responded to the dynamics of the UK market.\"\n\nWhen Aldi opens a new store the shoppers come.\n\nHere in Ruabon, on the outskirts of Wrexham, customers were queuing round the block, lured by the promise of an early freebie.\n\nIt felt like Black Friday had come early.\n\nThe rush was on for the so called \"Aisle of Wonder\" - \"starbuys\" included a £24.99 cordless lawnmower and a cut price vacuum cleaner.\n\nFamilies were dragging six-seater wooden patio sets towards the tills. Another woman's trolley was filled with three Mr Potato Heads, four rabbit-shaped wicker planters and a wooden wishing well for her garden.\n\nThe first customer, Ken Peters, had been waiting since 5:30am to get in: \"I'm hoping for a bargain, or a free food voucher,\" he says.\n\nAldi is already experimenting with a new, smaller, convenience store format. There are currently eight Aldi \"Local\" stores in Greater London, including a former Waitrose store in Camden. Aldi thinks that figure could grow to as high as 50 in the longer term.\n\nSo how long can this rapid expansion last?\n\n\"The fundamental question for Aldi, Lidl and all the other discounters, like B&M, across the retail sectors is that at some point they will reach their peak physical space,\" says Patrick O'Brien, UK retail director at market research firm GlobalData.\n\n\"The rate of growth they're enjoying isn't going to last forever.\n\n\"So they're going to be in the same boat as their bigger rivals, going head to head for their share of the spend in their existing store estates, and as the discounters have expanded they are more often found in each other's catchment areas, competing with each other rather than the easier job of taking spend from higher priced rivals,\" he believes.\n\nAldi says keeping prices low has hit its profits\n\nBut that's not something Aldi has to worry about right now when it's got years of growth ahead to manage, argues Mr Leyland.\n\n\"Aldi are clearly performing very well. The crucial thing is that when they open a store people come. Aldi will only have a problem if it opens new stores and people aren't attracted to them and I can't see any evidence of that.\"\n\nBut the Big Four supermarket chains aren't making it easy. They've been improving their offer and trying to close the price gap with the discounters.\n\nAldi's promise to keep prices lower took its toll on last year's profits. But Mr Hurley, is adamant that it's a promise he's prepared to keep:\n\n\"Our profits did suffer as a result of the investments we made, but Aldi is not like other supermarkets. We take a very long-term view of our business and the focus is very much on our sales, our customers and our store numbers and not on short term profitability.\n\n\"The plans we put down last year were carefully considered. We've always said that we will offer the lowest prices in the market,\" he says.\n\nAhead of Brexit, Aldi is stocking up on items which aren't produced in the UK\n\nThe biggest challenge right now for all the UK's grocers is Brexit.\n\nSo does Aldi believe there will be gaps on the shelves in the event of a disorderly no deal?\n\n\"I can't guarantee the availability of every single product,\" says Mr Hurley.\n\n\"But actually that's no different from anyone else. What we will do is shield our customers from as many ripple effects as possible. I can't commit that prices won't go up. I'm not alone in the industry on that but what I can guarantee is that customers will always pay the lowest grocery prices with Aldi.\"\n\nMr Hurely said the chain was working \"very closely\" with its supply base.\n\n\"Because of our select range of products that's probably a little easier than some of our competitors.\n\n\"We also believe we're in a solid position because 75% of what we sell comes from British suppliers and manufacturers\", he says.\n\nAldi is increasing stocks in items like olive oil, tinned tomatoes and pasta, items which aren't produced in the UK.\n\nBrexit, says the Grocer's Mr Leyland, is Aldi's biggest worry right now.\n\n\"It's the biggest challenge for the whole food industry at the moment. Everyone is working crazily to come up with solutions.\n\n\"Aldi may have fewer products to worry about but it's a double-edged sword because if one product isn't getting through it's harder to flex it. And although they're very competitive, they've struggled to manage inflation like everyone else.\"\n\nWhatever happens, Aldi is clear that Brexit won't change its expansion plans.\n\nThis business, along with Lidl, has had a profound effect on the UK grocery market.\n\nAldi alone took £7bn of sales in the last year that would otherwise have gone to its rivals, according to the research, data and insight consultancy, Kantar.\n\nAs long as it is continuing to open new stores, it's likely to be a hugely disruptive force.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGang members are enrolling in universities and masquerading as students in order to sell drugs in new cities, an academic has warned.\n\nDr Mohammed Qasim said dealers from county lines drug gangs become students to give themselves an alibi in case they are searched by the police.\n\n\"It's not hard to get in university... it gives them a reason to be in the city,\" said the drugs gang expert.\n\nPolice said drug gangs were becoming \"more sophisticated\" to avoid arrest.\n\nMore than 100 county lines gangs are operating across Wales, according to the National Crime Agency, with drug bosses pulling the strings mainly from London, Birmingham and Liverpool.\n\nAuthorities think the county lines network started in 2015 - cocaine deaths in Wales are more than four times higher than five years ago, with 31 last year.\n\nHeroin and morphine deaths have almost trebled since county lines started, to 108 in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're drowning in street drugs and it'll get worse\"\n\nDr Qasim, who interviewed members of a county lines gang in Swansea as part of his research, said dealers were hiding behind the \"student image\".\n\nHe added that living among students helped ethnic minority gang members to blend into predominantly white areas of south and west Wales.\n\n\"The dealers now have to have an alibi as to why they're moving 200 miles from one place to another,\" said Dr Qasim, a researcher on ethnic minority gangs at Leeds Beckett University.\n\n\"They'll live amongst students so they won't be noticed so much.\n\n\"If you're from an ethnic minority background there are some parts of Swansea, for example, where you'll stand out, so you need to live in areas where there's other ethnic minority groups.\n\n\"It's not hard to get into university - universities will take people through clearing. They won't actually go to university to study, it's just a reason to be in a particular place.\"\n\nDr Mohammed Qasim infiltrated a county lines gang in Swansea as part of his research\n\nThe organisation that represents colleges in Wales said they work with authorities to \"meet any challenges county lines gangs might pose\", while universities are not commenting.\n\nDr Qasim met young county lines drug runners working out of a \"really nice flat\" in Swansea earlier this year and they wanted to set up their own \"franchise\" running drugs to Aberystwyth.\n\n\"One was kicked out of school, he didn't have much going on in his life in London but in Swansea he was making money,\" he said.\n\n\"He was away from gang crime, he'd been given a flat. I'd imagine you pay £1,100 a month in the city for a flat like that.\n\n\"He had five or six people living in a one bedroom flat back in London, so living in this apartment here was like heaven.\n\n\"These were victims of exploitation from older gang members. They put them into these cities, sell them the dream that they can make money and eventually set up their own operations.\"\n\nThis 47-year-old addict gets his drugs from county lines dealers\n\n\"When the English guys first appeared on the scene, we didn't like it. We're proud Welsh and I didn't like buying from them at all.\n\n\"We were really angry about them bringing crack into the area. We didn't have that here before and it's so destructive for people - they just don't care.\n\n\"The people I dealt with were Birmingham youngsters but I didn't like having to pick up off 17-year-olds - I'm 45.\n\n\"I know a couple that tried to rip them off and steal from them and this boy just pulled a machete - you could see from the look in his eye he would have taken their arm off if they'd gone for the drugs.\"\n\nPolice say young runners, often victims of child exploitation, are told by dealers to swallow the drugs to transport around the county as it is more difficult for officers to carry internal searches on children.\n\n\"That's partly to make the police response more difficult as we don't want to be keeping young people in detention longer than necessary,\" said Det Insp Paul Stanley of British Transport Police.\n\n\"And partly to reduce the risk of them being located.\"\n\nDealers are said to operate a \"marketing machine\" and offer credit to addicts in order to lure them into taking drugs.\n\nCounty lines gangs have a widespread marketing network, texting potential customers offering cut-price deals on heroin and crack cocaine.\n\n\"We see guys in treatment who are trying really hard to move away from the scene but you literally have people knocking on their doors,\" said Carly Jones of drug awareness organisation PSALT.\n\n\"We always say to people in treatment is get rid of your phone, change your number, get a fresh start.\n\n\"We have tens of people saying that's what they did, but within two weeks they have someone knocking on their door saying here's £50 credit on us, trying to hook them back in.\n\n\"It feels like we're drowning in street drugs at the moment and I think there's worse to come.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe map above used a statistical model to classify areas that have experienced a significant change in drug crime. Weight is given to areas with a strong overall trend of increasing or decreasing crime across several years. Where there is no strong overall pattern in a particular location, those areas have been labelled as having \"no change\".\n\nDrug crime refers to drug-related incidents reported to or identified by the police that an officer classes as criminal, whether or not the crime results in a charge.\n\nTap here if you can't see the interactive map above\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An inquest into student Ceara Thacker's death opens on Monday\n\nUniversities should be bound by law to meet the mental health needs of their students, an ex-health minister says.\n\nInformation gathered by Sir Norman Lamb's office reveals a \"complex and fragmented\" picture of mental health provision across UK universities.\n\nMany of the 110 universities which responded said they did not record all relevant key statistics, such as their budgets or waiting times.\n\nUniversities said they could not deal with the issue of mental health alone.\n\nThey added that they were already working on a voluntary mental health charter.\n\nIt comes as an inquest into the death of a 19-year-old student opened on Monday.\n\nCeara Thacker, originally from Bradford, took her own life in May 2018 while studying at Liverpool University after her mental health deteriorated.\n\nShe had struggled with it earlier in her teenage years, and attempted suicide in the February before her death.\n\nMental health campaigner Sir Norman obtained information from 110 universities, under freedom of information laws, on the demand for, and investment in, mental health support for their students.\n\nThe responses revealed that many universities did not monitor how well services were used, or whether they were meeting the needs of students.\n\nAnd while some, such as Bristol, Kingston and Sussex, are spending more than £1m a year on well-being services, including counselling, others have a budget of less than half that.\n\nMany did not even know how much they spent on mental health, and only a handful of universities could supply information on how long students were waiting for counselling.\n\nFor the few that did, the longest wait was, on average, 43 days - more than half the length of a standard university term.\n\nSir Norman praised some universities, including Cambridge and Northumbria, for taking their responsibilities seriously, but said many others were not doing enough to measure the scale of the problem.\n\n\"If we are operating in a fog, if we have no idea how long students are waiting... this is putting students at risk,\" he added.\n\n\"We know from the data that the longest waiting times could be over half a term for some students.\n\n\"We know also that there have been some tragedies among some student populations - students who have taken their own lives.\n\n\"If that happens while they are waiting for support, that's utterly intolerable.\"\n\nHe added: \"These are young people at a vulnerable age, many living away from home for the first time. There is a risk of some students self-harming, or some students finding themselves in a desperate situation and taking their own lives.\"\n\nHe pointed out that students paying high fees had every reason to expect a duty of care from their universities.\n\nHe is calling for a legally binding charter with minimum standards that universities are required to meet, so parents know their adult children will be safe.\n\nA spokesman for Universities UK said: \"Funding to support mental health services at universities will vary depending on the needs of each student population.\n\n\"Universities cannot address these challenges alone.\n\n\"The NHS must provide effective mental health care to students, and Universities UK is working closely with NHS England to ensure that commitments in the NHS long-term plan are implemented.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US actor Alec Baldwin was the latest star of a Comedy Central Roast, and it was his daughter Ireland who had some of the best jokes.\n\nTheir relationship made headlines in 2007 after a voicemail in which Baldwin called his then 11-year-old a \"rude, thoughtless little pig\" went viral.\n\nThe actor has apologised over the message.\n\nIn her surprise appearance during Sunday's show, Ms Baldwin skewered her father for his absentee parenting.\n\nMs Baldwin, a 23-year-old model, began doling out the insults by introducing herself to her 61-year-old father.\n\n\"Hi Dad, I'm Ireland,\" she said. \"It's good to be here. I almost didn't even know about it because I haven't checked my voice mails from my dad from the last 12 years or something?\"\n\n\"I actually have a lot in common with the people in this roast,\" she added. \"Because like them, I don't really know you that well either.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Comedy Central This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBaldwin left the now notorious 2007 voicemail message after Ms Baldwin missed a scheduled phone call.\n\nAt the time, he was embroiled in a custody battle with his ex-wife, Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger over Ireland. The couple split in 2000 after seven years of marriage.\n\n\"You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being,\" Mr Baldwin had told his daughter on the message, accusing her of humiliating him.\n\nThe 30 Rock actor later apologised in a public statement, saying he had been \"driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years\".\n\nMs Baldwin made much of their relationship during her appearance, garnering laughs - and some dropped jaws - from her father and the audience.\n\n\"It hasn't been easy being the daughter of an iconic movie star, but I'm not here to talk about my mother ... or her Oscar,\" she said.\n\n\"A lot of people only know my dad as an angry guy, but he's more than some lunatic that loses his temper. He also loses Emmys and Oscars and custody of his first-born child.\"\n\nMs Baldwin also quipped that while many know her father from his acting roles in 30 Rock and Mission Impossible, \"I know him as that guy from half my birthday parties\".\n\nBefore she left the stage, Ms Baldwin said she was \"thrilled\" to celebrate her \"wonderful father\".\n\n\"After all the years of giving verbal abuse, it's finally time you received some. So before I leave, I'd just like to say something you've never said to me - good night.\"\n\nBaldwin's speech to the 'roasters' included his own reference to the voicemail: \"I love all of you,\" he said. \"And if you don't believe me, check your voice mails.\"\n\nComedy Central Roast features a star and several guests tasked with mocking them. Previous 'roastees' on the long-running series include Donald Trump, Pamela Anderson and Justin Bieber.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The London Fire Brigade has been interviewed under caution by police investigating the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe fire service said it voluntarily gave an interview \"as a body, rather than an individual\" in relation to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.\n\nLondon Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton said she recognised that survivors and the bereaved needed answers.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is probing the fire in west London in June 2017 in which 72 people died.\n\nMs Cotton said hundreds of LFB staff had already provided voluntary police interviews and the service would continue to assist investigators.\n\n\"We must all understand what happened and why to prevent communities and emergency services from ever being placed in such impossible conditions ever again,\" she added.\n\nGrenfell United, the group representing survivors and bereaved families, said it was \"only right\" that the fire brigade was facing questions.\n\nIt said: \"We have been very patient but in the months ahead we need to see organisations and individuals being brought to account, lessons being learnt and changes being made.\"\n\nThe Met has previously said that the fire brigade's use of the so-called stay put policy, advising residents to remain in their flats, was a line of inquiry.\n\nThe police interview focused on sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe law is designed to ensure that employees and non-employees are not exposed to unreasonable risks.\n\nIn a statement, the LFB said it was making the interview public \"in accordance with its commitments to transparency\".\n\nThe second phase of the public inquiry into the fire is not due to start until early next year and police have said no decision on charges will be made until it is complete, which could be in 2022.\n\nSo far detectives working for the wider Grenfell Tower inquiry have carried out 17 interviews into potential manslaughter, corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences.\n\nIn June the force said about 7,100 statements had been taken from witnesses, community and family members, emergency services personnel and others.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We are now in the stage where we have to start really accelerating the work\"\n\nThe Brexit process has turned into a \"nightmare\", the prime minister of Luxembourg has said after holding talks with UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nXavier Bettel said Mr Johnson had failed to put forward any serious plans to allow a deal by 31 October.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who cancelled his press conference because of the noise from protesters, said \"there's been a lot of work\" and \"papers have been shared\".\n\nHe urged the EU to make \"movement\" in its opposition to scrap the backstop.\n\nMr Johnson said his joint press conference was cancelled over fears the two leaders would have been \"drowned out\" by pro-EU protesters.\n\n\"I don't think it would have been fair to the prime minister of Luxembourg,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there was clearly going to be a lot of noise and I think our points might have been drowned out.\"\n\nPolitical editor Laura Kuenssberg said that Number 10 had asked for the press conference to be held inside, according to sources.\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 Bettel, who conducted the planned press conference alone, said the \"only solution\" was the existing withdrawal agreement.\n\nHe said there were \"no concrete proposals at the moment on the table\" from the UK and said the EU \"needs more than just words\".\n\n\"We need written proposals and the time is ticking so stop speaking and act,\" he said.\n\n\"But we won't accept any agreement that goes against a single market, who will be against the Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nAway from the crowds, Mr Johnson said the EU must make \"movement\" in its opposition to scrap the Irish backstop, but insisted there was \"just the right amount of time\" to get a deal done.\n\nWhen asked what concrete proposals he had made, Mr Johnson said \"there's been a lot of work\" and \"papers have been shared\".\n\n\"We've got to manage this carefully. Yes, we've got a good chance of a deal. Yes, I can see the shape of it. Everybody could see roughly what could be done,\" he said.\n\nHe reiterated that the UK will come out of the EU on 31 October \"deal or no deal\".\n\nAs soon as we arrived at the office of the prime minister of Luxembourg it became obvious a planned outdoor news conference could not go ahead.\n\nThe anti-Brexit protesters in the square numbered fewer than a hundred but their music and megaphones made it sound like a lot more and they occasionally used language you wouldn't want to hear on the news.\n\nBehind the scenes the British and Luxembourgish delegations grappled with a diplomatic dilemma - move the event inside but exclude the majority of the journalists? Gamble that the demonstrators could pipe down for a bit? Silence the host to save the guest's blushes?\n\nThe end result saw Mr Johnson do a short interview at the ambassador's residence to be shared with everyone while Mr Bettel took to the stage next to an empty podium.\n\nHe used the moment in the spotlight to deliver an impassioned speech, made all the more dramatic by the fact he's famed as one of the EU's most smiley, mild-mannered leaders.\n\nEarlier, both Mr Johnson and Mr Juncker - who met for the first time since the PM took office in July - agreed the discussions between the UK and EU \"needed to intensify\" and meetings \"would soon take place on a daily basis\".\n\nBut regardless of the outcome, No 10 said the PM would take the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nDowning Street also said Mr Johnson confirmed his commitment to the Good Friday Agreement - the peace deal brokered in Northern Ireland - and still had a \"determination to reach a deal with the backstop removed, that UK parliamentarians could support\".\n\nThis is the first official meeting between the two men since Mr Johnson took office\n\nMr Johnson has called the Irish backstop \"undemocratic\" and said it needed to be removed from any deal with the EU.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said Mr Johnson also reiterated he would not request an extension and would take the UK out of the EU on 31 October.\n\nThe EU has said it is willing to look at alternatives, but that an insurance policy like the backstop must be in place.\n\nThe backstop is the controversial policy in the existing withdrawal agreement, rejected three times by MPs, which would require the UK to follow the EU's customs rules to ensure there are no physical checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nLast week MPs passed a law that would force the prime minister to ask the EU for an extension to the 31 October deadline if a deal was not agreed by 19 October.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The position of the PM is that we comply with the law, but that we are leaving on 31 October whatever the outcome.\"\n\nThey also confirmed that the current date set for a transition period - the time for the UK and EU to negotiate their future relationship after officially leaving - of December 2020 would not be extended.\n\nThe two men dined at restaurant Le Bouquet Garni\n\nOver the weekend Mr Johnson told a newspaper that the UK would break out of its \"manacles\" like cartoon character The Incredible Hulk - with or without a deal.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the issue of whether the UK had the legal right to leave on 31 October - come what may - could end up in court.\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is considering a plan to keep Northern Ireland more closely aligned to the EU after Brexit, as an alternative to the current Irish backstop.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party - which supports the Conservatives in Parliament - has rejected any plan that would see Northern Ireland treated differently to the rest of the UK.\n\nThe PM's spokesman would not give details, but said the government had \"put forward workable solutions in a number of areas\".\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier also attended the meeting\n\nWriting in Monday's Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson said he believed he could strike a deal with the EU within weeks and was working \"flat out to achieve one\".\n\n\"If we can make enough progress in the next few days, I intend to go to that crucial summit... and finalise an agreement that will protect the interests of business and citizens on both sides of the channel, and on both sides of the border in Ireland,\" he wrote.\n\nMany MPs have also questioned how serious the government is about getting a deal, such as former justice secretary David Gauke who said \"detailed proposals\" had yet to be put forward.\n\n\"It still remains the case the UK government has not produced detailed proposals as to how it wants to replace the Irish backstop,\" he told Radio 4's Today.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the PM would stress he wanted a deal, but there had to be \"some finality\" to it.\n\nHe said claims from the EU side that the UK was dragging its feet were part of the \"tactical posturing that goes on in any negotiation\".\n\nHe told Today the UK had been clear the \"anti-democratic backstop\" had to be removed from the current withdrawal agreement, and the outline of future trading relationship set out in the political declaration had to be much more ambitious.\n\n\"The EU knows our position. Lots of the detail has been talked through at technical and political level,\" he said. \"The framework is very clear.\n\n\"But of course the nature of these negotiations is that there will be a tendency to rubbish things we put forward in order to exact further demands. We are not going to get involved in that.\"\n\nTuesday: The Supreme Court begins to consider the legality of Mr Johnson's decision to suspend parliament until 14 October\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "A Border Force cutter sailed out of Dover early on Sunday\n\nFour small boats carrying 41 migrants have been intercepted in the Channel.\n\nThe vessels, which included a kayak carrying two men, were heading for UK shores before being stopped by Border Force, the Home Office said.\n\nA boat carrying 24 migrants - including two children - was intercepted, along with one with five men and one woman onboard.\n\nNine other people - seven men and two women - were in another boat stopped off the Kent coast.\n\nThe migrants were said to be variously Iranian, Afghan, Turkish and Malian.\n\nMigrants intercepted in the Channel were taken to the port of Dover\n\nAll have been medically checked and taken to immigration officials for questioning, the Home Office said.\n\nIt comes five days after Border Force intercepted what is thought to be the highest number of migrants in a single day amid warnings the closure of a French camp could prompt a spike in Channel crossings.\n\nImmigration officials took charge once on land\n\nOn Tuesday, 86 men, women and children attempted the journey in small boats, with some managing to land on beaches before being detained.\n\nRefugee charity Care4Calais warned the imminent closure of a gym in Dunkirk, where up to 1,000 migrants are living, is likely to prompt a spike in crossing attempts.\n\nDespite the calm waters and sunny weather on Sunday, the crossing is still fraught with risk\n\nOn Friday morning, French police officers cordoned off an area of wasteland and woodland on the outskirts of Calais, telling those camping there to leave and move their tents.\n\nThe wave of migrant camp evictions and the looming clearance of a Dunkirk gym - currently thought to be housing more than 70 families - came after a French court order was issued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dangers faced by migrants who cross the Channel\n\nAt least 1,499 people, including more than 100 children, have crossed the Channel in small boats since 3 November 2018.\n\nOf those, 1,253 have successfully crossed the Channel this year.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Woman describes how \"villains\" in a dream told her to swallow her engagement ring\n\nA US woman has undergone surgery after removing and swallowing her engagement ring in her sleep.\n\nJenna Evans, 29, said she and her fiancé Bobby had been on a speeding train and she was forced to swallow the ring to protect it from \"bad guys\".\n\nShe woke at her home in California to realise the episode had been a dream, but saw her diamond ring was missing.\n\nShe said she knew exactly what had happened, woke up Bobby to explain, and the couple went to a hospital.\n\nMs Evans said she struggled to recall the situation to medics \"because I was laughing/crying so hard\".\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 Jenna 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\nAn X-ray scan identified the 2.4-carat ring in her stomach, and doctors agreed it would be unwise \"to let nature take its course\".\n\nMs Evans, a San Diego resident, later had a procedure to remove the ring but said she was asked to sign release forms in case of her death.\n\n\"Then I cried a lot because I would be so mad if I died,\" she said. \"I waited a long time for that damn engagement ring and I will marry Bobby Howell.\"\n\nThe procedure was a success, and Ms Evans said she woke up \"hysterically crying\".\n\n\"I was really happy because I don't know if I can look at it and appreciate it in the same way,\" she told ABC news channel.", "The Sun's owner News UK has contacted Twitter about stories falsely claiming to be in The Sun\n\nTV presenter Kirstie Allsopp says she's been the victim of a scam which has seen her face used to promote slimming pills on Twitter.\n\nShe has attacked the social media firm for failing to respond to her complaints.\n\nPromoted tweets from an organisation called Gonagram use a false story claiming the presenter has been sacked by Channel 4. Clicking on links then leads readers to a promotion for a weight-loss product.\n\nIn one case, a mocked-up article from the Sun says the property expert dropped from size 16 to size 8 with the help of a celebrity weight-loss method and that Channel 4 sacked her because she had not revealed her links with the firm behind the product.\n\nThe newspaper has confirmed that the story is false and its lawyers are contacting Twitter about the use of its logo without permission.\n\nThe TV presenter has quizzed Twitter about ads that falsely claimed she backed the pills\n\n\"I've been with Channel 4 for 20 years,\" Kirstie Allsopp told the BBC. \"The idea that someone can create a false article that totally looks like it was in The Sun saying I've been fired is utterly bizarre.\"\n\nThe presenter has contacted Twitter about the false claims, but says she has received no satisfactory answers.\n\nResponding to her complaint that she had been impersonated, Twitter emailed her this: \"In order for an account to be in violation of the impersonation policy, it must portray another person or business in a misleading or deceptive manner. We've investigated the account you reported, and have determined that it is not in violation.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Kirstie Allsopp attacked the social media giant, suggesting that it was motivated only by the money it earns from advertising.\n\n\"Can't you see how damaging this is to our belief in you & our ability to judge what is true and what's not? Why aren't you hearing this? Does money speak so loudly that you're deafened to any other voices?\"\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\nThere have been reports that similar articles making false claims about the presenter's endorsement of the weight loss pills have appeared on Facebook, Instagram and other social media networks.\n\nEarlier this year the consumer finance expert Martin Lewis dropped a lawsuit against Facebook over thousands of ads on its platform which used his name and image to promote false claims that he backed investment schemes. The company agreed to pay £3 million to fund a scheme to fight online scams.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Twitter to seek its response to Kirstie Allsopp's complaint. It has also contacted Gonagram, but the company has not yet responded to a request for comment.\n• None Martin Lewis: 'Enough is enough'", "Gareth Thomas has revealed he is HIV positive, saying he wants to \"break the stigma\" around the condition.\n\nThe former Wales and British Lions rugby captain said he wants to show how people with HIV are misrepresented as needing walking sticks and \"close to dying\".\n\nHe has also spoken about \"shame\" and \"fear\" of keeping his condition secret.\n\nThomas, 45, completed the Ironman triathlon in Tenby, Pembrokeshire after making the announcement - cheered on by crowds.\n\nHe finished the gruelling challenge in 12 hours and 18 minutes with high emotion along the way.\n\nGareth Thomas: HIV and Me will be shown on BBC One Wales on Wednesday 18 September at 21:00 BST, and on the BBC iPlayer.", "Hani Gue (L) and Nkululeko Zulu claimed they were subjected to racial harassment\n\nTwo former British army soldiers have won a racial discrimination claim against the Ministry of Defence (MoD).\n\nNkululeko Zulu and Hani Gue alleged they faced years of harassment and took their case to an employment tribunal.\n\nA judgement ruled they had been the victims of racist graffiti written on a photo of them in their barracks at Colchester in January 2018.\n\nThe tribunal ruled their other claims inadmissible, including the barracks having being decorated with Nazi flags.\n\nThe men, who served with 3rd Battalion (3 Para) based at Merville Barracks in Colchester, intend to seek compensation.\n\nThe tribunal heard that someone had drawn a swastika, a Hitler moustache and a racist remark on photographs of the men attached to Mr Gue's door.\n\nA written judgement said: \"The conduct was unquestionably unwanted; the graffiti in question was of the most unpleasant nature, set out on Mr Gue's personal photographs and was racially highly offensive.\"\n\nIt added that the even though the perpetrator was unknown and therefore the motivation had not been explained, \"the carrying out of this act was so unpleasant that it can only have been done with the purpose of violating the claimants' dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and offensive environment for them\".\n\nThe men served with 3rd Battalion (3 Para) based at Merville Barracks in Colchester\n\nMr Zulu had told the tribunal that when he joined the Army he held it in high regard but now considered it to be a racist institution.\n\nThe men's solicitor Amy Harvey, of Banks Kelly Solicitors, said: \"The claimants have succeeded in establishing their claim against the MoD that they suffered racial harassment during their time in the Army and that the MoD did not take all reasonable steps to prevent such harassment.\"\n\nAn MoD spokesperson said: \"We note the decision of the tribunal today.\n\n\"As a modern and inclusive employer, the Armed Forces do not tolerate unacceptable behaviour in any form.\n\n\"Any allegations of inappropriate behaviour are taken extremely seriously and investigated thoroughly, as evidenced by our taking up of recommendations in the Wigston review into inappropriate behaviours published earlier this year.\"\n\nThe Army says it's been working hard to stamp out racism. It wants to attract more BAME recruits. This judgement will serve as a reminder that there's still a problem.\n\nThough most of the allegations made by the two former soldiers were dismissed by the tribunal, it concluded that Mr Gue and Mr Zulu had been the target of racist graffiti at their Colchester barracks. It contributed to Mr Zulu's decision to leave.\n\nIt might be seen as an isolated incident but a recent internal review carried out by a senior officer for the MoD called for a change in culture in the armed forces to deal with \"unacceptable\" levels of racism sexism and bullying.\n\nIt noted there'd been a \"disproportionate\" number of complaints from women and ethnic minorities in the armed forces. The MoD says it's now introducing the recommendations from the report to improve the climate and the complaints process.\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. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nLuxembourg's PM has attacked Boris Johnson's approach to Brexit, calling the situation a \"nightmare\".\n\nXavier Bettel said the British government had failed to put forward any serious proposals for a new deal.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who pulled out of a joint press conference with Mr Bettel because of noisy protesters, said there was still a good chance of a deal.\n\nA government source said the gap the UK and Brussels needed to bridge to achieve a deal \"remains quite large\".\n\nMr Johnson was visiting Luxembourg to hold talks with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, as well as Mr Bettel.\n\nAfter the working lunch with Mr Juncker and Mr Barnier, Mr Johnson said he had been encouraged by the EU's willingness to engage with the UK in their shared desire to avoid a no-deal exit - but there had not been a \"total breakthrough\".\n\nHowever, the European Commission said the PM had yet to present concrete proposals for it to consider and insisted any new plans had to be \"compatible\" with the existing withdrawal agreement, which has been rejected three times by MPs.\n\nThere was then confusion after Mr Bettel held a press conference without Mr Johnson amid noisy protests by anti-Brexit protesters.\n\nMr Bettel, who addressed the media on his own after the UK PM pulled out, said his counterpart \"holds the future of all UK citizens in his hands\" and suggested it was his responsibility to break the deadlock in the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: EU have had 'bellyful' of delays\n\nStanding next to an empty lectern, Mr Bettel warned Mr Johnson \"you can't hold the future hostage for party political gain\".\n\nHe said there were \"no concrete proposals at the moment on the table\" on a new Brexit deal from the UK and said the EU \"needs more than just words\".\n\n\"We need written proposals and the time is ticking, so stop speaking and act,\" he said.\n\nThe existing withdrawal agreement was the \"only solution\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson said his joint press conference was cancelled over fears the two leaders would have been \"drowned out\" by pro-EU protesters.\n\nIt is understood that his request for it to be held inside was turned down.\n\nWhat exactly should we make of the oh so public venting on Monday by the prime minister of Luxembourg following his meeting with Boris Johnson?\n\nDoes this mean the EU has lost patience and will no longer engage in negotiations with the Johnson government? Can we expect an Angela Merkel rant or a Mark Rutte rave next?\n\n\"As long as there is a chance of a deal, it's in our own interest to engage. However frustrating negotiations are,\" a high-level EU contact told me.\n\nThe EU's Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, tweeted a photograph of the empty podium where Mr Johnson had been due to speak alongside Mr Bettel with the caption: \"From Incredible Hulk to incredible sulk\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guy Verhofstadt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOver the weekend Mr Johnson told a newspaper that the UK would break out of its \"manacles\" like cartoon character The Incredible Hulk - with or without a deal.\n\nAfter the working lunch with Mr Juncker, Mr Johnson told the BBC's political editor he was \"cautiously optimistic\" about the state of negotiations and suggested the EU wanted to bring the two and half years of arguments about the terms of the UK's exit to an end.\n\n\"I see no point whatever in staying on in the EU beyond October 31st and we're going to come out. And actually that is what our friends and partners in the EU would like too.\n\n\"And I think that they've had a bellyful of all this stuff. You know they want to develop a new relationship with the UK. They're fed up with these endless negotiations, endless delays.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile he was working \"very hard\" to get a deal, Mr Johnson said there would be no agreement unless the EU shifted its position on the backstop, the insurance policy to maintain an open border on the island of Ireland unless and until another solution is found.\n\n\"If we can't get movement from them on that crucial issue... we won't be able to get it through the House of Commons, no way.\"\n\nHe said there were a number of ideas under discussion which would allow the whole of the UK to leave the EU while protecting the integrity of the bloc's single market, upholding the Good Friday Agreement and supporting the Irish economy.\n\nThese, he said, included the use of technology to minimise border checks as well as the so-called Stormont lock, a mechanism to give Northern Irish politicians a say on the rules that apply to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is all doable with energy and goodwill,\" he insisted.\n\nA UK government source later said: \"It's clear Brussels is not yet ready to find the compromises required for a deal, so no-deal remains a real possibility - as the gap we need to bridge remains quite large.\"\n\nAs soon as we arrived at the office of the prime minister of Luxembourg it became obvious a planned outdoor news conference could not go ahead.\n\nThe anti-Brexit protesters in the square numbered less than 100 but their music and megaphones made it sound like a lot more and they occasionally used language you wouldn't want to hear on the news.\n\nBehind the scenes the British and Luxembourgish delegations grappled with a diplomatic dilemma: Move the event inside but exclude the majority of the journalists? Gamble that the demonstrators could pipe down for a bit? Silence the host to save the guest's blushes?\n\nThe end result saw Mr Johnson do a short interview at the ambassador's residence to be shared with everyone while Mr Bettel took to the stage next to an empty podium.\n\nHe used the moment in the spotlight to deliver an impassioned speech, made all the more dramatic by the fact he's famed as one of the EU's most smiley, mild-mannered leaders.\n\nMr Johnson said he would meet the Halloween Brexit deadline come what may, insisting that the UK would be \"in very good shape\" whether there was a deal or not.\n\nBut pushed on how he would get around the law requiring him to ask for an extension if there is no deal by 19 October, the PM did not explain how it would be possible.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's Supreme Court hearing into whether the prorogation of Parliament was lawful, Mr Johnson defended the decision to suspend Parliament.\n\nParliament was prorogued last week, ahead of a Queen's Speech on 14 October. Legal challenges to the decision have been lodged in the courts by opposition MPs and campaigners.\n\nMr Johnson described claims that Parliament was \"being deprived of the opportunity to scrutinise Brexit\" as \"all this mumbo jumbo\" and a \"load of claptrap\".\n\n\"I think people think that we've somehow stopped Parliament from scrutinising Brexit.\n\n\"What absolute nonsense. Parliament will be able to scrutinise the deal that I hope we will be able to do both before and after the European Council on October 17.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luxembourg's PM spoke beside the empty podium where Boris Johnson was due to appear\n\nWhat exactly should we make of the oh so public venting on Monday by the prime minister of Luxembourg following his meeting with Boris Johnson?\n\nDoes this mean the EU has lost patience and will no longer engage in negotiations with the Johnson government? Can we expect an Angela Merkel rant or a Mark Rutte rave next?\n\n\"As long as there is a chance of a deal, it's in our own interest to engage. However frustrating negotiations are,\" a high-level EU contact told me.\n\n\"It's no secret the EU prefers an orderly Brexit. And if talks breaks down and end in no deal, we (the EU) won't be the ones to have closed the door in the UK's face. It's important that European voters know that.\"\n\nThat said, Prime Minister Bettel's effervescent irritation with the Brexit process is shared by most EU leaders behind closed doors. Frustration seems to seeps out of every pore sometimes in off-the-record conversations with EU diplomats and politicians.\n\nBut most EU figures (bar a couple of well-known exceptions) think it politically prudent to hide any teeth-clenching and nostril-flaring in public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: EU have had 'bellyful' of delays\n\nBoris Johnson said on Monday he wanted to step up EU-UK Brexit contacts to daily meetings. Fine, responded the EU. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker repeated his assertion, previously made to Theresa May, that the EU was open for talk 24/7.\n\nBut it's important to remember that Mr Juncker and European Commission negotiators don't have the legal power to change the Brexit deal, even if they wanted to. That power lies with the EU national leaders.\n\nAnd they are locked in a tussle of words and \"alternative facts\" with the UK prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson insists EU leaders must compromise if they really want a deal. They reply that Mr Johnson has yet to come up with any realistic proposals.\n\nSuggesting, as the UK prime minister has, that Northern Ireland follow EU rules on animal, plant and food safety doesn't fly with the EU as an alternative to the backstop.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU wants to know what goods are entering its single market after Brexit. So what about customs?\n\nThe perceived patchy approach of the Johnson government - \"Oh that'll work itself out. There's technology and trusted trader schemes\" - is not acceptable to the EU.\n\n\"As long as UK proposals remain flabby and aspirational,\" one key EU diplomat put it to me, \"Brussels is unlikely to budge.\"\n\nThe devil as always is in the detail. If the UK had specific, targeted requests for compromise on the backstop, the other EU leaders would look to Ireland and if Dublin gave the nod, the EU as a whole would most likely follow suit.\n\nEqually, if Boris Johnson made a realistic request (from Brussels' point of view) on the backstop and Ireland were reluctant, then Dublin could well come under \"gentle pressure\" from other EU leaders to compromise.\n\nBut with no concrete, legally operable proposals from the UK at this stage, the pressure felt on Ireland the EU as a whole to \"compromise\" is \"basically zero,\" my contacts tell me.", "Young people are at risk of being recruited as money mules\n\nCriminals are recruiting a rising number of teenagers to act as money mules to help them launder the proceeds of crime.\n\nThe number of cases of 14 to 18-year-olds who have allowed their bank accounts to be used to divert funds has grown by 73% in two years.\n\nBanks are using the data, from fraud prevention body Cifas, to alert parents to the risks their children face.\n\nTeenagers are being recruited to the illegal activity via social media.\n\nSports clubs, schools and colleges are also key recruiting grounds for criminals who want to move money through accounts to make it look less suspicious to banks. The youngsters are given a cut for allowing their account to be used. Often they ask no questions over the source of the money.\n\nMost money mules are young men. Those who try to quit may be threatened with violence by the criminals who recruited them.\n\nIf they are caught, they could face prison, as well as future difficulties with their finances, such as having their bank account closed and finding it difficult to apply for credit in the future.\n\n\"Have you ever held £2,000 at once in your hand?\" That was the line used to tempt Holly into becoming a money mule.\n\nAt the age of 17 and still at school, Holly (not her real name) was approached on Instagram, then Snapchat, by a person who promised to pay her a decent sum, if she let him use her bank account to move money.\n\n\"I just eventually gave in,\" she said.\n\nTeenagers can open their first current account in their teenage years. The Cifas figures show that money mule cases last year among 14 to 18-year-olds rose by 20% on the previous year, and by 73% over two years, to 5,819.\n\nMike Haley, chief executive of Cifas, said: \"The increasing use of social media means that young people have never been more vulnerable to becoming victims of fraud.\n\n\"Many youngsters are unaware of the devastating consequences that fraud can have on their future opportunities, and so teachers, parents and carers can play an important role here by ensuring young people have the necessary knowledge and skills to prevent them from unwittingly falling victim to fraud, or even become perpetrators themselves.\"\n\nBanking trade body UK Finance is behind a new awareness campaign encouraging parents and guardians to look out for danger signs.\n\nThey include telling youngsters to keep bank details safe, telling them to be cautious of unsolicited offers of easy money, and looking out for signs of their child suddenly having extra cash, or becoming secretive, withdrawn or stressed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Murderer Sadam Essakhil wants people to avoid the mistakes that led him to stab\n\nA man who is serving a life sentence for a murder he committed as a schoolboy is fronting a new anti-knife crime campaign being shown in schools in the West Midlands.\n\nSadam Essakhil was 15 when he murdered Lukasz Furmanek in Handsworth on 31 May 2015.\n\nLike many teenagers in Britain's big cities, he believed he needed to carry a knife for his own protection. He and an older friend, Abdullah Atiqzoy, who was 18, were walking towards an all-night supermarket at 03:00 BST when they encountered two Polish men coming the other way.\n\nIt is not clear how the fight started but Essakhil and Atiqzoy were armed. In less than 60 seconds, Mr Furmanek lay dying and his friend Joseph Dudek was critically injured having suffered multiple stab wounds.\n\nDuring the trial at Birmingham Crown Court the incident was described as \"sudden, shocking and brutal\".\n\nLukasz Furmanek's mother has experienced mental health issues since his murder\n\nEssakhil fled the country but handed himself in to the authorities in Belgium. Atiqzoy was arrested trying to escape to France in the back of a lorry.\n\nMr Dudek had recovered sufficiently to be able to give evidence at their trial. They denied murder and claimed they were acting in self-defence but were convicted and sentenced to life.\n\nAtiqzoy has to serve 26 years before he will be eligible for parole, while Essakhil has to serve 19. Judge Patrick Thomas QC said what they had done was \"savage and inexcusable\", and the effects were \"horrific and far-reaching\".\n\nIt is now four years later and Sadam Essakhil has just turned 20. Despite not admitting his guilt and showing no remorse at the time, he now accepts he was responsible for taking a man's life and wants to warn other teenagers not to carry knives.\n\nIn 2018 nearly 700 children in the West Midlands police area were victims of knife crime. Earlier this year, three teenagers were fatally stabbed in the space of 12 days. The force hopes that his message will hit home where others have not.\n\nKilled in 12 days: Victims of Birmingham's knife crime epidemic were (l-r) Hazrat Umar, 18, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed, both 16\n\nDuring the eight minute-long film West Midlands Police has produced, Essakhil gives more detail than he ever did during his trial.\n\nHe tells children he is sorry he took another man's life and for the distress he has caused to both Lukasz Furmanek's family and his own. His message to other teenagers who think they need to carry weapons for protection is stark.\n\n\"I went out with a knife but not trying to attack people,\" he says.\n\n\"I just went out there feeling that I need to protect myself, and obviously one thing leads to another, and you never ever think you're gonna kill someone. But obviously you could end up killing someone.\n\n\"When you think about it you don't need that knife. A lot of the times I used to think I was protecting myself but what am I protecting myself from?\n\n\"That night, if I never took a life it would have been a fist fight at most.\"\n\nSadam Essakhil (right) was jailed for life along with Abdullah Atiqzoy (left), while Feizullah Atiqzoy (middle) was jailed for four years for assisting an offender\n\nLife in Britain's cities can be tough, even for 12 and 13-year-olds. At the Bluecoat Academy in Walsall, a group of Year 8 students tell me they get scared if they have to go out on their own, and know there are gangs who could threaten them.\n\nAfter watching the film, Oscar, 12, explained how it made him feel.\n\n\"It's quite hard to think that it (can) happen somewhere close to where we all live. It's literally just on our doorsteps.\"\n\nIsmail, also 12, added: \"Around my area a lot of bad things happen, like a few weeks ago there was a gunshot fired.\n\n\"People carry it [a knife] for self-defence. What they don't realise is if they get caught carrying that knife around some bad things could happen to them.\"\n\nThe man introducing the film to the students is Det Ch Insp Jim Munro, the officer called to the scene on the night of the murder, and who led the investigation.\n\nHe hopes the film will be hard-hitting and make teenagers think twice about arming themselves but admits asking a murderer to front the force's latest anti-knife crime campaign from prison was a controversial choice.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Munro was called to the scene on the night of the murder and now visits schools where the film is being shown\n\nHe says: \"We know he's in prison. It's not a decision that's been taken lightly, but ultimately this is about getting to the children in the school and talking to them in a language they understand, and [having] somebody who can come across and give that message is really important.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police has kept Lukasz Furmanek's mother Iwona informed about the campaign, and she has given her approval.\n\nThe effects of her son's murder have had a long-term impact on her. She has had mental health problems, finds it difficult to sleep and has had to take anti-depressants.\n\n\"I live in a 'vegetative state' now,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't care about anything. If I live, I live, if I don't, I don't. I feel indifferent about everything.\n\n\"I would give anything to see him, to hear his voice, to undo that day of 31 May.\n\n\"If I was to influence someone with my words, I would like them to think 10 times before they cause hurt to themselves and to other people.\"\n\nThe murder has also deeply affected the Essakhil family. Sadam's mother has returned to Afghanistan and his brother Ismail said he hopes he can achieve something through the film.\n\n\"He realised now whatever he has done is wrong. The only thing he's thinking now is getting his message to youngsters and not to make the same mistake that he made.\"\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 BBC's Laura Kuenssberg sat down for an interview with Prime Minister Boris Johnson after his meeting with the European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.\n\nHere is the full transcript of what they said.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg: You've just been with [European Commission president] Jean-Claude Juncker.\n\nDo you feel you've made any progress since seeing him. I mean he could be the deal maker?\n\nBoris Johnson: Yes. I mean obviously I've talked to him several times since becoming prime minister, but he's... I've known Jean-Claude for many, many years and he is a very, highly, highly intelligent guy and I think that he would like to get a deal if we possibly can, but clearly it's going to take some work.\n\nWe think that there are, we can satisfy the European Commission and our friends on the key points. Can we protect the single market the integrity the single market? Can we ensure there's no checks at the border in Northern Ireland? Can we protect all the achievements of the Good Friday Agreement and peace in Northern Ireland? Yes I think we can, while simultaneously allowing the whole of the UK to withdraw.\n\nIt will now take an accelerated timetable of work to, to get that done. And it maybe - you know - just have to say that it may be that we have to come out without an agreement if necessary on 31 October.\n\nLK: And we will come to that in a second.\n\nBut just in the last few minutes, the [European] Commission has put a statement out, saying after your lunch that they still are yet to see proposals that they think are viable and workable.\n\nSo it doesn't feel like this is going anywhere at the moment?\n\nBJ: Well, it's certainly the case that the Commission is still officially sticking on their position that the backstop has got to be there.\n\nBut clearly if they think that we can come up with alternatives, then I think they're on the mark.\n\nI think the big picture is that the Commission would like to do a deal.\n\nLK: I mean the Commission has immediately after your lunch put out a statement saying they still haven't seen viable workable proposals.\n\nDo you feel they're listening or is this that they're saying something else behind closed doors to what they say publicly?\n\nBJ: No, I think the Commission, I think Jean-Claude himself certainly would like to do a deal and would like the UK to, and would like to settle this if he possibly can.\n\nThey have their own constraints. They've got the European Parliament they've got to deal with. I think there's a deal there to be done and of the kind that I've described.\n\nBut clearly if we can't get movement from them on that crucial issue of whether the EU can continue to control the UK and our trade policy and our regulation - which is how it would work under the current Withdrawal Agreement - we won't be able to get that through the House of Commons, no way.\n\nAnd we'll have an exit with no-deal on 31 October. That's not what I want. It's not what they want. And we're going to work very hard to avoid it. But, but that's the reality.\n\nLK: But what is the broad shape of a deal that you think is there? I mean we've heard many times from you and ministers that there is a landing zone.\n\nAs simply as you can, what is the nature of the deal you think you can get?\n\nBJ: I mean, I think that the important thing here is not to be... I mean, there is a negotiation going on, has been for a long time now about how to do this.\n\nSo there's a limit to how much the details benefit from publicity before we've actually done the deal. But the shape of it is, the shape it is...\n\nLK: Slice and dice the backstop as it exists?\n\nBJ: The shape of it is all about who decides.\n\nFundamentally, the problem with the backstop, as you remember, is that it's a device by which the EU can continue after we've left to control our trade laws, control our tariffs, control huge chunks of our regulation, and we have to keep accepting laws from Brussels long after we've left with no say on those laws.\n\nNow that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for the whole of the UK and it doesn't work for Northern Ireland. So we have to find a way to avoid that situation.\n\nLK: But what is that way? Because what you're saying there is just articulating the problem that's been articulated forever, about the backstop and people's concern that Northern Ireland would still have to and the rest of the UK would have to go along with EU rules.\n\nBut can you foresee a solution, for example, when in some areas, Northern Ireland would follow EU rules and the rest of the UK would not?\n\nBJ: What we want to see is a solution where the decision is taken by the UK and clearly that's the problem with the, with the backstop. It basically leaves the decision making up to Brussels and that's no good.\n\nLK: What's the actual solution that you're proposing? Is it giving more power to Stormont, for example, that's being talked about a lot, that the Northern Irish assembly might be given a lock on opting out or opting in on EU regulation?\n\nBJ: These are certainly some of the ideas that are being talked about and as are the ideas that you're familiar with to do with maximum facilitations, to do with checks away from the border, all sorts of ways in which you can avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis is all doable. It's all doable with energy and goodwill.\n\nBut I mentioned the other day when I was in in Dublin, you know the famous dictum attributed I think probably incorrectly to Ian Paisley the elder, [in] Northern Ireland the people are British, but the cattle are Irish, you know there's a there's a germ of an idea there.\n\nLK: But it's just the germ of an idea...\n\nBJ: There's a lot of thinking going on about how to get an agreement that gets the UK out whole and entire, but also protects that Northern Irish border, protects that peace process and protects all the gains that Ireland has got from its membership of the EU single market.\n\nSo, I'm, you know, I mean, more or less where I was the other day. I'm cautiously optimistic, cautious.\n\nBut it is vital that we're ready to come out on 31 October.\n\nAnd of course what the... parliamentarians threatening to extend and all that kind of thing. They hear that they listened to that over here, but I didn't think it substantially changes their calculations.\n\nLK: MPs though haven't just threatened to extend, MPs have changed the law to try to stop you taking the UK out without a deal at the end of October.\n\nHow do you propose to get round that? Because you keep saying you've got no intention of delay...\n\nBJ: I won't. Here's, here's what I want. I will uphold the constitution, I will obey the law, but we will come out on 31 October.\n\nLK: But how if MPs have changed the law to stop you doing that?\n\nBJ: We're going to come out on 31 October and it's vital that people understand that the UK will not extend.\n\nWe won't go on remaining in the EU beyond October. What on earth is the point? Do you know how much it costs?\n\nLK: But how will you do that if MPs have changed the law to stop you?\n\nAre you looking for a way round the law? Because that's what it sounds like...\n\nBJ: We will obey the law but we will come out - and - we will come out I should say on 31 October.\n\nLK: But that means you are looking for a way round the law.\n\nI mean, to be really clear about this, Parliament has changed the law to make it almost impossible to take us out of the EU without a deal at the end of October. But you say that you will not do it.\n\nThat means that you must be looking for a way around the law?\n\nBJ: Well, you know those are your words. What we're going to do is come out on 31 October deal or no-deal. And staying in beyond 31 October completely... crackers.\n\nYou're spending £1bn a month for the privilege remaining in the... what is the point?\n\nThe people of this country want us to get on and leave the EU and deliver on the mandate of the people.\n\nAnd staying in costs £250m a week, which is which is roughly the same as what it would cost to build a new hospital every week.\n\nThat's what Jeremy Corbyn and the opposition parties seem to think is a good idea. I don't think it's a good idea.\n\nLK: You used to say it cost £350m a week, now you're saying £250m a week?\n\nBJ: I think the priorities of the British people are to come out and that's what we're going to do.\n\nLK: But do you really think that you want to be the kind of prime minister that is looking of ways of sneaking around the law to keep to your political promise?\n\nI mean, everybody knows how strongly you feel...\n\nBJ: These are all your words.\n\nLK: But how will you do it then?\n\nWill you challenge it in court? Will you take Parliament to court?\n\nBJ: Our first priority, if I may say so, just to try and look on the bright side for a second or two, is to come out with a deal and that's what we're working to achieve. And I think we have every prospect of doing that.\n\nLK: But if you don't, I mean you are looking, you know the law has been changed to try to make this impossible.\n\nIf you want to look for a way round it, many people believe that means you must be preparing somehow to ignore the law or to challenge that because it's a new area of law.\n\nWould you seek to challenge the law in court? Will the government take Parliament to court?\n\nBJ: What we're going to do is work very hard to get a deal that will allow us to come out.\n\nI see no point whatever in staying on in the EU beyond 31 October and we're going to come out. And actually that is what our friends and partners in the EU would like too. And I think that they've had a bellyful of all this stuff.\n\nYou know they want to develop a new relationship with the UK. They're fed up with these endless negotiations, endless delays. They've now delayed twice before to achieve what is completely unclear to me.\n\nLK: And you're completely clear that politically the promise you gave to your party was to leave on 31 October. And that was clear as crystal.\n\nBut since you've been in office you've suspended Parliament. You say you might find a way around the way that Parliament might change the law...\n\nBJ: Well, that's what you've just said.\n\nLK: Well, you haven't denied it prime minister. I mean it does seem since you've been in office that, some of the things that you have done, you seem to believe the conventions and rules somehow don't apply to you really?\n\nBJ: Obviously I humbly, respectfully, disagree. If you're talking about having a Queen's Speech, I think that was the right thing to do. This Parliament has gone on for longer than any time since the Civil War.\n\nIt's right to have a Queen's Speech, it's right to set out our ambitious agenda for the country. There's all sorts of things we want to do. Whether it's investing in health care and putting police on the streets.\n\nWe've got a fantastic agenda for investing in science. A huge, huge agenda for this country. On the environment, on housing we have big, big projects.\n\nWe need a Queen's Speech. And by the way, all this mumbo jumbo about how Parliament is being deprived of the opportunity to scrutinise Brexit. What a load of claptrap.\n\nActually, Parliament I think has lost about four or five days. I don't think Parliament has sat during the period from late September beginning of October for about 120 years.\n\nWith great respect, I don't think people are aware of that fact. I think people think that we've somehow stopped Parliament from scrutinising Brexit. What absolute nonsense.\n\nParliament will be able to scrutinise the deal that I hope we will be able to do both before and after the European Council on 17 October.\n\nLK: But when it comes to sticking to the promise you made to leave on 31 October...\n\nBJ: We're going to do that.\n\nLK: Is there a line that you would not cross?\n\nBJ: Well yes, obviously I didn't want to go beyond 31 October. I think that would be a mistake.\n\nLK: In order to stick to that goal, is there anything that you would not do?\n\nWould you rule out suspending parliament again?\n\nBJ: As I say, we're going to uphold the constitution and we're going to obey the law. And it's very important to realise that actually, I think our friends and partners in the EU are keen to work with us to get a deal.\n\nThat's what I've been doing here with Jean-Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier. We've been working very hard. We've had a good productive exchange.\n\nHas there been a total breakthrough? I wouldn't say so. But I would say that a huge amount of work is now going to be done to sort it out.\n\nAm I more optimistic than I was when I, when we took office? This morning? I would say a little bit, but not much, just a little bit.\n\nBecause I think that there's a, perhaps an even greater willingness on the part of the Commission to engage than I had, than I had thought.\n\nSo, so yes. I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'm not counting my chickens. And it is absolutely vital, it's absolutely vital for people to understand that the UK is ready to come out with no-deal if we have to.\n\nLK: Do you feel that the UK is stable right now? I mean, it looks like chaos, doesn't it?\n\nBJ: No, I think it's extremely stable. We've got unemployment at record lows. We have record levels of investment from overseas - one point £3tn pounds. There's no other country in Europe that gets these levels of investment.\n\nIf people genuinely thought, if people genuinely thought that there was some political risk in the UK, would they be investing in this in this country in the way that they are?\n\nLK: Does it look politically stable?\n\nBJ: This is an immensely, but it is an immensely stable country. We are going through what is, after all, a quite difficult exercise in democracy.\n\nWhich is, what happened is that the people of this country decided after 45 years of EU membership that that highly intricate relationship was one that they no longer wished to pursue. And that has had a great deal of consequence.\n\nThe disentangling of that relationship is obviously complex, but it can be done and it is being done. And we will get on with it successfully.\n\nAnd I think people should be very optimistic about the future of this country, because it's a fantastic country. It is the leader and the cutting edge of most of the 21st century technology in Europe. And a place that attracts, not just huge quantities of inward investment, but the best and brightest from around the world.\n\nAnd what we will, what we will ensure as we become, as we take advantage of Brexit, is that we remain not just open to our friends in the rest of the EU, but we reach out now to the rest of the world and take advantage of the opportunities the Brexit offers.\n\nAnd I think actually what the people of our country want is a little less of this sort of gloom and kind of, you know, I think most people think that, honestly it's just nonsensical to think that democracy in the UK is any way endangered or the UK economy is in any way endangered.\n\nWe're going through a period of constitutional adjustment caused by the decision of the people to leave the EU. That was always going to be logistically and practically difficult to accomplish.\n\nBut we're going to do it and we're going it by 31 October, and we will be in very good shape whether we get a deal or not.\n\nAnd if we don't get a deal, I'm still, as I say, cautiously optimistic that we will. If we don't get a deal, we will come out nonetheless\n\nLK: One of the people who is extremely gloomy about what's happened is your old friend and rival and colleague David Cameron.\n\nNow he says that the Leave campaign that you led lied.\n\nHe said that you behaved appallingly and he's a prime minister, a Tory prime minister, who left behind a total mess over Europe.\n\nAre you worried you might face the same fate?\n\nBJ: I have nothing but admiration. Look I don't want to say anything further about David Cameron and his memoirs than what I said the other day, which is I have the highest respect and affection, regard for him.\n\nHe and I worked together for many years and I think he has a legacy, in terms of turning around the economic chaos that Labour left, helping to introduce a jobs miracle in this country, turning the economy around, I think he can be very very proud of.\n\nSo that's my view on Dave and what he's got to say.\n\nLK: He's been pretty brutal about you...\n\nBJ: Well. Really? I mean you know. I think that he has a lot to be proud of and there you go.", "Ric Ocasek performed at the Rock and Roll induction ceremony in 2018\n\nRic Ocasek, lead singer of 1980s US band The Cars, has died aged 75.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at home in Manhattan after family called to report he was unresponsive, New York Police Department said. The cause of death remains unconfirmed.\n\nThe Cars helped kick-start the new wave movement.\n\nThe band was formed in Boston in the mid-1970s by Ocasek and band-mate Benjamin Orr after they met at high school.\n\nMerging guitar rock with synthesizer-based pop, their early hits included Just What I Needed, My Best Friend's Girl and Good Times Roll.\n\nTheir 1984 ballad Drive was used as background music for footage of the Ethiopian famine, and its re-release as a single after Live Aid helped raise money for the cause.\n\nAfter the band broke up in the late 1980s, Ocasek embarked on a solo career as well as working as a producer for artists including Weezer, Bad Religion and No Doubt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RainnWilson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 remaining members of The Cars re-formed in 2011 to release a final album and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.\n\nIn 1987, Ocasek told The New York Times: \"I'm happy that the pop songs have a bit of a twist. When I'm writing, I never know how it's going to come out.\"\n\nHe said he read a lot of poetry, which inspired his \"twisted\" song-writing.\n\nTributes have been paid by many in the music industry including Bryan Adams, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, and The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers.\n\nOcasek is survived by his wife, the model Paulina Porizkova, and six sons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Carl Newman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Houthis say they did it; the United States insists that it was Iran; the Iranians deny any involvement.\n\nA predictable war of words has followed the dramatic attack on Saudi Arabia's most important oil installations. The strikes have shown the remarkable vulnerability of oil facilities of central importance to the global economy.\n\nThe Saudis - whose air campaign in Yemen is backed by the Americans and whose warplanes are only kept in the sky by a variety of western contractors - have been conducting a long-running air campaign against the Houthi rebels. But their opponents have now demonstrated the ability to deliver a strategic riposte of their own.\n\nThe whole episode has inevitably revived the debate about the extent to which Iran is providing technology and assistance to the Houthis. Given the already highly charged atmosphere in the Gulf, it has served to ratchet up regional tensions.\n\nBut equally it has also revealed some of the failings in the Trump administration's declared policy of exerting \"maximum pressure\" against Tehran.\n\nAmidst the claims and counter-claims, there is still a good deal that we do not know. The Houthis have used both drones and missiles to hit Saudi targets before.\n\nBut the drone attacks have generally had only limited success. Both the range over which this most recent operation was conducted and the accuracy and scale of the strikes make this a different order of magnitude altogether.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abqaiq is the site of Aramco's largest oil processing plant\n\nSo was it really armed drones (UAVs) that conducted these attacks, or was it some kind of missile strike? And if the latter, why were Saudi air defences not alerted? Were the attacks launched from Houthi-controlled territory or from somewhere else? Might pro-Iranian groups in Iraq have been involved or maybe the Iranians themselves?\n\nThe US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quick to point the finger of blame at Tehran, but he did so seemingly before any clear intelligence was available; certainly he did not offer any of it up for immediate public scrutiny.\n\nMike Pompeo (L) said the US and its allies would ensure \"Iran is held accountable\"\n\nSeveral hours later, US sources indicate that there were some 17 points of impact from the attack, all suggesting that they came from the north or north-west - that is to say, more likely from Iran or Iraq, rather than from Yemen to the south.\n\nThe US is promising more details in due course and some of the drones or missiles that failed to reach their targets are now being analysed.\n\nIran has well-developed ties with the Houthis and there is little doubt it has been the key player in enabling them to develop their long-range strike capability, whether through armed UAVs or missiles.\n\nIn 2018, a report from a UN expert panel pointed to the remarkable similarity between the Houthi Qasef-1 UAV and the Iranian Ababil-T. In a wide-ranging study, it asserted that Iran had broken the arms embargo against Yemen and supplied the Houthis with a variety of weapons systems.\n\nMuch the same conclusion was reached by a March 2017 study from the independent Conflict Armament Research organisation, which focused on Iranian UAV assistance.\n\nHowever, the Qasef-1/Ababil-T only has a range of about 100-150km. The distance from the Yemeni border to the closest target - the Khurais oil field - is about 770km. So if these recent attacks were carried out by a UAV it would have to have been of an altogether different design, with hugely increased range and a significantly greater level of reliability.\n\nIran and thus possibly the Houthis do indeed have longer-range systems, but so far there has been little evidence of their deployment in the Yemen conflict. Some kind of cruise missile might also be a possibility, perhaps fired from either Iraq or Iran, but clarity on these questions will require access to reliable intelligence information.\n\nIn some ways, though, the precise details don't matter. The diplomatic damage has already been done. The US and the Saudis are implacable enemies of Iran. The Trump administration has already made its mind up, blaming Tehran for the mining of ships in the Gulf. Iran has openly seized a British-flagged tanker, albeit after the arrest of a ship carrying Iranian oil off Gibraltar.\n\nSo as far as team Trump is concerned, the Iranians' fingerprints are all over the Houthis' escalating strategic campaign against Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure.\n\nSaudi Arabia raced to restart its oil production following the attacks\n\nThe question now is what are they going to do about it, or perhaps what can they do about it? And the answer may be: not very much. The US is already firmly in the Saudi corner, despite the growing unpopularity of the Yemen war on Capitol Hill, where there is a growing sense that the Saudi air campaign is pointless, serving only to turn an already impoverished country into a humanitarian disaster zone.\n\nBut there is a curious aspect revealed by these infrastructure attacks. For all the Trump administration's support for the Saudis and for all its stress on \"maximum pressure\", in reality, Washington is sending very mixed signals to Tehran.\n\nA Nasa satellite image shows smoke from fires following the drone attacks\n\nMr Trump, after all seems, willing to countenance a face-to-face meeting with the Iranians on the margins of the upcoming UN General Assembly and he has just fired his National Security Adviser, John Bolton, the man most associated with the idea of regime change in Tehran.\n\nIran, along with its Houthi allies, is conducting a classic war of the weak against the strong; a \"hybrid conflict\" as it is known in the strategic textbooks. It is borrowing many of the tactics from the Russian play-book - the use of deniability; proxies; cyber-operations and information warfare.\n\nTehran knows that Mr Trump, for all his bluster and unpredictability, wants to get the US out of military entanglements and not into new ones. That gives the Iranians the ability to apply some \"maximum pressure\" of their own.\n\nThe danger remains that miscalculation could lead to an all-out conflict, which nobody really wants.", "Young people are least likely to seek redress through employment tribunals\n\nAbout one in 20 workers does not get paid holidays, while one in 10 does not get a payslip, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation think tank.\n\nIt found workers over the age of 65 are most likely to not have paid holidays, despite a legal entitlement to 28 days a year, or pro-rota for part-timers.\n\nAnd workers aged 25 and under are twice as likely to be underpaid the minimum wage that any other age group.\n\nThe think tank says its findings reveal the extent of illegal labour practices.\n\nWorkers in hotels and restaurants miss out out more than others on legal workplace entitlements, the report says.\n\nMeanwhile, those in small firms, employing fewer than 25, are most likely to not get payslips and paid leave, as are workers on zero-hours and temporary contracts, the Resolution Foundation said.\n\nThe analysis was published to mark the start of the organisation's three-year investigation into the enforcement of labour market rules and regulations.\n\nLindsay Judge, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The UK has a multitude of rules to govern its labour market, from maximum hours to minimum pay, but these rules can only become a reality if they are properly enforced.\n\n\"Labour market violations remain far too common, with millions of workers missing out on basic entitlements to a payslip, holiday entitlement and the minimum wage.\n\n\"Our analysis suggests that, while violations take place across the labour market, the government should also prioritise investigations into sectors like hotels and restaurants, along with firms who make large use of atypical employment contracts, as that's where abuse is most prevalent,\" Ms Judge said.\n\nShe welcomed the government's move to strengthen the resources and powers of bodies such as HM Revenue & Customs and the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Agency.\n\nHowever, the UK still largely relies on individuals seeking redress through the Employment Tribunal (ET) system. And, she said, many of the individuals in most need of help to challenge illegal practices are those least likely to use ETs.\n\nYoung people are disproportionately subjected to unlawful working practises, but make fewer ET applications than any other age group.\n\nIn contrast, managerial staff are least likely to be subject to labour market abuse, but are among the most likely to be make tribunal claims.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said it is committed to enforcing workplace regulations and tackling firms that break the rules, and is consulting on bringing agencies together under its proposed Single Enforcement Body.\n\n\"We are extending state enforcement to cover holiday pay for vulnerable workers, as part of the largest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation,\" said a spokesman.\n\nHowever, Shadow business minister Laura Pidcock said she recognised many people worked in illegal conditions, but insisted \"the Tories are on the side of the few, not the many\".\n\n\"Behind these statistics are many hours of stressful and exhausting work, people's home lives being made so much harder than they need to be, an unchecked class of bad bosses and legions of workers who feel like they have no choice but to accept illegal poor conditions,\" she said.\n\nHave you not had access to legal paid holiday? 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:", "Rescuers said the dog was cold, wet and tired\n\nMountain rescuers were called to the Lake District fells after a dog-tired terrier refused to walk any further with its owner.\n\nThe walker was on a stretch of the Cumbria Way from Keswick to Caldbeck with his nine year old dog on Thursday when the animal refused to go on.\n\nThe un-named man tried to carry the dog, but he too became too tired.\n\nVolunteers from Keswick Mountain Rescue Team responded to a call for help and escorted them to safety.\n\nThe man and dog had taken refuge in a wooden shelter called Lingy Hut, which is used by walkers in bad weather.\n\nLingy Hut is used by walkers in bad weather\n\nA team spokesman said: \"It had been a long wet day for them and the dog just refused to carry on.\n\n\"They had just gone past Lingy Hut en route towards High Pike in the Caldbeck Fells.\n\n\"The man attempted to carry to dog, but it was too tiring and they were both getting cold so he returned to Lingy Hut after calling 999 and asking for mountain rescue help.\n\n\"A small team climbed up to the hut where they found the man and his dog.\n\n\"With visions of Great Danes and Rottweilers and the possibility of having to call more team members to stretcher the dog off, the team were pleased to find a small and easily portable, cold, shivering terrier.\n\n\"The pair were escorted down to where one of the team was able to drive them to their accommodation in Caldbeck.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A family in southeast Spain were forced to take refuge in their attic when their house was overcome by a flash flood.\n\nRead more: Flash floods in south-eastern Spain kill at least five", "The Guardian has apologised for saying David Cameron had only felt \"privileged pain\" over the death of his son.\n\nIn extracts of his memoirs published on Sunday, the former PM praises the NHS care his disabled son Ivan received before he died in 2009, aged six.\n\nBut the paper asked whether he \"might have understood the damage his policies have done\" if he had sought care for a parent rather than a child.\n\nThe Guardian removed the remarks within hours of publication.\n\n\"The original version of an editorial posted online yesterday fell far short of our standards,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"It was changed significantly within two hours, and we apologise completely.\"\n\nA screenshot of the paragraph about Mr Cameron's son was shared on social media, including by Chancellor Sajid Javid, who called it a \"shameful thing to read\".\n\n\"Never has an editorial so lacked in empathy, while so righteously criticising others for lacking it,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Angela Smith condemned the remarks as \"entirely inappropriate\".\n\nSpeaking on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Ms Smith said: \"I don't believe in the politics of class warfare.\n\n\"The majority of parliamentarians are trying to do a decent job and I think the use of those terms must have been very hurtful to David Cameron.\"\n\nComedian and actress Jenny Eclair tweeted: \"I am furious with David Cameron but to question his grief privilege as the Guardian is doing is vile beyond vile - his 6 year old son died.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jenny Eclair This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Cameron had been an MP for less than a year when Ivan was born in 2002, and became prime minister the year after his son died.\n\nIn an extract of his memoirs published in the Sunday Times, Mr Cameron recalls taking Ivan to hospital when he was just a few days old.\n\n\"When you watch your tiny baby undergoing multiple blood tests, your heart aches. When they bend him back into the foetal position to remove fluid from the base of his spine with a long, threatening-looking needle, it almost breaks,\" he says.\n\nIt was later discovered Ivan had cerebral palsy and a severe form of epilepsy that led him to have 20 or 30 seizures in a day.\n\nMr Cameron also pays tribute in his memoirs to \"the extraordinary compassion in our health service\" and \"the best of the NHS\" who helped look after his son.\n\nReflecting on his experience helping care for Ivan, the former Tory leader says: \"A world in which things had always gone right for me suddenly gave me an immense shock and challenge.\"\n\n\"Nothing, absolutely nothing, can prepare you for the reality of losing your darling boy in this way. It was as if the world stopped turning.\"\n\nThe Cameron family in London in 2006\n\nMr Cameron's wife Samantha told the Times in 2017 her son's death \"overshadowed everything\" and rendered the outside world \"meaningless\".\n\n\"Like anyone else in my situation, I just kept going. You have to deal with it, because you have no choice.\"\n\nShe also said it changed her husband's politics, saying: \"It made him understanding, though he couldn't be too subjective.\"\n• None The Guardian view on David Cameron's memoirs - Editorial - Opinion - The Guardian The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nathan DeAsha competes in bodybuilding as \"The Prophecy\"\n\nAn international bodybuilder has been called a \"disgrace to the sport\" by a judge after he used his fame to sell steroids to gym users.\n\nNathan DeAsha, from Liverpool, admitted supplying £10,000-worth of the drugs to the Pain and Gain gym in Barnstaple, Devon, over three months in 2017.\n\nHe was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence at Exeter Crown Court.\n\nEarlier this month, gym owner Richard Green was jailed for four and a half years for drug dealing.\n\nDeAsha, 33, was forced to pull out of the Mr Olympia event in Las Vegas so he could attend court.\n\nPolice found boxes of steroids worth about £10,000 in a locked boiler room at the Pain and Gain gym\n\nThe court heard he gave a training seminar to 250 customers at the gym in May 2017, during which he discussed his use of steroids, which he then supplied to gym users.\n\nPolice later found drugs in a locked boiler room with DeAsha's fingerprint on, and his gym in Liverpool as the return address.\n\nDeAsha is one of Britain's top bodybuilders and the current British Grand Prix champion.\n\nJudge David Evans told him: \"As a regular competitor on the national and international stage, who has done well in bodybuilding, you are a disgrace to the sport and it is doubly sad, given how well you have done to overcome past behaviour and adversity.\n\n\"What makes your behaviour more disappointing is that you project yourself as an ambassador for the sport to children.\n\n\"I hope you can make good the damage which you have done to your own reputation and to the sport.\"\n\nJulian Nutter, defending, said DeAsha had been jailed when he was younger but had used his bodybuilding skills to turn his life around.\n\nHe said DeAsha would suffer serious punishment because his conviction would prevent him travelling to the United States to compete in the future.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international trade secretary has written to the Commons committee on armed exports controls\n\nThe UK's international trade secretary has apologised to a court for two breaches of a pledge not to licence exports to Saudi Arabia that could be used in the Yemen conflict.\n\nMinisters promised to stop approving shipments in June after a challenge by campaigners at the Court of Appeal.\n\nLiz Truss said the granting of licences for £435,000 of radio spares and a £200 air cooler for the Royal Saudi Land Forces had been \"inadvertent\".\n\nIn a letter to the Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls, Ms Truss said routine analysis of statistics found a licence for the air cooler for a Renault Sherpa Light Scout vehicle had been issued just days after the ruling.\n\nAnd a licence for the export of 260 items of radio spares had been issued in July. To date, the letter said, 180 items from that order - with a value of £261,450 - had been shipped.\n\nMs Truss said: \"I have apologised to the court unreservedly for the error in granting these two licences.\"\n\nGovernment lawyers had informed the court of the \"breaches of the undertaking given\", she added.\n\nShe said the internal investigation had been launched to establish whether other licences had been issued against the assurances to the court or Parliament, and to ensure there could be no further breaches.\n\nYemen has been locked in civil war since 2015\n\nThe court case saw the Campaign Against Arms Trade argue that the UK decision to continue to license military equipment for export to the Gulf state was unlawful.\n\nUnder UK export policy, military equipment licences should not be granted if there is a \"clear risk\" that weapons might be used in a \"serious violation of international humanitarian law\".\n\nJudges hearing the court case decided existing licences should be reviewed but they would not be immediately suspended.\n\nBut Ms Truss's predecessor Liam Fox had given an assurance that the government would not grant further export licences while it considered the ruling.\n\nResponding to the government's apology, the campaign's Andrew Smith said: \"We are always being told how rigorous and robust UK arms export controls supposedly are, but this shows that nothing could be further from the truth.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nMen's Ashes: England v Australia, fifth Specsavers Test (day four of five)\n\nEngland ended their memorable summer by earning a 2-2 draw in the Ashes with a 135-run defeat of Australia in the fifth Test.\n\nOn a beautifully sunny day at The Oval, England set Australia 399 to win and bowled them out for 263 to square the contest with their oldest enemies in a year when they lifted the World Cup for the first time.\n\nAustralia retain the urn they won in 2017-18 but miss out on a first series win in England since 2001, while an Ashes series is drawn for the first time in 47 years.\n\nFrom 313-8 overnight, England added 16 to be all out for 329 and leave Australia in need of pulling off the highest run-chase in an Ashes Test since 1948.\n\nIn conditions that remained relatively good for batting, there was the slightest chance that Steve Smith could end his prolific summer with one more stroke of genius.\n\nThere was disbelief, then delight, when Smith turned Stuart Broad to a diving Ben Stokes at leg slip for 23 - his lowest score of the series by 57 runs.\n\nEngland were still held up by Mathew Wade's combative century, but after he was stumped off Joe Root, the last three wickets fell for four runs, with victory completed by Root's stunning grab of Josh Hazlewood.\n\nIt means they end coach Trevor Bayliss' reign with a win, while both sides have 56 points and sit joint-fourth in the World Test Championship.\n\nEven though the Ashes were already gone, captain Root challenged England to begin their preparations for the tour down under in 2021-22 in this match.\n\nThey were helped by Australia's decision to field first, strange team selection and dropped catches, but also earned this win through the batting of Joe Denly and Jos Buttler, and a collectively incisive bowling attack.\n\nIf Broad removing David Warner for the seventh time in the series was expected, the scale of the celebration inside The Oval was only surpassed when Smith fell.\n\nThere was the theatre of Jofra Archer's duel with Wade, complete with crossed words and long stares, and one more magical moment when Root took his wonderful grab as the shadows lengthened.\n\nNo doubt it was the dream for England to lift both the World Cup and the Ashes, but being crowned world champions for the first time and drawing with Australia will be regarded as a success.\n\nStill, Bayliss' successor has immediate work to do - finally nailing down a top order, getting the best from Root as batsman and captain, deciding the best make-up of the attack - starting with the tour to New Zealand in November.\n\nBroad has been reborn this summer, leading the attack in the absence of James Anderson and ending the series with 23 wickets - the first England bowler to take more than 20 in four separate contests against Australia.\n\nHe had already removed Marcus Harris' off stump with a wonderful delivery before he turned his attention to Warner, the man he has tortured all summer.\n\nAn edge ended in the hands of third slip Rory Burns and left Warner with 95 runs in 10 innings, the lowest aggregate for any opener playing every one of a five-match series in the history of Test cricket.\n\nThe crucial moment, though, was the removal of Smith. After a summer when he has racked up 774 runs and England exhausted every conceivable plan, one finally worked.\n\nBroad's delivery into the hips was turned around the corner, where the lurking Stokes grasped the ball just above the turf.\n\nWhen Pat Cummins joined Wade to eat up 15 overs, the prospect of a Monday finish was growing, only for Broad to return and find Cummins' edge, signalling the beginning of the end.\n\nSmith had gone through the World Cup and the beginning of this series being booed by the English crowds for his part in the sandpaper scandal.\n\nWhen he left the crease for the final time, it was to a standing ovation, The Oval recognising that Smith's brilliance has been the deciding factor in the final destination of the urn.\n\nBy that time, Wade was already into his stride, arriving with the intent to use his feet and get after left-arm spinner Jack Leach in particular.\n\nWade and Archer are team-mates with Australia side Hobart Hurricanes, but the bad blood seems to go back to an on-field exchange during the fourth Test.\n\nEven as he was approaching the century, Wade was discomforted in a thrilling spell where Archer touched 95mph and, after he passed three figures, the left-hander threw caution to the wind.\n\nHe survived a missed stumping, a dropped catch at slip and successfully overturned being given caught at slip, all off Root, before he finally ran past one and was stumped by Jonny Bairstow for 117.\n\nIn the next over, Nathan Lyon turned Leach to square leg and, from the next ball, Root's catch at mid-wicket gave Leach 4-49 to go with Broad's 4-62.\n\n'Australia deserved to retain Ashes' - what they said\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Australia deserved to retain the Ashes.\n\n\"England have got to celebrate the fact that a few days ago Australia retained the Ashes and we all expected Australia to blow them away this week.\n\n\"With the ball in particular they have been exceptional.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root, speaking to TMS: \"I thought we were brilliant. To bounce back from a very difficult and emotional week, to come and play in the manner we have, the team has character in abundance.\n\n\"This was more of a template of how to play moving forward. It is a step in the right direction. I am very proud of everyone's effort throughout the summer.\"\n\nEngland man of the series Ben Stokes: \"It was disappointing to know we couldn't get the Ashes back but we came here with a lot of pride and looking to draw the series.\n\n\"I'll look back on winning at Headingley in a few years' time with fond memories probably, but I'd swap it for winning the Ashes still.\"\n\nAustralia captain Tim Paine on TMS: \"The urn is what we came to get. We knew the rules around the Ashes and a draw is good enough. It's mission accomplished, which is fantastic.\n\n\"I don't think we ran out of gas. We were outplayed and dropped catches.\"", "The BBC is to switch off the news and sport text services on the TV red button early next year.\n\nThe decision spells the end of reading headlines, football scores, weather, travel news and more on TV sets, 45 years after the launch of Ceefax.\n\nRed button text launched in 1999, taking over as Ceefax was phased out.\n\nTVs will still be able to access other red button services, like picking a stage to watch at Glastonbury or a court to watch at Wimbledon.\n\n\"From early 2020, viewers will no longer be able to access text-based BBC News and BBC Sport content by pressing red,\" a BBC spokesperson said.\n\n\"It's always a difficult decision to reduce services, and we don't take decisions like this lightly, but we have taken it because we have to balance the resources needed to maintain and develop this service with the need to update our systems to give people even better internet-based services.\n\n\"Viewers can still access this information on the BBC website, BBC News and Sport mobile apps - as well as 24-hour news on the BBC News Channel.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The vehicles are particularly popular in countries with tropical climates\n\nPolice have raised a string of safety concerns about a possible tuk-tuk taxi service in southern Scotland.\n\nAn inquiry has been received by Dumfries and Galloway Council relating to the application for a licence for the three-wheeled vehicles.\n\nHowever, police said they had concerns about them tipping over at roundabouts or on tight turns.\n\nThey also said the lack of doors meant any side-on impact would result in \"injury or worse\" to any occupants.\n\nA report to the local authority's licensing panel asks it to consider whether it is satisfied, in principle, that a tuk-tuk is suitable for use as a taxi or private hire.\n\nThe council is being asked to look at whether it would consider licensing the three-wheelers\n\nThe tuk-tuk is a motorised version of the traditional pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw.\n\nThey are popular in countries with tropical climates with the biggest manufacturer based in India.\n\nA request has now been received which could pave the way for their use in the cooler climes of south-west Scotland.\n\nIt has prompted concerns from both council officers and police.\n\nTransport manager Gordon Bryce said he did not believe the vehicle was suited to the region's roads, as its top speed of about 40mph would make it an obstruction on trunk and B roads, increasing the risk of accidents.\n\nHe said the lack of safety devices like air bags was his \"greatest concern\".\n\nHe suggested it would be more appropriate to look at using electric tuk-tuk vehicles in a major town on agreed routes and within agreed times.\n\nPolice said they had concerns about tuk-tuks tipping over if they travelled at speed\n\nSgt Jonny Edgar, from Police Scotland, said negotiating the likes of the large A75/A76 roundabout at any speed would make a three-wheeled vehicle liable to tip over.\n\nHe also highlighted the small size of the vehicle as a concern.\n\n\"Coupled with no airbags or side impact protection, I fear death or serious injury is a very real possibility,\" he said.\n\nHe added the lack of doors on the vehicle was also of particular concern if it was used by \"intoxicated patrons or children\".\n\n\"There are reports of intoxicated passengers falling from the rear of a tuk-tuk to their death,\" he said.\n\n\"Although seatbelts would be present it would be naive to believe that all passengers wear them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson speaks to Radio 4's Today programme about the bid to oust him as deputy Labour leader\n\nLabour's Tom Watson has said the bid to oust him as deputy leader by abolishing his post is a \"sectarian attack\" on the party's \"broad church\".\n\nA motion had been tabled by Jon Lansman, of the Labour grassroots group Momentum, but was dropped after party leader Jeremy Corbyn intervened.\n\nA Labour source said Mr Corbyn proposed the post should be reviewed, rather than abolished.\n\nMr Watson has been at odds with Mr Corbyn over the party's Brexit stance.\n\nAn initial move to oust Mr Watson was made at a meeting of the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) on Friday but it failed to get the two-thirds majority needed.\n\nA further attempt was set to be made on Saturday at the party's conference in Brighton.\n\nHowever before that went ahead, the NEC agreed to Mr Corbyn's proposal not to put abolishing Mr Watson's post to a vote and, instead, to review the post of deputy leader and other positions in support of the leader.\n\nThe Labour Party source said: \"This will consider how democratic accountability can be strengthened to give members a greater say, expanding the number of elected positions and how diverse representation can be further improved.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by iain 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\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Watson said he found out about the move while having a meal at a Chinese restaurant in Manchester on Friday night.\n\nHe said: \"It's a straight sectarian attack on a broad church party.\n\n\"It's moving us into a different kind of institution where pluralism isn't tolerated. Where factional observance has to be adhered to completely.\n\n\"And it completely goes against the sort of traditions that the Labour Party has had for 100 years.\"\n\nHe added that he felt that Momentum's founder Mr Lansman \"and his faction\" were so angry about his position on Brexit they would \"rather abolish me than have a debate about it\".\n\nHe appealed to Momentum activists to focus on showing people they were serious about changing the political economy of Britain rather than having \"a sort of sleight-of-hand constitutional change to do a drive-by shooting of someone you disagree with\".\n\nThe Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), which represents Labour backbenchers, has written a letter to members of the National Executive Committee - including Jeremy Corbyn - saying the move is counterproductive and sends the country a message \"we are more interested in internal battles\" than constituents' lives.\n\nFormer Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair said abolishing the deputy leader post would be \"undemocratic and politically dangerous\".\n\nAsked if he thought the move had been made by Mr Corbyn himself, Mr Watson said \"I don't know\", but added his leader had the power to stop it.\n\nHe defended his role, saying he had been elected by party members and they could trigger an election themselves if they wanted to remove him rather than making a secret move at a last-minute meeting.\n\n\"These kinds of things happen in Venezuela, they shouldn't be happening in the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\nMr Watson has urged Labour to \"unequivocally back remain\" and had said he wants another public vote on the UK's membership of the EU before any general election.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn wants to hold another referendum once Labour has won power, in which voters would have the choice to remain in the EU alongside a \"credible\" Leave proposal.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has the power to stop the move, says Mr Watson\n\nA Momentum source told the BBC: \"We just can't afford to go into an election with a deputy leader set on wrecking Labour's chances.\n\n\"Labour members overwhelmingly want a deputy leadership election, but our outdated rulebook won't let it happen.\"\n\nDawn Butler, shadow women and equalities secretary, said Momentum's move had \"come out of the blue\" but she could understand the frustration with the deputy leader.\n\nAsked if Mr Watson was doing the job well, she said: \"I have my frustrations with Tom too. I haven't seen him at a shadow cabinet meeting for a while.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says Momentum's move \"was not discussed\" among its governing body - adding there was \"anger\" at Mr Lansman as this was \"not an official decision\".\n\nEx-PM Tony Blair, who led Labour from 1994 to 2007, said abolishing the deputy deader post suggested an \"extraordinary level of destructive sectarianism\".\n\nHe said the party has always contained different views and the deputy leader's position had been one way of accommodating such views.\n\n\"Getting rid of it would be a signal that such pluralism of views was coming to an end despite being cherished throughout Labour's history,\" he said.\n\nFormer party leader Ed Miliband said whoever came up with the idea had \"taken leave of their senses\".\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting called it \"outrageous\" and \"self-destructive\", while his colleague Jess Phillips said it was part of a desperate attempt to control and expel anyone in the party who has an independent thought.", "Ceara Thacker took an overdose three months before her death\n\nThe parents of a student found hanged at her university halls have claimed she was failed by mental health services.\n\nCeara Thacker, from Bradford, was found dead at her University of Liverpool accommodation in May 2018.\n\nThe 19-year-old's parents said she had fallen \"through the cracks\" between different services, who failed to communicate with each other.\n\nShe described a delay of two months between Ms Thacker referring herself to the university's mental health advisers in February, and being given an appointment in April, as \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe inquest in Liverpool also heard Ms Thacker's family had not been informed about a previous suicide attempt three months before her death.\n\nHer father Iain, 56, said: \"Sadly, when her mental health began to decline she found herself falling through the cracks, with mental health services, her GP and different departments within the university failing to communicate with each other to ensure that she was provided with the support that she desperately needed.\n\n\"One crucial source of support could have come from us, her family.\n\n\"For as long as I live I will never understand why no-one at the university picked up the phone to us in February 2018 and told us that our 19-year-old daughter was in hospital after taking an overdose.\"\n\nIain Thacker said his daughter was \"perceptive, intelligent, loyal, funny and extremely kind\"\n\nThe inquest heard Ms Thacker, who was studying philosophy, had struggled with mental health problems throughout her teenage years.\n\n\"We had cared for Ceara and helped her through her struggles with mental illness since she was 13,\" Mr Thacker said.\n\n\"We thought she was stable and managing her mental health well. Eight months after coming to the University of Liverpool she was dead.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we had known how Ceara was suffering we could have, and would have, made a difference.\"\n\nMr Thacker said it was \"essential\" universities communicated \"effectively with healthcare services and, where appropriate, with families to ensure they are kept safe\".\n\nMs Thacker's mother Lorraine Dalton-Thacker, 51, said: \"At every turn, she was failed.\n\n\"I can't imagine how frightening that must have been for her.\n\n\"She should not have had to face this and it breaks our hearts that she did.\n\n\"We don't want any other family to go through this pain.\"\n\nMs Bhardwaj said she would make a report for the prevention of future deaths to the NHS.\n\nShe will recommend the issue of parental involvement, with consent, is included in mental health assessments.\n\nThe coroner said there was no record of discussions between medical professionals and Ms Thacker about contacting her family.\n\n\"It would have been helpful to have those discussions, so if Ceara wanted additional support from her family that could have been facilitated,\" she added.\n\nHowever, it remained \"difficult and unclear\" whether Ms Thacker \"would have had a different outcome had she had additional mental health appointments, been given an urgent appointment and had family involvement\", the coroner said.\n\nThe court heard the two-month delay in getting a mental health appointment was caused by \"exceptional circumstances\" including strike action, staff sickness and training days.\n\nFor several years universities have been struggling to cope with a sharp increase in students seeking help for mental health issues.\n\nSuicide among university students is rare; it is estimated by the Office for National Statistics at 4.7 deaths per 100,000 students, but each loss is felt deeply by families and they are pressing for change.\n\nSpending on support on campus has increased. Ten universities have received national funding to try new approaches. As a result the University of Liverpool is leading a project on how to work better with the NHS.\n\nThe University of Bristol asks every student when they register to give permission for their family to be contacted. Last year 94% signed up for the mental health alerts to parents.\n\nThis is a change that Iain Thacker wants widely adopted.\n\nLiverpool has chosen a different approach; asking students if they want family informed only when they are seeking help.\n\nStudents are young adults and have a right to confidentiality and, as yet, there is no consensus across universities about how to respect that and manage risk.\n\nGavin Brown, Liverpool University's pro-vice-chancellor for education, said: \"We have conducted a thorough review of the support Ceara was offered and, as a result of this and our ongoing review of how these services work, we have instigated a number of improvements to mental health support services.\"\n\nDr Paul Redmond, Director of Student Experience added that the university had introduced a rapid access appointment system since the student's death.\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is something extremely retro about what's going on at the moment - the diplomatic dance between the EU and the UK.\n\nThe UK says: \"Of course there's a plan and we have lots of whizzo ideas we're sharing with our friends on the continent.\"\n\nThe EU then declares: \"There is no plan, we don't know what you want!\" - while at the same time making clear, as today, that they disapprove of some of the proposals that supposedly don't exist.\n\nIf it wasn't so serious for our economy, our politics, the UK's place in the world, you might wonder if it's like the start of a school disco, when the boys are sulking in one corner, trying to look cool and pretending they don't want even to talk to any of the girls.\n\nIn the other corner, the girls are huddled, sneaking glances over to the other side of the hall, wondering who is going to be the first to make any contact.\n\nAt that moment, there's a stand-off, even though both sides know that within a couple of hours, it will be complete bedlam - especially if someone has managed to slips a few cans of cider into the loos or a snifter of peach schnapps in their borrowed handbag.\n\nIt's retro, not just because of the echoes of misspent youth, but because Theresa May's government went through some of this same warm-up.\n\nOn countless occasions, EU leaders anywhere near a microphone demanded the UK give more information.\n\nAnd UK ministers were asked again, and again, and again, what exactly do you intend to do?\n\nThe answer came repeatedly - we do have a plan, but of course we're not going to publish it until the right time.\n\nIt was frustrating on all sides frankly, including for journalists trying to find out exactly what was going on.\n\nIn fact, the time I saw Mrs May most angry was when I asked her about eight times exactly what kind of deal she was really after on a trip to China. Suffice to say, it did not end well.\n\nTheresa May's government went through some of this same warm-up\n\nLike everything about Boris Johnson's premiership though, this familiar process is happening at hyper-speed with an accompanying drama.\n\nWhether that's Xavier Bettel's (un)diplomatic and frustrated showboating, or the box office Supreme Court case unfolding right now, I can't say enough times, what is happening now in politics is not normal.\n\nBut let's ignore the histrionics on all sides for a moment though, and try to understand where the state of play really is - could there, maybe, just maybe, be a deal?\n\nThere are talks taking place. There might not be official talks with official joint press conferences afterwards, but there are discussions going on and possible solutions are being discussed, kept tantalisingly hidden in the UK negotiator David Frost's binders.\n\nAnd there is what the government describes as the \"broad shape\" of a deal, which has been put forward in recent weeks to different actors in the EU, to try to see if it could be the basis of something.\n\nIt's important to say that it is, what one very well placed source describes it as, a \"selection of starters, amuse-bouches, main courses\", and other items that make up a menu of different options that could be chosen from and digested.\n\nIt is not a fixed set of final proposals. But yes, you guessed it, most of them revolve around potential ways of solving the conundrum around the Irish border.\n\nSo what are they? Well, the first part of the possible plan is to build on a system that already exists.\n\nThe island of Ireland, north and south, is already treated as a single zone for animal health. So any livestock that goes into Northern Ireland from Great Britain is checked on entry.\n\nNo 10 is looking at what else you can include in that regime. Could you have a single zone for all food products? Could you expand it to include all manufactured goods?\n\nThere is already an electricity market for the whole island. How much can you lump into this existing regime?\n\nThis is, you guessed it, not a straightforward discussion, but the government believes it could solve part of the problem.\n\nBut no one in Whitehall, and certainly not in Brussels, believes that could solve the whole problem.\n\nThe next question, therefore, is if a part of the economy doesn't conveniently slot into that regime, how do you carry out checks without causing enormous disruption to trade?\n\nThere are conversations going on about where and how this could be feasible, with the driving principle for checks to happen away from the actual border.\n\nBut again, if you've been following this process, there have been many, many conversations about this already - none of which have reached a happy conclusion - but it is part of what the government would like to be the solution.\n\nEven trickier is how to address the customs issue.\n\nIt's clear the government does not want to go back to the idea of a Northern Ireland only backstop - not just because their sometime allies, the DUP, wouldn't want to accept it, but because that would mean it would essentially be in the EU customs union.\n\nWhen you hear the prime minister talk about the UK leaving EU apparatus \"as a whole\", this is what he is ruling out.\n\nThe DUP - led by Arlene Foster - are sometimes allies of No 10\n\nHe wants Northern Ireland to be in the UK customs territory, but the implication of this is some kind of customs border - because when goods go from Northern Ireland into the EU they need to be checked somewhere.\n\nAnd it feels unrealistically optimistic to imagine that the EU would allow these elements to be settled after the UK leaves.\n\nThen there's the question of who would actually police and monitor all of this stuff.\n\nMaybe the Northern Irish Assembly could be given a bigger role - that's one of the UK's ideas not necessarily beloved by the EU.\n\nAnd over the longer term, there is still the hope on the UK side that those \"alternative arrangements\" (remember them?) could replace the need for any kind of draconian arrangements.\n\nBut there are now conversations happening between governments about the principle here, one of consent, that simply weren't happening a while ago.\n\nAgain, a million miles from a happy conclusion, but progress of a sort.\n\nIf you want to read more about the potential technical details of the possible shape of a deal, there have been thousands of column inches in the last few days devoted to it with lots of well informed speculation by different EU pundits, well plugged into to what's going on.\n\nAnd there's a good explanation here by one of my colleagues in Belfast about the border conundrum:\n\nThe details of what, or might not be possible, of course do matter a lot.\n\nAnd it is abundantly clear that the EU does not, at the moment, consider what they have heard (in the non-existent talks remember!) to be anywhere near enough to replace what was agreed with Mrs May.\n\nBut while the policy equations are important, the political choice on whether to try to make something work is the vital one.\n\nAnd there is palpable frustration in some quarters on the UK side that not everyone in the EU actually wants to listen.\n\nPerhaps, and who would blame them, some on the other side of the Channel would rather take their chances and wait to see what happens after the likely general election.\n\nParliament's voted to delay departure if there is no deal after all. Why invest much in this administration's ideas when the political turbulence could just sweep them away in any case?\n\nOne EU insider joked tonight, \"In Boris we trust?\". But next week the prime minister is likely to use encounters with the major EU leaders, like Merkel and Macron, in the margins of the UN Assembly in New York to give the political dynamics a good shove.\n\nSome sources in government reckon that kind of intervention from a big continental player is the only way there can be a resolution in time.\n\nAnother senior figure reckons, guess what, it's still all about Ireland. If they signal that they could be ready to take this set of proposals seriously, then it could be game on.\n\nIs that realistic? It would be a pretty enormous political turnaround. Part of getting any deal done when there has been such a confrontation is to find ways of every party finding a \"win\".\n\nThere's talk tonight of the UK being given a deadline to publish its proposals. Who can blame the EU for making those kinds of demands for concrete and public commitments when events this side of the Channel are so turbulent.\n\nBut as ever, it's the politics, not the process, that will likely make the difference in the end.", "A global climate strike is under way, with millions of people protesting for \"an end to the age of fossil fuels and climate justice for everyone\".\n\nThe event was sparked by teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg, who is attending the New York protest, where 1.1m children have been allowed to miss school to join the march.\n\nHere are pictures of marches across the world.\n\nA protester holds a placard with the image of Sir David Attenborough, a British broadcaster and climate change campaigner (above).\n\nProtesters played dead near the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment office in Bangkok.\n\nClimate strike protesters gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.\n\nIn London, protesters gathered on the steps of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.\n\nIn Southampton, Extinction Rebellion's Red Rebels were seen outside of Carnival House before marching through the streets.\n\nProtesters gathered in the Old Town Square in Prague.\n\nProtesters held a colourful march at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City, east of Manila.\n• None As it happened: Climate protests sweep the world", "A man accused of claiming a £2.5m jackpot with a fake lottery ticket was helped by a National Lottery operator employee, a court heard.\n\nEdward Putman, 54, from Hertfordshire, denies committing fraud by false representation by allegedly claiming £2,525,485 with a faked ticket in 2009.\n\nSt Albans Crown Court heard he was helped by Camelot insider Giles Knibbs, who knew how to cheat the system.\n\nThe alleged fraud came to light after Mr Knibbs took his own life.\n\nProsecutor James Keeley told the court Mr Knibbs worked for Camelot in Watford between 2004 and 2010 and his role in the fraud detection department allowed him the opportunity to create the false ticket, which he gave to the defendant to cash in.\n\nThe court was told Mr Knibbs had seen a document containing details of big wins which had not yet been claimed.\n\nMr Putman, of Station Road, Kings Langley, claimed the prize from the 11 March 2009 draw on 28 August, just before the six-month deadline passed to claim the win.\n\n\"He did not hold the winning ticket, but a forgery created by Mr Knibbs,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nThe genuine winning ticket has never been found, the court heard.\n\nCamelot verified the ticket was genuine and paid out\n\nMr Keeley told the jury the fraud came to light after Mr Knibbs, from Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, died at Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire on 5 October 2015.\n\nMr Knibbs had allegedly told friends he had \"conned\" the lottery, as well as telling them about technical inaccuracies about the way the ticket was created, the court was told.\n\nMr Keeley said: \"The veracity of his [Mr Knibbs'] narrative and thus credibility is strongly supported by the forged ticket which the defendant could not have acquired by legitimate means.\"\n\nThe court was told Mr Knibbs did not feel he had received his fair share of the jackpot and they had a bitter argument in June 2015.\n\nEvidence suggested Mr Knibbs was paid an initial £280,000 from Putman for his part in the ruse, followed by smaller increments totalling £50,000, Mr Keeley said.\n\nThe argument led Mr Putman to make allegations of burglary, blackmail and criminal damage against Mr Knibbs, who was arrested, Mr Keeley said.\n\nMr Keeley said the ticket submitted by the defendant was badly damaged, \"lacking the entire bottom section\" but on 8 September, Camelot decided he was the genuine winner and paid out.\n\n\"They had been conned,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last two weeks, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Serco NorthLink has been named as the preferred bidder to continue Northern Isles ferry services.\n\nMaking the £345m contract announcement, Islands Minister Paul Wheelhouse said islanders will get a 20% discount on cabin fares on Aberdeen-Kirkwall-Lerwick routes from January.\n\nThere will also be a three-year fares freeze for islander passengers, non-commercial vehicles and cabins on those routes.\n\nMr Wheelhouse said: \"The Scottish government remains fully committed to high quality ferry links to the Northern Isles so I am delighted to announce Serco NorthLink as the preferred bidder to operate these services for a further eight years.\"\n\nThere will be a standstill period before the contract is formally signed and awarded.\n\nSerco Group chief executive Rupert Soames said: \"We are very proud of our track record over the past seven years, during which time we have improved almost every aspect of the lifeline service for the communities and businesses of the Northern Isles.\n\n\"We look forward to further improving the service in the coming years.\"\n\nHowever, RMT general secretary Mick Cash described it as a \"retrograde step\".", "An inquest into student Ceara Thacker's death opens on Monday\n\nUniversities should be bound by law to meet the mental health needs of their students, an ex-health minister says.\n\nInformation gathered by Sir Norman Lamb's office reveals a \"complex and fragmented\" picture of mental health provision across UK universities.\n\nMany of the 110 universities which responded said they did not record all relevant key statistics, such as their budgets or waiting times.\n\nUniversities said they could not deal with the issue of mental health alone.\n\nThey added that they were already working on a voluntary mental health charter.\n\nIt comes as an inquest into the death of a 19-year-old student opened on Monday.\n\nCeara Thacker, originally from Bradford, took her own life in May 2018 while studying at Liverpool University after her mental health deteriorated.\n\nShe had struggled with it earlier in her teenage years, and attempted suicide in the February before her death.\n\nMental health campaigner Sir Norman obtained information from 110 universities, under freedom of information laws, on the demand for, and investment in, mental health support for their students.\n\nThe responses revealed that many universities did not monitor how well services were used, or whether they were meeting the needs of students.\n\nAnd while some, such as Bristol, Kingston and Sussex, are spending more than £1m a year on well-being services, including counselling, others have a budget of less than half that.\n\nMany did not even know how much they spent on mental health, and only a handful of universities could supply information on how long students were waiting for counselling.\n\nFor the few that did, the longest wait was, on average, 43 days - more than half the length of a standard university term.\n\nSir Norman praised some universities, including Cambridge and Northumbria, for taking their responsibilities seriously, but said many others were not doing enough to measure the scale of the problem.\n\n\"If we are operating in a fog, if we have no idea how long students are waiting... this is putting students at risk,\" he added.\n\n\"We know from the data that the longest waiting times could be over half a term for some students.\n\n\"We know also that there have been some tragedies among some student populations - students who have taken their own lives.\n\n\"If that happens while they are waiting for support, that's utterly intolerable.\"\n\nHe added: \"These are young people at a vulnerable age, many living away from home for the first time. There is a risk of some students self-harming, or some students finding themselves in a desperate situation and taking their own lives.\"\n\nHe pointed out that students paying high fees had every reason to expect a duty of care from their universities.\n\nHe is calling for a legally binding charter with minimum standards that universities are required to meet, so parents know their adult children will be safe.\n\nA spokesman for Universities UK said: \"Funding to support mental health services at universities will vary depending on the needs of each student population.\n\n\"Universities cannot address these challenges alone.\n\n\"The NHS must provide effective mental health care to students, and Universities UK is working closely with NHS England to ensure that commitments in the NHS long-term plan are implemented.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fire crews were at the site overnight\n\nTwo men have died in an explosion at a former steelworks site.\n\nFire crews were called to the old coke ovens at the SSI site in South Bank, Middlesbrough, on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIt is believed the men were inside a cherry picker at a height, working on pipes near a gas holder when the explosion happened.\n\nThe site was evacuated and police widened a 250m (820ft) cordon after flames were seen coming from the blast area.\n\nTees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said: \"We will examine every single detail of the work that was being conducted. We will make sure we do everything to understand exactly what happened.\n\n\"It is impossible to imagine the pain and distress which this news will have brought the loved ones of those involved.\"\n\nOn Friday afternoon four firefighters remained at the scene \"on protective standby\", Cleveland Fire Brigade area manager Steve Johnson said.\n\nAlthough the fire had been contained the smoke could still be seen\n\nDave Cocks, who used to work on the SSI site, said: \"It would appear that this terrible accident has happened in part of that gas-cleaning process.\n\n\"Clearing a site of this nature does take a lot of planning and preparation and there's no doubt over the last four years there will be areas off the plant where there would be materials that would need to be removed to keep the plant safe for demolition.\n\n\"The clearing of any industrial site does present certain risks and hazards that have to be eliminated wherever possible.\n\n\"Closing down an iron-making site of this size is very rarely done in the UK so the planning could take months or indeed years, and it could be years and years before we see the site cleared.\"\n\nDet Supt Tariq Ali said: \"The families of those two men have been informed and our thoughts remain with them at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has been informed and all work on the site has been suspended.\n\nThe South Bank coke ovens were part of the SSI complex, which had offices and a blast furnace in nearby Redcar.\n\nThe steelworks announced its closure in 2015 when its Thai-based owners went into liquidation and 2,200 workers lost their jobs.\n\nIn January, a deal was agreed to transfer more than half of the developable land at the former Redcar Steelworks to the South Tees Development Corporation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Youth climate activists pose with Greta Thunberg (C) during a demonstration\n\nFrom the first protest by a single student, the school climate strike movement has been a lightning rod for criticism.\n\nGreta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who inspired the now-global movement, has become a primary target. On Wednesday, the 16-year-old arrived in New York after completing her voyage across the Atlantic aboard an environmentally friendly yacht.\n\nShe faced a barrage of attacks on the way.\n\n\"Freak yachting accidents do happen in August,\" Arron Banks, a businessman and prominent Brexit campaigner, tweeted. While Mr Banks said the tweet was a joke, many were outraged.\n\nMs Thunberg is not the only eco-activist under fire, though. Four young climate campaigners told the BBC of the abuse they have been subjected to. One was compared to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels while another said she had been racially abused.\n\nThese environmentalists have asked difficult questions of politicians, and been ruthlessly derided for doing so. With hostility heightening, why are young climate activists facing so much hate?\n\nSince Ms Thunberg's first solo vigil outside Sweden's parliament in August 2018 media attention and criticism have gone hand-in-hand.\n\nAt first, they were told to stay in school. These students were not on strike, one British Conservative MP tweeted, they were truants.\n\nThen there were claims that young climate activists were merely the puppets of adults. In February a far-right Dutch lawmaker said students were being influenced by teachers with a political agenda.\n\nWhen Ms Thunberg travelled to the UK in April, several right-wing media outlets wrote polemics against the teen. One of them, an editorial by the website Spiked, mocked the \"apocalyptic dread in her eyes\".\n\nThere were sustained attacks by Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party ahead of the EU elections in May. Posts about Ms Thunberg and climate change spiked on the party's Facebook page, an investigation, led by Greenpeace Unearthed, found.\n\nWeeks later, before her address to the French parliament in July, some far-right and conservative MPs hurled insults at the teen, calling her the \"Justin Bieber of ecology\" and a \"prophetess in shorts\".\n\nSome French MPs hurled insults at the young activist ahead of her speech in the French parliament in July\n\nThose who have resorted to personal attacks on the activist appear to be \"retreating into various forms of denial\", Nigel Thomas, professor of childhood and youth at the University of Lancashire, says.\n\nGiven the seriousness of scientists' climate warnings, some \"may feel threatened by a teenager who has clearly understood and faced up to the trouble we are all in\".\n\nSo far, she has shown restraint, staying mostly above the fray. Her tweeted response to Australian political blogger Andrew Bolt, who described her as \"deeply disturbed\", was an exception.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greta Thunberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInstead, Ms Thunberg tends to focus her ire on political leaders. Her brand of environmentalism, however, does not appeal to everyone.\n\nIn particular, those who \"don't like being told what to do\" and feel children \"don't have the right to say these things\", Richard Black, the director of the environmental think tank the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit, said.\n\nOne theory is that, by using shaming tactics, some activists are provoking visceral reactions. But Mr Black said it is governments, not ordinary people, which she and others are targeting.\n\nBy couching her climate warnings in ominous terms, Greta's message has gained traction. Yet some have accused her of alarmism.\n\nGreta Thunberg holds her \"school strike for climate\" sign onboard the racing boat Malizia II in the Atlantic Ocean\n\nProf Thomas disagrees with this assessment. He said her language \"befits the very serious message she feels impelled to convey\".\n\n\"I don't see how one can put climate change aside in assessing the appropriateness of her language; that's precisely the issue,\" he says.\n\nMs Thunberg has argued that climate activists are \"just saying what scientists have repeatedly said for decades\".\n\n\"I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate,\" she wrote on Facebook.\n\nThe reality is that the children who campaign, including school strikes, have become the bearers of bad news.\n\nGlobal warming, according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is being caused by human activity. This conclusion is shared by 97% of actively publishing climate scientists, a 2016 study of peer-reviewed journals found. If carbon emissions are not curbed, and global temperatures continue to rise, researchers expect the risks of climate change to increase.\n\nAs purveyors of this scientific consensus, young climate activists are in the crosshairs of those who oppose radical action on it.\n\nDr Stephane Wolton, a London School of Economics professor whose research focuses on accountability, believes young activists should not be held to the same standards as adults.\n\nYoung people take part in a Fridays for Future demonstration for climate action at Düsseldorf International Airport\n\nHe says Ms Thunberg has to accept some scrutiny now she has put herself in the public eye \"but we should not expect a 16-year-old, or even millions of them, to have solutions to such a complicated problem\".\n\nAlthough it is \"fair game\" to accuse her of \"playing on emotions\", personal attacks are not appropriate, he adds.\n\nMichael Wyness, professor of education studies at the University of Warwick, says children are quite capable of accounting for their claims.\n\nMany 16-year-olds would \"probably not recognise themselves as children\", Prof Wyness argues.\n\nMs Thunberg's school strike has become a global movement and set her up as a contender for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize\n\nRegardless of age, Prof Thomas says all activists should be held to account for their political interventions.\n\nBut he says this should be done \"in a manner appropriate to their age and any other relevant characteristics\".\n\nMs Thunberg has sought to position herself as an impartial messenger, saying \"our school strike has nothing to do with party politics\".\n\nThe problem is, her campaign \"may be captured by other activists with a broader agenda\", Dr Wolton says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Environmental activist Greta Thunberg says climate change is 'an existential crisis'\n\nSweeping changes to combat climate change will require increased state spending and intervention, an economic approach largely favoured by the left.\n\n\"I do think there are certain groups of campaigners, I would say a minority, whose main concern is changing the economic system,\" Mr Black, a former BBC environment correspondent, says.\n\nThis creates a dilemma for young activists professing their neutrality.\n\nFor the time being, three of the four young activists the BBC spoke to said they were not interested in politics. None of them intends to change the way they campaign and see politics, and the criticism that flows from it, as a distraction.\n\nAside from climate change, these youngsters have other interests, of course. For example, one said she's happiest when watching Netflix or playing with her dog.\n\nWithout the placards and slogans, it is easy to forget that many activists are, after all, children. But children doing what they believe to be right in what can be a cruel world.", "Aberystwyth seafront was hit by storms in 2014 - the local council is worried rising sea levels leave it vulnerable\n\nOne world problem, one corner of Wales - climate change is already \"happening before our eyes,\" according to a man watching the coastline closely.\n\nAberystwyth is a seaside town which has already had experiences of extreme weather. Five years ago, properties were evacuated as waves crashed onto the promenade.\n\nIt seems as good a place as any to take a look at what impact climate change may be having on communities.\n\nIts university is also the base for scientists who are researching the wider climate issues - and how we might adapt.\n\nAnd travel along the nearby Dyfi estuary and you find some of Wales' most important nature reserves and wildlife, which are vulnerable.\n\n\"You can't put all the cost on county councils,\" says Councillor Alun Williams\n\nAlun Williams, cabinet member for carbon management in Ceredigion, said rising sea levels were threatening its flood defences.\n\nThe local authority is trying to plan how to manage the effects of climate change along the coast.\n\nStood on the shingle ridge which acts as a barrier between land and sea at Tanybwlch beach near Aberystwyth, Mr Williams said: \"The sea is overtopping this bank much more regularly than it used to - it's just a matter of time before it breaks through and moves inland.\"\n\nRising sea levels and more frequent storms mean there are fears this defence could soon be breached.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is an example of how global warming is already affecting Wales - the country's 1,680 mile-long (2,700km) coastline is on the frontline, leaving local authorities like Ceredigion with difficult decisions to make.\n\nMr Williams highlighted one area where the waves have carried an avalanche of pebbles down into the River Ystwyth on the other side of the ridge. Beyond that, farmland is slowly getting wetter and saltier.\n\nThe council hopes its research at this site, in partnership with Natural Resources Wales, will help inform its plans for managing the effects of climate change along the coast.\n\nNo homes are threatened here, but the course of the river could change, affecting Aberystwyth harbour, and a long diversion to the Wales coastal path may also be needed.\n\nElsewhere, defending seaside towns and villages, roads and railways will prove costly.\n\n\"We need to manage this on a Wales-wide level - you can't put all the cost on county councils that happen to have long coastlines, we need a wider strategy,\" Mr Williams urged.\n\nThere are \"more losers than winners\" at RSPB's Ynyshir reserve in the Dyfi estuary\n\nThe changing climate is also showing signs of hitting Wales' wildlife and the habitats they rely on.\n\nSome 13 miles (20km) from Tanybwlch, at the RSPB's Ynyshir reserve in the Dyfi estuary, site manager David Anning says his team are noticing changes \"all around us\".\n\nThey include new visitors such as little and great egrets, usually found in southern Europe.\n\n\"A lot of the wetlands around the Mediterranean are gradually drying out - so we'll probably be seeing more and more of this effect where formerly southern species are moving north,\" he said.\n\nThe golden plover has been a regular resident of the reserve, but is in decline\n\nBut overall he claimed there were more \"losers than winners\" for the reserve, with regular residents such as black grouse and golden plover in decline.\n\n\"We're losing a lot of the species which have been here for millennia, and that's really sad as many of them are globally quite restricted,\" he added.\n\nThe salt marsh habitats are under pressure, squeezed between the encroaching sea and existing flood defences.\n\nDavid Anning is site manager at Ynyshir reserve, where they are allowing the sea to flood certain fields during high tides and storms\n\nAs a result the reserve has decided to remove sections of the mounds that have traditionally kept the sea out, allowing it to flood certain fields during high tides and storms, creating new marshland over time for the birds that want it.\n\nThe \"headache\" - as Mr Anning puts it - is what to do with species such as the lapwing - who prefer freshwater habitats.\n\n\"Increasingly we're going to have to look at managing wildlife on a much wider, landscape scale as climate change has a bigger and bigger effect.\"\n\nMilder winters could mean some crops like oilseed rape will not get cold enough to trigger flowering, says Dr Fiona Corke at Aberystwyth University\n\nFarmers face challenges too, with predictions Wales will face more rain, warmer temperatures and fiercer storms in future.\n\nDr Fiona Corke, from the National Plant Phenomics Centre at Aberystwyth University, works in a giant robotic laboratory, the only facility of its kind in the UK, where they are stress-testing different plants to see how they would fare as climate change takes hold.\n\nHundreds of pots are being watered automatically, some to the point of being waterlogged, others to simulate drought conditions.\n\n\"This is a barley trial - testing 250 varieties - but we've also done something comparable with oats, which is another very important crop in Wales,\" Dr Corke explained.\n\n\"Another issue is that as winters become milder, some crops like oilseed rape won't yield as well as they won't get [cold enough] to trigger flowering.\n\nFiona Corke is stress-testing different varieties of crop\n\n\"By understanding the requirements of different plants we can possibly start to adapt the crops we're using in Wales,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said it had published a series of proposals to \"re-focus billions of pounds of investment towards tackling the climate and ecological emergency\".\n\n\"Tackling climate change and species extinction are not issues which can be left to individuals or to the free market. They require collective action and the government has a central role in making collective action possible,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A highly critical report from MPs has condemned the \"shockingly complacent\" response to 1.7 million fines being wrongly issued to patients in England after visiting the doctor or dentist.\n\nMeg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said the penalty fine system was \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nThe fines were aimed at patients unfairly claiming free treatment - but a third were sent to innocent people.\n\nThe Department of Health has promised extra checks before fines are issued.\n\nThe cross-party committee of MPs, which scrutinises public spending, said the system of healthcare fines needed a fundamental overhaul - accusing it of being over-complicated, inefficient and causing distress to vulnerable people.\n\nMs Hillier called on the Department of Health to change an \"utterly confusing\" fining regime, which at the moment operates on a \"presumption of guilt\".\n\nShe said the NHS fining system had become a \"dog's breakfast\".\n\nThe report said that since 2014, fines with a value of £676m had been issued - often fines of £100 - to people accused of dishonestly claiming free dental treatment or unfairly avoiding paying prescription charges.\n\nBut the MPs described a chaotic system in which about a third of these fines were sent to people who were entitled to free treatment, including people with serious health problems, dementia and learning difficulties.\n\nThey said the system was so complicated that a one-page form which patients were required to complete needed a 24-page handbook to explain what it meant.\n\nThe committee raised concerns that people who were unfairly fined might have paid out of embarrassment - and that others might avoid getting treatment because of their fear of being fined.\n\nThe British Dental Association had told MPs that visits to the dentist by low-income patients had fallen by almost a quarter since 2014, which they linked to anxiety about fines.\n\nMs Hillier said that people wrongly accused of fraud faced \"humiliation\" and when they tried to overturn a fine they could find themselves caught up in a \"vortex of bureaucracy\".\n\nCharlotte Waite says vulnerable families are being hurt by mistaken fines\n\nThere was criticism of how \"vulnerable\" people might be pursued for fines, while other persistent fraudsters, with \"clear evidence\" against them, did not seem to face any effective action.\n\nOnly about a fifth of the fines levied were paid and the report said the recovery rate, set against the scale of the bureaucracy, was \"pitiful\".\n\nGiving evidence to the committee, the Department of Health had suggested there could be a technical solution to reducing the number of incorrect fines and raised the possibility of a \"real-time\" computer check on whether patients were eligible for free treatment.\n\nBut MPs said they were \"highly sceptical\" about how soon such a computer system could be delivered.\n\nThe Department for Health has promised to introduce an extra layer of checks - contacting people before they are fined to give them a chance to show they are exempt from paying for treatment. This is intended to filter out some of the wrongful fines.\n\nThere are different rules for exemption from prescription charges and paying dental charges\n\nThe committee's report called on the Department of Health to report back in six months with how much progress has been made with this.\n\nBut Ms Hillier warned it must not just be a \"sticking plaster\" that could add another layer of bureaucracy.\n\nCharlotte Waite, of the British Dental Association, backed the committee's call for the fining system to be overhauled.\n\n\"A system that's hurt our most vulnerable patients and treated millions who've made honest mistakes like fraudsters requires more than tweaks,\" she said.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, of Age UK, said there was a lot of confusion about eligibility for free treatment for the elderly, and the risk of being fined was \"incredibly stressful\".\n\nLloyd Tingley, of the charity Parkinson's UK, said the NHS fining system \"unfairly discriminates against some of the most vulnerable people\".\n\nFor people with learning disabilities and their families, the threat of fines is a \"huge source of unnecessary stress\", added Dan Scorer, of the charity Mencap.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said it would consider the report and respond in due course.\n\n\"Prescription and dental fraud cost the NHS an estimated £212m in 2017-18 and it is absolutely right the government takes steps to recoup this money so it can be reinvested into caring for patients,\" he said.", "Jodie Chesney was fatally attacked in a park near Romford, east London\n\nA 17-year-old girl collapsed in her boyfriend's arms after she was fatally stabbed, a court has heard.\n\nJodie Chesney was on a park bench with friends when she was knifed in the back in Harold Hill, east London.\n\nBoyfriend Eddie Coyle, 18, told the Old Bailey he was forced to catch Jodie as she fell to the ground after \"screaming\" out in shock.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, both from Romford, and two boys, aged 16 and 17, deny murder.\n\nGiving evidence from behind a screen, Mr Coyle said the group of friends had just started smoking cannabis when Jodie was attacked.\n\n\"She was in shock at first. She did not know what had happened,\" he said.\n\n\"She started screaming continuously, very loud, about two minutes straight.\"\n\nJodie Chesney (pictured with her boyfriend Eddie Coyle) died after being stabbed in the back\n\nMr Coyle added: \"After she stopped screaming she began to faint. At this time she was falling off the bench.\n\n\"The guys ran off. I did not really see - I was trying to catch Jodie at the time.\n\n\"I managed to catch her, put her on the floor.\n\n\"She was wearing a thick jacket so we did not know how bad the wound was at first, but there was a lot of blood.\"\n\nMr Coyle told the court he and Jodie had been going out for about three months\n\nDescribing Jodie as a \"great, funny, silly and sensible\" person, Mr Coyle told jurors she had been laughing \"one second\" before she was attacked.\n\nIt has been alleged that Mr Petrovic and Mr Ong-a-Kwie were in business selling drugs together, while the 16-year-old defendant acted as a \"runner\" for Mr Petrovic and the 17-year-old was helping Mr Ong-a-Kwie sell drugs that day.\n\nCross-examining, Sarah Forshaw QC, for Mr Petrovic, asked if the group were expecting another delivery of cannabis, after one of them had got some earlier. Mr Coyle said they were not.\n\nManuel Petrovic (left), Svenson Ong-a-Kwie (right) and two boys (behind) deny murder\n\nA 17-year-old girl, who cannot be identified, told jurors she had been sitting next to Jodie and heard the attackers walking across the grass.\n\n\"I looked around and saw a guy with a black puffer jacket and fur trimmed hood,\" she said.\n\n\"They opened up the gate and I heard this slashing noise.\"\n\nThe witness said she \"thought they were taking our bags\" but Jodie \"started to breathe really heavily\" and began to scream.\n\n\"She fell unconscious a few seconds later. When I heard the noise I looked around and I saw them run,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A record amount of new offshore wind power has been announced in the UK.\n\nThe new projects will power more than seven million homes at a lower-than-expected cost.\n\nThe government says the wind farms represent a breakthrough, typically generating electricity without subsidy.\n\nEnvironmentalists are delighted - but they warn ministers are failing to tackle more difficult challenges such as driving and home heating.\n\nThey point out that electricity usage forms just 15% of household energy consumption - behind petrol, diesel and gas.\n\nFriday's announcement offers a guaranteed price to firms willing to take the risk of installing costly offshore wind turbines in projects set to be delivered by 2025.\n\nThe cheapest operator will provide power for as low as £40 per megawatt hour.\n\nBy comparison, power from Hinkley Point C - the new nuclear power station in Somerset also due to open in 2025 - is expected to cost £92.50 per megawatt hour. (Note that the prices quoted for these index-linked contracts are all in 2012 prices.)\n\nJohn Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, said: \"Today's news makes arguing for the massive public subsidies nuclear power requires a much harder task.\"\n\nThe government anticipates the overall wholesale electricity price will range between £48.95 in 2023-24 to £52.36 per megawatt hour in 2026-27.\n\nThe cost of offshore wind has plummeted about 30% in the last two years.\n\nGreenpeace campaigner Kaisa Kosonen tweeted: \"Impossible is becoming possible in front of our very eyes.\"\n\nFor more facts about how our energy consumption needs to change to help fight climate change, download your BBC Briefing on energy. BBC Briefing is a new mini-series of online guides to the key issues in the news.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The UK is leading the way in the fight against climate change, and it's great news that millions more homes will be powered by clean energy at record low prices.\n\n\"Seizing the opportunities of clean energy not only helps to protect our planet, but will also back businesses and boost jobs.\"\n\nHis critics point out that de-carbonising the electricity sector is accepted as the easy part of tackling climate change.\n\nThe government has been repeatedly criticised by MPs for failing to curb emissions from transport and homes - and for not acknowledging that to curb climate change, many drivers need to leave their cars at home and walk, cycle or go by public transport.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron explains how he sought the Queen's help in Scottish independence vote\n\nFormer PM David Cameron has revealed he asked whether the Queen could \"raise an eyebrow\" about the prospect of Scotland voting for independence.\n\nHe told the BBC he sought help from royal officials days before the 2014 vote amid \"mounting panic\" he may lose.\n\nWhat was discussed was not \"anything that would be in any way improper... but just a raising of the eyebrow even... a quarter of an inch\", he said.\n\nThe Queen later urged people to \"think very carefully about the future\".\n\nThe comments - made to a well-wisher outside a church on the Balmoral estate - were one of the main talking points of the referendum campaign.\n\nReflecting on his rise to power and six years in Downing Street in a two-part BBC documentary, Mr Cameron said the Queen's words on the issue were \"very limited but helped to put a slightly different perception on things\".\n\nScotland went on to reject independence by a margin of 55.3% to 44.7%, a result which Mr Cameron said left him \"blissfully happy\".\n\nIn a statement, Alex Salmond, who resigned as Scotland's first minister in the wake of the result, said Mr Cameron's actions were not only improper, but showed how desperate the No side was during the final stages of the independence campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron criticises Boris Johnson's motives for supporting Leave campaign\n\nThe Cameron Years, which begins on Thursday, examines Mr Cameron's modernisation of the party, his decision to enter a coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the 2010 election and the fallout from 2016 Brexit referendum, which led to his resignation.\n\nOn the EU referendum, Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he \"wasn't the slightest bit complacent\" during the campaign, saying that he fought \"with every fibre of my being\".\n\nBut he said the Labour leadership during the campaign \"simply wasn't there, wasn't committed\" and it was \"very hard to fight these things on your own\".\n\nHe added that the result would \"probably have been even worse\" if people knew he would quit if Leave won the vote.\n\nJust as the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of the relationship between the prime minister and the Queen is that you never, ever talk about the relationship between the PM and the Queen.\n\nIt is difficult to imagine anything other than horror in the Palace at David Cameron's revelations. Not just because he has broken the first rule. But because he has made it painfully clear that in 2014 he used the Queen for his own political purposes. And that she and her advisors thought that was OK.\n\nThe revelation comes as her suspension of Parliament - a suspension made on the effective instruction of Boris Johnson - comes under unprecedented scrutiny in the Supreme Court.\n\nThe two cases are very different; but they both highlight the dark greys of the Queen's constitutional position, the discretion she has or lacks, under extraordinary circumstances, to speak out and act.\n\nIn the run-up to the 18 September poll on Scottish independence, it was reported that the Queen was concerned about the possibility of Scotland opting to sever the 300-year union with England and Wales.\n\nA Sunday Times poll on 7 September putting the Yes campaign ahead contributed to a \"mounting sense of panic\" in Downing Street, Mr Cameron recalls.\n\nThe poll, which was published while he and his wife, Samantha, were staying at Balmoral, \"hit me like a blow to the solar plexus\".\n\nA poll finding the Yes campaign in front contributed to a \"mounting sense of panic\" in Downing Street\n\nMr Cameron - who agreed to hold the independence referendum in the face of opposition within his party - said there followed urgent conversations between advisers in Downing Street and Buckingham Palace to figure out how the Queen could comment while still remaining within the constitutional boundaries of neutrality.\n\n\"I remember conversations I had with my private secretary and he had with the Queen's private secretary and I had with the Queen's private secretary, not asking for anything that would be in any way improper or unconstitutional but just a raising of the eyebrow even, you know, a quarter of an inch. We thought would make a difference.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace insisted that the Queen was above politics\n\nWhen asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme for more detail about what had happened, Mr Cameron said he \"didn't want to say anything more about this\".\n\n\"I'm sure that some people would think, possibly even me, that I've already said perhaps a little bit too much,\" he said.\n\nAt the time, the BBC's royal correspondent said the Queen's words were \"more of an observation than an intervention\", while Buckingham Palace said any suggestion the Queen was seeking to influence the outcome of the referendum was \"categorically wrong\".\n\nOfficials insisted the monarch was above politics, and the issue of Scotland's future was a matter for the people.\n\nTwo weeks after the Scottish referendum, Mr Cameron was forced to apologise after suggesting the Queen \"purred down the phone\" when she was told about the No result.\n\nWhile he feels \"sorry\" about events since the 2016 Brexit vote, Mr Cameron said he did not regret the decision to hold the EU referendum.\n\nWhile some people would \"never forgive\" him, he maintained the UK's 40-year membership was becoming \"unstable\" and the duty of leaders was to \"see difficulties coming and try to resolve them and shape the country's response to them\".\n\nHe accepted he \"totally underestimated the latent Leave gene\" in his party and that during the campaign while \"he had a winning hand, he could not seem to play it\".\n\nAfter losing the vote, Mr Cameron said he knew he had to quit because he did not have the \"credibility to deliver Brexit\", but was \"desperately sad\" his time in office was cut short.\n\nMr Cameron said the coalition government staved off a financial crisis\n\n\"I think of all the things we could and should have done if we had been able... to win the referendum,\" he recalls. \"A whole lot of what we could have done effectively ran into the sand of the European issue.\"\n\nOn his economic and social record, he rejects as \"total nonsense\" opponents' claims that he embraced deep spending cuts as a political choice to reduce the size of the state.\n\nHe says the multi-billion pound budget deficit inherited by his government in 2010 was a \"clear and present danger to the British economy\" requiring immediate action.\n\n\"In the end there were difficult and painful decisions, but inequality fell and the share of income tax paid by the richest went up, not down,\" he argued. \"We protected pensioners, we protected the NHS, we protected help for the poorest.\"\n\nMr Cameron's long-awaited memoirs, entitled For The Record, was published on Thursday.\n\nIn excerpts published by the Times last week, he accused Boris Johnson and Michael Gove of behaving \"appallingly\" during the Brexit referendum.\n\nThe first episode of The Cameron Years will be broadcast on BBC One at 21.00 BST.", "Meet Tira, a zebra that's been... spotted... in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.\n\nIt's thought she was born with spots instead of stripes, because of a melanin disorder.\n\nTour guide and photographer Anthony Tira saw the foal near the Mara River, and gave her his name.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConfidential documents that \"reflect the ideas the UK has put forward\" on Brexit have been shared with the EU, the UK government has said.\n\nMinisters will table \"formal written solutions when we are ready\" and not to an \"artificial deadline\", it added.\n\nBoris Johnson said he did not want to \"exaggerate progress\" of negotiations, but some was being made.\n\nIt comes after Finland's prime minister said that Mr Johnson had 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU.\n\nBut a government source said the development was not in response to the remarks.\n\nMeanwhile, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told Sky News that talks earlier this week with Mr Johnson were \"rather positive\" and that a deal could be reached in the next few weeks.\n\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he will try to get a deal with Mr Johnson when they meet at a UN summit in New York next week.\n\nBut his deputy, Simon Coveney, said there was \"still a big gap\" between what the UK government wanted and what Ireland and the EU needed, in terms of getting a deal.\n\nThe commission said it had received documents from the UK government and technical talks were taking place.\n\nChief spokesperson Mina Andreeva also confirmed there would be talks at a political level at a meeting on Friday between the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, and Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay.\n\nThe technical discussions were on some aspects of rules relating to customs and manufactured goods, as well as sanitary rules and phytosanitary rules - which relate to the health of plants - she said.\n\nThe BBC also understands \"live discussions\" are taking place between the EU and UK about ruling out another delay to Brexit if a deal is agreed.\n\nSources told BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg that, if a plan is signed off by both sides, the EU could then announce it would not grant an extension to 31 October deadline if MPs voted the deal down - essentially giving them a choice between the negotiated deal or a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOther sources on the EU and UK sides played down the possibility, denying there had been any formal consideration of the proposal and saying the current focus was on getting a deal.\n\nBut Laura Kuenssberg said: \"It's clear that government officials are considering ways of sticking to the prime minister's October deadline, with, or without a deal being reached.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said he wants to leave the EU, preferably with a deal, on 31 October and has urged the EU to scrap the backstop in the withdrawal agreement reached by predecessor Theresa May.\n\nThe backstop is the controversial policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland and it was a key sticking point in Mrs May's attempts to get Parliament to back her plan.\n\nThe EU has asked for alternative suggestions and had criticised the UK for not putting any plans in writing.\n\nMr Juncker told Sky News that the EU did not \"need the backstop\" if all its objectives for the Irish border were met.\n\nHe added that \"if the results are there, I don't care about the instruments\".\n\nFinnish PM Antti Rinne (left) says he and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) agreed the new deadline for Boris Johnson\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I don't want to exaggerate the progress that we are making, but we are making progress.\"\n\nHe said the UK needed to leave in a way that allowed it to \"do things differently\" and \"not remain under the control of the EU in terms of laws and trade policy\".\n\nBut he also reiterated the need to ensure no hard border returned to Northern Ireland, and the Good Friday Agreement was protected.\n\n\"We think we can do that,\" said the PM. \"We think we can solve that problem and I think we are making some progress.\"\n\nHe added: \"Let's see where we get. It is vital whatever happens that we prepare for no-deal and we will be ready for no-deal on 31 October. We have got to do both things at once.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Rinne said he and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the UK needed to produce the proposals in writing by the end of September, adding if not, \"then it's over\".\n\nA French government official said the deadline was \"not at all a new proposal\" and added: \"If we don't get the proposals before the end of September, we will not have enough time to discuss them before the summit in October.\"\n\nThe sending of the documents to the EU comes as the legal battle over the suspension of the UK Parliament is in its third day at the UK's Supreme Court.\n\nThe UK government is arguing the decision to prorogue Parliament was a political matter and not for the courts to \"design a set of rules\" around it.\n\nBut campaigners say the move was used \"for an improper purpose\" - to stop MPs scrutinising Mr Johnson's plans in the run up to Brexit on 31 October.\n\nThe prime minister prorogued Parliament earlier this month for five weeks, with MPs not scheduled to return until 14 October.", "RBS has named Alison Rose as its new chief executive, making her the first woman to lead one of the UK's big four banks.\n\nMs Rose, who joined the bank 27 years ago as a graduate trainee, will replace the incumbent Ross McEwan in November.\n\nShe will be paid more than her predecessor, with her annual salary set at £1.1m compared with Mr McEwan's £1m.\n\nMs Rose is currently the chief executive of the commercial and private banking division.\n\nOther lenders have been led by women. Ana Botin was formerly in charge of Santander UK, while Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia was chief executive of Virgin Money before it was sold to CYBG last year.\n\nHowever, Ms Rose is the only woman so far to lead one of the UK's four biggest banks, which are RBS, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and HSBC.\n\nIt also means that two of the most senior roles at RBS will be held by women, after Katie Murray was promoted to chief financial officer earlier this year.\n\nRBS is still majority-owned by the UK government\n\n\"Rose looks like a continuity candidate, given she has 27 years at the bank, and she was the favourite for the role,\" said Russ Mould, investment director at online broker AJ Bell. \"It is notable that she will be the first woman to head a major British bank,\" he added.\n\nRBS remains majority-owned by the UK government, with a stake of 62%, after it was bailed out with £45.5bn of taxpayers' money during the financial crisis.\n\nMs Rose said she was \"looking forward to getting started\" in her new job, adding: \"Maintaining the safety and soundness of this bank will continue to underpin everything we do.\"\n\nThe RBS veteran has been widely tipped to replace Mr McEwan, who will become chief executive of National Australia Bank.\n\nMs Rose joined NatWest straight from university in 1992, before the bank was bought by RBS eight years later.\n\nShe studied history at Durham University and is married with two children.\n\nMs Rose helped restructure the bank's balance sheet in the aftermath of the financial crisis, a process which she described as \"challenging\".\n\nAs well as heading RBS's commercial and private banking, Ms Rose is currently deputy chief executive of NatWest Holdings, which includes the large retail bank, but whose funding is kept separate from the riskier investment banking operations.\n\nHer roles at the bank have been diverse.\n\nEarlier in her career she was head of non-investment grade origination in the bond market - raising money for companies with poor credit.\n\nShe then had senior roles in the lender's investment bank before being promoted to leading its commercial and private banking, which includes bankers to the Queen, Coutts; and Lombard, which lends to companies so they can buy boats, vehicles, machinery and aircraft.\n\nShe was also commissioned by the Treasury to lead a review into the barriers women face in entrepreneurship, which was published earlier this year.", "It is Boris Johnson's first visit to the United Nations as prime minister\n\nClimate change, instability in the Middle East and Brexit will be on the agenda when Boris Johnson meets other world leaders in New York next week.\n\nThe prime minister will hold talks with Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel among others at the UN's annual General Assembly.\n\nHe will also meet India's Narendra Modi and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe Irish government has said \"quite a wide gap\" remains between it and the UK over a mutually acceptable Brexit deal.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, its foreign minister Simon Coveney said the \"mood music\" had improved but claims the two sides were inching towards an agreement were \"spin\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October unless the bloc agrees to further extend the process. Mr Johnson has said he will not ask for another delay.\n\nAlthough Brexit is not officially on the agenda of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, a senior government official said they were \"sure it will come up\".\n\nMr Johnson, who will arrive in New York on Sunday, will meet the German and French leaders as well as European Council president Donald Tusk.\n\nIt is thought they will discuss a series of ideas put forward by the UK on Thursday aimed at breaking the current deadlock.\n\n\"What this gives the PM an opportunity to do is to talk to them at leader level about what some of our proposals are,\" the government official added.\n\n\"At the same time we are under no illusions that there's an awful lot of work to do.\"\n\nThe US and French leaders have very different views about Brexit\n\nThe General Assembly is the largest gathering of world leaders in a single place - providing a forum to discuss issues of global concern.\n\nNuclear disarmament, sustainable development and global healthcare are among the main issues are on the agenda, while a separate climate summit will start on Monday.\n\nLast week's attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia - which Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for, but which the US blames on Iran - will also be discussed.\n\nAs well as meeting Mr Trump for the second time since he became PM in July, Mr Johnson is also due to hold one-to-one meetings with the leaders of Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine and Jordan.\n\nThe PM, who is expected to be accompanied on the trip by his partner Carrie Symonds, said he had three priorities for the upcoming meeting.\n\n\"First, how Britain can work with our European and American allies on peace and stability in the Middle East,\" he said.\n\n\"Second, how science and new technologies can help the world deal with climate change and the threats to biodiversity.\n\n\"And third, how post-Brexit Britain will be a better place to invest in and live in.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people around the UK have joined a global climate change protest, with pupils walking out of schools and workers downing tools to demand action.\n\nMillions around the world are taking part in the \"climate strike\" day, with rallies in British cities including Glasgow, Manchester and London.\n\nAnna Taylor, a co-founder of UK Student Climate Network, said it was \"very easy\" to persuade people to show up.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said \"every child\" should be in school.\n\nHe added: \"They should be learning, they shouldn't be bunking off and it's very irresponsible for people to encourage children to do so.\"\n\nStudent Jessica Ahmed, 16, emailed her school to warn that she would be joining the protests instead of being in class.\n\nSpeaking at a protest in Westminster, she said: \"School is important but so is my future.\n\n\"If politicians were taking the appropriate action we need - and had been taking this action a long time ago when it was recognised the world was changing in a negative way - then I would not have to be skipping school.\"\n\nPupils left the classroom for the coast in Cullercoats, North Tyneside\n\nOrganisers estimated that around 100,000 people attended a rally in central London, while more than 20,000 were thought to have marched in Edinburgh and 10,000 in Brighton.\n\nIn Belfast, organisers put the turnout at between 3,000 and 4,000, with young people taking over the Cornmarket area of the city centre and staging a \"mass die-in\".\n\nAnd in Birmingham, around 3,000 protesters, including hundreds of children, gathered in the city's Victoria Square before marching through nearby streets.\n\nUK Student Climate Network said more than 200 events had been organised across the country.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn told young people at the Westminster rally: \"You and a whole generation have brought [climate change] centre stage and I am absolutely delighted about that.\n\n\"If we're going to sustain this planet we need to get to net zero emissions a lot, lot quicker than 2050 [the government's target],\" he said.\n\nHe wants every country to sign up to the Paris Agreement, which commits signatory nations to keeping global temperatures \"well below\" 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times.\n\nReferring to President Donald Trump, Mr Corbyn said it was \"disgraceful when you get a president of a major country like the US\" who says they will walk away.\n\nThe global protests come ahead of a summit at the UN next week that will urge countries to do more to avoid the worst effects of climate change.\n\nDozens of pupils from John Stainer Community Primary school in Brockley, south-east London, were among those taking part in protests in London.\n\nHead teacher Sue Harte said \"children need to know that they have a right to democratic protest\".\n\nSebastian, a pupil at the school, said he joined the protests to help fight global warming.\n\nSebastian says he knows how important it is to look after the planet\n\n\"They, the government, don't understand that we're going to go through it and they are not,\" he said.\n\nEight-year-old Sohan and Nayan, five, also from south-east London, joined protesters with their mother, Celine.\n\nSohan said: \"We want to save our planet and we hope that marching will help.\"\n\nSohan and Nayan with their mother, Celine\n\nAt the Belfast protest, Extinction Rebellion activist Lorraine Montague, from County Tyrone, was dressed as a swan to highlight the threat of climate change to wildlife.\n\n\"Our climate is at crisis point and the government is not doing anything about it,\" she said.\n\n\"We are grieving for our future. I don't feel happy about having children, the way our climate is going.\"\n\nIn Edinburgh, demonstrators - the majority of them young people - chanted and sang as they marched from the Meadows to Holyrood Park near the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThey carried placards reading \"Scotland, you're not too wee to change the world\" and \"If you were smarter, I would be in school\".\n\nYoung climate activists in Glasgow think children could \"save the planet\"\n\nChildren from Terra Nova Secondary in Cheshire are attending the UK Student Climate Network's strike in Manchester\n\nExtinction Rebellion, which organised its own climate and environment protests in the UK earlier this year, said it stood \"in solidarity\" with those taking part.\n\nIt added that its members were joining the strikes and holding their own events, including a choir and \"kids' space\" in Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster, and outside King's College London.\n\nProtesters in Manchester, where at least one clothing store closed to support the strike\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate protest: 'This is more important than a maths lesson'\n\nSome trade unions, including the TUC, the University and College Union and Unite, are supporting members who take part in the \"strikes\".\n\nCo-operative Bank said it supported workers who want to join the action, while US clothing brand Patagonia closed all of its stores and took out adverts to back the protesters.\n\nBut in Norwich, protester Tiffany Wallace said her employer declined to give her time off work to join demonstrators \"because they didn't think it was important\".\n\n\"The worst thing they can do is fire me,\" said the 33-year-old.\n\n\"I don't feel I should compromise my own values and integrity and what's important, so I can make money for a business.\"\n\nTiffany Wallace said her company declined to give her permission to join the protests\n\nEnergy minister Kwasi Kwarteng said he could not \"endorse children leaving school\" to take part in the protests.\n\nBut he said he did support \"their energy, their creativity, and the fact that they have completely mastered these issues and take them very seriously\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson all supported the walkout for the Youth Strike 4 Climate campaign.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said seven people were arrested for public order offences, but overall the day ran \"smoothly\".\n\nCommander Dave Musker said a \"tiny minority of protesters\" tried to block Lambeth Bridge, a key route for emergency services to St Thomas' Hospital. One other man was arrested on the bridge on suspicion of discharging a flare in a public place.\n\nTeenage campaigner Greta Thunberg - who inspired the protests - sailed to the US ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York next week\n\nThe global action follows a long-running series of school strikes initially inspired by activist Greta Thunberg.\n\nThe teenager, from Sweden, is also playing a role in the day's events and is set to join a rally planned in New York, where world leaders will meet at the UN next week.", "Ceara Thacker took an overdose three months before her death\n\nA student who hanged herself faced a two-month delay before seeing a mental health adviser, her inquest has heard.\n\nCeara Thacker, of Bradford, was found dead in her halls of residence at the University of Liverpool in May 2018.\n\n\"Exceptional circumstances\" including strike action were blamed for the wait for her to see an adviser, a university employee told the hearing.\n\nMs Thacker's family was unaware she had taken an overdose three months before her death, the inquest has also heard.\n\nShe had suffered mental health problems since she was 13 and had a history of depression and self-harm, the inquest at Gerard Majella Courthouse has been told.\n\nThe teenager referred herself to the university's mental health advisory service on 22 February, the day after she was admitted to hospital following the overdose, but it was not until 24 April she had an appointment with a mental health adviser.\n\nIain Thacker said his daughter was \"perceptive, intelligent, loyal, funny and extremely kind\"\n\n\"We were in exceptional circumstances at this time,\" the director of student administration and support Paula Harrison Woods told the hearing.\n\nShe said it was a period of industrial action, staff sickness and annual leave, and that a mental health adviser quitting had also contributed to delays.\n\nDr Harrison Woods said more staff had been taken on since Ms Thacker's death and guidelines about asking students suffering mental health problems whether they wanted their families to be informed had also been established.\n\nMs Thacker's father Iain, from Guiseley, Leeds, has told the inquest her death was a \"terrible shock\" and had the family been told what was happening, it \"would have made a difference\".\n\nHe has criticised the university for not telling the family about the overdose.\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. Dave brought his mum on stage as he won the 2019 Mercury prize\n\nRapper Dave has won the Mercury Prize for his debut album, Psychodrama.\n\nA thought-provoking reflection on his upbringing in London, it has been hailed as \"the boldest and best British rap album in a generation\".\n\nThe Streatham-born star beat the likes of Foals, Anna Calvi and The 1975 to win the prize, which recognises the best British album of the last year.\n\nReleased in March, Psychodrama entered the UK charts at number one and has sold 129,354, copies to date.\n\nMercury Prize judge Annie Mac said the album \"showed remarkable levels of musicianship\" as well as \"true artistry, courage and honesty\".\n\n\"I did not expect this,\" said Dave, whose full name is David Orobosa Omoregie, as he took to the stage.\n\nHe went on to dedicate the award to his family and friends, especially his brother, Christopher, who is serving a life sentence for murder.\n\nPsychodrama was inspired by the therapy Christopher is receiving in prison, in which offenders role-play events from their past to help with rehabilitation; and finds the 21-year-old casting an eye over his own life to see what lessons he can learn.\n\nIts lead single, Black, focused on the perception of black people in Britain.\n\n\"Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident,\" Dave rapped. \"It's working twice as hard as the people you know you're better than.\"\n\nWhen it was played on BBC Radio 1, the song provoked complaints from a small minority of listeners who said it was \"racist against white people\".\n\nAnnie Mac spoke in defence of the song, saying: \"If you are genuinely offended by the idea of a man talking about the colour of his skin and how it has shaped his identity, then that is a problem for you.\"\n\nThe rest of the album is framed as vignettes from a year-long course of therapy, as Dave grapples with grief, pain, domestic abuse, depression and his brother's incarceration.\n\nThe 21-year-old's music is as thoughtful and introspective as his lyrics, dusted with melancholy piano chords and textured beats that set it apart from the grime scene he rose up through.\n\nThe rapper previously won an Ivor Novello for his 2018 track Question Time, which railed against Grenfell, drone warfare and NHS cuts.\n\n\"I find it [expletive] that the government is struggling / To care for a person that cares for a person,\" said the musician, whose mother is a nurse.\n\n\"This is surreal, a massive honour\" he said backstage after the ceremony. \"I'm glad I've been able to repay the faith that people have put into me.\"\n\nComplementing Dave's victory, this year's Mercury Prize ceremony had a chaotic urgency that has been missing from award shows since the heyday of Britpop.\n\nPost-punk band Idles leapt into the crowd, while one of the members of Black Midi ran headfirst into a piano, before attempting, and failing, to perform a somersault.\n\nBut Northampton-based rapper Slowthai caused the biggest stir by performing with a dummy of Boris Johnson's severed head, which he held aloft as he performed Doorman, a track about wealth disparity in modern Britain.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he explained the song, like the rest of his album, aimed to give a voice to \"the people from small communities that have been forgotten about\".\n\n\"It's time to let people in,\" he said. \"Everyone, the lower class, the middle class, and even the ones in the upper who feel their life is hard.\"\n\nIt was the 28th year of the Mercury Prize, with previous winners including Pulp, Dizzee Rascal, Elbow, Skepta, Arctic Monkeys and last year's victors, Wolf Alice.\n\nJudges for 2019 included Radio 1's Clara Amfo, Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes, Glastonbury headliner Stormzy and rock critic Will Hodgkinson. Their deliberations were chaired by Jeff Smith, head of music for BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music.\n\nAlbums by British and Irish artists with a UK release date between 21 July 2018 and 19 July 2019 were eligible, and more than 200 were submitted.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nick Gibb was responding to remarks made by Dame Louise Casey\n\nMinisters have rejected claims they were \"silent\" over protests against LGBT relationships lessons.\n\nCampaigners, who want materials about same-sex couples removed from schools, resumed protests near Birmingham's Anderton Park Primary last week.\n\nDame Louise Casey accused the government of \"radio silence\" over the issue.\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb said it was \"not true\" to suggest the government was not working to \"defuse\" protests.\n\nHe said it has been \"clear\" that it supports schools in teaching about LGBT relationships, and officials had been working \"on a daily basis\" to resolve the dispute.\n\nProtesters are calling for an end to the use of story books featuring same sex couples, which have been used as part of a programme teaching about equality.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is in the books that Parkfield parents are protesting about?\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4, Mr Gibb said: \" We have very senior officials working on a daily basis with the school, with Birmingham City Council, with the parents, with the protesters to find a solution to the dispute between these two schools and these parents.\n\n\"That is the way to handle such a sensitive issue, not to have people, ministers grandstanding, or other people in the media grandstanding on these issues.\n\n\"I have said publicly, the former secretary of state has said publicly, the current secretary of state has said publicly, we strongly encourage schools to teach when they are teaching about different kinds of families to teach about same sex relationships.\"\n\nProtests have involved parents and campaigners chanting \"our children, our choice\" just metres from the school gates on the border of Moseley and Sparkbrook.\n\nThey have held banners saying things including \"say no to sexualisation of children\" and \"let kids be kids\".\n\nNick Gibb said it is \"not true\" to say the government is not working to diffuse the issues that lie behind the protests in Birmingham\n\nMost of the protesters have been of Muslim faith and many of those the BBC has spoken to have insisted they believe homosexuality to be a sin.\n\nEarlier this year, a High Court injunction was granted barring action immediately outside Anderton Park.\n\nOn a weekly basis during term time, protesters have been gathering outside the exclusion zone on an area of grass about 100m from the school.\n\nA trial in October will rule whether they can resume directly outside the school.\n\nMr Gibb said the government was against the protests.\n\n\"We think it is unacceptable to be protesting outside primary schools to be intimidating children, to be intimidating teachers and parents, and that is why we supported Birmingham City Council in the injunctions they have taken out,\" he said.\n\nFrom September 2020, it will be compulsory to teach relationships education for primary-age pupils and relationships and sex education (RSE) for secondary-age pupils.\n\nThe government has said it wanted primary schools to teach children about same sex relationships but, as with the rest of the curriculum, it would be up to them to decide when it was \"age appropriate\".\n\nMr Gibb added: \"We believe very strongly that schools should be teaching this.\n\n\"That is why this government introduced this landmark legislation to require relationships to be taught from September next year, we are providing materials and support to help schools to deliver that.\"\n\nProtesters had gathered near primary schools in Birmingham\n\nHis comments come after Dame Louise, the author of a landmark report on integration, told Radio 4's Today programme ministers should have stepped in.\n\n\"They've just been too silent on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Laws have been put through Parliament that protect religious freedoms and protect the rights of people who are gay and want to get married.\n\n\"That has to be promoted - that we respect both but that both also have to respect each other,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If I was gay and watching what was happening in Birmingham, I would say it was discriminatory,\" she added.\n\n\"When you see it on the television, what I hear is homophobia and homophobia is not a value I want any child in this country to grow up and learn.\"\n\nIn 2016, Dame Louise wrote a hard-hitting report for the government in which she called on particular communities to integrate more into British society.\n\nSome accused her of discriminating against Muslims because she focused on them. She has always denied the allegation.\n\nFrom September 2020, it will be compulsory to teach relationships education for primary-age pupils and relationships and sex education (RSE) for secondary-age pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has said it wanted primary schools to teach children about same sex relationships but, as with the rest of the curriculum, it would be up to them to decide when it was \"age appropriate\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said earlier this month the government would be \"supporting and backing every single school\" as they prepared for the roll-out of a mandatory LGBT-inclusive curriculum.\n\nDame Louise also said if ministers integrated more with Britain's diverse population, they would improve their own understanding of the issues at hand.\n\n\"White posh people that go to Eton need to meet somebody that doesn't look like them or sound like them before they're in charge of the country,\" she said.\n\nProtests have been held outside Anderton Park School for several weeks\n\nThe former senior civil servant went on to say the protests stemmed from a lack of integration with some deprived communities struggling to mix with other ethnic groups.\n\nShe said schools having majority Muslim populations sometimes meant their children were not being exposed to the real make-up of the country they were living in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gay Muslims say the No Outsiders books would have helped their mental health growing up\n\nShe said: \"We're not fitting in those kids for what the world is and actually this is a multi-cultural, multi-faith country that we're very proud of but it shows you a picture of some families in some of these areas being very closed.\"\n\nRosina Afsar, whose son goes to Anderton Park School, has been involved with the protests from the outset.\n\nShe accused Dame Louise Casey of discriminating against people of Muslim faith.\n\n\"Saying that we don't integrate is the most absurd thing I've ever heard,\" she said.\n\n\"It's absolutely nonsense. We have so many friends in interracial relationships so how can we not be mixing?\n\n\"Part of British values is also to allow people to live according to their faiths. End of.\"", "The Conservative Party has been targeting older Facebook users with political adverts about Brexit, according to research by BBC News.\n\nIn contrast, younger Facebook users are being shown ads by the party on issues such as policing and mental health.\n\nTory adverts, mostly seen by users over 45, criticise opposition leaders for wanting \"to ignore our Brexit vote\".\n\nThe Lib Dems and Labour both ran Brexit adverts, while Labour's also featured fox hunting and the environment.\n\nIn mid-September, the Conservative Party was running 691 adverts classed as active by Facebook, more than any other political party in the UK.\n\nMany of the ads are identical, or minor variations on a theme, run multiple times.\n\nThe adverts have been viewed between half a million and 2.6 million times in total.\n\nA Conservative Party official said many ads were no longer active, even though they appeared to be so.\n\nAt least 93% of people shown ads criticising pro-Remain MPs are aged 45 and over.\n\nPhrases used in the ads include:\n\nThe analysis looked at any political advert paid for by the Conservative Party that was live on Facebook at the beginning of the third week of September.\n\nSome adverts had been running for many weeks, though most were published after Boris Johnson was elected party leader.\n\nSarah Wollaston, now the Liberal Democrat MP for Totnes after leaving the Conservative Party, is singled out in some of these ads.\n\nShe is accused of \"betraying Brexit\" and \"defecting\" from the Conservative Party.\n\nFacebook has about 40 million users in the UK.\n\nAn organisation running adverts on Facebook can choose the target audience for each ad by gender, age, location, and interests. For example, it would be possible to target men living in Swindon, aged 45-55, who are interested in football.\n\nIn 2018, Facebook launched an ad library to increase transparency around political advertising on the platform.\n\nThe library can be searched to find all political ads being run by a specific Facebook page. For each ad, it's possible to check who paid for it and who has been shown the ad broken down by gender, age bracket and nation.\n\nThis information doesn't directly show which groups are being targeted by the advertiser but it's possible to infer the target gender or age group by analysing whether more men, women, older or younger people have been shown the ad.\n\nThe library also gives approximate figures for how many people have been shown the ad and how much the ad cost.\n\nIn addition to the adverts funded by the central Conservative Party, some local Conservative associations have paid for and published ads accusing opposition leaders of \"plotting\" against Brexit.\n\nThese are being shown to older Facebook users at least 88% of the time, and mostly to men.\n\nConservative adverts aimed at people under 45 appear to focus less on Brexit and more on policing and mental health.\n\nThis difference in content reflects the division between older and younger voters on the issue of Brexit.\n\nIn 2018, Prof John Curtice analysed how people would vote in a second referendum.\n\n\"The UK is divided into the under-45s, who, on balance, favour staying in the EU, and the over-45s, who want to leave,\" he wrote.\n\nContent for under-45s also appears to be targeted by gender - men in this age bracket see more ads about policing than any other issue.\n\nThese show Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressing the camera with an informal \"Hi folks\" and include messages about reducing crime and hiring more police officers.\n\nWomen under 45 make up over 90% of the audience for videos promising better mental health support for new mothers.\n\nTheir style and tone is very different to the party's Brexit-focused ads.\n\nA Conservative Party official said: \"Political parties run ads to a range of different audiences, including policy-specific ones. Advert targeting will also be affected by who has engaged most with a specific advert.\"\n\nThough running far fewer adverts than the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are also targeting Brexit messages towards specific age groups.\n\nIn direct contrast to the Conservative Party's, the Liberal Democrats' ads are about stopping Brexit and are mostly being seen by people under the age of 45.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are running 66 ads about Brexit, which have been seen between 2.2 million and 5.3 million times in total. The party's other 20 active adverts on Facebook are aimed at increasing party membership.\n\nThe Labour Party is running fewer ads than the Conservatives, with 276 active adverts.\n\nBrexit is one of the issues covered by Labour but as part of a wider mix including fox hunting and the environment.\n\nThe audience for these adverts leans towards older people, with over 68% of the party's messaging on the environment and the economy aimed at over-45s.\n\nHowever, the age-specific targeting by the Labour Party does not appear to be as polarised as it is for the Conservatives. And there are no issues that appear to be primarily aimed at younger audiences.\n\nSome of Labour's ads do appear to be targeted by gender.\n\nAt least 73% of adverts against fox hunting are being shown to women. And over 60% of the audience for the party's ads about an upcoming general election are being shown to men.\n\nThe other political parties have been running very few adverts - and many have no advertising currently live on Facebook.\n\nWith only a few sporadic adverts available to analyse, it is hard to draw any conclusions about whether they yet have a strategy to target specific audiences on Facebook.\n\nHow we collect and analyse the data\n\nWe used Facebook's ad library to analyse all currently active political ads funded by the major UK parties. Information about major UK party campaigns correct as of 16 September.\n\nThis includes ads run by parties' main Facebook pages, party leaders' pages, and national party pages for Scotland and Wales.\n\nAds are only included in the library if they have been flagged by the advertiser as being about social issues, politics or elections.\n\nAll political parties in the UK would be expected to flag their paid content.", "Young adults are thought to be behind record levels of class A drug use in England and Wales.\n\nA slight rise in use among people aged between 16 and 59 has led to the highest recorded total since records began in 1996, according to the government's latest Crime Survey.\n\nThe increase is \"primarily driven\" by powder cocaine and ecstasy use among 16 to 24-year-olds, the Home Office says.\n\nThe sharpest increase is among those in their early twenties.\n\nAround 1.3 million, or 3.7%, of people aged between 16 and 59 used a class A drug in the last year, according to the latest official drug misuse statistics from the Crime Survey for England and Wales.\n\nThat's not a big increase since 2017/18, when it was 3.5%, and is only slightly higher than the previous record of 3.6% in 2008.\n\nBut the report says there has been a \"genuine rise in Class A drug use\" among 16 to 24-year-olds.\n\nClass A drug use was on a downward trend between 1996 and and 2011/12, from 9.2% to 6.2%.\n\nSlight increases year-on-year since then have resulted in a \"significant\" rise, with around 8.7% of young adults taking a class A drug in the last year - or 550,000 people.\n\nThe percentage of 20 to 24-year-olds was highest, at 10.4%.\n\nLast month official figures showed that drug deaths in England and Wales have reached record numbers - with 2,917 people dying due to illegal drug use in 2018.\n\nThese were mostly due to opiates such as heroin, but cocaine deaths have doubled over the last three years. The production of both opium and cocaine are at their highest levels ever, according to the UN.\n\nMDMA deaths also rose, from 56 to 92, with deaths of under 29s in England and Wales the highest since records began in 1993.\n\nAnd according to the drug policy group Transform, it's those statistics on deaths that should concern us the most.\n\n\"Given the Government's narrow focus on reducing use, the rise in class A drug use among young people since 2012 looks very bad,\" Steve Rolles from Transform tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"But general stats on use don't reveal much about problematic or harmful use.\n\n\"This year's drug death statistics are more revealing and more troubling - with deaths rising at a much faster rate than use.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The inquiry said \"the suffering does not stop when the abuse ends\"\n\nSurvivors of sexual abuse in care homes are denied compensation or have payouts cut because of their own criminal convictions, an inquiry has found.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry on Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) heard how one boy stole jewellery to survive after running away from an abusive care home.\n\nIt meant his compensation years later was cut in half.\n\nThe compensation scheme should recognise abuse can directly contribute to offending, the inquiry said.\n\nIt found that the criminal and civil justice systems are unable to provide redress for victims of abuse, often leaving them \"retraumatised\" and missing out on compensation.\n\n\"For victims and survivors of child sexual abuse, the suffering does not stop when the abuse ends. In our investigation we found that the criminal and civil court proceedings for redress can be frustrating, hostile and ultimately futile,\" said Professor Alexis Jay, chair of the inquiry.\n\n\"Many are left retraumatised and deeply unsatisfied with the often lengthy and confusing litigation.\"\n\nAmong the issues the inquiry identified was that the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) can deny or reduce claims if a victim has unspent criminal convictions.\n\nThe inquiry said the CICA used to have discretion to make full or reduced awards to people with certain criminal convictions, but that was removed in 2012 because the government believed publicly funded schemes should not benefit ex-offenders.\n\nOne man, abused as a child by two men at residential schools in the north-west of England, saw a payout of £12,000 reduced by half because of his own criminal record.\n\nHe told the inquiry he had run away from the abuse and stole jewellery from a travelling family because he \"needed to survive\".\n\nPaul Sinclair told the inquiry: \"Children who are abused in care often go on to offend because of the abuse\"\n\nPaul Sinclair, a survivor of abuse at Forde Park Approved School in Devon, said he did not apply for compensation because of the rule on criminal records.\n\n\"I believe that children who are abused in care often go on to offend because of the abuse that they suffered,\" he said.\n\nAnother victim said his claim was refused. \"I couldn't understand how I could be denied compensation when the things they used against me were as a result of what he had done to me,\" he said.\n\nEight men were convicted of crimes at Forde Park School in Devon during the 1960s and 1970s\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has launched a review into the criminal compensation system, and the inquiry said the rules should be changed so applications are not automatically rejected when victims' criminal records are likely to be linked to their abuse.\n\nThis report, on accountability and reparations, is one of 14 investigations being conducted by the ongoing inquiry. It heard from 38 witnesses including insurance brokers, lawyers, police officers and victims and survivors.\n\nIt focused on five key case studies of abuse from the 1960s to the present day: North Wales children's homes, Forde Park school in Devon, St Leonard's children's home in London, St Aidan's and St Vincent's children's homes in Cheshire and Merseyside, as well as Stanhope Castle school in County Durham.", "A no-deal Brexit would be damaging and difficult, says Simon Coveney\n\nThere is still a \"wide gap\" between the UK and EU in their talks about a new Brexit deal, the Irish deputy prime minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said \"everyone needs a dose of reality\" after reports had emerged that progress had been made.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, he said the EU was still waiting for \"serious proposals\" from the UK for an alternative to the Irish border backstop.\n\nThe backstop has been the key sticking point in the Brexit deal debate.\n\nIt is the controversial policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit, unless and until another solution is found.\n\nIt was a key part of the withdrawal agreement struck with the EU by former prime minister Theresa May and some MPs' opposition to the policy led to the deal being rejected three times by Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Coveney told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is still quite a wide gap between what the British government have been talking about in terms of the solutions they are proposing and what Ireland and the EU can support.\n\nHe said that while the \"mood music\" had improved they two sides were \"not close to that deal right now\".\n\n\"We've got to be honest... there are serious problems that arise because of the change in approach by the British prime minister,\" he added.\n\n\"Asking to remove a very significant section within the withdrawal agreement that solves many of the Irish issues without any serious proposals on how you solve those problems is not going to be the basis for an agreement.\"\n\nThe issue of the Irish border has been the key sticking point in the Brexit talks\n\nMr Coveney also said the Republic of Ireland \"is in no doubt what a a no-deal would mean for us\", adding that it would be \"damaging and difficult and poses huge questions\".\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay is to hold talks with the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Friday.\n\nIt comes after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said a new Brexit deal could still be reached before the 31 October deadline.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he did not want to \"exaggerate progress\" but some was being made.\n\nHe has urged the EU to scrap the backstop and has insisted he wants to leave the EU - with or without a deal - by the end of October.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has suggested the North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) could have a role in finding a solution to the deadlock over the Irish border.\n\nIt is the main body for cross-border cooperation between the governments of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson suggested that new arrangements to deal with cross-border trade after Brexit could involve the NSMC.\n\nHis party has consistently opposed the backstop but has recently softened its language on the matter, saying it would be open to all-island arrangements on issues such as food standards.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Labour MP Harriet Harman says she will \"not back down\" in the race to replace John Bercow as Commons Speaker, despite objections from her local party.\n\nMembers in Camberwell and Peckham, London, voted to urge her to pull out, and hinted they could run a candidate against her at the next election.\n\nBut the ex-Labour deputy leader said her devotion to her constituency would be \"unshakeable\" if she became Speaker.\n\nMr Bercow has said he will stand down from the role by 31 October.\n\nThe House of Commons Speaker is in charge of keeping order during debates and ensuring the rules are observed.\n\nOnce an MP is elected Speaker they are expected to be impartial and can no longer take part in debates or put questions to ministers, although they can still do constituency work and hold surgery appointments.\n\nCamberwell and Peckham Labour Party secretary Dave Lewis said: \"As a party we lose a political voice in the House of Commons [if Ms Harman becomes Speaker] and as an electorate the people of Camberwell and Peckham lose a voice in the House of Commons.\"\n\nHe also said the motion was not about trying to deselect Ms Harman or fielding a rival candidate against her.\n\nThe motion urging Ms Harman to reconsider her candidacy was initially tied at 21 to 21 but a recount saw the motion passed by 26 to 22.\n\nResponding to the vote, Ms Harman - who has been MP for Camberwell and Peckham since 1982 - said: \"A confident and respected House of Commons representing every constituency in this country and holding the government to account is vital to our parliamentary democracy.\n\n\"The Speaker is at the heart of this - that's why I'm going for it.\"\n\nShe added the \"overwhelming majority\" of local members understood \"the importance of a strong and fair Speaker and support me in this bid\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Harriet Harman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMembers also hinted they could run a candidate against Ms Harman in the next election, although Mr Lewis said he didn't think that would be \"a good idea\".\n\nSpeaking to ITV London, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the local party was entitled \"to express a point of view\", adding that he did not \"interfere in the running of local parties\".\n\nThere is a tradition that parties do not stand against the Speaker. However, in September Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the Conservatives would break the convention by running against Mr Bercow in his Buckingham constituency, accusing him of ignoring \"the government's right to govern\".\n\nAs Mr Bercow announced on 9 September that he would be stepping down as an MP as well as a Speaker, the Conservatives will not now have to run against him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow's most memorable moments as Speaker of the House\n\nAnd in the 2010 election, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage ran as a UKIP candidate against Mr Bercow.\n\nMr Bercow, who became Speaker in 2009, has faced criticism for failing to tackle allegations of bullying in the House of Commons, and from Brexiteers who questioned his impartiality on the EU.\n\nHe has also been accused of mistreating his own staff - allegations he denies.\n\nHowever, he has received praise for strengthening the role of Parliament and making it easier for backbench MPs to hold the government to account.\n\nMr Bercow's announcement that he would step down triggered the race to become the new Speaker.\n\nSo far eight MPs have announced their candidacy for the job: Sir Henry Bellingham, Chris Bryant, Ms Harman, Meg Hillier, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Eleanor Laing, Sir Edward Leigh and Shailesh Vara.\n\nA new Speaker is elected through a secret ballot of all MPs.", "Hilary Adair was 87 when she was attacked by cows\n\nAn 87-year-old woman was knocked to the ground and killed by a herd of \"berserk\" cattle, an inquest has heard.\n\nHilary Adair was trampled on by Belted Galloway cattle and repeatedly attacked as she tried to get up at Linchmere Common in West Sussex on 7 January.\n\nShe was flown to hospital but never regained consciousness and died a week later.\n\nA conclusion of accidental death was recorded at the inquest in Crawley.\n\nThe fatal cattle assault came just a day after a couple and their dogs were chased and injured by the same animals.\n\nBut the inquest was told that those responsible for the animals were not immediately conscious of the seriousness of the attack, viewing it as an \"isolated incident\".\n\nHilary Adair was attacked by a herd of Belted Galloway cattle\n\nBryony Dillamore witnessed the attack on Mrs Adair and said the cattle became more aggressive each time she moved.\n\nMrs Adair was airlifted to St George's Hospital, London, but died from her injuries on 14 January.\n\nRachel Thompson told the inquest how she and her husband Carl were set upon by the same herd the day before Mrs Adair was attacked.\n\nMr Thompson, who was left bleeding from his injuries, said the cattle had \"gone berserk\".\n\nThe cattle were moved to another area of the common and plans were made to check on the situation the following morning.\n\nThe inquest into Mrs Adair's death took place at Crawley Coroner's Court\n\nThe next day Mrs Adair and her dog were attacked.\n\nThe Lynchmere Society and Lynchmere Community Grazing CIC, who own the land and are responsible for the cattle, said in a joint statement: \"Very serious discussion between our organisations and ongoing dialogue with the family and our membership within the community will be had going forward before any decision regarding future grazing activities on the commons are made.\"\n\nSenior coroner Penelope Schofield said: \"We will never really know what prompted either the attack on Mr and Mrs Thompson or on Mrs Adair.\n\n\"Mrs Adair was particularly vulnerable. She really didn't stand a chance against a herd of agitated cows.\"\n\nShe said she hoped Mrs Adair's death raises awareness of the dangers of cattle if they are antagonised.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A number of Conservative Party members have been suspended for posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online.\n\nThe BBC highlighted over 20 new cases to the party, who said all those found to be members who shared or supported anti-Muslim posts on Twitter and Facebook were suspended immediately.\n\nHowever, the officials would not reveal the exact number of members suspended.\n\nA Conservative spokesman said the party was now \"establishing the terms\" of an investigation into the wider issue.\n\nBut Baroness Warsi, the former Tory chairwoman who was the UK's first female Muslim cabinet minister, accused her party of \"backsliding\".\n\nThere have been repeated calls for the party to hold an independent inquiry into allegations of Islamophobia among members, due to previous incidents that have been highlighted to the party and in the media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC was alerted to details of the new cases by an anonymous Twitter user, and independently verified each one before passing details to the Conservative Party.\n\nThe incidents ranged from individuals \"liking\" anti-Muslim pictures or statements on one or two occasions, to regular Islamophobic posts by people who said they were members of the Tory party.\n\nAmong the content that has been shared on social media, a Conservative councillor responded to a tweet in March, writing: \"Islam and slavery are partners in crime.\"\n\nWhen contacted, he said the BBC was misrepresenting his views and he did not judge people by their race or religion.\n\nHe said out of 10,000 to 15,000 of his posts, three had been taken out of context as part of an effort by the BBC to \"besmirch the Conservative Party\".\n\nAn independent parish councillor, who stated he had worked on Boris Johnson's 2012 Mayoral campaign, posted: \"Islam is THE religion of hate (sic)\" and \"Muslims hate = free speech (sic).\"\n\nWhen contacted, he told the BBC he was an atheist who was equally critical of Christianity and all other religions, and he found it annoying Islam was held aloft and critics of it were branded racist.\n\nOther incidents included individuals posting comments such as \"Muslim scum\" and \"I don't want Muslims in this country\".\n\nParty sources said not all of the cases highlighted had involved members of the Conservative Party.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"All those found to be party members have been suspended immediately, pending investigation.\n\n\"The Conservative Party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind.\n\n\"That's why we are already establishing the terms of an investigation to make sure that such instances are isolated and robust processes are in place to stamp them out as and when they occur.\"\n\nBusiness minister Kwasi Kwarteng told BBC Radio 4's Today that he believed an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party was under way, but he was not able to provide details of it.\n\nHe said the party was \"trying to get to grips with this problem\" and it had taken \"decisive action\" when shown the cases by the BBC.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 4 Today This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince 2018, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has been calling for the Conservatives to launch an independent inquiry into alleged Islamophobia, and in May, the council formally asked the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to hold one.\n\nThe MCB has listed a series of complaints against figures in the party, including Boris Johnson for comments he made about Muslim women before becoming prime minister.\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership race, then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid challenged the other candidates to commit to an external investigation and the others appeared to agree to it.\n\nLater, though, Mr Johnson claimed he understood they had committed to an inquiry \"into all types of prejudice and discrimination including anti-Semitism\", not Islamophobia specifically.\n\nBaroness Warsi told BBC Radio 4's World at One the party was acting too slowly on the issue.\n\n\"You said you didn't need an inquiry; now acknowledge it,\" she said. \"You said you needed a definition; you now have it. What new nonsense excuse are you now going to come up with simply to avoid dealing with this issue?\"\n\nSajjad Karim, a Conservative Party member and former MEP, said there should be no \"rowing back\" on the pledges made.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I have experienced conversations taking place with Islamophobic content directly about me, being conducted by very senior members of the Conservative Party - in fact parliamentarians, one of whom is in fact a serving minister at this moment in time.\n\n\"Ultimately, this is about values and if we allow Islamophobia, or any other form of discrimination, to go unchecked, what we are doing actually is undermining our own values.\n\n\"That is going to lead to a very different sort of society developing in the coming decades, and that is not something I think most Brits aspire to.\"\n\nMr Karim has not revealed the name of the minister in question, but said he would give it to Conservative Party headquarters if they wanted to investigate the incident.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron explains how he sought the Queen's help in Scottish independence vote\n\nDavid Cameron's revelation that he sought help from the Queen ahead of the Scottish independence vote in 2014 has caused displeasure at Buckingham Palace, a source has said.\n\nThe former PM told the BBC he had asked whether the Queen could \"raise an eyebrow\" about the prospect of Scotland voting for independence.\n\nThe Queen later said people should \"think carefully about the future\".\n\nBuckingham Palace has made no official comment on Mr Cameron's remarks.\n\nThe revelation is made in a two-part BBC documentary in which the former PM reflects on his time in Downing Street.\n\nWhat was discussed with the Queen's officials was not \"anything that would be in any way improper... but just a raising of the eyebrow even... a quarter of an inch\", he says.\n\nThe former Tory leader also discusses the Scottish referendum in his book, which he has been publicising this week.\n\nA source told the BBC \"it serves no-one's interests\" for conversations between the PM and the Queen to be made public .\n\n\"It makes it very hard for the relationship to thrive,\" they added.\n\nAsked about the response from the Palace, Mr Cameron told the BBC's Jeremy Vine he had tried to give an \"honest explanation\" of his actions while he was PM.\n\n\"We have to set the context - at the time [Scotland's then-first minister] Alex Salmond was saying that the Queen would be a proud monarch of an independent Scotland and there was frustration around that and that was being put and nothing else was.\"\n\nBut he said he had \"probably said as much or possibly too much\" about his conversation with the monarch.\n\nScotland rejected independence by a margin of 55.3% to 44.7%, a result which Mr Cameron said left him \"blissfully happy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Salmond: 'It's an astonishing thing to do, even more so to reveal'\n\nMr Salmond, who resigned as Scotland's first minister in the wake of the result, accused the former PM of \"breaking every rule in the book\" by trying to involve the Queen.\n\nBut he said the monarch appeared to remain neutral during the campaign, describing her 2014 comment about the future as \"a pretty innocent remark\".\n\n\"David Cameron was clearly trying to mobilise the Queen to help his political interest and that's not just completely improper, it's quite extraordinary that he should reveal it and boast about it,\" he told the BBC in an interview.\n\n\"I'm not surprised that the Palace appears to be extremely displeased with the former prime minister.\"\n\nAt First Minister's Questions in Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon was asked whether she was concerned about the Queen being asked to interfere in a potential second independence referendum.\n\n\"I think the revelations - if I can call them that - from David Cameron say more about him than they do about anybody else, and really demonstrate the panic that was in the heart of the UK government in the run-up to the independence referendum five years ago,\" she said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson would not be drawn on the issue.\n\n\"Not only do I not comment on conversations that I may have held with Her Majesty, but I don't comment on conversations she may have held with anybody else,\" he told reporters in Wiltshire.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was \"improper\" to ask the Queen to become involved in the independence referendum.\n\n\"I don't think she should be asked to be involved in political decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"I wouldn't ask the Queen to get involved. It's not her job - she's the head of state. She is not the head of government or the political process in Britain… and she knows that as well. \"\n\nJust as the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of the relationship between the prime minister and the Queen is that you never, ever talk about the relationship between the PM and the Queen.\n\nA Buckingham Palace source told the BBC that there was an amount of displeasure at David Cameron's comments.\n\nYou can probably read that as cold fury. Not just because he has broken the first rule. But because he has made it painfully clear that in 2014 he used the Queen for his own political purposes. And that she and her advisors thought that was OK.\n\nThe revelation comes as her suspension of Parliament - a suspension made on the effective instruction of Boris Johnson - comes under unprecedented scrutiny in the Supreme Court.\n\nThe two cases are very different, but they both highlight the dark greys of the Queen's constitutional position, the discretion she has or lacks, under extraordinary circumstances, to speak out and act.\n\nIt is not the first time Mr Cameron has been accused of indiscretion in his dealings with the Queen.\n\nMr Cameron apologised to the monarch in 2014 after he was overheard saying she \"purred\" on hearing the result of the Scottish referendum.\n\nHe said talking about her reaction had been a \"terrible mistake\".", "There has been a \"shameful\" rise in the number of young people in England leaving school without five good GCSEs or equivalent technical qualifications, the children's commissioner has said.\n\nResearch found a 28% increase since 2015, with about 100,000 pupils a year affected - almost one in five\n\nAnne Longfield said the impact on the poorest families was most marked.\n\nThe government said her report did not provide the full picture and standards were improving \"across the board\".\n\nBut Ms Longfield urged ministers to focus on the \"absolutely devastating\" impact on the children \"who are being left behind\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, she said: \"I know there has been a huge amount of effort into attainment but I think a lot of that has been on raising grades at the higher end.\n\n\"As so often is the case, children who are on free school meals - the poorest children - and children with special educational needs fare the worse in the situation.\"\n\nThe research for the children's commissioner was based on analysis of official statistics and found 98,779 (18%) of pupils in England in 2018 had failed to gain five GCSEs at grade C or higher or the equivalent technical qualifications. Of pupils who qualified for free school meals, about 28,225 (37%) did not achieve this level of attainment.\n\n\"These are children who will have spent 15 years in compulsory education, often having more than £100,000 of public money spent on their education and yet leave the education system without basic benchmark qualifications,\" the report for the children's commissioner says.\n\n\"Many will not be able to begin an apprenticeship, start technical courses or enter some workplaces because they cannot meet the basic entry requirements.\"\n\nThe children's commissioner said a lack of qualifications could have a \"devastating impact\"\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner described the findings as \"shocking\", blaming \"brutal cuts on education and support for families and children\" under the Conservatives.\n\nPaul Whiteman from the National Association of Head Teachers cited the \"impact of real-terms cuts to school funding\" in recent years.\n\nFigures show that 33% of teenagers left school in 2005 without five GCSEs. By 2010 this had fallen to 21%, and by 2015 to 14%.\n\nThe report suggests the increase in pupils leaving without qualifications in the three years after 2015 has been partly caused by some schools stopping offering vocational alternatives to GCSEs. The school leaving age was also raised from 17 to 18 in 2015, meaning that some pupils who would have previously left secondary education were staying on.\n\nThe Department for Education questioned the accuracy of the research, saying it made comparisons with qualifications that had been removed from performance tables.\n\nA spokesperson highlighted improvements in pass rates for English and maths GCSEs and said the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers had narrowed since 2011.\n\nThey added: \"We are working to dramatically improve the rigour, quality and standard of qualifications across the board, and have already done so with GCSEs. These reformed qualifications will help young people achieve the skills they need to get on in life.\"\n\nAnna Round, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, said it was not possible to determine the reasons for the rise - although changes to qualifications, school leaving ages and a focus of policy on attainment probably have played a part, as well as resources.\n\nBut she said Ms Longfield was right to call for action.\n\n\"Education shouldn't just separate young people into passes or fails\", Ms Round said, adding: \"That means making sure schools can offer a range of options to match the diverse interests and needs of their students.\"", "Tom Gilzean's family wanted his Oor Wullie statue to remain in Edinburgh city centre\n\nA new Oor Wullie statue is to be made of a 99-year-old war veteran after his family was out-bid when the original sculpture went up for auction.\n\nThe statue of well-known Edinburgh fund-raiser Tom Gilzean was sold to a mystery bidder on Thursday night.\n\nBut now a local taxi company has stepped in to commission another sculpture.\n\nMr Gilzean's son Douglas said the family was \"absolutely thrilled\" at the news.\n\nThe sculpture was part of the Scotland-wide Oor Wullie's Bucket Trail which took place in several Scottish towns and cities over the summer.\n\nAll the statues are now being sold off to raise money for charity.\n\nAn auction of 60 statues in Edinburgh raised £318,000 for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity on Thursday night.\n\nMr Gilzean's family wanted to buy his statue and keep it in the city centre.\n\nThey had raised £7,000 through crowdfunding, but the sculpture was bought for £13,000 by a mystery bidder.\n\nNow Central Taxis has commissioned another sculpture from artist Chris Rutterford.\n\nIt will feature Mr Gilzean - who has raised more than £1m for charity - in a different pose so that the buyer still has an original version.\n\nThe prolific fundraiser is well known in Edinburgh, where Mr Gilzean is regularly seen with his collecting tin and trademark tartan trousers on Princes Street and the Royal Mile.\n\nDouglas Gilzean said: \"We are absolutely thrilled that another Oor Wullie sculpture of my dad will be created.\"\n\nA location for the statue has not yet been confirmed.\n\nTom Gilzean was awarded the Edinburgh Medal in 2014\n\nBut Douglas said: \"We're thrilled a sculpture of Tom will be staying on the streets of Edinburgh as a tribute to him.\"\n\nHe paid tribute to Central Taxis for their \"incredible support and generosity\".\n\nThe mystery buyer has been notified, and welcomed the decision to create a new sculpture.\n\nCallum Hogg, general manager of Central Taxis, said Tom was \"an inspiration to all\" and that his fund-raising work was \"nothing short of incredible\".\n\n\"We are delighted that another sculpture will be created to stay in the city, as benefits an Edinburgh icon, and look forward to seeing the new Tom take his permanent place of residence somewhere in Edinburgh soon,\" he added.\n\nRoslyn Neely, CEO of Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity, said: \"Tom is an incredible man and is such a fantastic supporter of ours.\n\n\"Wherever Tom decides to put this sculpture, we know it will be loved and admired for many, many years to come.\"\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. Organisers said 20,000 protesters took part in Edinburgh\n\nThousands of young people have taken part in school strikes across Scotland and around the world to demand urgent action on climate change.\n\nThey were the latest in a series of strikes started a year ago by 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg.\n\nOrganisers said 20,000 people joined the demonstration in Edinburgh, with thousands also gathering in Glasgow.\n\nEvents took place in all of Scotland's major cities, many towns and some islands including Iona and Skye.\n\nThe march in Edinburgh took 45 minutes to clear the assembly point at The Meadows, before making its way to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThousands also gathered in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park for a march which ended at the city's George Square.\n\nAn aerial picture posted on Twitter by the Police Scotland showed the square full of demonstrators.\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\nAt least 15 demonstrators were held throughout Scotland.\n\nStudents in Papa Westray in Orkney had no town hall to protest outside - but instead organised a beach clean-up instead.\n\nThe young protesters are calling for an end to the burning of fossil fuels.\n\nOne of those taking part in Glasgow, 12-year-old Meabh, told BBC Scotland she was particularly worried about global warming leading to rising sea levels.\n\n\"I used to live on the Western Isles - it has been eroding and sinking down into the sea. I think I'm most worried about that because in 100 years there may be no Western Isles,\" she said.\n\nThe Edinburgh march made its way to the Scottish Parliament\n\nGlasgow University student Anna Warren, 18, said adults had been encouraged to join young people at the protests.\n\n\"This is where we can all come together to call on the government to make changes. It is such a broad thing because it allows everybody to join, it allow everybody to come and help us, and join the movement,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change march organiser: 'This could be a tipping point'\n\nIt's no surprise there are upwards of 15 protests taking place across Scotland with many thousands in attendance.\n\nHere, climate change is firmly on the agenda with the Scottish government already committing to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. That's five years ahead of the UK and one of the \"most ambitious targets in the world,\" as the mantra goes.\n\nBut for the 15,000 people here in Holyrood Park, just across from the Scottish Parliament, that's still not enough. Posters read \"It's now or never\" and \"There is no planet B\".\n\nIn short, they want action immediately. But it's difficult for politicians here. Scotland has an oil and gas sector which props up its third biggest city. An instant end to using fossil fuels would devastate its economy.\n\nThat makes the arguments much more nuanced. But not for the thousands attending these protests in the searing sun who see their own future being destroyed by what's happening today.\n\nGreta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has become a global figurehead on climate change, will be marching in New York after crossing the Atlantic by sailing boat.\n\nShe will address a climate summit at the UN General Assembly there next week.\n\nDemonstrators in Dundee were chanting: \"More of a solution, not more pollution\"\n\nScotland's largest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), has urged local authorities not to punish pupils who took part in the strikes.\n\nGeneral secretary Larry Flanagan said: \"Whilst the EIS is not encouraging pupils/students to participate in anti-climate change strikes, we recognise that many will do so.\n\n\"We believe that their right to do so should be respected and that participants should not be sanctioned or punished as a consequence.\n\n\"If we are to encourage our pupils to be confident individuals that effectively contribute to society on global themes including sustainability, we shouldn't seek to punish them when they campaign for global sustainability.\"\n\nThese Leith Academy pupils were joining the march in Edinburgh\n\nA large crowd gathered in the centre of Aberdeen for the protest\n\nThe Scottish government said it was \"pleased to see our young people actively engaging on the issue of climate change\".\n\nBut a spokesman said student absence was a matter for individual schools to consider.\n\nHe added: \"The global climate emergency and a Green New Deal for Scotland are at the centre of our Programme for Government.\n\n\"We are leading by example through bold actions. We are redoubling our efforts and we will end Scotland's contribution to global climate change by 2045.\"\n\nLast month, Edinburgh councillors agreed to allow schoolchildren to take part in the protests for one authorised school day per year.\n\nAnd they said no punishment would be levelled at pupils or parents if they chose to strike over a longer period.\n\nHowever, the protesters were banned from Princes Street - which was on their planned route, heading to the Scottish Parliament - as it would mean tram services having to stop.\n\nStaff from the University of Dundee joined the protest\n\nStop Climate Chaos Scotland, an umbrella organisation for 40 unions, faith groups and community groups, said were \"out in force\" in support of the protest.\n\nSpokeswoman Kat Jones said: \"The young strikers are bringing the voice of the future powerfully into the present day.\n\n\"They describe the stark reality of climate breakdown and what it means for the world's future, their adulthood.\"\n\nWith no town hall to protest outside, students in Papa Westray in Orkney organised a beach clean-up instead\n\nOne of the first protests of the day took place in Crieff\n\nCampaigning organisations Friends of the Earth Scotland and Global Justice Now closed their offices all day to participate in the protests.\n\nFriends of the Earth Scotland climate campaigner Caroline Rance said: \"Millions of schoolchildren across the world have been walking out of lessons every Friday to strike for climate action.\n\n\"The children are marching for their future. We're proud to stand with them and urge everyone else who can to do the same.\"", "Joe Fergus said he wanted to turn \"a negative into a positive\"\n\nA couple responded to a protest outside a production of The Rocky Horror Show, which celebrates LGBT culture, by posing for a kiss.\n\nThe moment between Joe Fergus, 24, from Mold in Flintshire, and Robert Brookes, 21, from Nottingham, was captured outside Chester's Storyhouse theatre.\n\nThe picture was shared on Facebook by Chester Pride, prompting an outpouring of support.\n\nMr Fergus said it was about \"turning a negative into a positive\".\n\nProtesters had gathered outside the musical on Tuesday, holding banners with messages like \"Flee from the wrath to come\" and \"Be sure your sin will find you out\".\n\n\"When we arrived there were a lot of people outside the theatre arguing a lot with the protesters,\" Mr Fergus said.\n\n\"The problem is you're never going to get anywhere arguing with them.\n\n\"I said to Rob 'wouldn't it be great if we didn't acknowledge them and had a kiss in front of them' and he said 'that's great'.\"\n\nHe said the moment they started kissing a crowd that had gathered erupted into applause.\n\n\"We were quite proud when we did it, that's why we put the photo up,\" 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 Storyhouse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the photo was shared on social media, the couple were praised, with one Facebook user posting: \"The best photo I will see in a long time\". Another said: \"Love this picture. How iconic. Well done lads.\"\n\nThe couple were also approached by newspapers.\n\nResponding to the attention the photo has prompted, Mr Fergus said: \"We can't quite believe it. We're lucky to have families who are so loving. My mum keeps saying she's my manager.\"\n\nThe musical has been going for 45 years and currently stars former Strictly Come Dancing champion Joanne Clifton as part of a nationwide tour.\n\nIt contains gay themes as well as addressing cross-dressing - with its song The Time Warp one of the best-known songs from musical theatre.\n\nThe Storyhouse theatre tweeted following the protests and said: \"Storyhouse is and always will be a safe space. We celebrate and support LGBTQ+ communities - always. Let's have a FABULOUS night & week.\"", "The girls had allegedly been attempting a cooking video by Ms Yeah (pictured) - Ms Yeah says they used a different method\n\nA Chinese influencer has agreed to pay compensation to the families of two girls - after one died in what her family says was an attempt to copy a viral video.\n\nMs Yeah, who has seven million subscribers on YouTube, is known for unconventional office cooking videos.\n\nThe girls, aged 14 and 12, were allegedly copying a video in which Ms Yeah makes popcorn in a tin can.\n\nThe girls were heating up alcohol in the cans when it exploded.\n\nThe 14-year-old, identified only as Zhezhe, later died from her injuries.\n\nThe 12-year-old girl, Xiaoyu, needs cosmetic surgery, according to her family.\n\nDespite paying compensation, Ms Yeah denied that the girls were replicating her video - saying they attempted a different method, and that her videos are not meant to be instructional.\n\nRepresentatives of Ms Yeah have met the families of both victims and agreed to pay them an undisclosed amount.\n\nMs Yeah will cover the 12-year-old's hospital bills, though it is unclear if any more compensation will be included.\n\nThe online star, who rose to fame in 2017, is known for videos in which she makes elaborate meals at work using equipment found in her office.\n\nScreenshot showing Ms Yeah's popcorn making video, which has since been taken down\n\nOne of Ms Yeah's representatives, her cousin, said that they would provide financial assistance to the families \"regardless of who was right and who was wrong\".\n\nHe said he hoped there would \"not be any hate\" between both parties.\n\nXiaoyu's father told news site the Beijing News that his daughter had incurred high hospital bills, saying she \"no longer dared to step out of the house\" due to the burn marks.\n\nZhezhe's father was pictured crying, saying no amount of money could bring his daughter back.\n\nThe accident took place on 22 August when the girls decided to imitate a video by Ms Yeah in which she makes popcorn in a tin can.\n\nIn the original video, which has now been taken down, Ms Yeah can be seen putting popcorn kernels in a tin can. She then ignites a small flame using an instrument resembling an alcohol burner.\n\nThe girls had reportedly been heating up alcohol directly inside the tin cans when it exploded. Both of them were severely burnt.\n\nAccording to the Beijing News, Zhezhe suffered burns on 96% of her body. She died on 5 September.\n\nXiaoyu was rushed to the hospital and pictures of her widely circulated on social media site Weibo show severe burns to her face and arms. The BBC was not able to independently verify the pictures.\n\nThis picture, allegedly showing the 12-year-old victim, has been widely circulated on Weibo\n\nMs Yeah, 25 - whose real name is Zhou Xiao Hui - broke her silence on Weibo, a platform where she has close to 8.2 million followers, on 10 September.\n\nIn a post captioned \"The darkest day of my life\", Ms Yeah said news of the tragedy had caused her \"immense pain\". She apologised and said she had \"let her fans down\".\n\nHowever, she denied the girls had been copying her videos.\n\n\"I used only one tin can and an alcohol lamp, which is safer,\" she said. \"In [their video] we could clearly see that they used two cans and not a lamp.\"\n\nShe said the accident happened because the girls poured alcohol into the cans while the flame was lit and the spark ignited a 1kg (2.2lbs) bucket of industrial alcohol that was nearby.\n\nMs Yeah said that all her videos included warnings advising viewers not to imitate her actions, emphasising that her videos were \"not meant to be instructional\".\n\nMs Yeah posted this photo showing the aftermath of the girls' stunt and how it differed from hers\n\nMs Yeah appears deadpan in most of her videos, which feature her colleagues sitting nonchalantly around her while she grills meat and cooks oysters using office supplies.\n\nHer videos are shot during work hours in her creative agency office with her help of a small team.\n\nThe 25-year-old is popular on both English-language and Chinese social media platforms, with a combined following of more than 15 million on both platforms.", "It's still an \"if\" - in fact, a very big \"if\".\n\nEven though the EU had to admit today that it had, actually received some \"non-papers\" from the UK government about how they might conceivably try to solve Brexit's many conundrums, a deal is still miles off, even though not impossible.\n\nA non-paper, for the uninitiated (yes, me too) is, in officialdom, like handing someone a menu saying: \"This is what is available and we'd recommend it all, so let us know what you would like to try. \"\n\nIn this long saga, it's the latest effort from the UK government to prove it really is trying to broker an agreement, and to try to get the other side to engage.\n\nAs we've discussed many times before, it's not clear on the other side that anything on the menu will tempt them to the table, but as I wrote last night, that's the stage we are at, described by one official, rather gruesomely, as the \"foreplay\".\n\nIf though, it ever is done, thoughts are turning too in Westminster to how MPs would be persuaded ever to vote for the thing, and to vote for it at speed.\n\nJust as there is a touch of the Brexit-boiling fever on the hardcore of both sides of the debate, there is, in the middle, more Brexit frustration at how much damage the impasse is doing, and probably more MPs who are willing to vote for a deal, maybe any deal, just to get it over with.\n\nAnd some up-to-date number-crunching by communications agency Cicero suggests that it might just squeak through - have a look here.\n\nBut there is no way Number 10 can be confident a deal would get through Parliament with any ease in this turbulent environment, especially as MPs have changed the law to make it much harder for the government to take us out of the EU without a formal arrangement in place.\n\nNot surprisingly, therefore, inside government there are conversations going on about how it might be able to maximise its chances, which of course, also would allow Boris Johnson to stick to his Halloween deadline.\n\nFirst off, there are discussions about getting the deal through at breakneck pace.\n\nThe Lords were ready with their sleeping bags for all-night sittings long ago - this could be days and days of Parliament sitting almost non-stop - like a gruesome festival in SW1 where everyone is short of sleep, and no one is allowed to go home until it's done.\n\nBut there are conversations, of course, about other things that might concentrate the mind.\n\nAnd I'm told there are live discussions between the government and Brussels about ruling out the idea of another delay if there is a deal.\n\nThat would hypothetically give MPs only the choice of backing this deal or leaving without one, if in practice the EU had said no to any potential extension. Remember, the law has been changed to force the prime minister to seek an extension if Parliament hasn't passed a deal, but it does not compel the EU to grant it.\n\nBy potentially removing the chance of delay, this ploy could make it much more likely that MPs would come to Mr Johnson's wicket, and back it, however reluctantly.\n\nDescribed as an \"elegant path\" by some, a way out of this tangle, you can see the appeal for the UK government.\n\nBut other sources on the UK and EU side are sceptical - concentrating on whether a deal is possible first, doubtful the EU would make such a political call. It seems an idea that is embryonic.\n\nBut don't forget, beyond all else, the prime minister wants to stick to his Halloween deadline, for good or for ill.\n\nWe've seen from how Number 10 operates already, there is no predicting what it might be willing to do to make it happen.", "Seumas Morrison told us his mischievous daughter Jessie was posing for a picture when she took off towards the water at Leverburgh on the Isle of Harris. He said: \"Fortunately I got to her before she got her feet wet - she had been at Horgabost beach the day before and absolutely loved it, she obviously thought she was there again and fancied a paddle.\"", "Ivan Girga was jailed for nine years after admitting causing death by dangerous driving\n\nA man who killed another motorist in a crash was free to drive despite having 25 points on his licence.\n\nIvan Girga crashed into Ghusanfar Illyas's car in Manchester in June, the city's crown court was told.\n\nThe 27-year-old, of Bolton, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and five counts of causing serious injury and was jailed for nine years.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said \"human error and process issues\" were to blame for Girga not being banned.\n\n\"An urgent investigation was carried out as soon as the issue came to light,\" a spokesman added.\n\nDrivers who incur 12 points within three years usually face a minimum driving ban of six months.\n\nMr Illyas's father Mohammed said: \"The sentence is very lenient. He got away with it.\n\n\"In four and a half years he will come back, my son will never come back.\"\n\nIvan Girga's VW Golf crashed into Mr Illyas's car on Crescent Road in Crumpsall\n\nGirga's VW Golf had been travelling at 72mph in a 30mph zone on Crescent Road in Crumpsall before the crash, the Manchester Evening News reported.\n\nMr Illyas's father had been performing a \"perfectly legal\" U-turn in the car before Girga, who had been aggressively overtaking vehicles, smashed into them, the court heard.\n\nMr Illyas, 42, later died in hospital and seven other family members travelling in the Vauxhall Zafira were injured.\n\nGirga should have been banned from driving under the \"totting up\" scheme, which saw him accumulate 25 points for a range of offences.\n\nBut the MoJ said a chain of administrative and communication errors meant Girga had been able to stay on the road.\n\nA national review of the procedures involved is now under way.\n\nGirga had been travelling at 72mph in a 30mph zone before the crash\n\nA spokesman for HM Courts and Tribunals Service, which operates under the MoJ, said: \"An urgent investigation was carried out as soon as the issue came to light, which found a combination of human error and process issues for which we apologise.\n\n\"Immediate action has been taken to prevent this from happening again, including appropriate disciplinary action, improved training and support for new staff, improved guidance around the use of IT systems and ensuring potential driver disqualification cases are listed in court urgently.\"\n\nIn a court hearing held in July after the crash, Girga accepted he should have been banned previously and was disqualified for 12 months.\n\nAs well as driving sanctions, the court heard he had 20 previous convictions for 36 other offences, including dishonesty and breaches of court orders.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhys Williams, from Bolton, has epidermolysis bullosa, a painful, life-limiting condition that has left him unable to walk.\n\nAs he turns 14, his mother has made an appeal for people to send him birthday cards to help improve his mood.\n\nHe has received 18,000, which he says has made him feel \"a lot better\".\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Greta Thunberg continued her speech by talking about the UN climate action summit, which takes place in New York next week. Leaders from around the world will be attending the event.\n\n\"The eyes of the world will be on them,\" she said. \"We will make them hear us.\"\n\n\"We are doing this to wake the leaders up. We are doing this to get them to act. We deserve a safe future and we demand a safe future. Is that really too much to ask?\n\n\"Right now we are the ones who are making a difference. If no one else will take action then we will.\n\n\"It should not be that way. We should not be the ones who are fighting for the future. And yet, here we are.\"\n\nShe finished her speech on a powerful and optimistic note.\n\n\"Together and united we are unstoppable.\n\n\"This is what people power looks like. We will rise to the challenge. We will hold those most responsible for this crisis accountable and we will make the world leaders act.\n\n\"We can and we will.\n\n\"And if you belong to that small group of people who feel threatened by us then we have some very bad news for you.\n\n\"Because this is only the beginning. Change is coming, whether they like it or not.\"", "Scottish Leather Group is one of the largest leather manufacturers in the UK\n\nA major leather manufacturer will open a new factory in Renfrewshire next year, creating 100 jobs.\n\nThe Scottish Leather Group, one of the largest leather manufacturers in the UK, already has facilities in Bridge of Weir, Paisley and Glasgow.\n\nBosses say the new venue will be open in Paisley by autumn 2020 and will provide high-end car seat upholstery.\n\nDirector James Lang said Renfrewshire offered the \"perfect environment for businesses to flourish\".\n\nIt comes as Renfrewshire business leaders set out a strategy to grow the local economy.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay said: \"Scotland is an attractive place to do business with a skilled workforce and companies like Scottish Leather Group expanding their operations is testament to this.\n\n\"I welcome the publication of Renfrewshire's economic strategy which will help develop the local economy further.\"\n\nThe strategy set out aims for the next 10 years which include adding 9,000 jobs to the economy and boosting the value of goods and services in the area by £400m in one year.\n\nBusiness leaders also want to expand Renfrewshire's manufacturing sector by 30%, grow the working-age population by 5,000 people and reduce economic inactivity by 15%.\n\nHe said: \"As a locally-based business we can trace our Renfrewshire roots as far back as the 18th Century.\n\n\"We are delighted to be expanding our Renfrewshire operation further with this important new facility in Paisley, which will create new jobs and enable us to deliver on our expanding portfolio.\n\n\"We are at an exciting time with major economic investment taking place right across Renfrewshire, a region which has strong foundations upon which to build, with a high employment rate and businesses exporting £2bn of goods and services worldwide.\"\n\nRenfrewshire Council leader Iain Nicolson added: \"Renfrewshire is a place of culture, creativity and design, a region that is globally connected and a place that is investing in its economy.\n\n\"I am confident we will deliver a thriving Renfrewshire and we are already making great progress.\"", "Emiliano Sala had been travelling from Nantes when the plane he was travelling in crashed into the sea\n\nThe sister of footballer Emiliano Sala has described two people who accessed images of his post-mortem as \"evil\".\n\nSherry Bray, 49, and her employee Christopher Ashford, 62, have admitted illegally accessing mortuary footage of the Argentine striker's body.\n\nRomina Sala said her family was left devastated after images began to leak on to Instagram days after his body was recovered from the English Channel.\n\nShe said: \"I cannot believe there are people so wicked and evil.\"\n\nHer comments were in a victim impact statement that was read to Swindon Crown Court during the sentencing hearing of Bray and Ashford.\n\nMs Sala, who lives in Argentina, said: \"I phoned Emiliano's agent and told him what was circulating on the internet. I called our brother, Dario, and he did not want to see the photos.\n\n\"I tried to keep images off social networks. My mother could not see those horrible photos.\"\n\nShe said it was \"sad\" because \"people were making jokes about it\".\n\n\"I'll never erase the images from my head. My brother and mother can never forget about this,\" she said.\n\n\"It's hard for me to live with this image.\"\n\nChristopher Ashford and Sherry Bray both admitted three counts of computer misuse\n\nSala had just signed for Cardiff City when the plane he was travelling in crashed into the English Channel, north of Guernsey, on 21 January.\n\nHis body was recovered on 6 February and a post-mortem examination took place at Bournemouth Borough Mortuary the following day.\n\nBray, of Corsham, and Ashford, of Calne, each admitted three counts of computer misuse in August.\n\nBray also admitted perverting the course of justice by instructing Ashford to \"delete your pics\", deleting the post-mortem cameras from the live feed camera facility and deleting the mortuary image of Mr Sala from her phone.\n\nThey will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nEmiliano Sala had just signed for Cardiff City at the time of the plane crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Finnish PM Antti Rinne (left) says he and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) agreed the new deadline for Boris Johnson\n\nBoris Johnson has 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU, according to Finland's prime minister.\n\nAntti Rinne said he and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the UK needed to produce the proposals in writing by the end of September, adding if not, \"then it's over\".\n\nA Downing Street source said: \"We will continue negotiating and put forward proposals at the appropriate time.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said a deal is possible at a crucial summit of EU leaders on 17 October, but he has insisted Brexit will happen by the 31 October deadline, even if a deal is not agreed.\n\nThe UK government said talks with the EU have been making progress since Mr Johnson came into No 10 in July.\n\nIt said it had put forward \"a number of proposals\" as alternatives to the Irish border backstop - the policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland and a key sticking point in former PM Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has repeatedly refused to reveal details of the proposals in interviews, saying he did not want to negotiate in public.\n\nThe EU has continued to criticise the UK for not putting any plans in writing.\n\nEarlier, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said a meeting with Mr Johnson on Monday had been \"constructive\".\n\nBut he said until proposals had been put forward, \"I will not be able to tell you, looking you straight in the eye, that any real progress has been achieved\".\n\nMr Rinne spoke to reporters after a meeting with the French president in Paris on Wednesday.\n\nHe said: \"We both agreed that it is now time for Boris Johnson to produce his own proposals in writing - if they exist.\n\n\"If no proposals are received by the end of September, then it's over.\"\n\nThe Finnish PM intends to discuss the new deadline with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and Mr Johnson in the coming days, but the position has not yet been agreed with other EU nations.\n\nAn official at the Elysee said the plan was \"not at all a new proposal\" and added: \"If we don't get the proposals before the end of September, we will not have enough time to discuss them before the summit in October.\"\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted the prime minister was on course to deliver a \"fundamentally different\" Brexit deal to ensure the UK leaves on October 31.\n\nHe told a Telegraph event that to achieve such an outcome the government had to \"listen very carefully to what the DUP says\".\n\nDUP Leader Arlene Foster spoke to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce on issues concerning devolution and Brexit\n\nOn Wednesday, DUP leader Arlene Foster told business leaders in Dublin that she wanted a solution to Brexit that does not affect Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nMrs Foster - whose party's support had until recently given the Conservatives a majority in Parliament - said a Brexit deal \"will not be achieved that involves a backstop - whether it is UK-wide or Northern Ireland specific\".\n\nThe whole of the UK had to leave the customs union and single market, she said.\n\nBut she added that the DUP was prepared to \"look at Northern Ireland-specific solutions achieved with the support and consent of the representatives of the people of Northern Ireland\".\n\nProtesters outside the UK's Supreme Court in London\n\nIt comes as the legal battle over the suspension of the UK Parliament is to go into a third day at the Supreme Court later.\n\nThe UK government is arguing the decision to prorogue Parliament was a political matter and not for the courts to \"design a set of rules\" around it.\n\nBut campaigners say the move was used \"for an improper purpose\" - to stop MPs scrutinising Mr Johnson's plans in the run up to Brexit on 31 October.\n\nThe prime minister prorogued Parliament earlier this month for five weeks, with MPs not scheduled to return until 14 October.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who travelled to Balmoral to seek the Queen's approval over the move, said it was \"nonsense\" to suggest she was misled over the decision.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barclay: No one wants to see a no-deal Brexit\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has said the UK and EU share a \"common purpose\" in reaching a new withdrawal deal, after a meeting in Brussels with chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nHe said they had had \"serious detailed discussions\" and things were \"moving forward with momentum\".\n\nMr Barnier said it had been a \"cordial\" meeting, but \"lots of work has to be done in the next few days\".\n\nThe deadline for the UK to exit the EU is 31 October.\n\nOn Thursday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said a new Brexit deal could still be reached by then.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said some \"progress\" was being made, although it was important not to \"exaggerate\" this.\n\nBut Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told the BBC on Friday that there was a \"wide gap\" between the UK and the EU, with Brussels \"still waiting for serious proposals\" from London.\n\nAnd a leaked memo from the European Commission said the UK had confirmed its proposals for replacing the Irish backstop \"do not amount to legally operational solutions and would have to be developed during the transitional period\".\n\nThe memo also said the UK's proposals did not avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, or preserve the integrity of the single market.\n\nHowever, a UK government source insisted their proposals were \"serious and workable\" and would avoid a hard border.\n\n\"As for the Commission, two months ago they said we couldn't reopen the withdrawal agreement and there was absolutely no alternative to the backstop - now we are having detailed discussions.\n\n\"Leaks from Brussels on Twitter are par for the course, you can set your watch by them.\n\n\"What we're focused on is actually getting a deal in the room - we trust they'll do the same.\"\n\nThe backstop - the policy aimed at preventing the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit - has proved the biggest point of contention in EU-UK talks so far.\n\nIt was a major sticking point in former Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to get Parliament to back her withdrawal agreement, which was rejected three times by MPs.\n\nAmid the white noise of Brexit, there has only ever been one question that really matters: is there any sign that things might be about to change?\n\nMeetings get excitedly talked up in advance (I plead guilty). Anodyne statements follow shortly afterwards.\n\nIn short, the EU says the UK has not yet provided enough detail on a plan to replace the so-called backstop, to keep the border on the island of Ireland open under all circumstances.\n\nThe UK says it is dreaming up all sorts of ideas.\n\nSo what happens next? New York. A shindig at the United Nations next week - and with it the chance for the prime minister to have one-on-one chats with the likes of President Macron of France and Chancellor Merkel of Germany.\n\nCould they provide the oomph needed to knock together a deal?\n\nIt still looks less likely than likely, but who knows?\n\nMr Johnson, who has said he wants to leave the EU - preferably with a deal - by 31 October, has urged the EU to scrap the backstop.\n\nBut the EU has asked for detailed alternative proposals.\n\nFollowing the latest meeting, which overran, Mr Barclay said: \"There's a common purpose in Dublin, in London and here in Brussels to see a deal over the line.\"\n\nHe added that the two sides had been \"getting into the detail\" and that more \"technical\" discussions would happen next week.\n\nMr Johnson and European Council President Donald Tusk are also expected to hold talks when the United Nations General Assembly takes place in New York next week.\n\nMr Barclay said this \"underscores the purpose there is on both sides to get a deal and that is what we are working very hard to secure\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added that \"a clear message has been given both by President Juncker and the prime minister\" and both sides were \"working hard\".\n\nAlso speaking after the meeting, Mr Barnier said he was not optimistic or pessimistic but \"still determined\".\n\n\"Brexit is a school of patience but we are still ready to reach an agreement,\" he said.\n\nHe said that any proposal from the UK to replace the backstop \"must reach all the objectives of the backstop\".\n\nThese were to \"protect the peace in Ireland, to protect the all=Ireland economy, and also to protect the consumers and the businesses of the EU and the single market\", Mr Barnier said.\n\nThe prime minister has said the UK needs to leave in a way that allows it to \"do things differently\" and \"not remain under the control of the EU in terms of laws and trade policy\".\n\nBut he also reiterated the need to ensure no hard border returned to Northern Ireland, and the Good Friday Agreement - which helped bring an end to the Troubles - was protected.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nOn Thursday, the UK government said confidential documents that \"reflect the ideas the UK has put forward\" on Brexit had been shared with the EU.\n\nThis happened after Finland's prime minister said Mr Johnson had 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU - although a government source said the development was not in response to those remarks.\n\nThursday saw the final day of the legal battle over Mr Johnson's decision to prorogue - suspend - Parliament at the UK's Supreme Court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ayda Louden was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis shortly after she was born\n\nA father has spoken of his agonising dilemma about whether to leave England and move to Scotland so his daughter can access life-prolonging medication.\n\nDave Louden's four-year-old daughter Ayda was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis shortly after she was born.\n\nThe family live in Carlisle, 10 miles (16km) from the Scottish border, where a new drug has become available.\n\nHowever, despite the position in Scotland, NHS England said the drugs were not cost-effective.\n\nCosting £100,000 per person per year, Orkambi and Symkevi improves lung health and life expectancy for sufferers of cystic fibrosis.\n\nPatients in Scotland can access the drugs after the Scottish government agreed a \"confidential discount\" with the pharmaceutical company Vertex.\n\nDave said the prospect of a move north was having an impact on the whole family, including brother Alfie\n\nCystic fibrosis affects about 10,400 people in the UK and causes fatal lung damage, with only around half of sufferers living to the age of 40.\n\nMr Louden said it was \"heartbreaking\" that his daughter could not get the treatment.\n\nHe told Radio Scotland's Stephen Jardine programme: \"It's really heartbreaking to know that it's so close, but so far away.\n\nHe added: \"It is a really, really hard decision that we're going to have to make.\n\n\"It's ultimately one where the benefits of these drugs are so that they're going to add decades possibly to Ayda's life.\n\n\"If England ultimately can't do a deal, we will be heading across the border.\"\n\nMr Louden said his daughter, who started school last week, was mostly unaware of the implications of her illness.\n\nHe said: \"It's difficult at the minute. She is only four. She understands that she has cystic fibrosis and that she has all these treatments that she must stick to. But the reality of the long-term effects haven't really sunk in for Ayda yet.\n\n\"But it's more the effects for her brother. He's seven - Alfie - so he's starting to understand and be aware of the effects.\n\n\"Obviously it's starting to worry him that he might have to move school and that he might have to move away for his sister. It doesn't just affect Ayda, it affects the whole family.\"\n\nMr Louden said the family was hoping that planned meetings between the UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Vertex would ultimately lead to the drugs being made available to patients in England.\n\n\"It's not as simple as just moving a few miles up the road. There's family, friends, education, Ayda's brothers, work - and that's just scratching the surface of what's involved.\n\n\"Our dream situation would be that Matt Hancock is meeting with Jeff Leiden the CEO of Vertex soon.\n\n\"The dream would be that if these guys can look at the deal that's been done in Scotland and mirror that in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMr Louden said the family were due to discuss with Ayda's medical team what would be in her best interest and whether or not a move north would be the right thing to do.\n\nIn a statement NHS England said: \"Regrettably Vertex is still failing to offer patients in England fairly priced drugs and is still failing to engage with the independent and internationally respected Nice (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) assessment.\n\n\"A number of patient groups in this country are understandably therefore now exploring alternative routes by which they could circumvent the company's block on these medicines, but the quickest way would be for all those who benefit from this drug to reengage with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and price fairly and responsibly.\"\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 findings of this BBC investigation on children in care have been called \"a scandal\"\n\nChildren as young as 11 years old are illegally being placed in unregulated homes in England, the BBC has learned.\n\nHousing a child in care in an unregulated home is against the law if the child is under the age of 16.\n\nLeaked research also reveals children who should be placed in secure children's homes for their own safety are being housed in such homes too.\n\nThe government says \"no child should be placed at risk - especially the most vulnerable in our society\".\n\nUnregulated homes, often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation, offer support and not care. They are increasingly being used to house vulnerable children, many of whom are recognised as at risk of child sexual exploitation or from \"county lines\" criminal exploitation.\n\nBBC News has obtained findings from an unpublished report on the use of unregulated and unregistered provision for children in care produced for the Department for Education for England.\n\nLouise Casey says regulation for supported accommodation is needed immediately\n\nMore than 20 councils were asked about their use of such placements.\n\nThree said they have placed children and young people in unregulated provision on a short-term basis while waiting for a \"secure bed\" - understood to refer to a secure children's home - to become available.\n\nPlacing a child with these needs in an unregulated placement is \"an astonishing abdication of responsibility\", says Ann Coffey MP, who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults.\n\n\"A child is often assessed for a secure placement for their own safety, it is a serious step to take\".\n\nSecure children's homes are run by councils and are intended to hold children from the age of 10. Many are placed there for their welfare and are at risk of going missing.\n\nLocal authorities also told the research team that at least one child as young as 11 years old had been placed in such accommodation.\n\nThe regulator Ofsted says there is nothing in law that allows an unregistered home to take in under 16 year olds, unless for a holiday or for \"cultural, educational, recreational or sporting purposes\".\n\nMs Coffey says no council \"has any business\" placing someone of that age in an unregulated home. \"A child aged 11 cannot manage simply through support.\n\n\"It is unbelievable and shameful that we have taken these children into care and placed them here.\"\n\nIn a separate investigation, the BBC this week revealed there have been over a dozen investigations launched into so-called \"organised and complex abuse\" involving young people who lived in unregulated homes in the last four years.\n\nA BBC News investigation into unregulated homes found that one was subject to police surveillance\n\nDame Louise Casey, who led the investigation into Rotherham Council after more than 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town, said the revelations of inadequate supervision and support were a \"scandal\".\n\nThe BBC found one child had been trafficked to the West Midlands while placed in a home, and a different placement was under police surveillance over concerns about criminal activity.\n\nLocal authorities are responsible for checks on unregulated homes in England and Wales. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, the homes are regulated although not to the same standard as children's homes.\n\nCouncils in England are increasingly putting young people in semi-independent or supported accommodation because they cannot match the needs of some children or afford the cost of some registered homes.\n\nThis year, Hertfordshire Council says it was offered a placement for one person with complex needs at a cost of £19,000 a week.\n\nEven semi-independent accommodation can be hugely expensive. Five councils say they spent more than £250,000 a year on an individual child's placement last year, according to freedom of information requests received by BBC News.\n\nHalf of England's £8.6bn children's services budget is now spent on the 73,000 young people in care.\n\nIn May, the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said Children's Services were at \"breaking point\" and current funding levels are unsustainable.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education in England said: \"Local authorities are required by the law to ensure that accommodation for children in care or those leaving care is high-quality and, most importantly, safe.\n\n\"They are held accountable for the care they provide to vulnerable children by Ofsted,\" it added.", "The fastest-growing terror threat in the UK comes from far-right extremism, police have said.\n\nNeil Basu, the UK head of counter-terrorism, said seven of the 22 plots foiled since March 2017 have been linked to the ideology.\n\nHe said far-right terrorism had gone from 6% of the caseload two years ago to 10% today, adding: \"It's small but it's my fastest-growing problem.\"\n\nBut, he said, the biggest threat still came from jihadists.\n\nMr Basu, Assistant Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, said some of the right-wing plots they disrupted were \"designed to kill people\" - and methods mimicked those seen in jihadist attacks, with some even using Islamic State materials.\n\nSpeaking at a briefing on Thursday, Mr Basu said about 10% of around 800 live terror investigations were linked to right-wing extremism.\n\nChildren as young as 14 have been involved in extremist activity, the briefing was told.\n\nHe also said the government's terrorism-prevention programme, Prevent, which aims to stop people being radicalised, has seen referrals nearly doubling since 2015/16 to 18%.\n\n\"Despite the increases, right-wing terrorism remains a relatively small percentage of our overall demand, but when nearly a third of the plots foiled by police and security services since 2017 relate to right-wing ideology, it lays bare why we are taking this so seriously,\" he said.\n\n\"As a proportion of our overall threat it's definitely increasing, whereas the Islamist threat is staying the same, albeit at a very high level.\"\n\nMr Basu added young people and those with mental health issues were particularly vulnerable to becoming radicalised.\n\nWhite supremacist Vincent Fuller, 50, was jailed for more than 18 years last week\n\nLast week white supremacist Vincent Fuller, 50, was jailed for 18 years and nine months for stabbing 19-year-old Bulgarian Dimitar Mihaylov in what a judge called a \"terrorist act\".\n\nThree other right-wing activists are due to be sentenced in London and Leeds on Friday.\n\nBut Mr Basu said police \"can't arrest ourselves out of this problem\" and called on the public to come forward if they fear a friend or family member is becoming radicalised.\n\n\"I have been called ridiculously idealistic, but I believe more than ever that evil triumphs when good people do nothing,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether the police's approach to right-wing threats has changed in recent years, he said: \"I would say that some of the criticism that we did not look at white supremacist, right-wing violence as terrorism in the past is probably justified.\"\n\nHe said investigations into the banned group National Action \"have broken that organisation\".\n\nNational Action was proscribed in 2016, becoming the first neo-Nazi group to be outlawed under terrorism legislation.\n\nThe briefing was also told the threat comes from a \"spectrum\" of right-wing ideologies.\n\nThey range from far-right groups that are anti-immigration and anti-Islam and so-called white nationalists through to neo-Nazi white supremacists, such as National Action and its spin-offs, System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division.\n\nSince last year the Security Service MI5 has been working closely with counter-terrorism police to tackle the threat.", "Wales fan Gavin Baos admits he is \"concerned\" at causing offence in Japan\n\nWelsh rugby fans travelling to Japan for the World Cup have been urged to cover up tattoos to avoid offending some of their hosts.\n\nHundreds of supporters are heading to the country ahead of Wales' opening game of the tournament on Monday.\n\nTattoos have long been associated by some in Japan with yakuza crime syndicates, and tattooed tourists could be barred from communal hot springs.\n\nFans are also being asked to wear shirts when using gyms or pools.\n\nGavin Baos, 42, from Cardiff, is spending 11 days following Wales in Japan with a group of friends.\n\nMr Baos, a financial adviser, has extensive tattoos from elbow to wrist on both arms and covering much of his lower legs.\n\n\"They are pretty big tattoos so it has been a real concern,\" he said.\n\n\"A friend in Tokyo said there's no way you can go into some gyms or baths with tattoos as it would really cause offence.\n\n\"It's really important to know these customs because the last thing I want to do is cause offence.\n\n\"Normally I live in shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops but I've found myself buying long-sleeve shirts and jogging bottoms to have as a back-up, just in case.\n\n\"The only frustrating thing is that if it's 25 degrees and 100% humidity, it could get a bit uncomfortable.\"\n\nRoss Moriarty is one of the Wales internationals with extensive body art\n\nKeith Dunn, the honorary Japanese consul to Wales, said: \"We like tattoos in Wales.\n\n\"I think making sure you understand the customs are different and making sure you cover up tattoos - if you're going to go swimming or to the gym, just cover up.\"\n\nWorld Rugby, the sport's governing body, has posted advice to the estimated 400,000 travelling fans.\n\nA 2015 survey found that 56% of hotels and inns did not allow tattooed guests to use communal bathing facilities.\n\nJapan's tourism agency has called on spas in the country to relax their rules.\n\nThe organisation suggested that hot springs - onsens - and bath houses could offer visitors stickers to cover up tattoos, or set aside specific times of day when tattooed bathers can use the facilities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStrachan Sports Travel, of Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, is taking six tour groups of Wales fans to the tournament, which runs between 20 September and 2 November.\n\nGeneral manager Angharad Griffiths said: \"It may be a little more relaxed during the World Cup, so not to upset certain cultures.\n\n\"However we have advised anyone with tattoos that there may be occasions when they need to cover them.\"\n\nThe advice is not limited to fans, with tattoos common among players, especially Pacific Islanders and Maoris.\n\nWales player James Davies had his nickname \"Cubby Boi\" tattooed during a trip to Las Vegas\n\nWhile not required during matches, visiting players and officials have been warned by World Rugby to cover up in public.\n\nA Welsh Rugby Union spokesman said: \"Having toured Japan in 2013 and visited the country on many occasions as part of our Rugby World Cup preparations, the management and the squad are looking forward to embracing the local culture and will of course comply with all protocols.\"\n\nNew Zealand and Samoa players in Japan are already covering up in hot springs, hotel lobbies and other public areas.\n\n\"We've got an onsen, or a spa, at every hotel,\" All Blacks scrum-half Aaron Smith told the New Zealand Herald.\n\nHe said in a public spa the players had to wear clothes to cover tattoos.\n\n\"And that's okay, we're in Japan, we have to embrace their way, their culture,\" he said.\n\nTravelling fans have also been advised to check what medication can be taken into Japan amid restrictions.\n• None Embassy of Japan in the UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Caruso St John-designed art gallery situated near the city's old lace-making district is celebrating its 10th anniversary: a first decade in which it has mounted in excess of 50 exhibitions and welcomed more than two million visitors. Impressive stuff. Especially when you consider its approach to putting on shows.\n\nThis is an institution which doesn't sugar the art pill.\n\nIts exhibitions tend to be as dry as dust, stripped to their bare essentials without any of the populist added extras beloved by wealthier museums and galleries. It wears its academic heart on its hipster sleeve, trusting visitors to share in its spirit of intellectual enquiry (exhibitions are free), with the promise of delicious post-show cake in the cafe (£5.95 for a coffee with a slice of brownie).\n\nBauhausian, you might say.\n\nAt least you might if you had seen the gallery's latest show, Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus.\n\nBauhaus School in Dessau, designed by architect Walter Gropius in 1926\n\nThe exhibition marks the centenary of the now defunct German art school, which started life in 1919 in Weimar before relocating to Dessau in 1925. In the 14 years of its existence (Hitler shut it down in 1933) the now legendary institution played a central role in shaping the prevailing modernist aesthetics of the 20th Century.\n\nThe teaching staff boasted some incredible artists, including Wassily Kandinsky, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, and Paul Klee. The architect and designer Marcel Breuer studied and taught there, during which time he pioneered the use of tubular steel in furniture design, resulting in the iconic Model B3 chair now found in office lobbies the world over.\n\nWassily Chair, B3, was designed by Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus School in 1925-26, but is ubiquitous today\n\nThe range of designs, art and ideas emanating from the Bauhaus was incredible.\n\nMany were beautiful, such as Joost Schmidt's poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition, and Marianne Brandt's Coffee and Tea Set (1924).\n\nAlmost all were worthy of your time and attention. To see them laid out in an exhibition would be terrific.\n\nPoster of the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar in 1923 by Joost Schmidt\n\nBut you won't be finding any of them in the Nottingham Contemporary exhibition. It's not how they roll in this neck of the woods.\n\nInstead, the curators have served up a very different but utterly compelling show, which feels a little esoteric at first but reveals itself to be a timely and important provocation.\n\nIt focuses on the experimental nature of the Bauhaus and how new philosophies about teaching and technology developed on its campuses in the 1920s and '30s affected post-War culture in Britain.\n\nThe exhibition starts with a large hanging screen showing a film of Kurt Schwerdtfeger's 1922 Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (Reflecting Colour-Light Games): a play of sorts, with a Heath Robinson-like invention acting as the set.\n\nThe contraption was made by Schwerdtfeger when a student at the Bauhaus for its Lantern Festival. It consisted of a large handmade, cube-shaped, apparatus containing lamps, in front of which performers would move cut-out shapes to create interconnecting geometric shadows on the surface of a screen accompanied by music.\n\nThe images look a bit like a pop video for Kraftwerk directed by a Russian constructivist on acid (it was first performed at a party hosted by Kandinsky).\n\nAnd significant, as a reference point for both the development of avant-garde filmmaking and performance art.\n\nBehind it hangs another screen also presenting a film of a revered experimental work. It is called Light-Play: Black, White, Grey (1933) by the Hungarian artist and Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy.\n\nIt shows the interplay of shapes created by shining light through a rotating (kinetic) metal sculpture he called Light-Prop Lightspace Modulator.\n\nIn fact, they weren't really conceived as works of art at all.\n\nThey were artistic investigations into a central idea of the Bauhaus, which founder Walter Gropius referred to as \"an alliance of the arts\": a desire to unite art, design, technology, and life.\n\nWalter Gropius, regarded as one of the fathers of modern architecture, is standing in front of a house designed by him in 1927\n\nMoholy-Nagy believed such a synthesis was possible, enlightening even, and was searching for a way of articulating the vision. If such a concept appeared vital at the time, it seems even or pressing now.\n\nBut which art school or institution is currently investigating such bold and ambitious ideas?\n\nSeveral were for a while. In Germany and America and Britain.\n\nAfter the Bauhaus closed, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius and many other students and masters came to the UK to look for work and share their knowledge. There's a slow but captivating film by Moholy-Nagy studying the modernist architecture of Whipsnade and London zoos.\n\nAt this point in the exhibition the emphasis shifts from Bauhaus emigres to the influence they had on Britain. Mary Quant (\"the Bauhaus ideal is about making modern design accessible\"), Terence Conran, and Vidal Sassoon all feature. As does the artist Richard Hamilton who is represented by a handful of works including his excellent painting, Trainsition IIII (1954).\n\nHamilton was one of several advocates of a foundation course called Basic Design, based on the Vorkurs preliminary course at the Bauhaus, which encouraged intuition and experimentation. The results of Basic Design course are presented in the final room of the exhibition, which is dedicated to work connected to Leeds Polytechnic in the 1970s and 80s: a place the artist Patrick Heron proclaimed to be \"the most influential art school in Europe since the Bauhaus.\"\n\nFrankly, I'm not sure time has borne this out, but it still makes for a rousing finale: a black-walled, double-height gallery displaying - among many objects and films - a wonderfully eccentric Charles Atlas video called Mrs. Peanut Visits New York (1992), and an unforgettable series of photographs featuring performance artist Leigh Bowery by Robyn Beeche called 7th Alternative Miss World…(1986-7).\n\n7th Alternative Miss World contestant, 1986. Leigh Bowery and assistant the late Jill; Swimwear, by Robyn Beeche\n\nThis is to barely scratch the surface of an encyclopaedic show that has resisted presenting the typical Bauhaus collection and focused more on its spirit: its openness to ideas, its willingness to challenge convention; to seek to unite art, technology, life, and science: to re-think the purpose of education, the contents of the curriculum, and the student experience.\n\nThis was an institution that urgently wanted to make a difference; to positively impact on the lives of those on and beyond its campus.\n\nIt leaves you thinking that is what we need now: a revolutionary approach to art and education. There's no reason it shouldn't start here in the UK. After all, that's where the seeds of the original Bauhaus were sown.\n\nBut that's another story…", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Full commentary on every game across BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app. Live television coverage on ITV.\n\nThe world's top rugby nations are poised for the start of the Rugby World Cup with the outcome as uncertain as any of the previous eight editions.\n\nNew Zealand have won the past two World Cups, but Ireland are currently ranked as the best team in the world.\n\nA resurgent South Africa won the Rugby Championship earlier this year, while Wales took the Six Nations in March.\n\nEngland have won 10 of their last 14, while Australia's minimum target is a repeat of their 2015 run to the final.\n• None 'The closer we get the more I fancy England' - Matt Dawson column\n\nArgentina, semi-finalists in two of the last three tournaments, talented Scotland, Fiji and France teams and hosts Japan are among those hoping to derail the title ambitions of the leading contenders.\n\n\"I think this is the most open World Cup we've had for a long time. There are six or seven teams capable of winning the World Cup,\" said Wales coach Warren Gatland.\n\n\"You always need a little bit of luck. You get to the quarter-finals and then take it one game at a time.\"\n\nNorth to be exposed once again?\n\nIf one of the home nations is to bring home the William Webb Ellis Cup for only the second time, and the first since England landed the prize in 2003, they will need to break a southern-hemisphere stranglehold.\n\nBetween them New Zealand, South Africa and Australia have won the other seven titles since the inaugural event in 1987.\n\nOver that time England, Wales and Scotland have filled only seven of the 32 semi-final spots on offer, with Ireland never progressing beyond the last eight.\n\nAt the last Rugby World Cup in 2015, eventual winners New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina contested the semi-finals.\n\nWho do you think will reach the last four?\n\nHowever, the last time the two hemispheres' best met - during 2018's autumn internationals - there were indications that this year's tournament might be more closely contested.\n\nAdmittedly with home advantage, England beat South Africa, Wales beat Australia,Ireland beat New Zealand and Scotland beat Argentina on successive weekends.\n\nThe home nations have been helped by knowledge from overseas with New Zealander Gatland leading Wales, compatriot Joe Schmidt in charge of Ireland and Australian Eddie Jones coaching England.\n\nScotland's Gregor Townsend is building on foundations laid by another Kiwi - Vern Cotter - who he took over from in 2017.\n\nAfter becoming the first team to successfully defend the World Cup in 2015, New Zealand are aiming to land a historic hat-trick in Japan.\n\nThey begin with a stern test of their credentials, facing second-favourites South Africa in their Pool B opener on Saturday.\n• None Is the All Blacks' era of dominance at an end?\n\n\"We're in a good space. It's an exciting time, it's going to be a massive occasion and a massive game. The South Africans are going to be well and truly up for it so we can't wait,\" said captain Kieran Read.\n\nAfter losing just three of 34 Tests in the wake of their 2015 World Cup win, the All Blacks have lost three of the last 13 running into the World Cup.\n\nHowever, head coach Steve Hansen believes the All Blacks' experience of the business end of the tournament could prove decisive.\n\n\"We live there all the time. For some of these teams it's going to be the first time they're going to turn up and feel that pressure. It can be overwhelming when you haven't had it before,\" he said.\n\nJapan is the first country in Asia and the first outside of rugby union's traditional strongholds to stage the sport's premier event after seeing off competition from South Africa and Italy to host it.\n\nSpecial considerations have been made to avoid potential culture clashes with extra beer supplies laid on for visiting fans and precautions taken by teams to avoid causing offence with tattoos, considered anti-social because of criminal connotations in Japanese society.\n• None 'We gave up everything for this' - epic fan journeys to Japan\n• None Don't eat the hibiscus! - life as rugby player in Japan\n\nBill Beaumont, former England captain turned World Rugby chairman, says he is convinced the tournament is going to change both Japan and rugby.\n\n\"Rugby mania is going to captivate this nation,\" he said.\n\n\"After 10 years of meticulous preparation the wait is over and the stage is set for what we believe will be a transformational tournament.\"\n\nWorld Rugby claim that 1.8m more people, including more than one million in Japan itself, have started playing rugby in Asia over the past three years.\n\nJapanese fans look set to embrace the tournament, with 15,000 fans turning out to watch Wales train in Kitakyushu on Monday and 97% of match tickets sold.\n\nAnd a win for the Brave Blossoms in Friday's opening match against Russia would give the tournament the perfect start.\n\nChoose the best Rugby World Cup team of all time from the players below.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour should \"unequivocally back Remain\" in a fresh Brexit referendum and only then pursue power in a general election, its deputy has said.\n\nTom Watson said there was \"no such thing as a good Brexit deal\" and the 2016 Leave vote had been \"invalidated\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he did \"not accept or agree with\" his deputy's view.\n\n\"Our priority is to get a general election in order to give the people a chance to elect a government that cares for them,\" he said.\n\nThe Labour leader wants to hold another referendum once Labour has won power, in which voters would have the choice to remain in the EU alongside a \"credible\" Leave proposal.\n\nHowever, he has said he would only choose a side once the shape of any revised Brexit deal negotiated by a Labour government became clear.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent, Chris Mason, said Mr Watson was directly elected as deputy leader by party members, not appointed by Mr Corbyn, and so has a right to roam on policy other shadow cabinet ministers might not get away with it.\n\nIn a speech in London, Mr Watson said while an autumn general election seemed inevitable \"that does not make it desirable\".\n\n\"Elections should never be single issue campaigns,\" he argued, suggesting vital issues such as the future of the NHS, economic inequality and crime would be \"drowned out\" by the prime minister's \"do or die\" Brexit message.\n\n\"The only way to break the Brexit deadlock once and for all is a public vote in a referendum,\" he said. \"A general election might well fail to solve this Brexit chaos.\"\n\nIn the event of another general election in the coming months, Mr Watson said Labour must be \"crystal clear\" about where it stands on Brexit if it wants to get a hearing for the rest of its domestic policy agenda.\n\n\"There is no such thing as a good Brexit deal, which is why I believe we should advocate for Remain. That is what the overwhelming majority of Labour Party members, MPs and trade unions believe.\"\n\nMr Watson will said that, though \"very difficult\", he and many others \"respected the result of the 2016 referendum for a long time\".\n\nBut, he added: \"There eventually comes a point when circumstances are so changed, when so much new information has emerged that we didn't have in 2016, when so many people feel differently to how they felt then, that you have to say, no... the only proper way to proceed in such circumstances is to consult the people again.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who pushed Labour into third place in May's European elections with a strident anti-Brexit message, are pushing for Brexit to be stopped in its tracks by revoking Article 50 - the legal process for the UK's departure.\n\nWhile stopping short of calling for that himself, Mr Watson said it was not too late for Labour to \"win back\" Remain voters.\n\n\"My experience on the doorstep tells me most of those who've deserted us over our Brexit policy did so with deep regret and would greatly prefer to come back,\" he added.\n\n\"They just want us to take an unequivocal position that whatever happens we'll fight to remain, and to sound like we mean it.\"\n\nFormer Labour leadership contender Owen Smith said Mr Watson was speaking for \"the majority of Labour members and Labour voters\", and that the party \"should be clearing the Brexit issue off the table before we get to an election\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn committed to a referendum with a \"credible Leave option\" on Tuesday\n\nBut another Labour MP, Gareth Snell - one of a group of MPs in the party wanting to bring back an amended version of Theresa May's original withdrawal agreement - said the \"numbers simply don't exist\" in Parliament to approve a further referendum.\n\nHe told Today: \"The public have no appetite for a second referendum. The doors I knock every week… [voters] are not telling me they want to go back to the divisive referendum [but] they want a decision on this process to be taken as soon as possible.\"\n\nJust 24 hours after Jeremy Corbyn hammered out a deal with the Labour-supporting unions, his deputy, Tom Watson, shattered any fragile unity.\n\nMr Watson and many Labour activists want a clearer commitment to campaign on a Remain platform - especially during a snap election.\n\nSo, apart from his own scepticism towards an EU that he believes needs reform, what is the thinking behind Jeremy Corbyn's position?\n\nWell, it comes down to four things - psephology, party unity, politics and personal authority.\n\nUnite's Len McCluskey dismissed Mr Watson's intervention, accusing him of \"undermining\" the leadership and suggesting his views \"don't really matter\".\n\nThe two men, who used to be close friends, fell out spectacularly in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum during an uprising by Labour MPs against Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nThe union leader suggested Mr Watson was \"languishing on the fringes\" of the party, adding: \"It's sad. Now and again Tom pops up from where he has been hiding and comes up with something… which is normally to try and undermine his leader.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said Mr Watson had made it clear he wanted to \"cancel\" the 2016 Brexit referendum result.\n\nLabour has voted twice against Boris Johnson's plans for a poll on 15 October.\n\nThe party's leadership has insisted it is eager for an election after the risk of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October has been ruled out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julienne Stroeve: \"It will be brutal if the wind speeds get up\"\n\nThe largest Arctic science expedition ever conceived is under way.\n\nThe German Research Vessel Polarstern left port late on Friday for the far north where it intends to lock itself in the sea-ice and drift for an entire year.\n\nHundreds of scientists will visit the ship in that time to use it as a base from which to study the climate.\n\nA large crowd gathered at the quayside in Tromsø, Norway, to see the vessel off.\n\nIt is being accompanied on the first stage of its mission by the Russian icebreaker, the Akademik Federov.\n\nThe pair will head to the Siberian sector of the Arctic ocean to find the most suitable place in the floes for the Polarstern to begin its drift.\n\nThe MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) project is expected to cost about €130m (£120m/$150m).\n\nIts scale means it must be an international effort. RV Polarstern will also be supported by icebreakers from Sweden and China.\n\nIn deep winter, when these vessels can't pierce the ice to reach the German ship, aeroplanes and long-range helicopters will deliver the supplies and relief teams.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by MOSAiC Expedition This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMOSAiC's objective is to study all aspects of the climate system in the Arctic. Instrument stations will be set up on the ice around the Polarstern, some of them up to 50km away.\n\nThe ice, the ocean, the atmosphere, even the wildlife - all will be sampled. The year-long investigations are designed to give more certainty to the projections of future change.\n\nProf Markus Rex from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam is the expedition leader. He said the Arctic was currently warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet but that the climate models were highly uncertain as to how the temperature trends would develop in the coming decades.\n\n\"We don't have any robust climate predictions for the Arctic and the reason is we don't understand the processes there very well,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's because we were never able to observe them year round and certainly not in winter when the ice is at its thickest and we can't break it with our research vessels,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Markus Rex: \"We're going to build a small research city around Polarstern\"\n\nEmbedding in the sea-ice will be done close to 85 degrees North and 130 degrees East.\n\nPrecise positioning will be important. Modelling of the winds and currents suggests the ship should drift across the top of the planet, getting to within a couple of hundred km from the North Pole, before then being ejected from the frozen floes between northeast Greenland and Svalbard - the Fram Strait.\n\nBut there is a critical point in this 2,500km journey where, if the ship meanders too far to the west, it could get pulled into the Beaufort Gyre - the great clockwise movement of water and ice in the Arctic. Once caught in this gyre, it would need a huge effort to escape.\n\nSomething similar to MOSAiC has been tried before.\n\nThe expedition has definite echoes of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's attempt in the 1890s to be the first person to reach the North Pole by drifting in a ship locked in ice.\n\nThe Canadian Coast Guard vessel Des Groseilliers mounted a drift mission in the late 1990s which became known as Ice Station SHEBA.\n\nThe Norwegian Polar Institute's Lance vessel undertook a drift expedition in 2015; as did the scientific schooner Tara, which traversed the frozen ocean - again, from Siberian waters to the Fram Strait - in 2006/7.\n\nBut none of these previous ventures can be compared to the German mission for size and international input.\n\nThe Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the planet as a whole\n\nThe conditions faced by the scientists over the coming months will be harsh.\n\nFor half the year the Sun will not rise above the horizon and temperatures will dip down to minus 45C.\n\nAnd the teams working on the ice will have to be on constant alert for predatory bears.\n\n\"Various scientists have been trained on using night-vision goggles to stand guard for polar bears,\" said Prof Julienne Stroeve from University College London (UCL).\n\n\"You can't ever go out on the ice without someone being there with a rifle. [The bears] could eventually smell the ship and if they get curious enough they'll come and check us out.\"\n\nProf Stroeve is in the seven participating teams from the UK.\n\nShe will join the Polarstern in mid-winter. Her experiments will assess the accuracy of the radar satellites that are used to map the thickness of the sea-ice from orbit.\n\nThese spacecraft work by bouncing a microwave pulse off the floes, but there is some uncertainty over where exactly this reflection occurs in a column of snow and ice.\n\nIf the UCL scientist's suspicions are confirmed during the MOSAiC cruise, it would have implications for our current assessment of the status of Arctic sea-ice.\n\n\"It would be thinner than what we've been estimating so far,\" she told the BBC's Inside Science programme.", "Tom Gilzean's family wanted his Oor Wullie statue to remain in Edinburgh city centre\n\nThe Edinburgh family of a 99-year-old war veteran who has raised more than £1m for charity have been outbid for his Oor Wullie statue.\n\nTom Gilzean's sculpture went for £13,000 at auction on Thursday night to a mystery buyer.\n\nIt follows a crowd fundraiser which raised £7,000 to buy the statue so it could be kept on display in Edinburgh.\n\nIt was part of the Scotland-wide Oor Wullie's Bucket Trail over the summer - and one of 60 in the capital alone.\n\nThe Edinburgh auction of all 60 statues, which included The Proclaimers, raised £318,000 for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity.\n\nThe artist who made the statues has now pledged to make and gift a small Oor Wullie sculpture to Mr Gilzean in recognition of the prolific fundraiser's efforts.\n\nTom Gilzean was awarded the Edinburgh Medal in 2014\n\nHe is well known in Edinburgh, where he is regularly seen with his collecting tin and trademark tartan trousers on Princes Street and the Royal Mile.\n\nDouglas Gilzean, son of Mr Gilzean, said: \"It would have been a wonderful gesture if we were able to purchase my dad's Oor Wullie sculpture as a tribute to him but we always knew that this may not be possible.\n\n\"What is most important to dad is that his sculpture has raised such a huge amount for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity to support children and young people in the Sick Kids.\n\n\"It is his life's passion to fundraise for the hospital so he is absolutely over the moon with the amount that his sculpture achieved at auction and through our crowdfunding efforts, and that this will now be donated to this wonderful cause.\n\n\"We would like to say a huge, heartfelt thank you to each and every person who contributed to our crowdfunding page, including Central Taxis for kindly sponsoring the sculpture and for their generous donation.\n\n\"The support we received was just incredible and we know it means everything to Dad. We cannot thank people enough.\"\n\nTom's Oor Wullie sculpture was on Princes Street during the summer\n\nRoslyn Neely, CEO of Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity, said: \"Tom is an incredible man and has been such a fantastic supporter of ours for many years.\n\n\"As he holds such a special place in all of our hearts, our wonderful friends at Wild In Art are going to commission a mini Tom Oor Wullie sculpture to gift to him and his family.\n\n\"Wherever Tom decides to put this little sculpture, we know it will be loved and admired for many, many years to come.\"\n\nMr Gilzean has the Edinburgh Award, which recognises people who have made an outstanding contribution to the city.\n\nHe raises money for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity - which had supported the move to keep his sculpture in the capital.", "Ceara Thacker was found dead in her halls of residence at the University of Liverpool in May 2018\n\nA student found hanged at university had waited more than two months for help with suicidal thoughts, an inquest has heard.\n\nCeara Thacker, 19, was found dead in her halls of residence at the University of Liverpool in May 2018.\n\nIt took more than a month for the university to process a self-referral and a further month for her to see a counsellor, a court was told.\n\nThe philosophy student, from Bradford, died a month later.\n\nMs Thacker's father, Iain, said she was \"perceptive, intelligent, loyal, funny and extremely kind\"\n\nMs Thacker had suffered mental health problems since she was 13 and had a history of depression and self-harm, Gerard Majella Courthouse was told.\n\nThe day after taking an overdose and being treated in hospital, she filled out a self-referral form for the university's mental health support team revealing she was struggling to cope, the inquest heard.\n\nBut the university's senior mental health adviser Lindsay Pendleton admitted it was more than a month before the form was processed.\n\nIt was a further month before she had a face-to-face conversation with the first year student, the court was told.\n\nMs Pendleton admitted she did not consider Ms Thacker to be at immediate risk despite confessing she had taken an overdose.\n\nShe also said she had intended to contact the student's GP but failed to do so and did not discuss telling Ms Thacker's family.\n\nMs Pendleton said she had planned to \"explore\" family relationships at a future session.\n\nMs Thacker's father, Iain, of Guiseley, West Yorkshire, has criticised the university for not telling the family about the previous suicide attempt.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hart pulled out of hosting this year's Oscars\n\nComedian and actor Kevin Hart was taken to hospital with \"major back injuries\" on Sunday following a car accident in Los Angeles.\n\nAccording to the California Highway Patrol, Hart was being driven in his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda on Mulholland Highway at the time of the accident.\n\nHis wife Eniko Parrish told TMZ news reporters on Monday that the comedian was awake and \"going to be just fine\".\n\nThe accident happened just after midnight.\n\nThe driver, Jared Black, lost control of the car and it tumbled into an embankment, the report stated.\n\nBlack also sustained major back injuries. A third passenger was unhurt.\n\nBlack - the fiance of the third passenger, Rebecca Broxterman - was determined not to have been driving under the influence at the time of the crash.\n\nHart was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Centre and the driver was taken to another hospital, the patrol report said.\n\nHart is known for his stand-up comedy and comic roles in movies such as Ride Along and The Secret Life of Pets.\n\nHe pulled out of hosting this year's Oscars ceremony following a controversy over old homophobic tweets.\n\nThe 40 year old said he did not want to be a distraction and was \"sorry he had hurt people\".\n\nThe ceremony went ahead without a host.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Oscars 2019 ceremony to go without host", "MPs now carry on with their usual business - in this case presenting public petitions to the House.\n\nOver in the House of Lords, peers are still voting on amendments to the business motion which aims at ensuring the no-deal bill has time to become law before the suspension of Parliament.\n\nThey are currently discussing amendment 2C but there are over 100 to get through.\n\nBBC parliamentary correspondent Mark D'arcy says: \"There is talk of them talking til they drop to get through all these amendments so they can then deal with the bill.\n\n\"It is not going very fast.\n\n\"There are attempts to get behind-the-scenes talks going but the government seems prepared to just talk it out.\n\n\"The bill may have a rather bumpy ride.\"", "Eurydice Dixon was seen as a promising young comedian\n\nA man who raped and killed Australian comedian Eurydice Dixon as she walked home at night has been jailed for life.\n\nJaymes Todd, 20, pleaded guilty last year to the violent attack on the 22-year-old woman, in a case which sparked widespread anger.\n\nOn Monday, a judge described his crimes as \"totally and categorically evil\".\n\nTodd had stalked his victim for over an hour before attacking her in a central Melbourne park last June.\n\n\"You waited until Eurydice was well into the dark reaches of Princes Park,\" Justice Stephen Kaye said in the Supreme Court of Victoria.\n\nJaymes Todd pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon last year\n\nMs Dixon had been walking home after performing a late-night show at a city club.\n\nTodd first spotted her at a central railway station before following her through the city's streets, prosecutors said.\n\nThe court heard he had entertained fantasies of violent sexual encounters and killings in the year prior to the attack.\n\nAlthough not widely known, she was remembered as a talented comedian at the start of her career.\n\nAustralia's human rights commission has said that the country has \"a disturbingly high rate of violence against women\".\n\nAccording to government figures, one in five women, and one in 20 men, have experienced sexual violence or threats since the age of 15.\n\nTodd will be eligible for parole after 35 years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have blocked roads to the territory's airport, disrupting the operation of the major Asian transport hub.\n\nTrains to the airport were halted and roads blocked. Passengers had to walk to the terminal. Most flights operated as normal, but delays were reported.\n\nThousands of black-clad protesters then tried to enter the terminal building but were stopped by riot police.\n\nOn Saturday, police and protesters clashed during a banned rally.\n\nLive warning shots were fired into the air and tear gas and water cannon used to disperse tens of thousands of protesters.\n\nImages later showed riot police hitting people with batons and using pepper spray on a train in Hong Kong's metro.\n\nPolice say they were called to the scene amid violence against citizens by \"radical protesters\".\n\nRoads to Hong Kong's airport were blocked and trains suspended\n\nPeople took to the streets on Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Beijing government banning fully democratic elections in China's special administrative region.\n\nThe political crisis in Hong Kong - a former British colony - is now in its third month with no end in sight.\n\nThousands of protesters gathered at the main bus station near Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport on Sunday morning.\n\nSome passengers had to walk to the airport with their luggage\n\nThe demonstrators then moved to other parts of the complex, blocking roads and other transport links.\n\nThe airport is built on a tiny outlying island and can only be reached via a series of bridges.\n\n\"If we disrupt the airport, more foreigners will read the news about Hong Kong,\" one protester was quoted as saying by Reuters.\n\nAt one point the airport express train service was suspended. Officials said this was because of debris thrown onto the line.\n\nFollowing the arrival of riot police, demonstrators first built barricades to slow their advance, then left the airport on foot.\n\nIn August, protesters paralysed the airport for several days. Hundreds of flights had to be cancelled.", "Images have emerged purportedly showing smoke rising above Lebanon's Maroun al-Ras village after Israeli strikes\n\nThe Lebanese Shia Muslim militant group Hezbollah has fired several anti-tank rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for a reported Israeli drone attack in Beirut last week.\n\nIsraeli military sources confirmed rockets had been fired at an Israeli army base and military vehicles.\n\nThe Israeli army responded by attacking targets in southern Lebanon.\n\nHezbollah sources reported several Israeli casualties, but Israel said no-one had been injured on its side.\n\nThe Lebanese military earlier said an Israeli drone had entered its airspace and dropped incendiary material on a forest along the border.\n\nThe Israeli army has acknowledged it started a fire. Tensions on the frontier escalated in recent days.\n\nIsrael deployed artillery near the border with Lebanon\n\nHezbollah, which is backed by Iran, has threatened to carry out an attack against Israel.\n\nIt accuses Israel of trying to carry out a drone attack in Lebanon's capital Beirut last week.\n\nAccording to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), \"Hezbollah fired two to three anti-tank missiles from Lebanon, hitting an IDF military outpost and ambulance in northern Israel.\"\n\n\"We fired at the Hezbollah squad responsible. No Israelis were injured in the attack,\" the IDF said in a tweet.\n\nIsrael said it had responded with artillery and helicopter fire, sending about 100 shells across the border at Hezbollah positions.\n\nRadio reports from northern Israel say residents in some border communities have been sheltering in bunkers after suffering sustained rocket attacks.\n\nMeanwhile, Hezbollah is quoted by local media as saying the movement destroyed an Israeli tank, killing and injuring those on board.\n\nHowever, it provided no evidence, and its claims were rejected by Israel.\n\n\"At this moment I can make an important announcement: we have no casualties, no-one injured or even scratched,\" said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\n\nMilitary action by Hezbollah had been anticipated, even expected, after a reported attack by Israeli drones on a target in Lebanon's capital Beirut a week ago, reports the BBC's Wyre Davies in Jerusalem.\n\nIsrael has not confirmed carrying out that attack - but it had warned Hezbollah it would not allow it to develop precision guided missiles in Lebanon with support and parts from Iran.\n\nOn Saturday night, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel that an attack was inevitable.\n\nSpeaking in Jerusalem, Mr Netanyahu said Israel was prepared for any scenario.\n\nThe Hezbollah attack and Israel's response represent the most serious border incident between the two parties in recent years.\n\nIn 2006, Israel and Hezbollah fought a month-long conflict that killed more than 1,000 civilians, most of them Lebanese.", "Victims were shot at random, police say\n\nThe death toll in Saturday's mass shooting in Texas has risen to seven, police in the US state say.\n\nThe shooting, Texas' second in August, began when police stopped a car between the cities of Midland and Odessa.\n\nThe gunman wounded at least 20 people, including a 17-month-old girl. At one point, he abandoned his car and stole a US postal vehicle.\n\nPolice later shot dead the gunman near a cinema. Officials say they believe he had no connection to terrorism.\n\nThe motive of the gunman, who was white and in his mid-30s, remains unclear.\n\nThe shooting occurred exactly four weeks after 22 people were killed by another gunman in the Texan city of El Paso.\n\nOn Sunday, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said that those killed on Saturday were aged 15 to 57. He did not name them.\n\nThe gunman was shooting at random, targeting motorists and passers-by, he said.\n\nMr Gerke also said he would not name the killer to avoid giving him \"any notoriety for what he did\", but added that this would be done later.\n\nLater, Odessa police named the gunman as Seth Aaron Ator, aged 36, from Odessa.\n\nAmong the injured on Saturday was Anderson Davis, a girl aged 17 months, who was hit in the face by a bullet fragment and airlifted to hospital.\n\n\"She has a hole in her bottom lip, a hole in her tongue, and her top and bottom teeth were knocked out,\" Haylee Wilkerson, a family friend, told BuzzFeed News.\n\n\"Her mom said she's up playing and running around like nothing ever happened. She's a strong little girl, added Ms Wilkerson.\n\nThe toddler was expected to have surgery on Sunday.\n\nAt least three of those injured were police officers - although the police say not all of them were shot. Some were cut by glass when their car windows were hit by bullets and shattered.\n\nSaturday's incident began just after 15:00 (20:00 GMT) after two Texas Department of Public Safety officers pulled over a vehicle on a Midland highway, police said.\n\nThe driver then opened fire on the officers before driving away and shooting at other people in several other locations.\n\nTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he was \"horrified to see such a senseless act\". Texas Governor Greg Abbott said: \"We will not allow the Lone Star State to be overrun by hatred and violence. We will unite, as Texans always do, to respond to this tragedy.\"\n\nIn a tweet, US President Donald Trump said he was being kept informed about the shootings.\n\nLater, Vice-President Mike Pence said he and the Trump administration remained \"absolutely determined to work with leaders in both parties in Congress to take steps that we can address and confront this scourge of mass atrocity in our country\".\n\nAmid a clamour in the aftermath of the Texas and Ohio shootings earlier this month for increased background checks on firearm purchases, Mr Trump had said he was \"looking to do background checks\".\n\nBut he appeared to reverse that position after a phone call with the chief executive of the National Rifle Association), Wayne LaPierre, saying: \"I'm also very, very concerned with the Second Amendment, more so than most presidents would be. People don't realise we have very strong background checks right now.\"", "Starting salaries for teachers in England could rise by up to £6,000 under new government plans.\n\nThe Department for Education said the move would make new teachers' salaries - set to rise to £30,000 by 2022-23 - \"among the most competitive\" in the graduate labour market.\n\nUnions say the increase is long overdue, and necessary, to attract enough graduates into the profession.\n\nThe proposal is the latest education announcement by the government.\n\nOn Friday, a multi-billion pound cash boost was promised for schools in England over the next three years, while Chancellor Sajid Javid also pledged to invest an extra £400m into further education for 16 to 19-year-olds.\n\nThe minimum salary for teachers in England and Wales, excluding London, is currently £23,720, according to the government's Get Into Teaching website.\n\nThe minimum for inner London is £29,664.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the proposed increase to teachers' starting salaries was \"fundamentally necessary\" if the government was going to get enough graduates to choose teaching.\n\nShe said: \"Teacher training targets have been missed for six years in a row, and this announcement may go some way to making teaching more attractive.\"\n\nHowever, she said it did not address the issue of retaining experienced teachers, adding that almost half of teachers in England leave the profession within 10 years.\n\nThe DfE said the investment announced by the prime minister last week would ensure that \"pay can be increased for all teachers\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson will set out his proposal to increase teachers' starting salaries in a letter to the School Teachers' Review Body, asking for their recommendations.\n\nHe said: \"I want the best talent to be drawn to the teaching profession and for schools to compete with biggest employers in the labour market and recruit the brightest and the best into teaching.\"", "Did Boris Johnson just announce an election without actually announcing an election?\n\nHe's always said that he really doesn't want to go to the country again.\n\nDowning Street is still absolutely adamant that is still the case, and again with the formality of the No 10 podium, he insisted it was not what he wanted to do. But he also made plain that there were no circumstances in which he would ask Brussels to delay our departure from the EU.\n\nAnd that means only one thing. Calling an election if, in his view, he needs to. When would he need to do that? Soon.\n\nIn No 10's judgement, if MPs, including many of his former colleagues, defeat him this week and succeed in their move to make leaving the EU without a deal illegal, their best move is to call an election, and call one quickly, as soon as 14 October.\n\nThe move is to focus the minds of Tory MPs tempted to vote against the government's position.\n\nDowning Street's upping the ante still further - if they are part of efforts to outlaw no deal, then they will be part of forcing a general election, and stand by to watch Boris Johnson's backers point the finger at them.\n\nBut those rebels are confident of their numbers. And few of them so far seem likely to be moved by Downing Street's threats. No 10 knows therefore, they are likely to lose.\n\nProtest he might, but Boris Johnson is dangling the threat of this election knowing full well that it is one he is more likely than not to have to follow through. He would, of course, have to persuade Parliament to back an election, and Downing Street is ready to put a motion down to that precise effect.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn may well be suspicious of the PM's motives, but has always said that he'd back a poll.\n\nSo a leader who is yet to take his first Prime Minister's Questions at the despatch box may ask almost immediately for all of our judgements on whether he deserves to lead.\n\nBrexit is again rewiring our politics - its eventual shape unknown.", "Buckle up. This next sentence is one that in normal political times (remember them?) might give any follower of politics palpitations.\n\nTory MPs who vote against the government in the Commons this week will be chucked out of the party and banned from standing for the Conservatives at the next election.\n\nSenior sources in government are confirming that plan was agreed by the prime minister and his enforcers - the party whips - in the splendour of his country pile, Chequers, on Sunday.\n\nIt's not just Westminster gossip - it is actually No 10's plan.\n\nThat's remarkable not just because Westminster is a place where rebellions are relatively commonplace, and backbenchers are permitted to express their opinion in such a way with the consequence being a rap on the knuckles, or a cold shoulder in the tea room.\n\nIt's remarkable not just because Boris Johnson's government is stuffed full of ministers, including in the cabinet, who defied the party whip under Theresa May's administration, but who stayed on.\n\nFormer chancellor Philip Hammond has said it would be \"staggeringly hypocritical\" for the government to sack Tory MPs who rebel\n\nBut it's remarkable, too, because Boris Johnson knows full well there are Tory MPs who are determined to vote against him this week, and if he holds good on that threat he would be giving up the whisker of a majority he has.\n\nThat's not a boring detail. Prime ministers can't run the country easily if they don't have a majority in the Commons, let alone at a time when their main policy courts controversy everywhere.\n\nSo why make such a threat that if followed through, would be an act of self harm?\n\nFirst off, Downing Street does not want to lose this week to the rebel alliance whose members will try, from Tuesday, everything they can to outlaw the possibility of no deal.\n\nThis threat from No 10 might put the frighteners on a few of them who are tempted to vote against the government.\n\nSo it reduces the chance of defeat a little, even though some of those determined to vote against the government are planning not to stand at the next election in any case.\n\nThe numbers may be tight, but one source close to the group told me, \"We've moved beyond the point where threats will persuade people to abandon their principles\". Another senior MP up to their guts in the plans told me if they are deselected, \"so be it\".\n\nBut the nature of the threat is also a sign that No 10 is actively considering whether they will have to call a general election, and soon.\n\nIf you are an ambitious prime minister, (step forward Boris Johnson), and you don't have a majority, you need to try to find one, and fast.\n\nAnd he was elected by the Tory party with a promise of sticking to his Brexit deadline, come hell or high water.\n\nIf MPs make that impossible this week, he may well choose instead to press the button on another campaign, and go to the country.\n\nI understand calling an election, maybe even this week, is one of the options under consideration.\n\nBut his team is well aware that chunks of the electorate might be pretty cross about going to the polls again.\n\nSo cranking up the pressure on Tory rebels at the start of this crucial week could create a convenient group of bogeymen who could be chucked out of the party, and take the blame.\n\nDon't be surprised if by the end of the day No 10 has found another way of upping the pressure still further.\n\nIt is far from inevitable, but it's not impossible that, within a matter of days, we could all be asked to go to the polls again.\n\nA prime minister ready to give up his tiny working majority sounds like a prime minister ready to call an election, if needs be.", "Up to 380 jobs could be lost at the plant\n\nHundreds of jobs could go with the closure of a Tata steel plant in Newport.\n\nThere has been a factory at the site since 1898 but Orb Electrical Steels has not been in profit for four years.\n\nUp to 380 jobs could go although Tata hope to offer jobs elsewhere in Wales.\n\nThe factory, which makes electrical steel used in power transmission, was put up for sale in May 2018, with Tata wanting to concentrate on its core steel business.\n\nTata Steel's European operations head Henrik Adam said: \"I recognise how difficult this news will be for all those affected and we will work very hard to support them.\"\n\nUnions said Tata - which employs nearly 6,000 workers in Wales - was breaking its commitments over job guarantees.\n\nOrb Electrical Steels is part of Tata's Cogent division, part of which is being sold to the Japanese steel company JFE Shoji Trade Corporation.\n\nTata is also closing its Wolverhampton Engineering Steels service centre, with up to 26 jobs at risk.\n\nTata said it would have cost £50m to upgrade the Orb site to make it competitive\n\nThe Orb site makes electrical steel used in generators, transformers, motors and magnetic products, including for the car industry.\n\nBut the sector has been suffering from over-capacity over the last 10 years, and struggling to compete in particular with big volume producers in China.\n\n\"This business is the smallest volume electrical steel manufacturer in the world - and we've only been able to make a profit in two of the last 10 years and no profit in the last four years,\" Tor Farquhar, Tata Steel Europe's HR director, told BBC Wales.\n\nMeanwhile, converting the Orb plant would have cost Tata more than £50m.\n\nMr Adam added: \"Continuing to fund substantial losses at Orb Electrical Steels is not sustainable at a time when the European steel industry is facing considerable challenges.\"\n\nBut he said workers would be offered alternative employment at other Tata sites in Wales where possible and consultations with staff and unions would start shortly.\n\nPaul Horton, a Community union official at the plant, said there had been an agreement for no compulsory job losses until 2021\n\nOne of the plant's union officials Paul Horton, who has nearly 37 years experience, said it would mean a loss of well-paid jobs in the area, with workers earning up to £40,000, with overtime on top.\n\n\"We weren't expecting anything this severe, this quickly,\" he said. \"We understand the business has been struggling but there has been no inkling of this happening over the last few weeks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jason Sims, Matthew Grande and Paul Spencer have 55 years experience at Orb behind them\n\nJason Sims, who has worked at the plant for 13 years, said: \"It's sad news. Everyone's in a bit of shock at the moment, trying to take it in.\"\n\nHe said there was a lot of uncertainty whether there would be offers of work in Port Talbot or Llanwern.\n\nMatthew Grande said news had been leaking out since Sunday and they had to work with a \"massive cloud hanging over our heads. We're gutted and devastated to be honest with you\".\n\nHe said it was like a family firm, with everyone knowing each other and \"more or less growing up together\".\n\nPaul Spencer, with 22 years at the plant behind him, said he hoped there would be jobs at the end of it. \"There have been rumours for about 12 months on and off, but when go to the meeting this morning, it's real, your stomach sinks.\"\n\nUnite's Tata official Tony Brady said Orb's closure would be a \"body blow\" for the economy of Wales.\n\n\"Unite will be fighting for every job and holding Tata Steel's feet to the fire over assurances that workers affected by today's announcement will be redeployed.\"\n\nHe said the union would not sit back and allow \"decent well-paid jobs and irreplaceable skills to go to the wall\".\n\nRoy Rickhuss of the Community steelworkers' union called it \"shocking\" news which \"makes a mockery of the understanding we reached with Tata around the jobs guarantee\".\n\n\"There has been no consultation about this proposal either at UK or European level and company management should hang their heads in shame in the way this has come about,\" he said.\n\n\"This is of course extremely devastating news for workers at the Orb, but all Tata Steel workers should be concerned by the way Tata is breaking its commitments.\"\n\nThe Newport transporter bridge was opened in 1906 to help workers reach the plant\n\nThere has been steelmaking on the Newport site since 1898, when the old Lysaght company moved from Wolverhampton.\n\nThe famous city landmark, the transporter bridge, was built a few years later to carry workers across to the works.\n\nIt eventually became part of British Steel and then European Electrical Steels in 1991.\n\nCogent took over in 2001.\n\nThere have been concerns for the future of Tata's Cogent operation for a few months, ever since it was put up for sale.\n\nCogent had been put up for sale by Tata in May last year after the Indian owners had decided to concentrate on its core steel production business, as it planned to merge with the German company Thyssenkrupp.\n\nGiven Cogent's specialism, it was hoped that a buyer could be found, but unions said at the time they were not persuaded by the case for a sale.\n\nThey had privately been growing increasingly concerned about the future of the plant. This decision could set Tata and the unions on an even bigger collision course.\n\nAs part of the unions' agreement to support less generous pensions, they believe Tata committed to no compulsory redundancies until 2026.\n\nTata has always maintained that it committed to try to avoid compulsory redundancies.\n\nUnions could see this as breaching a commitment to its entire Welsh workforce, and industrial action could be possible, they say.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said he stressed the importance in talks with the company of avoiding compulsory redundancies.\n\n\"The Welsh Government will now do everything it can to support individuals, the community and the supply chain affected by this announcement,\" he added.\n\n\"Today's news clearly demonstrates the fragility of the global steel market and the UK government must now step up and broaden its approach to supporting the industry, including its supply chain, across the whole of the UK.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was in regular contact with the company, unions and other partners and was taking \"wide-ranging action to support the industry\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have a long and proud history of steelmaking excellence and the UK government is committed to supporting a modern and vibrant steel sector.\"\n\nNewport East MP Jessica Morden said job losses would be \"devastating news\" for workers and families.\n\n\"What is particularly tragic is that this, the only UK plant with the potential to produce electric steels for motors and with investment, vision and government backing this could be the key part of the supply chain for electric vehicles,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPlaid Cymru's economy spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth AM said the closure was \"devastating\" and he wanted the Welsh and UK governments to investigate all possible interventions.\n\n\"I've repeatedly called for a major summit on Wales' economic future,\" he said.\n\n\"This is further evidence of why it's more important than ever to have the clearest possible focus on the threats facing us, and the opportunities that need to be sought out at this time of unprecedented uncertainty.\"\n\nConservative business minister Russell George AM, called the news \"incredibly disappointing\" and \"a terrible blow to the region and its supply links\".", "The Dutch port of Rotterdam is among those that could see disruption in a no-deal Brexit\n\nThe European Commission is considering allowing EU countries to apply for cash to cope with a no-deal Brexit using a special emergency fund.\n\nOfficials are working on a plan to classify no deal as a \"major disaster\", a category normally used to describe destructive natural events such as earthquakes or major floods.\n\nThe move would require the approval of EU states and the European Parliament.\n\nPM Boris Johnson says the UK must leave with or without a deal by 31 October.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario, the UK would immediately leave the European Union with no agreement about the \"divorce\" process.\n\nThat would mean leaving the single market and customs union - both designed to facilitate smooth trade - and institutions like the European Court of Justice and Europol, its law enforcement body, overnight.\n\nOpponents of no deal fear it would damage UK and EU economies, lead to significant disruption to travel, and affect supplies of food, medicine and other goods. Proponents, though, argue any disruption would be short term.\n\nUnder the proposals being considered by the Commission, EU countries would be able to apply for no-deal cash using the EU's solidarity fund.\n\nBBC Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said the plans would be discussed on Monday, and could be formalised at a Commission meeting due on Wednesday.\n\nThe fund, first set up after flooding in central Europe in 2002, is normally used to finance repair work caused by major natural disasters.\n\nSince then it has been used to provide help to a number of countries coping with the aftermath of earthquakes and floods, including Italy, Germany and Austria.\n\nFunding applications under the scheme have to be approved by EU states and the European Parliament, and can often take months to be paid out.\n\nThe incoming European Commission, led by new president Ursula von der Leyen, is due to take office on 1 November - the day after the current Brexit deadline.\n\nThe EU has already adopted no-deal contingency measures aimed at keeping basic functions operating - such as air travel, road haulage and financial services.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson's demand for the Irish border backstop plan to be scrapped as part of a new deal was rejected by the EU's lead Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nMr Barnier said the plan - intended to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - represented the \"maximum flexibility\" the EU could offer.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Mark Winchcombe was attacked in the early hours of Sunday\n\nSix teenagers have been arrested after a pub landlord died in Neath.\n\nMark Winchcombe, 58, was attacked on Main Road, Neath Abbey, near his pub the Smiths Arms at 00:55 BST on Sunday.\n\nSouth Wales Police said six boys, two aged 14 and four aged 16, remained in custody but did not say what they were being held on suspicion of.\n\nDetectives would like anyone who was in the area at the time who may have seen anything that could help with their inquiries to contact them.\n\nThe pub has remained closed and was cordoned off by police following the attack.\n\nHe added: \"He was a very genuine man who would stop in the street to have a chat.\"\n\nTudor Williams, who runs a car dealership opposite the pub, said: \"I've known Mark all my life and he is a very tidy guy.\n\n\"He is very hard working and has been trying to build up the pub for years. It is a terrible shock to everyone and our thoughts are with his family.\"\n\nKatrina Mears, who lives across the road from the pub, said: \"Mark was brilliant. Very lovely.\n\n\"He ran a very respectable and superb pub which is loved by the whole community.\n\nOne regular pub-goer, who did not want to be named, said: \"They refurbished that pub and put their heart and soul into it.\n\n\"People are in shock and just keep thinking of his lovely partner and family.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app. Click\n\nJohanna Konta reached the US Open quarter-finals for the first time by edging an unpredictable match against Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova.\n\nKonta, 28, fought back from a set and 3-1 down to win 6-7 (1-7) 6-3 7-5.\n\nShe will face Elina Svitolina in the last eight after the Ukrainian fifth seed beat Madison Keys 7-5 6-4.\n\n\"I've been in the fourth round twice before so reaching the quarter-finals is a massive achievement for me,\" said the British number one.\n\n\"The key was to keep going, with Karolina you know there will be massive portions of the match where I don't feel effective.\n\n\"It is about staying out there and trusting the fundamental things. It was a great match and I'm so happy.\"\n\nThe 16th seed missed chances in the first set before composing herself to punish an out-of-sorts Pliskova at Flushing Meadows. The Czech won 77% of points on her first serve and served 16 aces but those statistics were undermined by nine double faults and a second serve which earned her just seven points.\n\nKonta has been hitting clean groundstrokes all tournament and continued to trust her ability against the similarly powerful Pliskova, landing 45 winners which outnumbered her unforced errors and proved to be a key differential.\n\nKonta, who is the first British woman to reach the quarter-finals in New York since Jo Durie in 1983, has now made the last eight at all four Grand Slams.\n\nShe reached the French Open semi-finals and Wimbledon quarter-finals earlier this year.\n\nOn emulating Durie, Konta said: \"I'm really pleased with that and, more specifically, this season to make it three quarter-finals in successive Grand Slams is a tremendous achievement.\n\n\"I will enjoy this but I have to keep looking forward and try to go one, two or three steps further.\"\n\nKonta will now face 24-year-old Svitolina, who enjoyed a routine win over 10th seed and 2017 finalist Keys in the first night session match on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\n\"It is going to be another great battle,\" said Svitolina, who boasts a 3-0 winning record against Konta.\n• None Federer cruises into US Open quarter-finals by thrashing Goffin\n• None Second seed Barty knocked out by Wang\n• None Medvedev the Russian troll in New York\n• None Murray and Skupski into last eight\n\nKonta, supported again by actor Tom Hiddleston in her player box, started strongly against an opponent who had won six of their seven previous tour-level meetings.\n\nShe broke to love in the first game and continued to create more opportunities as the tall Czech struggled to land first serves, enabling Konta to dismantle Pliskova's second serve on her way to setting up nine points for a double break in the opening set.\n\nPliskova rallied to save all of them and it looked likely to prove costly for Konta when her service game - which she had only dropped twice in her previous three matches - suddenly disintegrated.\n\nKonta failed to land a first serve as she tried to see out the opener at 5-4, paying the price as the Czech rediscovered her biggest weapon to instead take the advantage.\n\nPliskova looked completely in control as she broke in the first game of the second set and won nine out of 10 points with Konta's game starting to become ragged.\n\nBut, after the pair traded two more successive breaks, momentum shifted back to Konta, who won five games in a row to take an engrossing match into a decider.\n\nKonta had won 16 of her 19 three-set matches this year and looked set to improve that tally when a poor service game from Pliskova, which featured three unforced errors and a double fault, left the Briton serving for the match.\n\nHowever, as when she served for the first set, nerves seemed to take hold and Pliskova threatened to level by bringing up break point. Konta, though, composed herself again with a brave forehand winner down the line.\n\nAfter missing a first match point, she reset again to win at the second opportunity when 27-year-old Pliskova - still searching for a maiden Grand Slam title herself - hit long to go down in two hours and 20 minutes.\n\n\"It was important not to panic or be worried,\" Konta said about fighting back from a set and a break down.\n\n\"I was doing a lot of good things out there and I kept into perspective I was playing the number three player in the world.\n\n\"I was pleased with what I was doing in that first set, even though I wasn't able to come through, and I definitely felt there was a lot for me to build on.\n\n\"I trust in my ability to create more opportunities and I managed to do that.\"\n\n'Konta seems to relish mixing it with the elite' - analysis\n\nJohanna Konta won that match the hard way. Many would have subsided after losing a first set they had dominated - especially after being broken twice in a row at the start of the second.\n\nBut Konta has an extraordinary third-set record this year, and seems to relish mixing it with the elite.\n\nShe has won her past four matches against top 10 players in Grand Slams - against Sloane Stephens twice, Petra Kvitova and now Karolina Pliskova.\n\nThe serve is the bedrock of her game, but she also hit bravely and freely from the baseline when the match was up for grabs.\n\nTo have reached the last eight of all four Grand Slams is a mighty achievement, and she is only the 14th active player to have done so.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Red Crescent medics next to bags containing the bodies of victims the air strike\n\nMore than 100 people have died in Yemen after the Saudi-led coalition launched a series of air strikes on a detention centre, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).\n\nThe ICRC said that at least 40 survivors were being treated after the attack on Sunday in the city of Dhamar.\n\nLocal residents reported hearing six air strikes during the night.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition, which backs Yemen's government, said its attack destroyed a drone and missile site.\n\nThe Iran-aligned Houthi rebel movement, which is fighting in opposition to the government and Saudi-led coalition, said the strikes had hit a facility it was using as a prison. The ICRC said it had visited detainees at the location before.\n\nFranz Rauchenstein, the head of delegation for the ICRC in Yemen, said the organisation was collecting bodies from the site and described the chances of finding more survivors as \"very low\".\n\nYemen has been at war since 2015, when President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his cabinet were forced to flee the capital Sanaa by the Houthis. Saudi Arabia backs President Hadi, and has led a coalition of regional countries in air strikes against the rebels.\n\nThe coalition launches air strikes almost every day, while the Houthis often fire missiles into Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe civil war has triggered the world's worst humanitarian disaster, with 80% of the population - more than 24 million people - requiring humanitarian assistance or protection, including 10 million who rely on food aid to survive.\n\nMore than 70,000 people are believed to have died since 2016 as a result of the conflict, according to UN estimates.\n• None Yemen: Why is there a war there?", "A full chemical attack alert was triggered after a self-styled \"Muslim Slayer\" sent fake poison to the Queen with a letter saying: \"The Clowns R Coming 4 You\", a court has heard.\n\nDavid Parnham, 36, sent similar notes to then PM Theresa May and two bishops, the Old Bailey heard on Monday.\n\nHe also sent \"Punish a Muslim Day\" hate mail, urging people to earn points by attacking and killing Muslims.\n\nHe has admitted 15 offences, and is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.\n\nThe offences relate to hundreds of letters penned between June 2016 and June 2018.\n\nParnham, from Lincoln, has admitted soliciting to murder, making hoaxes involving noxious substances and bombs, sending letters with intent to cause distress, and encouraging offences.\n\nThe hoax letter to the Queen triggered a Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) response, the court was told.\n\nRoyal household staff who handled the mail were quarantined from others for hours while experts raced to identify the substance.\n\nParnham claimed he did not recall writing to the Queen, the court heard.\n\nThe letters to Mrs May and two bishops, as well as the Home Office, in October 2016, also contained white powder and made an apparent reference to reports of attacks by people dressed as clowns.\n\nParnham also sent letters full of white powder addressed to former prime minister David Cameron, the Tory peer Lord Ahmed of Wimbledon and a number of mosques.\n\nThe letter to Mr Cameron contained the sentence \"Allah is great\", while letters to MPs and mosques contained the wording \"Paki Filth\".\n\nThe authorities were alerted to his activities in July 2016 when seven letters were intercepted at Sheffield mail centre and found to contain harmless white powder.\n\nA further 11 letters were found to have been delivered.\n\nIn March 2018, Parnham sent more than 300 letters to mosques and public figures calling for attacks in the street as part of a \"Punish a Muslim Day\".\n\nLiberal Democrat peer Lord Hussain revealed his \"total shock\" and \"fear\" at receiving one of the letters, which had been forwarded from the House of Lords to his home address while he was unwell.\n\n\"As I read it for the first time I felt total shock at its contents as well as fear, not only for myself but for my family, my home and all other Muslims,\" he wrote in a victim impact statement read out in court.\n\n\"I have lived in this country for 47 years and have never before seen or read anything like this,\" he added.\n\nIn December 2016, Parnham wrote a fan letter to Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who shot nine black parishioners dead in Charleston, South Carolina.\n\nHe told Roof: \"I just wanted to thank you for opening my eyes. Ever since you carried out what I'd call the 'cleansing' I've felt differently about what you'd call 'racial awareness'.\"\n\nLetters were also sent to various mosques and Islamic centres in February 2017.\n\nA letter to Berkeley Street Mosque in Hull contained a drawing of a sword with a swastika on it cutting someone's head off, with the words \"You are going to be slaughtered very soon\".\n\nThe author signed off as \"Muslim Slayer\".\n\nIn March 2017, letters were sent to addresses around the University of Sheffield campus calling for the extermination of minority racial and religious groups.\n\nThey included tips on how to kill people and an offer to make a charity donation of £100 for each death.\n\nAs he appeared in court for a sentencing hearing, a psychiatrist revealed Parnham did not regret his actions and did not consider them \"particularly serious\".\n\nDr Martin Lock said: \"He told me if he went to prison it would be one to two years.\"\n\nAlthough Parnham was on the autistic spectrum, Dr Lock said he was not psychotic, and expressed concern that the defendant had attempted to \"mislead\" medical professionals.\n\nParnham, of St Andrew's Close in Lincoln, was caught through DNA, handwriting and fingerprints on the letters.\n\nHe refused to answer any questions when he was arrested in June last year.\n\nJudge Anthony Leonard QC indicated that he would complete sentencing on Tuesday.", "Activity in the UK's manufacturing sector contracted at the fastest pace for seven years in August, a closely-watched survey has suggested.\n\nThe uncertainty surrounding Brexit and the global economic downturn were some of the factors hitting firms, according to the survey from IHS Markit/CIPS.\n\nThe purchasing managers' index (PMI) produced by IHS Markit/CIPS fell to 47.4 in August, down from 48 in July.\n\nA figure below 50 indicates the sector is contracting.\n\nNew orders fell at the fastest pace for seven years, and business confidence fell to its lowest level since the survey first began to track the measure in 2012.\n\n\"High levels of economic and political uncertainty alongside ongoing global trade tensions stifled the performance of UK manufacturers in August,\" said Rob Dobson, director at IHS Markit.\n\n\"The global economic slowdown was the main factor weighing on new work received from Europe, the USA and Asia.\n\n\"There was also a further impact from some EU-based clients routing supply chains away from the UK due to Brexit.\"\n\nThe UK economy contracted by 0.2% in the second quarter of the year - the first time it has shrunk since 2012.\n\nIf the economy contracts in the current July-to-September period, then it will deemed to be in recession as it will have shrunk for two quarters in a row.\n\nMr Dobson said the PMI survey's results suggested the manufacturing sector - which accounts for about 20% of the UK's economy - was contracting at a quarterly pace of \"close to 2%\".\n\nHowever, Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said that could be too pessimistic.\n\n\"With the CIPS surveys tending to be overly sensitive to political uncertainty and carmakers maintaining production in August (having brought their annual summer shutdowns forward this year), the sector's performance is unlikely to be that grim,\" he said.\n\n\"But with global and domestic headwinds showing no sign of easing, the remainder of 2019 is set to remain a difficult period for manufacturers.\"\n\nAndrew Wishart, UK economist at Capital Economics, said that while the latest PMI survey was weak, \"we still doubt that manufacturing will pull the economy as a whole into recession\".", "Joana Sainz Garcia was a singer and dancer with the Super Hollywood Orchestra group\n\nA Spanish dancer died after being hit by an exploding pyrotechnic during a live performance at a concert.\n\nJoana Sainz Garcia, 30, was performing with the Super Hollywood Orchestra group at a venue near Madrid when the incident happened.\n\nA stage pyrotechnic device exploded near the singer, knocking her unconscious, at about 02:00 local time (00:00 GMT) on Sunday.\n\nParamedics took Ms Sainz to hospital, where she was later confirmed dead.\n\nAround 1,000 spectators were watching the performance, in the town of Las Berlanas, north-west of Madrid.\n\nFootage posted to social media purportedly shows the moment the firework exploded, causing Ms Sainz to collapse on the ground.\n\nA doctor and a nurse who were in the crowd attempted to help the singer before paramedics arrived, El Diario Montanes reported.\n\nMs Sainz, from Santander, was reportedly the main dancer and choreographer for the Super Hollywood Orchestra, a 15-member group including singers, musicians and dancers.\n\nThe group was hired to close the four-day festival in Las Berlanas.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe promoter for the group, Prones 1SL, told El Norte de Castilla the \"regrettable\" incident appeared to have been caused by a manufacturing failure.\n\nIsidro Lopez, owner of Prones 1SL, told local media the group used pyrotechnics in previous performances without incident.\n\nIn a statement posted to Facebook, Prones 1SL said: \"The whole Prones family, partners, artists, friends, collaborators are very sad and dismayed by the loss of our companion and friend Joana Sainz.\"\n\nThe local government of Las Berlanas, which organised the festival, paid tribute to Ms Sainz on Facebook. \"RIP Johan Sainz. You are in our memory,\" it wrote in a post.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brithdir Mawr's land and buildings will be sold when the 15-year lease ends in December\n\nAn eco-community will have to raise £1m or leave after being told its land and buildings will be sold when the lease ends in December.\n\nMembers of the Brithdir Mawr community near Newport, Pembrokeshire, have been given first refusal to purchase the 80-acre (32 hectare) site.\n\nBrithdir Mawr is off-grid, with electricity being generated by solar panels and a wind turbine on the site.\n\nLand owner Julian Orbach said he \"very much\" wanted the community to continue.\n\nTen adults and seven children live at Brithdir Mawr on a partially communal basis, with the farmhouse as the main hub.\n\nThe main community hub is at the farmhouse\n\nIt was established in 1993 by Mr Orbach with his then wife, and a number of low-impact buildings were constructed around the farmhouse at the site without planning permission.\n\nIn 1998, the buildings were spotted from the air by the authorities, and the community faced planning battles to retain them.\n\nThe developments at Brithdir Mawr led to the establishment of the Welsh Government's One Planet policy which permits low-impact dwellings in the countryside.\n\nMr Orbach said he had been hoping the community would buy the land for the past 10 years, and members told BBC Wales they were confident of being able to do so.\n\nLea Trainer says it is \"great\" the community has been given first refusal\n\nLea Trainer, who has lived at Brithdir Mawr with his family for three months, said: \"It's been a community and we have absolute gratitude to them [the Orbachs].\n\n\"Our landlord, Julian, is looking to sell, but the great thing is he's looking to sell to us.\n\n\"Governments around the world are declaring a climate emergency. The way we can help with the climate is by living like this, by living sustainably, and only extracting the resources you need.\"\n\nNick Ward, who has lived there for three years, added: \"There is a chance this place will be sold and that will be unfortunate because it's a beautiful place and we have some great plans.\n\n\"I'm pretty confident to be honest. We're valued in the wider community. We hold a special place in people's hearts.\"\n\nThe community plans to launch a community share offer in September, meaning people living anywhere in the world can buy a share.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Blanca Fernandez Ochoa, an Olympic bronze medallist, was reported missing on 23 August\n\nBlanca Fernandez Ochoa, the first Spanish woman to win a medal at the Winter Olympics, has been reported missing.\n\nThe former alpine skier, 56, disappeared more than a week ago, Spain's national police said.\n\nOfficials said on Sunday that a black Mercedes A-Class car that Ms Fernandez was last seen driving has been located in a town near Madrid.\n\nBut police are still working to locate Ms Fernandez herself.\n\nA public appeal was issued at the request of Ms Fernandez's family, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe former skier's daughter, Olivia Fresneda, who reported her mother's disappearance on 23 August, is \"very worried\", the paper reports.\n\nMs Fernandez left home without her phone and has not used her credit cards since she vanished, police sources told El Pais.\n\nDetectives, who have reportedly been looking for Ms Fernandez for seven days, are yet to find any trace of her.\n\nBorn in Madrid in 1963, Ms Fernandez took part in four Winter Olympics between 1980 and 1992.\n\nShe was Spain's first female Winter Olympic medallist, winning the bronze in the slalom in the 1992 games at Albertville, France.\n\nMs Fernandez skis downhill during the women's slalom at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, in 1992\n\nIn an interview in 2014, Ms Fernandez said skiing had become an \"obsession\" but admitted she preferred playing golf since retiring.\n\nMs Fernandez was one of five siblings who competed at the Winter Olympics for the Spanish skiing team.\n\nHer brother, Francisco Fernandez Ochoa, was the first Spaniard to win a gold medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Japan.", "The ability of Northern Ireland's human rights watchdog to take legal cases is now severely restricted by repeated budget cuts, it has said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission had to ask for a funding reprieve this year from the Northern Ireland Office in an attempt to bolster its finances.\n\nIts budget is just over £1.1m.\n\nIt argues that this figure has been almost halved, in real terms, since 2010.\n\nChief Commissioner Les Allamby said the commission has been operating within significant financial constraints.\n\n\"Within this budget, we are required to provide a range of public services including taking strategic legal cases, providing advice to government on critical issues such as Brexit, carrying out investigations as well as promotion and education,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Our ability to take strategic legal cases to challenge human rights violations is severely restricted by our budget.\"\n\nSet up under the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) is an independent body funded by the government through the Northern Ireland Office (NIO).\n\nAmong its functions is to initiate cases and provide legal assistance to individuals taking human rights legal challenges.\n\nIt has 14 staff members, down from 32 in 2009.\n\nThe body said that it has now faced eight annual cuts to its budget, with staff numbers reduced on four occasions.\n\nOur ability to take strategic legal cases to challenge human rights violations is severely restricted by our budget.\"\n\nTo maintain its current workforce, it warned in its annual report, published in July, that further reductions in its investigation and legal budgets were required.\n\nThis, the organisation warned, would mean it would have to seek business case approvals from the NIO, on a case-by-case basis, to secure additional resources before supporting legal cases.\n\nSince then, the NIO has stepped in to provide a funding plug of about £79,000, BBC News NI understands.\n\nBut the commission said its funding problem has not gone away.\n\nIt said its Supreme Court challenge to the law on abortion in Northern Ireland, which ran for more than five years, cost £225,000.\n\nThe NIHRC lost a Supreme Court appeal over the legality of Northern Ireland's abortion law in 2018\n\nIts successful Court of Appeal (NI) challenge to adoption law that discriminated against same sex couples ran for more than four years at a cost of £130,000.\n\nThe commission said a budget of £1.63m in 2010 was considered necessary for it to effectively operate as envisaged under the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nWhen inflation is taken into account, it argues that its budget for 2019-20 should have been set at just over £2m.\n\n\"The organisation will continue to take a can-do practical approach to its mandate to protect and promote the human rights of everyone in Northern Ireland,\" Mr Allamby added.\n\n\"To do that, we need a decent financial platform. As a statutory public body, we are obliged to live within our means, nonetheless it would be remiss of us as an organisation not to highlight the difficulties we face in fully meeting our mandate.\"\n\nIn the 2018-2019 financial year, the commission said it received more than 400 enquiries from the public seeking assistance.\n\nThe commission granted legal support to three individuals.\n\nThe NIO told the BBC that it remained \"committed to the ongoing work\" of the commission.", "Greek police said the collision occurred in Halkidiki, northern Greece\n\nA British man has died following a collision in Greece.\n\nGreek police said an unknown vehicle struck two pedestrians in Halkidiki, a region in the north, shortly before 20:30 local time (18:30 BST) on Sunday.\n\nA 57-year-old British man was killed and his wife, aged 58, was injured following the incident in Kallithea. The woman, from the UK, remains in hospital in Polygyros.\n\nLocal media reports say a car sped away from the scene following the crash.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign Office told BBC News it was \"supporting a British family involved in a road traffic accident in Greece\".\n\nHe added: \"We are also in contact with the tour operator and Greek authorities.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn said he wants a general election, Boris Johnson said he doesn't, but will the prime minister call one?\n\nJonathan Blake gives his daily roundup of the key Brexit events in British politics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads were blocked as a result of the demonstrations\n\nCouncil bosses have vowed to \"push the law\" in order to protect the public following sectarian disorder in Glasgow on Friday night.\n\nRiot police, a helicopter, and dog units were called in when an Irish Unity march was met by loyalist counter-demonstrators in Govan.\n\nThree more marches are planned for this week including one on Monday evening.\n\nCouncil leader Susan Aitken said legislation may have to be tested to strengthen the authority's hand.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I am absolutely clear that the council's procedures are not in any way at fault here. The council made the decision that the council has the ability to make.\n\n\"Over the past year, Glasgow City Council has pushed the law as far as we can on this, to the extent of being taken to court. And it may well be that we have to do this again.\"\n\nShe added: \"Human rights law trumps domestic law. People absolutely have a human right to march and to protest and we have a duty to facilitate that.\n\n\"We're at the point now, though, where that right is being abused. Therefore we have to consider as a public authority, alongside the other public authorities who have a role in this, whether we push the law in order to protect the public.\"\n\nRoads were blocked in what police described as \"significant disorder\" during Friday's disturbance.\n\nThe Irish Unity march, led by the James Connolly Republican Flute Band, set off from Elder Park, Govan, at 18:30 but was soon met by a counter demonstration of \"several hundred people\" from loyalist groups.\n\nGovan Road was blocked by officers and the Govan subway station was closed for a short period.\n\nWitnesses reported the use of smoke bombs.\n\nTwo men arrested following the incident have been released by police pending further inquiries. Barry Angus, 37, and Mark Cumming, 21, are expected to appear before Glasgow Sheriff Court on October 1.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the scenes as \"utterly unacceptable\".\n\nShe said: \"Peaceful protest is a part of our democracy - violent and sectarian disruption is not\".\n\nFormer first minister Jack McConnell has called for more to be done to combat the \"cancer\" of sectarianism in Scotland.\n\nLord McConnell accused the Scottish government of \"taking its food off the pedal\" in tackling the problem.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"Part of the problem that we are seeing in football grounds and on the streets with increasing sectarian behaviour and incidents is that there hasn't been strong national leadership.\n\n\"Spending money is the easy part of government. It's easy to pick up a budget and give organisations some money.\n\n\"The real challenge is in bringing people together and getting them to commit and then act on the changes that are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"Sectarianism is not a one-off incident at a football match or the disorder of Friday night.\n\n\"This is an issue that stains Scotland's character.\"", "Mark Collins said police should not be responsible for \"lower level calls\"\n\nSupporting mental health patients can occupy police officers for \"10 to 12 hours\" before doctors can make an assessment, a chief constable has said.\n\nSpecialist support for mental health-related calls costs Welsh police £1.2m a year - but Mark Collins said a \"true cost\" is the loss of PCs on the beat.\n\n\"All the time we are dealing with mental health matters we are taking officers off the street,\" he said.\n\n\"We are sometimes conveying people 60 miles one way and getting delayed.\n\n\"So that's a 120-miles round trip and, in fact, sometimes we're sat there waiting for doctors to come for sometimes 10 to 12 hours.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police chief constable Mr Collins, who leads on mental health and policing for the National Police Chiefs' Council, said officers should always respond in an emergency but should not be responsible for \"lower level calls\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it spent more on mental health services than on any other part of the NHS.\n\nAll four police forces in Wales, whose combined budget is around £600m, use specialist mental health-trained staff in their call centres or in triage teams that attend mental health-related incidents.\n\nBut the true cost of the police hours spent on mental health-related incidents would be much higher.\n\nIn January, the South Wales Police chief constable said police were often \"plugging a gap\" despite not being the most appropriate service to support those suffering a mental health crisis.\n\nLowri Smith says police are not the right people to be giving her support\n\n\"Very rarely there will be a crime related to a mental health call,\" added Mr Collins.\n\n\"When someone is threatening to harm themselves or someone else, of course we should be deployed - but we are regularly filling in for routine crisis and community care calls where there is not the capacity within the NHS.\"\n\nLowri Smith, 29, from Cardiff, said police have been sent to her home five times in the past three years when she has called her local NHS mental health service out of hours.\n\nShe said while the police do the best job they can, they are not the right people to be giving her support.\n\n\"It can make a situation worse,\" she said.\n\n\"Quite often when I have been in crisis I have shut down, I won't speak to them, I go very quiet, because the police coming to your house can be seen as quite threatening.\"\n\nOn one occasion, officers were accompanied by a specialist mental health nurse.\n\n\"It was quite helpful to talk to someone in that field... it's a lot more helpful to see someone face to face,\" she said.\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said: \"Patients that are under the care and support of the crisis team have individualised care plans in place dependent on their needs and there are mechanisms in place to support people out of hours.\"\n\nHelen Bennett says similar schemes in England have been very successful\n\nHelen Bennett is a former mental health nurse who now works with the Welsh mental health charity Hafal.\n\nShe has been involved with a trial putting two mental health nurses in the South Wales Police control room.\n\n\"They will be patched into calls, speak to officers who are out with individuals and they may well speak to those individuals as well,\" she said.\n\n\"They will be assessing over the telephone and advising police officers... they also link in with crisis teams, community mental health teams, third sector charities, local authorities... to make sure the outcome for the individual is a joined-up process.\n\n\"From the evidence [of similar schemes] across England... it's been very successful. There has been a reduction in intervention from the police required.\"\n\nThe trial has been organised by the police, local health boards, the Welsh Ambulance Service and local authorities.\n\n\"It's about a multi-agency approach really and that's why it has been important to have everyone around the table, it is not a single responsibility,\" she said.\n\nMr Collins also recognises the challenges the Welsh NHS faces in dealing the needs of those experiencing mental ill health, and said they need to be provided with more funding.\n\nEarlier this year the UK government announced an extra £2.3bn in a 10-year plan to fund mental health services provided by NHS England.\n\n\"We need to have that level of funding into Wales to provide frontline services,\" Mr Collins said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"For 2019-20 we have increased the mental health ring fence to £679m, including additional investment in key areas such as the development of perinatal community mental health services and children's mental health services.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More pharmacies in England will start offering people free, on-the-spot heart check-ups from next month.\n\nShoppers would have their blood pressure and cholesterol tested.\n\nThe programme, which could expand to every pharmacy in England, should prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks and strokes within a decade, say experts.\n\nIt is part of the government's plan to do more in the community and ease strain on stretched hospitals and GP surgeries.\n\nIt will be funded as part of a £13bn five-year contract for community pharmacies and, to begin with, will involve hundreds of pharmacies.\n\nSelect pharmacies have already been offering these types of checks as part of a pilot scheme and say it works.\n\nIn Lambeth and Southwark, Dudley, and West Hampshire, for example, identifying people with high blood pressure or a heart rhythm problem called atrial fibrillation has improved care and freed up GPs' time.\n\nEngland's most senior doctor, NHS national medical director Prof Stephen Powis, said: \"Heart disease and strokes dramatically cut short lives, and leave thousands of people disabled every year, so rapid detection of killer conditions through High Street heart checks will be a game-changer.\"\n\nSimon Gillespie, from the British Heart Foundation, said: \"Millions of people in England are living with conditions such as high blood pressure which, if left untreated, significantly increase the risk of having a potentially deadly heart attack or stroke.\n\n\"Reaching more people and encouraging them to check their blood pressure, working with them to lower it where necessary, will play an absolutely critical role in saving lives in the coming years.\n\n\"Giving a greater role to community pharmacists in helping increase early detection of heart and circulatory diseases is a very welcome move that will help the NHS deliver its Long Term Plan commitment to prevent 100,000 heart attacks and strokes over the next 10 years.\n\n\"Once people are diagnosed with high blood pressure, raised cholesterol or atrial fibrillation, they can then be supported to manage their condition, which will reduce their risk of heart attack or stroke, and ultimately could save their life.\"\n\nPeople aged between 40 and 74 and who live in England are already routinely invited for free five-yearly health checks at some chemist shops as well as GP surgeries to spot early signs of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, kidney problems or dementia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A deal that saved Debenhams from administration will be challenged in the High Court this week, putting the retailer's future back into doubt.\n\nA commercial landlord - backed by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group - is fighting the plan which saw Debenhams agree to shut 50 stores and secure rent cuts on others in May.\n\nIf successful, it could lead Debenhams to fall back into administration.\n\nThe retailer said it was \"extremely confident\" the action would fail.\n\nEarlier this year, Debenhams fell into the hands of its lenders as part of an administration process, wiping out Mr Ashley's near-30% stake in the company.\n\nShortly afterwards the creditors approved the rescue deal - or company voluntary agreement (CVA) - which will see landlords take rental cuts of up to 50%.\n\nCombined Property Control (CPC), which owns the freehold to six Debenhams stores, including Southampton, Harrogate and Folkestone, argues that the CVA was not run properly and should be overturned.\n\nIn a twist, the legal case - which begins on Monday - is being funded by Sports Direct, which launched - but then withdrew - a similar challenge in July.\n\nThat came after Mr Ashley twice said he was considering making an offer for Debenhams in April.\n\nOf the latest legal case, a spokesperson for Debenhams said: \"We remain extremely confident this challenge is without merit and expect it to fail.\n\n\"In the meantime, we are progressing with our restructuring, which was approved by the vast majority of creditors, including over 80% of landlords.\"\n\nThe retailer said it would appeal if it lost the case.\n\nBefore it was rescued, Britain's biggest department store chain had been hit by a succession of profit warnings amid a retail slowdown on the High Street.\n\nThe firm, which currently has 166 stores and employs about 25,000 people, hopes its CVA and recent changes to management will get it back on track.\n\nStefaan Vansteenkiste from restructuring specialists Alvarez & Marsal became chief executive last month, replacing Sergio Bucher who stepped down in April.\n\nBut if CPC wins its case, Debenhams' restructuring plan could unravel.\n\nAccording to reports over the weekend, Debenhams has asked advisers at professional services firm Deloitte to come up with contingency plans should it lose the case and its CVA be derailed.\n\nThe High Court case ends on Friday, although the ruling is likely to be delivered at a later date after the judge has deliberated.", "The campaigners say Barclays is a large investor in fossil fuels\n\nClimate change protesters glued themselves to the pavement outside the Barclays Bank headquarters in Manchester.\n\nThe group of eight campaigners broke away from a four-day blockade of Deansgate in Manchester city centre organised by Extinction Rebellion.\n\nThe protesters, who have since been removed by police, said Barclays invested in fossil fuels.\n\nA Barclays statement said: \"We recognise that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today and are determined to do all we can to support the transition to a low-carbon economy, while also ensuring that global energy needs continue to be met.\"\n\nThe demonstrators blocked the entrance to Barclays' HQ\n\nProtesters who had been camped elsewhere in Manchester staged a \"die-in\" near Barclays\n\nAn Extinction Rebellion Manchester spokesperson said: \"Barclays has funded the fossil fuel industry, from fracking and coal here in Britain to the Dakota Access pipeline in North America.\n\n\"Mines and oilfields are financed with the help of Barclays, who are increasing their financing for fossil fuel.\n\n\"Today we're calling on them to stop doing that and recognise that we are facing catastrophic ecological breakdown which these practices are contributing to.\n\n\"We have just a handful of years before the damage we have done to the planet becomes irreversible.\"\n\nProtesters staged \"die-in\"protests by lying on the pavement or roads\n\nThe protesters say they have been speaking to police and civic authorities\n\nEarlier, demonstrators joined fracking protesters outside Manchester's Civil Justice Centre where a legal challenge to an injunction restricting certain protests outside Cuadrilla's fracking site in Lancashire was taking place.\n\nBoth sets of activists cheered and sang songs outside the court.\n\nProtesters from the climate change camp in Deansgate joined the Barclays demo to stage another \"die-in\" protest there.\n\nMeanwhile, more climate change protesters blocked Great Ancoats Street and held a third \"die-in\" demonstration at the former Central Retail Park site near Urban Exchange.\n\nTransport for Greater Manchester tweeted the road had reopened but delays were still expected.\n\nProtesters also lay down outside fashion outlet Primark on Market Street, hindering shoppers getting into the store for 11 minutes, highlighting the 11 years the group believes we have to save the planet.\n\nThe activists said they wanted to draw attention to the \"wastefulness of the fashion industry\".\n\nThe protesters then moved on to HSBC in St Ann's Square.\n\nA closing ceremony for the protests took place at a yellow boat on Deansgate\n\nExtinction Rebellion Manchester said it had been working with authorities and meeting police every few hours to keep them informed about its activities. Both the council and Greater Manchester Police warned activists not to break the law.\n\nCouncillor Nigel Murphy, deputy leader of Manchester City Council, said: \"Protesters have made their point. It's a point about the urgency of tackling climate change which many Mancunians completely understand.\n\n\"But any actions which cause disruption to the lives of large numbers of ordinary citizens risk being counterproductive to the protesters' cause and we would encourage them to act appropriately.\"\n\nA closing ceremony for the protests took place around a yellow boat on Deansgate which had been the protesters' base while they have demonstrated at banks and shops across the city.\n\nDemonstrators sang songs and held up banners to bring to an end four days of action.\n\nPolice confirmed no arrests had been made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Teenage Cancer Trust wants the HPV vaccine programme to be extended to older boys and young men.\n\nStrains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) are linked to the majority of cervical cancer cases as well as oral, throat and anal cancers.\n\nTeenage girls have been able to get the HPV jab in the UK since 2008 but now boys aged 11-13 will be offered it too.\n\nThe government said that vaccinating older boys would only have \"limited benefit\".\n\nFrom this term, boys aged 12 and 13 in England, Northern Ireland and Wales will be offered the vaccine in secondary schools, along with boys aged 11 and 12 in high schools in Scotland.\n\nTwo doses are needed to be fully protected and the protection lasts for at least 10 years. If the first dose of HPV vaccine has not been given before the age of 15, three doses will be needed to be fully protected.\n\nThe immunisation programme for girls is already proving effective. A major study showed there has been a significant fall in HPV cases and in pre-cancerous growths.\n\nThe TCT says it is unfair that older boys and men who want the jab would have to pay around £150 per dose privately to be vaccinated.\n\nIt says results from a survey of 2,000 people showed 76% of boys and young men would want the HPV vaccine if it was offered for free - but only one in three would be willing to pay.\n\nThe survey also found low awareness levels, with half believing that HPV vaccination is only effective for girls and women.\n\nKate Collins, the TCT's chief executive, said: \"The vaccine should be made available for free on the NHS to all men and boys up to the age of 25 who want it, as it is for women and girls.\n\n\"Parents of school-age boys may well find one child will get the HPV vaccine for free, whereas an older son will only be protected if they can afford to pay for it.\n\n\"That simply isn't fair, and the cost of around £150 per dose is unaffordable for many.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"From this year, we are making the HPV vaccine available to all boys in Year 8.\n\n\"Extending the vaccine to boys aged over 13 would only have a limited benefit as older boys and young men are already protected by herd immunity - built up by 10 years of the girls' successful vaccination programme.\n\n\"Our vaccine programme has led to a significant fall in HPV infections in young women, which will help to prevent cancers in both men and women in years to come.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Manley said his employers failed to pay him\n\nA labourer smashed up the entrance of a hotel with a digger over a Christmas pay dispute, a court heard.\n\nThe destruction happened at the Travelodge in Liverpool's Innovation Park on 21 January.\n\nJohn Manley pleaded guilty to damaging property and being reckless as to whether life was endangered. He will be sentenced on 1 November.\n\nThe 35-year-old had been dealing with \"social problems\" in the run-up to the attack, Liverpool Crown Court heard.\n\nDefending, Brendan Carville accepted that Manley, of Netherton, Merseyside, had \"intended to cause the damage\", and that he was facing an immediate prison sentence.\n\nBut he said his client's behaviour had \"notably [followed] the failure of his immediate employers [not Travelodge] to pay him over the Christmas period and asking him to work for nothing on the eve of this offence\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe digger crashed through windows and the reception desk at the hotel, causing extensive damage to the building on the day it was due to be finished.\n\nThe destruction was filmed by several witnesses on mobile phones.\n\nFootage showed the vehicle mounting the hotel steps and entering the lobby through its glass entrance.\n\nOne witness said the attack went on for \"a good 20 or 30 minutes\" and left workers \"gobsmacked\".\n\nMassive damage was caused in the attack\n\nHe denied damaging property being reckless as to whether life was endangered and also denied dangerous driving in relation to the incident.\n\nBut on the opening day of his trial he admitted he put people's lives in danger at the construction site.\n\nHis not guilty plea to dangerous driving was accepted by the prosecution.\n\nSentencing was adjourned for psychiatric reports and Manley, of St Aidan's Way, was remanded in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nDefending champion Novak Djokovic is out of the US Open after quitting because of injury against Swiss 23rd seed Stan Wawrinka as defeat loomed in an electrifying fourth-round match.\n\nDjokovic, 32, retired with a shoulder problem seconds after a double fault left him two sets and a break down.\n\nLoud boos greeted the Serb's decision, with more heard as he walked off court.\n\n\"I'm sorry for the crowd. They came to see a full match but it wasn't to be,\" said world number one Djokovic.\n\nThree-time Grand Slam champion Wawrinka had dominated the last-16 contest in a boisterous atmosphere at Arthur Ashe Stadium, producing a powerful display reminiscent of his best to lead 6-4 7-5 2-0, when Djokovic decided he could not continue.\n\nWawrinka, 34, will play Russian fifth seed Daniil Medvedev in the quarter-finals.\n\n'You know when you're not able to hit the shot any more'\n\nDjokovic was the hot favourite to retain his title at Flushing Meadows and win a 17th Grand Slam, which would move him closer to Roger Federer (20) and Rafael Nadal (18) in the race to be deemed the greatest men's player of all time.\n\nBut he had been hampered throughout the tournament with a left shoulder injury, which he says has left him in \"constant pain for a few weeks\".\n\nDjokovic particularly struggled during his second-round match against Argentina's Juan Ignacio Londero on Wednesday, needing intense treatment three times before coming through in straight sets.\n\nBefore his next match against American Denis Kudla, there had been speculation he might withdraw because of the problem, only to show few signs of the issue in a comfortable win on Friday.\n\nBut Djokovic said the intensity of the pain returned against Wawrinka.\n\n\"It is very frustrating. Of course it hurts that I had to retire,\" said the Serb.\n\n\"Some days the pain has been higher, some days with less intensity. Obviously I was taking different stuff to kill the pain instantly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.\n\n\"You just know when you know, when you feel like you're not able to hit the shot any more.\"\n\nThe Serb did not want to discuss the near 24,000 crowd's reaction to his early exit, while Wawrinka said he was surprised by negativity.\n\n\"He's an amazing champion,\" added the Swiss. \"If he has to retire, it's not the best for a tennis player to have to leave the court like that.\"\n\nDjokovic suggested he hopes to regain fitness for the Asia leg of the ATP Tour and the final months of the season.\n\n\"It's no secret that I have desire and a goal to reach the most Grand Slams, and reach Roger's record,\" he added.\n\n\"At the same time, it's a long road ahead hopefully for me. I hope I can play for many more years. I'm planning to. I don't see an end behind the corner at all.\"\n• None Federer cruises into US Open quarter-finals by thrashing Goffin\n• None Second seed Barty knocked out by Wang\n\nDjokovic's withdrawal failed to take the shine off a breathtaking performance from Wawrinka, who earned his biggest victory since beating Britain's Andy Murray, then world number one, in the 2017 French Open semi-finals.\n\nShortly after that run, Wawrinka's career stalled because of a left knee injury, which left him needing two operations.\n\nIt has been a slow climb back up the rankings for the former world number three, but proved he could still cause problems for the best - whatever their physical state - in a powerful display.\n\nWawrinka came out firing from the start, piercing Djokovic's famed defence with blistering groundstrokes as he broke for 3-2 and producing thumping aces to stave off a break point in the next game on his way to clinching the opener.\n\nWawrinka had beaten Djokovic three times at a Grand Slam - including their last meeting in the 2016 final at Flushing Meadows - having lost the opening set in each of them.\n\nThis proved different, despite Djokovic coming out fighting by holding to love in the first game of the second set, and then breaking to gain an early advantage.\n\nWawrinka, backed by a vociferous New York crowd, was soon level after breaking back in a pivotal seventh game in which Djokovic coughed up two double faults serving for a 5-2 lead, and the Swiss landed a beautiful one-handed backhand down the line which left some fans climbing to their feet in admiration.\n\nDjokovic started to look rattled by the injury and the atmosphere, coming up with poor shots as he tried to respond, allowing Wawrinka another break and the chance to serve out for a two-set advantage.\n\nTreatment at the changeover was a last-ditch attempt by Djokovic to improve his physical - and perhaps mental - state, but it did not prove successful and he quit a few minutes later.\n\n\"I'm sorry he had to retire to finish the game like that, but for me, most important is the way I'm playing, the way I'm moving,\" Wawrinka said.\n\n\"The more the match was going, the better I was playing. I was hitting the ball really hard. I was feeling great on court.\"\n• None Medvedev the Russian troll in New York\n• None Murray and Skupski into last eight\n\nWawrinka had been in rampant form. He was pummelling the ball and reminding us of the man who, before knee surgery, had won three Grand Slam titles.\n\nDjokovic was, however, very subdued. He seemed to be observing events, rather than influencing them.\n\nOnly he knows whether he could have finished the match, but to leave the court with boos ringing in his ears was a very harsh send-off for a 16-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nThe odds on Nadal and Federer will now shorten further. But perhaps we do need to look outside the top three for a potential champion.\n\nWawrinka might be 34, but when he reaches the second week of a Grand Slam in this kind of mood he can be very difficult to stop.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Alec Holowka, co-creator of the Night in the Woods video game, has died.\n\nHis sister Eilieen Mary Holowka has confirmed the news on Twitter saying he \"spent a lifetime battling mood and personality disorders\".\n\nLocal Canadian police in Winnipeg are continuing to investigate the details of what happened.\n\nIt follows recent claims that he had physically and emotionally abused a female games designer.\n\nThe co-creators of Night in the Woods, Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry, had distanced themselves from him after the abuse allegations came out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Night In The Woods This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Night In The Woods\n\nThe game was released in 2017 and covers themes of mental illness, depression, and social immobility according to gaming website Polygon.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Scott Benson says they've \"received a lot of emails and messages\" which has been very \"tough\".\n\n\"Much of Night in the Woods is pulled pretty directly from our lives.\n\n\"Thousands of people have connected with Night in the Woods in a very personal way. Whatever you're feeling is valid. Your experience with art is yours. What it means to you is yours.\"\n\nIn Alec's sister's tweets about his death she also mentions how he \"was a victim of abuse\".\n\n\"I will not pretend that he was not also responsible for causing harm, but deep down he was a person who wanted only to offer people care and kindness.\n\n\"In the last few days, he was supported by many Manitoba crisis services, and I want to thank everyone there for their support.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues in this article, you can find help at BBC Advice.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Some flights to and from the UK are facing delays and cancellations due to problems affecting French airspace.\n\nBritish Airways said flights heading to, or passing over, France and Spain had been affected.\n\nEasyJet said it has been forced to cancel 180 flights out of almost 2,000 scheduled to take off on Sunday.\n\nThe French aviation regulator said a \"computer failure\" had affected control centres at about 01:30 BST on Sunday, but the issue had now been resolved.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, it added that delays \"should be reduced gradually\".\n\nNational Air Traffic Services (Nats) said it does not know how many flights have been affected but it is working with airlines in the UK to try to minimise disruption.\n\nIt added that French authorities had been allowing extra flights to enter the country's airspace on Sunday afternoon to try to limit knock-on delays.\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\nGatwick Airport said passengers should check with airlines on the status of their flights before heading to the airport.\n\nEasyJet said it had contacted affected passengers directly and given the option of transferring their flight for free or receiving a refund, it said.\n\nThe airline added it was seeing significant delays and recommended all its passengers, regardless of their destination, check the status of their flight using its online \"flight tracker\" tool for real time information before going to the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 British Airways This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBritish Airways also urged customers to check the status of their flights online.\n\nThe airline said an air traffic control \"outage\" in France had hit flights going through both French and Spanish airspace.\n\nSome passengers have told the BBC their British Airways flights had been cancelled.\n\nThe airline said it would not release any cancellation figures but added any affected customers had been notified directly.\n\nIt said it would offer flexible rebooking options for anyone who wants to change their dates of travel as a result of the disruption.\n\nRyanair advised customers on its website there had been a \"serious French ATC [air traffic control] equipment failure\" early on Sunday morning.\n\nIt said delays of \"up to three hours are being suffered\".\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder said: \"France is absolutely at the heart of European air traffic control - some 60% of all EasyJet flights to anywhere go over French territory.\n\n\"This appears to be some kind of malfunction which has greatly reduced the flow rate [of flights] so there's reports of pilots in Lisbon, for example, trying to get to the UK telling passengers we could be five hours late.\"\n\nHe said affected passengers will not be eligible for compensation, explaining: \"It's not the airlines' fault.\"\n\nBut he said the airlines have a strict duty of care, which means they must provide meals and if necessary accommodation to passengers.\n\nHe added: \"They also have to rebook you on the first available flight, ideally on the same day, even if it means paying money to a rival to get you home.\"\n\nThe disruption is having a wider knock-on effect in the UK, with some flights from Scotland to England cancelled.\n\nRichard Martin was due to fly from Edinburgh to London Stansted when EasyJet texted to say his flight had been cancelled.\n\n\"We are booked on another flight tomorrow but I'm due to be back at work,\" he said.\n\n\"The queues at the airport and everything are crazy and we've had some family members say something similar has also happened to them.\"", "Emmy Burbidge is a make-up artist who runs her own beauty salon in Somerset, and wants to know where palm oil comes from and how it's made.\n\nPalm oil is used in 70% of cosmetic products, and Emmy says that her customers are increasingly asking whether it's in the products she's using. 20% of palm oil globally is certified as sustainable but it's also responsible for the loss of around 8% of the world's forests between 1990 and 2008.\n\nThe 28-year-old travels to Papua New Guinea to discover the truth about what's in her make-up, and to find out whether there's a sustainable way of producing the oil used in making it.\n\nWill her trip make her change the way she runs her business?\n\nYou can watch the full documentary on iPlayer. If you're from outside the UK you can watch the film here.", "In Brandenburg AfD - led by Andreas Kalbitz - doubled its vote share compared with 2014\n\nGermany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party surged in elections in two eastern states, but not enough to oust the ruling coalitions there.\n\nThe centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel lost votes in Saxony but still came top with 32%, ahead of AfD's 27.5%.\n\nIn Brandenburg, the state surrounding Berlin, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) won with 26.2%, while AfD got 23.5%.\n\nAfD is shunned by the other parties.\n\nIn both states the other parties will now discuss forming new coalitions - perhaps including the Greens - which will exclude AfD.\n\nAfD's surge was biggest in Saxony, where it gained 17.8 percentage points compared with the 2014 election. The state has long been seen as an AfD stronghold.\n\nThe SPD - nationally in government with the CDU - plunged dramatically to 7.7% in Saxony.\n\nSupport for AfD grew when it campaigned against Mrs Merkel's admission of nearly a million non-EU migrants in 2015.\n\nAfD also drew on discontent in the former communist east over Germany's closure of loss-making businesses, including coal mines.\n\nAfD's slogan \"let's complete the change\" harked back to the 1989 \"Wende\" (change), which many eastern Germans see as unfinished business. Despite huge investment from the richer west, for many people the economic restructuring did not transform their lives as they had hoped.\n\n\"We're satisfied in Brandenburg as well as in Saxony,\" AfD co-leader Alexander Gauland said, adding that his party had \"punished\" Mrs Merkel's conservatives.\n\nBut despite the gains, the result may disappoint AfD as the party had hoped to come top in Brandenburg, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin.\n\nThe CDU state premier of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, said \"I'm very happy with the result\", but added that opposition messages had made an impact on social media. \"The filter bubble on the internet is so powerful, and in 20 months you cannot reach everyone,\" he told broadcaster ARD.\n\nThe CDU-SPD national coalition is due to last until federal elections in 2021, and a collapse could trigger a snap election or result in a minority government.\n\nMrs Merkel herself plans to step down as chancellor in 2021, having already resigned as CDU leader at the end of last year.", "John O'Dowd is a former Stormont minister and even held the role of deputy first minister when Martin McGuinness ran for Irish president in 2011\n\nAnyone who has even a vague interest in Northern Ireland politics will know the weekend saw a significant internal development within Sinn Féin emerge into public view.\n\nIn a shock move, long-time assembly member John O'Dowd revealed he would challenge Michelle O'Neill for her position as party vice-president in November.\n\nThe reasons for the surprise expressed by many journalists and commentators were two-fold.\n\nFirst of all, Sinn Féin is known for operating collectively - it does not typically do leadership \"contests\" in the way other political parties do.\n\nWhen Michelle O'Neill was chosen to replace Mary-Lou McDonald as vice-president, she was the only nominee and her appointment had practically been rubber-stamped by the time the Ard Fheis (annual conference) rolled around.\n\nMrs McDonald had been chosen to take over as party president, with Gerry Adams stepping down after 35 years.\n\nSecondly, for someone of John O'Dowd's experience and standing to take a decision of such magnitude would suggest that perhaps not all Sinn Féin members are content with the current leadership line-up.\n\nIt's not clear yet what the former Stormont minister's reasons for running are.\n\nSince the story broke, he's stayed quiet - but no doubt in the coming weeks that will change.\n\nWill his stance on key party policies be at odds with Ms O'Neill's? Is it about personalities? There are lots of questions.\n\nPolitical commentator and former Sinn Féin election candidate, Chris Donnelly, described the development as a departure for the party and a \"rubicon moment\".\n\nHe told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that Mr O'Dowd had \"natural\" leadership qualities and a \"sense of gravitas\" but would face a considerable challenge to get support at a national level.\n\nMichelle O'Neill was named Martin McGuinness' successor as Stormont leader in 2017, and became vice-president the following year\n\nAndersonstown News columnist Andrée Murphy said how it had been announced was abnormal, given the usual \"collegiate approach\" within Sinn Féin.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback show, she also criticised the timing of the announcement because Michelle O'Neill was out of the country on holiday at the time.\n\nShe added that Ms O'Neill had been highly regarded during her time as Stormont's health minister and was popular within the party.\n\nAfter Mr O'Dowd confirmed his decision to stand, Ms O'Neill took to Twitter to confirm she would fight to retain her position.\n\nShe also said she welcomed \"debate and choice\" within Sinn Féin.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michelle O’Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt was re-tweeted by a number of the party's prominent members including its MEP Martina Anderson, Foyle MP Elisha McCallion and ex-Stormont Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín - perhaps an indication of where their loyalty already lies.\n\nFew would have foreseen that less than two years after Ms O'Neill became vice-president she would be facing competition for her job.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin TD (member of the Irish parliament) Peadar Tóibín, who left the party last year after it changed its policy on abortion, said it was an unprecedented move for such a \"centralised organisation\".\n\nHe said the party's biggest weakness was how much of its decision-making was centralised and described the leadership challenge as a \"welcome, positive change\" from how Sinn Féin tends to operate.\n\nHowever, he added: \"This may be start of a change but the machinery of the party will be used to maintain the status quo.\"\n\nSinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald and Vice President Michelle O'Neill have led policy changes within the party on abortion and other social issues\n\nThe contest comes at a time of complete political upheaval in Belfast, Dublin and Westminster.\n\nWhoever wins will be taking on the deadlock over Brexit and efforts to restore the power-sharing institutions at Stormont, as well as trying to rebuild ground after the party's recent electoral setbacks in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt lost two of its MEPs in the European poll and its vote in the council elections was down too.\n\nMany will be watching to see if John O'Dowd can get support outside of Northern Ireland, and persuade high-ranking party members to publicly back him.\n\nSceptics, like Peadar Tóibín, believe it will be back to business as usual by the time of the Ard Fheis.\n\nBut leadership contests often tend to indicate that, for one reason or another, all is not rosy within a political party.\n\nInterest has certainly been piqued and in the coming weeks, we'll see whether it's a momentary blip - or a sign that the fight for the future of Sinn Féin is really on.", "Alfie Lamb died three days after he was crushed in the footwell of a car\n\nA man has admitted crushing a three-year-old boy to death by reversing his seat as the boy sat in a car footwell.\n\nWaterson initially denied manslaughter but changed his plea to guilty ahead of a retrial at the Old Bailey.\n\nIn May, Alfie's mother Adrian Hoare - who watched as her son was crushed - was jailed for two years and nine months for child cruelty.\n\nHoare was cleared of manslaughter while a jury failed to reach a verdict on the same charge for Waterson.\n\nThe court had heard Waterson had been annoyed at Alfie's crying on a journey back from a shopping trip and moved his seat into him as he sat in the footwell at his mother's feet.\n\nWhen Alfie continued to moan, Waterson reversed again, saying, \"I won't be told what to do by a three-year-old,\" Hoare told jurors.\n\nAlfie collapsed in the car and died in hospital three days later from irreversible brain injuries.\n\nIn their trial earlier this year Hoare, of Gravesend, Kent, told a string of lies to protect her boyfriend, claiming she had been in a taxi, while Waterson fled in the Audi.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said: \"Stephen Waterson and Adrian Hoare, even after Alfie died, were more concerned about being together.\n\n\"Stephen Waterson was concerned the real story never came out. He went on to intimidate and assault people.\"\n\nWaterson also gave officers a false name, a false statement and sold the Audi.\n\nHoare eventually broke her silence and told her half-sister Ashleigh Jeffrey what happened in a taped conversation handed to police.\n\nJurors were also told Waterson had three previous convictions for attacking an ex-girlfriend and his sister's husband.\n\nAt a trial in February, Mr Waterson told the court he only moved his seat back an inch, before moving forwards again\n\nWaterson, the adopted son of former Conservative minister Nigel Waterson, admitted manslaughter by gross negligence on what was set to be the first day of his retrial.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to be sentenced on 9 September.\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding said: \"For a three-and-a-half-year-old to be crushed by something so strong and no-one helping, it's a shocking way to die.\n\n\"Stephen Waterson has come across as a selfish, abhorrent individual\".\n\nAlfie's mother, Adrian Hoare, was 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